Today we launch Read More Books, a semi-regular Commonplace series featuring @kawulf.bsky.social asking authors five questions about their new book. We kick off with @johngmarks.com and his fascinating study of the long fight over Washington's legacy of slavery.🗄️
commonplace.online/article/read...
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If you’re looking for an example of technofascism this is it: Palantir’s manifesto.
See also my article on technofascism link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, 18:3–5.
For more, check out the whole work:
www.amazon.com/Gospel-Pseud...
"And behold, suddenly, many dragons came out of the cave.... Then the Lord [Jesus], although he was not yet two years old, roused himself and, standing on his feet, stood before them. Those dragons, indeed, worshipped him, and when they had finished worshipping him, they went away."
Prince strikes again!
Oh no! Not another one!
Scereenshot of Digital Bodleians site, with banner reading, "Technical issues are affecting Digital Bodleian. Images may be slow to load, and some features may not work as expected. We are working on a resolution."
Nooo whyyy is the Digital Bodleian having technical difficulties?! I just wanna look at & read descriptions of #manuscripts! #RhetoricalQuestion #MedievalSky
"God becomes what elite Roman villa owners only
dreamed of becoming: the panoptic enslaver"
some real banger lines in @chancebonar.bsky.social's book, folks...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
TWO WEEKS?! I can't imagine that juggling act--at least mine have been only 1-week stints, spaced out once a month.
I've taken a peak at the news & social media enough for today. I'm going back to my thirteenth-cetnury southern French & Italian manuscripts.
(Ok, they preached to us about how teenage pregnancy was a bad thing without marriage involved--I suppose they've always seen it as fine if the kids are married.)
Sooo now MAGA Republicans are upset that... *checks notes* ...the massive decrease in teenage pregnancies?! They used to preach to us about how that was a bad thing.
LMAOOOOOOOO
Added to e-Clavis: Materiae apocryphorum ~ Cycle of Thomas, Alonso de Sedano, Covarrubias (Burgos), compiled by Ángel Narro. www.nasscal.com/materiae-apo...
Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Life and Conduct of John the Baptist. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...
If you want to know more, the article writing up the find was published (Open Access) with Early Medieval England and its Neighbours this morning.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Exciting times for the study 11thC England: the 'lost' seal of Edward the Confessor has been rediscovered in the Archives nationales de France! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky
Bilbo why not meme saying After all…why not? Why shouldn’t I be Jesus?
Unlike a lot of great biblical apocrypha--which are complex, nuanced, & important in the history of Christianity--this sort of AI output from Trump & his followers fueling their own ideology should be understood as a load of blasphemy to Christians.
With this type of output, "AI" could just as well stand for "Apocryphal Ideology," because it adapts biblical subjects (like Jesus's healing miracles & apocalyptic imagery as seen here) into Christofascist ideological narrative rewritings of the Bible.
Oh, very likely it was (he doesn't state in the article), & that could be just it.
If anyone wants to know, this is the article in which Derolez makes the initial claim about two-column layouts (which includes many of the ideas he expands in his book):
www.persee.fr/doc/scrip_00...
His earlier claim seems like an over-generalization & over-simplification, right? I mean, I've been looking at 13th-century manuscripts with long-line layouts, rather than two-column layouts. Anyone have insight into why Derolez made the claim in the 1996 article, or am I missing something?
Derolez does not repeat this claim (afaik) in his book on The Palaeography of Gothic MS Books--even though he notes that "In general, two-column rulings were preferred throughout the period under consideration" (12th-16th century).
Hey #palaeography folks of #MedievalSky, here's a puzzle I'm puzzling. In a 1996 article, Derolez says: "thirteenth-century manuscripts are all written in a fully developed Gothic textualis and present almost without exception a two-columns layout" without much substantiation. But....
This week last year we were thrilled to find the Selden Acts (@bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Selden Supra 30) newly online! See the original thread for evidence it was owned and used by women, and for discussion of Insular codicological features. It has such clear prickings! #medievalsky
