Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈

Queer. Feminist. Medievalist. she/they. Author: Digital Codicology. Co-PI: ‘Always Here: a Queer+Trans Global Medieval Sourcebook.' Coiner of the #CaswellTest.

[Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈 @BridgetWhearty]

Digital Codicology's price in hardcover is steep ($80)

I'm sorry about that, and wish there were a cheaper paperback available! (Maybe in a few years, if sales are strong enough?)

In the meantime, you can get 20% off ($64) when you buy from SUP & use my author code: WHEARTY20

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

Something very, very exciting is happening @britishlibrary

Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, our new major exhibition, opens on 25 October

Get your tickets now, they're cheaper than #Oasis and more chance of encountering Margery Kempe 😉

https://t.co/yo0VERX2sy

[Library Path @LibraryPath]

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[George M Johnson Garçon @IamGMJohnson]

My book All Boys Aren’t Blue has had 7 criminal charges, and is virtually banned in all high school libraries in Texas, Florida, Georgia and Iowa (where an educator can go to jail for a year with a 1500 fine to give it to a “minor”)

Fight for the right to read

[Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈 @BridgetWhearty]

@book_historia I’m so glad he’s doing better 💜

[Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈 @BridgetWhearty]

@keri_thomas @hellohistoria Glorious!!!

[Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈 @BridgetWhearty]

~3 hrs after boarding, we’re (maybe?) about to leave. Ooof.

[Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈 @BridgetWhearty]

This article is about massive flight delays in Europe. But it’s definitely applicable to the US.

Recommended reading if you, like me, are currently sitting on the runway because (as the pilot is saying) understaffing in American air traffic control means your plane can’t launch

[Megan Ann Shields @MeganAnnShields]

Air traffic control issues risk disrupting summer travel, warn airlines https://t.co/26WndVWiNr

[Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈 @BridgetWhearty]

@heatherfro I’m really loving it 💜

It reminds me of the Twitter of yore 🥰

[Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈 @BridgetWhearty]

Got my first ‘that’s a very important manuscript, please make a detailed case for why you need to work with it and not the digital copy’ email back

And it’s throwing me for a loop!

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[Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈 @BridgetWhearty]

@cemhend Ok, so that’s quite comforting—because I do that too!

[C. E. M. Henderson @cemhend]

@BridgetWhearty Tell them you have important codicological questions and/or need to recheck the collation. It won’t be a lie!

[Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈 @BridgetWhearty]

@cemhend You’re right… but isn’t it funny how quickly we can forget our own good reasons in the face of even minor and totally reasonable questioning?!

[Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈 @BridgetWhearty]

@pykelets @malcolmjnoble Reading was interrupted by tornado warning, but I finished it up after — and it’s absolutely glorious!

Definitely useful for my research, and will play a central role in a new grad course I’m creating for spring

[Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈 @BridgetWhearty]

@pykelets @malcolmjnoble I’m at the top of pg 155 and can confidently say that so far ⭐️⭐️⭐️I ADORE IT⭐️⭐️⭐️

more precise fanning likely to follow

[Spycrafty @elegantfowl]

@BridgetWhearty @GabbyStorey Indeed - sometimes digital images are easier to read than originals (though I remember facsimiles of microfiche ... eek!). It's having both available that counts.

[Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈 @BridgetWhearty]

@elegantfowl @GabbyStorey Yes, precisely! They’re different objects with different accordances. They each make different things more or less visible. They are not precise surrogates or replacements.

[Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈 @BridgetWhearty]

@cathyhume No, it’s a library in Germany

But fingers crossed for us both!!

[Spycrafty @elegantfowl]

@BridgetWhearty @GabbyStorey Materiality - letterlocking, water damage, uninked writing, seal quality, digital flattening ... the list goes on ... it's not just about bookfondling (though that is part of it ...)

[Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈 @BridgetWhearty]

@elegantfowl @GabbyStorey Yes to damage and uninked writing!

Re digital flattening, absolutely true. I think there’s something to be said about the kindle-ization of rare books and mss—but in some good as well as bad materiality-flattening ways.

[Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈 @BridgetWhearty]

@heathertweed @GabbyStorey Mmm, it’s parchment — so no watermarks. But the quality and thickness/pliableness is definitely part of what I’m curious about. And the ink quality is key!

(I hear you about surreptitious eye-dabbing!)

[Heather Tweed @heathertweed]

@BridgetWhearty @GabbyStorey Would suggest you need to examine the paper stock, ink qualities etc? Clues to watermarks?
I’ll never forget my tactile connection with the past when unfolding a pack of previously unread ordination papers & letters. Had to surreptitiously dab my eyes! 🥲😃

[Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈 @BridgetWhearty]

@DocMed_Knee_val I won’t literally snort your priceless ms. I promise… now can I?!

[Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈 @BridgetWhearty]

@DocMed_Knee_val Precisely. And by faceplant I mean, put my face very close. I won’t actually put my nose on it!