In related news, my article on touching relics in Merovingian Gaul is out! Enjoy in Materially in Ancient Narrative: www.barkhuis.nl/product/mate... #medieval #medievalsky #lateantiquity #skystorians

Skipped the second verse of Hark the Herald Angels Sing at mass last night. Our parish music director is 0 for 2 with acknowledging Jesus's flesh this liturgical year...

Encouraging undergraduates to *start* with AI, robs them of the skills they need to begin learning how to be a history detective. And when you move up to the graduate level, AI doesn't have access to actual archives. And it cannot produce new knowledge. *YOU* have to do that.

It's kind of mind-blowing that I've been this long in the education and writing fields and didn't have a favorite pen until now. And also that this is the pen. ##writingcommunity #academicsky

The responsorial psalm at mass today, but the cantor sang, "all shall see the salvation..." I guess sixth-century Merovingians aren't the only people who are uncomfortable with flesh.

It's not often that us medievalists encounter an ACTUAL DRAGON in our work, but here is one burninating the countryside and also the city of Laon. Check it out in Bnf. Fr. 22928, fol. 210v (Miracles de Notre Dame by Gautier de Coincy). gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... #MedievalSky

From a Princeton dean: “This is welcome news. Studying the humanities… isn’t an impractical luxury. … The humanities prepare students not just to get a job, but to keep it and excel while doing so.” 🎁

I finished my novel! First draft of Taming the Beast (sequel to Breaking the Silence - out soon!) is DONE! WorldEmber up next as I work on fleshing out the setting and magic before revisions. #writeRAWR ##writingcommunity #worldember2025

Thank you Chicago Pope!

PSA for everyone who uses the MGH and is looking for a software to handle their ginormous PDFs: PDF XChange has a free version that handles them better than Adobe Pro! #medievalists #medieval #lateantique

Need help from a medievalist: what do we do with these obscenely large PDFs from the MGH? How do you search them? How do you make them smaller? Venantius Fortunatus poems are 1000MB!! Please help! #medieval #medievalsky #lateantique

Just enjoyed scrolling the #AARSBL25 hashtag with my morning coffee, and it's giving old school academic Twitter. It may be too soon to say, but didn't we do it? Are we back?

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

When researching Merovingian flesh takes you down a rabbit hole and you suddenly find yourself reading Ovid for the first time since the Roman lit survey over a decade ago. Can't. Escape. Classics.

I am pleased to announce that John Penniman, Emanuel Fiano, and I are launching a new book series for the study of religion in late antiquity with Fordham University Press. If you have a book-in-progress looking for a home, please reach out to discuss your project! fordhampress.com/theoria

I can't believe I've been working on this novel for six weeks! It's nearing the home stretch, AND that week one excitement I haven't felt in over a month is BACK! #writeRAWR #writingcommunity

Are you a medieval maker? Or know someone who is? Email [email protected] for a chance to be featured in my holiday gift guide!

I reached the point in revisions where I need to do some word searches and PSU doesn't have the Library of Latin Texts. Is anyone able to schedule a time to share their password with me? Please message if you can help. Thank you! #academia ##classicsbluesky #skystorians

For the Feast of St. Martin - and old selfie with his equestrian portrait in the Cleveland Museum of Art (because it always kills me that at some point in the middle ages, he somehow acquired a horse) #medieval

How's everyone's writing going this November? If you come down with a cold this month, I have some advice for managing your expectations #writingcommunity #writeRAWR tiggymclaughlin.com/2025/11/04/w...

Democracy only works when the people vote - get out there!

For All Saints' Day, a reminder that ALL THE SAINTS I've posted so far—9 months' worth to date—are on this page at my website: ruffnotes.org/saints/ Entries include links to the posts here on BlueSky and directly to the digitized manuscripts used in those posts. #medievalsky 🕯️

Happy Daylight Savings Day in (most of) the US! Aka the day I get a free hour in the morning to write. #amwriting #weitingcommunity

The #NaNoWriMo org may have died under a mountain of scandals, but the drive to create lives on. You don't need an org to write a book. Happy creating to all those who are writing this month. ❤️ #WritingCommunity

New month, new trackers, same goal. Time to finish this draft! #writeRAWR #booksky #authorsky #amwritingya #medieval

In 10th grade AP World History, I did a group project on feudalism we set up like a Christmas pageant. ("I am a vassal! I swear fealty to the king!"). My son just learned feaudalism in fourth grade last year. These were both at public schools in Pennsylvania, which interestingly isn't on the list.

I discovered this over the summer when I tried to find a recipe for zucchini bread that wasn't super unhealthy but didn't use Greek yogurt. I went back to my collection of physical cookbooks after that for dinner foods, but I never did make the zucchini bread.

25% in to this rough draft and the characters are starting to come together #amwritingya #writingcommunity #writeRAWR #writingchallenge

I had the pleasure of working with him on the festschrift for Ray Van Dam I co-edited with @youngrichardkim.bsky.social and am grateful to have seen him again last March at Shifting Frontiers and gotten to talk to him about Damasus and Venantius Fortunatus. And his outfit there was fire. DM / RIP

Look at these beautiful trackers! All set for a fresh novel draft and a fresh writing challenge! #WriteRAWR Today, I officially started "Taming the Beast," a YA historical fantasy set in late-Carolingian Francia #amwriting #amwritingya #booksky #authorsky #skystorians #medievalsky

New blog post about the novel challenge I'm starting this week. It's finally time to write that sequel to Breaking the Silence (which is still inching toward publication)! #amwriting #historicalfiction #booksky #nanowrimo #nanoscandal tiggymclaughlin.com/2025/09/28/t...

Any other teaching faculty not have time for social media anymore? Just me? I have several (really small, not that exciting, writing-based) updates I'll try to share on here over the next few days before things get busy again. #skystorians #academicsky

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