J. Lopatin

PhD candidate at IU-Bloomington, medievalist, working on mad prophets in the woods

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

Manye people do questioun the use of Daylighte Savinges Tyme but then also we kan expand thys to questioun the usefulness of tyme itself.

[J. Lopatin @amanticdispo]

@KerstiFrancis Whoooo!!! 👏👏👏

[Owen Davies @odavies9]

Witchcraft paintings. One of the more interesting 17thC depictions of witchcraft. No hag-like witches. Two respectable Dutch women learning witchcraft from books. David Teniers the Younger, "Witches’ Initiation." Oil on wood. 1647-1649. Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien.

[J. Lopatin @amanticdispo]

Excited to present at #mla23 this Friday!

[Old English Wordhord @OEWordhord]

#OldEnglish #WOTD: scop, m.n: poet. (SHOP / ˈʃɔp) Image: Maastricht Hours; Liège, early 14th century; @BLMedieval Stowe MS 17, f. 92v.

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

You bettir nat pout,
You bettir nat crye;
Do not borrowe beltes
And aftirwardes lie -
The Grene Knighte
Ys riding
To court

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

WHAN THAT APRILLE WITH HYS SHOURES SOOTE THE DROGHTE OF MARCHE HATH PERCED TO THE ROOTE AND BATHED EVERYE VEYNE YN SWICH LICOUR OF WHICH VERTÚ ENGENDRID YS THE FLOURE WHAN ZEPHIRUS EEK

[J. Lopatin @amanticdispo]

@readerofdragons You inspire me so much--as a scholar (and baker and dog mom), and even more as an educator! I still fondly remember working on your TS and listening to your overt passion for your pedagogy--no wonder you won the Culbertson! You lift up & lead the way for so many!

[Emily Steiner @PiersatPenn]

“The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails." - Merlin

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

It ys Wednesdaye my felawes

[William Shakespeare @Wwm_Shakespeare]

This is my birthday

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

Being vaccinated doth NOT meane that ye kan crosse the Sword Bridge ynto the faerye land of Gorre to challenge the famouslye treacherous knighte Sir Meleagant

[SparkNotes @SparkNotes]

In solidarity with Shakespeare's fools I, too, will be wearing funny hats, constantly pointing out other people's flaws, and possessing a surprisingly astute grasp of mankind's folly

[Axel Folio, PhD, White Tears Distiller 🪁 @ISASaxonists]

Sorry everyone. I know it's been a week.

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

Anon may the Wellerman come
For to bringen us sugar and tea and rum
Oon daye whan the tounging ys done
We wil taken ower leave and wenden

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

Ye bettir nat pout,
Ye bettir nat crye,
Ye sholde nat borrowe beltes
And aftirwardes lie:
The Green Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Towne!

[Ali A Olomi @aaolomi]

Every few hundred years, Jupiter and Saturn meet in a Great Conjunction. For medieval Muslim astrologers the cycles would represent the rise and fall of empires, the coming of messiahs, and foretell the apocalypse.

The next conjunction is December 20th 2020.

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