Erica Steiner
@ericasteiner.bsky.social
Celtic Studies PhD in progress @ Sydney Uni: ancient/medieval tattooing.
Finds rabbit holes & side quests irresistible!
Environmental humanities • Geomythology • Historical body modifications • Medieval mistranslations, misnomers & mysteries.
Finds rabbit holes & side quests irresistible!
Environmental humanities • Geomythology • Historical body modifications • Medieval mistranslations, misnomers & mysteries.
Last week I said the hardest, most heartbreaking of goodbyes to my beloved Kiara. 17 years old, but in declining health for the last year or so, she passed peacefully in her garden, in the warm spring sunshine, held by her humans until the very end. We love you forever, darling little puss-face.
September 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Last week I said the hardest, most heartbreaking of goodbyes to my beloved Kiara. 17 years old, but in declining health for the last year or so, she passed peacefully in her garden, in the warm spring sunshine, held by her humans until the very end. We love you forever, darling little puss-face.
Parchment can be decades or even centuries older than the text it bears - exactly what the analysis here indicates. The majority of samples have a C-14 date decades older than a paleographic date, but most samples do overlap.
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#ancientsky #classicsky #medievalsky
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#ancientsky #classicsky #medievalsky
June 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Parchment can be decades or even centuries older than the text it bears - exactly what the analysis here indicates. The majority of samples have a C-14 date decades older than a paleographic date, but most samples do overlap.
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#ancientsky #classicsky #medievalsky
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#ancientsky #classicsky #medievalsky
Most #medievalsky and #earlymodernsky conferences, even online ones, are expensive 🤑.
Not so for @ceraejournal.bsky.social's conference! It really is just under $10 (USD), which is even less in £ and € (and only $15 AUD!) Our first session starts in just 30 minutes!
ceraejournal.com/programme/
Not so for @ceraejournal.bsky.social's conference! It really is just under $10 (USD), which is even less in £ and € (and only $15 AUD!) Our first session starts in just 30 minutes!
ceraejournal.com/programme/
April 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Most #medievalsky and #earlymodernsky conferences, even online ones, are expensive 🤑.
Not so for @ceraejournal.bsky.social's conference! It really is just under $10 (USD), which is even less in £ and € (and only $15 AUD!) Our first session starts in just 30 minutes!
ceraejournal.com/programme/
Not so for @ceraejournal.bsky.social's conference! It really is just under $10 (USD), which is even less in £ and € (and only $15 AUD!) Our first session starts in just 30 minutes!
ceraejournal.com/programme/
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⁉️ Only Latin MSS included. Yet the high % of vernacular colophons written by women suggests women more likely to have written vernacular MSS.
⁉️ Buringh's flawed MSS-loss estimating method is used. Ignoring MSS genre, location, language, and size to suggest 14th c is peak MSS producing century?
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⁉️ Only Latin MSS included. Yet the high % of vernacular colophons written by women suggests women more likely to have written vernacular MSS.
⁉️ Buringh's flawed MSS-loss estimating method is used. Ignoring MSS genre, location, language, and size to suggest 14th c is peak MSS producing century?
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March 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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⁉️ Only Latin MSS included. Yet the high % of vernacular colophons written by women suggests women more likely to have written vernacular MSS.
⁉️ Buringh's flawed MSS-loss estimating method is used. Ignoring MSS genre, location, language, and size to suggest 14th c is peak MSS producing century?
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⁉️ Only Latin MSS included. Yet the high % of vernacular colophons written by women suggests women more likely to have written vernacular MSS.
⁉️ Buringh's flawed MSS-loss estimating method is used. Ignoring MSS genre, location, language, and size to suggest 14th c is peak MSS producing century?
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Tell that to Johhny Two Hats! He's got more hats than identities.
#unexpectedBoosh
#unexpectedBoosh
February 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Tell that to Johhny Two Hats! He's got more hats than identities.
#unexpectedBoosh
#unexpectedBoosh
Rad new #Bowie mural unveiled in my neighbourhood. Fellow #skystorians: if medievalism describes post-medieval adaptions of artistic and intellectual medieval concepts/artefacts, then why isn't there a single word to refer to the same concept but with antiquity? #neologism
#ancientsky #medievalsky
#ancientsky #medievalsky
February 21, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Rad new #Bowie mural unveiled in my neighbourhood. Fellow #skystorians: if medievalism describes post-medieval adaptions of artistic and intellectual medieval concepts/artefacts, then why isn't there a single word to refer to the same concept but with antiquity? #neologism
#ancientsky #medievalsky
#ancientsky #medievalsky
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When i find myself in times of trouble,
And letters just don't come to me,
Speaking words of wisdom—
Paleography.
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But seriously - the crowd wisdom within this large fb group is invaluable.
When i find myself in times of trouble,
And letters just don't come to me,
Speaking words of wisdom—
Paleography.
