Will Rossiter

Hull of cargo ship washed up by gales on Hemsby coast Part of a ship's wooden hull reveals the incredible craftsmanship of centuries past.

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Just published: New issue of Le Tre Corone

#boccaccio
#medievalsky
#earlymodern

@intbocced.bsky.social

It’s astonishing isn’t it? So much energy and verve!

Essential Classics - Refresh your morning with classical music - BBC Sounds Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music.

It’s here for anyone who missed it. Around 6 mins and 30 secs in.
Concerto in Dm for three harpsichords, BWV. 1063.

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The Bach piece for three keyboards that was just on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social was so exhilarating that it merits a public announcement. Just thrilling.

Woodcut of the Nativity from late medieval missal.

More of the page of the woodcut from the late fifteenth-century missal.

From the same missal, the Nativity of Christ, for Christmas Day. The introit, Puer natus est nobis, has a rich tradition from Gregorian chant to Thomas Tallis to Johnny Mathis. Merry Christmas!

Please do share far and wide. We are committed to supporting PGRs through the entire process of submitting work and getting it published. Since taking over as Editor of English this has been one of my core commitments, and I will happily field any queries you might have about submitting your work.

The first Sunday of Advent as marked in a Roman missal (Missale secundum morem Romane curie, c. 1486) held @norwichcathedral.bsky.social library. The introit, “Ad te levavi animam meam” is taken from Ps. 24 (25) and there is a cracking version of it set by Palestrina. #advent #christmas

EETS ed. of Lydgate’s Pilgrimage errs in this, reading the crutches of Sickness as letters patent:

The tother (if I shal not feyne)
bar also, patentës tweyne

But Lyd uses the same image in his Testament:

One of his bedeles, named feblenesse,
Cam with his potent in stede of a mace.

‘A lot of people know I did two degrees: one in engineering, one in law. But while I can’t remember how to do parallel integration, I can remember how to fix a broken computer—which I learned on my apprenticeship.’
So Badenoch’s capacity to remember some things & not others determines her HE policy?

University of California Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance Literature | MEMOs Assistant Professor -- Italian Renaissance Literature -- Department of Italian Studies

University of California Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance Literature:

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Many thanks Liz!

Cover of Translating Petrarch in Early Modern Britain, ed. by Belle, Raimondo and Francesco.

Contents page of Translating Petrarch in Early Modern Britain. 1/2

Contents page of Translating Petrarch in Early Modern Britain. 2/2

First page of Rossiter’s contribution to the Translating Petrarch in Early Modern Britain volume.

Delighted to have this splendid volume arrive in the post today. Am humbled to be in such learned company. Hats off to @mbelle4912.bsky.social, Riccardo and Francesco on doing such a sterling job of bringing this all together.

Thank you to everyone who submitted to our CfP – we're delighted by your abstracts and can't wait to put the program together!

Registration link coming soon ... keep yer eyes peeled 🥰🥰

You’ve seen the Call for Papers for our second annual conference (if not, check it out below) but now it’s time for conference teasers! Each image relates to one of the activities we’ve got planned for attendees… can you guess what they are before we release the schedule? Let us know your thoughts!

Case studies | The English Association We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.

Congratulations on all receiving A-level English Language, Lang & Lit, Literature results! 💫 And to all their teachers ! We commend the fantastic opportunities that study of these subjects offer 🥳. Find out what English studies brings ! englishassociation.ac.uk/case-studies/

Results data, available on our website

Results data available on our website

Results analysis available on our website

The English Association congratulates every student who has received results for an A-level in English. 👏🏽
English remains a v. popular A-level choice, the 5th most popular A-level-
*not always well-known as entries split across the 3 qualifications – English Lit, English Lang, English Lang & Lit.*⬇️

Opportunity to join the editorial team of The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory | The English Association We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.

