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ClaireFromClare

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Interested in the life, times & legacy of Elizabeth de Burgh, #LadyOfClare - the remarkable #14thCentury patron of #ClareCollege at #CambridgeUniversity in England.
Likes #medievodons, happy to be searchable.

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oysteib, to random
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596 years ago today, Hanseatic cities of Northern Germany retained the services of the privateer captain Bartholomeus Voet, his nine ships and 300 men. With dire consequences for my hometown, Bergen - but also to great annoyance for themselves.

A thread:

The Hansa and the Nordic countries were the best of frenemies at this time. The Hansa traded extensively with the Nordics and often waged war as well, typically allying with one Nordic country against another...

ClaireFromClare,
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@oysteib Thanks for fascinating story & great images!
@medievodons

ClaireFromClare, to medievodons
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"Cambridge is probably the most intensively dug city in the country" (UK). Recent archaeology has informed a long-awaited map showing some of the layers: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-67497550

The is showing glimpses in its "Advent Calendar": https://nitter.net/hist_towns

Earlier maps of the street names & hostels, context & snapshot c.1800 are on the HTT website at https://www.historictownstrust.uk/towns/cambridge

@medievodons @histodons

ClaireFromClare, to medievodons
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6 Dec is the Feast of #StNicholas, patron saint of children. It was celebrated in medieval England with the appointment of a #BoyBishop, empowered to give orders & sermons & distribute largesse to the poor - a focus for festivities & frivolities, at Clare Castle as elsewhere. The #tradition was suppressed by Henry VIII, but survives... https://www.liturgicalartsjournal.com/2021/01/customs-and-traditions-boy-bishop.html
🧵 1/4 #medieval #feast #LadyOfClare @medievodons @histodons

ClaireFromClare, to litstudies
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Article on Professor in 's CAM magazine: https://magazine.alumni.cam.ac.uk/henry-louis-gates-jr/

@africanstudies @litstudies

medievalists, to random
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Steve Tibble explores the Templars working for King John.

https://www.medievalists.net/2023/12/templars-military-consultants/

ClaireFromClare,
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@medievalists
article!

including this splendid image of holding a model of abbey.

Legend says that he founded it after a quarrel with the order & subsequent nightmare of being beaten by monks. Gratitude & prayers ensued!

🎨 by from the , MS Royal 14 C VII, f.9r.

@medievodons @histodons

26aafa19, to random
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I saw this on Hackernews and I thought it was cool: https://hackaday.com/2023/01/13/a-medieval-gothic-monastery-built-using-cad-cam/

ClaireFromClare,
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@26aafa19 Great story!
"Since stone carving & installation were the most expensive items for the overall project, the monks decided to tackle that job themselves. This meant learning the whole CNC stone-carving workflow, all about stone cutting machinery, operating CNC machines, CAD modelling, CAM programming, stone masonry & construction techniques...
not without a few disasters..."

@StoneCarving @medievodons

ClaireFromClare, to histodons
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Interesting research on textile dyes in medieval Estonia:
https://news.err.ee/1609119521/early-medieval-estonia-s-favorite-color-was-blackish-blue
& the use of local plants / lichen mixed with the woad, which was not the local variety but traded & widely cultivated across Europe from the . 🧵 1/3

@histodons

yvonne, to random
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Come for the picture of the very old compass, stay for the picture of the equally old and partially mummified rats.

https://rte.social.ebu.io/KWW5GT9YTI

ClaireFromClare,
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@yvonne A great teaser - but the link seems strangely temperamental (dislikes some browsers?)

Here are two articles from on this very interesting , caulked with animal fur, & what the rats may yet tell us:
https://news.err.ee/1609172593/europe-s-oldest-compass-found-in-lootsi-wreck-even-older-cog-still-underground
https://news.err.ee/1608982829/medieval-shipwreck-discovered-in-tallinn-continues-to-confound-the-experts

@medievodons @histodons

projectseahorse, to random
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#DYK that the IUCN SSC Seahorse, Pipefish & Seadragon Specialist Group (SPS SG) is dedicated to the conservation of seahorses, pipefishes, pipehorses and seadragons— as well as related species such as trumpetfishes, cornetfishes, and shrimpfishes?

