Jonathan Finnerty

14 Medieval Sayings: 'These are beautiful words to understand' - Medievalists.net Need some medieval wisdom? A 14th-century merchant has left us a collection of sayings and proverbs under the title 'These are beautiful words to understand'.

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10 Medieval Curses to Protect Your Books From Thieves - Medievalists.net If anyone take away this book, let him die the death; let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen.

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AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums "This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”

'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'

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As an academic that has spent the better part of a decade using Perseus Digital Lib, Pleiades, and many of the other digital resources funded by @neh-odh.bsky.social, #ThanksBrett