July 3: Feast of Cilléne Droichtech (†752), abbot of Iona. He renewed Adomnán’s Lex Innocentium, 'Law of the Innocents', which protected women, children and clergy, especially during warfare. Sléibíne mac Congaile succeeded him.

King Alfonso XI of Castile founded a chivalric code to govern how knights should fight and behave ~ and a set of detailed rules for jousting—believed to be among the earliest surviving regulations of the sport from the Middle Ages medievalists.net/2025/06/mediev… Medievalists.net

Responsible parenting ;)

Having tweeted about smoots (small gaps left in drystone walls for rabbits), someone asked if gaps were left for larger animals. Not really, but there are tunnels under roads for sheep and cattle. They are known as 'creeps'. I don't know why. You find them marked on maps. 1/2

Held up at Stansted Security for FIFTEEN MINUTES by this suspicious object in my underseat bag. They swabbed nearly every page, especially where I had underlined that snakes are immoderate wine drinkers!

Doing some public humanities (telling strangers where to stand when looking at Holbein’s Ambassadors).

Lessons include: *defeating hunchbacks in battle *marrying *annulling weddings *remarrying *executing wives *more marrying *breaking with Roman Catholic church *dissolution of monasteries *remarrying multiple times *defeating armadas

Initial depicting Avicenna at the beginning of Bk 1 of Ibn Sina's (Avicenna) medical summa translated by Gerard of Cremona (circa 1113/4-1187 CE) BL Harley MS 3744; Avicenna, The Canon of Medicine; Early 14th c-Early 15th c; Italy, N; f.6r Medieval Manuscripts

We are lending Britain an iconic jewel of our shared history: the Bayeux Tapestry. This is the first time this national treasure will leave French soil. It marks an unprecedented cultural partnership between our two countries — a powerful symbol of our Entente amicale.

As someone forever in awe of what our minds do with language—and what language, in turn, does with our minds—of how thought emerges through linguistic intentionality, I find it increasingly difficult to make sense of how easily we have chosen to outsource this part of ourselves.

Truly the end of an important era for Canada's Parliament Hill cbc.ca/news/politics/…

6. Conclusión: Códices y cartularios, similares en su forma, reflejan dos caras de la Edad Media: la cultural y la administrativa. Juntos, nos ayudan a reconstruir un mundo complejo y fascinante. ¿Qué te gustaría saber más? ¡Cuéntanos! #MedievalStudies #EstudiosMedievales

#otd On this day in 1557 (468 years ago) – the Welshman Robert Recorde used the equal sign = for the first time. Yes, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 is BIG ENOUGH, CLEVER ENOUGH ! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Re… 📷 Recorde's introduction of "=". 📷 St Mary, Tenby: memorial to Recorde.

With the Bayeux Tapestry in the news, it’s time to resurrect this absolute classic of historical re/enactments.

This could be the most exciting thing I’ve found in quite a while. Last week I found a Tudor shoe and inside it was this scrap of fabric. 1/ #mudlarking #mudlarkingfinds #mudlark

The Animated Bayeux Tapestry youtube.com/watch?v=LtGoBZ…

If we (researchers) have the time and commitment to learn from disciplines beyond our own, we would see fewer papers beginning with "No research has been done" or "little has been done" and more that start with "we are building on" or "we want to look at this differently"

Proof that English could work just fine with an abjad

🧵1/ In Ireland, we used to see the land as a body. A living, breathing form. Every hill, every curve, every place—part of us. But colonisation didn’t just take the land. It took the meaning. It took the names. Let me show you what we’ve lost👇

3. Before colonisation, we read the land like a body. We named it like one too. Béal – mouth Droim – back Gualainn – shoulder Ceann – head Cos – foot Cluas – ear Croí – heart These weren’t metaphors. They were orientation. A living map.