Project Seahorse is the host for this specialist group, and our director, Prof. Amanda Vincent, is it's Chair.

Learn more here: https://www.iucn-seahorse.org/

ClaireFromClare,
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@projectseahorse I’d never even heard of snipefish & bellowfish! & just spent a happy couple of hours browsing the species profiles for your wonderfully diverse families:
https://www.iucn-seahorse.org/our-species

#seahorse #pipefish #SeaDragon #TrumpetFish #QuirkyFish #fish #biodiversity @biodiversity

ClaireFromClare,
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@projectseahorse I found the whole website very interesting, a great introduction to the work of an #IUCN #SpecialistGroup - & I enjoyed the glorious images scattered throughout.
This may be the first IUCN entity officially represented on the Fediverse; may others follow! Meanwhile I appreciate the gorgeous photo stream of #EndangeredSpecies from @redlist & look forward to more portraits of #QuirkyFish.

#MarineBiology #conservation @biodiversity @conservation @FediFollows

ClaireFromClare,
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@projectseahorse I’m very glad to learn of the Global #Biodiversity Information Facility (#GBIF), what a resource! & then to discover they’re here on Mastodon: @gbif

@biodiversity @conservation @FediFollows

projectseahorse, to random
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On behalf of MPhilCL...😃

Three weeks until applications close for the University of Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership 2024.
Taught in partnership with the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

Deadline 5 December 2023

https://bit.ly/mcl2024

#Masters #Conservation #Leadership

ClaireFromClare,
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@projectseahorse The 1-year Masters in from is a great programme. I’ve been impressed by the calibre & global reach of alumni, including your colleagues at . Here’s to the 15th intake!
Anyone from this network here on the Fediverse?
@biodiversity @conservation

SJLahey, to medievodons
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Pay attention! This is the important bit—right here.

@bookhistodons @medievodons

ClaireFromClare,
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@SJLahey
That works!
& now that you've got our attention -
what does that passage say?
@bookhistodons @medievodons

TuijaAinonen, to medievodons
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'Vespertiliones' from the Peterborough Psalter and Bestiary

Happy Halloween

c. 1300
CCCC MS 53, f. 202r
https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/canvas-cafa66712e22327816ef2c2bfce5bd50
@medievodons

ClaireFromClare,
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@TuijaAinonen So many delights on that page-spread:
@medievodons do click through!
#hawk #partridge #nightingale #BabyBirds #bats #mermaid #MedievalShip #14thCentury #bestiary #ParkerLibrary

Instrument_Data, to random Italian

British Library digitizes its entire Chaucer manuscript collection - Medievalists.net

https://www.medievalists.net/2023/10/british-library-digitizes-its-entire-chaucer-manuscript-collection/

The British Library has made available online its entire collection of manuscripts related to Geoffrey Chaucer. Users can now freely access over 60 items, which include many versions of The Canterbury Tales.

ClaireFromClare,
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@Instrument_Data Adding a direct link to the announcement, since it has delightful images from the Chaucer manuscripts & early printed books: https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2023/10/chaucers-works-go-online.html

Here's depicted in the initial "W" of the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales: "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote..." from Lansdowne MS 851, c.1410.

@medievodons @bookstodon

ClaireFromClare, to medievodons
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@medievodons, does anyone know about in England? I read that a coveted royal licence of 'free warren' was required to keep & hunt rabbits. However, the accounts of the record in 1338/9 the receipt of rabbits from various manors which had no such licence. More details available but... would the rabbits have been caught legally? on what terms? or domesticated? Thoughts welcome!

