Tom Johnson
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social
historian of fifteenth-century England | writing a book about a fishing village | https://tomjohnson.carrd.co/
Can anyone help with a passage from this will of 1450? Reading from "Et sinon..." in the top right corner.
I'm getting stuck with
"bonorum meorum in consilium? et p[ro?]vebil[?]"
and then
"post decessum predicte Margarete mancione mea nemi[?]detur?"
Any suggestions very welcome!
I'm getting stuck with
"bonorum meorum in consilium? et p[ro?]vebil[?]"
and then
"post decessum predicte Margarete mancione mea nemi[?]detur?"
Any suggestions very welcome!
July 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Can anyone help with a passage from this will of 1450? Reading from "Et sinon..." in the top right corner.
I'm getting stuck with
"bonorum meorum in consilium? et p[ro?]vebil[?]"
and then
"post decessum predicte Margarete mancione mea nemi[?]detur?"
Any suggestions very welcome!
I'm getting stuck with
"bonorum meorum in consilium? et p[ro?]vebil[?]"
and then
"post decessum predicte Margarete mancione mea nemi[?]detur?"
Any suggestions very welcome!
live footage of me realizing that Leeds IMC is in fact, next week
July 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
live footage of me realizing that Leeds IMC is in fact, next week
reading the 1732 parliamentary report on the Cotton library fire, and I know it was a monumental loss to scholarship and tragedy for human knowledge etc etc but this is just objectively funny
May 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
reading the 1732 parliamentary report on the Cotton library fire, and I know it was a monumental loss to scholarship and tragedy for human knowledge etc etc but this is just objectively funny
This is a wonderful piece of writing
‘Few poets see so much, so well, both in the shapes the lines make on the page, like the contours of canyons, and in sometimes shocking figurations.’
Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark.bsky.social) on Forrest Gander: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark.bsky.social) on Forrest Gander: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephanie Burt · On Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander’s first collection of poems appeared in 1988. He grew up in Virginia and his early work seemed like...
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May 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is a wonderful piece of writing
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‘𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, with its orotund comma, has been carefully designed to compete for the attention of uncles who like history.’
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on popular history and its peccadilloes.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on popular history and its peccadilloes.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Absolutely deceased to death by this line from @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social ‘s February piece in the LRB.
May 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
‘𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, with its orotund comma, has been carefully designed to compete for the attention of uncles who like history.’
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on popular history and its peccadilloes.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on popular history and its peccadilloes.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
This is probably the strangest (and also the fiercest) article I've ever written, out now in History Workshop Journal.
And it's available open access!
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
And it's available open access!
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
Everyone Shall Know Me By This: The Archives of Medieval Lordship
Abstract. A fifteenth-century bailiff named Nicholas Greenhalgh drew a picture in his account book. Next to the image he wrote noverint universi per presen
academic.oup.com
April 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
This is probably the strangest (and also the fiercest) article I've ever written, out now in History Workshop Journal.
And it's available open access!
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
And it's available open access!
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
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I wrote about s-x and G-d in the gorgeous Spring Books Issue of @nybooks.com.
In which i ask: it is possible to write a s-xy history of s-x?…and then have a go at writing one.
It’s kinda f!lthy, hopefully very fun, enjoy: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
In which i ask: it is possible to write a s-xy history of s-x?…and then have a go at writing one.
It’s kinda f!lthy, hopefully very fun, enjoy: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Vexed by Sex | Erin Maglaque
A new history of how Christianity has met the problem of desire argues for more flexibility in proclamations on gender and sexuality.
www.nybooks.com
April 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I wrote about s-x and G-d in the gorgeous Spring Books Issue of @nybooks.com.
In which i ask: it is possible to write a s-xy history of s-x?…and then have a go at writing one.
It’s kinda f!lthy, hopefully very fun, enjoy: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
In which i ask: it is possible to write a s-xy history of s-x?…and then have a go at writing one.
It’s kinda f!lthy, hopefully very fun, enjoy: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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if you were listening to Stravinsky last night on Radio 3 then you might have landed abruptly into me discussing placentas, diazepam, and the labour of neonatal care www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Essay - New Generation Thinkers 2024 - Birth Stories - BBC Sounds
From 'lying in' to bedside cots: Emily Baughan traces childbirth changes.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
if you were listening to Stravinsky last night on Radio 3 then you might have landed abruptly into me discussing placentas, diazepam, and the labour of neonatal care www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
pfft, this so-called artisan bakery doesn't even keep the assize of bread
March 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
pfft, this so-called artisan bakery doesn't even keep the assize of bread
Fancy a real paleography challenge? Try the deranged hieroglyphs of a para-literate 4yo
February 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Fancy a real paleography challenge? Try the deranged hieroglyphs of a para-literate 4yo
tonight Ru i'll be serving up some of that Greg Anderson realness, sashaying the radical alterity of the ontologies of past life-worlds
February 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
tonight Ru i'll be serving up some of that Greg Anderson realness, sashaying the radical alterity of the ontologies of past life-worlds
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'Edward III liked to dress up as a bird. In 1348, at a tournament in Bury St Edmunds, he revealed himself as a gleaming pheasant with copper-pipe wings and real feathers.' Blisteringly eloquent from @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom Johnson · Who plucked the little dog? Kingship and its Discontents
The things that made a medieval king effective also wreaked havoc on government. Good kings took up too much room: when...
