Heidi Zmick

A Viking-Age Valentine’s Day Card: A Medieval Runic Love Message from Sweden - Medievalists.net How do you tell someone you love them in Viking-Age Sweden? You carve a message in runes on a knife: “Think of me, and I’ll think of you.”

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Almost more funny than it's existance, the text on the stock Exchange box says "corner the burlesque stock market"

Games I didn't know needed to exist: Birds, the game, and Gavitt's Stock Exchange, the game, and slightly creepy outfit making games....(I think she's watching me)
Both are located at Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social

Interesting religious leaflets slipped inside a card game box (~ 1889) @rarebookschool.bsky.social Very anti-alcoholic messaging, maybe Protestant/prohibition era?
On the back is a story and reading comprehension questions.
Unclear if they are from before/after the time of purchase. Probably after?

He's actually holding a pen in his right hand, and the flat thing at his hip is some kind of writing surface!

What you got there Shakespeare? 🤨

Authors cards @rarebookschool.bsky.social

Re-reading Stripping of the Altars and thinking a lot about community, exclusion, and illness.

"Exlcusion from the cult of the saint could be experienced as exclusion from community"

"The healing mediated by the saint restored more than health to the sick"

Healing meant restoring to community

MA thesis defended! A few very minor revisions to make, then it will be submitted! One step closer to the sweet, sweet gender neutral honorific. Looking forward to writing more about the weird and wacky ways medieval people cared for each other.

Very early 18th century weaving patterns @folger.edu (V.a.540)!!!
A couple of these look like twills and most are diamonds - several patterns in the book required up to 16 harnesses!
The book is little - about 4.5" by 2.5" and also features recipes for bovine and human child cures.

Had an absolutely glorious time today looking at medieval books of hours and breviaries at Albert and Shirley Small special collections! @rareuva.bsky.social
I always am fascinated by looking at signs of use - seeing how worn some pages were and where other codices fell open to was amazing!

The 60th ICMS this Spring had just over 1500 people listed in the registrants index - that may not reflect actual attendance though. I'm sure some of those people were virtual, and perhaps there were some attendees not in the book.

What platforms are folks using for DH projects which are object-focused? I'm familiar with StoryMaps, what else is out there for online presentations of objects along with descriptive and brief analysis?
Thanks in advance!

The talk was fascinating and indeed had lots of pretty pictures as promised!

What time zone is the 6 pm time?

I just registered! This sounds absolutely fascinating!

@fwhitfill.bsky.social I hope this works lmao

The twirling, contagiously joyful, always-almost-out-of-control moments of a contra (or other social) dance.

The joy and unconditional love of small children.

The moment in reading (or listening to a podcast, or to a lecture) when a new idea changes one's view of the world.

Do you think the ban of Tik Tok will make a difference in the experience in schools now that other apps (Insta, TouTube, etc) have added short video content features as well? (Not critical of your take, curious for a teacher's opinion)

Dr. Whittle also mapped the concerns of the audience about generative AI and it was fascinating to see - highly rated were student plagiarism and intellectual property issues.

I attended a lovely talk by @sophiewhittle.bsky.social on the role of LLMs and generative AI in Digital Scholarly Editing! I'm excited to see discussions about how AI comes to bear on early period work. I'm left reflecting on the utility of AI and the (modern) biases that it may introduce to texts.