A morning teaching 'Silk Roads' prompts a repost of this...
In other news, my forthcoming book with @fieldsmeyer.com --ON COURAGE, How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear -- is now available for pre-order.
We interviewed 100+ dissidents worldwide to craft a practical guide to personal courage under authoritarianism.
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An embroidery with scenes from the legend of Tristan, with Middle Low German texts, & many heraldic shields. It was made c. 1300 by nuns at Wienhausen, Germany - from where there also survive another two such embroideries of the Tristan legend. #thingsilearnedtoday
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And especially cool because they are so reminiscent of these type of early medieval copper-alloy jugs, once thought to have been imported from the east mediterranean now argued by Michelle Beghelli & Joan Gil more likely to have been made in Iberia. www.academia.edu/41674996/Cas...
... if I'm remembering the argument right.
And especially cool because they are so reminiscent of these type of early medieval copper-alloy jugs, once thought to have been imported from the east mediterranean now argued by Michelle Beghelli & Joan Gil more likely to have been made in Iberia. www.academia.edu/41674996/Cas...
The next History of Liturgy Seminar is in London @ihr.bsky.social on Monday 16 March 17.30. Come hear Melanie Shaffer @bristolcms.bsky.social & @carrielarocco.bsky.social. In-person (chat! drinks! people!) or online. #medievalsky
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He didn't! But I have now told him 😉
I'm not organizing it I'm afraid so don't know. I don't think they usually are but I'm sure there'll be other chances to hear Emily talk about this.
Save the Ultimate Picture Palace
The future of Oxford's much loved independent cinema, the UPP, is at great risk. Our landlord, Oriel College won't commit to a new lease because our building is in the footprint of their plans for a 'Fifth Quad'
Read on, sign & share www.change.org/p/save-the-u...
How about this for a seminar poster! @oxmedstud.bsky.social
A baptismal jug!? 😀
Aspersional baptism in the Antifonario de Leon...
The next History of Liturgy Seminar is in London @ihr.bsky.social on Monday 16 March 17.30. Come hear Melanie Shaffer @bristolcms.bsky.social & @carrielarocco.bsky.social. In-person (chat! drinks! people!) or online. #medievalsky
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
A portal to a longed-for world.
'Alfred the Great’s Indian Embassy:
How likely is it that Alfred the Great sent two emissaries to India in the ninth century?' - an article by me in History Today: www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
... and her most recent book too.
This by @magicnotwitches.bsky.social looks fab - one for the things-I-wish-I-had-an-excuse-to-read-now pile, not least because it includes a map of the location of historical & ficitonal magicians in late medieval & early modern London.
When social media and church monuments really don't mix! @churchmonuments.bsky.social
The latest "Early Medieval Europe" podcast is out now! Catch @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social talking to Holly Miller and Christina Lee about their new article on animals and early medieval medicine: rss.com/podcasts/ear...
... but the film does, even if it diverges in the aftermath of Hamnet's death, and at that moment doesn't capture what moved me so very much about the book.
This is such a warm-hearted Desert Island Discs.
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“The duty of candour is one of the fundamental standards below which care should never fall. It did with Laura" - This comment in a letter from the coroner to CQC has sparked a raft of new actions by regulators years after the family first raised concerns.
... and because there's only two weeks before the school holidays & then, gulp, one week before it all begins again.
One oddly counter-intuitive thing I've learnt to do is not to try to rest at the end of a bone-achingly exahusting term, but to use some of that momentum to dive straight back in... esp. as it's not easy even to remember where I left my notes, let alone my thoughts.
... after almost six months away from research, I'm eager (if daunted) to get back to it... & that time is surely now just about within touching distance!
'Unproductive stuckness tends to involve a more diffuse anxiety, a sense that everything is impossible rather than that this particular passage is difficult... in the latter state, the solution is rarely to push harder. It is more often to step back... Give the unconscious mind the room it needs.'
'... to develop the kind of relationship with uncertainty that allows us to keep working in spite of it, & often because of it.'
'Productive discomfort usually involves a sense... you are close to something & that the problem you cannot quite solve is a real problem worth solving.'
Yes! This captures a lot with elegance & economy.
'... to notice the difference between productive discomfort & unproductive stuckness.
'The discomfort is the thinking. Suppressing it is often the same as stopping thinking.'
One for the Course Handbooks: thanks @patthomson.bsky.social.
