Dr Tiggy McLaughlin
@amalasuentha.bsky.social
late antique historian, theology teacher, writer; still writing about Jesus's flesh in Merovingian Gaul
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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.
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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.
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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
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November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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
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
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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
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Are you a medieval maker? Or know someone who is? Email hello@medievalmarginalia.com for a chance to be featured in my holiday gift guide!
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Are you a medieval maker? Or know someone who is? Email hello@medievalmarginalia.com 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
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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
November 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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
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#writingcommunity #writeRAWR
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Writing When Sick :(
I’m on day 34 of a writing challenge, and I would be lying if I said it was smooth sailing the entire time. About 2/3 of the way through October, I came down with a nasty cold. These are my r…
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November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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
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#writingcommunity #writeRAWR
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Democracy only works when the people vote - get out there!
November 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Democracy only works when the people vote - get out there!
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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 🕯️
Entries include links to the posts here on BlueSky and directly to the digitized manuscripts used in those posts.
#medievalsky 🕯️
Saints+Manuscripts at BlueSky
In mid-January 2025, I began making posts on BlueSky most days in which I post one or more medieval manuscripts associated with a saint in the calendar for that day. (I work from several calendars:…
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November 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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 🕯️
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
November 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Happy Daylight Savings Day in (most of) the US! Aka the day I get a free hour in the morning to write. #amwriting #weitingcommunity
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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
#WritingCommunity
November 2, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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
#WritingCommunity
New month, new trackers, same goal. Time to finish this draft! #writeRAWR #booksky #authorsky #amwritingya #medieval
November 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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.
How every state in the US teaches about feudalism. A New post from me and @profgabriele.com, along with access to a slideshow and spreadsheet with more info.
24 states REQUIRE feudalism.
8 suggest feudalism.
Feudalism, ICYMI, is not a real thing. Click, read, share, subscribe (it's free!).
24 states REQUIRE feudalism.
8 suggest feudalism.
Feudalism, ICYMI, is not a real thing. Click, read, share, subscribe (it's free!).
Revisiting the Medieval "F-Word" (Feudalism)
How Every State Teaches (or doesn't) about Feudalism
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October 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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.
A fun fact is that you cannot search for recipes in Google anymore. All of the results will be slop. Same template for every recipe, random photo of a woman (always a woman!), dodgy instructions.
October 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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
October 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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
Hearing news that the incomparable Dennis Trout has passed. STTL to an amazing human being and epigrapher
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Damasus of Rome
Damasus of Rome makes available in English the epigraphic poetry of Damasus, bishop of Rome from 366 to 384. The translations are accompanied by the Latin text as well as by commentary on the literary...
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October 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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
Today, I officially started "Taming the Beast," a YA historical fantasy set in late-Carolingian Francia #amwriting #amwritingya #booksky #authorsky #skystorians #medievalsky
October 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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
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
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#amwriting #historicalfiction #booksky #nanowrimo #nanoscandal
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Time for a Challenge!
It’s fall, and for a good portion of writers who grew up with the NaNoWriMo novel writing challenge, creativity is in the air. And to be honest, I’ve never been able to keep up a daily …
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September 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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...
#amwriting #historicalfiction #booksky #nanowrimo #nanoscandal
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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
September 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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
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Oooookay that's the push I've needed for however many years to finally delete
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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!!
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#kzoo2026 #medievalsky #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky
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#kzoo2026 #medievalsky #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky
September 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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
icms.confex.com/icms/2026/pr...
#kzoo2026 #medievalsky #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky
September 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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
icms.confex.com/icms/2026/pr...
#kzoo2026 #medievalsky #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky
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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
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#roguesreviews #roguewriters #bookreview
Rogue Reviews: Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba
Reviewing Saints of Storm and Sorrow is a challenge, because I have a limited amount of space into which I need to squish a nearly limitless amount of praise.
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August 26, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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
roguewriters.net/rogue-review...
#roguesreviews #roguewriters #bookreview
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RIP scribes of medieval Arthurian literature. You would have loved Booktok. #medievalsky #booksky
July 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
RIP scribes of medieval Arthurian literature. You would have loved Booktok. #medievalsky #booksky
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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!
A plea:
I am 100% here for interdisciplinary work. But that work actually has to be INTERDISCIPLINARY: people working together across fields.
Not just someone from one field thinking that history is "easy" and, for that reason, "anyone can do it.
1/x
#HistMed #Skystorians #Medievalsky
I am 100% here for interdisciplinary work. But that work actually has to be INTERDISCIPLINARY: people working together across fields.
Not just someone from one field thinking that history is "easy" and, for that reason, "anyone can do it.
1/x
#HistMed #Skystorians #Medievalsky
July 17, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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!