A prayer said once is an event. Repeated across the day, it becomes a practice that holds.
https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com
#medievalstudies #religion #nuntastic #blog #research #repetition #prayer #Catholic #16thc
A prayer said once is an event. Repeated across the day, it becomes a practice that holds.
https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com
#medievalstudies #religion #nuntastic #blog #research #repetition #prayer #Catholic #16thc
What does a singing bear have to do with Chaucer?
A lot, it turns out.
Together with Jennifer S. Carnell (HMML), we trace how the Marian chant Alma redemptoris mater shaped medieval ideas about learning — from schoolrooms to miracles to manuscript images.
Open access:
https://academic.oup.com/nq/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/notesj/gjag011/8496039
#MedievalStudies #Chaucer #Musicology #MedievalMusic #Chant #AlmaRedemptoris #AcWri #Research #AcademicChatter
History is sometimes an act of accumulation: 397 folios. Hundreds of candles. Countless tiny details.
Today’s blog post discusses reading for details that earlier editors thought didn’t matter.
https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/
#AcademicLife #MedievalStudies #nuntastic #SlowScholarship #blog
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/115983651663698761
This is more than scale for scale’s sake. Projects like CoMMA show how AI can shift historiography itself: not by “interpreting” the past, but by restoring access to it. By transcribing manuscripts without normalising spelling or silently resolving abbreviations, AI allows historians to study scribal practice, layout, and linguistic variation at a scale previously impossible.
#Historiography #MedievalStudies #Manuscripts #HistoryOfTheBook
Before we see them, we hear them. Cowbells. Clappers. Warning before encounter. "The real challenge is stigma."
On #WorldLeprosyDay, I explore the uneasy balance of care and exclusion through Cadfael S1E3.
Read more: https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com
#Leprosy #Cadfael #MedievalStudies #Stigma #Care #blog #PandemicMusic #sound #History
Willkommen im Jahr 2026! Wir starten den Monat und in diesem Fall auch das Jahr wie üblich mit einem nagelneuen #Rezensionsüberblick https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/38321
Im vergangenen Dezember wurden auf den einschlägigen Portalen wieder Dutzende mediävistisch relevanter Publikationen rezensiert, wir haben sie in einer handlichen Übersicht zusammengetragen!
#RezÜ #histodons #medievodons
#mediaevistik #medievalstudies #medieval

Willkommen zu unserem monatlichen Rezensionsüberblick. Wie immer stellen wir einen Überblick über die im letzten Monat erschienenen Online-Rezensionen mit mediävistischem Bezug zur Verfügung. Integriert sind die unten genannten Portale. Wer weitere aus allen mediävistischen Disziplinen kennt, hilft uns sehr durch...