🎶
But seriously - the crowd wisdom within this large fb group is invaluable.
February 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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When i find myself in times of trouble,
And letters just don't come to me,
Speaking words of wisdom—
Paleography.
🎶
But seriously - the crowd wisdom within this large fb group is invaluable.
When i find myself in times of trouble,
And letters just don't come to me,
Speaking words of wisdom—
Paleography.
🎶
But seriously - the crowd wisdom within this large fb group is invaluable.
Examples of dental wear in Scott & Jolie (2008) (my 3rd 🗣️) seems remarkably like the wear presented by Willman as a result of labret wear. The early #medieval explanation is that wear is the result of textile production, being skewed to females in the Greenlandic teeth.
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#archaeology #skystorians 3/🧵
January 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Examples of dental wear in Scott & Jolie (2008) (my 3rd 🗣️) seems remarkably like the wear presented by Willman as a result of labret wear. The early #medieval explanation is that wear is the result of textile production, being skewed to females in the Greenlandic teeth.
#archaeology #skystorians 3/🧵
#archaeology #skystorians 3/🧵
Not only is this a splendid essay featuring charming 19th c illustrations and poems dedicated to wombats in all their hirsute, rotund glory, I just can't get over the hysterical illustration of 'the common or native catte'. #Victoriana #Australianfauna #skystorians #arthistory
January 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Not only is this a splendid essay featuring charming 19th c illustrations and poems dedicated to wombats in all their hirsute, rotund glory, I just can't get over the hysterical illustration of 'the common or native catte'. #Victoriana #Australianfauna #skystorians #arthistory
I'm an adult. Which means I can have cold chocolate mousse whenever I feel like it! (Yes, i hide it with the veggies in the crisper).
January 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I'm an adult. Which means I can have cold chocolate mousse whenever I feel like it! (Yes, i hide it with the veggies in the crisper).
Even though my Glücksschwein is wonky and looks more like a plucked, zesty hedgehog than a piglet, here's to hoping that 2025 will be a fruitful and prosperous year!
December 31, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Even though my Glücksschwein is wonky and looks more like a plucked, zesty hedgehog than a piglet, here's to hoping that 2025 will be a fruitful and prosperous year!
While the deer tattoo is a link to earlier Scythian women's tattoos, I would argue the sun tattoo in its design and location on the body suggests ancient Thracian tattooing is linked to tattooing practiced by Christian Bosnian and Croatian women until the mid 20th c. #historicaltattoo
December 6, 2024 at 10:30 AM
While the deer tattoo is a link to earlier Scythian women's tattoos, I would argue the sun tattoo in its design and location on the body suggests ancient Thracian tattooing is linked to tattooing practiced by Christian Bosnian and Croatian women until the mid 20th c. #historicaltattoo
Free Thracian women are also depicted in Greek art as tattooed - this great example with both geometric and figurative #tattoos is held by the Allard Pierson Museum.
#ancientsky
The image source is from a very good (brief) discussion by Owen Rees: www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/tat...
#ancientsky
The image source is from a very good (brief) discussion by Owen Rees: www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/tat...
December 6, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Free Thracian women are also depicted in Greek art as tattooed - this great example with both geometric and figurative #tattoos is held by the Allard Pierson Museum.
#ancientsky
The image source is from a very good (brief) discussion by Owen Rees: www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/tat...
#ancientsky
The image source is from a very good (brief) discussion by Owen Rees: www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/tat...
Equal parts abject apology and a cry for help.
December 2, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Equal parts abject apology and a cry for help.
Hiding in a bookshelf is a mood, right?
December 1, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Hiding in a bookshelf is a mood, right?
At the 2023 @jaema.bsky.social conference, we had a terrific keynote from Prof Roland Fletcher on the history of the sprawling #medieval megalopolis of Greater Angkor - and ultimate collapse due to a succession of 14th c mega-droughts and mega-monsoons that destroyed the canals and social structure.
November 30, 2024 at 3:50 AM
At the 2023 @jaema.bsky.social conference, we had a terrific keynote from Prof Roland Fletcher on the history of the sprawling #medieval megalopolis of Greater Angkor - and ultimate collapse due to a succession of 14th c mega-droughts and mega-monsoons that destroyed the canals and social structure.
If ChatGPT were a person, they would be right at the summit of Mount Overconfidence: Meanwhile, the experts from whom they steal intellectual property, are climbing the opposite slope and are being ignored and/or sidelined by the general public who usually don't even know that two mountains exist.
November 28, 2024 at 9:55 AM
If ChatGPT were a person, they would be right at the summit of Mount Overconfidence: Meanwhile, the experts from whom they steal intellectual property, are climbing the opposite slope and are being ignored and/or sidelined by the general public who usually don't even know that two mountains exist.
