Oooookay that's the push I've needed for however many years to finally delete

Last call for the US morning crowd - get those abstracts in for Late Antiquity at #Kzoo2026 !!!! #calssicsbluesky ##ancientbluesky ##medievalsky

Hey late antiquers! Tomorrow is your last chance to submit a proposal for one of the Late Antiquity sessions at Kalamazoo last year! Share widely!! icms.confex.com/icms/2026/pr... #kzoo2026 #medievalsky #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky

After Brian Rowe's review of Gabriella Buba's "Saints of Storm and Sorrow," I see that I'm going to need to buy this book. And you know, actually read it! ~Jenai roguewriters.net/rogue-review... #roguesreviews #roguewriters #bookreview

RIP scribes of medieval Arthurian literature. You would have loved Booktok. #medievalsky #booksky

Everything in this 🧵! Practicing history w/o a license--w/o any understanding of how sources are identified & interrogated, and how interpretations are wrought out of them--can cause real harm, esp. in a field like #histmed. Professional historians exist. Find us. Seek us out. And get a 2nd opinion!

Summer update for Breaking the Silence! (Hint: it's a map) #booksky #medievalsky tiggymclaughlin.com/2025/07/06/i...

"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." (1776) 🗃️

I didn't think I had anything left to say about Caesarius's preaching style after my dissertation/article, but teaching at a Catholic school and listening to my different priest coworkers very different homiletic styles sparked new questions and perspectives on Caesarius #academicsky

The call for papers is here, late antiquers! The Society for Late Antiquity would like to host two sessions at Kalamazoo, but we'll do more if we get enough good abstracts! Send 'em in!! wmich.edu/medievalcong... #medievalsky #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky #lateantiquity

Oh hey, I'm writing about Caesarius again. 👀

Once more for the other time zones! #medievalsky #ClassicsBlueSky

The Society for Late Antiquity will be returning to Kalamazoo in 2026! Get ready to submit your excellent abstracts, late antiquers. CFP coming soon! #medievalsky #ancientbluesky

It's been five long years since I began working on my monograph on Jesus's flesh in sixth century Gaul, and today I finished a draft of the entire thing. Now comes the fun part! #medieval #skystorians #ancient

Do I need the TTH coloring book? Does anybody? Will I be buying one? Most definitely.

This week's newsletter is out! Explore the life of Theodora of Constantinople, a major character in my latest novel due to release next week: open.substack.com/pub/cjadrien... #booksky #writingcommunity #medievalsky #vikingsky

Bumping this from a couple of months ago. An ethical way to buy books.

Many congratulations to Ulriika Vihervalli, whose book Desire and Disunity has been shortlisted for the RHS 2025 First Book Prize! Find out more and read this #OpenAccess book here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #SkyStorians #MedievalSky #AcademicSky

Re-sharing, since the nanowrimo dot org is officially offline... forever

las.uic.edu/news-stories... My thoughts on what I do and why I love my work.

No, Adobe, I do NOT want AI to summarize this document because it's long. In fact, I want nothing more than to read this long document and learn from it and engage with it. 😡 Will be reading all my PDFs in Firefox from now on.

Medievalists be like: (this whole entire thread 😘🤌)

Realizing that Groundhog Day has the same exact story arc as Augustine's Confessions. In related news, it's almost the end of the school year.

A really meta blog post about Historical Notes as I attempt to write a Historical Note for Breaking the Silence. #historicalfiction #medievalsky #booksky tiggymclaughlin.com/2025/05/15/t...

I don't know if this is true (and neither do they, it seems), but I've always wondered the same thing, and this answer totally makes sense and is hilarious!

Dusting off the old Greek skills to translate some Justin Martyr as I write the final chapter of my book about Jesus's flesh - this one's on the Eucharist. I'm pleased to report I can still read Justin's Greek without too much difficulty. 😁

Breaking the Silence has its own web page now - it's getting real! tiggymclaughlin.com/breaking-the... #booksky #medieval

Yeah McOsker!

okay the serious answer is that the monastic Order of Augustine follows the rule of St Augustine of Hippo which means they - take a vow of poverty - focus on community and service - are devoted to the Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Good Counsel) - have strong history in education, incl universities

I told all my students in 8th and 9th period: Now aren't you glad I made you read St Augustine all year?

For a minute I thought this scholar was summoning me with the #Kzoo2025 hashtag, but no, she meant a literal cat, not a medievalist with a cat name. Anyway, sad to be missing Kalamazoo this year, but I should be there next year!

Today, I called my diocesan bishop politely requesting that he publicly denounce the fake pope costume photo as egregious disrespect of pope Francis and the conclave process. Not sure how it would go because I didn't elect the bishop like we do with representatives in congress. (1/?)

ICMS 60 is next week! We have a great lineup of special events at this year's Congress, from a virtual reality art history experience, to an experimental archaeology exhibit, to a showcase of reproduction textiles, handmade using medieval techniques and materials! See more: wmich.edu/medievalcong...

My May writing goal is 30 hours split between two projects: preparing Breaking the Silence for publication and drafting the last chapter of my monograph on divine flesh #medievalsky #skystorians #writersky

After a long week at work I'm looking forward to a weekend of rest and D&D with family ⚔️🏹🛡

Been nervous about some writing projects (a conference paper, a short book). I've done most of the research for both. I realized I'd hit that moment when researching became a delay tactic so I just started to WRITE. 1100 words so far. When will I learn to just start writing?!

Want to learn more about the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore where Pope Francis was entombed? Smarthistory can help: smarthistory.org/basilica-of-...

Our next 'Meet A Medievalist Maker' blogpost is by co-founder @drlauravarnam.bsky.social! Each our MMM blogs are structured around 4 'p's: 👷‍♀️Project 💭Process 👀Peak 👉Prompt Read about Laura's four 'p's relating to her poetic responses to Old and Middle English literature here:

This leaves me wondering how many Catholics are just like, "I don't believe Mother Teresa actually performed any miracles (and medieval people didn't know any better*), but she helped a lot of people, so, saint 🤷‍♀️" *cringe

Having some interesting conversations about saints and their miracles with relatives this week. I commented that pope Francis should become a saint and two different relatives relied, "But doesn't he have to have done miracles first?" That's not how it works (1/2)

"Let us care for one another and let us be loving custodians of creation." - Pope Francis's second tweet as pope (source: Xavier University) #popefrancis

Happy Easter from our ugly-crusted ricotta pie to you!

Raise your hand if you’ve ever used the Wayback Machine! ✋ The Internet Archive project (funded in part by NEH, #IMLS and #NSF) is an invaluable treasure trove of millions archived sites, texts, software, movies and more. All FREE. And a vast majority of federal funding has been cut. archive.org

New blog post is up! tiggymclaughlin.com/2025/04/17/a...

I've never seen High School Musical 2, but when I asked my students to describe how the moments leading up to Augustine's third conversion in Confessions VIII would look in a movie version, one girl in first period nailed it with Troy's song "Bet on It," and I showed that clip all day.

It finally happened. Thankful for our school librarian, who can fix it. 💙📚

I just signed a contract with Tree Shadow Press to publish my middle grade historical fantasy novel set in the latter days of the Carolingian empire! Follow and subscribe on my website for updates #booksky #medievalsky #authorsky

Does anyone have institutional access to Studia Patristica and could please share a copy of "Christology of Avitus of Vienne"? I always knew I would jump down the Avitus rabbit hole at some point - no better day than today. 🐇 #lateantiquity