Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

We are the University HE replacement ballot request / I've voted form This form allows UCU higher education members to request a replacement ballot for the 2025 HE industrial action ballots, or to self-report that they have already voted.

Can't find your ballot? Get another.

Replacements ballot requests end SUNDAY MIDNIGHT:
yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...

Is it St Catharine's Day?!! 😱🛞

Today is Trans+ Day of Remembrance.

In her book 'Before Gender', author & activist @elierlick.bsky.social shed light on the trailblazing lives of thirty trans people who will radically change everything you've been told about transgender history.
Available now from all good bookshops. #booksky

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1836:
Don't write the book you think 'people will buy'. No one knows for sure what people will buy, incuding the people who sell books. Instead, write the book you need to write. The book that makes a difference.

Book Launch: "Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance" New book: "Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance: Typologies of violence and desire" by Hope Doherty-Harrison

Book launch for Love & Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance on Tuesday 25 November, 5.30pm @iashedinburgh.bsky.social - please share & consider coming along! I'll be chatting to @kateai.bsky.social & Carol M Richardson.
Sign up for in-person & online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed

This isn’t “efficiency” it’s an ideological shift towards a Little England university system.

Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees.

48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Pickets, pickets, and more pickets!

Join us and show your support #StopStaffCutatUoE

What made Troilus and Cressida so relevant to audiences who had lived through two world wars?

Why did it speak to the 'angry young men' of the post-war era and to the countercultural movements of the 1960s?

Find out here 👇
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526103574/
@stevetpurcell.bsky.social

Black Knights A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature.   In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their Europe...

Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾

Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

A copy of Textile Shakespeare, by Hester Lees-Jeffries, with more books in the background on a work desk.

So excited to read @starcrossed2018.bsky.social's Textile Shakespeare ✨ feeling especially lucky to recognise some of the images from Hester's wonderful teaching @stcatharines.bsky.social 💖

The cover of a book. Title reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE. The illustration shows black embroidery of flowers, fruit, animals and insects on a stained cream ground.

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

A group of over 40 people stand listening to speeches at the front of the Tower Building at the University of Dundee. The people are on a picket line for Dundee Universities and College Union. Many are wearing pink hats with ‘UCU’ on the front.

Very strong turnout this morning on the first of our five days strike.

On Friday, in a meeting with the interim Principal, he confirmed his ideology is to cut as many jobs as possible.

Support our action to save jobs and save the University!

#SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni #WeAreTheUniversity

😱 wow, amazing! Thank you!

This is fascinating. I'm working on Oedipus adaptations in the Middle Ages (because of the Judas Oedipal stories, my book project is on Judas) and haven't got to Lydgate yet, but this seems to me very similar to something Jerome also says about not knowing if Judas was married or had any children.

YouTube video by UCU - University and College Union Briony: The Reality of Teaching in Higher Education | A Bangor Story

youtu.be/UcJjg5pD0RA?...

I had a great time recently chatting with @cjfaraday.bsky.social about 'Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance' for the 'British Art Matters' Podcast. I am in the company of some wonderful authors discussing their (and others) works:
www.walpolesociety.org.uk/podcast

The cover of a book. Text reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE. The illustration is of black and white embroidery of flowers, fruit, and animals; it's sitting on a blue and white William Morris print cushion.

The table of contents of a book. The chapter titles read Stuff, Linen, Leather/Wool, Silk, Inky Cloak, Sew, Cut, Fold, Ruff.

Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️

The paperback of Medieval Twitter has landed omfg

Not quite a stocking stuffer price, but much much more affordable than before, thankfully

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270265...

#MedievalSky 🗃️ @archumanities.bsky.social

Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻

Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.

Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen

We are very pleased to be working with @ihr.bsky.social and @findmypast.bsky.social on this new Applied History Fellowship programme.

The launch event on Weds 19 November bit.ly/49vcgCS provides further details of the scheme and how to apply #Skystorians

‘Engraved on Man’s Skin’: The Auld Alliance, Much More than a Military Alliance - Institut français · Écosse ‘For this bond was not written on parchment but engraved on the living flesh of man’s skin, not in ink but with their mixed blood.’ When the French poet and diplomat, Alain Chartier, arrived in Scotla...

In case anyone is in Edinburgh and free a week on Thursday:
www.ifecosse.org.uk/events-agend...

Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

Cover image of Minji Lee, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body. On the complex imagery reproduced on the cover, read the book!

#histmed #MedievalSky Minji Lee's book, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body, has just been released #OpenAccess: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Alicia Spencer-Hall Chapter 5 Stopping the Clock(s): Precarious Times in the AcademyKeywords: bereavement, crip time, Douceline of Digne, precarity, medieval hagi-ography, temporalityI don’t remember what time it was when I got the news. It was a bad time, though, I remember that sure enough. I was elbow-deep in writing a chapter for an edited collection, steeling myself for one final push to bring my scholarly baby into the world.1The deadline was tight—it’s always tight—but I could make it, if I could just keep going. I was tired and I hurt; I had slogged away for long hours this past week or so of writing. I had shifted time usually reserved for self- care—for having breaks, eating lunch, taking exercise—into the work column of my schedule. The irony of the situation was not lost on me. I was writing a chap-ter on chronic pain and illness in the Middle Ages, underscoring the political ur-gency of recognizing ourselves, as members of the crip community, in historical

Probably the most personal thing I've ever written, about living in crip time, about precarity, and how crip scholars grinding in precarity are further marginalized by academia's timezones (and rhetoric of timeliness)

#MedievalSky #CripSky #DisabilitySky

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Writing a first book feels like screaming into the void. Beginning to write a second book feels a lot like trying to have a more reasonable conversation with the old self that was doing the screaming.

Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (circa 1370). Illu...

Those who teach and research Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be interested in this fantastic research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem. They're also looking for contributors, so do get in contact with @michaeledenart.bsky.social! 👇

'Breaking Bread with the Dead': Marlowe, Greenblatt, and Living Latin ‘Breaking bread with the dead, sir, it’s what we do.’ The speaker in Alan Bennett’s History Boys (the 2006 film of the 2004 play) is 18-year-old Akhtar, en route to Oxbridge, entirely convinced of his...

Snarking at Greenblatt's Marlowe. But also, Cynthia Harnett doing (so I am assured) an extremely accurate, lovely depiction of a fifteenth-century boy enjoying writing in Latin. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/breaking-b...

Do any lovely medievalists know of good medieval descriptions of hangovers? Thank you!

A great question & quite fortuitously I saw one today! Doing a big Piers Plowman re-read and in B.5, line 177, Wrath has 'flux of a foul mouth' for a few days after drinking too much.