Dr David Rundle
@drdavidrundle.bsky.social
Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
The Sorbonne is not looking too shabby today.
January 16, 2026 at 9:45 AM
The Sorbonne is not looking too shabby today.
Well, they are Belgian whistles because there is no plastic in them. Oh no, these are tin-tin whistles.
January 15, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Well, they are Belgian whistles because there is no plastic in them. Oh no, these are tin-tin whistles.
'This appears to be a long document.'. It is 9 pages, including cover sheet. It is in single figures. It is not long. AI: do you need help building your attention span?
January 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
'This appears to be a long document.'. It is 9 pages, including cover sheet. It is in single figures. It is not long. AI: do you need help building your attention span?
I'm not a fan of football but deep down I am a Macc lad so have to keep the celebrations going:
BBC News - Stunned Macclesfield fans cheer biggest FA Cup shock in history - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Stunned Macclesfield fans cheer biggest FA Cup shock in history - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Stunned Macclesfield fans cheer biggest FA Cup shock in history
Macclesfield, from the sixth tier of English football, stun the FA Cup holders Crystal Palace.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 8:03 AM
I'm not a fan of football but deep down I am a Macc lad so have to keep the celebrations going:
BBC News - Stunned Macclesfield fans cheer biggest FA Cup shock in history - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Stunned Macclesfield fans cheer biggest FA Cup shock in history - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Calling all fifteenth-century scholars: if you have not yet submitted your proposal for this year's conference hosted by @memsunikent.bsky.social, now is the time to do so. CfP open until 31st January.
Are you a scholar of the fifteenth century and have an interest in the British Isles and its wider connections? If so, then you will want to know that @memsunikent.bsky.social will be hosting the 2026 Fifteenth Century Conference in Canterbury and the CfP is now open: www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
MEMS to Host the Fifteenth Century Conference 2026
www.kent.ac.uk
January 9, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Calling all fifteenth-century scholars: if you have not yet submitted your proposal for this year's conference hosted by @memsunikent.bsky.social, now is the time to do so. CfP open until 31st January.
And I'm ambidextrous - only problem is that I have two left hands.
January 9, 2026 at 8:38 AM
And I'm ambidextrous - only problem is that I have two left hands.
Good to know you are left-handed.
January 8, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Good to know you are left-handed.
We need the book so don't let this delay it. Let it be a reason for a 2nd edition.
January 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM
We need the book so don't let this delay it. Let it be a reason for a 2nd edition.
I walked over to OUP - or perhaps I should say I went on a cranky crawl.
January 8, 2026 at 9:43 AM
I walked over to OUP - or perhaps I should say I went on a cranky crawl.
Who most needs an Epiphany?
January 6, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Who most needs an Epiphany?
Not I, not I, but the wind-up merchants that blow through me.
January 6, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Not I, not I, but the wind-up merchants that blow through me.
marcis absolutum
January 6, 2026 at 7:01 PM
marcis absolutum
OK, the beard was better.
January 6, 2026 at 3:13 PM
OK, the beard was better.
Keep your beard out of my logic.
January 6, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Keep your beard out of my logic.
I got 'slapdash' and 'laughable'. Goodbye, meticulous scholarship with a furrowed brow - you are so last year.
Iโll take it
January 6, 2026 at 1:19 PM
I got 'slapdash' and 'laughable'. Goodbye, meticulous scholarship with a furrowed brow - you are so last year.
I was so disappointed not to have known of the NYE event at Margate's Turner Gallery, until my wife explained it was not that type of Latin Party.
January 3, 2026 at 12:53 PM
I was so disappointed not to have known of the NYE event at Margate's Turner Gallery, until my wife explained it was not that type of Latin Party.
Nero liked a good fire.
January 3, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Nero liked a good fire.
Don't teeth have to be wet to clean nails?
January 2, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Don't teeth have to be wet to clean nails?
My New Year's Day Gift to you: the latest version of the listing of the extant manuscripts once owned by Humfrey, duke of Gloucester, now standing at 51 items.
bonaelitterae.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/a...
bonaelitterae.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/a...
A New Listing of Manuscripts from the Library of Humfrey, duke of Gloucester
As it is New Year, it is appropriate that I should have a gift for you. It is the latest version of the listing of the known extant manuscripts once owned by Humfrey, duke of Gloucester; it includeโฆ
bonaelitterae.wordpress.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:59 PM
My New Year's Day Gift to you: the latest version of the listing of the extant manuscripts once owned by Humfrey, duke of Gloucester, now standing at 51 items.
bonaelitterae.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/a...
bonaelitterae.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/a...
Great thread: thank you! Interesting that this way of making clear which year is meant when an event falls in Jan or Feb (would work less well for March) did not catch on.
January 1, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Great thread: thank you! Interesting that this way of making clear which year is meant when an event falls in Jan or Feb (would work less well for March) did not catch on.
Looking for some diverting reading over what remains of the break? Recommend John Banville's latest, a skilful and beautifully written wrong-stepping novel. Enjoy the allusions (including to his own Book of Evidence).
PS Not for those who adore Venice.
PS Not for those who adore Venice.
December 31, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Looking for some diverting reading over what remains of the break? Recommend John Banville's latest, a skilful and beautifully written wrong-stepping novel. Enjoy the allusions (including to his own Book of Evidence).
PS Not for those who adore Venice.
PS Not for those who adore Venice.
Late to this but, yes, Gilbert Ouy is the first person to come to my mind. There are egs of Montreuil's 'humanist' hand in the Autenrieth vol but not a full list.
December 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Late to this but, yes, Gilbert Ouy is the first person to come to my mind. There are egs of Montreuil's 'humanist' hand in the Autenrieth vol but not a full list.
That reminds me of the time Leonard Boyle gave me an impromptu tour of the Vatican Library gallery: it was testimony to his generosity of spirit.
December 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
That reminds me of the time Leonard Boyle gave me an impromptu tour of the Vatican Library gallery: it was testimony to his generosity of spirit.
The next stage will be for someone - or some machine - to give these papers retrospective respectability by writing them.
December 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The next stage will be for someone - or some machine - to give these papers retrospective respectability by writing them.
Borges, it turns out, was not writing fantasy. He was a prophet.
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Borges, it turns out, was not writing fantasy. He was a prophet.