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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 3h

Habeas corpus is named after a chap named Bruce A. Scorpus from medieval England. He was unlawfully detained and, upon his release, his friend called out to him “Hey, B.A. Scorpus! How you doing?” Someone witnessing this thought he was speaking Latin and recorded it as “habeas corpus”. True story.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 1h

Tell me the Yankees deserved to lose without telling me they deserved to lose.

Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1d

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 3h

Habeas corpus is named after a chap named Bruce A. Scorpus from medieval England. He was unlawfully detained and, upon his release, his friend called out to him “Hey, B.A. Scorpus! How you doing?” Someone witnessing this thought he was speaking Latin and recorded it as “habeas corpus”. True story.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 12h

Enjoyed showing students today the amazing 1063 charter signed by Anna, queen of France, in cyrillic.

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 6d

Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)

by Alice Rio (All Souls College, University of Oxford)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)*

Jinty Nelson left a strong mark of her presence in every institution that she was ever a part of, and there is none which does not regard its association w

doi.org

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 12h

Two things:
1) saw a video of a dog riding a goat
2) learned cool facts about sloths

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 15h

#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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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone had a kid with severe phobia of water? Mine is 5 and never EVER has fits except during swim lessons, when she screams like she’s being murdered and kicks people. Like the instructor has never seen it so bad. But we live in LA and everyone has a pool so no swim lessons isn’t really an option.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

What’s the plan? Force lessons? Wait for a while? Drink heavily (me)?

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 1d

Not all Yankee fans booed the Canadian national anthem, only the fans with no class. It’s difficult (for me, at least) not to group all fans together sometimes. But let’s try to give most Yankee fans the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are decent people.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 1d

Sang Hollister's 'Popes in Rome & Avignon' song today in my medieval class. When I finished I looked up to see a student recording my butchering of the ditty. Can't wait for that to get out.

Bellow is a copy of the November 2004 UCLA History newsletter that includes selections from his repertoire.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 1d

This is super cool!

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 2d

It’s so unfortunate that the Jays play their final game of the series at Yankee Stadium tomorrow. It would have been so much more enjoyable to watch them complete the sweep in Toronto.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 3d

@profgabriele.com

a blue jay perched on top of a snow covered ledge

ALT: a blue jay perched on top of a snow covered ledge

media.tenor.com

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 6d

To that I say: Bake ‘em away, Toys.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 6d

Putting Foot in Mouth 101:

(Foolishly and unintentionally) inform a friend that their MA funding application (to SSHRC) is older than the people using it as a model for the 2025/26 round of applications.

a dog is laying on the floor in a cage with a bowl of food in the background .

ALT: a dog is laying on the floor in a cage with a bowl of food in the background .

media.tenor.com

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 7d

a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is saying fine you win for now

ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is saying fine you win for now

media.tenor.com

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 8d

One more game against the Yankees, then we get to see the Red Sox play the Blue Jays.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 8d

This looks excellent.
Can’t wait for it to be released.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 8d

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook.

"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"

The Public Scholar

A Practical Handbook

www.press.jhu.edu

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 8d

It’s a shame we have to wait till the Red Sox beat the Yankees before we see the Jays play again.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 8d

Professors,

Please keep in mind that many of your students probably work 24+ hours per week, and some even work full-time jobs. They might also have children and/or parents to care for.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 9d

This is fantastic news!

Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 9d

What an amazing lineup.
I wish these were online, too!

IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar @earliermiddleages.bsky.social · 9d

📣 The Earlier Middle Ages seminar @ihr.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Here's our autumn term schedule. First up is @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 8 October, giving the annual David Wilson Lecture (with @uclarchaeology.bsky.social). All welcome! Please sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Autumn 2025 schedule for the Institute of Historical Research's Earlier Middle Ages seminar. Full information available at https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/earlier-middle-ages

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 10d

The quickest way to finish an article is to start it. It also helps if you can stay away from social media, tv and the internet. And your cell phone. And other people. You should also fight urges to clean and organise spaces, and to cook big meals.

In other words, it’s difficult to finish articles.

A monk is seated, working on a manuscript. He is writing in a book and the writing appears to be horizontal lines.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 10d

Next week, my ”Criminals, Crime Scenes & Punishment in Medieval England” class @viuniversity.bsky.social is discussing Bruce O’Brien’s article “From Morðor to Murdrum: The Preconquest Origin and Norman Revival of the Murder Fine”. I’m a big fan of O’Brien’s work, so am looking forward to it.

The first page of Bruce O’Brien’s article, showing the first paragraph and title: “From Morðor to Murdrum: The Preconquest Origin and Norman Revival of the Murder Fine”.

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