Will Rossiter
@satyrane.bsky.social
Professor at UEA. Medievalist, Early Modernist, Italianist. Views are very much not those of my employer, by some measure. Inglese italianato.
Delighted to have this splendid volume arrive in the post today. Am humbled to be in such learned company. Hats off to @mbelle4912.bsky.social, Riccardo and Francesco on doing such a sterling job of bringing this all together.
September 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Delighted to have this splendid volume arrive in the post today. Am humbled to be in such learned company. Hats off to @mbelle4912.bsky.social, Riccardo and Francesco on doing such a sterling job of bringing this all together.
Oh dear god. They’ve given them all the same campaign. The same resoundingly empty word. It’s actual madness. Is there a word for something that is hilarious, enraging, and deeply saddening at the same time? And which university is using that word as its new branding campaign?
July 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Oh dear god. They’ve given them all the same campaign. The same resoundingly empty word. It’s actual madness. Is there a word for something that is hilarious, enraging, and deeply saddening at the same time? And which university is using that word as its new branding campaign?
Thoughts and prayers to everyone and their deadlines whose children break up from school today.
July 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Thoughts and prayers to everyone and their deadlines whose children break up from school today.
One of the manifold benefits of living, working & studying literature in Norwich & Norfolk are the superb independent bookshops. I have just picked up NINE volumes of the journal of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society for just £3(!). Thank you City Bookshop! www.citybookshopnorwich.co.uk
July 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
One of the manifold benefits of living, working & studying literature in Norwich & Norfolk are the superb independent bookshops. I have just picked up NINE volumes of the journal of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society for just £3(!). Thank you City Bookshop! www.citybookshopnorwich.co.uk
Tbf the medieval guildhall at Bury St Edmunds is dedicated to St George so they have a long cultural history of dragon antagonism, or andragonism, if you will. Even their most famous son got in on the action…
July 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Tbf the medieval guildhall at Bury St Edmunds is dedicated to St George so they have a long cultural history of dragon antagonism, or andragonism, if you will. Even their most famous son got in on the action…
Any PGR students who fancy coming to Norwich on July 16th to explore the medieval and early modern collections we have here at the Cathedral Library and the Norfolk Heritage Centre please do sign up for the latest
@chase-dtp.bsky.social Bookscapes workshop! Deadline for registration is 11 July.
@chase-dtp.bsky.social Bookscapes workshop! Deadline for registration is 11 July.
July 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Any PGR students who fancy coming to Norwich on July 16th to explore the medieval and early modern collections we have here at the Cathedral Library and the Norfolk Heritage Centre please do sign up for the latest
@chase-dtp.bsky.social Bookscapes workshop! Deadline for registration is 11 July.
@chase-dtp.bsky.social Bookscapes workshop! Deadline for registration is 11 July.
This poems appears in Ron’s new collection, Norwich Sonnets and Other Poems (available via waterlandbooks.co.uk/shop/), which is the follow-up to his best-selling Market Lunch. As Jeremy notes in advance of his interview with Ron tomorrow, ‘critics are already calling it “bright yellow”’.
June 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This poems appears in Ron’s new collection, Norwich Sonnets and Other Poems (available via waterlandbooks.co.uk/shop/), which is the follow-up to his best-selling Market Lunch. As Jeremy notes in advance of his interview with Ron tomorrow, ‘critics are already calling it “bright yellow”’.
It’s not often one is the dedicatee of a poem by a celebrated local poet so I am deeply honoured to be named in Ron Nevett’s latest collection. Indeed, the reclusive, elusive poet will be in conversation with @jntod.bsky.social at the Slice + Dice Cafe in St Benedict’s, Norwich tomorrow at 7.15pm!
June 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
It’s not often one is the dedicatee of a poem by a celebrated local poet so I am deeply honoured to be named in Ron Nevett’s latest collection. Indeed, the reclusive, elusive poet will be in conversation with @jntod.bsky.social at the Slice + Dice Cafe in St Benedict’s, Norwich tomorrow at 7.15pm!
If you would like to come & be me for a year (in terms of employment) then we are advertising for a Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Email me with any queries (address in ad). I assure you there are v few places as Med/Emod as Norwich. Pls share!
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/16...
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/16...
June 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
If you would like to come & be me for a year (in terms of employment) then we are advertising for a Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Email me with any queries (address in ad). I assure you there are v few places as Med/Emod as Norwich. Pls share!
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/16...
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/16...
We have reached Peak LinkedIn.
June 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We have reached Peak LinkedIn.
…but it will go to scientists and innovators, deepening the humanities’ managed decline.
June 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
…but it will go to scientists and innovators, deepening the humanities’ managed decline.
The only potential good news is that UKRI will get some more money…
June 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The only potential good news is that UKRI will get some more money…
The money for HE will be spent on…. AI. Great.
June 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The money for HE will be spent on…. AI. Great.
I was just thinking what universities could do with now is another hit to their finances.
May 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I was just thinking what universities could do with now is another hit to their finances.
The Uffizi Insta clearly enjoying themselves.
