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SCMedievalist

@scmedievalist.bsky.social

Medieval History, especially England. Author of Ladies-in-Waiting in Medieval England (2025). Loves include pets, mysteries, and mountain hikes. Views are my own.

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Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterday

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

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SCMedievalist@scmedievalist.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm not able to attend Leeds medieval-con this year, but my publisher is there and offering a good discount on *Ladies-in-Waiting in Medieval England.* If interested, use code 105043 at checkout for 30% off and free shipping (to most destinations).

Cover of the book *Ladies-in-Waiting in Medieval England" by Caroline Dunn, featuring manuscript illustration of elite women in a procession at the baptism of the future Charles VII of France.
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SCMedievalist@scmedievalist.bsky.social · last mo.

Fellow profs: has anyone successfully insisted that students buy/use only hard copies of assigned books, instead of e-book versions? (To prevent copy/paste). I know there can be cost different- would only do with monographs, not textbook.

Carin Ruff@carinr.bsky.social · last mo.

For perspective, this is equivalent to what I earned as an assistant professor fresh out of grad school 25 years ago in a rust belt city where large houses in nice neighborhoods near the university cost $150k.

TOEBI@toebi.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 #jobalert #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📜 Curator for Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts 🏛️ British Library, St Pancras ⏳ Full Time, Permanent 💷 Salary: £35,993 per annum ⏰ Deadline: 12 July 2026 📲 Application details: tinyurl.com/25fs9kun

Monica H Green@monicamedhist.bsky.social · last mo.

Latest addition to the 2nd Plague Pandemic biblio: "this article ... asks how often women were employed as wage workers in the rural economy of medieval England, how they were paid relative to men, and to what extent change is evident after the Black Death." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Women's Wage Labour in Rural England, c. 1250-c. 1450: Identifying the Known Unknowns in Manorial Accounts

Rodney Hilton’s observations about women’s work recorded in manorial accounts underpin Tine De Moor and Jan Luiten van Zanden’s influential argument that paid work for women expanded significantly ...

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Dr Will Wyeth@willwyeth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🗣️ Medievalists! 🏰 Check out this page, we’ve done a reconstruction the medieval chapel at Chester Castle! www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places... Please share widely! There’s loads of info and *lovely* images from the repertoire of medieval art - and also more reconstructions!

The Chester Castle Chapel Wall Paintings

The walls of the medieval chapel in the Agricola Tower at Chester Castle were richly painted around 1240 with scenes including miracles of the Virgin Mary and St Edward the Confessor. From the fragmen...

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Alice Roberts@profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is an absolutely stunning piece of research and visualisation! Tracking letters from one merchant’s company in the 14th-15th century. He was trading spices from the eastern med and importing English wool into Tuscany. Click on the link for an interactive map!

Stephen Gadd@docuracy.co.uk · 3mo ago

✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa. Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality. docuracy.github.io/datini/ #DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory

A dark-themed interactive map of the medieval western Mediterranean showing 14th-century merchant letter routes as curved arcs coloured from cyan (fast, 0–5 days) through yellow to red (30+ days). Short land routes between Tuscan cities glow cyan; longer sea routes to Barcelona and Majorca burn orange and red, revealing the unpredictability of medieval maritime travel. (299 characters) Long (accessible description for screen readers / figure caption): Screenshot of the Datini Letters Geospatial Explorer in Travel Time mode. A dark basemap of the western Mediterranean is overlaid with curved arc lines connecting pairs of cities in the Datini merchant network. Arc colour encodes average letter delivery time on a gradient from cyan (near-instant, 0–5 days) through green and yellow (one to two weeks) to orange and deep red-magenta (more than 30 days). Dense clusters of fast cyan arcs radiate from Florence and Pisa across Tuscany, reflecting the reliable day-or-two land post. Arcs reaching westward to Barcelona, Valencia, and Palma de Majorca shift to orange and red, capturing the slower and far more variable sea routes that could take anywhere from a week to several months. City nodes are shown as circles: pink for the main Datini fondacos (Pisa, Florence, Barcelona, Genoa, Valencia, Majorca) and blue for correspondent cities. A sidebar on the left shows the Travel Time mode is selected, with a cyan-to-red colour legend and a filter slider for minimum letters per route.
Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · 4mo ago

so, fellow historians, this is a 12-alarm fire if "learn about history" is the top use of AI (related to the Humanities). this should be an all-hands-on-deck conversation with @historians.org and every history department to work K-16 to get us away from history as just "names and dates"

Rob Townsend@rbtownsend.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"less than half of Americans used artificial intelligence tools (AI) to perform each of a variety of common tasks, but a substantial minority used AI for some #humanities-related tasks" bit.ly/3Ojb6lX