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Robyn A. Bartlett
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Assoc Prof of Medieval Literature at Purdue Univ, advocate for the humanities, lover of bonnacons.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5091-3129
purdue.academia.edu/RobynABartlett
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"Did wommen ruine the worke place"?
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Happy #EclipseDay! Amazing to think that today is a day we can watch a phenomenon that's been seen by millions of humans across all the ages. Here's a slice of medieval stories: www.medievalists.net/2024/04/medi.... #MedievalSky #Astronomy
How medieval people described solar eclipses - Medievalists.net
Solar eclipses are one of our most remarkable episodes of natural phenomena. This was true as well in the Middle Ages, which are told in ten accounts from around the medieval world.
www.medievalists.net
April 8, 2024 at 12:33 PM
So we all know the Darwin quote "hate everybody and everything"; it is literally the best bc absolutely true. But did you know that when he wrote the letter, he was working on a book about orchids? Well. HE HATES THE ORCHIDS, TOO. :-)
www.npr.org/sections/kru...
March 27, 2024 at 1:15 AM
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Dear angry-tract-writer of 1648, this sort of nonsensical printing information will not be appreciated by historians 😄

“Printed in the year of blindness, the month of stupidness, the day of dulness, and the hour of unnaturalness” #earlymodern
January 25, 2024 at 12:10 PM
"Chaucer, Raptus, and the Physician's Tale" is out. It's open access; please share widely. #Chaucer #Chaumpaigne #Raptus

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 5, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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The chief distinction between Santa Claus and the Spanish Inquisition is, of course, that no one expects the latter
December 18, 2023 at 2:23 PM
A friend just suggested this either as an auto-reply or as part of email signature. yes please.

"Please don't write me. Stop writing me. I won't write back."
December 13, 2023 at 4:14 PM
Normalize being someone who’s sleepy and not very sharp at XXpm/am* lolol

*I am saying all the time the joke is funnier if you explain it
NORMALIZE BEING SOMEONE WHO'S SLEEPY AND NOT VERY SHARP AT 3:45PM 😎
September 23, 2023 at 12:41 PM