ClaireFromClare,
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🐰 Some of my rabbit questions have been answered! & now I will look out for pillow mounds in the archaeological landscape, & recognise them in medieval manuscripts, thanks to this article by Haydn Brown: https://norfolktalesmyths.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/the-rabbit-in-east-anglia-revisited/
& its main source, the linked paper by Mark Bailey, 'The Rabbit and the Medieval East Anglian Economy'. Good reading! 🕳️ 🐇

@medievodons

ANDictionary, to random
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𝙒𝙊𝙏𝘿: 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘳, v., to explain, comment (upon), interpret.
"Es livres ke jadis feseient, Assez oscurement diseient Pur ceus ki a venir esteint E ki aprendre les deveient, K’i peussent gloser la lettre E de lur sen le surplus mettre" 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗶𝘀 Prologue 13-16
(𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮, 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘥𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦)

ClaireFromClare,
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@ANDictionary Such an interesting excerpt, & image, thank you! It took me a while to find the manuscript on the Gallica site, so here's the whole page & context for anyone else interested: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10022504n/f193.item.r=Fran%C3%A7ais%202173 - bonus image!

#13thCentury #manuscript #MarieDeFrance #chicken #fables #Gallica #BNF @nevertwhere @medievodons

projectseahorse, to random
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One of our initiatives to "save " is our project - iSeahorse. This October we celebrate it's 10th Anniversary 😃

Read more about it here: https://projectseahorse.org/iseahorse-celebrates-10-years-of-seahorse-community-science/

ClaireFromClare,
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to the Fediverse @projectseahorse!
I have a sighting for , recorded a while ago... have you seen any of these recently?

@medievodons @histodons - any other favourite historic ?

https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8797&CollID=8&NStart=4751

Harley 4751, f.68r

ClaireFromClare, to bookstodon
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Thinking of thanks to the splendid , I'm delighted to see that the are on sale again. These evocative by are set in 1353-4, the adventures of a young proprietor as life & business began to normalise after the .
Buy from https://www.hive.co.uk/Search/Search?Series=Oxford%20Medieval%20Mysteries & support your favourite , so that they too may live to write a 's Tale!
@medievodons @bookstodon

ClaireFromClare,
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Edited the previous post (apologies), as the image was not rendering properly in some browsers. : Do shallow aspect ratios cause problems? I resized it to 16x9.

I was keen to show the paperbacks, with cover designs by https://www.jdsmith-design.co.uk/, evoking .

ClaireFromClare,
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Bless @internetarchive for saving the interesting website of the late , to which she was adding until her sudden death in August 2018. Here's her introduction to & to the business of the , supplying both affordable to students & fine illustrated to wealthy patrons:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180825032105/http://annswinfen.com/2018/07/medieval-books-part-one/

@bookstodons @medievodons @histodons

manuel_kamenzin, to medievodons German
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Sophie Caflisch: Spielend lernen Spiel und Spielen in der mittelalterlichen Bildung (Vorträge u. Forschungen. SB 58), Stuttgart 2018.

Link: https://doi.org/10.11588/vuf-sb.2015.57 @medievodons

ClaireFromClare,
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@matz Thanks for the link to this German-language book on the importance of play in education - which identifies the cover image as
The , New York, Cod. M 456, fol. 68v


@medievodons @manuel_kamenzin

ClaireFromClare, to histodons
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Hooray, welcome to @BHO 🎺 📯 📢

"British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the British Isles. Part of the Institute of Historical Research." www.british-history.ac.uk
🐘 🐘 🐘
@histodons

dancingtreefrog, to random
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Young male college students + booze + sex = murder

Students made Oxford the murder capital of late medieval England, research suggests

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-students-oxford-capital-late-medieval.html

> A project mapping medieval England's known murder cases has now added Oxford and York to its street plan of London's 14th century slayings, and found that Oxford's student population was by far the most lethally violent of all social or professional groups in any of the three cities.

ClaireFromClare,
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Thanks @dancingtreefrog - the new website is a delight! Interactive descriptions of each incident from the , plus wonderfully clear & informative posts on life.
🙏 to the authors for wonderful imagery, & careful inclusion of source refs.
https://medievalmurdermap.co.uk/blog/

@medievodons @histodons

ClaireFromClare,
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@dancingtreefrog These are based on those of the which also has an excellent new website. Here's the HTT post: https://www.historictownstrust.uk/post/mapping-medieval-murders

Terrific material for a , , or !

