Winston Black
@winstonblack.bsky.social
Gatto Chair of Christian Studies, StFX, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
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Studying: Medieval Healing Traditions, Pharmacy, Manuscripts, Black Death, Medievalism.
Dad to 2 mini-mes, 2 cats. Playing piano, MTG, D&D
https://hcommons.org/members/secondweb/
Studying: Medieval Healing Traditions, Pharmacy, Manuscripts, Black Death, Medievalism.
Dad to 2 mini-mes, 2 cats. Playing piano, MTG, D&D
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Winston Black
@winstonblack.bsky.social
· Oct 16
New book! So pleased to get my author copies of our edition, translation, and study of Gregorio Dati's "La Sfera", a fifteenth-century Florentine poem on cosmology and geography.
This was the brainchild of the unstoppable Carrie Beneš.
It's profusely illustrated and will be great for students.
This was the brainchild of the unstoppable Carrie Beneš.
It's profusely illustrated and will be great for students.
“I Want to Break Freeze” is pure genius.
It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴❄️🧊
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“I Want to Break Freeze” is pure genius.
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I am very pleased and grateful to share this announcement of our recent award from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social for a project on history of smallpox and measles #histmed #histsci news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... The project will be based @exeter.ac.uk @cceh-u24.bsky.social led by ... 1/2
Exeter scholars secure significant research funding to investigate the early history of Smallpox and Measles
The early histories of smallpox and measles – and the insight they might offer to contemporary health and medicine – will be under the microscope of a new research project. Pustules, Palaeogenetics an...
news.exeter.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I am very pleased and grateful to share this announcement of our recent award from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social for a project on history of smallpox and measles #histmed #histsci news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... The project will be based @exeter.ac.uk @cceh-u24.bsky.social led by ... 1/2
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Are you interested in how people thought about the past in Middle Ages? Want to understand the books they wrote about it? We have an online short course for you! Book now for January 2026 👇 #MedievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...
Writing History c. 1000-1250: An Introduction to the Manuscript Sources – a short course taught by Charlie Rozier, Manuel Muñoz García and Laura Cleaver
The course will run online from 14:00-17:00: Monday 26 January – Thursday 29 January 2026. The past was a popular subject for writers in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries, partic…
palaeography.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Are you interested in how people thought about the past in Middle Ages? Want to understand the books they wrote about it? We have an online short course for you! Book now for January 2026 👇 #MedievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...
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How have books shaped the way we think? In January Anna Somfai will teach an online short course on books about science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Book now 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...
Medieval Philosophical and Scientific Manuscripts – an online short course taught by Anna Somfai
This course will run online from 14:00-17:00: Monday 26 January – Thursday 29 January 2026. The course explores medieval Western philosophical and scientific manuscripts produced over the spa…
palaeography.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
How have books shaped the way we think? In January Anna Somfai will teach an online short course on books about science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Book now 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...
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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 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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.
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Calling anyone interested in saints, sanctity, and the weird and wonderful world of primary sources outside the conventional hagiography form! ❤️🔥
November 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Calling anyone interested in saints, sanctity, and the weird and wonderful world of primary sources outside the conventional hagiography form! ❤️🔥
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Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
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The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture, Courtauld, statement of intent deadline 17 November 2025
The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
medievalartresearch.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
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11th November is the feast of St Martin who is here depicted sharing his cloak with a beggar.
BL Stowe MS 17; 'The Maastricht Hours'; 14th century; f.98r
BL Stowe MS 17; 'The Maastricht Hours'; 14th century; f.98r
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
11th November is the feast of St Martin who is here depicted sharing his cloak with a beggar.
BL Stowe MS 17; 'The Maastricht Hours'; 14th century; f.98r
BL Stowe MS 17; 'The Maastricht Hours'; 14th century; f.98r
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Inside the Roman Catholic chapel at Biddlestone in Northumberland is an intriguing remnant from life on the home front during the Second World War.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Inside the Roman Catholic chapel at Biddlestone in Northumberland is an intriguing remnant from life on the home front during the Second World War.
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guys I was able to access a British Library digitized manuscript today for the first time in years. Check it out. www.bl.uk/collection/d...
click on the pdf [save that!] and use its hyperlinks!
