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Looking at this again and I see it's the Alleluia verse. Leaving because you can't edit bsky posts, but yes, I do know my mass parts.

The responsorial psalm at mass today, but the cantor sang, "all shall see the salvation..." I guess sixth-century Merovingians aren't the only people who are uncomfortable with flesh.

Manuscript illumination featuring a five-headed dragon burninating the countryside and also the city of Laon for some reason.

It's not often that us medievalists encounter an ACTUAL DRAGON in our work, but here is one burninating the countryside and also the city of Laon.

Check it out in Bnf. Fr. 22928, fol. 210v (Miracles de Notre Dame by Gautier de Coincy).

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A humanities degree is still a smart investment|Opinion The humanities prepare students not just to get a job, but to keep it and excel while doing so.

From a Princeton dean:

“This is welcome news. Studying the humanities… isn’t an impractical luxury. …

The humanities prepare students not just to get a job, but to keep it and excel while doing so.” 🎁

I finished my novel! First draft of Taming the Beast (sequel to Breaking the Silence - out soon!) is DONE! WorldEmber up next as I work on fleshing out the setting and magic before revisions. #writeRAWR ##writingcommunity #worldember2025

Thank you - this is helpful. PDF xchange was able to OCR the PDFs in their huge size, but I'm glad to know that printing to PDF makes them a normal size. (The Venantius one was so huge that it kept failing halfway through the process)

Thank you Chicago Pope!

PSA for everyone who uses the MGH and is looking for a software to handle their ginormous PDFs: PDF XChange has a free version that handles them better than Adobe Pro! #medievalists #medieval #lateantique

The only search I found on MGH searches the entire MGH. I haven't figured out how to search individual volumes. Can you?

I have the text and the Roberts, so I can read them, but I want to do some word searches to check frequency and contexts for certain flesh synonyms, and I can't find a searchable medium. (Library of Latin Texts doesn't have him 😭)

Need help from a medievalist: what do we do with these obscenely large PDFs from the MGH? How do you search them? How do you make them smaller? Venantius Fortunatus poems are 1000MB!! Please help! #medieval #medievalsky #lateantique

Just enjoyed scrolling the #AARSBL25 hashtag with my morning coffee, and it's giving old school academic Twitter. It may be too soon to say, but didn't we do it? Are we back?

I'm a text person and controversially passed out handouts at NAPS in 2022. Perhaps now that it's not as much of a public health concern, people who don't need to show images specifically no longer feel compelled to have PowerPoint.

Thank you for this thread!

Scrivener is more useful for writing (obsidian is more brainstorming and research cataloging), AND a very affordable one time purchase. Definitely worth it.

Perhaps colloquially, since I work at a US Catholic school (US Catholicism is definitely real, but also multifaceted and regional and politically divided). @arturoviaggia.bsky.social also comes to mind.

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

When researching Merovingian flesh takes you down a rabbit hole and you suddenly find yourself reading Ovid for the first time since the Roman lit survey over a decade ago. Can't. Escape. Classics.

My 10 year old just finished an abridged prose Odyssey and my 7 year old is so excited about learning all the ancient Greek myths in school!

I am pleased to announce that John Penniman, Emanuel Fiano, and I are launching a new book series for the study of religion in late antiquity with Fordham University Press. If you have a book-in-progress looking for a home, please reach out to discuss your project!
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I can't believe I've been working on this novel for six weeks! It's nearing the home stretch, AND that week one excitement I haven't felt in over a month is BACK! #writeRAWR #writingcommunity

Are you a medieval maker? Or know someone who is? Email hello@medievalmarginalia.com for a chance to be featured in my holiday gift guide!

I reached the point in revisions where I need to do some word searches and PSU doesn't have the Library of Latin Texts. Is anyone able to schedule a time to share their password with me? Please message if you can help. Thank you! #academia ##classicsbluesky #skystorians

Selfie of a woman in front of an equestrian statue of St. Martin of Tours.

For the Feast of St. Martin - and old selfie with his equestrian portrait in the Cleveland Museum of Art (because it always kills me that at some point in the middle ages, he somehow acquired a horse) #medieval

Writing When Sick :( I’m on day 34 of a writing challenge, and I would be lying if I said it was smooth sailing the entire time. About 2/3 of the way through October, I came down with a nasty cold. These are my r…

How's everyone's writing going this November? If you come down with a cold this month, I have some advice for managing your expectations

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Democracy only works when the people vote - get out there!

Saints+Manuscripts at BlueSky In mid-January 2025, I began making posts on BlueSky most days in which I post one or more medieval manuscripts associated with a saint in the calendar for that day. (I work from several calendars:…

For All Saints' Day, a reminder that ALL THE SAINTS I've posted so far—9 months' worth to date—are on this page at my website: ruffnotes.org/saints/

Entries include links to the posts here on BlueSky and directly to the digitized manuscripts used in those posts.

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Currently right on track to finish this first draft in November!

Happy Daylight Savings Day in (most of) the US! Aka the day I get a free hour in the morning to write. #amwriting #weitingcommunity

The #NaNoWriMo org may have died under a mountain of scandals, but the drive to create lives on. You don't need an org to write a book. Happy creating to all those who are writing this month. ❤️

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