@medievodons @histodons

ClaireFromClare,
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residents & alumni, what are your favourite aspects of your ? Any quirks to highlight after seeing the , or the new overlay from ? Ghostly, evocative, thoughts on green space & a ?
https://medievalmurdermap.co.uk/maps/oxford/?t=%5B%22homicide%22%5D

@trishgreenhalgh @HLaehnemann @OxMedStud @dancingtreefrog @medievodons @histodons

bloggingjulia, to random
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Are there any other academics from the medieval studies field around here? I was wondering because most of the people here seem to be from the tech field.

Would love to connect with other academics.

ClaireFromClare,
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@taoish Mark, I think you mean @medievodons with an "s" - much more active than the singular version!
(Maybe good to edit your post so as not to divert anyone into a fork?)
@bloggingjulia Yes lots of great historians here: welcome!

magdelenehall, to random German
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A smoking quill? Notes in Bible margin could be handwriting of the Venerable Bede
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/16/bible-margin-father-english-history-venerable-bede-manuscript?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

ClaireFromClare,
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@magdelenehall Amazing discoveries, thank you for highlighting! I've just ordered Michelle Brown's book, due out 1 Oct: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/bede-and-the-theory-of-everything

@histodons @bookstodon

BenjaminHCCarr, to random
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Some May Have Been Wiped Out by
A study of hundreds of specimens from European digs found two of that are no longer present in the continent’s waters.
https://archive.ph/w1MqJ

ClaireFromClare,
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@BenjaminHCCarr Thanks for highlighting this analysis suggesting widespread consumption of gray & right - & the interesting , the of 1539, with its splendid illustrations of a wide range of & their diverse tactics for dealing with aggressive seafarers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carta_marina
@medievodons @histodons

ClaireFromClare, to medievodons
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The great fair at outside (https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-800-year-old-story-of-stourbridge-fair) was commemorated last weekend at the with dancing, singing, storytelling & craft stalls.

The accounts of the record purchases there over the years: salt, often; also furs & lambskins; smoked herring, cod & stockfish; rice & almonds. were bought in great quantity, used by the pastry chef from Paris & to indulge the pet .

@medievodons @histodons

greenleejw, to random
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In medieval London, everyone from kings to peasants ate eels. But by the 19th C eels had largely become a street food.

In 1851, London imported 9.8 million live eels per year (mostly from Holland). 70% went to street vendors selling hot buttered eels in poorer parts of the city.
#eels #medieval #history #london

ClaireFromClare,
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@meerlala Indeed! I wonder why the rich ceased to enjoy eating in the - snobbery presumably?

& it is shocking how many foods then cheap enough for everyman have become .

🙏 @greenleejw for your fascinating insights into both history & ecological change - & your usual !

https://www.zsl.org/what-we-do/projects/european-eel-conservation

@histodons

SamYourEyes, to random
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Someone told their AI writer not to sound like an AI 😂😂
https://thegardenfixes.com/how-to-build-a-greenhouse-for-high-winds/

ClaireFromClare,
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@fskornia thanks for saving the ! @internetarchive has a growing collection at https://archive.org/details/manuals & requests uploads. There are some good things about today's internet! Let's support both physical & digital , & the conscientious who will defend authentic info!

@CodexArcanum @carey @SamYourEyes @Eloquent_Vogon @librarians @bookstodon

oldbookillustrations, to random
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Soldier with shield and sword.
From "Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français..." vol. 5 written & illustrated by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Paris: 1874 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/bascinet-jupon/

ClaireFromClare,
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@oldbookillustrations Does the book identify this knight of late carrying a shield with 3 chevrons?
@medievodons @histodons

konrad, to random
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I posted the August, 1941 issue of Contemporary Japan to Internet Archive over a year ago.

