Registration for the 2024 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference is open *until March 15*! Hosted by MFO on April 8-9, this year’s conference includes keynote lectures by Prof. Sophie Page (UCL) and Dr. Hannah Ryley (Oxford). www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford...#oxford#medievalsky#conference 🗃️
I’ve read too much hagiography recently. My mid-term stress manifested as a dream of inescapable Apocalypse. I’m an advocate for historical empathy, but dreams of end-days (Friday of week 8) it NOT what I bargained for. 😂 #medieval#medievalsky#AcademicSky 🗃️
Reading Venantius Fortunatus’ hagiography of Radegund and I have a suspicion he was fed up with the nuns at Poitiers for not doing their chores. He likes to emphasize how saintly Radegund scrubbed the kitchen, cleaned the privies, and swept the pavements. Moral of the story: take out the damn trash.
I realized yesterday that cats are the masters of circular breathing. Talented little bastards don’t even have to try.
I am excited to extend a CfP to graduate students for the 2024 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference (8/9th April). We are looking for submissions relating to the theme 'Signs and Scripts.' Whether that means inn signs, theatre, spiritual signs... is up to interpretation! lnkd.in/eMjihfjc#Medievalsky
I'm excited to share my recent blog post on OMS exploring the cultural logic of Majapahit 'piggy banks' and their muddy origins in a global history of sapiens and sus. 'Writing in the Mud' is a challenge for historians to take inspiration from pigs and transgress comfortable disciplinary enclosures.
I’ll take this as an opportunity to plug Professor Urbanski’s new book “Medieval Monstrosity.” She was an inspiration and a mentor during my time at the UW and introduced me to Jeffrey J. Cohen’s work on “Monster Theory” which she applies in her book to Medieval Europe. A perfect Halloween read! 🎃
How to Make a Monster - an excellent piece by Charity Urbanski www.medievalists.net/2023/10/how-...
Ideas about monstrosity were fundamental to ancient and medieval debates about the nature of humanity, and the rhetoric of monstrosity was widely used to dehumanize certain groups in medieval Europe.
How to Make a Monster - an excellent piece by Charity Urbanski www.medievalists.net/2023/10/how-...
Ideas about monstrosity were fundamental to ancient and medieval debates about the nature of humanity, and the rhetoric of monstrosity was widely used to dehumanize certain groups in medieval Europe.
“October is the season of pumpkin spice, knit clothing, candles…” Nope, sorry, it’s poofy bird season. Always has been, always will be. (Drawing of a rather portly chickadee enjoying a sunset from my grade-school storybook project. Even little me was interested in non-human animal perspectives.)
I love going into a supervision meeting full of doubt and emerging from the office with inspiration and a clear sense of direction. Real heroes don’t wear capes.