Sara McDougall
@sarannmcd.bsky.social
Medieval gender, crime, & history prof. at John Jay College & CUNY Graduate Center, writing about a survivor in c.1470 France for PrincetonUPress, 2023-4 Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, bylines Slate etc.
Unboxing day! Over a decade in the making, NECESSARY INVENTIONS: ROGER BACON, THE MIDDLE AGES, AND THE MAKING OF MODERN SCIENCE (PENN Press) is a material object. Thank you to everyone who helped along the way. For sale on October 20. @pennpress.bsky.social
Offre d’emploi – Professorship in History of the Earlier Middle Ages with a Focus on Material Cultures (Open Rank) rmblf.be/2026/09/30/o...
Offre d’emploi – Professorship in History of the Earlier Middle Ages with a Focus on Material Cultures (Open Rank)
The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in history of the earlier Middle Ages with a focus on material cultures (open rank) starting on 1 August 2028. Depending on the qua…
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slate.com/life/2026/09... @jillfilipovic.bsky.social “The vast majority of rapists never go to jail. Women the world over have suffered through sex that is violent and forceful and been told that’s normal, and certainly not illegal.”
The “Cornell Seven” Rape Case Has Ignited the Country. Let’s Talk About What We’re Actually Talking About Here.
The district attorney has reopened the criminal case.
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Who is coming with me???
Sarah Weinman@sarahweinman.com · yesterdayGood morning, I am very pleased to announce that my one and only paperback event for WITHOUT CONSENT is a joint launch on Thursday, November 5 with the novelist Donna Freitas, whose new book WOLVES OF SUMMER publishes on the same day. Details/registration link here: www.92ny.org/event/donna-...
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From Jamui to Delhi, the burden of safety from sexual assault cannot fall on women
As outrage grows over cases of sexual violence, activists are demanding a shift from controlling women to confronting men’s behaviour. Plus, Tony Klor’s ‘hella dope’ city vlogs
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The Cornell rape allegations and lawsuit, explained 19thnews.org/2026/09/corn... via @19thnews.org
The Cornell rape allegations and lawsuit, explained
Here’s what we know about Jane Doe’s lawsuit, her allegations against seven fraternity members and efforts to investigate the alleged group attack.
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@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social folk with any interest in the premodern come to what is looking like quite the party featuring some new faces, plus lots of old ones
Justice for Jehanne by @sarannmcd.bsky.social is named one of @crimereads.bsky.social best true crime books of the month! buff.ly/Zi0eoVy
The Best True Crime Of the Month: September 2026
5 new works of true crime history and reportage out this month, as selected by the CrimeReads editors. * Anand Giridharadas, Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City (Kn…
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Reading this….https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/arts/design/mary-magdalene-stadel-museum-germany.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ElE.D_vT.tqk-JLkmCgAU&smid=bs-share
Was Mary Magdalene a Sinner or a Saint? Artists Weigh In (Gift Article)
A new exhibition at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt traces her shifting image over the centuries.
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Ooooooo
Mitra Sharafi@mitrasharafi.bsky.social · 2d agoI have a piece out today in The Daily Star (Bangladesh) on the special challenges of poison detection given cremation practices in colonial Bengal (drawing from my Open Access book, Fear of the False): www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/f... #legalhistory
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A Lourdes, Léon XIV dénonce le « douloureux fléau » des violences sexuelles et encourage l’Eglise catholique en France à « poursuivre » son action
Le souverain pontife, qui était resté jusqu’à présent silencieux sur le sujet depuis son arrivée en France, doit rencontrer sept d’entre elles à huis clos dimanche, avant de conclure une journée marqu...
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“The U.S. Embassy official said the ambassador honeymooned in Greece and has spoken about her love for the country ever since she studied Greco-Roman history in college” ok which of you did this?
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 4d agoAmazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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@crimereads.bsky.social is colluding in my plot to make my @johnjayrec.bsky.social students think I might have something interesting to say! #skystorians thanks @princetonupress.bsky.social
'Inhumane': Judge Permanently Limits Capacity in ICE Holding Cells at 26 Federal Plaza www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/24/i...
Judge Limits Capacity at NY 'Black Site' ICE Holding Cells
The injunction stems from a lawsuit alleging ICE was cramming dozens of immigrants into small cells on the federal building’s 10th floor, often failing to provide adequate food and water.
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Jehanne spotted in the wild huge thanks to @brettrushforth.bsky.social and to @princetonupress.bsky.social for helping to get her there
There‘s much to appreciate in Mamdani, but his insistence that culture isn’t a privilege of the rich is one of his strengths.It is reminiscent of how unions and the government treated it in the 1930s -art for the masses - paintings, music, opera, theater - democracy for all.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 6d agoNever been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
So much good stuff here for the teaching and the medieval
American Medieval Podcast@americanmedieval.bsky.social · last wk.Hello! Humpday means a new episode! @profgabriele.com and @tlecaque.bsky.social and @lollardfish.bsky.social talk the Bayeux Tapestry and the end of grim dark medieval vibes (among other things). Enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Hello! Humpday means a new episode! @profgabriele.com and @tlecaque.bsky.social and @lollardfish.bsky.social talk the Bayeux Tapestry and the end of grim dark medieval vibes (among other things). Enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
September Medieval News with David M. Perry & Thomas Lecaque
Podcast Episode · American Medieval · September 23 · 1h 6m
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www.propublica.org/article/fbi-... friends in Maine and friends with friends in Maine please share widely
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Good interpretation is essential in immigration court. Trump's DOJ isn't providing it
Interpretation In Immigration Court Is a Cruel Joke
The immigration court system has never treated non-English-speakers fairly. The Trump administration has only made things worse.
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Family history and genealogy, media juicing up controversy and fawning over science while failing to get that yes the historical analysis was conclusive. I couldn't not write about this! Shorter: just read @agordonreed.bsky.social. karinwulf.com/trove/the-fa...
The Family History of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, and the Politics of Genealogy. - Karin Wulf
[The cover image is a page from Jefferson’s “Farm Book” at the Massachusetts Historical Society where he listed enslaved recipients of “Bread” at Monticello in 1810 –including Sally Hemings and four o...
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Delighted that the first essay in CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW, a special issue of Public Humanities, ed by me & Eleanor Barraclough, is now available! Check out @thecelticist.bsky.social brilliant essay ‘De Ira’ & bookmark this page for further essays this autumn! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Well this seems absolutely amazing from @sarannmcd.bsky.social. Just listened to the NBN interview and am eager to read the book. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Justice for Jehanne
A spellbinding narrative history that defies modern assumptions about women’s lives in the Middle Ages and informs contemporary debates about sexual violence and the limits of justice
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The recent Medieval Podcast' with @sarannmcd.bsky.social was one of the best! A heavy topic, but absolutely fascinating and lots of cliches addressing too. www.medievalpodcast.com/episodes/jus...
Justice for Jehanne with Sara McDougall — The Medieval Podcast
In the fifteenth-century, a woman named Jehanne reported a sexual assault to the city authorities of Dijon, setting in motion a detailed criminal investigation that has survived in the records. This w...
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"Very often people who are very vulnerable—very low income—just can’t make it through the ordeal. They don’t have up-to-date phones, they don’t have computers, they don’t have Wi-Fi, they don’t have stable addresses." — Annie Lowrey slate.trib.al/4ktSv78
The Theory Behind Government’s Cruelest Paperwork
Annie Lowrey explains the “ordeal mechanism theory,” the idea that government benefits should be hard to get.
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