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Aug 10, 2018 3 tweets 1 min read Read on X
Mulder just called the Divine Comedy and The Book of the Courtier “obscure texts” 😐 #grading #again
Maaaaaaaaaybe the latter is obscure for a monomaniacal FBI again but Dante? GTFO
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Aug 18, 2018
We’re heading back out east for more longships.
But first....
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Aug 15, 2018
Thanks to @FW_Medieval for tipping me off to the VIKING LONG SHIP DOCKING ON LONG ISLAND TODAY. drakenhh.com/greenport
I’m probably gonna live tweet this like the nerd I am
SPONTANEOUS VIKING DAY (the only kind of Viking day??)
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Aug 8, 2018
Cute, Name of the Rose, real cute.
(I’m teaching this movie in my Medieval Religion, Medicine, and Magic class next week)
William of Baskerville : libraries :: I : libraries
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Jul 27, 2018
I just did a last minute swap to the reading for my Medieval Religion, Medicine, and Magic course. I decided to put in some blog posts by doctoral students in various stages of research, to show students how ideas are born, grow, & get refined.
Excited to see how it goes!
I’m hoping to show students that scholarly writing is the product of a long process, not something scholars are born knowing how to do. And I hope this makes them more comfortable about where THEY are in their process.
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Jul 9, 2018
Wowowow I just discovered that Starship Titanic is on Steam. A lot of high school feels about that game.
I played this for a bit this morning before getting down to my research tasks for the day, and it's very much a weird flashback to a very particular part of my life in high school. Douglas Adams sure did like to start adventures by destroying the protagonist's house, didn't he?
Aw, buddy 😭
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Jul 8, 2018
While reading aloud from a history textbook in 5th grade, I accidentally said "Fart Duquesne" instead of "Fort Duquesne." Twice. When the teacher pointed it out to me I ran screaming to the bathroom in embarrassment
Coda: this nearly literally happened again in grad school, I will never forget my my advisor’s face the first time I pronounced eminent historian Walter Goffart’s name out loud in discussion
Here’s another that just occurred to me. At age 11 or so we went to play baseball with my dad and stepmom. When it was my turn to pitch I asked if I could pitch the wiffle ball. My dad had me pitch the softball...and hit s line drive right at my chin
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