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Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 14h

Ooohhh shiny!

Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 22h

1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.

Thread below ⬇️

Hegel and Colonialism

Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism

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Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 16h

I'm so glad! I'm really happy & proud about how many people seem to have read it & learned from it.

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Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 16h

And here's my set of translations of The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Nativity of Mary!
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The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Nativity of Mary

Check out The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Nativity of Mary - The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew is one of the most important witnesses in Western Europe to apocryphal stories about the lives of Mary, J...

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Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 16h

Here's Apocrypha for Beginners: A Guide to Understanding and Exploring Scriptures Beyond the Bible
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Apocrypha for Beginners: A Guide to Understanding and Exploring Scriptures Beyond the Bible

A Guide to Understanding and Exploring Scriptures Beyond the Bible

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Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 16h

Did you know that Bookshop has free shipping today? (Lots of authors have good books on that site!) And two of my books on #apocrypha are there on sale right now!
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Bookshop.org US

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 1d

Why do so many French words end in a silent x?
‘Cheveux’, ‘voix’, ‘paix’, ‘deux’, ‘mieux’, ‘faux’, ‘doux’ – the list is endless.

There’s a fascinating story behind this x’s – or actually two stories.

Click and zoom in on my new graphic to read about medieval abbreviations and imitating Latin:

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Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 20h

I'm supposed to travel to Chicago next week for a medieval studies conference, & I'm starting to think... perhaps I will not & try to shift to an online presentation, if possible....

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 20h

#histmed #MedievalSky Minji Lee's book, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body, has just been released #OpenAccess: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Cover image of Minji Lee, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body. On the complex imagery reproduced on the cover, read the book!

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Goblin Gower, PhD @medievaliste.bsky.social · 1d

I'm equally excited by the presence of 14th-century music notation in the margin.

Cambridge University Library's own article here: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/merl...

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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 1d

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Questions of Mary. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 2d

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

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 2d

Today is also the feast of Bruno of Cologne, founder of the Carthusian Order. Here is a graphic novel version of the founding of the order from a copy of Guigo's Consuetudines cartusienses printed in Basel in 1510. #medievalsky #earlyprinting #bookhistory 🧵

Chantilly, Bibliothèque et archives du musée Condé, impr. XIV-A-001, A2

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 2d

For the feast of William Tyndale, executed 1536, here's a reminder that 500y earlier it wasn't such a big honking deal to translate scripture into English. Here's the opening of John in Cambridge, CCCC 140, an 11c copy of the West Saxon Gospels. 🕯️

On frymðe wæs word ond þæt word wæs mid gode.

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Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, I'm watching it like everyone else this evening.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko70...

Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Taylor Swift

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Xosé M. Sánchez @xosschz.bsky.social · 3d

Hey #medievalSky 🔔 Now Open Access! “The rise of Purgatory in medieval Compostela, tenth to twelfth centuries: from private donations to public representations”, at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 5d

Happy new Taylor album release day to all who celebrate! 🔥 🔥🔥

Screenshot of music player, playing “The Fate of Ophelia” by Taylor Swift

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 5d

This is the feast of Dionysius the Areopagite. 🕯️ Not Mr. Pseudo, but the one in Acts! Here he is in Latin and in Greek in the Laudian Acts, Bodleian Library MS. Laud Gr. 35.

@matthewholford.bsky.social has a great blog post and video about this manuscript at hab.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/en/blog/blog...

Bodleian Library MS. Laud Gr. 35, fol. 153v

Bodleian Library MS. Laud Gr. 35, fol. 153v, detail annotated with blue arrows pointing at Dionysius's name.

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 6d

Avranches, BM, MS 242 is from the 2nd half of 12th c. and Berlin, SBB, MS Phillips 1685 is from ca. 1200.

Thanks to this page for the inventory of Sidonius MSS available online: www.propylaeum.de/en/subjects/... There's a lot more there to explore. #medievalsky

Berlin, SBB, MS Phillips 168, fol. 141v, detail

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 6d

Today's downloadable Knowledge Commons share 'The Vikings in England' published in 'The Viking World' edited by Stefan Brink and Neil Price #medievalsky #vikings #England #Skystorians #history works.hcommons.org/records/60de...

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Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 6d

This is fantastic, Chris! Congrats on the article, on the last requirement for tenure, & also just a cool intervention in the field! (I love Revue Bénédictine!) I'll look forward to reading this one.

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 6d

WE COULDA HAD A BAD BITCH

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 7d

Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!

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Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 7d

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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 7d

Paperback of Trans and Genderqueer Subjects is apparently on sale #MedievalSky

www.routledge.com/Trans-and-Ge...

Screenshot of book listing on publisher's website, on sale for £30.39

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