+ for the post I wrote for today's MEDIEVAL NATURE class
click on the pdf [save that!] and use its hyperlinks!
+ for the post I wrote for today's MEDIEVAL NATURE class
Digitised manuscripts and archives - British Library
View more than 2,000 of our digitised manuscripts and archival documents, including the Sherborne Missal and Octateuch, Four Gospels and Synodicon.
www.bl.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
guys I was able to access a British Library digitized manuscript today for the first time in years. Check it out. www.bl.uk/collection/d...
click on the pdf [save that!] and use its hyperlinks!
+ for the post I wrote for today's MEDIEVAL NATURE class
click on the pdf [save that!] and use its hyperlinks!
+ for the post I wrote for today's MEDIEVAL NATURE class
How else to spend my birthday? Queuing for the British Library on a rainy morning to touch the old books.
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
How else to spend my birthday? Queuing for the British Library on a rainy morning to touch the old books.
Going to stamp my nerd foot, and complain that this meme doesn't include Late Caroline (doo doo doo).
Made you sing it.
Made you sing it.
Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Going to stamp my nerd foot, and complain that this meme doesn't include Late Caroline (doo doo doo).
Made you sing it.
Made you sing it.
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We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT
Professor of History - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT
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If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
binghamton.interviewexchange.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
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Reminder
𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐭' 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞!
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...
#CSMBR #OnlineLectures #CompoundMedicamentes #ConstantinetheAphrican
𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐭' 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞!
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...
#CSMBR #OnlineLectures #CompoundMedicamentes #ConstantinetheAphrican
The Science of Compound Medicaments - CSMBR
This lecture explores al-Majūsī’s "Kitāb al-Malakī" and its Latin translation, showing how Book X on compound medicaments was reshaped into a new synthesis of pharmacology and philosophy.
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Reminder
𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐭' 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞!
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...
#CSMBR #OnlineLectures #CompoundMedicamentes #ConstantinetheAphrican
𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐭' 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞!
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...
#CSMBR #OnlineLectures #CompoundMedicamentes #ConstantinetheAphrican
This post and picture and graffiti and building all bring me much needed joy on this rainy November morning, when most that is good seems dead.
There are still people who look and think and laugh and share and compare and write and love.
There are still people who look and think and laugh and share and compare and write and love.
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This post and picture and graffiti and building all bring me much needed joy on this rainy November morning, when most that is good seems dead.
There are still people who look and think and laugh and share and compare and write and love.
There are still people who look and think and laugh and share and compare and write and love.
I think it's the Teen Vogue news that has finally made me lose hope. They're going to destroy every iota of thought, caring, constructive criticism, and planning for a better future. Death by a thousand blows on the easy targets, death by a million cuts on the privlieged who can hold out longer.
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I think it's the Teen Vogue news that has finally made me lose hope. They're going to destroy every iota of thought, caring, constructive criticism, and planning for a better future. Death by a thousand blows on the easy targets, death by a million cuts on the privlieged who can hold out longer.
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Five years, four authors, one book. Out now (fully open access), our new book on local priests in the tenth century 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social
Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050
www.cambridge.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Five years, four authors, one book. Out now (fully open access), our new book on local priests in the tenth century 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social
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The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04
November 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04
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JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
www.cam.ac.uk
November 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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A handy guide to the upcoming holiday:
If a kid is on SNAP and you've decided this is the one moment you're going to care: give them the candy
If a kid can't verbally say "trick-or-treat" : give them the candy
If a kid looks too old to be trick-or-treating: give them the candy
Hope this helps!
If a kid is on SNAP and you've decided this is the one moment you're going to care: give them the candy
If a kid can't verbally say "trick-or-treat" : give them the candy
If a kid looks too old to be trick-or-treating: give them the candy
Hope this helps!
October 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A handy guide to the upcoming holiday:
If a kid is on SNAP and you've decided this is the one moment you're going to care: give them the candy
If a kid can't verbally say "trick-or-treat" : give them the candy
If a kid looks too old to be trick-or-treating: give them the candy
Hope this helps!
If a kid is on SNAP and you've decided this is the one moment you're going to care: give them the candy
If a kid can't verbally say "trick-or-treat" : give them the candy
If a kid looks too old to be trick-or-treating: give them the candy
Hope this helps!