Juliet Ó Brien

teaching, course design, pedagogy: a Medieval Studies / Romance Studies course – mid-term update Innovative assessments: “A World of Marvels”

teaching, course design, pedagogy: a Medieval Studies / Romance Studies course – mid-term update

Innovative assessments: “A World of Marvels”

07.02.2025 04:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(long live the old medieval*witter community & its communitarianism, sharing, love of learning, delight, & mutual aid; seekers, finders, makars, trobadors; the small print: ‘but with less greatness & gain, more wit, better—hopeful & beautiful—fonts, & even more allegories of “avenir” & “futura” ‘)

14.11.2024 16:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good morning. I made a hat.

14.11.2024 16:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A fine initial 'B'(eatus) at the beginning of Psalm 1, with which to end the day

The John Rylands Library; Latin MS 116; Psalter of St. Maximin; 9th century, not before 814 CE; The Abbey of St Maximin, Trier, Germany; f.16r

12.11.2024 22:09 — 👍 75    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 0

Putting the TOP in juxTOPositions, somewhat like when The Place That Shall Not Be Named put the LOL in phiLOLogy once upon a very long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

14.11.2024 04:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There’ll be this sort of thing. Less curated collection, more coincidental collage; no guarantees on light amusement or groanworthy stale memes; but if we’re lucky there might be poetic sense to be made out of serendipitous juxtopositions. Let’s keep whimsy alive, this centenary year of Surrealism.

14.11.2024 04:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So. There may be weasels … finally, nearly four years after that work first started … and probably a resumption of silliness, grumpy pathetic bitching about the state of it all, and finding other ways to luxuriate with three hundred characters (as it were).

14.11.2024 03:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“Hello, world”
This is nice. It feels like that place that existed once upon a time, a happy place for medievalisticisticals, before it Fell into Corruption and became The Unmentionable. So, hello world, thank you for letting me be here, I’ll do what I can to be good or at least to leave no trace.

14.11.2024 03:46 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0