I feel like something that rarely gets brought up in Wuthering Heights discourse is that it’s the most beautifully written novel of the century. More like a prose poem with characters than any other novel of the period.

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RESOLVED: 2026 is the year where I read a bunch of excessively long novels that demand slow, sustained attention

my article on John Gower and late medieval archives is out as part of the new issue of Studies in the Age of Chaucer! muse.jhu.edu/pub/102/arti...

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

Fascinating to see the entire educational apparatus of central Virginia brought to its knees by two inches of snow

Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

Having children and a long commute to their preschool has destroyed my Spotify wrapped

Babe, look, early Christian monasticism is back

fwiw this has not been my experience at all

85% of what I know about English grammar I learned in high school and college Latin. Glad to see it’s not just me!

The @rialibrary.bsky.social Book of Ballymote (MS 23 P 12) is a fantastic 14th-century compilation of biblical texts, saints’ lives, topographical works, and even a table of the Ogham alphabet! Love the fun initials and illustration possibly depicting Noah’s ark 📜🎉

Nobody: John McVie:

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

What an absolutely stunning opening statement the first two tracks are

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Earliest Latin translation of 'Tao Te Ching' published news.cgtn.com/news/2025-11...

First 10k in three years, after a major foot injury and new baby together took me off of running for the long term. Was it on a treadmill and was my pace basically a crawl? Sure. I’ve a long way to go from here to get back to where I was, but it feels good to be on my way

All the scrolls in the Library at Alexandria could probably have fit on a 16 GB hard drive, how important could it have been, honestly

Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

This is such a tragedy. Danya was a once-in-a-generation teacher whose knowledge and passion helped make his sport accessible to everyone. I owe my love for chess in part to him, and will miss him terribly.

I don't think students should be asked to rhetorically analyze poetry in a class before they get practice experiencing poetry without imagining it as a rhetorical structure. Like, cooking is so much better if you begin by first developing a relationship to the pleasure of food.

UVA says no to the compact

UVA says NO to the "compact"

BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.

WAHOOOWA www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

And now UVa rejects the compact.

Mind-numbing how many layers of history there can be to a single manuscript page: Syriac upper text (10th c.), Armenian undertext (pre-10th c.), Arabic material used for binding (11-12th c.?), Coptic foliation in the margin (date?), modern foliation at the bottom. Image: Leiden UL Or. 14236, link ⬇️

how it feels to inquire about the status of your manuscript

do you want a picture of the human future? imagine someone posting this at their friends about a third person who isn't even in the room, forever.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it; it brings about consent and reconciliation with things as they really are. —Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times

Extremely normal!

🚨THIS BOOK IS ALMOST REAL!!!🚨 @manchesterup.bsky.social out here making dreams come true!

[ancient egyptian standup comic] see guys from the upper kingdom, they observe funerary rites like THIS. but us guys from the lower kingdom, we observe funerary rites like THIS. See this guy knows what I’m talking about [pointing at man with the head of a bird]

what if journal loyalty rewards program where your 5th submission automatically gets published

🚨Medievalist job alert! 🚨

This failed because a local jury decided not to indict. We tend to think juries should be blank slates, impartial and uninformed. But when the jury began it was trusted specifically because it was informed and partial. A medieval story time on the jury!

What makes a Classic? Homer, Gilgamesh, and the Hebrew Bible are all rooted in a time and region--the Iron Age Mediterranean--but does any shared magic make them "canonical"? Because these famed works come to us from a space whose western parts are notoriously blank in terms of textual evidence. 🧵

Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things"

My book is out! Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile, with Cambridge UP @universitypress.cambridge.org. I am so grateful to the friends, family, colleagues, librarians and archivists who helped along the way. Nervous and excited to see it in the world! www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time

there are several, but the big one would be cormac mccarthy

Goodreads but for academic articles

Re: the "Stomp clap hey" movement -Lumineers were corny but mostly inoffensive -Mumford & Sons have some legitimate jams and are a quite good live show -Avett Brothers ruled once and now they're Dave Matthews Band for Millennials (not a judgment) -That Avicii "Wake Me Up" song sucks

This book is amazing Yes I know I’m over two decades late but in my defense I was six when this hit the shelves

For the first time since the Princeton Geniza Project began in 1986, we have published our metadata collated from over 30,000 Geniza documents and the People, Places, and histories of the Middle East and premodern Jewish communities found therein! zenodo.org/records/1583...

In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:

I hadn't been aware of this recording of 11 Early Irish poems, read by Myles Dillon around 1956. Kindly made available by the School of Celtic in University College Cork. www.youtube.com/watch?v=45WU... (I am pleased to note that my own pronunciation of those poems isn't far off Dyllon's.)