Queer. Feminist. Medievalist. she/they. Author: Digital Codicology. Co-PI: βAlways Here: a Queer Trans Global Medieval Sourcebook.' Coiner of the #CaswellTest.
Joined August 2013
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27 Apr 2024
Digital Codicology's price in hardcover is steep ($80)
I'm sorry about that, and wish there were a cheaper paperback available! (Maybe in a few years, if sales are strong enough?)
In the meantime, you can get 20% off ($64) when you buy from SUP & use my author code: WHEARTY20
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29 Aug 2024
RT @BLMedieval: Something very, very exciting is happening @britishlibrary
Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, our new major exhibition,β¦
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26 Aug 2024
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25 Jul 2024
My book All Boys Arenβt Blue has had 7 criminal charges, and is virtually banned in all high school libraries in Texas, Florida, Georgia and Iowa (where an educator can go to jail for a year with a 1500 fine to give it to a βminorβ)
Fight for the right to read
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13 Jul 2024
This article is about massive flight delays in Europe. But itβs definitely applicable to the US.
Recommended reading if you, like me, are currently sitting on the runway because (as the pilot is saying) understaffing in American air traffic control means your plane canβt launch
13 Jul 2024
Air traffic control issues risk disrupting summer travel, warn airlines ift.tt/5YzDjKw
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13 Jul 2024
~3 hrs after boarding, weβre (maybe?) about to leave. Ooof.
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11 Jul 2024
Tell them you have important codicological questions and/or need to recheck the collation. It wonβt be a lie!
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11 Jul 2024
Indeed - sometimes digital images are easier to read than originals (though I remember facsimiles of microfiche ... eek!). It's having both available that counts.
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11 Jul 2024
Materiality - letterlocking, water damage, uninked writing, seal quality, digital flattening ... the list goes on ... it's not just about bookfondling (though that is part of it ...)
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11 Jul 2024
Would suggest you need to examine the paper stock, ink qualities etc? Clues to watermarks?
Iβll never forget my tactile connection with the past when unfolding a pack of previously unread ordination papers & letters. Had to surreptitiously dab my eyes! π₯²π
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10 Jul 2024
A reminder to any undergraduate/graduate students focused on disability studies or disability history: I'm happy to look over your grad school apps, do informational interviews, or look at grant/fellowship materials. 1/
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10 Jul 2024
Just quote Benjamin on aura!
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10 Jul 2024
You need to engage with the materiality-texture, watermarks, inclusions, page dirt, co-binding, damageβ¦digital imagery doesnβt serve any of these queries. And IKWYM-βWhy do you need to see THIS copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle?β. I get the preservation instinct, but yeesh.
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10 Jul 2024
if you've written one of these send it to me?
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10 Jul 2024
would love to read a collection of people's 'how it moves / feels / I just want to touch this thing / mystical reasons I can barely articulate / aura desire materiality' justifications
like a long prose poem, w glimpses of gold & parchment & binding & ink flickering in and out
10 Jul 2024
Itβs funny to have written a wholeass book about digitization β and be asked βcanβt you just use the digital objectβ and be like βwellβ¦ maybe? But I also just want to touch this thing π€·π» because mystical reasons I can barely articulate? Because aura, desire, materiality?β
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10 Jul 2024
Quires. I've never been denied access. One curator once told me they'd do it for me, I politely refused and brought my case forward abt why one doing it oneself is crucial.
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10 Jul 2024
Anything interesting going on with the binding, obviously.
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10 Jul 2024
Also, any signs of correction, self-correction by the scribe, different ink etc etc can easily just be missed in a copy.
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