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Danielle Alesi, PhD @daniellealesi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I think I was normal until I started talking about crocodiles at the end… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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Podcast Episode · New Books Network · 01/09/2026 · 45m

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Danielle Alesi, PhD @daniellealesi.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

paper and creative project presentations in the feast and famine class are underway and we had some very fun presentations! pictured here: a video game about eating as a medieval nun and a mukbang youtube video of homemade medieval recipes!

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Danielle Alesi, PhD @daniellealesi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

the feast and famine class played a table top dice game in class today, using dice rolls to put together a medieval feast! 10/10 the most fun and animated day of class!

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I sing of bees and a bear BL Harley 3448; Flore de virtu e de costumi (Flowers of Virtue and of Custom); 15th century; Italy, N. (Padua?); f.10v

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Danielle Alesi, PhD @daniellealesi.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

“I’m more of an ideas man” - overheard in my class during group work

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Danielle Alesi, PhD @daniellealesi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Looking for scholars (especially early career and graduate students) to write book reviews for Terrae Incognitae. We already have some great books available like... "Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map," Edited by Laura Hostetler 1/3

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

“The East African coast is home to the longest contiguous chain of urban settlements on the continent.” The nearly 2,000 miles of coastline is dotted with several hundred Swahili cities and towns which flourished during the Middle Ages. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-history-...

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A history of the medieval coastal towns of Mozambique ca. 500-1890 CE.

The East African coast is home to the longest contiguous chain of urban settlements on the continent.

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

These two glass plaques show Ariadne & Bacchus. One shows Bacchus watching Ariadne, who has been abandoned by Theseus. The other shows Ariadne reclining as a woman pours her wine. Cameo glass was created by layering & carving glass in contrasting colours. 📍 House of Marcus Fabius Rufus, Pompeii

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Danielle Alesi, PhD @daniellealesi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

the ta keeps falling asleep during midterm grading

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University of Reading Special Collections @uorspeccoll.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

How would you draw an animal you had never seen before? Edward Topsell’s 1658 ‘History of four-footed beasts…’ has illustrations of animals we recognise, as well as monsters. Although he writes about manticores, dragons and sea-serpents, even Topsell starts to question unicorns! [Cole 004Q]

Open book with large detailed illustration of a rhinoceros

Spine of Topsell’s book, bound in leather

Open pages describing sea serpents, with an illustration of one devouring a ship

Open page to Topsell’s description of unicorns, as well as an illustration

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Please get those applications in to become our journal’s new co-editors!

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Danielle Alesi, PhD @daniellealesi.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Got to represent Nazareth University tonight as a sponsor for the Rochester Museum and Science Center’s Uncorked and On Tap event! I am so happy to work at Naz and so happy to live in the city of Rochester, with everything it has to offer. Cheers!

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Rochester LGBTQ+ Together @roclgbtqtogether.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Please consider showing some love to Greater Rochester LGBTQ+ Mutual Aid! In just their first month of existence, Emergency Relief Fund has issued $500 in support and Trans Joy Fund has issued over $600 in support, both within our local community. These two funds really need your support right now!

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Danielle Alesi, PhD @daniellealesi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

@greenleejw.bsky.social visited the Feast and Famine class today to talk about, you guessed it, EELS! Not only did the students love it and keep telling me what a cool experience this was, but I got to hear more ab the work of one of my favorite “internet friends”! Thanks so much for visiting!

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

hey book nerds, uchicago press is doing their 90% off sale. i haven't looked through, but they usually have a huge title list, many from smaller partner presses. also: the website has a different discount code than the mailer. if SAVE25 doesn't work, try GREATCHICAGO25.

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Book Sale Catalog from the University of Chicago Press

The Book Sale Catalog from the University of Chicago Press offers deep discounts on hundreds of books we publish, plus books from the fine publishers we distribute. The Great Chicago Book Sale is our ...

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 21/02/2025

hey! me & @lollardfish.bsky.social wrote this piece for @slate.bsky.social about what's hot in 2025, because it's the Middle Ages! we see a retreat to the medieval as a (tacit) act of resistance against techbro authoritarianism. find out why... please read and share #medievalsky

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Every Era Has Its Own Way of Thinking About the Middle Ages. Here’s 2025’s.

Tapestries, stone walls, chain mail, crossbows. This era’s medieval mashup has it all.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Men: Ugh I struggle to even finish a book anymore my attention span is so cooked Women: It's called A Field of Fury & Roses and it's the prequel to A Palace of Thorns which I enjoyed almost as much as its sequel, A Maze of Mist & Fire. Each book is 800 pages of inter-species elven smut

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Danielle Alesi, PhD @daniellealesi.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This special issue was a joy to be included in! Definitely check it out (maybe not while eating though…)

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The @artinstitutechi.bsky.social Lands a Staggering Haul of Neoclassical Masterpieces Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz have gifted the museum more than 2,000 works spanning the 16th to 19th century. by Adam Schrader for artnet news.artnet.com/art-world/ar... news.artnet.com/art-world/ar...

