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Dr Keri Thomas

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Manuscript theorist & wannabe booklicker. Medieval/digital/materiality/resurrection. Joyful spite. ‘Memory & the Digital Manuscript: Resurrection, Divinity & New Materiality’ Routledge (2025 maybe) https://kerilthomas.wordpress.com

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Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social · Sep 2

So, I have news! I’m so thrilled to say that my book ‘Memory & the Digital Manuscript: Resurrection, Divinity & New Materiality’ (tbc) will see the light of day in 2025. Excited for you to read my wild theorising! #MedievalSky #DigitalSky

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 12d

Bloody solar panels, cluttering up the countryside and preventing desertification while providing clean energy and growing food.

Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 15d

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China is halting the expansion of the gobi desert by planting goji berries beneath solar panels.

The shade reduces heat and water stress on the plants.

Excellent

China enlists solar panels in war to halt desert sands

In arid northern China, dozens of workers prune goji berry bushes that stretch out under the protective shade of thousands of solar panels.

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Harvard Medieval Studies @harvardmedieval.bsky.social · 16d

Join us @ the #medievalseminar next Monday, as we welcome @lauramorreale.bsky.social for a talk on the fascinating "Image du Monde" and its digital afterlives! 9/29, 5:30p, Barker 133. @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social @medievalacademy.bsky.social

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Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social · 16d

Fuuuuuck. Off to delete!

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 16d

Don't forget to register for my hybrid #Voynich lecture on Friday, Sept. 26, at 2:30 PM Eastern at the University of Toronto! After a year of work, Colin Layfield & I have important data- and material-results about the original structure of the manuscript!

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Lisa Fagin Davis, The Materiality of the Voynich Manuscript | Centre for Medieval Studies

The Centre for Medieval Studies welcomes Lisa Fagin Davis (Executive Director, Medieval Academy of America) to present "The Materiality of the Voynich Manuscript", a talk on her recent work using fore...

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AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social · 17d

47 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican were digitized this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 38 of 2025

A total of forty-seven manuscripts were digitized in the past week, which is slightly above average when comparing to recent weeks. Also in-line with the patterns of recent weeks, the most manuscripts...

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Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social · 17d

Flights of angels singing me to my rest would be an unexpected bonus, but to be expected in the circumstances.

Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social · 17d

What are the odds of me being Raptured next week? Just debating whether to pay the rent or not.

Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social · 17d

I still remember chewing up tiny pieces of paper to enable me to record the Top 10. 😂

Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social · 17d

I’ve added a cassette player & some retro foam headphones to her Christmas list!

Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social · 17d

I just stared at her. I genuinely didn’t know how to respond for a minute. Felt the whisper of death’s shadow pass by.

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Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social · 19d

Small just asked me what a DVD is.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26d

This is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 26d

Michael Gove, "Reform voters are very close to, in their general views, with the British public"

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Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social · 27d

One cannot underestimate the power of a proficient cervical screening nurse.

Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social · Sep 5

I probably watch Tom Holland’s Lip Sync Battle version of Rihanna’s ‘Umbrella’ at least once a month. It brings me incredible joy.

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Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social · Aug 27

My God the world is hard. Every road & path in it is filled with tears.

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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · Aug 27

The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Aug 26

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

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Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social · Aug 25

I’ve just killed 3,000 words. Went off on the most enormous tangent about polytheism & I don’t think it even works in this chapter. Saved them to a separate page, but. Fuck. Plus side, I found Matthew lurking on f66r of the St Francis Missal, & thought him worth sharing.

#MedievalSky

Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social · Aug 25

Small & I have had the BEST summer together. It can frequently get intense, as it’s mostly just the two of us, & alone time is virtually non-existent. But my goodness, when the sun is shining & we’ve got the giggles, there’s not much finer in life.

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · Aug 23

Volunteers are welcome to join the project to help in the transcription! All volunteers will be named as co-editors, whether you contribute a line or multiple pages. For more info, contact the project lead, Aaron Allen, on [email protected]
#palaeography #Orkney

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · Aug 24

fuck I'm so excited to find out what I'm like when I'm no longer writing this fucking book

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Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social · Aug 22

Prynhawn Da pawb, I’ve got a Big Question for you on this sunny day. What does spirituality mean to you, or to be spiritual? I don’t necessarily mean religion: anything from your own lives, pop culture, music, nature, from which you get a sense of yourself. Gonna cite it in the book! #MedievalSky

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Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social · Aug 21

Small & I got to see the amazing Tudor bibles on display at @librarywales.bsky.social today.

@suzpaul.bsky.social Small was #TeamHenry!

3rd 📸: title page of the Great Bible, from a @theconversation.com article by Eyal Poleg & Paolo Ricciardi.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · Aug 21

Aside from the frothing racism of these people, what is really grim about this is the idea that government are powerless to change culture. If your constituents think these things *they are wrong* and you need to explain why. It's not actually your job as an MP to rubber stamp fascism.

Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · Aug 21

Here's the post. She tried to double down, then eventually deleted it.
She's the former head of campaigns and comms at - the TUC.

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Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social · Aug 20

I’m taking Small to this tomorrow & told her one of the Bibles was owned by Thomas Cromwell. “I know him!” she said. “Do you really?” I replied, mildly surprised. She stared at me in semi disgust. “Well, not PERSONALLY”.

Almost-tween sass hits different.

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Reunited: The Great Bibles of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell - National Library of Wales

Reunited: The Great Bibles of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell- National Library of Wales - The Nation’s Memory - collecting, preserving and giving access to Welsh history and culture.