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Alison Beach
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Medieval Historian at the University of St Andrews. Leader of #TeamNun and the Word of Mouth AHRC-funded project. Works at the intersection of history and archaeology. Humanist with a microscope!
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Steve Medema (USA) -- Influential historian of economic thought whose research focuses on the twentieth century, but whose interests stretch back to Ancient Greece and the Middle Ages! #TeamNun loves our allied supporters!

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Derek Hall (Scotland) -- superstar archaeologist leading the dig at Lindores Abbey Distillery for Mafs Scotland. Some day he will find Kimm Curran and me some Scottish nuns! #TeamNun loves monks too!

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Erin Redfern (USA) -- award-winning poet whose brilliant poem, "The Artist" -- inspired by hearing the story of the "lapis lazuli nun" on NPR -- was runner-up for the 2020 James Hearst Poetry Prize. #TeamNun loves engaging with creative writers!

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I expect to hear great things about their next adventures in Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Oxford. Absolutely #TeamNun!

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St Andrews ME4757 -- Monks & Nuns, Saints & Bishops: Germany in the High Middle Ages (Scotland) -- you get a class like this once in a career if you are lucky. Hardworking, smart, and creative. It was such fun to introduce them to medieval Germany.

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giving Bluesky a renewed try @matthewcollins.bsky.social :-)

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Great colleagues and conversations at the Future of Molecular Paleography workshop organized to close the @ercb2c project. Scientists and humanists thinking together about ways to collaborate on the study of manuscripts at the lovely Fuglsang manor house and estate in southern Denmark

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Hoping #MedievalSky will pick up so I can abandon ship on the other site!

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This week in Exciting New Books That Have Arrived #medievalsky

Lawrence Nees's new book "Illuminating the Word in the Early Middle Ages"
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Alison Beach
@alisonibeach.bsky.social
Medieval Historian at the University of St Andrews. Leader of #TeamNun and the Word of Mouth AHRC-funded project. Works at the intersection of history and archaeology. Humanist with a microscope!
647 followers332 following31 posts