tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00In the MiddleCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger11799125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-87842244067219611212022-02-27T11:09:42.910-05:002022-02-27T11:09:42.910-05:00Thank you for this, Cord. These are heavy times. I...Thank you for this, Cord. These are heavy times. I've been thinking a lot about solidarity, resistance to authoritarianism, and the importance of having honest and critical forms of reckoning with the past. My condolences to your family; losing a pet is a difficult and poignant kind of grief.Jonathan Hsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214201468052661183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-31856254845041257712020-08-19T16:17:18.202-04:002020-08-19T16:17:18.202-04:00Hi I run the Parkhead history site and was wonderi...Hi I run the Parkhead history site and was wondering if someone can shed some light on a verse that is engraved into the wall at the back of Glasgow Cathedral, This seems to have been done by an individual, At the resurrection of human animals the whole surface of the globe will be all in a movement like a plantation of life, thank you for any help<br />Tam McCann Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06814569992462294026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-90842726736485032662020-03-02T12:30:59.815-05:002020-03-02T12:30:59.815-05:00Right on, sister! Power to those who give a d**n. ...Right on, sister! Power to those who give a d**n. People with open-minds and open-hearts used to flock to Bloomington because it used to be a safe-haven for people to escape their small-town attitudes towards homophobia, racism, sexism, etc. Now, more and more, Bloomington has turned into this capitalistic, egotistical, faux-liberal environment with ultra-conservative right-wing views. We don't have a democratic mayor who ensures ways to protect its citizens. Also, I was told that a "Board" doesn't have the power to instill policy changes on this level, but that it is up to the city council to change rules and regulations. I want the old Bloomington back! Extract the mayor!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-22237013899016984972020-02-28T10:52:53.208-05:002020-02-28T10:52:53.208-05:00Thanks for doing everything you do.Thanks for doing everything you do.The Raabinsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13485223632544772662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-3628110514063529702019-09-14T13:02:39.460-04:002019-09-14T13:02:39.460-04:00OK Jeffrey, thanks for the update and I'll loo...OK Jeffrey, thanks for the update and I'll look out for the dedicated Rb4R link!Jonathan Hsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214201468052661183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-76847385252728372532019-09-14T12:59:17.565-04:002019-09-14T12:59:17.565-04:00Soon we will have a dedicated RaceB4Race link, but...Soon we will have a dedicated RaceB4Race link, but that will take our development officer returning to town and getting it in place. In the meantime any donations to Public Programs will support the RaceB4Race travel and access fund.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-10837545032164316712019-09-14T12:57:33.725-04:002019-09-14T12:57:33.725-04:00Public Programs, for the time being. Here is the d...Public Programs, for the time being. Here is the direct link:<br />https://giving.asu.edu/OrderApi__campaign?id=a1Y30000000sgEEEAY&site=a0J3000000D2jwmEAB&catalogid=a0V3000000AkS0oJeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-21841406096099663952019-09-14T12:53:06.516-04:002019-09-14T12:53:06.516-04:00Yay! So excited about this Jeffrey, and thanks to ...Yay! So excited about this Jeffrey, and thanks to you and Ayanna (as ever) for really taking the field in new directions.<br /><br />As a founding member of #RaceB4Race and member of its Executive Committee (along with Cord), I am eager to support this effort. Please do let us know when the designated #RaceB4Race account has been set up and I'll be happy to donate! (I just want to be certain that my donation will go directly and exclusively to Rb4R endeavors.)<br /><br />Onward! - JonathanJonathan Hsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214201468052661183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-64088813420396287742019-09-03T05:57:11.507-04:002019-09-03T05:57:11.507-04:00Liverpool has moved the pdf again. It's curren...Liverpool has moved the pdf again. It's currently here: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacuk/modern-languages-and-cultures/liverpoolonline/Werwolf.pdfSleepingLionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07060991001211359718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-18024164260996012272019-06-08T00:05:50.763-04:002019-06-08T00:05:50.763-04:00This is an older post, but I have just come across...This is an older post, but I have just come across it.<br />It is now 2019, and yet I still see copyright on some images at the BL.<br />I am an artist who has reproduced a few manuscript pages using gilding and gouache paint, and have always had to take care that the only images I paint are those which are not copyrighted.