Simon Thomas Parsons

@UoBrisHistory medieval historian, tinned seafood enthusiast. I'm interested in medieval historical traditions, orality, crusades, songs, gender, and pleasure

[Simon Thomas Parsons @_simonparsons]

@ANDictionary That's great - thanks for keeping me/us updated! Its absence if only for a few days reaffirms what an essential tool it is. Keep up the good work!

[Simon Thomas Parsons @_simonparsons]

@ANDictionary Hello! Is https://t.co/rSq3KIBdLz down? Myself and editing colleagues haven't been able to access it for much of the last week...

[Simon Thomas Parsons @_simonparsons]

🚨Looking for a fantastic book on the medieval epic? Well, we have not one but eight (and one in two volumes!), available direct from the Societe Rencesvals British Branch, from our new website https://t.co/Svn0Np57qY

[Joan Passey @JoanPassey]

Do you want a student-facing #UCURising strike explainer? Do I have a treat for you! This pamphlet explains what trade unions are, what they do, and why Higher Education staff are striking, while busting some common myths. PDF available here: https://t.co/svfZxiFiG6

["Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux]

One of the things in visual representations of the past, especially a 'fantastic' past (e.g. fantasy medieval Europe) is the tendency to skip over the period when mail was the dominant heavy armor, from roughly the second century BC to the 13th century AD.

So let's talk mail. 1/

[Simon Thomas Parsons @_simonparsons]

@DrShaunRCWalla1 @BristolUni @StirUni the gang!

[Simon Thomas Parsons @_simonparsons]

@GoingMedieval clicks and whistles are valid (me to my seminar students on Friday afternoon)

[milo edwards @Milo_Edwards]

there’s a lot of ukraine discourse today and i just think the problem with a lot of people’s positions is that they haven’t survived contact with reality but they’re persisting with them regardless (short thread)

[Simon Thomas Parsons @_simonparsons]

@willpooley Replying to all Hums staff with simply the cry laugh emoji is the most powerful British energy yet developed

[Simon Thomas Parsons @_simonparsons]

@GoingMedieval They're saying Catholicism isn't a religion, it's just hours and hours of footage of real people saying 'as I am now so will you be'. There's no explanation, just body after body returning to dust

[Simon Thomas Parsons @_simonparsons]

Is the Biblioteca Nacional de España manuscript page down for anyone else? (https://t.co/mX0on02yxb) @BNE_biblioteca

[Simon Thomas Parsons @_simonparsons]

Sheltering from the rain in Dorset at the lovely Saint Aldhelm's chapel, with 12th century groin vaults, a dramatic location on a cliff, and some seventeenth century graffiti. Perfectly tailored to make me happy, apparently

[Simon Thomas Parsons @_simonparsons]

Really shoulda used that brainstorming session to think of a name that isn't louis, lothar, charles, or pippin, am I right?

[Simon Thomas Parsons @_simonparsons]

Twelfth-century genealogical table giving extremely 'end of the whiteboard after a brainstorming session' vibes

[Simon Thomas Parsons @_simonparsons]

@AbbotsMedieval Adding in the Ides of each month to your Teams calendar just so you get the notifications

[CWU @CWUnews]

Wow - incredible.

With just 5 working days notice to mobilise 115,000 members across 1,500 workplaces for the second national ballot in a month we have absolutely smashed it again.

72.2% Turnout

98.7 % YES

Up the postal workers

[Simon Thomas Parsons @_simonparsons]

@andrewdbuck @HistoryRugby That's extremely kind, Andrew!

[Simon Thomas Parsons @_simonparsons]

It's here, finally! So glad to have my chapter Women at the Walls included in this fantastic and good-looking tome edited by the esteemed @andrewdbuck and Thomas Smith of @HistoryRugby Much reading of other chapters now to undertake...

[Simon Thomas Parsons @_simonparsons]

@LauraMorreale @andrewdbuck @HistoryRugby Thank you! Hope you're doing well :)

[Simon Thomas Parsons @_simonparsons]

@gvb1985 @andrewdbuck @HistoryRugby Thanks Gonzalo!

[Simon Thomas Parsons @_simonparsons]

@AbbotsMedieval @andrewdbuck @HistoryRugby there's still time, Ben