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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Theoretical question: how different would the world be if Pelagius had "won" against Augustine of Hippo? #AcademicSky #Medieval #Booksky

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Juliane Witte @julianewitte.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I'm organising sessions about medieval female networks and communities for next year's (2027) @imc-leeds.bsky.social!! The CFP is purposefully broad and open, so do share with whoever you think might be interested and hit me up with any questions! #MedievalSky

In line with IMC’s thematic focus on communities, this series of sessions will explore female networks and communities in the Middle Ages from a variety of methodological, theoretical, and disciplinary angles. While many medieval sources focus expressly on men and male characters, relationships between women and female characters exist, even if they are sometimes hidden away at the margins. The goal of these sessions is to put female networks, communities, and relationships at the centre of our focus and thereby gain a more nuanced insight into the Middle Ages and our engagement with the time period and its various outputs.

In this context, both “network” and “community” are defined as broadly as possible, namely as relationships of any sort between medieval women, female characters in texts, and/or female audiences (both medieval and modern, both scholarly and popular). The aim of these sessions is to explore where and how such networks and communities can be located, how they are depicted, what effect they have upon their narratives or their historical surroundings, and how we connect to them now. The desire is for these sessions to be as broad and exploratory as possible, inviting scholars from a variety of disciplines.

Papers could address intersectional communities, religious networks, the performance of community, inclusion/exclusion, and much more in historical, literary, and/or material contexts. Doctoral Candidates, late-stage MA students, and Early Career Researchers are actively encouraged to send in proposals. I am planning an edited volume based on these sessions.

Please send an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short biography to juliane.witte@uni-tuebingen.de by the 31st of July 2026. Please do state whether you’d prefer to attend in person or online. Feel free to also reach out with any questions!

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm organizing a panel for Kalamazoo's 2027 ICMS! IF you are interested, feel free to apply! #AcademicSky #MedievalSky #medieval #Book #gender #cfp #conference

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

People like to claim the #Humanities aren't challenging, but have they ever collated a manuscript? #sweating #bookhistory

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Whenever I post about equal rights and basic freedoms, it's *amazing* how quickly people who can't stand the thought of these things wriggle out of the woodwork....

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

How does everyone handle closely examining violent, discriminatory text? Esp if the audience didn't respond? Close reading is important BUT institutional, so facing down harmful language wasn't its intent. I feel like I'm just recommitting violent descriptions when I'm analyzing them. #academicsky

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Sometimes my students make a comment about stuff that happened "in the 1900s." Then I realize they were all born around 2008.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15/10/2025

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Some people feel less God-breathed and more yanked out of the grave of Flannery O'Connor.

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

*SPOILERS* I can think of no good reason for #PBS's #Victoria to kill off Nancy Skerret unless they were doing some sort of historically-accurate rendition, and even then no. I'm going to need a minute.

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Found a cool timeline that I thought was worth sharing: A history of printing, and therefore a history of human progress. printinghistory.org/timeline/

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History of Printing Timeline - American Printing History Association

History of Printing Timeline

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

In the wake of the BLS firing, here are the appropriate pages from #Orwell's #1984

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

People keep blaming 🍊 for the GOP's ineffectiveness on #Epstein, but has anyone wondered if...they are on the list? Such as, is the Heritage Foundation on the list? Religious fundamentalism has a very bad track record with *cough cough* child abuse.

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The fact that people are outing how deeply awful they are, in public, on Jubilee is ridiculous, but I suppose that's where we are now.

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

"...from the moment one leaves to others than the iudges ... the task of deciding whether the condemned man 'deserves' to be placed in semi-liberty or conditional liberty... one is handing over to them mechanisms of legal punishment to be used at their discretion..." #Foucault #DisciplineandPunish

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Indiana University-Bloomington has just cut ~20% of its degrees and programs. At the same time, President Pamela Whitten, whom the faculty and student body VOTED OUT because of her incompetence, has just received 1) a contract extension, 2) raise to 900,000, 3) 200,000 bonus.

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Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees

Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The video really only includes information from the 17th century forward, emphasizing a Eurocentric view of California's history. Because historiography tends to privilege documented evidence, the collective memories from indigenous pre-histories may not have been included. youtu.be/iNni60n2qIE?...

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THE HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA - in 13 Minutes

YouTube video by Knowledgia

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I just watched TikTok lives of the #LAprotests. The story was the same across each one. The protests were peaceful, and then law enforcement escalated the situation and either provoked a reaction or began arresting people for simply standing around.

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Guys. Guys. Daddy and Daddy are fighting. #popcorn

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

When I die, don't bury me in satin. Stick me in a peat bog so archaeologists can find me in a thousand years and scratch their heads.

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I just graduated with an MLS in Library Science, specializing in Rare Books and Manuscripts from Indiana University-Bloomington! Now, to finish that English PhD dissertation.... 😅 #AcademicSky #MedievalSky #BookTok #RareBooks

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The more this year unfolds, the more I find myself thinking back to the #Kingsman film.

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

That's it. Indiana University -Bloomington is struggling to fund (re: can't) its grad students due to the federal cuts. It's official. I just ..... I mean, yeah, I'm scared. It's already very expensive to live. #AcademicSky #MedievalSky

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Today I'm skimming "Women & Christian Origins", Ed. by Kraemer and D'Angelo (1999). It provides a series of essays which explore the engagement and literature of women, #gender, and #sex in early Christianity (Greece, Rome). The essays discuss canonization, gnosticism (Gospel of Mary), & ~heresy~.

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

It's been almost a week, and the absence left by Pope Francis is still quite palpable. While I'm not a Catholic, I have always admired his courage and compassion as he stood up to the corruption and evil displayed by world-powers.

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

When I had the opportunity to visit the #Vatican #Archives last year with the #SangalliInstitute, we visited the Archives of the Inquisition. One of the books they had, obviously, was the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (the list of #bannedbooks).

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I just want to mention that academics are, as a group, used to receiving Reviewer 2 feedback, regrouping, collaborating, finding creative solutions, and returning with a stronger next draft. #NEH #MLIS #AcademicSky

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

When I was learning grammar as a child, I thought even then that the idea of "subordinated" clauses sounded scammy. scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e... #AcademicSky #medieval #lexicon #dictionary #booksky

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Google Scholar

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I heard someone reference crypto as a mystery they did not want to be shattered with explanations or realities. If techbro language doesn't explain romance scams, then I don't know what will.

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Medieval Studies has historically underestimated women's literacy and involvement in manuscript production. This study by the University of Bergen goes a long way to finding raw (if conservative) estimates of women's creation of texts! #AcademicSky #MedievalSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The hidden hand of medieval female scribes

A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 to 1626 CE were copied by female scribes, with a probable total exceeding 11...

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Last night, I had a long conversation with my grandmother, who is an ardent T supporter. She has wanted me to find a job close to her and the rest of the family. We miss each other. This is difficult to do in #academia. A government(-funded) position was my best hope. This is a really weird time.

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

*Christmas music starts to play* Me: it's not even Thanksgiving yet!!! Also Me: *automatically starts singing along*

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Lindsay Gill @lindsaygill.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I didn't realize how much I missed Twitter...

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