<br /><br />I have felt the frustration that these pieces in their original formats are well past any copyright.<br /><br />With the case mentioned previously, do I have to really worry about reproducing work using the photograph as a reference? I am not even really reproducing the photograph, but the original work.<br /><br />There are some pieces at the Morgan Library that I am interested in working on, and I contacted them to find out if I could reproduce them. They asked a further question on whether I was planning on reproducing part or whole pages amd when I replied that it would depend, I never heard back from them and therefore don't have a definitive answer.<br /><br />I know I had to buy a license for a photograph of a roof boss at St George's Chapel (at Windsor Castle) simply to paint it. Funnily enough, because I wasn't going to use the actual photograph for commercial purposes, I could buy the private license, reproduce it in paint, and then this image was considered free for me to use (I made sure). I suppose in this instance, as roof bosses are 3D then the case above would not really work, but they do put people between a rock and a hard place as they do not allow cameras to be used in the chapel. <br />It is a shame because there are quite a few places that do not allow cameras, and so painting beautiful carvings etc. becomes much more expensive for an artist (e.g. Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland).<br /><br />I would love to know people's thoughts on this and whether I should be as worried as I am by copyrights of photos of manuscripts restricting my willingness to paint these beautiful pieces.Rachel Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07667293734954755640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-79061390124025277082019-04-09T01:42:17.358-04:002019-04-09T01:42:17.358-04:00I'm very glad to learn how medieval studies is...I'm very glad to learn how medieval studies is correcting from past racism. I hope I can apply this knowledge to my field as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-41378494667496339212019-04-05T09:49:39.867-04:002019-04-05T09:49:39.867-04:00Thank you for a challenging piece, Dr. Lomuto. You...Thank you for a challenging piece, Dr. Lomuto. Your thoughts and the links you provide are very helpful as I try to resist my own urges to "protect the institution." Nicole Guenther Discenzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08182246996331737281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-17173141343267602252019-03-26T18:54:37.425-04:002019-03-26T18:54:37.425-04:00You must be inundated with arkival references, but...You must be inundated with arkival references, but here is another ecologically-oriented one I stumbled upon the other day: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/photo-ark/<br />Thank you for your post!Ashley Otthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03862938661161041128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-20309185030356144922018-12-27T21:58:00.946-05:002018-12-27T21:58:00.946-05:00It’s laudable that you drew attention to the male/...It’s laudable that you drew attention to the male/female power dynamics here. I wish my teachers had done so in 1991 re Anita Hill, and my profs had done the same in 1998 re Monica Lewinsky. Instead it was a kind of joke—like “how gauche to be offended by sexual misbehavior.” It sent a clear message to young women of my generation—“don’t be so uptight!” ��Christine Pnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-4076409784701767582018-09-16T18:54:11.812-04:002018-09-16T18:54:11.812-04:00Thanks for this, Leila. I added "Bisclavret&q...Thanks for this, Leila. I added "Bisclavret" to my early Brit Lit survey course this semester, and your post is really informing how I want to approach it. EllenGrendelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11158137325734540541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-11464146585888257132018-08-11T13:25:21.189-04:002018-08-11T13:25:21.189-04:00I really enjoyed your fanfic, and it made me think...I really enjoyed your fanfic, and it made me think in new ways about Margery Kempe and how to teach her. Thanks for sharing this and the assignment you use. Nicole Guenther Discenzahttps://ndiscenza.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-3090935120914682862018-07-27T14:38:52.462-04:002018-07-27T14:38:52.462-04:00Watch Hannah Gadsby's "Nanette." May...Watch Hannah Gadsby's "Nanette." Maybe then (if you haven't watched it already), you can understand a bit better what is happening right now. This post simply strikes the wrong chord for many of us. "Nanette" sums up why.Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-35758126112444167032018-05-06T14:23:57.479-04:002018-05-06T14:23:57.479-04:00Genesis of the ship has been updated. Thank you St...Genesis of the ship has been updated. Thank you Steve -- for everything!Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-8546508745855493412018-05-06T14:18:57.457-04:002018-05-06T14:18:57.457-04:00A lovely post, undoing its own pre-emptive disclai...A lovely post, undoing its own pre-emptive disclaimers. I'm moved to comment on the blog, even though no one comments on blogs anymore. Onward to fresh woods and pastures new! One minor footnote: I'm pretty sure Jonathan Hsy named the ark "Friend-ship."Steve Mentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02927244468764583378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1224216304976229462018-04-26T20:38:49.242-04:002018-04-26T20:38:49.242-04:00Fixed it. Thank you!!Fixed it. Thank you!!Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-30178247049615286152018-04-26T20:26:33.017-04:002018-04-26T20:26:33.017-04:00Link not working?Link not working?Metanoiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11295070444292557682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-76251272727034433742018-04-10T18:49:30.406-04:002018-04-10T18:49:30.406-04:00Thank you very much for this post. I had a thorou...Thank you very much for this post. I had a thoroughly nasty and deliberately inaccurate review of my first book proposal - someone who commented on aspects of the book which were not supplied to them and misrepresented my work. The publishers allowed me to respond and to resubmit an expanded proposal, but it really derailed my career. It is indeed heartening to know that I'm in good company and that it need not be fatal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-28706059952729196022018-04-04T01:00:34.561-04:002018-04-04T01:00:34.561-04:00I am with Anna: "fascinating piece". I a...I am with Anna: "fascinating piece". I am a Jamaican with Chinese cousins,East Indian half brothers and sisters, European great great grand uncles and aunties on my grandmother's side. <br />Thank you for the understanding;the lesson. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00303386977063292017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-41515732786786094492018-03-18T14:07:10.199-04:002018-03-18T14:07:10.199-04:00Thank you for all of this. It resonates especially...Thank you for all of this. It resonates especially for me because it shows the disconnects that have plagued this conversation much better than I have been able to. One thing that struck me in both, but especially the second, of Chad’s posts is the absence of he early Middle Ages. Chad refers to the scholarship of C10-11, but shows no indication that he’s conversant with work done on pre-11th C Iberia. In fact, much of that work is along the lines of what you say has been happening in “Iberianist” scholarship, i.e., regularly challenging the nationalist traditions and institutions that sought to portray a particular sort of “Spanish” history. For me, one of the real problems with the way this conversation has gone is that the way so much of it has been framed seems not ‘for the sake of heaven.’ Because I know many of the people involved personally, I have to believe that they are. But honestly, arguments that start with the assumption that medievalists (and early medievalists have been called out especially here and elsewhere, as have the Iberianists — nobody seems to worry about the Byzantinists...) are doing nothing, or not enough, or don’t care about racism in the field make it very hard to believe that everyone is acting in good faith. That’s true in any dialogue where one side initiates the dialogue with accusations, rather than “what are you doing now, and are there ways we can all do better?” I see Chad’s posts as carrying on in the same vein, especially in that the ‘accusatory’ questions reflect little familiarity with what is being, or has been done to address issues of race, etc. The examples for Iberian history that you’ve given yourself and in citing Velasco are very similar to ones that can be found in my own field of continental Europe from Late Antiquity through the Carolingian period, The risk factor for non-Iberianists is obviously different — none operated under the very real threat of the Franco regime, after all. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-40071383817928612402018-03-18T09:03:02.342-04:002018-03-18T09:03:02.342-04:00Let me also add, as the one who was making the sha...Let me also add, as the one who was making the sharp distinction, that I'm not wedded to the terminology in any way; I was working with what we got in the initial post and going from there. What I was really trying to get at was that there are two constituencies in the field; but I'm not particularly invested in what we call them. One thing that labels can do is serve as a quick shorthand to outsiders and tbh, when I'm talking to someone outside my field I'm more likely to say I'm a Hispanist, on geographic grounds, because Iberianist doesn't mean anything to most people. And inside/adjascent to the field I describe what I work on rather that saying that I am a this or a that in large part because modern field distinctions really don't serve medieval work well. In fact, part of my critique of Dangler is that "non-modern Iberia" is, in a way, the perfect name for our object of study but also totally unhelpful as a label because it encodes internal debates without having a legible external face. —SJPS.J. Pearcehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13768230178276229294noreply@blogger.com