May 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The Uffizi Insta clearly enjoying themselves.
Also in the GNU, Valentin de Boulogne’s Noli mi tangere (1622), formerly in the Palazzo Mazzuoli (Palazzo della Corgna). Obv in the spirit of Caravaggio.
#Easter
#Easter
April 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Also in the GNU, Valentin de Boulogne’s Noli mi tangere (1622), formerly in the Palazzo Mazzuoli (Palazzo della Corgna). Obv in the spirit of Caravaggio.
#Easter
#Easter
Perugino’s Resurrection from the altarpiece of the decemviri (1495, tempera on panel, formerly in the Chapel of the Priors, Perugia, now in the Galleria Nazionale dell’ Umbria). #Easter
April 20, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Perugino’s Resurrection from the altarpiece of the decemviri (1495, tempera on panel, formerly in the Chapel of the Priors, Perugia, now in the Galleria Nazionale dell’ Umbria). #Easter
As it’s the Annunciation here are some paintings of Mary reading about the Annunciation during the Annunciation (after Pinturicchio; Bonfigli; da Évora).
March 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
As it’s the Annunciation here are some paintings of Mary reading about the Annunciation during the Annunciation (after Pinturicchio; Bonfigli; da Évora).
‘And I pray that I may forget
These matters that with myself I too much discuss
Too much explain’
(T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday)
*Image: detail from Benedetto Bonfigli’s frescoes for the Chapel of the Priors in Perugia (1454; image captured in the late afternoon sun)
These matters that with myself I too much discuss
Too much explain’
(T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday)
*Image: detail from Benedetto Bonfigli’s frescoes for the Chapel of the Priors in Perugia (1454; image captured in the late afternoon sun)
March 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
‘And I pray that I may forget
These matters that with myself I too much discuss
Too much explain’
(T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday)
*Image: detail from Benedetto Bonfigli’s frescoes for the Chapel of the Priors in Perugia (1454; image captured in the late afternoon sun)
These matters that with myself I too much discuss
Too much explain’
(T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday)
*Image: detail from Benedetto Bonfigli’s frescoes for the Chapel of the Priors in Perugia (1454; image captured in the late afternoon sun)
If you see this repost with something red from your gallery. (Orazio Gentileschi, St Cecilia playing the spinet with an angel (ca. 1615-21), Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria. Saw it while I was looking for painted musical notation in Perugia in 2022. Artemisia’s dad.)
February 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
If you see this repost with something red from your gallery. (Orazio Gentileschi, St Cecilia playing the spinet with an angel (ca. 1615-21), Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria. Saw it while I was looking for painted musical notation in Perugia in 2022. Artemisia’s dad.)
Plato on the establishment of oligarchy (from Republic XI, trans. Waterfield).
January 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Plato on the establishment of oligarchy (from Republic XI, trans. Waterfield).
Back in the Cathedral library today, looking at another Gryphius edition, this time Ovid’s Fasti; Tristia; Ex Ponto (Lyon, 1546). And sometimes one Thomas just isn’t enough: Thomas Jennings really wants you to know this is his His Booke.
December 4, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Back in the Cathedral library today, looking at another Gryphius edition, this time Ovid’s Fasti; Tristia; Ex Ponto (Lyon, 1546). And sometimes one Thomas just isn’t enough: Thomas Jennings really wants you to know this is his His Booke.
Today was the first of many field trips I will be making with our second- and third-year students to Norwich Cathedral Library over the next fortnight. Here is what looks like a bit of c15th MS used in the binding of Gryphius’ pocket-sized 1550 reprint of Virgil’s Opera.
December 2, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Today was the first of many field trips I will be making with our second- and third-year students to Norwich Cathedral Library over the next fortnight. Here is what looks like a bit of c15th MS used in the binding of Gryphius’ pocket-sized 1550 reprint of Virgil’s Opera.
Nov 10 is the feast day of Leo the Great, so here’s Raphael’s painting of Leo’s meeting with Attila, in the Vatican’s Heliodorus chamber. Originally Leo I had the face of Julius II but after his death Raphael changed it to Leo X. Except he’d already added Leo X as a cardinal. So Leo sits behind Leo.
November 10, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Nov 10 is the feast day of Leo the Great, so here’s Raphael’s painting of Leo’s meeting with Attila, in the Vatican’s Heliodorus chamber. Originally Leo I had the face of Julius II but after his death Raphael changed it to Leo X. Except he’d already added Leo X as a cardinal. So Leo sits behind Leo.
We ben sett to schryve of love,
As we begunne ferst above. (Confessio Amantis)
Gower covering both Shrove Tuesday and Ash Valentine’s.
As we begunne ferst above. (Confessio Amantis)
Gower covering both Shrove Tuesday and Ash Valentine’s.
February 13, 2024 at 4:33 PM
We ben sett to schryve of love,
As we begunne ferst above. (Confessio Amantis)
Gower covering both Shrove Tuesday and Ash Valentine’s.
As we begunne ferst above. (Confessio Amantis)
Gower covering both Shrove Tuesday and Ash Valentine’s.