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Rachel McVeigh 魏瑞秀
@remcveigh.bsky.social
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Medieval Chinese poetry and poetics: genre, form, animals | currently working on cranes, sometimes filmic dogs | PhD student at Harvard | formerly Oxford/PKU | she/her
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remcveigh.bsky.social
This article is really wonderful, and articulates many of my unformed thoughts having infiltrated some medieval studies spaces this year—
Screenshot reading: Perhaps you could read our work in medieval studies and maybe even attend our conferences. The most recent issue of the journal Early Medieval China has a lengthy section titled "Forum: In the Middle of What? On Periodization and the Global Medieval."23 And a recent issue of the journal Al-'Usur al-Wustã: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists offers a roundtable on the Global Middle Ages.* After all, we are curious about your work—if we are thinking about the medieval at all, we've already met you halfway. Meet us in the middle—make our time count!— and work with us to create a better global medieval studies.
December 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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wapplehouse.bsky.social
Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP
December 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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tobbinatorscw.bsky.social
What in racialisation www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
December 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a mouse!

Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️

📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology
My photo shows a small Roman flask made of translucent cobalt blue glass in the form of a fat little mouse, 14.6 cm in length. The body of the vessel is rounded and stands on four feet made from tooled trails of glass. A separate blob of glass forms the head with eyes, ears, and a pointed nose. The neck of the flask is funnel-shaped and slightly up-turned to look like a tail. The flask surface is decorated with trails of glass which have been flattened and notched. Modern scholars refer to this type of trailed decoration as ‘snake thread’. On display at the Met Museum in New York
December 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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csmc-hamburg.bsky.social
Sources are the raw material of historical analysis, but their evidence is often qualitatively or quantitatively lacking – and sometimes entirely absent. The new volume of SMC explores the vast territory of missing evidence in the study of ancient cultures:
uhh.de/csmc-smc-50
December 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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bibliowingate.bsky.social
I have a weird question for the #bird people on here. Do you think someone could tell that a book was pooped on specifically by a sparrowhawk (or perhaps hawks generally) just from the feces? I'm looking at a 16th c. case where witnesses claim books were pooped on specifically by sparrowhawks!
December 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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oewordhord.bsky.social
pynding, f.n: dam. (PUEN-ding / ˈpyn-dɪŋ)
Image: Lambeth Apocalypse; England, 13th century; @lampallib.bsky.social MS 209, f. 7v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Medieval manuscript illustration of a beaver making its way through water, gripping a piece of wood in its forefeet and mouth.
December 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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sarahebond.bsky.social
My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a new article in JRA on Berenike, Indo-Roman trade, and of course some pet monkeys which may have had pet piglets or kittens? 🐵 Really this is just amazing research showing us the extensive connections between the Mediterranean and India. #GlobalAntiquity
Pet Monkeys Were Popular in Ancient Rome, Burials Reveal
The recent archaeological discovery also deepens our understanding of trade networks between India and the Roman Empire.
hyperallergic.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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tommazanec.bsky.social
The latest issue of JAOS has been published, #145.4 (2025). This will be the last one under the old name. Starting next year, the journal will appear under its new name, JASPA: Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia.
lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/ja...
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JAOS
The Journal of the American Oriental Society (ISSN 0003-0279) is published quarterly by the American Oriental Society.
lockwoodonlinejournals.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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bokane.org
JUSTICE FOR BOODS
…the cat took up a post beside the bookshelves and has stayed there ever since, lazing all day and thrumming in his throat like a Buddhist invoking the Holy Name, num-nam-namo-namo. This earned him the name “Boods” after somebody remarked on his piety. The start of the formal declaration of war: Generalis Murilegus “Boods,” charged with leading the war on mice, has shammed mercy and feigned humanitarian concern to mask his unbecoming timidity. He chants Buddhist scriptures with all the sincerity and understanding of Yang Gui-fei's parrot, aping all the while the self-abnegating piety of the truly faithful.3 He idles the day away beneath the flowers, turning a blind eye to the mice and their mischief, and lazes by night on a cool bamboo mat, never minding the enemy chewing through the walls.
