Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦
@sarabutler.bsky.social
Medievalist, fond of juries, writes about violence, dog-lover, crochet enthusiast, reads Canadian fiction. Professor of medieval history at Ohio State University.
Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Cassie Watson, "Vitriol to Corrosive Fluid: 'Acid' Assault in the Twentieth Century" (2021):
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Vitriol to Corrosive Fluid: ‘Acid’ Assault in the Twentieth Century
By Cassie Watson; posted 26 September 2021. With recent posts having examined the eighteenth-century origins of acid throwing and some of its main nineteenth-century characteristics, this one consi…
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November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Cassie Watson, "Vitriol to Corrosive Fluid: 'Acid' Assault in the Twentieth Century" (2021):
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Tom McSweeney saying such lovely things about my L&HR article "Context Matters":
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Unbroken Tradition" or Broken Chain? Contextualizing Medieval Abortion Law - Legal History
Sara M. Butler, Context Matters: Understanding Why Medieval Legislators Chose to Regulate Women's Pregnant Bodies, Law & Hist. Rev. (2024).Thomas J. McSweeneyIn Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organiz...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Tom McSweeney saying such lovely things about my L&HR article "Context Matters":
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Fantastic guest post by Susannah Wilson (Warwick) about murder, Munchausen Syndrome and the history of morphine!
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The Body by the Canal: The Abduction and Murder of Henriette Barbey in 1882
In this guest post, Susannah Wilson gives a snapshot of the killing and trial at the centre of her new book on forensic psychology and female violence: ‘A Most Quiet Murder: Maternity, Afflic…
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November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Fantastic guest post by Susannah Wilson (Warwick) about murder, Munchausen Syndrome and the history of morphine!
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These catalogue updates allow me, a serious historian, to search for "fart" and find the case where the accused allegedly said he "cared not a fart for the Lord Mayor of London." What will you find? discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_a...
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
These catalogue updates allow me, a serious historian, to search for "fart" and find the case where the accused allegedly said he "cared not a fart for the Lord Mayor of London." What will you find? discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_a...
Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Butler, "'Horys, strumppettes and fyssenagges': Defamation in the Court of Later Medieval England" (2021)
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“Horys, strumppettes and fyssenagges”: Defamation in the Courts of Later Medieval England
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 23 Aug. 2021. Like many other teenagers, the only reason I enjoyed leafing through the occasional Shakespearean play in high school was that they provided me with a glorio…
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November 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Butler, "'Horys, strumppettes and fyssenagges': Defamation in the Court of Later Medieval England" (2021)
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Just published online: Lola Digard's investigation of the expanding role of surgeons and medical professionals in legal proceedings in late medieval Ghent, and its relevance to public health, governmentality, and medical authority.
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Forensic Knowledge, Labour, and the Medical Market in the Peace Procedures of Ghent, 1350–1400
Focusing on forensic practices, this article investigates the process of professionalisation of medical knowledge in late medieval Ghent. It reconstructs how Ghent’s aldermen used biopolitical stra...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Just published online: Lola Digard's investigation of the expanding role of surgeons and medical professionals in legal proceedings in late medieval Ghent, and its relevance to public health, governmentality, and medical authority.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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CfP: Small Worlds, Big Worlds: Medieval Mediterranean Perspectives, Ninth International Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM) – NOVA, FCSH, Lisbon, June 22–26, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/small-w...
Small Worlds, Big Worlds: Medieval Mediterranean Perspectives | Mary Jaharis Center
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October 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
CfP: Small Worlds, Big Worlds: Medieval Mediterranean Perspectives, Ninth International Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM) – NOVA, FCSH, Lisbon, June 22–26, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/small-w...
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Rarely seen due to its age and rarity, a 500-year-old birthing girdle is currently on display at the Wellcome Collection.
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A rare medieval scroll to protect mothers during chilldbirth has gone on display
Rarely seen due to its age and rarity, a 500-year-old birthing girdle is currently on display at the Wellcome Collection.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Rarely seen due to its age and rarity, a 500-year-old birthing girdle is currently on display at the Wellcome Collection.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/a-m...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/a-m...
