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Justine Firnhaber-Baker
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Professor of Medieval History at the University of Andrews
Author of House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France • The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasants' Revolt • Violence and the State in Languedoc, 1250-1400
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medievalrevolt.bsky.social
There is, of course, 2011's Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy in the interim.
October 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
medievalrevolt.bsky.social
Fantastic analogy and advice. Thanks!
September 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say something and have it not matter than to be silent.
To be a person of consequence is to matter. If you matter, you have rights, and your words serve those rights and give you the power to bear witness, make agreements, set boundaries. If you have consequence, your words possess the authority to determine what does and does not happen to you, the power that underlies the concept of consent as part of equality and ­ self-​­ determination. Even legally women’s words have lacked consequence: in only a few scattered places on earth could women vote before the twenti- eth century, and not so many decades ago, women rarely became lawyers and judges; I met a Texas woman whose mother was among the first women in their region to serve on a jury, and I was an adult when the first woman was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Until a few decades ago, wives throughout much of the world, including the United States, lacked the right to make con- tracts and financial decisions or even to exercise jurisdiction over their own bodies that overrode their husbands’ ability to do so; in some parts of the world, a wife is still property under the law, and others choose her husband. To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say some- thing and have it not matter than to be silent.
September 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
medievalrevolt.bsky.social
Just the tag, but they did come from the Moomin museum itself.
August 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
medievalrevolt.bsky.social
Finland is a very charming place.
August 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Graduate outcomes and incomes as well as course satisfaction in History are all actually strong. Suggesting that Humanities degrees are not 'career-related' is simply bizarre. 2/2
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August 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM