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Cynthia Cyrus
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Medievalist monastic historian / musicologist working on nuns’ roles in 15thc soundscapes in Bregenz Austria. Manuscript fragments make me giddy. I also collect sunrises. Blog at SilencesAndSounds@blogspot.com
Gruesome Passion imagery was not gratuitous in 15thc prayerbooks. It made Christ’s suffering present, deepened compassion, and turned remembrance into prayer. That matters. silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #nuntastic #prayer #Passion #CatholicSpirituality
It’s syllabus prep season, and I’m thinking about what a privilege and benefit it must be for those academics who get to directly tie their teaching / syllabi to their research / writing. 1/5
This is absolutely an illegal scam preying on heritage tourism. But I will say I… can’t help but admire this incredibly capacious hustle on some level—although I do think he needs to make reparations. www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
Italian conman jailed for building fake Roman amphitheatre
In Italy, a structure promoted for years as an "ancient Roman amphitheatre" has turned out to be a fake, constructed recently using modern materials.
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I build this into my syllabus — students have to do 7 of 10 weekly assignments — their choice.
I do a version of this called a "nope token," where students can choose any 3 low-stakes assignments to miss, no questions asked. They just have to tell me they are using a nope.
Some writing projects are priority 1, others priority 1200. The trick is keeping enough possibilities around that, when Monday asks me what to write, I’m not staring at an empty page. silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #AcademicWriting #ResearchWorkflow #AcademicChatter #blog #SlowScholarship
Adjustable desk lamps are perfect for a proper lighting of your text work, and it increases productivity and work safety. Buy our (since the 1530s) bestselling flying lamp "the dove", and get an extra refill ink pod for free. #skystorians #writingsky
Second, block out time on your calendar for lunch or dinner (depending on your schedule). Do not work through that period. Give yourself a real break and fuel your body. Cheese sticks and mini Snickers bars are not going to cut it (more)
As you look toward fall class, do two things for space and grace; . First, add two flex days to you syllabus. You can move the into place when you're sick when everyone needs a metal health day, when a concept needs a little more time. it takes pressure off when the unexpected happens (more)
Very early in the pandemic, I spent 2 terrible weeks in isolation, unable to breathe or walk across the room. Waiting my temp. to spike. Worrying about my kids. Fighting against dying. In the middle of this covid revisionist, anti-vax bullshit, it was worth saying what that felt like:
"A boycott makes demands. This made none, set no conditions, named no grievance, and offered the Recording Academy no way to win them back. You negotiate with an institution whose judgment you still need. The one whose judgment you have outgrown, you simply inform." Damn. 🫳 | | 🎤
What Grammys lost when BTS walked away | Aju Press
For five years, BTS wanted a Grammy, and the wanting was never hidden. The group submitted its music every cycle. Its members flew to Las Vegas and delivered performances that outclassed the ceremony ...
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A prayerbook rubric might say “say this before bed” or “stand before a crucifix.” Either way, it’s doing more than labeling the next prayer. Thinking about rubrics using Lorraine Daston’s supple rules silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #prayerbooks #prayer #Catholic #EarlyModern #nuntastic #rubrics
Please enjoy this medieval mosaic of two roosters capturing a fox from the twelfth-century floor of the Church of Santa Maria e San Donato in Murano, as taken by Iowa medievalist Shane Bobrycki. 🐓🦊🐓 Now this is some gallus humor.
what if i just decided not to participate in tuesday this week
Related to my weekend of driving: This is Just to Say I have used up the patience that was in the glovebox and which you were probably saving for the children on roadtrips Forgive me I was in traffic And other drivers were so stupid and so wrong
Come for the birding; stay for the resurrection... We took a trip to St George’s, Reichenau, where Ottonian frescoes show demons fleeing, storms falling silent, the sick restored—and Lazarus emerging from his grave. silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #MedievalArt #Ottonian #Reichenau #frescoes #blog
![Image of walls and arched windows, the space simply covered with frescoes, many with an orangish-brick overtone. Blog title: On viewing the frescoes at [St George's] Reichenau](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2aamhrmufal47wf4elnimrjm/bafkreicstrsh5jz3i2jidmyiakcd56r4wbbxb34qryp3lyqgsqpzfhqprm)
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Kathleen E. Kennedy@themedievaldrk.bsky.social · last wk.oh I've got a THREAD I'm warming up a bit later, folks. Be ready. There will Tips and Tricks and a helluva lot of YELLING. It'll be a TheMedievalDrK special, I tell you what.
So who am I and what am I doing? I am a historian of medieval Europe and am writing a book on the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099-1187). It is under contract with Basic Books. The goal is to write a narrative history the incorporates cultural, religious, apocalyptic, and romantic (!) material
Editorial cartoon: Schrodinger's McConnell. With thanks to @neolithicsheep.bsky.social for alerting me to this phrase :)
It's officially been summer for over a month, and I haven't made sangria once. Maybe I should do something about that?
You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
When is a long prayer actually long? Innsbruck FB 1118 first felt endless, but its prayers unfold across Hours, Sundays, and multi-day cycles, & even “brief words” open into extended meditation. silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #PrayerBooks #MedievalStudies #Thalbach #nuntastic #DevotionalPractice
