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Martha Newman
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historian | scholar of religion | medieval Europe and its neighbors | mother of boys | she/hers | opinions my own
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🧵 Is this a Dire wolf... 🤔?

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Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ...
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Image fo a seal - by someone that has not seen one - from Valenciennes, ms 0320, Thomas de Cantimpré, Albert le Grand. Liber de natura rerum, vers 1280, 230 × 156 mm. Folio 116, Image : IRHT https://patrimoine-numerique.ville-valenciennes.fr/ark:/29755/B_596066101_ms_0320 (http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/7876). The original colour of the skin (before it degraded) - but what is it? (image Elodie Leveque) Mock-up of the original book binding by Elodie Leveque. Note that the fur is too dark in this mockup (image Elodie Leveque). In 2016, the team in 2016 first confronted the collection at Troyes - but what are the bindings made of? Image of five people, one sitting, discussing a large bound medieval text held by supports in a modern library.
April 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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⭐️Texas peeps! Senate Bill 37, which overregulates &micromanages higher ed, will be heard Thursday at 9 AM &for as long as we have people there to testify against it. Please come to the Capitol to defend academic freedom, shared governance &due process. This bill guts all three.
March 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Has anyone ever used a "small space" on Word for Macs, as opposed to a normal-sized space between words? If so, how to you enter it? I'm trying to follow very precise instructions for the edition of a Latin text. #medievalsky
March 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Love this satire, seen on the UT campus.
January 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Very pleased to find on my doorstep this afternoon this wonderful volume in honor of Sharon Farmer's remarkable scholarship and influence. #medievalsky
www.routledge.com/.../Dowlin.....
Medieval Work, Worship, and Power: Persuasive and Silenced Voices
Medieval Work, Worship, and Power: Persuasive and Silenced Voices celebrates Sharon Farmer's significant contributions to the fields of medieval European social, religious, gender, environmental, labo...
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January 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Very pleased to have an essay "The Necromancer and the Abbot" in Scott Bruce's and Stephen Gordon's edited volume, Vigor Mortis: The Vitality of the Dead in Medieval Cultures, forthcoming from Routledge in Dec. #medievalsky
xuthal.bsky.social Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social · Nov 21
Forthcoming on December 16! Vigor Mortis: The Vitality of the Dead in Medieval Cultures, ed. Scott G. Bruce and Stephen Gordon (Routledge).
November 22, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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Anne Lester's wonderful AHA essay on the rebuilding on Notre Dame in Paris, and the importance of what the French call "science" but we know to include knowledge of the humanities for this rebuilding process.
historians.org American Historical Association @historians.org · Nov 12
As Notre-Dame was rebuilt after a devastating fire in 2019, the resulting “new research is staggering,” Anne E. Lester writes in #AHAPerspectives, “encompassing medieval cathedral construction, repair, building techniques, and more.” 🗃️
Notre-Dame Arises – AHA
As Notre-Dame in Paris has been rebuilt, our understanding of its history has been transformed.
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November 14, 2024 at 7:55 PM