Could you be the next editor of our journal, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory?
@oupacademic.bsky.social #criticaltheory #culturaltheory #literarytheory

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BIG NEWS! We, the MEMRN committee, are delighted to share the dates for our second annual in-person Winter Conference. Join us from the 14th - 16th of November at the University of East Anglia and online for three days of panels, social events, workshops, networking sessions, and adventure in the historic city of Norwich. The Call for Papers and details on how to apply to speak at the event are available via the MEMRN website and our social media. The deadline for submitting an abstract is Friday 12th September. We look forward to seeing you there!

BIG NEWS! We are delighted to share the dates for our second annual in-person Winter Conference.

Join us from the 14th - 16th of November at the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and online. The Call for Papers is available via the MEMRN website and our social media. We look forward to seeing you!

We, the committee of the CHASE Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (MEMRN), are overjoyed to announce the return of our Winter Conference this year between the 14th and 16th November. Join us at the University of East Anglia and online for three exciting days of workshops, papers, social events, and adventure through the historic cathedral city of Norwich. We welcome papers on a range of topics within medieval and early modern studies for this interdisciplinary conference, including: * History and politics * Philosophy and theology * Literature, drama, performance culture and music * Latin and vernacular languages * Art history, architecture and archaeology * Manuscript studies and book history For this year's conference, we particularly encourage papers engaging with marginalised histories and communities, global intercultural contact and exchange, or conflict and diplomacy.

We invite abstracts of up to 250 words for individual research papers of twenty minutes in length (or 700 words for a panel of three people presenting on a particular subject or sub-theme). The CHASE MEMRN conference remains open to all UK and overseas postgraduates. This includes independent scholars who are unaffiliated at this time. When submitting your abstract, please include your institution (if applicable) and, if from a CHASE-affiliated university institution, whether or not you are directly funded by CHASE. All proposals should be emailed to chasememrn@gmail.com by Friday 12th September with the subject line 'Conference Paper Submission' and your name. Priority will be given to those available to present in-person, but remote presentation applications will also be considered. Please feel free to contact the MEMRN team via email or social media DM with any questions you may have. We look forward to welcoming you to Norwich as part of this proudly CHASE-funded event.

CALL FOR PAPERS!!! The MEMRN Committee are delighted to share the call for papers for our second annual Winter Conference: Fragmented Worlds, Shared Histories.

Please share widely! Sponsored by @chase-dtp.bsky.social

Stop doing this! Whoever is paying @timeshighered.bsky.social‬ for story after story is also funding environmental vandalism on a catastrophic scale. This isn't journalism, it's naive ethical bankruptcy - and intellectually and pedagogically obtuse.

Only the Beyondest get the big bucks. It’s curious that institutional deficits often correspond inversely to a sudden growth in the number of £100k roles, the sum financial total of which tends to map that deficit almost exactly.

Ah, ofc. “After a thorough review it transpires that we are spending far too much money on paying our staff, which constitutes one of our major outgoings.” A classic.

Yes. If it’s cheap to run it can’t be making any money. As you say, without the low-cost courses they create the death-spiral.

In what sense? Eng Lit seminars require a room. How astonishing. Presumably they are using an SSR metric.

I daresay staff responses to redundancy plans will now be collated via AI, which in its usual obsequious, fawning, Uriah Heep-like way will misrepresent if not invert those responses.

And so dangerously amnesiac. Likewise Arts&Hums subsidising sciences & business — and how the idea of a university was promoted at such times — but when Arts&Hums need support they’re on their own.

I’m sorry Liz. The terrible short-term thinking that produces such decisions cannot conceive of the recruitment oscillations that a dept of 60 years’ standing has seen. It’s what got us all in this mess: Subject X is popular now ergo Subject X will always be popular. Subject Y is not, ergo is over.

Over 1000 signatories in 36 hours!

Let's make it 2000 by the weekend 👇

Please sign 👇

Please circulate 👇

So random “free speech campaigners” now get to determine our syllabi? This explains the recent FOI request re trigger warnings. It would be nice to say unis should reject such nonsense but the threat of fines cf. Sussex means Uni Execs are scared. Primarily this is a stick to beat Arts&Hums. Again.