Stephanie J. Lahey, PhD, Oschinsky Research Associate 2023-24 is working on Statuta Angliæ manuscripts – handwritten compilations of English common law statutes from the mid-13th to late 15th centuries. Stephanie is taking part in the Fellows' Talk Series. Book here: loom.ly/5W-hvkU

Ten years ago, in an account now defunct, I wrote Beowulf in 100 Tweets #Beow100 for my students. Now I’m teaching it again, so for these students I’ll be redoing the tweets in double speed over the next fortnight.

Brill's Later Medieval Europe series has a new series editor (me!) and a new board:

Carrie Benes (Carrie Benes), Jessalynn Bird (@BirdJessal48181), Emily Hutchinson, Sebastien Rossignol, and Claire Weeda (@c_weeda)!

Check us out: brill.com/display/serial…

'It's the dream for people who are interested in strange things.' - DR. FRANCIS YOUNG, Ritual, Exorcism, and Religion - Dr. Francis Young, Digital Folklore #DigitalFolklore #DrFrancisYoung

This is really appalling.

A baker at work he espies,
And off to the courtroom he hies.
The charge, it is said,
Isn’t that he’s made bread
He’s just baked naughty puddings and pies!

The internet archive is so fucking based it's insane

Portrait of Mark the Evangelist sharpening his quill

The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 11; the 'Dinant Gospels'; middle of the 12th century; Flanders; f.58v
John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Honeybee on French lavender in the Ely Cathedral Physick Garden.

Stephanie J. Lahey, PhD Biblioteka Narodowa The relatively recent study on the Psalter (with representative references):
Sosnowski, Miłosz. 2020. „Właściciel Psałterza floriańskiego W Pierwszej połowie XV Wieku”. Studia Źródłoznawcze. Commentationes 58 (grudzień):65-83. doi.org/10.12775/SZ.20….

A thread on this #MedievalManuscript from Polska romańska (i gotycka) 👀

#TIH #OTD in #BookHistory 6 May 1236: Death of Roger of Wendover, Benedictine monk & 1st of several important chroniclers at St Albans. His best-known work, Flores historiarum, survives in 2 #MedievalManuscripts —incl. the 1 in the 📷—& an edition in Matthew Paris’ Chronica majora

It’s #DeafAwarenessWeek . Read curator Steven Hartshorne’s blog highlighting some of our collections about Deaf Education, Deaf Activism and the history and experiences of Deaf people. Check out the blog here: rylandscollections.com/?p=23702

'An AI-generated priest has been “unfrocked” after complaints from users that the avatar was heretical'

#OTD 1434: wlk. ks. lit. Świdrygiełło nadaje słudze swemu Józefowi Czusie, jego żonie i dzieciom wieś Basowo w powiecie łuckim.
Bibl. XX. #Czartoryski Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie 779 Perg.
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Every Carlo Crivelli painting is bonkers, but this one from 1481 in the Vatican Museums is especially over the top. Let me show you some details…

Spent most of today taking a short break from a (grossly overdue) thing (which is stressing me) in order to start drafting a new Wikipedia article. Now to eat, then return to the other thing…

#TIH #OTD in #BookHistory : Happy birthday to the French publisher Louis Christophe François Hachette (1800 May 05–1864 Jul 31), founder of Hachette Livre (estab. 1826). Initially called Brédif, the company became L. Hachette et Compagnie on 01 Jan 1846.