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Genuinely laughing to keep from crying at this instant classic from @mcsweeneys.net
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Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Genuinely laughing to keep from crying at this instant classic from @mcsweeneys.net
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Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of race and ethnicity? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers
For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of race and ethnicity? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
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This is an excellent deep dive by @kjkesselring.bsky.social into the Devil in legal records. My (very) small contribution was coming up with the title, which I blurted out mid-conversation with Krista when told about the subject.
What if the Devil made them do it? A new post by
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'Crime, Culpability, and the Devil in the Details'.
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'Crime, Culpability, and the Devil in the Details'.
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Crime, Culpability, and the Devil in the Details
Did claims of having fallen for the devil’s seductions heighten or lessen perceptions of a person’s guilt in early modern English legal processes?
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October 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This is an excellent deep dive by @kjkesselring.bsky.social into the Devil in legal records. My (very) small contribution was coming up with the title, which I blurted out mid-conversation with Krista when told about the subject.
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A treasure of English medieval legal history – A Doom of Ine, King of Wessex. (This version is contained in an appendix of Alfred the Great’s dōmbōc – “book of judgments”, a 9th-century juridical text) (Image of Laws of King Ine, British Library) #medievalsky
October 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
A treasure of English medieval legal history – A Doom of Ine, King of Wessex. (This version is contained in an appendix of Alfred the Great’s dōmbōc – “book of judgments”, a 9th-century juridical text) (Image of Laws of King Ine, British Library) #medievalsky
It’s Miscellany Monday! Here’s Tim Streeton, “Mary Hockmore’s Lawyer,” (2021) legalhistorymiscellany.com/2021/08/14/m...
Mary Hockmore’s Lawyer: Marriage Breakdown and Women’s Rights in Seventeenth-Century England
In this guest post, Tim Stretton explores the efforts of a 17th-century woman to secure a lawyer to help extricate her from a broken marriage.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It’s Miscellany Monday! Here’s Tim Streeton, “Mary Hockmore’s Lawyer,” (2021) legalhistorymiscellany.com/2021/08/14/m...
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Reminder: Abstracts are due Nov 1st for the 51st Sewanee Medieval Colloquium! (4/10-11)
Help us think collectively about "Refuge and Resistance," and get inspired by subthemes organized by some amazing collaborators.
For more on submission, format and funding, see www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com
Help us think collectively about "Refuge and Resistance," and get inspired by subthemes organized by some amazing collaborators.
For more on submission, format and funding, see www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com
The Sewanee Medieval Colloquium
The Sewanee Medieval Colloquium is an interdisciplinary conference of medieval studies, held each year at the University of the South, in Sewanee TN.
www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Reminder: Abstracts are due Nov 1st for the 51st Sewanee Medieval Colloquium! (4/10-11)
Help us think collectively about "Refuge and Resistance," and get inspired by subthemes organized by some amazing collaborators.
For more on submission, format and funding, see www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com
Help us think collectively about "Refuge and Resistance," and get inspired by subthemes organized by some amazing collaborators.
For more on submission, format and funding, see www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com
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While not an exploding box (you'll have to read the book ;-)), something equally exciting was waiting for me on my doorstep today. My advance copies for Civil Blood arrived! A hearfelt thanks to my wonderful editor at @cornellupress.bsky.social @bethanywasik.bsky.social for making this day possible!
October 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
While not an exploding box (you'll have to read the book ;-)), something equally exciting was waiting for me on my doorstep today. My advance copies for Civil Blood arrived! A hearfelt thanks to my wonderful editor at @cornellupress.bsky.social @bethanywasik.bsky.social for making this day possible!
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@drkdwatson.bsky.social of Oxford Brookes History:
Acid attacks in Britain, 1760-1975. Chapter 2, facts and figures
From the author's Acid Attacks in Britain, 1760–1975 [ISBN: 9783031272714] (Palgrave, 2023).
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FREE #brookes #oa
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Acid attacks in Britain, 1760-1975. Chapter 2, facts and figures
From the author's Acid Attacks in Britain, 1760–1975 [ISBN: 9783031272714] (Palgrave, 2023).
link.springer.com/book/9783031...
FREE #brookes #oa
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October 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
@drkdwatson.bsky.social of Oxford Brookes History:
Acid attacks in Britain, 1760-1975. Chapter 2, facts and figures
From the author's Acid Attacks in Britain, 1760–1975 [ISBN: 9783031272714] (Palgrave, 2023).
link.springer.com/book/9783031...
