Florence Bourgne
@florencebourgne.bsky.social
Professor of English Medieval Studies & head of @cema-su.bsky.social, the Centre for Medieval English Studies at @sorbonne-universite.fr
VP of the AMAES (French Society for the Study of Medieval England)
Singing/Cotentin/Medieval Inscribed Objects
VP of the AMAES (French Society for the Study of Medieval England)
Singing/Cotentin/Medieval Inscribed Objects
The same brand offers more delights, I should perhaps collect those systematically for a translation course... They must be wondering why they have so few orders from abroad.
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The same brand offers more delights, I should perhaps collect those systematically for a translation course... They must be wondering why they have so few orders from abroad.
#boomerfeeling When you see labels like this and you think this is the end of civilization--or at least spelling. You've got to love the financial whiff: funds and bonds 😜
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
#boomerfeeling When you see labels like this and you think this is the end of civilization--or at least spelling. You've got to love the financial whiff: funds and bonds 😜
Sorbonne/Brüsel this morning. Excellent Schuitten vibes 🤩
November 18, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Sorbonne/Brüsel this morning. Excellent Schuitten vibes 🤩
#medievalsky
Learn to read Old English from scratch! The CEMA has been hosting monthly manuscript reading sessions at @sorbonne-universite.fr since 1984 🥰 We are now also online, one Saturday morning a month -- next session this coming Saturday, 10-12 CET. Ping me if you want to partake 🎉🎉🎉
Learn to read Old English from scratch! The CEMA has been hosting monthly manuscript reading sessions at @sorbonne-universite.fr since 1984 🥰 We are now also online, one Saturday morning a month -- next session this coming Saturday, 10-12 CET. Ping me if you want to partake 🎉🎉🎉
![Illustration = the Old English Hexateuch, w. an image of the creation of Eve.
Text = Everything you always wanted to know about medieval manuscripts — but were too afraid to ask
Attend the 2025-2026 CÉMA/AMAES Saturday morning sessions and learn to read medieval English manuscripts from scratch!
When — Saturday 10 am-12 noon — October 11, November 15, December 13, January 24, February 21, March 21, April 11, May 30, June 13
Where — Sorbonne & Zoom
To join at any point in the year, just e-mail us: florence.bourgne [at] sorbonne-universite.fr](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6hlwrmjv2f5tbvxno2r3342t/bafkreidcp4qdch723map5sjg4quxgqjohnccv3eokqtm7j4qzyly3boznu@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
#medievalsky
Learn to read Old English from scratch! The CEMA has been hosting monthly manuscript reading sessions at @sorbonne-universite.fr since 1984 🥰 We are now also online, one Saturday morning a month -- next session this coming Saturday, 10-12 CET. Ping me if you want to partake 🎉🎉🎉
Learn to read Old English from scratch! The CEMA has been hosting monthly manuscript reading sessions at @sorbonne-universite.fr since 1984 🥰 We are now also online, one Saturday morning a month -- next session this coming Saturday, 10-12 CET. Ping me if you want to partake 🎉🎉🎉
Good news...
Last week *two* bees visited my contraband flowerpot on the office's windowsill 😍 And tonight the screen on the "let's go home" bus stop is resurrected at last 🎉🎉🎉
Last week *two* bees visited my contraband flowerpot on the office's windowsill 😍 And tonight the screen on the "let's go home" bus stop is resurrected at last 🎉🎉🎉
October 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Good news...
Last week *two* bees visited my contraband flowerpot on the office's windowsill 😍 And tonight the screen on the "let's go home" bus stop is resurrected at last 🎉🎉🎉
Last week *two* bees visited my contraband flowerpot on the office's windowsill 😍 And tonight the screen on the "let's go home" bus stop is resurrected at last 🎉🎉🎉
Good news 🤩
Last week *two* bees visited the contraband flowerpot on the office's windowsill 🎉🎉🎉
And tonight the timer on the "let's go home" bus stop is resurrected.
