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Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social · Sep 2

Sewanee subtheme on movement as resistance and refuge is live! Submit a proposal to think about the potential readings of movement as response to crisis with me: www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com/movement-as-...

Subtheme: Movement as Resistance and Refuge | Medieval Colloquium

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Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social · Aug 18

Delighted to be getting started on a Fulbright year at Universitetet I Tromsø. With email access and an office sign, it is about as official as it gets!

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Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

Reposting this iconic “baby with book baby photo” along with the updated version, in honor of my book’s paperback release! (It’s also 50% off with code BB094 right now on @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social’s website, so, in short, a steal).

A baby in a headband holding a book with dancing women on the front

A toddler in a blue dress holding a paperback book with dancing women on the front

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U of T Centre for Medieval Studies @uoftcms.bsky.social · Jun 26

"Proofed," the Boydell & Brewer Blog's Series Focus: Gender in the Middle Ages: guest post written by Diane Watt and Jacqueline Murray, editors of the Gender in the Middle Ages series.
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Series Focus: Gender in the Middle Ages

To celebrate the publication of the 25th book in the Gender in the Middle Ages series, we invited the series editors, Diane Watt and Jacqueline Murray, to share their reflections on its significance a...

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Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social · Jul 3

All the news is heavy right now. I wrote about cats and Helena Augusta to cope. www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

The Cats Of Cyprus (Church History On Vacation)

On a recent trip to Turkey and Greece, where I loved the churches, mosques, and museums we were able to tour, my daughter had a very different highlight

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Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social · Jun 9

For more on this… shameless plug for a podcast episode: open.spotify.com/episode/4X01...

Dancing Plague of 1518

Not Just the Tudors · Episode

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Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social · Jun 9

Forgot to share this when it dropped, but if you’re interested in dancing plagues, give it a listen. open.spotify.com/episode/4X01...

Dancing Plague of 1518

Not Just the Tudors · Episode

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · May 12

My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you

Merovingian cursive:

Extremely difficult to read document in cursive script. Actually this is a charter of lady Clotilde, Paris AN/K//2/10, from 673

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Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social · May 9

The best place to be in early May. 🗃️ #icms2025

A program for the International Congress of Medievalist Studies, held up in front of a building and greenery

Shameless self promotion- a picture of a panel in the ICMS program, titled “Dance in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: A Multidisciplinary Panel Honoring Lynneth Renberg’s Women, Dance, and Parish Religion in England”

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · May 6

Okay, why does this book matter? We held a conference in Melbourne in 2023, believing democratic-decay scholarship needs to pay attention to Rome, the only old democracy to fall from internal causes. I don’t need to say why that matters now. We want to bring #ancientbluesky and #polisci together. 🧵

David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · May 6

Our book has now appeared, a bit ahead of schedule. Its in Open Access, meaning the chapters are all free to download either as epub or pdf from this link. I’ll put a thread together on what the individual chapters are about.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social · May 6

Thinking about popes today on @anxiousbench by looking at one of my favorites, the early medieval pope Gregory I. What makes a pope great? And how do we evaluate papal legacies? www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

What Makes A Pope Great? On Popes And Pastoral Care

With the recent passing of Pope Francis, there has been a lot of discussion about the pope’s legacy. Described by NPR as “one of the most popular popes in

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Adam Renberg @adamrenberg.bsky.social · Apr 30

If you are interested in learning more about the theology of the Council of Nicaea for its 1700 year anniversary (or my work!), this podcast episode from the London Lyceum is a good start.

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Nicene Theology and Eusebius of Caesarea with Adam Renberg

The London Lyceum · Episode

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Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social · Apr 1

My monthly post for @anxiousbench.bsky.social, with some thoughts on education (maybe especially for those in Christian education): www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

In Support Of Expansive Education

Is education meant to protect young people from ideas that might be challenging or upsetting, or meant to expand their perspectives? In short, should education be protective or expansive?

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Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social · Mar 25

Congratulations!! So thrilled for you.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Mar 22

This made me cheer. It gets directly at a problem I’ve often noticed: people don’t fundamentally understand what a historian *does*.

Ethical: There is a particular paradox that makes Al essentially useless as a tool for studying history. The entire point of what we do as historians is to look for untold stories...elements of the history of mankind that are novel and unexpected. There is a fundamental epistemological disjuncture between what PhD-holding historians do and what ChatGPT and its ilk do: the former meticulously, purposefully, and rigorously comb through a mountain of human-curated documents looking
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for revealing details that diverge from the baseline, offer indications of cultural shift, or elements humanity embedded in seemingly mundane activities; the latter processes terabytes of machine-harvested data in order to predict what will be the most likely next token in a string, and when these tokens are words they may or may not result in a grammatically coherent sentence.

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Adam Renberg @adamrenberg.bsky.social · Mar 18

As I continue to reflect on the Council of Nicaea for its 1700th anniversary this year, it seemed appropriate to share about the mother of Nicaea this Women's History Month: Helena Augusta.

Read about it here: www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

Mothers Of The (Nicene) Church: Helena Augusta

As I stared at the fragments of the cross of Christ on display in the Cathedral of Palma de Mallorca last year, I was struck with the apparent

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Brazos Press @brazospress.bsky.social · Mar 18

Happy Release Day! 🎉

Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry by @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social

We are so excited for this book to finally be hitting bookstore shelves! Get your copy here: bakerbookhouse.com/products/598...

The book is on a white table with a plant and a coffee mug nearby. The book cover is bright pink with the title in bold white letters.

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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · Mar 17

St Patrick's Day #shelfie from a slightly battered copy of Spicilegium Ossoriense, 1874, by Patrick Francis Moran. Have a good day!

Book spine with St Patrick depicted in gold.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Mar 13

On calculating the number of female scribes and their manuscript output in medieval Europe.

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That's Numberwang! On Quant Methods and Medieval Manuscripts. — Sonja Drimmer

When I lived in the UK I watched a lot of Mitchell and Webb. A British comedy duo who should be more famous among Americans than they are, they made sketches just the side of absurd where—unlike Monty...

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Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social · Mar 14

My colleague teaches a similar course and talks about the AIDS epidemic- one of the things she has students engage is “Rent.” It’s a great course!

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Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social · Mar 12

Call for papers! 🗃️ #earlymodern this year’s focus is the revolutions of 1525…. But all papers related to religion in the early modern era welcome!

Society for Reformation Research (SRR) @socrefresearch.bsky.social · Mar 12

CFP: SRR-Sponsored Panels at the Sixteenth Century Society, 10/30-11/1 2025.
The SRR invites individual papers and complete sessions on any theme, but especially the Revolutions of 1525. Dead 15 April 2025
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The Society for Reformation Research invites paper submissions for our panels at this year's Sixteenth Century Society Conference! For questions, contact David M. Luebke ( [email protected] ) .

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Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social · Mar 12

I also note in a word doc which image numbers go with each MS/volume, and file photos for each into separate and clearly labeled folders. Have fun, and hope you find great things!

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Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social · Mar 12

Echoing the advice of photographing the call slip in every photograph! I break up between volumes by photographing the spine or box for the new volume. Also make sure to have the folio number visible in each picture- if no folios in the MS, use a sticky note to keep track in each picture.

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