Dr Tess Wingard

Team @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social - we are in the Guardian! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @uoe-llc.bsky.social

this was an absolutely brilliant film somewhat ruined by the fucking dipshits sat on my row whispering to each other through the entire fucking runtime

the queue for the High Art screening at IFI:

In the death registers of early modern Venice, marginalia often marks the cause of death: drawings of daggers for murders, for instance.

In 1696, Giovanni Battista Rinaldi was killed by a dog. This is the drawing by his entry.

This is going to be a really interesting conference--the project that's launching it is truly cutting-edge--and very worth the trip to a great city!

I started using Zotero during my PhD but gave up as soon as 1) I started using more manuscript/archival sources, which is a nightmare to try and incorporate into the programme, 2) started publishing, which means having to go and manually edit my citations every time for each publishers' style guide

girl same

(from RH Major, 'India in the Fifteenth Century', which is everything you would expect a book on India written in 1857 to be)

who else out here notoriously addicted to refined and effeminate luxuries 🤚

this brave man put his life on the line to defend a trans woman and her cis friends from a violent assault (bsky.app/profile/esqu...). please contribute towards his medical bills if you can.

Jurisdiction over Infangthief in England: The Case of John Milksop This paper uses a dispute over the franchise of infangthief between the abbot of Tewkesbury and the earl of Gloucester to shed light on jurisdictional claims over the right to try and hang hand-hav...

Interested in medieval law & order, the gallows, the right to hang hand-having thieves (i.e. infangthief), outlaws, and/or jurisdictional disputes over rights to justice? Then check out my recent-ish article on the dispute over John Milksop’s trial & execution.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

No, Ancient Skythian Enarees Didn't Drink Urine from Pregnant Mares as a Primitive Form of HRT - Tales of Times Forgotten The Skythians were an ancient mostly nomadic people who inhabited the northern Eurasian steppes in what is now Ukraine, southern Russia, and Kazakhstan. They were known in antiquity as a very warlike ...

spencer mcdaniel has actually done some digging to trace the root of this! it's in timothy taylor's "the prehistory of sex", based off his own misunderstanding of the ancient greek soruces talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/06/03/n...

ooooh I'm actually adding that to my TBR now 👀

hehe, don't stress it! I like sharing this stuff

No, Ancient Skythian Enarees Didn't Drink Urine from Pregnant Mares as a Primitive Form of HRT - Tales of Times Forgotten The Skythians were an ancient mostly nomadic people who inhabited the northern Eurasian steppes in what is now Ukraine, southern Russia, and Kazakhstan. They were known in antiquity as a very warlike ...

and on scythians and horse piss: talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/06/03/n...

on medieval law, this is a good beginner's guide that covers various different systems and courts, plus their records lawlibguides.usc.edu/emld

The Trans Middle Ages: Incorporating Transgender and Intersex Studies into the History of Medieval Sexuality* Abstract. This article reviews recent work on trans and intersex history in the European Middle Ages, locating it within the established historiography on

I wrote an article that's available for free download, it's getting a bit out of date now but it's a start. (it also has verrrrrry watered-down, less spicy versions of many of my positions on history of sexuality from that thread) academic.oup.com/ehr/article/...

A ‘Queer Medieval’ Reading List Update: I’ve had some great suggestions about more texts to include, so am adding those. Obviously I’ve not taught all of these, but will have to do so now. Thanks all! I’m also p…

right so, on medieval sexuality and trans studies, there's this reading list (readingmedievalbooks.wordpress.com/2019/08/14/a...) and this one (docs.google.com/document/d/1...). both are fairly long, sadly a lot of it is paywalled in academic journals, but there's some good open access stuff

on AoE def please take that one as tongue in cheek, both AoE 1+2 and their expansions were absolutely fundamental parts of my childhood, I mustve sunk hundreds of hours into each!! I've recently been getting back into 2 via the steam re-release and it's still got the magic

lemme have a dig around for some reading recs for ya

oh yeah, you guys classify it as the iron age, right?

tbf half of these are shitposts that are too half baked to ever make it into peer reviewed writing but I'd be happy to give some suggestions if there's specific stuff you'd like to read more on!

also anti-woke-vikings because it's annoying as hell as a late medievalist competing with all the norse modules for student enrolment >:(

come study some actual documents instead of harald bluetooth speaker's bedtime stories!!

the statistical likelihood that someone at some point drank horse piss is small, but never zero

anti-woke-vikings but for the right reasons (it whitewashes a brutal slave society that was nasty even by the standards of its contemporaries)

this wouldn't be an issue in theory (after all, I work on england, another extremely marginal polity - glass houses, stones etc) except for the fact that it leads to a bunch of obnoxious nonsense as described here: bsky.app/profile/dov....

35. medieval scandinavia has received scholarly attention vastly out of proportion to its actual political, cultural and intellectual importance in the middle ages solely down to its relatively recent mythologising in pop culture.

34. ancient scythian priestesses were definitely transgender but they did not synthesise estradiol from horse piss, sorry

3/ there are definitely societies throughout history that did embrace gender self determination, as @jameyj.bsky.social has clearly shown in her work on early colonial period indigenous americans, but we must tread carefully

2/ through the lens of transness, certainly, but is it really evidence for the 'acceptance' of transition? would those cultures' matrices of gender have room for self determined trans femminity or masculinity?