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February 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
'Edward III liked to dress up as a bird. In 1348, at a tournament in Bury St Edmunds, he revealed himself as a gleaming pheasant with copper-pipe wings and real feathers.' Blisteringly eloquent from @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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we're a non-profit, shoestring-budget, parent-led setting. if *we* can't survive the childcare funding crisis, then few will. 1/3 of settings have closed since 2020 and truly by 2030 unless something changes there'll be almost none left
February 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
we're a non-profit, shoestring-budget, parent-led setting. if *we* can't survive the childcare funding crisis, then few will. 1/3 of settings have closed since 2020 and truly by 2030 unless something changes there'll be almost none left
got my hatchet out for this one
February 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
got my hatchet out for this one
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I guess this is what counts as consolation in 2025????
(rachael allen, god complex)
(rachael allen, god complex)
February 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I guess this is what counts as consolation in 2025????
(rachael allen, god complex)
(rachael allen, god complex)
Any photoshop whizzes out there who can help me with some basic image processing for an article? I want to take the graininess out of some high-contrast monochrome photos of a manuscript
Can offer a bit of money for services rendered.
DM me if you're interested
Can offer a bit of money for services rendered.
DM me if you're interested
February 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Any photoshop whizzes out there who can help me with some basic image processing for an article? I want to take the graininess out of some high-contrast monochrome photos of a manuscript
Can offer a bit of money for services rendered.
DM me if you're interested
Can offer a bit of money for services rendered.
DM me if you're interested
wait, Marcel Mauss was Emile Durkheim's nephew?!
January 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
wait, Marcel Mauss was Emile Durkheim's nephew?!
A desert in the middle of early-modern England: the Brecklands of northwestern Suffolk.
In 1677, John Evelyn wrote that "the Travelling Sands...have so damaged the country, rolling from place to place, and like the sands in the Deserts of Libya, quite overwhelmed some gentlemen's whole estates"
In 1677, John Evelyn wrote that "the Travelling Sands...have so damaged the country, rolling from place to place, and like the sands in the Deserts of Libya, quite overwhelmed some gentlemen's whole estates"
January 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
A desert in the middle of early-modern England: the Brecklands of northwestern Suffolk.
In 1677, John Evelyn wrote that "the Travelling Sands...have so damaged the country, rolling from place to place, and like the sands in the Deserts of Libya, quite overwhelmed some gentlemen's whole estates"
In 1677, John Evelyn wrote that "the Travelling Sands...have so damaged the country, rolling from place to place, and like the sands in the Deserts of Libya, quite overwhelmed some gentlemen's whole estates"
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Happy New Year! I for one received a lovely belated Christmas gift in the form of my new article, out now on First View for Continuity and Change. It's even available Open Access for all to read: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Happy New Year! I for one received a lovely belated Christmas gift in the form of my new article, out now on First View for Continuity and Change. It's even available Open Access for all to read: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Final revisions submitted! Coming (not that) soon to P&P, an article that launches the central ideas of my current book project...
(happy to share the draft for anyone interested)
(happy to share the draft for anyone interested)
January 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Final revisions submitted! Coming (not that) soon to P&P, an article that launches the central ideas of my current book project...
(happy to share the draft for anyone interested)
(happy to share the draft for anyone interested)
An archivist with a sense of humor: the HMSPO mark stamped on this charter in the space that had been left for an illuminated capital in 1463 and never filled in
December 17, 2024 at 1:51 PM
An archivist with a sense of humor: the HMSPO mark stamped on this charter in the space that had been left for an illuminated capital in 1463 and never filled in
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I reviewed a new book about medieval women for @nytimes.com — & make a plea for a more complex & imaginative gender history.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
December 12, 2024 at 9:32 AM
I reviewed a new book about medieval women for @nytimes.com — & make a plea for a more complex & imaginative gender history.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
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I'll be teaching at the California Rare Book School next summer. If you'd like an intro to medieval manuscripts, please consider applying. And if you know anyone who would be interested, please spread the word. www.calrbs.org/introduction...
Introduction to European Medieval Manuscripts (2025) – CalRBS
www.calrbs.org
December 11, 2024 at 8:47 PM
I'll be teaching at the California Rare Book School next summer. If you'd like an intro to medieval manuscripts, please consider applying. And if you know anyone who would be interested, please spread the word. www.calrbs.org/introduction...
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I've finished the first full draft of my book! It's drafty, but it exists. A history of the female body, personal and collective. Here's the (yes, still drafty) table of contents.
December 10, 2024 at 10:44 AM
I've finished the first full draft of my book! It's drafty, but it exists. A history of the female body, personal and collective. Here's the (yes, still drafty) table of contents.