Patrick R. Morgan
@patmorgan.bsky.social
Medieval legal historian at Caltech, Norman Sicily, Salerno, documents, institutions, UCLA PhD, amateur backpacker…Also Daje Roma, KTBFFH, go Halos
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I regret to inform you that I am going to start promoting my book on here. I do not regret to inform you that the press has given it a stunning cover.
The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants -- out next summer with Princeton University Press.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants -- out next summer with Princeton University Press.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Hobo
A panoramic history of America’s first climate migrants
press.princeton.edu
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I regret to inform you that I am going to start promoting my book on here. I do not regret to inform you that the press has given it a stunning cover.
The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants -- out next summer with Princeton University Press.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants -- out next summer with Princeton University Press.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
This is so so so crazy. Straight up white supremacy no chaser
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
This is so so so crazy. Straight up white supremacy no chaser
Getting an ILL book is like Christmas
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Getting an ILL book is like Christmas
Trump has absolutely NO ideology he doesn’t care about ANYthing. A weathervane in a windstorm. This meeting makes it very clear that he is not running his administration and someone else is in charge.
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Trump has absolutely NO ideology he doesn’t care about ANYthing. A weathervane in a windstorm. This meeting makes it very clear that he is not running his administration and someone else is in charge.
This sounds so awesome!
2-year position for a woman - could be a medievalist!
Marjorie McLean Oliver Post-Doctoral Fellowship – History of Classical and/or Medieval Europe. Deadline: January 15, 2026. #cdnhist @queenshistory.bsky.social cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This sounds so awesome!
Gosh these people really have a lot to say about how I should be living my life I thought this was a free country
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel:
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Gosh these people really have a lot to say about how I should be living my life I thought this was a free country
It's not the point of this (awesome) thread, but Salerno, as a city, deserves to be loved like the other big school towns (Bologna, Montpellier, Paris, etc). It's probably the most important city on the peninsula south of Rome in the twelfth century! It's a big, wealthy, vibrant, cosmopolitan place!
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 7:00 PM
It's not the point of this (awesome) thread, but Salerno, as a city, deserves to be loved like the other big school towns (Bologna, Montpellier, Paris, etc). It's probably the most important city on the peninsula south of Rome in the twelfth century! It's a big, wealthy, vibrant, cosmopolitan place!
Not the way I would choose for my work to become relevant, but, as any medieval legal historian will tell you, the reason you don't want to make extrajudicial violent retribution tantamount to justice is because the violence never ends where you want it to; revenge and feud keep on giving
I guess if this is what abolishing the carceral state looks like, I'm not really sure what the difference is between doing that and making every single living soul into a one-person carceral state.
November 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Not the way I would choose for my work to become relevant, but, as any medieval legal historian will tell you, the reason you don't want to make extrajudicial violent retribution tantamount to justice is because the violence never ends where you want it to; revenge and feud keep on giving
I literally turned on the Lewis and Clark one recently and felt physical relief in my body
men will watch every single ken burn’s documentary instead of going to therapy
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I literally turned on the Lewis and Clark one recently and felt physical relief in my body
They could also try praying in fact I implore them to look inward and pray
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
They could also try praying in fact I implore them to look inward and pray
They're really hitting this lie hard in the last few days. They got their talking points and off they go. It is only a compelling argument if you are extremely dumb so we'll see how it goes
HUD Secretary Scott Turner: "I want to get to the root: over 12 million illegal aliens came into our country, which has put a great strain on our housing supply and affordability."
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
They're really hitting this lie hard in the last few days. They got their talking points and off they go. It is only a compelling argument if you are extremely dumb so we'll see how it goes
I dunno it helps me feel better but then again JD is a cyborg, not a real boy, so it makes sense it doesn’t work for him
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I dunno it helps me feel better but then again JD is a cyborg, not a real boy, so it makes sense it doesn’t work for him
I who sat at Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead
And walked among the lowest of the dead
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I who sat at Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead
And walked among the lowest of the dead
The Grapes of Wrath, particularly the passage about “a child dying of pellagra must die because profit could not be taken from an orange.” It really jacked me up in a good way. Taught me what it means to be American
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The Grapes of Wrath, particularly the passage about “a child dying of pellagra must die because profit could not be taken from an orange.” It really jacked me up in a good way. Taught me what it means to be American
Both of the train operators on my A line trains today held the doors open for me as I ran to catch the train. People are nice
November 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Both of the train operators on my A line trains today held the doors open for me as I ran to catch the train. People are nice
The logical (and staggeringly stupid) endpoint of medical-bill-gofundmes
Trump: "We want a healthcare system where we pay the money to the people instead of the insurance companies. We're gonna be working on that very hard over the next short period of time. Where the people get the money. We're talking about trillions and trillions of dollars."
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The logical (and staggeringly stupid) endpoint of medical-bill-gofundmes
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Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
Exactly! The GOP WILL shoot the hostages AND now they know it works!! Insane
Caving now will teach Trump and Republicans that they can win any fight simply by threatening to cause terrible harm to regular people. no possible way that could have future adverse consequences
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Exactly! The GOP WILL shoot the hostages AND now they know it works!! Insane
Democrats will get no credit for this capitulation. Just like the public blamed Trump for the shutdown, they will credit him with opening the government. Democrats are playing checkers and Republicans are…starving, bankrupting, and kidnapping their constituents.
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Democrats will get no credit for this capitulation. Just like the public blamed Trump for the shutdown, they will credit him with opening the government. Democrats are playing checkers and Republicans are…starving, bankrupting, and kidnapping their constituents.
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods
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oops here is the gift link
Opinion | Trump Is an Albatross
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
oops here is the gift link
Feels like leadership to me, something liberals desperately need
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Feels like leadership to me, something liberals desperately need