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Kathleen E. Kennedy
@themedievaldrk.bsky.social
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manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology

Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 3h
Look Stu is an icon- rescued but irritable, the anti-perfect victim, and the world loves him for it! 😂

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 3h
I wasn’t even on a weird browser but it sure acted like I was. Usable, but only just 🫤

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 4h
(phew they brooooke ODNB didn't they? data's all still there but yiiiiikes that interface 😬)

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 4h
To wit, they didn't need to learn it from Spain.
themedievaldrk.bsky.social Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 4h
And like all caps aside, I think here were really powerfully do have an example of an English family who learned over 2 generations how Meditereanean slave trading worked, whether or not they profited directly at that point, and then exported it to the Atlantic as soon as the opportunity arose.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 4h
And like all caps aside, I think here were really powerfully do have an example of an English family who learned over 2 generations how Meditereanean slave trading worked, whether or not they profited directly at that point, and then exported it to the Atlantic as soon as the opportunity arose.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 4h
Some rando COMMITS DOCUMENTED SUICIDE (SO RARE) so we don't have his will BUT HIS WIDOW is just willing wild levels of gemstones.
One daughter marries into Tudor officialdom.
One grand-daughter? Marries FREAKING HAWKINS.
Mediterranean shipping family to Atlantic slave-traders in ONE GENERATION.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 4h
Dayum. Histficcers, here's your prompt. Some rando sailor rises into the HIGHEST possible levels of the Tudor navy. One son? Mediterranean ship captain and Tudor naval officer. Another son? Knight of Malta, Mediterranean ship captain, and Catholic martyr. (and it keeps going. click through!)

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 4h
pure genius

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 4h
Olympic commentary:

I want to see someone, anyone, free skate to Madeline Kahn's "I'm So Tired" from the film Blazing Saddles.

C'mon

Think of it.

You know you want it too!

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 5h
yeah and deaccessioning means they can be rare even via ILL--even Penn State and Bristol, important research libraries, could rarely source an ILL copy of this one. They certainly did not own their own.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 5h
Once again skimming through the TOC of this important 2-volume festschrift published by a Euro press in the early 00s. (TOC helpfully preserved by Regesta imperii) I'm counting the articles I would have cited in various pubs if only the thing was at all accessible.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 8h
That one is begging for some stop motion work!

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 8h
Hm I'd been worried about a long con I have coming up likewise- might try to get one for the booth so more than 1 of us can sit at a time

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 8h
Huh totally make sense though

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 9h
I just love that whole collection so much

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 9h
And Bristol Fashion!

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 9h
Shipshape?
#ValentinesDay #ofmd
Sailng Boat drawing with "you really float my boat" logo above and below.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 9h
heh see, I need to find someone in my dating pool here who thinks this! rofl

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 9h
In the manner of my people cleaning up the work site then faceplanting into a paczki like Elmo into a pile of white.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 9h
Celebrating Valentines Day by regrouting the bathtub.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 10h
aw mate thanks. I actually know what I'll be buying I just have to accept that it's necessary and press buy, you know? It's just all so stupid, the reasons for needing to upgrade before EOL, and the options available, and and and--you know the landscape well!

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 12h
lucky duck! if you don't know those acronyms you won't be faced with this new challenge--count blessings bc it's a pita : (

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 12h
heh I've spent a long long time on this here Al Gore's internet. Some fights aren't worth having, but mileage Definitely varies! 😂

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 14h
*once had someone get het up in my Twitter mentions about me being misogynist for using 'guys' and to this day I hope that they have continued having blessed and privileged days, since that's the priority fight they're having

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 14h
Guys (gender neutral*) I have a bad feeling that I'm going to end up buying a new computer this year before my current box is EOL for n-reasons and I hate everything about this still-on-horizon decision.

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ennie @anyuse.bsky.social · 14h
As always. Prove me wrong.
Multitalented tragic poet with a deeply religious side emerging after personal tragedy, after traveling through time. (Prince). Multitalented tragic poet with a deeply religious side emerging after personal tragedy, before traveling through time. (John Donne).

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 15h
Hey I used 'bog' correctly in TWO Englishes! What a morning. sigh.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 15h
The US, trying a little bit of bog-standard UK sewage pollution for a treat, right down to the tardy/low-reporting (and undoubtedly in this political moment, same lack of accountability). Thumbs down. I hate it.
monicamedhist.bsky.social Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 15h
From @lizneeley.bsky.social's newsletter today: "Hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage have poured into the Potomac river in the past month, exposing Maryland and Washington DC to staggering levels of pathogenic bacteria. [This] is now the worst wastewater spill in American history." 1/2

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 15h
Pink and Red start to St. Valentine's Day. Saturday sunrise in Chicago.

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 15h
From @lizneeley.bsky.social's newsletter today: "Hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage have poured into the Potomac river in the past month, exposing Maryland and Washington DC to staggering levels of pathogenic bacteria. [This] is now the worst wastewater spill in American history." 1/2