Hey medievalists!
Do you have a recent digital project you want reviewed in Speculum? Please send in nominations for recent projects on the following themes/methodologies :
Women & gender
Law/legal cultures
Maps & mapping
For more info, see the call for projects www.themedievalacademyblog.org
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As near as I can tell, every university/school has completely embraced LLMs and are pushing them hard. This is unreal.
They're indoctrinating the youngest, most vulnerable members of society, creating an entire generation/class of people who WILL NOT BE ABLE TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES.
Perfect.
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Enshittification is real, and we're not about that.
Stop reading books you don't enjoy. Just stop. If you're 50 pages in and you hate it, stop reading. There are so many other books. Give that one away, find another one.
The Poet Who Ignited Sir Walter Scott’s Imagination – Robert Burns
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#scotland #history #robertburns #walterscott #literature #MustWatch
Magazines make it so hard. I have a Vanity Fair subscription. I am logged in. I am trying to read an article but the paywall is there saying I am not a subscriber. Which I am. I click on subscribe just for fun and it says no need you’re a subscriber. Which I am. I refresh. Rinse and repeat. Come on.
So based on replies I am seeing, some folks are confused about NATO.
NATO exists to mutually defend Europe from Russian aggression.
The alliance helping the US after 9/11 and growing in the wake of a global war on Islamic extremism was just how it played out in the 2000s.
Its purpose is Russia.
The booking form for the summer Dunnett day in Portsmouth is now live at dunnettcentral.org/weekend/Dunn...
I’ve just been subjected to a version of Franco-Indian fusion food that will require professional help to overcome. Sharing the trauma is essential for healing. I was served underbaked Chicken Tikka Quiche. Runny yet sticky in all the wrong ways.
I’ve just been subjected to a version of Franco-Indian fusion food that will require professional help to overcome. Sharing the trauma is essential for healing. I was served underbaked Chicken Tikka Quiche. Runny yet sticky in all the wrong ways.
If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately*
Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code.
GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH
github.com/settings/cop...
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I know I'm not the first person to say this, but if you want books about wizards and dragons and magic, Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea novels are *right there* and they have about a million times more heart and beauty in them than anything JKR could ever write.
Last year I taught it in a Victorian-Victorianism (Steampunk) unit. I had a blast.😀
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What is... Traditional Storytelling?
7 May, @scotstorycentre.bsky.social & online. Free
Storytelling comes in all shapes and sizes, but how do we know what makes it “traditional” or not? Orkney storyteller Tom Muir explores the question
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“Friday’s press gaggle, barely exaggerated…” 🤷🏼
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A banh mi which I thought was beef, but turned out to be checken liver pate. Instant gag.
American tech oligarchs spend billions fighting socialism, yet their unhinged greed is the single best advertisement for it.
By hoarding wealth and breaking society to enrich themselves, they actively fuel the very ideology they claim to despise
Co-sign
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Breaking.
The 1GW Thor offshore wind farm produced the first electricity to the Danish grid.
What draws Pre-Raphaelite artists and writers to enclosed gardens? Join me tomorrow at the beautiful Garden Museum - next door to Lambeth Palace(!) - to find out.
www.gardenmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/pre...
Plese repost & share! *THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES*, a free, scholar-produced onlyne resource for teachinge and learninge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level: opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
A horse with an elephant head used in warfare, transporting two soldiers and a fortified tower. This detail is from a 1471 printed book (Speculum humanae salvationis).
Tell me you have never seen an elephant before without telling me ... #skystorians
Major yn Englisshe:
• Focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge
• Research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even inventid yet
• Meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir
• It ys awesome
• Bookes!
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The Folklore Society’s Katharine Briggs Prize 2026 has opened for entries! Open to books in English having their initial publication in the UK & Ireland in the period from 1 June 2025 to 31 May 2026. Deadline for entries 31 May 2026. More info and rules: www.folklore-society.com/awards/the-k...
