delete your academia account for lots of reasons (mainly that it’s awful in every way), but also because of this nightmare new ToS

🚨Cool CFP alert! Are you working on something cool related to medievalism? We want your proposals for an upcoming issue of Different Visions: Medievalism II: Fragments, Fictions, Futures--non-traditional formats and approaches very welcome! differentvisions.org/medievalism-...

my Medieval Tymes intro for Going Places 🫏🗺️🧭

🚨new acquisition! @gettymuseum.bsky.social just acquired this gorg late 13th century French/Flemish copy of the Romance of Alexander: www.getty.edu/news/romance...

Next week--sign up online for the Zoom link!

“This is the new censorship: not a loud rejection, but a quiet dilution. And it’s just as effective.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/a...

So fun! Thanks @profgabriele.com and @lollardfish.bsky.social!

Thanks for the write-up of Going Places, @medievalists.bsky.social ! www.medievalists.net/2025/08/goin...

Guys did you know that in the year of Our Lord 2025, the position of "squire" at Medieval Times (and of course, in connection, Knights who are promoted from the ranks of Squires) can only be filled by "male performers"?

Thrilled to be hosting this ONLINE, FREE Art Break to talk to Anthony Bale (@[email protected]) about travel in the Middle Ages on Sept. 4th at 12pm PST--sign up here: www.getty.edu/calendar/art...

Our latest blog features a recent acquisition: a Parisian journal, in medieval style, inspired by the 1900 Paris Exposition. Read all about it here: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30510

The facebook people are BIG MAD today that I don't use gloves to handle manuscripts

new Medieval Tymes, live from the study room: BIG and also very smol

Opening soon: Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages at the Getty Center (Sept. 2--Nov. 30, 2025) www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...

Did you know that if you work from home, you can just make yourself a stack of blueberry pancakes for lunch? No one stops you

📖New Medieval Publication: "Medieval Bestiaries: New Approaches," edited by Debra Strickland, is out in ebook format (hardcover pub date July 31st)! So thrilled to see my contribution on the 16th century legacy of the medieval bestiary in such distinguished company brill.com/display/titl...

I think one of the weirdest developments in modern clothing is people describing fabrics as "buttery" and that "buttery soft" is a desirable quality. They're leggings not pastry???

Big mansucript news: @gettymuseum.bsky.social has received an incredible gift of nearly 40 medieval Italian leaves and cuttings from the Burke Collection: www.getty.edu/news/getty-r...

You guys are perhaps the wrong audience for this question, but do you think that people (what we call our "general audience" museum-goers) know what "the Crusades" are, just in a generic sense?

“it doesn’t have to be perfect the first time,” I hear myself tell my 4 year old who is frustrated at learning to write letters, a lesson even I have never fully learned

Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

I bet Ross Douthat is somewhere cooking up a take that's like "how women in the workforce and their absolute refusal to conform to Christian gender norms paved the way for creeping fascism and the domestic military occupation of America's major cities."

Also please enjoy this truly wonderful image of a surgeon (and some assistants) treating the dislocation of the spine (ÖNB Cod. Ser. n. 2641, fol. 76v)

saw this today and I think you all should see it too (it's from an Italian 14th century surgical text, a Latin translation of Arab physician Abu al-Qasim Khalaf Ibn Abbas az-Zahrawi)--one of many obstetrical images, this one featuring the delivery of twins (!!)

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: it should be illegal and a punishable offense to post an image of art online without citing its shelfmark/accession number

New Medieval Tymes, in which I promote the new manuscripts show @gettymuseum.bsky.social and also throw a tiny bit of shade at Dan Brown

Geminis remember to balance your hot and moist humors (your sanguine temperament and excess of blood) with some cold and dry foods, think cucumbers and apples.

5 more days to see the Marvels exhibition at the Morgan, brilliantly curated by @jodriscoll.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/a...

Join me and @gettymuseum.bsky.social curator Elizabeth Morrison for an online conversation about the #Voynich Manuscript! June 13 at 3 PM EDT. Click here for more information and to register: www.getty.edu/calendar/art...

Anyone know of a surviving medieval-era bleeding bowl in an accessible public collection?

Especial congratulations to @larisag.bsky.social

In news nearly as big as the pope, the special issue of Different Visions (issue 11: Encountering Medievalism) I co-edited with Mariah Proctor-Tiffany and Bryan Keene @wtfarthistory.bsky.social is live! differentvisions.org/encountering...

we should really bring back antipopes

The papal conclave and #Kzoo2025 overlapping is really something….almost divinely inspired

The average American has three friends

Who will be at the 'Zoo @kzooicms.bsky.social next week? I'll be chairing probably the best and coolest roundtable ever, "The Middle Ages Reloaded: Activism, Public Engagement, and Political Realities" on Friday afternoon at 1:30

the internet is truly an unsafe place when it comes to being a day late watching a show :(

starting the week with the determination and iron resolve of this seagull carrying an entire hot dog

Also look at this cute 14th century shoe-shaped reliquary with scenes of St. Margaret, possibly used by an expectant woman for relief from the pains of childbirth (Met Museum Cloisters 47.101.65) www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

no YOU spent all day reading about 14th century surgeon John Arderne and the many (many) illuminated manuscript copies of his extensive text detailing his revolutionary treatment of a variety of fistulas

I know I'm a true medievalist bc I felt my baby moving for the first time and I wasn't like oh wow that's so cool, I was like "ah yes, ensoulment." I'm not even Christian and do not believe in souls 🙃

OK maybe I’m just old but Coachella looks like a living nightmare and I hope to never go there

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we could probably all use a reminder that "no" is a complete sentence

Gallery draft label feedback of the day: "Recommend defining the phenomenon of incorruptible [holy] bodies."

The JANM also leading on immigration issues, the trustees stating: “We cannot remain silent while these policies attempt to strip people of their humanity and dignity and reverse course on our nation’s journey towards a more just and equitable future.” www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/04/m...

hell yes JANM

One of my favorite weird signs at the rally

If you are an MAA member and your NEH or IMLS funding is at risk or has already been revoked, please email me. I don't know what, if anything, MAA can do to help you, but we will absolutely try. #MedievalSky