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Art Institute of Chicago Lands Staggering Haul of Neoclassical Artworks

The Art Institute of Chicago has received a massive gift of French art from collectors Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Tournament Shield (Targe) c. 1500 Used in Germany & Austria for Hussarisch Turnier (tournament in Hungarian-style costume). The motto reads, "Although I am the hated bird, I rather enjoy that" Below the quartered arms of the intermarried Tänzl & Rindscheit families. (Met Museum)

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Revenge killing for predation of livestock (and attacks on humans) are common reasons for attacks on predators. The coexistence of people, livestock, and predators is a difficult one that requires a great deal of investment and buy in from government and locals. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Shot, poisoned and beaten to death: why leopard killings are soaring in Pakistan

A wave of incidents threatens the survival of the species in the country, say conservationists

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/02/2025

not everything you love in your teenage years holds up but Green Day was cooking with American Idiot

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Danielle Alesi, PhD @daniellealesi.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

spouse is making me watch “gladiator” for the first time. do we think i’m going to be able to be normal about this or nah?

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Danielle Alesi, PhD @daniellealesi.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I’ve decided the last chapter of my book is just none of my business. I can’t look at it anymore and plan to never do so again

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Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

1/2 Went to an international Holocaust Remembrance Day event today, and during the speeches, was reminded of the best piece of writing advice I’ve ever received. “Using passive voice hides the people who did things- and makes it seem like misogyny or racism just happens.”

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James Coverley @jamescoverley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

#MosaicMonday #AncientBluesky #RomanHistory From the Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily, some rather alarmingly sized chariot-racing ducks. They bred them big back then - had special calipers for it and everything!

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Danielle Alesi, PhD @daniellealesi.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

this is a little too relatable to me

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Danielle Alesi, PhD @daniellealesi.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

i’ve never been so stressed in all my life #billsmafia

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Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Cats! Rats! Bats! Today I am going to chat about witchcraft and animals. This is the last part to debunk the alewife and modern pop culture witch stereotype. Today, the part of the myth that states the cat familiar is from alewives using cats to keep mice from the malt. False.

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a black cat is sitting on top of a cauldron holding a stick in its mouth .

Alt: a black cat is sitting on top of a cauldron holding a stick and stirring. Cat is Salem from Sabrina the Teenage Witch TV show

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Chess Piece of a Queen Spanish 12th century Walrus ivory, which was cheaper than the elephant kind. (Walters Art Museum)

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Danielle Alesi, PhD @daniellealesi.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

the feast and famine students effectively derailed my lecture today by asking me to talk about empress matilda and the anarchy. i’m a sucker and they know it

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Danielle Alesi, PhD @daniellealesi.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

If you or a scholar you know is interested in writing a book review for this, I am the book review acquisition editor for Terrae Incognitae’s Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries and I would love to see this in our next issue!

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Danielle Alesi, PhD @daniellealesi.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

this semester i am trying out using a discord server for my upper level classes to build community outside the classroom. in just one day they are already chatting, laughing (mostly at the strange things i say), and helping one another figure out schedules etc. i will continue to report back…

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Yes, there have long been discussions about sex as a spectrum, not a binary. This is not new. Here's my review of a book about the medieval debate. www.academia.edu/83211724/Rev...

The opening of a review of the 1986 book, Robert Reisert, Die siebenkammerige Uterus: Studien zur mittelalterlichen Wirkungsgeschichte und Entfaltung eines embryologischen Gebärmuttermodells ("The Seven-Celled Uterus: Studies on the Medieval Influence and Development of an Embryological Model of the Womb"). Link in post.

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I've just started reading Paleontology in Public, which explores 11 case studies of how the science of paleontology interacts with the public understanding of it. Huge congrats to @chrismanias.bsky.social and 12+ co-authors, it's been a joy to see this come together. This book is FREE here:

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Palaeontology in Public

Since the establishment of concepts of deep time in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, palaeontology has been one of the most high-profile sciences. Dinosaurs, mammoths, human ancesto...

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Medieval Hunting Deaths: A Thread Hunting could be very dangerous (not just for animals) in the Middle Ages. Accidents happened and everyone from kings and earls to lowly peasants could be killed by a stray arrow, a hanging branch or a wild animal defending itself. 🧵7

A man in blue awkwardly holds a bow in front of him. He appears to have misfired the arrow, which is up near his face and facing the wrong way.

Reference: British Library Add MS 70000

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Get thee to a nunnery ✝️

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Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

In love with this little guy and its toot-toot snoot 🥰#Peccary-form Ocarina Greater Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, 300 BCE - 500 CE Marbella incised modeled clay with slip H 4 5/8 in, 11.75 cm; W 2 3/4 in, 6.99 cm; D 6 in, 15.24 cm Denver Art Museum 1995.787 www.denverartmuseum.org/en/object/19...

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Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

#PenguinAwarenessDay 🐧: Magellanic #Penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) on 17th c. Dutch maps of Strait of Magellan: 1. 1602 Olivier Van Noort (I think this is the earliest depiction of one on a map?) storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img... 2. 1635 Jodocus Hondius library.princeton.edu/visual_mater...

Detail of the "Pinguyn" (Penguin) on a 1602 Dutch map from Olivier van Noort (1558-1627), the first Dutchman to circumnavigate the world. (uncolored printed map, single penguin depicted)

Detail of the "Pingnini Aves" (penguins) on a 1635 Dutch map from Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612). (hand-colored map, two penguins depicted)

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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

A bit of history of the human-wolf relationship. 🐺 #animalstudies #animalshistories #landmammals #envhum

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Danielle Alesi, PhD @daniellealesi.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

my brain feels like applesauce but the article is drafted 🫡

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