Last week *two* bees visited the contraband flowerpot on the office's windowsill 🎉🎉🎉
And tonight the timer on the "let's go home" bus stop is resurrected.
October 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Good news 🤩
Last week *two* bees visited the contraband flowerpot on the office's windowsill 🎉🎉🎉
And tonight the timer on the "let's go home" bus stop is resurrected.
Last week *two* bees visited the contraband flowerpot on the office's windowsill 🎉🎉🎉
And tonight the timer on the "let's go home" bus stop is resurrected.
La RATP au feu et les bus au milieu ?
Le chauffeur qui s'arrête pour une petite pause surprise parce qu'il est fâché qu'on lui fasse signe de manière insistante alors qu'il y a déjà deux bus qui sont passés sans s'arrêter 🤪🤪🤪
Bus 2214 ligne 58...
Le chauffeur qui s'arrête pour une petite pause surprise parce qu'il est fâché qu'on lui fasse signe de manière insistante alors qu'il y a déjà deux bus qui sont passés sans s'arrêter 🤪🤪🤪
Bus 2214 ligne 58...
September 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
La RATP au feu et les bus au milieu ?
Le chauffeur qui s'arrête pour une petite pause surprise parce qu'il est fâché qu'on lui fasse signe de manière insistante alors qu'il y a déjà deux bus qui sont passés sans s'arrêter 🤪🤪🤪
Bus 2214 ligne 58...
Le chauffeur qui s'arrête pour une petite pause surprise parce qu'il est fâché qu'on lui fasse signe de manière insistante alors qu'il y a déjà deux bus qui sont passés sans s'arrêter 🤪🤪🤪
Bus 2214 ligne 58...
Robert Redford 😢
Same age as my father, and gone the same year. 2025 turning out to be my own nice little 2016. Not telling anyone anymore anywhere about my other substitute father figures. 😟
Same age as my father, and gone the same year. 2025 turning out to be my own nice little 2016. Not telling anyone anymore anywhere about my other substitute father figures. 😟
September 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Robert Redford 😢
Same age as my father, and gone the same year. 2025 turning out to be my own nice little 2016. Not telling anyone anymore anywhere about my other substitute father figures. 😟
Same age as my father, and gone the same year. 2025 turning out to be my own nice little 2016. Not telling anyone anymore anywhere about my other substitute father figures. 😟
Off to greener pastures for the weekend 🧐
September 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Off to greener pastures for the weekend 🧐
In need of another challenge after the blackberry jelly rush...
We took down the front door to sand away the old paint and it is so crazy heavy --and with *four* hinges-- that we decided on painting it on site. Guess who gets to do the bottom half 🤪
We took down the front door to sand away the old paint and it is so crazy heavy --and with *four* hinges-- that we decided on painting it on site. Guess who gets to do the bottom half 🤪
August 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
In need of another challenge after the blackberry jelly rush...
We took down the front door to sand away the old paint and it is so crazy heavy --and with *four* hinges-- that we decided on painting it on site. Guess who gets to do the bottom half 🤪
We took down the front door to sand away the old paint and it is so crazy heavy --and with *four* hinges-- that we decided on painting it on site. Guess who gets to do the bottom half 🤪
#savethebees et #saveourselves accessoirement.
Pétition contre la réintroduction en France d'un pesticide de la famille des néonicotinoïdes qui empêchent abeilles et bourdons de se reproduire. Signature via France Connect.
Déjà 500 000+ signataires 😊
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...
Pétition contre la réintroduction en France d'un pesticide de la famille des néonicotinoïdes qui empêchent abeilles et bourdons de se reproduire. Signature via France Connect.
Déjà 500 000+ signataires 😊
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...
July 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
#savethebees et #saveourselves accessoirement.
Pétition contre la réintroduction en France d'un pesticide de la famille des néonicotinoïdes qui empêchent abeilles et bourdons de se reproduire. Signature via France Connect.
Déjà 500 000+ signataires 😊
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...