August, 1941
https://archive.org/details/contemporary-japan-august-1941/mode/1up

I wrote up a thread about the issue here back when I was on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/kmlawson/status/1515657267798020097

I'll repost that thread below to preserve here:

ClaireFromClare,
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Thanks @konrad foe posting, & @internetarchive for preserving, these interesting perspectives on Japan, the US & China, published four months before Japan's attack on .
@histodons

greenleejw, to random
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Some dating advice, friends: mind your eel.

The 16th C composer Thomas Whythorne wrote that maids go for looks, but widows have...um...other priorities. To court an experienced woman, he said, you "must not carry quick eels in your codpiece, but show some proof of being stiff." #eels #history #medieval #datingadvice

ClaireFromClare,
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Follow @greenleejw for #GreatAltText as well as #eel #history - one for you @FediFollows?
(*Also to marvel at the historic importance of #eels & lament how few survive nowadays...)
#AltText #SpeciesDecline @histodons

clive, to random
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Amazon is crawling with travel guides written by AI -- vague, crappy, and pushed up in search results by astroturfed fake five-star reviews: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/travel/amazon-guidebooks-artificial-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=Gmcb6fkRXSAX7JUdbTpFyhH1lSBWBcI0RuiXgcku3gVTdQV7s_SPvl1tKw76F_txTehAmHdU0bZ3PUoPyH0h-dybeb8_bGL7UzysZynt-SFcx9yByC4wr37_65cVodjr_Z-sRcqUfioeOsUAKJpEECejhG2SlL4jPCoaBG8PFnu_YLKDXA0hkzvhrJnGuD5kw59N8Bz7T7D7UOeJXLkowJnnoB6IDt6bHn6XiBvlH--t6M_9xmGCkNlYdtiiScdbS3ebGG5C3xKkCxwacaT96yLi9NK5dx9YHwhHSPdoVJPqslvVGAwQFvpSQvDvgHZGOFxW09EeUVAHYZl6uI-aSYS0_UfYhcXjDi6J2-M1oFlpWg&smid=url-share

That's a "gift" link so you don't need to be a New York Times subscriber to read it

It's a great investigation, and highlights the real problem, which is ...

... unsurprisingly by now, Amazon seemingly does little-to-nothing to stop this

The site is just soiled top to bottom with fake crap in every category

ClaireFromClare,
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@CandaceRobbAuthor @clive Agree! For delivery of books & music in the UK there's also www.hive.co.uk
My current favourite loves Hive.The is tiny, with very high danger-to-size ratio, & has made as much money through nominations on Hive as on direct sales. Hive is run by Gardners the big UK book distributor. If you can pick up in the shop, it earns 25%.

@bookstodon

ClaireFromClare,
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@CandaceRobbAuthor @clive Thanks to @bigbeardedbookseller for listing #IndependentBookshops at http://www.indiebookshops.com
Many listings already for UK & Ireland, & I love the ambition to cover the rest of the world. Readers in #India #Malaysia #Myannmar #SriLanka, let's add favourite #IndieBookshops to the list! & then invite them to tell us more, by engaging with the interesting questionnaire?
#books #bookstodon @bookstodon

Forest_Jungle_Collective, to random
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with the surviving medieval wall paintings at St Johns Duxford,

Worn depiction of two bishops
the surviving red hues of the painting of the norman chancel arch
floral embelishment fragment surviving on the white plaster

ClaireFromClare,
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@duxfordstjohns Your #wallpaintings look amazing - would you care to tell us more about them please? Dates etc?
@medievodons experts do chip in?
@Forest_Jungle_Collective Thanks for highlighting & alt-text!

