Dr Elena Rossi

Freelance Work Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…

#MedievalSky #EarlyModernists you may not be aware that I offer several services: transcription (no hand too tricky), archival visits and more. I’m happiest in the period 1200-1700 but will consider anything. Get in touch via my website!

joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

STRANIERI Questo volume osserva l’università come punto di incontro tra uomini di età diverse e di origini geografiche molteplici. Ciò vale in particolar modo per l’Ateneo patavino, che deve le sue origini prop...

The book "Stranieri. Itinerari di vita studentesca tra XIII e XVIII secolo", which I edited for the anniversary of the establishment of the University of #Padova, is finally available in #openaccess.

you can find it here:
www.padovauniversitypress.it/it/publicati... #HistoryOfUniversities #HighEd

We can't wait to hear all about this! 😀

Heading to one of my fave cities and unis to talk about one of my fave topics: women employed in university colleges! It will feature some new material from Cambridge and King’s College’s cute account books 👀

two women are standing next to each other in a room . ALT: two women are standing next to each other in a room .

Happy Gilmore-Girls-watching season to all who celebrate 🎉

Horizontal on the sofa is my go-to transcribing position 👌🏻😅

A hard day at the office:

Spot the little dog flying with a massive stick…

The many sleeping positions of Muffy Moo, ft the final look of “I’ve made mistakes”.

(Yes, the donut is back, this dog’s spay recovery has been a never-ending saga)

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I've got a new website! Thanks to Man Kit Lam for design, and @knifewitch.bsky.social and @soranasantos.bsky.social for photos and encouragement! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

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Slinky returns to the local Facebook group. This cat has too much audacity..

New job, same assistant

Started my new job today and as part of the intro we had to share the most unusual food we had eaten. Of course, mine was the weird nun sweets we had in Seville. Our faces sum it up:

Basically trying to fill your office with Rossi originals

A present for a friend: illuminated initial of us having a bath based on BnF Français 12323, f. 77r. Yes, there is gold foil all over the house now.

And this scary dude guards the toilet

Walked up the stairs to King’s College archives multiple times this week… how did I only just notice the dog with the massive dick and balls? Looks like they’ve either been restored or were added later, which is a choice in itself.

On the final day in the archive, I thought I’d share all the different shapes and sizes of medieval college account records. The skinny books from King’s are cute but Peterhouse’s rolls were a joy to use 📜

The horses in the stables of King’s College in the 1450s would have wanted me to be listening to ‘Pink Pony Club’ whilst reading about them. Guys, you would have loved Chappell Roan 🐴

Alas, no female employees recorded at G&C (not really any servants recorded at all until the cook at the end of the fifteenth century). Doesn’t necessarily mean they weren’t working for the college 👀 For now, back to King’s where the laundress was paid very handsomely compared to some of her peers…

Thank you, I did! They’ve been my mascots during my time at Magdalen 🦌

Moved to Gonville and Caius where there aren’t as many surviving documents but if there’s no luck here, back to King’s!

First archive of the day: King’s College. Always nice to be looking for laundresses with a pretty view.

And then the afternoon in Trinity with some King’s Hall account books ft laundresses and some funky manicules 👇🏻

They were such a joy to go through!

I’m sure another student will make the most of it soon and decorate it with their things! But they won’t have these buddies:

Back to the archives, this time in Cambridge! Tracking female employment in university colleges but was taken by John the Bookbinder who was responsible for repairing the vestments at Peterhouse in the early fifteenth century:

Thanks Felix!

After four years, I said goodbye to my much loved desk in the MCR office @magdalenoxford.bsky.social. Thank you for being my home throughout the DPhil.