Dr. Erika Graham-Goering

you can bet your boots that this wouldn't have been seen as a minor inconvenience. But my bike *is* my car—just because it has 2 wheels instead of 4 doesn't make it any less integral to my logistics.

I've complained about this several times in the last few weeks, but nothing's been done. Why rant about it here? Well, aside from relieving my feelings, it's worth pointing out the discrepancy with how we treat cars. If a problem with the garage meant drivers were randomly locked out without warning

Sunday morning, and not only do I have to go to Norwegian class (it's fun once I'm there!), but the damn lock on the cycle shed was dead... again. So now I'm running way late, dealing with slow bus schedules, losing precious time out of my weekend and dropping a chunk o' change on the fare to boot.

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...)

US archivist ousted after refusing to let Trump give Eisenhower’s sword to King Charles – reports The Trump administration ultimately gave the King a replica sword on the president’s recent state visit

::the medieval discourse on the inalienability of the domain has entered the chat::

(Also, it's never a good sign when yet another aspect of my research on fourteenth-century politics becomes suddenly relevant...)

Hahaha 😂 I would very much like to use my official authority to implement this rule!

What useful role can AI possibly play on a publishing platform, and how can you "responsibly" justify the environmental costs?

Amusing 404 page explaining why the intended page wasn’t found using various economic concepts.

I absolutely adore the 404 page for the @financialtimes.com

Screenshot reading "1A.3 Academic freedom “In principle, academic freedom entails the right to conduct research freely, to freely choose research topics and methods, and to publish the results freely. This is a norm-grounding right for all persons conducting research. Realizing academic freedom in practice requires that both the individual institution and the individual employee are provided with the opportunities and the working conditions required for the fulfilment of their task in a manner that ensures quality and legitimacy." (Text comes from from ‘Action plan Follow-up of internal auditing of consent-based health research projects at the University of Oslo, 9 November 2021, Chapter 3.2’)

Hecking moment to be prepping for a course on research ethics...

A very valid question 😂

Funnily enough, today Wikipedia has chosen another battle, from the start of the civil war, as their featured article!

I expected that reading my students' gameplay journals would be fun, but I did not ever expect to find the phrase "My player character is dead (mauled by bear)" in a pile of grading 😂

No! I have been so pleased to see better sleeper train networks develop in the last few years, and now this?? Why the hell do we keep subsidizing air transport when what we want and need are trains, the best form of transport devised by humans to date?

Photo of two books lying stacked on a shelf. Top spine reads 'Gendered Reputations and Aristocratic Partnership', bottom spine reads 'Princely Power in Late Medieval France'. Behind is a miniature gothic pillar in reddish stone.

I want to send *both* books to someone who'd find my work useful! (PP in paperback, GR in hardback—note it's also available as a free PDF! library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...) If that's you, just *quote-post* this thread, and I'll pick a recipient next week 😊 (To share without entering, just repost!)

Gendered Reputations and Aristocratic Partnership - Arc Humanities Press Medieval rulership is increasingly understood as the exercise of shared power, and nowhere was this partnership more evident than between married couples. Th...

My new book, Gendered Reputations and Aristocratic Partnership, looks at how positive and negative models of (military) leadership were used in tandem to reframe the reputations of both halves of a ruling couple, creating new understandings of a political crisis to suit different contexts over time.

I want to send a copy of *both* these books to someone who would find my scholarship useful! (PP in paperback, GR in hardback—though remember that it's also available as a free PDF! library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...) If that's you, just re-post this thread, and I'll pick a recipient next week 😊

Princely Power in Late Medieval France | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Princely Power in Late Medieval France uses the career of Duchess Jeanne of Brittany to think about how charting a flexible course between different norms surrounding status, gender, and shared power was essential to asserting authority at the levels of the highest aristocracy.

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...)

Pentiment is one of the games we're teaching in our course on historical video games this semester, and the students are really enjoying it!

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

The kids get it.

Cheeres to my catte. What a lovelye litel guy.

A stacked bar chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Older adults and those without college degrees are more likely to say humanity already knows most or all about history." The chart's sub-headline is: "For each of the following fields of study, out of everything possible to be known, how much do you think humanity has already discovered? [History] (% of U.S. adult citizens)." The chart has the note: "Note: "Most or all" includes responses of "most," "almost all," and "everything." "Some or nothing" includes responses of "some", "almost nothing," and "nothing.""

Of special interest to me and @bretdevereaux.bsky.social, among others, history is middle of the pack — similar shares of Americans say humanity knows most/all of what there is to know about history, and that we know little or nothing.

How views of how much humanity knows about history break down:

AKKURAT SÅNN

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night:

Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?

**pause**

Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

En tant qu'ancienne habitant de Neuilly, oui, pleurer de rire 🤣🤣🤣

ChatGPT Edu is built for conning education executives into subsidising and edu-washing planet-burning slop machines via non-consensual access to young people’s creativity AND DATA while attacking their ability to learn. At a university.

Absolutely unacceptable behaviour from a publisher. Gross.

Notification from Brepols of a new OA book: Legitimation of the elites in high medieval Poland and Norway

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