Dr. Erika Graham-Goering
@jeanneologist.bsky.social
Too many Jeannes | Medieval lordship and power, French comparative history, archives | Associate prof. Universitetet i Oslo (personal account) | she/hun.
Pinned
My new minigraph on gender, joint leadership, and the historiographical invention of a war can now be freely downloaded here! library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
V2.0 (which is also visualizing the data in a different way). Guess which piece of property was the most important?
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
V2.0 (which is also visualizing the data in a different way). Guess which piece of property was the most important?
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Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
I'm back at my let's-diagram-this-lordship game
November 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I'm back at my let's-diagram-this-lordship game
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SO FUNNY COINCIDENCE, as an undergrad I had these manuscript fragments remounted properly for display! 😁
In 2009–10 I was lucky enough to take a course in which we collectively curated an art exhibit using the College's collections.
In 2009–10 I was lucky enough to take a course in which we collectively curated an art exhibit using the College's collections.
Another incredible treasure from Grinnell, this time in the art collection, is this set of cuttings of the miniatures from what must have been a gorgeous book of hours! 🌟
(1985.003.001-009)
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
(1985.003.001-009)
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
November 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
SO FUNNY COINCIDENCE, as an undergrad I had these manuscript fragments remounted properly for display! 😁
In 2009–10 I was lucky enough to take a course in which we collectively curated an art exhibit using the College's collections.
In 2009–10 I was lucky enough to take a course in which we collectively curated an art exhibit using the College's collections.
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It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
SO FUNNY COINCIDENCE, as an undergrad I had these manuscript fragments remounted properly for display! 😁
In 2009–10 I was lucky enough to take a course in which we collectively curated an art exhibit using the College's collections.
In 2009–10 I was lucky enough to take a course in which we collectively curated an art exhibit using the College's collections.
Another incredible treasure from Grinnell, this time in the art collection, is this set of cuttings of the miniatures from what must have been a gorgeous book of hours! 🌟
(1985.003.001-009)
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
(1985.003.001-009)
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
November 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
SO FUNNY COINCIDENCE, as an undergrad I had these manuscript fragments remounted properly for display! 😁
In 2009–10 I was lucky enough to take a course in which we collectively curated an art exhibit using the College's collections.
In 2009–10 I was lucky enough to take a course in which we collectively curated an art exhibit using the College's collections.
Reposted by Dr. Erika Graham-Goering
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
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Help! @frenchhistory.bsky.social really wanted this for journal cover next year (we’ve got exciting things coming on quantitative and computational methods) but it’s a challenge finding higher res versions/rights holder.
Do YOU have suggestions to track these down OR alternative, similar images? 🙏🏻 🗃️
Do YOU have suggestions to track these down OR alternative, similar images? 🙏🏻 🗃️
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Help! @frenchhistory.bsky.social really wanted this for journal cover next year (we’ve got exciting things coming on quantitative and computational methods) but it’s a challenge finding higher res versions/rights holder.
Do YOU have suggestions to track these down OR alternative, similar images? 🙏🏻 🗃️
Do YOU have suggestions to track these down OR alternative, similar images? 🙏🏻 🗃️
A really exciting slate of papers for this year's Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar! If anyone will be in Durham and wants in (or maybe even wants to attend online, I don't know?), drop me a line and I can share details!
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
A really exciting slate of papers for this year's Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar! If anyone will be in Durham and wants in (or maybe even wants to attend online, I don't know?), drop me a line and I can share details!
"So a lot of it is about grain" is, in retrospect, perhaps not the strongest opening hook I have ever composed 😅
Palaeography 🧵! Or why it can take a historian a while to confirm what they already suspected must be the case and not really get any further than they were—but this time with confidence 😂
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 AM
"So a lot of it is about grain" is, in retrospect, perhaps not the strongest opening hook I have ever composed 😅
Palaeography 🧵! Or why it can take a historian a while to confirm what they already suspected must be the case and not really get any further than they were—but this time with confidence 😂
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Palaeography 🧵! Or why it can take a historian a while to confirm what they already suspected must be the case and not really get any further than they were—but this time with confidence 😂
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
::grabby hands::
It’s publication day for Law, Society and Political Culture in Late Medieval and Reformation Germany! At last, the key sources from the Holy Roman Empire - laws, treaties, and polemics - are available in English translation. #medievalsky #earlymodern
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165893/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165893/
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
::grabby hands::
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It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
It's not just evil, it doesn't work.
