Overhearing a colleague and a student discussing their favorite Jane Austen novels (P&P and Persuasion) just now, I did NOT shout "Northanger Abbey or GTFO!" from my office because I am a consumate professional.

Whanne þe madness of Marche haþ perced to þe roote

TFW you realize one of the points you planned to make in tomorrow's conference paper is, in fact, entirely wrong. 😒

Hey, looks like my boy William Lambarde has his own Guided Walk now! Wish this had been up last summer: londonguidedwalks.co.uk/william-lamb...

'What a brilliant night! Wills: dry, formal, boring? This was story telling at its best: intriguing, engaging, human!’ In this new blog post, find out what happened when Chris Hoban and his band, The Executors, played to a packed house in Topsham sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... #EarlyModern 🗃️

Early Modernists: I've encountered a symbol in a page signature and don't know how to represent it in a citation. The closest I can find in MS Word is unicode 0260, "Latin small letter g with hook." How would you represent this? Does it have a name?

Early Modernists: Go read Shax Quarterly 76.4 RIGHT NOW. Yes, it's a weird format, but the payoff . . . start it too late and you'll be up past your bedtime.

I'm editing a 16th century text, and can I just say this site is saving me over and over right now! For anyone trying to decipher Greek words in early modern books: textcreationpartnership.org/docs/dox/gre...

Alt text version. Thanks for sharing Harry.

One of my favorite conferences, the Kentucky Philological Association, has opened submissions for the 2026 conference! If you're nearby, consider submitting an abstract--it's wonderfully supportive. Goes double if you are a student. www.thekpa.org

Hey, history and medievalist friends. If you're doing any teaching on maps this semester, I have a couple of digital resources you might find useful. #skystorians 🗃️ 1. Matthew Paris's Map A fully annotated & interactive copy of Paris's c.1250 map of England. 1/3 historiacartarum.org/annotated-cl...

We are delighted to announce the launch of The Guild of Medievalist Makers (GuMM), a community for academic and academic-adjacent practitioners of creative-critical work. Read more about us and the society on our new website: www.guildmedmak.com

Ok fellow nerds, which piece of classical music is the most likely to be an earworm for you? Curious because Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave" has been in my head for four days now.

Long shot, but any vintage mystery fans in my followers who want to talk Patricia Wentworth for a minute?

Well, there's another white shirt lost to my underestimating how much tea was left in my mug.

Really interesting discovery at the Newberry Library, where one of their Nahuatl-language manuscripts turns out to have been made using by far the largest known example of a pre-Columbian Mesoamerica paper technology known as maguey paper: www.newberry.org/news/analysi... #paperhistory

Weather radar says there is no snow here at the moment. The view out my window says otherwise.

I cannot hit submit on a grant proposal without a sinking feeling of dread that some dreadful mistake lurks in the application. Just me?

I aired my id. And I completely understand why they could not use my original headline: “Your child does not need a comms strategy.” www.npr.org/2024/07/30/n...

Just dropped off a few boxes of doughnuts for our IT department, some of whom have been there since midnight due to the Cloudstrike debacle.

New blog post: In Defense of Embroidery! Embroidery is routinely used in historical fiction to represent women’s oppression. And I ask, why? And what if it weren’t like that? mimicofmodes.com/2024/05/19/i... #FashionHistory #c18th #c19th

Hey #medievalsky, if you're at ICMS, Manchester press is giving away display copies! #kzoo2024

This is a structural problem. That means we cannot “teaching and learning” workshop our way out of it. We need systemic change and collective action and we can’t have the solution rely on college professors who were not trained for this kind of work.

Revising article on OE Maxims. I use "haters gonna hate" as an example of a contemporary maxim. Editor asked for a citation, which means I now have a whole footnote about Hall v. Swift and the legally indeterminate status of the phrase's origin (do refer to "Shake It Off" later in article also)

I guess my primary comment about this is that it feels that the pandemic ushered in an era in which faculty are supposed to extend endless compassion to students (fine!) but neither the students nor the conditions of academia extend compassion to us. And that is really, really hard.

In the last 3 weeks I have been in a total of 7 states and I am tired.

My student presenting at this year's #SigmaTauDelta (English Hon. Soc) conf is a writing minor and pre-vet major. He was very excited to learn that St Louis has one of the world's best zoos and I have been texted several photos of penguins.

Any of my peeps on here taking students to the Sigma Tau Delta convention next week?

Introduction: I'm an English prof in rural Appalachia. Research and write about medieval and early modern English lit, with side-bars into other things. Cross-stitcher. Athletically declined myself, but mom to a teenager playing All the Sports