Katherine Stratton

One like, one Presses universitaires de France book cover from the 1990s

For those who took French in school: did your teachers have you choose a French name for yourself on the first day, which you then used for the duration of your time taking French?

I'm beginning to believe that this was just a weird thing my school did...(my name was Elodie).

As motivation to finish my thesis I just booked an apartment in Paris for the whole month of October and it can't come soon enough.

I shared a lift once with Catherine Deneuve.

We each said "Bonsoir".

Thank you!

Du mythique au manège : le cheval comme intermédiaire entre poésies... « Si les hommes tant des siecles passés que du nostre, ont merité quelque louange pour avoir piqué diligentement aprés les traces de ceus qui courant par la carriere de leurs inventions, ont de bie...

Very excited to see that my article on horsemanship in the poetry of Ronsard has come out in a special edition of e-Phaïstos dedicated to Arts équestres et chevaux en société 🥳

My many thanks to the editors of this special edition and to my reviewers for their very helpful comments and suggestions.

This reminds me of a time when a fellow academic was desperately trying to find any recent scholarly article that summarised this very dense Latin text that he needed. When he finally found one...it was also in Latin.

Hot take: academic paywalls should be abolished, in order to encourage academics to return to more traditional forms of gatekeeping like writing in Latin or using ciphers

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Trying to write a paragraph about Montaigne's kidney stones but this is all I can think about.

Writing the intro to my Montaigne chapter and all I've come up with for a first line is "One day during the third war of religion, or maybe the second, a little man and a little horse went for a ride in the country."

If anyone's looking for a Ladybird companion to the Essays, I'm your woman.

What a gorgeous boy! And a beautiful spot.

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That's wonderful, congratulations!

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This is so helpful, thank you!

A reminder that there's a month left before applications for this year's Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant close: 🔔👇

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im deadly serious here this is a 14th century illustration of a horse dying and going to hell

I’ve just begun writing the final chapter of my thesis, which will focus mostly on Montaigne, and I must say that this chapter could not have come at a better time. Reading Montaigne during this, our own period of « troubles », feels like a lifeline of humanity more than ever.

Another old favourite...

Happy Valentine's Day!

Un grand bonjour from the brand new Women in French UK-IRE Bluesky account! We warmly invite fellow scholars who have migrated from other platforms to follow us here and share this profile with others working on French & Francophone women's cultural production.

An email with info on how to join will be sent out on the SEMFS mailing list later this week. Please let me know if you have any questions or if you are having issues accessing the mailing list.

Calling all postgraduate members of the Society for Early Modern French Studies!

This Friday we will be having the first of our monthly PG Coffee Breaks from 1-2 GMT. Come along and get to know your fellow PGs in a casual online setting ☕️

A selfie of me surrounded by my top 8 insta artwork posts of 2024

Happy 2025 everyone!🧡🌿🏺 I’m excited to spend this new year illustrating the ancient Mediterranean world, and also learning more about my own local folklore🌿

Any shares so i can reach my audience on this new platform are greatly appreciated 🧡🧡🧡

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A forest scene of pine trees heavy with snow.

Quite possibly the most beautiful yule log ever to have been made, with candied cranberries and rosemary, and mushrooms made from meringue.

Happy Christmas from a very snowy Nova Scotia. I tried my hand at a Bûche de Noël for the very first time this year, and I must say I am quite pleased with the result!

Honestly he was far more interested in scratching his face against me than he was in my facial expressions.

Suetonius is a bit more realistic, however, commenting that they only look like toes: "He rode a remarkable horse, too, with feet that were almost human; for its hoofs were cloven in such a way as to look like toes." (Lives of the Caesars, I.61)

Pliny says in his Natural History that "the horse that belonged to Caesar the Dictator is said to have refused to let anyone else mount it; and it is also recorded that its fore feet were like those of a man." (NH, 8:64, 154-155).