Allison Fizzard
@allisonfizzard.bsky.social
Professor of History, Campion College, University of Regina, SK, Canada. Interests include medieval monastic history, food history, Victorian art and architecture, and everything Newfoundland and Labrador.
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The CSM Online: Tune in Wednesday 5 Nov. 2025, at 11am EST to hear 2025 Boyle Prize Winner Laura Moncion talk about her dissertation, "Being a Recluse is No Small Thing: Late Medieval Women’s Reclusion in Theory and Practice."
Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/n6LJh7JYKvRD...
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Laura Moncion – Boyle Prize Presentation / Colloque du prix Boyle - REGISTRATION / INSCRIPTION
On 5 Nov. 2025 at 11h00 (EST), the Canadian Society of Medievalists will hold its second annual Boyle Prize Online Presentation, when Laura Moncion, the winner of the Society's Leonard E. Boyle Prize ...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The CSM Online: Tune in Wednesday 5 Nov. 2025, at 11am EST to hear 2025 Boyle Prize Winner Laura Moncion talk about her dissertation, "Being a Recluse is No Small Thing: Late Medieval Women’s Reclusion in Theory and Practice."
Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/n6LJh7JYKvRD...
Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/n6LJh7JYKvRD...
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Medieval writer Christine de Pizan is often characterized as the first professional female author.
Learn how her pioneering feminist writing championed women’s moral and intellectual power in a new acquisition to Getty's medieval manuscripts holdings: gty.art/4hQL0iZ
Learn how her pioneering feminist writing championed women’s moral and intellectual power in a new acquisition to Getty's medieval manuscripts holdings: gty.art/4hQL0iZ
March 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Medieval writer Christine de Pizan is often characterized as the first professional female author.
Learn how her pioneering feminist writing championed women’s moral and intellectual power in a new acquisition to Getty's medieval manuscripts holdings: gty.art/4hQL0iZ
Learn how her pioneering feminist writing championed women’s moral and intellectual power in a new acquisition to Getty's medieval manuscripts holdings: gty.art/4hQL0iZ
Meta used my book and various other publications by me for AI training. Needless to say, it doesn’t ask authors for their permission.
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Meta used my book and various other publications by me for AI training. Needless to say, it doesn’t ask authors for their permission.
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#medievalsky #jobfairy. Job posting, Tenure Track (!) medieval, early modern Literature at UNBC. universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?....
March 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#medievalsky #jobfairy. Job posting, Tenure Track (!) medieval, early modern Literature at UNBC. universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?....
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January 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Want to help your favorite author?
✅ Pre-Order.
✅ Boost.
✅ Review.
The algorithms of publishing require fuel to engage, and this is the recipe for making it. 🙏
✅ Pre-Order.
✅ Boost.
✅ Review.
The algorithms of publishing require fuel to engage, and this is the recipe for making it. 🙏
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Canadian Society of Medievalists Online Research Forum 2025, CFP: we invite submissions of works in progress for a Zoom forum, Sat 1 Mar 2025, 1-4pm EST. 7-minute talks, early-stage, emerging, or ongoing research! Submit proposals here by 15 Feb docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
January 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Canadian Society of Medievalists Online Research Forum 2025, CFP: we invite submissions of works in progress for a Zoom forum, Sat 1 Mar 2025, 1-4pm EST. 7-minute talks, early-stage, emerging, or ongoing research! Submit proposals here by 15 Feb docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A laugh for my medievalist friends:
Please be careful this Christmas. If you are planning to listen to a Christmas mass a pope might appear out of nowhere and crown you. This is very annoying and will force you to run an empire for years against your will!
If this happens please call: 800-25-12-EINHARD
If this happens please call: 800-25-12-EINHARD
December 25, 2024 at 2:17 PM
A laugh for my medievalist friends:
So far this month I haven’t even opened the document! Sigh. The marking will end eventually, right?
No comments at all 🥴😆 it is so hard to write in December, especially when its windy...
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicChatter
December 7, 2024 at 1:47 PM
So far this month I haven’t even opened the document! Sigh. The marking will end eventually, right?
If I were in Toronto this evening, I’d definitely be going to this talk by Joanne Findon.
If you’re in Toronto tonight, go see my lovely friend and mentor Joanne Findon speak on women in Irish lit!
(Sadly, I’m really sick and can’t go, so say hello for me!)
stmikes.utoronto.ca/event/listen...
(Sadly, I’m really sick and can’t go, so say hello for me!)
stmikes.utoronto.ca/event/listen...
November 26, 2024 at 8:56 PM
If I were in Toronto this evening, I’d definitely be going to this talk by Joanne Findon.
Agreed. Snark, sarcasm, and mean-spiritedness are unprofessional and have no place in reviewers’ comments.
This is really important. Academic editors don’t have to let cruelty go through to authors. Which doesn’t mean limiting genuine informed criticism. But most of the stories you hear about horrible peer reviews should have been stopped.
Many years ago a reviewer who rejected my paper wrote: “where correct, she was derivative. Where original, she was just stupid.” As an editor, I have forbidden any such comments to be sent to authors. Criticism never needs to be mean!
September 16, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Agreed. Snark, sarcasm, and mean-spiritedness are unprofessional and have no place in reviewers’ comments.
I could not agree more with this column.
"It’s worth remembering that the universities funded this research, paid the salaries of the academics who produced it and then had to pay millions of pounds to commercial publishers in order to access the end product."
Das seltsamste System.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Das seltsamste System.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadeh
Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2024 at 2:28 PM
I could not agree more with this column.
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Every academic article has a corresponding author whose email address is listed on the first page. If an article is paywalled, just send a short, polite email requesting a PDF from the author. 95% of the time you’ll receive it within a day. People like knowing their work is being read!
ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.
June 18, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Every academic article has a corresponding author whose email address is listed on the first page. If an article is paywalled, just send a short, polite email requesting a PDF from the author. 95% of the time you’ll receive it within a day. People like knowing their work is being read!
My colleague Sam Lawler, commenting on the space junk that recently fell in a farmer’s field here in Saskatchewan:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
May 16, 2024 at 1:58 PM
My colleague Sam Lawler, commenting on the space junk that recently fell in a farmer’s field here in Saskatchewan:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Thanks to all who are sharing this post. A reminder: both this book (New Evidence for the Dating and Impact of the Black Death in Asia, 2022) and its predecessor (Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death) are both OPEN ACCESS on Project Muse. (Links in next 2 posts.)
Please share widely.
With thanks to the National Endowment for Humanities (#NEH) & the World History Center at Pitt for crucial funding that got this work on the #2ndPlaguePandemic going over a decade ago. Forever grateful for their vision & foresight that this work would be important. And, of course, #TheMedievalGlobe.
February 10, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Thanks to all who are sharing this post. A reminder: both this book (New Evidence for the Dating and Impact of the Black Death in Asia, 2022) and its predecessor (Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death) are both OPEN ACCESS on Project Muse. (Links in next 2 posts.)
A very useful flow chart!
My GIFT-XPERT™ algorithm will help you with those tricky Christmas shopping decisions!
December 18, 2023 at 3:23 PM
A very useful flow chart!
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🎉It's our 2023 book list, featuring historians working off the tenure track around the world 🎉
2023 Contingent Book List
When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.
contingentmagazine.org
November 28, 2023 at 1:36 AM
🎉It's our 2023 book list, featuring historians working off the tenure track around the world 🎉
My sister, the New Yorker cartoonist.
November 13, 2023 at 4:07 AM
My sister, the New Yorker cartoonist.
My first post on Bluesky! Of course it has to be a cat picture. Here’s Barclay and Zefram.
November 11, 2023 at 4:57 PM
My first post on Bluesky! Of course it has to be a cat picture. Here’s Barclay and Zefram.