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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦
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Professor | Historian of crime, living standards, law and social control in Western Europe, 7th–13th centuries | Dog lover | Pasta addict. Background picture is of Nanaimo. Portrait is from the 14th-century Luttrell Psalter, BL Add MS 42130, f.201r.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · Apr 8
Strange men on golf courses distributing tariffs is no basis for a system of government. Bring back the women lying in ponds.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 21h
It‘s an issue here at VIU, too. In this case, the video of me singing wasn't a problem. But we do have issues with students recording lectures without permission.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 22h
I‘ve been sent the video. It’s been making the rounds. It’s…um…yeah…what you’d expect from me.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 3d
Sang Hollister's 'Popes in Rome & Avignon' song today in my medieval class. When I finished I looked up to see a student recording my butchering of the ditty. Can't wait for that to get out.

Bellow is a copy of the November 2004 UCLA History newsletter that includes selections from his repertoire.
A page from the November 2004 UCLA History Newsletter, which includes a picture and write up of Hollister and some of his songs. The song I sang was to the tune of Old MacDonald. The lyrics are: Popes in Rome and Avignon, e-i-e-i-o, One named Clement, one named John, e-i-e-i-o. With one pope here and the other pope there, and Here a pope, there a pope, everywhere a pope, pope. At Pisa back in fourteen nine, e-i-e-i-o, A Council thought they'd fix things fine, e-i-e-i-o. With one pope here and another pope there, and Here a pope, there a pope, everywhere a pope, pope. The churchmen said, "It's too absurd," e-i-e-i-o, "We'll fire them both and pick a third," e-i-e-i-o. So with two popes here and a third pope there, and Here a pope, there a pope, is there any hope? Nope! Three's a crowd, or so I've heard, e-i-e-i-ooo!
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 1d
Is this because I keep posting about the Jays?
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 1d
Tell me the Yankees deserved to lose without telling me they deserved to lose.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 1d
Habeas corpus is named after a chap named Bruce A. Scorpus from medieval England. He was unlawfully detained and, upon his release, his friend called out to him “Hey, B.A. Scorpus! How you doing?” Someone witnessing this thought he was speaking Latin and recorded it as “habeas corpus”. True story.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 2d
Two things:
1) saw a video of a dog riding a goat
2) learned cool facts about sloths
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 2d
Not all Yankee fans booed the Canadian national anthem, only the fans with no class. It’s difficult (for me, at least) not to group all fans together sometimes. But let’s try to give most Yankee fans the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are decent people.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 3d
Sang Hollister's 'Popes in Rome & Avignon' song today in my medieval class. When I finished I looked up to see a student recording my butchering of the ditty. Can't wait for that to get out.

Bellow is a copy of the November 2004 UCLA History newsletter that includes selections from his repertoire.
A page from the November 2004 UCLA History Newsletter, which includes a picture and write up of Hollister and some of his songs. The song I sang was to the tune of Old MacDonald. The lyrics are: Popes in Rome and Avignon, e-i-e-i-o, One named Clement, one named John, e-i-e-i-o. With one pope here and the other pope there, and Here a pope, there a pope, everywhere a pope, pope. At Pisa back in fourteen nine, e-i-e-i-o, A Council thought they'd fix things fine, e-i-e-i-o. With one pope here and another pope there, and Here a pope, there a pope, everywhere a pope, pope. The churchmen said, "It's too absurd," e-i-e-i-o, "We'll fire them both and pick a third," e-i-e-i-o. So with two popes here and a third pope there, and Here a pope, there a pope, is there any hope? Nope! Three's a crowd, or so I've heard, e-i-e-i-ooo!
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 3d
This is super cool!
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d
'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.
National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’
A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 3d
It’s so unfortunate that the Jays play their final game of the series at Yankee Stadium tomorrow. It would have been so much more enjoyable to watch them complete the sweep in Toronto.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 5d
@profgabriele.com
a blue jay perched on top of a snow covered ledge
ALT: a blue jay perched on top of a snow covered ledge
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 8d
To that I say: Bake ‘em away, Toys.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 8d
Putting Foot in Mouth 101:

(Foolishly and unintentionally) inform a friend that their MA funding application (to SSHRC) is older than the people using it as a model for the 2025/26 round of applications.
a dog is laying on the floor in a cage with a bowl of food in the background .
ALT: a dog is laying on the floor in a cage with a bowl of food in the background .
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 8d
a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is saying fine you win for now
ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is saying fine you win for now
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 9d
One more game against the Yankees, then we get to see the Red Sox play the Blue Jays.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 9d
This looks excellent.
Can’t wait for it to be released.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 10d
COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook.

"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"
The Public Scholar
A Practical Handbook
www.press.jhu.edu
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 10d
It’s a shame we have to wait till the Red Sox beat the Yankees before we see the Jays play again.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 10d
Professors,

Please keep in mind that many of your students probably work 24+ hours per week, and some even work full-time jobs. They might also have children and/or parents to care for.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 11d
This is fantastic news!
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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 11d
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 11d
What an amazing lineup.
I wish these were online, too!
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IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar @earliermiddleages.bsky.social · 11d
📣 The Earlier Middle Ages seminar @ihr.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Here's our autumn term schedule. First up is @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 8 October, giving the annual David Wilson Lecture (with @uclarchaeology.bsky.social). All welcome! Please sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Autumn 2025 schedule for the Institute of Historical Research's Earlier Middle Ages seminar. Full information available at https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/earlier-middle-ages
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 12d
The quickest way to finish an article is to start it. It also helps if you can stay away from social media, tv and the internet. And your cell phone. And other people. You should also fight urges to clean and organise spaces, and to cook big meals.

In other words, it’s difficult to finish articles.
A monk is seated, working on a manuscript. He is writing in a book and the writing appears to be horizontal lines.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 12d
Next week, my ”Criminals, Crime Scenes & Punishment in Medieval England” class @viuniversity.bsky.social is discussing Bruce O’Brien’s article “From Morðor to Murdrum: The Preconquest Origin and Norman Revival of the Murder Fine”. I’m a big fan of O’Brien’s work, so am looking forward to it.
The first page of Bruce O’Brien’s article, showing the first paragraph and title: “From Morðor to Murdrum: The Preconquest Origin and Norman Revival of the Murder Fine”.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 12d
My wife actually has a shirt that says that very thing.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 12d
Hilarious! The US ambassador basically said that because fewer Canadians want to travel to the US, the US is going to make it more difficult and more expensive for Canadians to travel to the US.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 13d
I haven't had one in over a decade.
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