December 13, 2023 at 8:56 PM
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madpoli.bsky.social
New articles in 出土文獻 on the soon-to-be-published Tsinghua "horse" manuscripts (in vol 15), 5 manuscripts detailing how to evaluate, train, treat, and handle horses.
December 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
Duck — Tlatilco workshop, ca. 1000 BCE
In shiny polished black clay figurine of a duck
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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manulmonday.bsky.social
Happy Manul Monday!
A very fluffy manul stands on a rock ledge in its enclosure, looking up ahead with interest.
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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louiestowell.bsky.social
This auction is live NOW! Bid bid bid! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
November 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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jamesabenn.bsky.social
John K. Fairbank’s flashcards. #sinology
Photograph of old box of flashcards with Chinese characters.
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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catbus.phd
'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870)
Kawanabe Kyōsai
sumi-e ink drawing accurately reflecting the title
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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kpw1453.bsky.social
Everyone’s favourite - the ‘Wolf and Twins’ mosaic from Roman Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum) depicting the legend of Romulus and Remus. Dating to the 4th century AD, the mosaic is now part of the collections at Leeds City Museum. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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wittspat.bsky.social
Following last week's monochrome elephant, this is another common type of depiction in Roman mosaics. From the Great Pavement at Woodchester, moving around Orpheus. 1/2
#MosaicMonday
@classicalalan.bsky.social
Part of a coloured engraving of a Roman mosaic showing an elephant moving towards the left. There are crossed lines on the animal's body.
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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shellyk.bsky.social
An entire universe in a ceiling: in the Beijing Ancient Architecture Museum 北京古代建筑博物馆，a preserved Ming dynasty caisson ceiling from the Longfu Temple. 隆福寺. Concentric rings house stacks of buildings. A star chart, the cosmos, in the centre.
October 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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medievalists.bsky.social
Medieval Pet Care www.medievalists.net/2023/11/medi... #pets
Medieval Pet Care - Medievalists.net
Medieval people kept pet dogs, cats and other animals. Here is the advice they gave about taking proper care of them.
www.medievalists.net
November 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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australia.theguardian.com
Bee-elzebub: new horned ‘Lucifer’ bee discovered in Western Australia
Bee-elzebub: new horned ‘Lucifer’ bee discovered in Western Australia
Australian expert stumbled across new species when surveying a critically endangered wildflower in 2019 As if deadly snakes, spiders and sharks were not enough, Australia now has a new creepy critter: a “Lucifer” bee with devil-like horns. The species – dubbed Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer – was found in the state of Western Australia, Curtin University announced on Tuesday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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matteob.bsky.social
R.I.P. Nakadai Tatsuya, one of the giant figures in history of Japanese cinema news.yahoo.co.jp/pickup/6558551
俳優・仲代達矢さん死去 92歳 - Yahoo!ニュース
映画「人間の条件」や黒沢明監督の「影武者」などに主演し、主宰する「無名塾」で後進を育てた俳優で文化勲章受章者の仲代達矢（なかだい・たつや、本名元久＝もとひさ）さんが死去したことが11日、分かった。9
news.yahoo.co.jp
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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kidream.bsky.social
My new article is out! A Daoist mountain synced pilgrimages with crane migrations—governing landscapes and conserving biodiversity for centuries. Rethinking nature/culture today. Read open access: doi.org/10.3390/rel1...
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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lofturs.bsky.social
In Icelandic we have 'Ókind' for monster. But the translation is un-sheep. So everything not a sheep is dangerous.
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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thianun.bsky.social
Entirely thanks to this image, I've been on a tangent looking for a complete version of this Chinese divination text (related to 28 lunar mansions & their animals) - 演禽三世相法 purportedly written in the Tang but the popular printed tradition starts in the late Ming
#woodblockwednesday
Photograph of page 130 from the Catalogue of the Morrison Collection showing a page from Yanqin sanshi xiangfu showing twelve little illustrations of a chicken encountering various situations and other creatures, arranged around a center explanatory text box.
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM