John Jenkins
@armentarius.bsky.social
Medieval historian working on cathedrals, pilgrimage, Thomas Becket, Yorkshire etc. Director, Centre for Pilgrimage Studies, University of York
What's not to like?
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
What's not to like?
Being one of 15 or so wonks and wonk-adjacent lads on Segways in Bruges was not the coolest I've ever felt
November 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Being one of 15 or so wonks and wonk-adjacent lads on Segways in Bruges was not the coolest I've ever felt
This looks fascinating., although York's institutional access to EME is firewalled to pre-2024, so I'll have to pick it up next St Alban's Day!
June 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This looks fascinating., although York's institutional access to EME is firewalled to pre-2024, so I'll have to pick it up next St Alban's Day!
On the one hand, the nuanced and usually evidence-led arguments of academics, on the other hand, lunatics dog-whistling at the moon. We must have an open mind, lest wokeness reign, or something.
June 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
On the one hand, the nuanced and usually evidence-led arguments of academics, on the other hand, lunatics dog-whistling at the moon. We must have an open mind, lest wokeness reign, or something.
Gotta keep owning them libs
June 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Gotta keep owning them libs
As such, the framing is at least honest, I suppose.
June 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
As such, the framing is at least honest, I suppose.
I'm also more towards the latter, but I personally know a few people deep in the 'Free Spech' grift and from my knowledge of them and their overall agendas I do not believe a lot of this is in particularly good 'free speech' faith. The shock and offence is, ultimately, the goal for many of them.
June 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I'm also more towards the latter, but I personally know a few people deep in the 'Free Spech' grift and from my knowledge of them and their overall agendas I do not believe a lot of this is in particularly good 'free speech' faith. The shock and offence is, ultimately, the goal for many of them.
The latest good research on TWs is that they achieve nothing either positive or negative, so are just a waste of everyone's time. But this OfS guidance doesn't say anything about them.
June 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The latest good research on TWs is that they achieve nothing either positive or negative, so are just a waste of everyone's time. But this OfS guidance doesn't say anything about them.
So much of this is just cover for the culture war grift roadshow though, of which provocative shock and offence is the entire point. Lozza, Calvin Robinson, Carl Benjamin et al coming soon to a campus near you!
June 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
So much of this is just cover for the culture war grift roadshow though, of which provocative shock and offence is the entire point. Lozza, Calvin Robinson, Carl Benjamin et al coming soon to a campus near you!
It's decent golden-era hip-hop which uses the fricative nature of Irish to great percussive effect. But then surely the entire history of rap is middle-aged white people complaining that it's not real music.
May 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It's decent golden-era hip-hop which uses the fricative nature of Irish to great percussive effect. But then surely the entire history of rap is middle-aged white people complaining that it's not real music.
I've seen a few speakers get interrupted but it was of the 'decades-old simmering feud between two men over the cause of the Black Death' type.
May 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I've seen a few speakers get interrupted but it was of the 'decades-old simmering feud between two men over the cause of the Black Death' type.
But that does suggest to me that it's a note that the bishop was vested for Lent in the traditional manner
May 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
But that does suggest to me that it's a note that the bishop was vested for Lent in the traditional manner
If it's Lincoln dioc as well then Bishop Longland was particularly conservative and may be making a point about 'correct' vestiture in the new Church of England
May 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If it's Lincoln dioc as well then Bishop Longland was particularly conservative and may be making a point about 'correct' vestiture in the new Church of England
Is the date during Lent or Advent by any chance?
May 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Is the date during Lent or Advent by any chance?
I've not seen it before, and purpuramentum is hardly a common word. DML gives 'elaborate adornment', but perhaps it might be being used here more etymologically to mean 'in purple vestment' (and it appears Lewis & Short has 'purple vestment' for purpuramenta)?
May 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I've not seen it before, and purpuramentum is hardly a common word. DML gives 'elaborate adornment', but perhaps it might be being used here more etymologically to mean 'in purple vestment' (and it appears Lewis & Short has 'purple vestment' for purpuramenta)?
I'd absolutely love to do Devon vol. II like Nicholas Orme did for Cornwall, but has the VCH moved away slightly from that sort of planned layout of a whole book on pre-Ref religious houses?
April 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I'd absolutely love to do Devon vol. II like Nicholas Orme did for Cornwall, but has the VCH moved away slightly from that sort of planned layout of a whole book on pre-Ref religious houses?
I just asked my actuary other half if she would be interested in listening to this and she said "I guess, it is sort of my job I suppose, yeah why not?" From her that counts as a ringing endorsement.
April 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I just asked my actuary other half if she would be interested in listening to this and she said "I guess, it is sort of my job I suppose, yeah why not?" From her that counts as a ringing endorsement.