📖 www.medievalfrenchroads.org
11th-16th c roads, bridges, and city walls/gates marked (with the caveat of not as much data from pre-16th c). Map clipping below shows the 16th c roads between Paris and Toulouse.
If you do answer your question - update the thread! #medievalsky wants to know!
11th-16th c roads, bridges, and city walls/gates marked (with the caveat of not as much data from pre-16th c). Map clipping below shows the 16th c roads between Paris and Toulouse.
If you do answer your question - update the thread! #medievalsky wants to know!
November 26, 2024 at 1:06 PM
📖 www.medievalfrenchroads.org
11th-16th c roads, bridges, and city walls/gates marked (with the caveat of not as much data from pre-16th c). Map clipping below shows the 16th c roads between Paris and Toulouse.
If you do answer your question - update the thread! #medievalsky wants to know!
11th-16th c roads, bridges, and city walls/gates marked (with the caveat of not as much data from pre-16th c). Map clipping below shows the 16th c roads between Paris and Toulouse.
If you do answer your question - update the thread! #medievalsky wants to know!
I've located some further resources that might be helpful to your question:
📖 ehne.fr/en/encyclope...
📖 planetedeshumains.fr/en/a-history...
The first 📖has a graph (below) which suggests that 13th c France was similarly or even less heavily forested than today. At least in proximity of settlements.
📖 ehne.fr/en/encyclope...
📖 planetedeshumains.fr/en/a-history...
The first 📖has a graph (below) which suggests that 13th c France was similarly or even less heavily forested than today. At least in proximity of settlements.
November 26, 2024 at 12:53 PM
I've located some further resources that might be helpful to your question:
📖 ehne.fr/en/encyclope...
📖 planetedeshumains.fr/en/a-history...
The first 📖has a graph (below) which suggests that 13th c France was similarly or even less heavily forested than today. At least in proximity of settlements.
📖 ehne.fr/en/encyclope...
📖 planetedeshumains.fr/en/a-history...
The first 📖has a graph (below) which suggests that 13th c France was similarly or even less heavily forested than today. At least in proximity of settlements.
Not a 13th c answer, but a 3rd c journey from Lutetia to Tolosa in summer/autumn took 19 days by foot or 28 days by oxcart or donkey. Double that in winter. Technology and road conditions obviously changed over 1000 years, but it's a fair indicator.
#ancientsky #medievalsky
orbis.stanford.edu
#ancientsky #medievalsky
orbis.stanford.edu
November 24, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Not a 13th c answer, but a 3rd c journey from Lutetia to Tolosa in summer/autumn took 19 days by foot or 28 days by oxcart or donkey. Double that in winter. Technology and road conditions obviously changed over 1000 years, but it's a fair indicator.
#ancientsky #medievalsky
orbis.stanford.edu
#ancientsky #medievalsky
orbis.stanford.edu
The Ganges Dolphin, while carnivorous, is functionally blind and has an eloganted narrow toothy snout. Whereas the Ganges Shark has slightly less pin-sized eyes and a wide mouthed pointed snout. The
#medieval text is Thomas of Cantimpré's De natura rerum, written between 1225 and 1244.
#medieval text is Thomas of Cantimpré's De natura rerum, written between 1225 and 1244.
November 20, 2024 at 8:14 PM
The Ganges Dolphin, while carnivorous, is functionally blind and has an eloganted narrow toothy snout. Whereas the Ganges Shark has slightly less pin-sized eyes and a wide mouthed pointed snout. The
#medieval text is Thomas of Cantimpré's De natura rerum, written between 1225 and 1244.
#medieval text is Thomas of Cantimpré's De natura rerum, written between 1225 and 1244.
Eg: this pre-modern japanese tattooing technique.
Itasō: Kansei nenkan jorō no fūzoku (Looking in pain: the appearance of a prostitute of the Kansei era [1789-1801]).
From the series Fūzoku sanjūnisō (Thirty-two aspects of customs and manners), 1888.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892).
📷 me, NGA.
Itasō: Kansei nenkan jorō no fūzoku (Looking in pain: the appearance of a prostitute of the Kansei era [1789-1801]).
From the series Fūzoku sanjūnisō (Thirty-two aspects of customs and manners), 1888.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892).
📷 me, NGA.
November 20, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Eg: this pre-modern japanese tattooing technique.
Itasō: Kansei nenkan jorō no fūzoku (Looking in pain: the appearance of a prostitute of the Kansei era [1789-1801]).
From the series Fūzoku sanjūnisō (Thirty-two aspects of customs and manners), 1888.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892).
📷 me, NGA.
Itasō: Kansei nenkan jorō no fūzoku (Looking in pain: the appearance of a prostitute of the Kansei era [1789-1801]).
From the series Fūzoku sanjūnisō (Thirty-two aspects of customs and manners), 1888.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892).
📷 me, NGA.
