We discovered Thomas Cromwell’s Book of Hours…and it’s the book painted on Cromwell’s desk by Hans Holbein the Younger in his famous portrait of Cromwell!! @hevercastle@DrOwenEmmerson
Solving a 500 year old mystery - A THREAD (1/9)
Saddened by the loss of my brilliant teacher, Monika Otter. A precise scholar and just a lovely person. It won’t be the same to be a medieval Latinist without her. https://t.co/40W2QCtVxp
Exciting news: one of the three partial copies of Wyclif’s Postilla on the Old Testament – long neglected by almost everyone except @hermitofhampole – will soon be digitized as part of a project under way at St John’s College, Oxford. https://t.co/8wLMkK2akQ
Cover reveal: Jonathan Kramnick's "Criticism & Truth"--on the fine arts of close reading and quoting well--coming this Fall in the Thinking Literature series @UChicagoPress https://t.co/YeybGewZ3q
Thanks to this month's podcast guest, @hermitofhampole, for revisiting the wondeful Richard Rolle (d. 1349). We talk translation, spontaneous verse, celestial song, and the engagement of the whole person in mystical experience.
On any podcast app of at https://t.co/efJ88Fsq9X
Worried that technology is ‘breaking your brain’? Fears about attention spans and focus are as old as writing itself @joestadolnik https://t.co/sFnHpADDh4
universities: “we can’t afford new tenure-track hires”
also universities: “we are proud to welcome 3 new HR coordinators and 6 additions to our public relations team!”
I’m running weekly scholastic Latin reading classes again this term, and I have two spare places at the “easy” level (Mon 2–3pm GMT, 6 Feb–27 Mar) and one at the “moderate” level (Wed 11am–12, 8 Feb–29 Mar). Eight weeks, £20/week (£15 hardship). DM if interested. #medievaltwitter
Traditio 77 (2022) has arrived, our longest issue yet! 6/7 articles are Open Access on Cambridge Core. Thanks to the contributing authors, my editorial team, and the graduate assistants, all of whom are essential for the publication of our journal. @FordhamNYC@CambridgeUP
We are delighted to announce our upcoming interdisciplinary seminar series at @ChCh_Oxford with talks by @TEFranklinos, @MiriERubin, Alastair Minnis, and Jiani Sun. Do join us!
New publication: "Byzantine Commentaries on Ancient Greek Texts, 12th–15th Centuries" edited by Baukje van den Berg, Divna Manolova, Przemysław Marciniak with contributions by Aglae Pizzone and Valeria Lovato
https://t.co/1jYeaMPGEH