Citing my sources, @bretdevereaux.bsky.social's excellent blog post is available here: acoup.blog/2020/11/20/m...

I mean, it was bound to happen eventually, right?

Thanks again for inviting me! I had a blast!

Thanks for following along! I’m nursing a cold and I think I would have chosen to do the same as Britta if I could have 😂

This is going to be so fun!

Reader, she has beyond-exceeded every one of my expectations in a first-year early-medieval history class.

And she did so by tattooing a Taylor Swift lyric on her husband's leg. 🫣

She explored vellum production, noting the similarities between the stages of preparation and scribal training compared with tattooing. She closely engaged with the scholarship of the poem & its interpretations. She even discussed how women's voices are often suppressed in artistic criticism.

She wanted to explore feminine-voiced poems in Old English, especially /The Wife's Lament/ and the connections/disconnections between oral poetry and the vellum manuscript tradition. She had been a tattoo artist earlier in life and her husband (also a tattoo artist) was a willing canvas.

It was a good conversation!

There's a lot on the video side of things I still need to hone and learn, but it's really nice to have a hobby again after letting academia eat those for the last few years. Any and all support very much appreciated!