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Lawrence Warner
@lawrencewarner.bsky.social
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Professor of Medieval English @ King’s College London; US / Oz; producer of Dolly Collins / Maureen Duffy ‘Missa Humana’ world premiere

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · 4d
Hope to see you there —Maureen is the best and I’m delighted to be helping celebrate her on 30 November @britishlibrary.bsky.social @rsliterature.bsky.social

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · 4d
We have an amazing panel lined up to celebrate Maureen Duffy, including Bernardine Evaristo herself, @valmcdermid.bsky.social, @suchmayer.bsky.social, @lawrencewarner.bsky.social, Elaine Hobby and Bee Rowlatt, and Rebecca Scroggs reading Maureen Duffy's work.

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · 4d
On Sun 30th Nov we will be celebrating the @rsliterature.bsky.social Pioneer Prize, so generously founded and funded by Bernardine Evaristo. The inaugural winner is Maureen Duffy. Join us @britishlibrary.bsky.social or online to celebrate her work: events.bl.uk/events/rsl-p...
RSL presents: The Pioneer Prize | British Library
Join us for the launch of the RSL Pioneer Prize, a new initiative spotlighting and celebrating writers who have been trailblazers in their field.Acknowledg
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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Aug 23
Yeah I saw that and vile calumny

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Kate Levey @brophylevey.bsky.social · Oct 21
Maureen Duffy, poet, novelist, playwright, 90 today! She had a long relationship with Brigid Brophy and they collaborated on an exhibition of 'Heads and Boxes', which they called 'Prop Art'.

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Maria Giovanna De Simone @mginotherwords.bsky.social · Jul 3
'When we librarians can see first-hand the impact our skills and experience have on academic research [...] it’s a sort of magic.'
Me to @lawrencewarner.bsky.social, who was very happy with my reading of a MS inscription at the centre of a scholarly debate. Now waiting...😉 #dontshootthelibrarian

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Jul 5
Sparks flew! Thanks so much to @mginotherwords.bsky.social for guiding me on the path. Happy to share this big essay ‘Stephan Batman’s Peculiar Ways & the Parkerian Scribe of Pierce the Plowman’s Crede’. Maria Giovanna pointed out that Batman’s initials are *not* in TCC R.3.14 Piers Plowman
mginotherwords.bsky.social Maria Giovanna De Simone @mginotherwords.bsky.social · Jul 3
'When we librarians can see first-hand the impact our skills and experience have on academic research [...] it’s a sort of magic.'
Me to @lawrencewarner.bsky.social, who was very happy with my reading of a MS inscription at the centre of a scholarly debate. Now waiting...😉 #dontshootthelibrarian

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · May 23
This is my copy of Tyrwhitt’s 2nd edn of the Canterbury Tales (1798) purchased @stgilescg.bsky.social book fair (one on now!) and beautifully rebound by Wyvern Bindery

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Mar 8
‘Mi minde is mukul’, the 102nd Gawainian Wheel, out now OA!
‘Mi Minde is Mukul’, the 102nd Gawainian Wheel*
The illustrator of Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero A.x., Art. 3, writes Jennifer
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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · Feb 20
PhD opportunity with Ryan Perry & @lawrencewarner.bsky.social! Remaking History: Reproducing the Middle English Prose Brut in the late medieval metropolis. It'll investigate the literary production phenomena in medieval England represented by extant manuscripts and fragments of this chronicle #cfa

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Jan 12
Thank you for this! I have somehow selected the most virtuous group of folks on this platform and wanted instead to see something beautiful. Nice 👌

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Dec 29
I did for medieval (I think). Will go looking for Swifties now 👍🏼

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Dec 29
Every time I’ve logged into Bluesky my feed is 1) someone reposting 10 things followed by 2) every NYT piece of the last hour. I’ve unfollowed NYT but is there a way to get variety here?

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Dec 14
Very generous PhD fellowship for ME Brut project under the direction of Ryan Perry (Kent) and me: www.komldsp.org.uk/projects/rem...
Remaking History - Knowledge Orders before Modernity
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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Dec 8
In case you’re interested here’s a portion of my photo of the document, a bit closer than we can get at the BL

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Dec 8
I’m sorry —I just like talking about this document , as do my students (who compared it to songs by Taylor, the Kinks, Chappell Roan etc) and didn’t realize it came across as a fight. I genuinely wonder what was going on in the mayor’s court’s minds. It’s an amazing document and I’m glad you agree

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Dec 8
But sodomy was not the purview of the Mayor’s Court—that would have been ecclesiastical. And why was Britby not there too? No, nothing about it is clear to you or to anyone, as the document is baffling all around and to repeat we have no idea what happened next

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Dec 8
But again all I’m saying is that we don’t know. Imagination is all there is re what happened next

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Dec 8
Well it’s not even clear what the prompt was. Cross-dressing alone? Prostitution? Neither seems sufficient—and why the City? It’s all very odd. I don’t see why they would keep her.

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Dec 8
Probably. We just don’t know either way though as the document doesn’t say. ‘Arrest’ is not quite the right word either

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Dec 8
Though could be the same . In any case no evidence that Eleanor was imprisoned in 1395 for this

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Dec 8
Oh that essay. Thanks —Goldberg also thinks the whole thing might be fictional. He’s inventing this stuff …

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Dec 8
Just think Eleanor is awesome enough to make sure we get her dates right 👍🏼

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Dec 8
??

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Dec 8
We all wonder and no there are no records

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Dec 8
Not born 1395… the document refers to an event December 1394

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Dec 8
The document wasn’t written under duress at all—it is an official account . Not Rykener’s direct testimony

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Dec 8
And where does the ‘may have escaped’ the supposed imprisonment in 1399 thing come from?

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Dec 8
(No record of imprisonment)

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Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social · Nov 17
THANK YOU JEFFREY