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Chris Riedel

@medievalhistory.bsky.social

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Teaching medieval & ancient history at a SLAC in Michigan. Researches nostalgia. Lots of nerdy things. A greyhound named Malibu. Still mostly on Twitter, old handle @medievalhistory

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Endnotes are the devil.

Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, do we put quotation marks inside punctuation? If so I'm just going to move to Europe. There are lines I won't blur!

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently I can instead blame Europe.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 1d

That's why I'm confused! Thank you. Thought I was going crazy

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to blame my tenth-grade humanities teachers.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Why did I think in-text citations went after the period all this time? Did that used to be a thing?

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 1d

CONFERENCE: Always Here (SUNY Binghamton):

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CONFERENCE: Always Here | MEMOs

Binghamton University's Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies brings together those studying premodern non-binary gender, trans identities, & queerness

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 4d

I have made some, I just end up writing a bunch of specific comments anyway. They didn't end up saving me time. But I might pull one out to give to them.

Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 4d

I don't personally use rubrics but that probably would help here.

Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 4d

I went old school and asked for every student to bring in paper copies to share - partly so they have to comment without AI.

Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 4d

This is very helpful, thank you! I was only doing two each so as not to overload them, but I am also checking to see that they did the commenting.

Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 4d

That's very helpful, thank you!

Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 4d

I decided to add a peer-editing assignment to my first year seminar, but I've never done such an assignment before. Anyone here have experience and advice or tips to offer?

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 5d

She's a sweetie

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 7d

The eternal problem with satire is that many people, perhaps most people, will not understand it is satire. Sometimes including the author.
I feel like this could be applied to our political moment as well as our literature.

Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 7d

Meanwhile I don't think anyone has yet done Philip K Dick justice on film and I'm willing to accept it's just not possible to translate media with his work.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 7d

I mean I actually nostalgically love Starship Troopers because I read it at exactly the right (re:wrong) age and it recalls a really important time in my life, but I would never share it with a teenager myself. That shit warped me for a long time.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 7d

And bless his heart, subtlety is not Verhoeven's forte.

Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 7d

Absolutely. But that's also because Philip K Dick was writing a fascinating and nuanced satire that fundamentally questions what we can no is real, and not a book selling fascism to teenagers under the pretense of libertarianism.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 8d

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 8d

I have something good to share: my article "Æthelwold's Reform and Bede's History" will be published in the June 2027 issue of La Revue Bénédictine. That's the last thing I needed for tenure I delayed to this coming Spring, so it's a huge weight off my mind.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 12d

In some ways the thing I've most learned to appreciate from a decade of Trumpism is that a hypocrite failing to live up to their good ideals is a vastly superior option to someone completely lacking in good ideals at all.
Hyopcrites can potentially be shamed into doing better.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 12d

A healthy reminder that two opposed evils are never equally evil, that you usually won't get anywhere better by refusing both of them, and that a hypocrite still has a better potential for good than someone lacking good ideals to begin with.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you so much!

Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 13d

So my understanding is that most medieval scholars no longer believe in the historicity of the berserker myth, but I'm having trouble finding focused scholarship on the issue in English. Does anyone here have a good reference article to hand on the question?

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