C.B.Boxer
@cbboxer.bsky.social
Medieval Art History / Medieval medicine // Puzzles, small dogs, and bad TV
How I conclude my lectures on days when I want to check if my students are paying attention
any culture, at any point in history, could have invented darude’s sandstorm. the fact that they didn’t is just further proof that old times were busted generally
October 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
How I conclude my lectures on days when I want to check if my students are paying attention
New favorite little guy just dropped:
I think my previous post got censored, but I do think you need to see this little guy and his enormous tooth - as he points to where it hurts! 🦷
(From a medical ms - Edinburgh CRC ms 314)
(From a medical ms - Edinburgh CRC ms 314)
October 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
New favorite little guy just dropped:
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
Logging back on after a few days of travel and seeing the chip bag has been such a gift
August 21, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Logging back on after a few days of travel and seeing the chip bag has been such a gift
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The Very Sad Case of the University of Chicago.
The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...
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August 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The Very Sad Case of the University of Chicago.
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Okay, I've deleted my earlier post. Apparently, this is *not* a pipe. But the fact that I thought it was says a lot about society.
August 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Okay, I've deleted my earlier post. Apparently, this is *not* a pipe. But the fact that I thought it was says a lot about society.
I literally could not be doing what I do without the UChicago Classics Department and the many excellent and patient grad students who helped me through years of Latin
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
August 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I literally could not be doing what I do without the UChicago Classics Department and the many excellent and patient grad students who helped me through years of Latin
There is some GREAT stuff in here
Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg
Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible
Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...
loom.ly
July 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
There is some GREAT stuff in here
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Can’t argue with that
July 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Can’t argue with that
I cannot stop watching this; it is extremely Cosmas and Damian coded
This AI video of Jesus and a little boy singing Bless the Lord Oh My Soul, while Jesus holds a disembodied child’s foot is so beautiful and spiritually inspiring.
July 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I cannot stop watching this; it is extremely Cosmas and Damian coded
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11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls
June 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls
Shout out to John of Greenborough, serving “I did my own research” realness in the early 14th century
June 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Shout out to John of Greenborough, serving “I did my own research” realness in the early 14th century
Small town central PA. We are so back.
June 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Small town central PA. We are so back.
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The UK AIDS quilt in the Tate Modern. Gosh. Overwhelming. It's the teddy bears, and the poems, and the little touches of entire lives.
June 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The UK AIDS quilt in the Tate Modern. Gosh. Overwhelming. It's the teddy bears, and the poems, and the little touches of entire lives.
A break from your doomscrolling: I saw a magnificent truck today
June 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A break from your doomscrolling: I saw a magnificent truck today
Even more exciting publication news from our household:
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Even more exciting publication news from our household:
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lmao imagine getting this "thats you" ass letter in 1642
"In 1642 in the town of Lemgo, Germany, local pharmacist David Welman was accused of witchcraft and being a werewolf. Anonymous hate mail was sent to him, one of which included this sketch."
June 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
lmao imagine getting this "thats you" ass letter in 1642
Exciting news in the art-history-med-history space:
June 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Exciting news in the art-history-med-history space:
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AIDS Memorial Quilt on display October 11-13 1996 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Let us never forget.
June 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
AIDS Memorial Quilt on display October 11-13 1996 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Let us never forget.
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the computer is causing an imbalance of yellow bile in many people
June 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
the computer is causing an imbalance of yellow bile in many people
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not now honey. mommy is defending her fascination in the anatolian neolithic site çatalhöyük against an online horde of göbeklitepe bros
May 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
not now honey. mommy is defending her fascination in the anatolian neolithic site çatalhöyük against an online horde of göbeklitepe bros
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sparing a moment for all the medieval warriors slain because they didn't stretch properly, pleading to god in the half second before getting their head stove in by ordo of mainz because at the critical moment they came up short with a yanged hammy
April 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
sparing a moment for all the medieval warriors slain because they didn't stretch properly, pleading to god in the half second before getting their head stove in by ordo of mainz because at the critical moment they came up short with a yanged hammy
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Barkley: Now, Magritte. I don't like him,
Shaq <wheezing>: is it a pipe or not Chuck
Shaq <wheezing>: is it a pipe or not Chuck
April 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Barkley: Now, Magritte. I don't like him,
Shaq <wheezing>: is it a pipe or not Chuck
Shaq <wheezing>: is it a pipe or not Chuck
Last night went to see a friend play flugelhorn in a 200 y/o ensemble band and decided to google them — imagine booking this gig
April 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Last night went to see a friend play flugelhorn in a 200 y/o ensemble band and decided to google them — imagine booking this gig
I cannot stop obsessing over the glasses facing TOWARDS us
getting hit by a bus because i think it's a big fuzzy cat with fucked up hands
March 31, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I cannot stop obsessing over the glasses facing TOWARDS us