Pétition contre la réintroduction en France d'un pesticide de la famille des néonicotinoïdes qui empêchent abeilles et bourdons de se reproduire. Signature via France Connect.
Déjà 500 000+ signataires 😊
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...
I know 😱 And good news: the caning may be delegated 🤪
BL Burney 275, fol. 94r
Thanks to www.logicmuseum.com/wiki/London_... I can add that this is the beginning of Priscian's De construction and that the ms was made in Paris for the chancellor of the university between 1309 and 1316.
BL Burney 275, fol. 94r
Thanks to www.logicmuseum.com/wiki/London_... I can add that this is the beginning of Priscian's De construction and that the ms was made in Paris for the chancellor of the university between 1309 and 1316.
July 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I know 😱 And good news: the caning may be delegated 🤪
BL Burney 275, fol. 94r
Thanks to www.logicmuseum.com/wiki/London_... I can add that this is the beginning of Priscian's De construction and that the ms was made in Paris for the chancellor of the university between 1309 and 1316.
BL Burney 275, fol. 94r
Thanks to www.logicmuseum.com/wiki/London_... I can add that this is the beginning of Priscian's De construction and that the ms was made in Paris for the chancellor of the university between 1309 and 1316.
When you leave the office *with your plants*: soon...
July 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
When you leave the office *with your plants*: soon...
Why my Mom can still summon me anytime 😋
July 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Why my Mom can still summon me anytime 😋
Magritte sky tonight above Paris 😍
June 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Magritte sky tonight above Paris 😍
Point d'étape sur les tilleuls de la Place de la Sorbonne : ce soir on les sent depuis la cour (classique) mais aussi depuis les locaux de l'UFR d'études anglophones
#effluviae
#effluviae
June 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Point d'étape sur les tilleuls de la Place de la Sorbonne : ce soir on les sent depuis la cour (classique) mais aussi depuis les locaux de l'UFR d'études anglophones
#effluviae
#effluviae
Je vous signale à tout hasard le compte @k-hermit.com qui poste des images incroyables (photos et vidéos) de toutes sortes d'animaux marins, crabes, mollusques, et bien sûr seiches et calamars.
Je regrette deux comptes japonais qui n'ont jamais migré de twitter et qui postaient des coquillages...
Je regrette deux comptes japonais qui n'ont jamais migré de twitter et qui postaient des coquillages...
May 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Je vous signale à tout hasard le compte @k-hermit.com qui poste des images incroyables (photos et vidéos) de toutes sortes d'animaux marins, crabes, mollusques, et bien sûr seiches et calamars.
Je regrette deux comptes japonais qui n'ont jamais migré de twitter et qui postaient des coquillages...
Je regrette deux comptes japonais qui n'ont jamais migré de twitter et qui postaient des coquillages...
Love the "Cave" scroll 😍
Camille uses a folio in *Image on the Edge* where Augustine points at the text w. an arrow, and the scroll reads "non ego"... Best disclaimer ever!
Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.5.4, fol. 33v
Camille uses a folio in *Image on the Edge* where Augustine points at the text w. an arrow, and the scroll reads "non ego"... Best disclaimer ever!
Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.5.4, fol. 33v
May 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Love the "Cave" scroll 😍
Camille uses a folio in *Image on the Edge* where Augustine points at the text w. an arrow, and the scroll reads "non ego"... Best disclaimer ever!
Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.5.4, fol. 33v
Camille uses a folio in *Image on the Edge* where Augustine points at the text w. an arrow, and the scroll reads "non ego"... Best disclaimer ever!
Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.5.4, fol. 33v
'No rest for the wicked.'
May 7, 2025 at 6:29 AM
'No rest for the wicked.'
As the saying goes: 'assez nui'.
May 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
As the saying goes: 'assez nui'.
How it's going so far 😎
April 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
How it's going so far 😎
Weekend time, baby!
April 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Weekend time, baby!
My favorite fountain is spewing water at last 😍
April 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
My favorite fountain is spewing water at last 😍