And that, joyfully and sadly, is a wrap for the 44th International Conference of the Haskins Society. A great inaugural year at the University of Miami, our home for another two years. #Haskins2025 ##medievalsky

And we're moving into our concluding panel, on Conquest and Aftermath in both England and Sicily. #Haskins2025 #medievalsky

Alison Beach has just finished up inspiring this gathering of medievalists with the possibilities of telling far more empathetic and inclusive stories of medieval people. #Haskins2025 #medievalsky

Haskins is now in the Latin East. Nicholas Paul, in a strong panel of exemplary scholarship, shows us Matthew Paris' directions for how to get there. #Haskins2025 #medievalsky

Paul Oldfield takes the Haskins Conference through the changing "devotional landscape" of 12C Palermo. #Haskins2025 #medievalsky

Session 4 is full of revelations and thoughtful insights regarding penance, pain, childbirth, and the medieval body. #Haskins2025

We are back at it, now exploring legal ideals and messy realities. Frances Eshleman wraps up another strong panel. #Haskins2025

@haskinssociety.bsky.social Shai Cohen presents on the Virtual Maimonides project. #Haskins2025

@haskinssociety.bsky.social Paul Freedman takes Haskins into the world of English and Catalan cookbooks. #Haskins2025

Paul Freedman takes Haskins into the world of medieval English and Catalan cookbooks. #Haskins2025

Headed to Haskins 2025, starting our three-year sojourn with the U of Miami! Given Hugh Thomas' work over the past year, it's going to be stellar.

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

2 day change -1,400 (always a tweet)

I'm writing my congressman, posting my stances on issues, and trying to be clear in my resistance to this contemptible turn of events. Like many, I’m also still numb with shock: how did actively choosing the evil course of action become so dear to other Americans?

America is now part of the axis of evil. Well done, Trumpers...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...

So much Sith. So much...

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

End of a busy week, and something smoky was calling me down to Bow Street. I completed the assignment.

Marc Bloch revolutionized the way we study history, not just the Middle Ages, though that was his specialty. In WWII he joined the resistance & was eventually captured, tortured & executed by the Gestapo. Entry into the Pantheon means that he will deservedly rest among the greatest heroes of France

Attend a book launch by an Americanist, get set up for a photo by a Sinologist. Good to be back in Edinburgh!

Haskins 2024 continues, welcoming @lvhicks.bsky.social by modern magic for a presentation on mapping monastic properties. And we got to meet the Maths Half!! #Haskins2024 #medievalsky

The view from the Zoom Headaches Mitigation Center at the 2024 Haskins Society Conference. And oh look, there's @rozierhistorian.bsky.social illuminating St Cuthbert's female interactions. #Haskins2024

Many people have been revisiting LOTR in the wake of the election, which normally would be one of my go-to choices. But I opted for Asimov's Foundation instead. I suppose I'm still hoping the inevitable barbarism can be curtailed.