FREE #brookes #oa
radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/...
Acid attacks in Britain, 1760-1975. Chapter 2, facts and figures
From the author's Acid Attacks in Britain, 1760–1975 [ISBN: 9783031272714] (Palgrave, 2023).
link.springer.com/book/9783031...
FREE #brookes #oa
radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/...
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🍗 Eating with the Tudors: Dietary Changes in Tudor England 👑
Join us for our next free talk by food historian Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social
📅 Wed 22 Oct 2025
⏲️ 13:00-14:00
🎫 Free, booking essential www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/norfolk-re...
#tudorhistory #foodhistory #worldfoodday
Join us for our next free talk by food historian Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social
📅 Wed 22 Oct 2025
⏲️ 13:00-14:00
🎫 Free, booking essential www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/norfolk-re...
#tudorhistory #foodhistory #worldfoodday
October 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🍗 Eating with the Tudors: Dietary Changes in Tudor England 👑
Join us for our next free talk by food historian Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social
📅 Wed 22 Oct 2025
⏲️ 13:00-14:00
🎫 Free, booking essential www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/norfolk-re...
#tudorhistory #foodhistory #worldfoodday
Join us for our next free talk by food historian Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social
📅 Wed 22 Oct 2025
⏲️ 13:00-14:00
🎫 Free, booking essential www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/norfolk-re...
#tudorhistory #foodhistory #worldfoodday
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Read about Conan Doyle's research into early medieval Latin medical texts for his book, The Reception of Latin Medicine in Early Medieval England in his Q&A blog > buff.ly/CHVeRqU #medievalsky @conandoyle.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Read about Conan Doyle's research into early medieval Latin medical texts for his book, The Reception of Latin Medicine in Early Medieval England in his Q&A blog > buff.ly/CHVeRqU #medievalsky @conandoyle.bsky.social
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Many congratulations to all the excellent authors, including Charmian Mansell (Univ. of Sheffield) for Female Servants in Early Modern England (Oxford Univ. Press, 2024), winner of
the Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485.
the Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485.
The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2025 awardees! #AHAPerspectives🗃️
American Historical Association Announces 2025 Prize Winners – AHA
The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Many congratulations to all the excellent authors, including Charmian Mansell (Univ. of Sheffield) for Female Servants in Early Modern England (Oxford Univ. Press, 2024), winner of
the Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485.
the Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485.
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#WomeninRebellion Only one woman appears as the primary defendant in the court martial records of 1798–1801. Catharine Kelly’s trial in Clonmel was brief — but it shows how suspicion reached even into women’s lives.
Read her case here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...
Read her case here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...
![NAI CSO/REB/620/6/69/5 - Account of Court Martial of Catherine Kelly, Co. Tipperary [Thursday, 28 March 1799]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lpeuvpzstxbn4zomtnfzvwa/bafkreiauvbjg2y2soyo5et5yva7mdykygpszfxs6kmxs7fytjdlwqw7ogi@jpeg)
October 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
#WomeninRebellion Only one woman appears as the primary defendant in the court martial records of 1798–1801. Catharine Kelly’s trial in Clonmel was brief — but it shows how suspicion reached even into women’s lives.
Read her case here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...
Read her case here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...
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Final post in my series on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England'. It focuses on the heartbeat of the premodern economy.... the harvest.
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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England IV: Harvesters
This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…
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October 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Final post in my series on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England'. It focuses on the heartbeat of the premodern economy.... the harvest.
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A man digging for worms in southeastern Sweden discovered a medieval hoard containing pearls, pendants, silver rings, and an estimated 20,000 coins. Archaeologists determined that most of the silver coins date to the 12th century.
Up to 20,000 coins from Early Middle Ages discovered by man digging for worms near Stockholm
A man digging for worms at his summer house in Sweden has unearthed a stupendous treasure: a silver hoard of up to 20,000 coins from the Early Middle Ages.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A man digging for worms in southeastern Sweden discovered a medieval hoard containing pearls, pendants, silver rings, and an estimated 20,000 coins. Archaeologists determined that most of the silver coins date to the 12th century.