Blue sticker with white text: strange women lying in ponds distributing swords 2924. Placed on large, blue water cup
Fun find! Got this sticker from the Arthuriana booth at IMC this year and totally forgot about it 😁 Not pictured: some cool medieval marginalia tattoos, also from IMC and hidden from myself in my conference folder haha
In the foreground is a white mug with a blue logo (Viking helmet), full of hot chocolate and mini marshmallows. In the background are three planters. All are situated on a brown desk
Cozy corner 🍂
Fall vibes on campus 🍁
It always sets a good tone for the week when you start with a productive Monday. Much better than last week's "Hey class, we had a tornado on Sunday. Extensions for all!" Totally necessary, but man it was hard to get going.
First full day at Kzoo! I present this afternoon, and the rest of the weekend will just be enjoying listening to panels and perusing the bookshop <3 So excited to be here!
Waiting to board the second half of my flight to Kzoo, and I’m fairly sure most of this flight are medievalists 🎉So excited!
“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked Trebeard and he said hrum hoom burárum
Flight confirmed--very excited to fly to Kalamazoo tomorrow for IMC!
Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages is available now! Please ask your libraries to order: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... It’s been an honor to work with @aspencerhall.bsky.social and Stephanie Grace-Petinos on this collection of exciting and groundbreaking work in medieval disability studies.
In the center foreground is a white mug with a stroopwaffle laid on top. The mug has an image of a dark blue paint splash, in the center of which is a inaccurate Viking helmet (in great and blue, inaccuracy is due to horns) and the text “Grayson College Student Life.” This mug is set on a dark brown desk, and plants and baby photos are out of focus in the background
It’s a really rainy day, so I’m enjoying a cozy treat this morning
Hogbacks Ahoy!
We reopen at 11am on Tuesday the 1st of April! After that, we're open 11am until 4pm, 7 days a week, until the end of October.
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Medievalist-friends! Interested in learning about comics and narrative art and meeting cartoonists for potential collaborations? Apply to join us in Chicago from 5-6 June 2025 for a crossover workshop at the Newberry Library entitled “Cartooning the Medieval”!! www.newberry.org/calendar/car...
Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses.
Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time.
Joined an online webinar from home (Spring Break! Woo!) and just realized I'm drinking from an "Addie's Mommy" mug, instead of my usual college swag mugs that I try to use for "professional" Zooms. Ah well. It's spring break, so you get what you get haha
Background is a woman with brown curly hair and a black shirt. Assume she is smiling, but you can’t see it because there’s a tabby cat laying diagonally in front of her. The cat’s ear is blocking most of the woman’s face.
“Here, let me help. I’ve got a great idea for your syllabus” -Vin
My Medieval World classes are both fantastic. It's a really nice way to start and end the week.
Also, Cahokia and the Mississippians remain the undefeated coolest thing I get to teach about. Medieval America is amazing.
The dragon students are also going to read The Dragon of Wantley—we’ll do the broadside ballad and watch a short clip of the opera 😁
We’re doing a quick highlight reel (it’s an 8-week class), so students are going to choose between dragons, werewolves and revenants. The main texts are Beowulf, Bisclavret, and two shorter excerpts of revenant ones (De nugis curialium and The Life and Miracles of Saint Modwenna)
I don’t know why this made me laugh so hard, but my auto captions decided to go with “Bolf” instead of “Beowulf”
Small joys: putting together my lecture for next week’s class on medieval and early modern monsters. So much fun!
For #FindsFriday three of the objects in the fantastic gold hoard from Hoen in Norway: Scandinavian armring, Anglo-Saxon finger ring and Frankish (Carolingian) trefoil mount, made into a brooch. Photos: Kulturhistorisk Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0: no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoenska...
Hey so we’re losing another press and a great new book is caught in the middle. Consider this for your media history courses - selling is the only way this IP doesn’t disappear with the press 😕
Three plants in foreground. To left is a small Chinese money plant in a pink planter. The planter has an electronic face with two circular eyes and a small mouth. In the center is an air plant in a white ceramic llama planter. The llama is decorated with painting of blue and red flowers. To the right is a succulent planted in a tall grey planter. The planter had a small, cozy home scene inlayed at the bottom, stairs zigzagging up, and a hedgehog with a little green travel pack at the top
My office plants are multiplying 👀
This AI summary might as well read, "In The Man of Law's Tale by Geoffrey #Chaucer, a rumor spreads that Bevis has died. This false report reaches Butthead after a battle in London." #MedievalSky
Bottom of picture is a blue mug with a golden rim, and the picture is taken from above. Inside the mug is a brown, frothy hot chocolate and a mound of small marshmallows. In the upper right corner of the picture is a light pink planter with a digital face, eyes squinting in judgement
Got a lot on my plate, so today’s hot drink of choice is hot chocolate with lots of mini marshmallows. My planter is definitely judging me haha
Planter on a bamboo disk with white cords in the background. The planter is light pink and has a black, digitally animated face. Its expression is an open smile and eyes squeezed shut (like the >.< emoji but happy). The plant on top has circular green leaves
This little cutie has been brightening my office 😁