Possibly one for @greenleejw.bsky.social but really for anyone who feels like a bit of C14 French palaeography, what's the last word on the top line? "Item le tiers de la huche ? anguilles dudit vivier." I'd have expected "aux" but it's... not. What other word could link eels with their reservoir? 😂
November 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Possibly one for @greenleejw.bsky.social but really for anyone who feels like a bit of C14 French palaeography, what's the last word on the top line? "Item le tiers de la huche ? anguilles dudit vivier." I'd have expected "aux" but it's... not. What other word could link eels with their reservoir? 😂
OK but how *is* the medieval historian Kaeuper pronounced? I don't think I've ever had to say it out loud but I will next semester 😂
November 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
OK but how *is* the medieval historian Kaeuper pronounced? I don't think I've ever had to say it out loud but I will next semester 😂
Left to my own devices I'm all about Baskerville (with Garamond as an acceptable runner-up), but I use it mainly for my own documents rather than e.g. slides, since I know sans-serif fonts are more accessible for some students. (I have fewer strong opinions on those, but Avenir is nice.)
What are your favourite fonts? I'm quite partial to Century Gothic, Andale Mono, and Abadi.
November 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Left to my own devices I'm all about Baskerville (with Garamond as an acceptable runner-up), but I use it mainly for my own documents rather than e.g. slides, since I know sans-serif fonts are more accessible for some students. (I have fewer strong opinions on those, but Avenir is nice.)
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
Fuck off @microsoft.com, get this shitty slop-generator out of my workspace and back to hell where it belongs
Anyone know how to kill this dead on a Mac? Meanwhile, looks like I'll be using alternatives to Word for the foreseeable.
Anyone know how to kill this dead on a Mac? Meanwhile, looks like I'll be using alternatives to Word for the foreseeable.
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Fuck off @microsoft.com, get this shitty slop-generator out of my workspace and back to hell where it belongs
Anyone know how to kill this dead on a Mac? Meanwhile, looks like I'll be using alternatives to Word for the foreseeable.
Anyone know how to kill this dead on a Mac? Meanwhile, looks like I'll be using alternatives to Word for the foreseeable.
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This is a sad & horrifying tale of how millions of kids' opportunity to get good at reading has been hampered by offering them 'path of least resistance' work-arounds. This is exactly what I foresee happening as we shovel AI into curricula too. There are no short cuts to training your brain.
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
This is a sad & horrifying tale of how millions of kids' opportunity to get good at reading has been hampered by offering them 'path of least resistance' work-arounds. This is exactly what I foresee happening as we shovel AI into curricula too. There are no short cuts to training your brain.
To which we might add that, as with so many things, the solution (as proposed by some of the people discussed here) isn't simply "do as the men do"—it's to rethink whether the norms associated with femininity (friendliness, warmth) don't have some advantages we could do to embrace more.
This is a really fascinating discussion of changing linguistic conventions and how women are expected to write differently.
debuk.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/e...
debuk.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/e...
Enough already!!! Punctuation, silly women and soundbite science
One of last week’s media talking points was a study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (JESP), which attracted attention mainly because of its claim that women use exclamati…
debuk.wordpress.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
To which we might add that, as with so many things, the solution (as proposed by some of the people discussed here) isn't simply "do as the men do"—it's to rethink whether the norms associated with femininity (friendliness, warmth) don't have some advantages we could do to embrace more.
I'm teaching the medieval unit on our MA course on the history of violence next spring, and suddenly I'm torn on what theme to pick. Please vote! (This referendum is non-binding):
A. Tournaments!
B. University student violence!
A. Tournaments!
B. University student violence!
November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I'm teaching the medieval unit on our MA course on the history of violence next spring, and suddenly I'm torn on what theme to pick. Please vote! (This referendum is non-binding):
A. Tournaments!
B. University student violence!
A. Tournaments!
B. University student violence!
OK, gotta climb down from the headiness of bulk-ordering books from Bennett and Kerr's half-off sale 🤓
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
OK, gotta climb down from the headiness of bulk-ordering books from Bennett and Kerr's half-off sale 🤓
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Mamdani says in his victory speech, “we will hire thousands of teachers.”
This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.
This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Mamdani says in his victory speech, “we will hire thousands of teachers.”
This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.
This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.
Manuscript folks: what, if any, are the conventions for citing folio numbers when they repeat within a given manuscript? That is, if I have a chunk foliated 1–100, then the next chunk restarts the foliation at 1, how do I distinguish the first f. 35v (for instance) from the second f. 35v?
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Manuscript folks: what, if any, are the conventions for citing folio numbers when they repeat within a given manuscript? That is, if I have a chunk foliated 1–100, then the next chunk restarts the foliation at 1, how do I distinguish the first f. 35v (for instance) from the second f. 35v?