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I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. "Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

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saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away

The way the AI con is presented in the public discourse, it is very easy to lose track of the material imprint of digital technology. These are some excellent reminders.

Manuscript and Text Cultures An open access journal for scholars of manuscripts, epigraphy, and texts from various pre-modern cultures operated by the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen's College, Oxford.

Each year I help some students in the fine art of article writing, and every now and then one makes it to print!

Very proud of Tim Hertogh (Oslo/MINiTEXTS) and his article 'The Lorscher Bienensegen is an Amulet: Using Manuscript Margins to Make Amulets' #MedievalSky

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Das ist übrigens Eugenik.

Wenn du einmal beginnst zu selektieren, wem du hilfst und wem nicht, dann gehst du einen Weg, der nicht aufzuhalten ist.

Streeck ist Mediziner und weiß das natürlich. Das macht es so perfide. Vor allem, weil er zwei rhetorische Tricks verwendet:

Ja. Wie kann ich es dir senden, per Mail?

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Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.

I h hoffe, Momo ist sicher.

“Sie verderben nicht nur das Straßenbild, sondern auch die Stimmung.” Joseph Göbbels, 1941 über Juden “Aber wir haben natürlich immer im Stadtbild noch dieses Problem...” Friedrich Merz, Oktober 2025 über Migranten “Das Stadtbild muss sich wieder verändern. Es braucht einfach mehr Rückführungen.” Markus Söder, September 2025 über Flüchtlinge “Für eine saubere Heimat mit einem gepflegten Stadtbild.” AfD, September 2025 im Wahlkampf Jens Spahn, Oktober 2025 über Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte “Der Bundeskanzler hat doch eigentlich etwas ausgesprochen, was jeder sieht...”

Vom Straßenbild zum Stadtbild, von den Nazis über AfD zu CSU/CDU, von Juden über Flüchtlinge zu Migranten und zu Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte. Und dann? Wie viele Warnsignale brauchen wir noch? Was müssen sie noch alles sagen, bis wir endlich begreifen, was sie in Wahrheit meinen?

photo of two book covers, one called "Princely Power in Late Medieval France: Jeanne de Penthièvre and the War for Brittany", and one called "Gendered Reputations and Aristocratic Partnership: Re-Presenting the Breton Civil War from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries", both by Erika Graham-Goering. Princely Power has a green cover with a picture of a medieval document and green wax seal, while Gendered Reputations has a grey cover with a medieval drawing of a crowd of people raising their hands to a man and woman couple.

It's Michaelmas, so it's also the anniversary of the battle of Auray (1364), which marked the beginning of the end of the Breton War of Succession begun 23 years earlier. And you know what? Let's mark it with a 🚨BOOK GIVEAWAY🚨 this time! (Charles de Blois has never had a stranger memorial...)

Neben einem Porträt von Karl Marx ist der Titel des Buches abgebildet: »Marx als Demokrat oder: Das Ende der Politik« von Alex Demirović

Im Namen der #Demokratie wird Herrschaft ausgeübt — und zurückgewiesen. #Marx bringt so die grundlegende Ambivalenz von Demokratie auf den Punkt. Wir freuen uns über Alex Demirovićs Buch: »Marx als Demokrat oder: Das Ende der Politik« — und verlosen zur Feier unserer Neuerscheinung 1 Exemplar 👇 /1

And Open Access, too! 😁

Looking forward to teaching a short course on digital approaches to (medieval) history in the autumn. Does anyone have any favourite things they'd recommend the students read?

This is an excellent thread which also points to one very important basic aspect of persecutions: They have to be manufactured & prepared. The frequent narrative of innate hatred or existing tensions often ignore how long it takes to generate the kind of hatred that flourishes into violence.

*you're :/

A photo of Eleanor Baker's book 'Winters in the world: A journey through the Anglo-Saxon year'

A photo of the table of contents with a main structure covering each season of the year respectively.

This one should probably fit what your looking for depending on which period(s) you're interested in.

Zwei Exemplare des Buchs "Zeiten haben" und zwei Kulis der Uni Konstanz.

So, jetzt mal Reposts hochjazzen ...

HALLO BUCHVERLOSUNG!

"Zeiten haben" für umme. Wo gibt's das schon?! Zwei Hauptgewinne in der Lostrommel!

Alle Reposts nehmen teil, die bis 4. Juli 2025, 21.00 Uhr MEZ eingehen.

Und - ich muss bekloppt sein - es gibt noch einen formschönen Recycling-Kuli dazu!

Group picture of six people after a well done doctoral defence, or disputas in Norwegian.

And here is a picture including her supervisor (one of them), who is missing in the picture above.

My student Tatiana Petrukhina defended her dissertation "Custom in the Long Twelfth Century" on Friday the 13th. Seen here with her examination committee. It is a powerfully and elegantly argued thesis about practical reasoning about custom.

Any Medievalists want a copy of the newest edition of Debating #Medieval Europe - The central and later Middle Ages - for... free?

Our DME books serve as an entry point for understanding the distinctive historiography of their periods.

Hit repost and we'll add you to the giveaway 📗👇 #booksky

A graphic requesting paper proposals for the hybrid panel Learning, Knowledge and Awareness from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern III: Women's Experiential and Intellectual Paradigms of Awareness at #IMC2025, sponsored by CERÆ. Abstracts should be sent to ceraejournal@gmail.com before June 4. Visit tinyurl.com/cerae25 for more information. The graphic is illustrated with a picture of Christine de Pizan.

We are seeking a last-minute entry to the #leeds #IMC2025 hybrid panel "Women's Experiential and Intellectual Paradigms of Awareness"! Please send abstracts to ceraejournal@gmail.com BEFORE JUNE 4. Details of panel at the following link: imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/pre...

Congratulations 🎉

The photo pf the huge container ship run aground in the garden of a small coastal house. I've photoshopped an arrow to the house with 'House to Live in', and another arrow to the ship that says 'a room to keep books in'. of course writing the alt text has warned me this may be a joke that only I find funny.

Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia

Blir sprø av argumentene «folk har mistet jobbene sine på grunn av utvikling før, det er ikke noe nytt med KI» og «det er bakstreversk å jobbe mot ny teknologi» kommer fra samme leir, som om ikke det er bakstreversk å tviholde på at det ikke går an å gjøre noe annerledes eller velge en annen fremtid

Workers rights maypole illustration

The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.

Which leads us to the *reason* why these headlines like “The Medieval Peasant Worked Less Than You!” keep on appearing. It’s because a nostalgia for an imagined past is used to excuse the mistakes of the present. 8/

Advice that applies to both bodybuilding and art history: part one.

Eat protein forward meals.

They help to build muscle and provide slow release energy needed for long days in the museum.

Oh, saw just you got enough. Forget the question in that case.