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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

And it has a bloody side wound!

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

"king of the Franks" Among the wurst puns I've seen

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

This was such a wonderful exercise and a great class!

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Oh look how she has changed! The latin alphabet from circa 600-1200 C.E. I am at @rarebookschool.bsky.social this week for a paleography course led by @lisafdavis.bsky.social

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The first of these two photos is the frequency of use of different spellings of (lemma=)"dog" in early English texts - 'dog' being by far the most common. Shout out to doggue with 24 hits

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Day 2 of Dream Lab @pricelab.bsky.social complete! Today, we covered OCR and HTR and how to process unstructured data (texts) into structured data through Tf-Idf. After that, we learned 3 methods to understand similarities between texts using Tf-Idf, LDA (topic modeling), and XML tagging!

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

First day at @pricelab.bsky.social Dream Lab done! For my course on Digital Methods for Early Modern Books, I got to see some beautiful early modern books, including this New Kreüterbůch full of herbal/medicinal plants! Pictured are various squashes and mouse-ear hawkweed. QK41 .F815 1543

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This looks like playmobil rather than lego! Fun that there is a giant (life size ish?) version

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Several of the students in the class I am TAing this semester are also in a course on Beowulf with @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social One used their own translations of Beowulf throughout their essay on queenship in Beowulf for my class - inter-departmental crossover is the best!

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I will also be performing as part of "Let's Dance! A Participatory Workshop for Researching Medieval Dance Composition and Performance" by Karen Silen. The workshop takes an embodied and creative approach to understanding lost dance choreographies - it is beginner friendly and intended to be fun!

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I will preside over session 220 - Performing Piety: Female Saints' Embodied Devotion and Devotion to Saints, which features work on Margaret of Cortona, St. Æthelthryth, St. Ursula, and St. Margaret. It promises to be a fascinating convention on embodied and ecstatic piety!

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

That talk will be part of session 398 - A Sensory History of Devotion in the Late Medieval Mediterranean World (2): Collective Worship Saturday 3:30-5:00 p.m.

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

"In 1518 Strasbourg, people began to incessantly dance. In response, the magistrate sent them on pilgrimage to the nearby shrine dedicated to St. Vitus. This journey of devotional healing suggests the perceived meditative and spiritual power of pilgrimage in the mountains surrounding Strasbourg"

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Hard to believe it is just over a week until @kzooicms.bsky.social ! I will be presenting, presiding, and performing this K'zoo! I will present a facet of my research on the Strasbourg 1518 St. Vitus dance, focusing on the devotional aspect of treating the dancers through pilgrimage. (More below)

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Me at the beginning of the semester versus the end: (BSB 4 P.o.germ.111 d)

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Teaching Old English elegies to my students today - thinking back on almost exactly four years ago when I took medieval lit and learned about these poems for the first time from @jenlorden.bsky.social !

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

My students told me in class on Thursday that Asser is 'glazing' Alfred in his biography lmao

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Almost more funny than it's existance, the text on the stock Exchange box says "corner the burlesque stock market"

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Games I didn't know needed to exist: Birds, the game, and Gavitt's Stock Exchange, the game, and slightly creepy outfit making games....(I think she's watching me) Both are located at Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Interesting religious leaflets slipped inside a card game box (~ 1889) @rarebookschool.bsky.social Very anti-alcoholic messaging, maybe Protestant/prohibition era? On the back is a story and reading comprehension questions. Unclear if they are from before/after the time of purchase. Probably after?

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

He's actually holding a pen in his right hand, and the flat thing at his hip is some kind of writing surface!

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

What you got there Shakespeare? 🤨 Authors cards @rarebookschool.bsky.social

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Re-reading Stripping of the Altars and thinking a lot about community, exclusion, and illness. "Exlcusion from the cult of the saint could be experienced as exclusion from community" "The healing mediated by the saint restored more than health to the sick" Healing meant restoring to community

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

MA thesis defended! A few very minor revisions to make, then it will be submitted! One step closer to the sweet, sweet gender neutral honorific. Looking forward to writing more about the weird and wacky ways medieval people cared for each other.

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Very early 18th century weaving patterns @folger.edu (V.a.540)!!! A couple of these look like twills and most are diamonds - several patterns in the book required up to 16 harnesses! The book is little - about 4.5" by 2.5" and also features recipes for bovine and human child cures.

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Had an absolutely glorious time today looking at medieval books of hours and breviaries at Albert and Shirley Small special collections! @rareuva.bsky.social I always am fascinated by looking at signs of use - seeing how worn some pages were and where other codices fell open to was amazing!

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The 60th ICMS this Spring had just over 1500 people listed in the registrants index - that may not reflect actual attendance though. I'm sure some of those people were virtual, and perhaps there were some attendees not in the book.

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

What platforms are folks using for DH projects which are object-focused? I'm familiar with StoryMaps, what else is out there for online presentations of objects along with descriptive and brief analysis? Thanks in advance!

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The talk was fascinating and indeed had lots of pretty pictures as promised!

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

What time zone is the 6 pm time?

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I just registered! This sounds absolutely fascinating!

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The twirling, contagiously joyful, always-almost-out-of-control moments of a contra (or other social) dance. The joy and unconditional love of small children. The moment in reading (or listening to a podcast, or to a lecture) when a new idea changes one's view of the world.

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Do you think the ban of Tik Tok will make a difference in the experience in schools now that other apps (Insta, TouTube, etc) have added short video content features as well? (Not critical of your take, curious for a teacher's opinion)

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Dr. Whittle also mapped the concerns of the audience about generative AI and it was fascinating to see - highly rated were student plagiarism and intellectual property issues.

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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I attended a lovely talk by @sophiewhittle.bsky.social on the role of LLMs and generative AI in Digital Scholarly Editing! I'm excited to see discussions about how AI comes to bear on early period work. I'm left reflecting on the utility of AI and the (modern) biases that it may introduce to texts.

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