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Brandon W. Hawk

@brandonwhawk.bsky.social

Professor of English at Rhode Island College (views my own). I’m a nerd for medieval things, biblical apocrypha, Star Wars, LotR, & Magic (TCG). He/him. “Read some fucking apocrypha.” https://linktr.ee/brandonwhawk

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American Medieval Podcast@americanmedieval.bsky.social · last wk.

hey have a little taste! we talk Satan on a fish hook. really... #medievalsky youtube.com/shorts/HL3CM...

The Devil on a fish hook! How a Norse myth got Christianized. #podcast #medieval #history #vikings

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American Medieval Podcast@americanmedieval.bsky.social · last wk.

Wednesday, best day!!! New episode! @profgabriele.com talks with @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social and they GO TO HELL!!! We talk apocryphal, old Norse legends, & descend into the netherworld. Enjoy! #medievalsky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Brad Reed@bwreed.bsky.social · last wk.

Yep. The fascist project requires society-wide brainrot. And that means conditioning people to ask MechaHitler to tell them what to think.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · last wk.

They're screaming the quiet part out loud. A Trump regime scheme to shift a whopping $200 billion into AI projects and away from traditional university research isn't just because it wants smarter computers American fascism also requires dumber people My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Brandon W. Hawk@brandonwhawk.bsky.social · last wk.

#Apocrypha in the news again! Here’s a piece about the feast day of Saints Anne & Joachim, for July 26, featuring the Protevangelium of James & the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew. infovaticana.com/en/2026/07/2...

St. Joachim and St. Anne: the Church celebrates the grandparents of Jesus and the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly – INFOVATICANA

The Church celebrates this July 26 the liturgical memorial of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, parents of the Virgin Mary and grandparents of Jesus according to Christian tradition. The feast also coinci...

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Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · 2w ago

this is pretty interesting #medievalsky it doesn't prove anything except that the medieval world was highly permeable and people and things moved across many continents!

Philip Ball@philipcball.bsky.social · 2w ago

There's all kinds of DNA on the Turin Shroud, some of it seemingly from the Middle East and India. Whether this tells us anything more about its provenance is not clear. My latest column for @chemistryworld.com www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/dna-...

Brandon W. Hawk@brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 2w ago

A year and a half ago, the English grad programs I direct were targeted for suspension & potential shuttering, especially for Creative Writing. We gathered data & made arguments that we make money for the college & suspending CW would net $0 financial change. The Provost & President did it anyway.

Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2w ago

shutting down academic programs is virtually never about the quality of those programs and often it’s not really even about their actual student numbers or “appeal” very little management policy towards the humanities is specifically “about” research or teaching in the humanities at all, in fact

Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2w ago

shutting down academic programs is virtually never about the quality of those programs and often it’s not really even about their actual student numbers or “appeal” very little management policy towards the humanities is specifically “about” research or teaching in the humanities at all, in fact

Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · 2w ago

just got an email from my (former) chair that the university has acted & the state has approved the formal closure of my department. this was done without any faculty input on the decision or the process, & has ended a vibrant, growing (!), humanities department that won teaching and research awards

Clare Downham@downham.bsky.social · 2w ago

Updated list of #manuscripts donated to the University of Liverpool. I still have some of David’s book collection which is being sold if anyone is interested including a box of Scriptorium for postage only #booksky #medievalsky libguides.liverpool.ac.uk/library/sca/...

Library Guides: Special Collections & Archives: Dumville collection

SC&A includes manuscripts and archives, medieval to modern; early and finely printed books, and science fiction collections.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy@themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 3w ago

Actually want to amplify this further--95% haven't been digitized and even beyond that, archival CATALOGUING is its own patchy horrorshow of varying strategies, standards, and funding levels. To DIGITIZE something you have to FIND IT first!

Amalia S. Levi, PhD@amaliasl.bsky.social · 3w ago

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

Brandon W. Hawk@brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 4w ago

I recently took up drawing—which I did when younger but haven’t really done in 20+ years—& I’m enjoying it quite a bit. I took a perspective drawing handbook out of the local library to work through & a previous reader left a few graphite fingerprints in it. It’s a nice detail of the book’s history.

Page from Perspective Drawing Handbook by Joseph D’Amelio, featuring the concept of the “vanishing point,” with a previous reader’s fingerprint smudge left from using the book with graphite on their fingers.
AaronM@aaronm.bsky.social · last mo.

Another slow week, 20 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... A lot of 17th-18th C papal ephemera including a nice Bull, an Ethiopian icon, Juvenal and Boccaccio, and a bit more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 26 of 2026

This week completes the first half of the year, and the library digitized only twenty manuscripts. Returning to recent patterns, most of these, fourteen in total, came from the Ott.lat collection. T...

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Brandon W. Hawk@brandonwhawk.bsky.social · last mo.

Is there any chance that someone has access to (or a pdf of) Joshua Westgard's thesis about "Eadmer of Canterbury's Breviloquium Vitae Sancti Wilfridi"? #MedievalSky scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_thes...

Eadmer of Canterbury's Breviloquium Vitae Sancti Wilfridi

The Breviloquium vitae sancti Wilfridi by Eadmer of Canterbury (c. 1060-c. 1130) is an Anglo-Latin sermon on the life of an Anglo-Saxon saint composed in Canterbury in the first generation after the N...

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