So pleased to have contributed to this article in the latest issue of JMMS on cartulary editing and analysis!
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Yvonne Seale
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Historian of #medieval women, especially the #nuntastic kind; lover of tea; associate professor of history at SUNY Geneseo.
Thrilled to have written something for "Childhood and the Irish", edited by Salvador Ryan, a collection which explores so many aspects of growing up in Ireland over the centuries. My contribution is about piecing together the life of an ancestor who was likely abandoned at the Founding Hospital, Dublin.
https://wordwellbooks.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2194&search=childhood
Built in the early 13th century for the Conti di Segni (the family of Pope Innocent III), the Torre has survived multiple earthquakes—will it survive this? I very much hope the injured and trapped workers are all rescued and recover speedily. The video is so unnerving to watch.
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/1103/1541881-collapse-rome/
Autocorrect: saving you from a dire fate at the hands of the scribe-tormenting Tutivillus?
"Tutivillus complains that “I muste eche day [...] brynge my master a thousande pokes full of faylynges, & of neglygences in syllables and wordes… else I must be sore beten."
Viabundus is a neat tool I just came across: a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going from Amiens to Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.
https://www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstrassen/map.php
A heads up: the platform I've been using to host my searchable database of #medieval Premonstratensian sisters is ending its free hosting plan on short notice.
Since I can't justify spending $100/month (!) on this, or find a viable alternative, it'll go away on Oct 1. If you'd been planning to use it for any reason, look those nuns up now, I guess!
The Sisters of Prémontré: A Prosopographical Database
A Premonstratensian Atlas is a directory of communities and properties relating to the Premonstratensian Order in the Middle Ages (ca. 1120-ca. 1550). Entries may be filtered by country, diocese, circary (Premonstratensian equivalent of a province), or searched for individually or using the map feature. There is an accompanying bibliography, and a prosopographical database of women who were members of the order, ca. 1120-ca. 1600.
"Among the recipients of papal letters sent to Ireland, few women have been addressed by name by a pope, but one of them was Agnes (Agnetha Ní Máelshechlainn), abbess of St Mary's, Clonard. Also known as 'An Caillech Mór' ('The Great Nun’), Agnes was part of the Uí Máelsechlainn family, the founders and patrons of the monastery. The papal privilege issued in 1195 by Pope Celestine III is one of the few sources that allows for an insight into the history of St Mary’s, Clonard, and Agnes’ tenacity in defending her monastery from expropriation during the English conquest of Ireland."
I don't think anyone had Prevost very high on the lists of the papabili—wow. What a moment to get to witness, the first pope from the United States. (The first pope to be a baseball and/or American football fan?)
I've updated my "#Premonstratensian Order in the Middle Ages" bibliography site. It now contains 6,250 entries and covers:
— Secondary lit on the order, 1480s-2025
— 22 languages from Basque to Swedish
— Array of digital and print sources
— Themes, houses and individuals
https://www.geneseo.edu/researchweb/kerkoapp/seale-premontre/bibliography/