EdwardOvercoat, to random
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The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources

A few minutes ago I learned of a marvellous project to create the Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources (DMNES). This is under development, although a lot now exists, but a blog is available, and is itself a rather wonderful thing:

The dictionary aims to contain all given (fore, Christian) names...

https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2023/07/28/the-dictionary-of-medieval-names-from-european-sources/

#DMNES #Medieval Names

ClaireFromClare,
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@EdwardOvercoat What a huge & wonderful project!
& very deep rabbit hole 🕳️ 🐇
on the origins, spelling & popularity of names. Such interesting variations & influences!
@medievodons

ClaireFromClare, to histodons
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New archaeological investigation & early finds at the beautiful on the , in conjunction with a 5-year conservation programme (🧵 1/2):
https://www.medievalists.net/2023/07/preserve-tintern-abbey/

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A joy to be at Clare College to unveil the stone sculpture of the 1359 seal - greatly enlarged for visibility! Wonderful workmanship by Cardozo Kindersley Workshop, http://kindersleyworkshop.co.uk

Iconographic key & more at https://barnes1.net/seal/

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The medieval seal, with numbered key to the iconography. For the text to match the numbers, please look up the website. Can you see 14 people, 5 lions, 2 castles, an eagle and a lamb? The original silver masterpiece is 6cm high.

ClaireFromClare,
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The seal, first used in 1359, is "an extraordinary depiction of female vision, & female faith in the importance of education, & a woman's power & ability to accomplish that vision... We have one of the world's greatest stonecutters a mile up the road, who also happens to be a woman."
Informative & entertaining talks by Jackie Tasioulas, & Lida & Roxanne Kindersley, preceded the unveiling of the sculpture, & are online at https://stories.clare.cam.ac.uk/unveiling-of-lady-clares-seal/
#LadyOfClare #StoneCarving #ClareCollege

ClaireFromClare,
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Lida the alphabetician spoke of choices in . Roxanne noted the architectural parallels with , demonstrated the , & explained other challenges for . And then the unveiling!
📹 35min in total, https://stories.clare.cam.ac.uk/unveiling-of-lady-clares-seal/

Roxanne comparing the architecture of the canopy with that of contemporary Ely Cathedral.
Roxanne demonstrating the confident stance and Gothic Sway
Roxanne & Lida awaiting unveiling.

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In 2020 we published a 2nd edition of the definitive biography of the - & then we learned more about the evolution of her heraldic & visual identity. New insights came from archaeology, from archives, & from drawing & carving which brought details from hands to eyes. Two books now available at : booksites https://barnes1.net/FHGE/ & https://barnes1.net/seal/

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An assortment of some very adorable hedgehogs from illuminated manuscripts, mostly dating from the 14th and 15th c.

Snails and rabbits get a lot of attention, but personally I love the hedgehog. Especially the ones with stuff on their spines.

A standing hedgehog beside a tree, looking left.
A hedgehog, curled up, with a sublet smile. He’s facing right but looking left.

ClaireFromClare,
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@natania Have you seen this explanation of why a might have grapes on its spine? From the , one of my favourite webpages ever.
https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2014/10/how-to-be-a-hedgehog.html
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ClaireFromClare,
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@RichardIIISociety So glad you liked the - I never tire of rewatching! 🦔 🍇 🤣 @natania

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Once upon a time there were two princes... 'William and the Werewolf' was translated from French into Middle English c.1350, then into modern English & illustrated by Michael Smith. He's his new book publication with @Unbound, and needs only a few more subscribers for the press to start rolling...
https://unbound.com/books/werewolf/updates/william-and-the-werewolf-where-was-it-written-and-what-does-it-tell-us-about-who-wrote-it
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ClaireFromClare,
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All of the images for 'William and the Werewolf', cut & then two days ago printed by Michael Smith, to accompany his new translation. Looking forward to the finished book!
The previous update discusses the process: https://unbound.com/books/werewolf/updates/illustrating-william-and-the-werewolf-my-work-in-bringing-you-a-book-to-treasure

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The wine-trading , which sank in the c.1469, has just returned to - in 2,500 pieces, after in Portsmouth by the team. Now to find a site for reassembly & display of this great future tourist attraction! Superb storytelling & imagery in the 3 min video at https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-64151535

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ClaireFromClare,
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"More than 500 years underground, gone through cleaning, conservation, soaked in wax and freeze-dried - and yet these isotope signatures are still in the timbers... vessels and timber structures that previously didn't date with traditional ring dendrochronology can now potentially be dated with oxygen isotope or stable isotope dendrochronology."
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-67302907
H/T @iuculano
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