Elaine Treharne
@etreharne.bsky.social
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Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever. .. more

Elaine M. Treharne FSA FRHistS FEA FLSW was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, in 1964. She is a Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and the Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English, Courtesy Professor of German Studies and of Comparative Literature, and a Bass Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. She was at the University of Leicester for eighteen years as a lecturer, then professor, head of department, and dean, before emigrating to the USA. She is a Welsh medievalist, focusing on Manuscript Studies, Early English literature, and the History of Text Technologies, particularly of the handmade book. She led Stanford University's online courses on manuscript study entitled Digging Deeper. She is a qualified archivist, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and an Honorary Fellow of the English Association, for whom she was also the first woman chair and President from 2000 to 2005. Treharne was made a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in April 2020. She is the President of the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (2022–2025). .. more

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richove.bsky.social
MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
helengittos.bsky.social
Delighted to be giving a Bede's World / Durham World Heritage Site lecture in @durham.ac.uk on 18 October.
fishkin.bsky.social
I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com

Reposted by Elaine Treharne

toebi.bsky.social
📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week...
📖Old English Poetry in Facsimile
📲 oepoetryfacsimile.org/index.html
©️Medieval Academy of America
✍️Director and Senior Editor: Martin Foys
✍️Associate Editor: Kyle Smith
💻Digital Mappa: www.digitalmappa.org

Reposted by Elaine Treharne

trincolllibcam.bsky.social
Is it coffee time yet? MSS R.9.17
See the whole manuscript here: mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R...
#marginaliaMonday
Two drawings of jugs in the bottom margin under manuscript text.

etreharne.bsky.social
Yes, Andalusia was part of the Roman Empire at this point

etreharne.bsky.social
Stunning 1st-century monumental gilded bronze letters and punctuation marks that had fallen from a public building in Singilia Barba, Andalusia (Málaga Museum). *First century*!

etreharne.bsky.social
Granada quite good; Córoba exceptional.

etreharne.bsky.social
Palace of Charles V, Granada
eicathomefinn.bsky.social
£77,816 er annum. What an exciting post.
nmdcnews.bsky.social
Vacancy for Head of Research, Archives and Libraries - British Museum. Deadline 29 September 2025. bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C... #MuseumJobs

etreharne.bsky.social
Look at the ‘T’ though in this first-century inscription for Lucius Vibius Rusticus (Museo de Málaga)

etreharne.bsky.social
Beautifully preserved seal of Henry III on original silk cords at Cambridge, St John’s College Archives
nposegay.bsky.social
Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.
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supmktg.bsky.social
By the way, in addition to the open position in our marketing department, @stanfordpress.bsky.social are also hiring an Editorial Assistant: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/editori... - applications still welcome for both openings!
alexharvv.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

A 200+ page research paper from the University of Warwick, led by Nataliya Kosmyna (et al)

This was published a couple months ago but I've only just had the chance to read it. I highly encourage others to do the same but I wanted to condense some observations in a short 🧵
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
arxiv.org
medievalacademy.bsky.social
Jobs For Medievalists

Tenure-track Assistant Professor of English: Medieval Literature

Review of applications will begin 10 November, 2025

The English Department at Trinity University seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in medieval
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...

etreharne.bsky.social
Thanks: very cloudy and changeable day today

etreharne.bsky.social
Name that nave in one! (York)

etreharne.bsky.social
Markenfield medieval moated manor house

phillewis.bsky.social
NEW YORK (AP) — Anthropic agrees to pay authors $3,000 per book in landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.