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Cynthia Cyrus
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Medievalist monastic historian / musicologist working on nuns’ roles in 15thc soundscapes in Bregenz Austria. Manuscript fragments make me giddy. I also collect sunrises. Blog at SilencesAndSounds@blogspot.com
Today (Nov 11) is the feast of St Martin of Tours; to celebrate, I talk a bit about Martinmas customs and about the celebration of the Feast at Thalbach in Bregenz in 1595 in today's blog post

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#blog #research #Martinmas #medieval #chant
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Today's blog post is on chant performance, and addresses the way in which our popular listening tastes -- exemplified by Taylor Swift -- have come to influence our chant performance practice and consumption

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October 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Today's blog post asks: what do space alien dreams have to do with checking historical data? More than you might think!

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#blog #Research #AcademicChatter #data #narrative #history #AcademicPractice
October 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I wrote a blog post about office hours, the most silent time of the day. Enjoy!

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#AcademicChatter #Faculty #FacultyLife #OfficeHours #Academia #AcademicHumor
October 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I wrote a (short) thing! Blog post on the surprising absence of smell from the multisensory details covered in memorial endowments in early modern Bregenz

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#smell #multisensory #liturgy #memorial #blog #research #history #15thc #16thc
October 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A blog post on that journey "From Draft to Done" in a scholarly context...

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#draft #outline #ScholarlyPractices #blog #AmWriting #Research #AcademicChatter
October 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I wrote a thing! This is my first extended assessment of Vorarlberg prayerbooks, focused on prayers "before" the image of Mary

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#prayer #15thc #16thc #nuntastic #Catholic #BVM
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October 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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everything is terrible, but at least it's all really fucking stupid too
October 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
today's blog post addresses my bad mental habit of thinking of the woods as silent. Plus, some #hiking pictures. And a couple #fungi

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#woods #forest #silence #sound #blog
October 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Seasonal greetings for both the #bookhistory and #digitalhistory folks: a keyboard waffle iron. 🗃️
December 8, 2023 at 2:35 PM
If you like paper structure models, I've got another blog post for you -- part two of yesterday's post

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#pedagogy #AmWriting #TeachingWriting #Blog #PaperWriting #structure
October 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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booke
booke
reade a booke
then anothir booke
aftir that anothir booke
bookes are freakinge awesome
October 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Today's blog post shares a writing how-to that I use with my undergraduates. (Not my only model, but a place to start!)

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#pedagogy #AmWriting #TeachingWriting #Blog #PaperWriting #structure
October 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The three Augustinian Sisters make the case that the church needs to give back by letting them inhabit their cloister as they'd been promised. I blogged about them today

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#nuns #nuntastic #dignity #autonomy #ChurchPolitics #nunsontherun #goldenstein #blog #AmWriting
September 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A new blog post on the summer's Asia trip -- this one on morning experiences in Kathmandu, with its integration of the sacred into daily life

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#Kathmandu #travel #Soundscape
September 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Earlids are back! A post on attentional earlids, engaging with the work of Ananya Mandal and her teams on noise and its impact on attention and focus

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#earlids #blog #AmWriting #AcademicChatter #soundscape #filtering #focus
September 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Today's post is short, sweet, and to the point, and addresses the "when" of writing...

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#Blog #AmWriting #AcWri #WritingPractice
September 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I've been writing blog posts about some of the interesting prayers from the 16thc Thalbach prayerbook. Today's contribution: a prayer on Mary's sorrows as redemptive

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#blog #AmWriting #AcWri #16thc #prayer #FranciscanTertiaries #nuntastic
September 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Today's blog post went in the history direction -- a brief overview of Nazi impact on Catholic Vorarlberg

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#blog #History #20thC #Vorarlberg #Catholic #Bregenz #nuns #AmWriting
September 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Today's blog post is on editing the old fashioned way -- with scissors and tape and notecards and physical sorting

#blog #AmWriting #AcWri #WritingStrategies #AcademicChatter
September 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Today's blog post is on a tourist day in Kathmandu, featuring a parade

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#blog #travel #Nepal #Kathmandu #parade #soundscape
August 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Today's blog post is on using research questions, and what makes a good one.

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#blog #Academia #AcademicChatter #Writing #ResearchQuestions #editing
August 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
As I sort my photos, I will be blogging about my seven-week Asian sojourn this summer. Today is my first post, and talks about an interesting night in Delhi...

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#Asia, #AsianSojourn, #Blog, #Delhi, #HotelStories, #Tourism, #Travel
August 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM