Lisa Fagin Davis
@lisafdavis.bsky.social
Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
Thank you for your service, @fakehistoryhunter.net! #BlamePetrarch
In stead of sending a link to old threads every time someone uses the term "Dark Ages", I decided to put it all in an article.
Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”.
Read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/25/w...
or:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/why-most-h...
Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”.
Read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/25/w...
or:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/why-most-h...
Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”
This is not YET another article on why calling the early middle ages the dark ages is iffy, it’s a list of sources & references. These days most historians no longer use the term “D…
fakehistoryhunter.net
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Thank you for your service, @fakehistoryhunter.net! #BlamePetrarch
Tomorrow is #Voynich Day in my @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social Library Science class! Is 188 slides too many?
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Tomorrow is #Voynich Day in my @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social Library Science class! Is 188 slides too many?
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November 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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@monicamedhist.bsky.social for the win! This thread is pure awesomeness and a fantastic example of 1) #ImagingProblems 2) what can happen when we deign to imagine the possibility that medieval women (gasp) had thoughts and knowledge and wrote things!
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
@monicamedhist.bsky.social for the win! This thread is pure awesomeness and a fantastic example of 1) #ImagingProblems 2) what can happen when we deign to imagine the possibility that medieval women (gasp) had thoughts and knowledge and wrote things!
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November 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Here's the direct link: www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/teabreak/41
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Here's the direct link: www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/teabreak/41
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It’s part 2 of Matilda’s chat with expert paleographer Dr Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social over on Tea-break Archaeology, as we dive deeper into the fascinating research that has been done on the Voynich Manuscript.
November 19, 2025 at 6:36 AM
It’s part 2 of Matilda’s chat with expert paleographer Dr Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social over on Tea-break Archaeology, as we dive deeper into the fascinating research that has been done on the Voynich Manuscript.
My @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social Library Science students kicked off this year's final project today: studying and rebuilding this gorgeous fragmented manuscript known as The St. Alexius Hours!
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
My @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social Library Science students kicked off this year's final project today: studying and rebuilding this gorgeous fragmented manuscript known as The St. Alexius Hours!
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Due to a worldwide disruption of Cloudfare internet security services, the Medieval Academy website is currently down. We apologize for the inconvenience and will inform you when the service has been restored.
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Due to a worldwide disruption of Cloudfare internet security services, the Medieval Academy website is currently down. We apologize for the inconvenience and will inform you when the service has been restored.
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Eleven *sigh*... (I suppose I should be grateful that the rate is down to slightly less than one per day in November)
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Incredibly cool stuff from my brother @danfagin.bsky.social in today's @nytimes.com: scientists can now track individual Monarchs as they migrate to Mexico! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Incredibly cool stuff from my brother @danfagin.bsky.social in today's @nytimes.com: scientists can now track individual Monarchs as they migrate to Mexico! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
Check it out! In addition to essays about digital paleography, non-invasive imaging techniques, and tracing the complex provenance of a Middle Eastern family collection, among others, here's my update to the list of scroll manuscripts of the Chronique Anonyme Universelle:
New issue of Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the @sims-mss.bsky.social Vol. 10, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55895 #openaccess @pennpress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @lisafdavis.bsky.social @borizzle.bsky.social @teachingcodex.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Check it out! In addition to essays about digital paleography, non-invasive imaging techniques, and tracing the complex provenance of a Middle Eastern family collection, among others, here's my update to the list of scroll manuscripts of the Chronique Anonyme Universelle:
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Eleven *sigh*... (I suppose I should be grateful that the rate is down to slightly less than one per day in November)
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November 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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JOB POSTING! 📚📜
Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience).
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience).
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
careers.yale.edu
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
JOB POSTING! 📚📜
Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience).
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience).
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
Here comes a true story about my great-great uncle Harry Byers in pre-statehood Oklahoma (likely 1880s), as written by my great-aunt Della in notes I received in the mail today from a distant relative (since I am, for my sins, the family archivist)...
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Here comes a true story about my great-great uncle Harry Byers in pre-statehood Oklahoma (likely 1880s), as written by my great-aunt Della in notes I received in the mail today from a distant relative (since I am, for my sins, the family archivist)...
Eleven *sigh*... (I suppose I should be grateful that the rate is down to slightly less than one per day in November)
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November 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Eleven *sigh*... (I suppose I should be grateful that the rate is down to slightly less than one per day in November)
Well, that explains it! lol
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Well, that explains it! lol
You meet all the best people at the Boston Antiquarian Book Fair! @book-historia.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
You meet all the best people at the Boston Antiquarian Book Fair! @book-historia.bsky.social
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I've received EIGHT #Voynich solutions in November alone. Can that pace be sustained? Stay tuned...
November 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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I've received EIGHT #Voynich solutions in November alone. Can that pace be sustained? Stay tuned...
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Reposted by Lisa Fagin Davis
Listen in to the latest episode of Tea-break Archaeology!
www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/teabreak/40
Featuring guest @lisafdavis.bsky.social
www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/teabreak/40
Featuring guest @lisafdavis.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Listen in to the latest episode of Tea-break Archaeology!
www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/teabreak/40
Featuring guest @lisafdavis.bsky.social
www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/teabreak/40
Featuring guest @lisafdavis.bsky.social
I had a great time speaking with Matilda Siebrecht about medieval manuscripts, European mss in North America, and of course my favorite manuscript (#Voynich)! Here's part 1 of our conversation: open.spotify.com/episode/60q1...
The Voynich Manuscript with Dr Lisa Fagin Davis (part 1) - Ep 40
open.spotify.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I had a great time speaking with Matilda Siebrecht about medieval manuscripts, European mss in North America, and of course my favorite manuscript (#Voynich)! Here's part 1 of our conversation: open.spotify.com/episode/60q1...
What a great find! As a paleographer, I can't help but observe that if this were French I would have dated the not-yet-Gothic script to the mid-12th century. In Norway, the transition from Romanesque to Gothic happens later, hence the tentative 13th-c. date. www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book
The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.
www.sciencenorway.no
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
What a great find! As a paleographer, I can't help but observe that if this were French I would have dated the not-yet-Gothic script to the mid-12th century. In Norway, the transition from Romanesque to Gothic happens later, hence the tentative 13th-c. date. www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...