Stephen Hopkins

Sometimes my students just make me real proud 😜.

Nothing like a week of final research presentations to spark end of semester joy!

Telling my kids that this is the origin of the phrase "ghosting"

Thanks! It has given me a lot of hell, and I hope it does the same for others 🤗

I think there's one by that epstone fella

Facts are not nearly as valuable as pseudoetymological homophony, every Isidore will tell you that

Yes. but I prefer to think of them as super treehouse guys

Vespasian had the same thing, didn't he?

Yes they do

The worst thing in the world for alt right fascists would be actually getting the RETVRN they supposedly crave

If anything is ushering in a new dark age, it ain't monastic chastity or eremetic influencers. It's smart phones, social media, and algorithms.

[runs to the shed to rummage for stylite supplies]

Babe, look, early Christian monasticism is back

Titivillus phishing. No paleographer would fall for this

Thanks so much!!! 🙏

Thanks so much! 🥹 It's finally happening!

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I deeply love a language family so difficult that "big" literally means "small"

"where was Gondor, inc. when my home equity fell?"

Miami! But agreed: his classes are life changing. He took our Egyptian art and archeology class to open a ptolemaic sarcophagus at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park!

(more importantly, he introduced me to Evil Dead)

You too?!?

I learned SO much from him in Roman civ and Egyptian art and archaeology!

You can *almost* always tell when they haven't done the reading.

Eilmer of Malmesbury, the original air friar

I'm getting dinner with Rob Fulk next week. My goal is to get him to play this over drinks. Hope you don't mind.

Made a site where you can practise Old English scansion. You get given a half-line and have to select which of Sievers's five types it belongs to.
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/

[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]

Context collapse much?

19th c tombstone of Fanny Hanckel, who, perhaps for the meme's sake, died at 67 years of age.

So I was walking around a cemetery this morning with my kids (as one does), and my 6 y.o. suddenly starts giggling and points at this 19th c tombstone

Telling my kids the new Dogman movie is based on the life of St. Christopher from the Nowell codex

Fiery promotional poster for an alumni talk I'm giving at Indiana University's medieval studies institute, "the infernal laboratory: localizing hell with apocrypha"

Can't wait to give this talk in Bloomington next month!

18 in OE, 20 in What is a word?

The real issue is I managed to make an OE midterm due at the same time as a final project and peak advising week 🙈