Now, if you are wanting to read some good work on #BayeuxTapestry, here's a thread. By the way, the pun wasn't intentional on Wednesday and isn't now. I'm not that funny. First up: Gale Owen-Crocker, textile historian par excellence www.medats.org.uk/officer/gale... #medievalsky 1/
And while I’m here: if you want more reading recommendations here’s a “syllabus” I put together last year. It’s structured on 7 key terms: bias, extraction, augmentation, operation, the so-called, categorization, and power.
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“‘Al’ is a marketing term. It doesn't refer to a coherent set of technologies. Instead, the phrase …is deployed when the people building or selling a particular set of technologies will profit from getting others to believe that their tech is similar to humans”
Excellent & uncompromising.
Read it!
Carved panel, Bari Cathedral, 1225-1251, now Museo Diocesano
Some things to see: small cross just above each beak; tiny palm leaf on each wing; lion's mask spitting out the foliage at the base; and those legs: which is the front, which is the back? 🤔
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🎉 CFP for the annual NWMS Postgrad Symposium. To be held at Chetham’s Library Tuesday 5th August 2025. Open to any PG or ECR. Papers should speak to the theme of community but any paper with a medieval theme is welcome. Email title, ~200 abstract and short bio to nwmsreading@gmail.com by 18th July 🎉
Bonus butterflies emerge from cupcakes when they add something about the work that was illuminating to them in person and not made clear from the slides.
Every time a student sends their art history professor an email saying, "I was in X museum and saw that work we discussed in class!" a puppy smiles, angels sing, and a double rainbow irradiates the horizon.
"Can I call you back? I'm stuck in an O at the moment."
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 711; Abbreviatio Decreti "Quoniam egestas"; second half of the 12th century; p.18 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
Have a fabulous time Leonie!
Those angels at the top bending over backwards always make me giggle, they're so extra.
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Visiting Cheb in Bohemia (German Eger) and found that the city museum has this wonderful antependium, made by the Poor Clares of the city by embroidering hundred of tiny beads, coral and pearls. It dates around 1300 and I've never seen anything quite like it.
I'm in the UK. Both modules I've taught that fit that description have started with Constantine and ended in 1453.
Sent an email to your Winchester email (hope that's still the right one). Happy pearl researching!
Yes, I've delved into pearls a bit. Depends on the quantities they needed, I think. If it's just a few pearls then freshwater were available in western Europe. Larger quantities prob came from the Arabian gulf / Indian ocean, I think, via Constantinople & the east Med. I can send refs if you like?
Hope you feel better soon Liz.
I miss it so much. So many happy memories and formative experiences.
Being a teacher is just the best. Today a student sent me a photo of a museum object that reminded them of something I taught them ages ago. Emails like that mean a lot.
Habemus DOI: 'Ethiopia' and the World, 300-1500, co-authored with Yonatan Binyam for Cambridge's Elements in the Global Middle Ages Series, coming to you in June 2024!
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Wow, that's quite steep. UCL being ahead of the neoliberal curve doesn't exactly surprise me though.
Yes, the institutional interest feels decidedly anti-pastoral.
Gosh. That must take so much time and really does seem insane.
We've had it longer but it never caused so much stress until the last few years. Ooof.
So. Much. Time. It was never like this before for me, until last year. The poor students waste so much energy worrying about it, they're so focused on being marked as present they don't think about learning anything. Madness.
That's interesting. I started university in 2002 and didn't encounter a register until I was teaching.
Woah. The eduroam thing is creepy even for them. We've had a contactless tap-in system for years and I think it worked ok until recently, when even the technology seems to have had a nervous breakdown.
I'm wondering the same thing. The process hasn't changed for us but student anxiety about it has rocketed, noticeably in the last two years.
A question I ask myself daily.
Ugh.
It's destroying student wellbeing! (along with other things)
