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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm not saying I endorse this. But I'm not NOT saying it, either

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International Congress on Medieval Studies @kzooicms.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

ICMS 2026 registration is officially open! Be sure to register early so you secure your spot in limited workshops, concerts, and (limited) Tuesday arrivals. We can't wait to see you there! icms.confex.com/icms/2026/re...

A manuscript illustration of a green dragon with a silly, ferret-like face. Overlaid is a brown rectangle that says "ICMS registration is OPEN! Click here to register".

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Fingers crossed so hard, seriously. I don't blame anyone for not coming - lost funding and the current political situation are very real factors - but we need the numbers in order to keep afloat

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

2K is our magic number to keep us from having to raise registration rates, so that's what we're always aiming for

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

It's really pretty straightforward - images as finding aids - but inexplicably no one seems to mention them

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Yup, so we charge $300 for the labor of stuffing the envelopes and (optimistically) ask you to send us 2000 copies of the flyer. Any leftovers we can give back to you or put on the tables for people to pick up

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Aww, and you haven't even seen my unwritten article on the marginal images

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

1800+ last year, about 500 of them virtual (some opted not to be displayed in the registrant index)

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

3000 only once, in 2014 (the 50th year, and I'm told that was frankly too big), but frequently ca. 2400 pre-covid. Since we came back, we haven't yet broken 2000

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Better angle on this - between the construction and the tree, I'm not getting much past my driveway right now

A city street with half a tree down across it, along with several traffic cones (many of them also fallen down), some construction equipment, and several holes in the street partially filled with dirt

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you Merovingian cursive:

Extremely difficult to read document in cursive script. Actually this is a charter of lady Clotilde, Paris AN/K//2/10, from 673

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The wind last night was so loud I didn't even hear this come down right across the street (the cones and machinery are from unrelated, planned work on the water service lines)

A bright sunny morning with the remains of overnight storm damage. There's half a tree down across the street, and in the foreground there's a big muddy hole in the ground marked off by traffic cones, and a partial view of a construction machine

Another view of a bright sunny morning with the remains of overnight storm damage. There's half a tree down across the street, and in the foreground there's a construction machine

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/05/2025

This is actually rather comforting

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/03/2025

You HAVE to celebrate good things. Even if they’re tiny and fragile and may blow away. In fact, you have to celebrate the fragile ones EVEN HARDER because who knows how many chances you get? If you constantly think how it will all go wrong, if every triumph is met with “but…” you will burn out.

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Benevolent giants? I mean. Hobbits! All around us!

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

VERY much needed, and heartfelt in the most literal sense possible. Joy in spite of the world is ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

And a marvelous time was had by all. Not pictured: an adorable ringbearer and her emotional support unicorn; a cake like a galaxy; assorted elves, wizards, and other fantastical people; and overflowing love. @werewulver.bsky.social and Scribe, we love you! (all photos by @amorefotos.bsky.social)

A cluster of people in various ridiculous and delightful outfits, all smiling widely, centered on Scribe in a hanging wicker chair and @werewulver.bsky.social standing nearby. @merovingians.bsky.social and I are two of the three people in the back row, looking and feeling like benevolent giants among a crowd of hobbits

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I got to see some friends from college (including @merovingians.bsky.social!), and no, I have no idea what I'm doing in the second picture

Scribe sitting enthroned in a wicker hanging chair, with me, @merovingians.bsky.social, and another person leaning around her. I'm wearing a corset with a claddagh emblem, @merovingians.bsky.social has a McIntire clan kilt, and our friend Em is in an elegant blue velvet dress. We all look mischievous and delighted.

Scribe sitting enthroned in a hanging wicker chair with me and Em on either side, smiling widely. My arms are extended forward and it looks vaguely like I might be casting a spell; Em is laughing at me.

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I've been offline a lot lately because of *gestures wildly* all of this, but I gotta share some pictures from a fantasy-themed wedding I went to earlier this month, because how adorable are these lovely people?

@werewulver.bsky.social and my dearly beloved but not yet on bsky friend Scribe. They are standing next to each other beaming in front of a purple-blue mural. Their handmade wedding outfits are vaguely elven: Nate's shirt is blue, with a high collar and a darker blue woven belt, and Scribe's dress is purple with a translucent veil with a mushroom motif over the top. They both look tremendously happy.

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International Congress on Medieval Studies @kzooicms.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Calling all medievalists! Registration for the 60th annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo opened this week! Head to our website to register and learn more about what to expect this May: wmich.edu/medievalcong... #kzooicms #ICMS #medievalstudies

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International Congress on Medieval Studies | Western Michigan University

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I am a half-naked greige house in the February slush

A beige house with peeling paint, covered on its lower half by those foam panels they nail to walls before putting new siding on. The photo is taken from the driveway, which is full of dirty refrozen rutted slush.

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I'm angry about a lot of things. Outraged, frightened, you name it. But in the dark petty corners of my mind, I'm also just plain annoyed. Why do they get to take the small daily joys and triumphs and poison them with the guilt of "I should be doing more" and "but what about people with less"?

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mcc @dryad.technology · 03/02/2025

Trans folks seeking passports: Here's something potentially useful, to a small group. If you are in: Michigan Minnesota New York Vermont Washington You have access to an "EDL". This is a drivers license that can be used for LAND AND SEA (not air) entry to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean. (1/3)

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Enhanced Drivers Licenses: What Are They? | Homeland Security

Enhanced Drivers Licenses (EDLs) are state-issued enhanced drivers licenses that provide proof of identity and U.S. citizenship.

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

ok. because we all could use a little joy here are some silly medieval hedgehogs for hedgehog day:

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I can’t find any archival evidence that that the Langston Hughes poem circulating here today is authentic so here is a sourced Hughes poem, Beaumont to Detroit, 1943, published that year in the magazine Common Ground, in which he compares Hitler and Mussolini to American Jim Crow and the KKK

COMMON GROUND
BEAUMONT TO DETROIT: 1943
Looky here, America What you done done—
Let things drift
Until the riots come.
Cause everything that hitler And mussolini do
Negroes get the same Treatment from you.
Now your policemen
Let the mobs run free.
I reckon you don't care
Nothing about me.
You tell me that hitler Is a mighty bad man.
I guess he took lessons From the ku klux klan.
You jim crowed me
Before hitler rose to power—
And you're sTiLL jim crowing me
Right now, this very hour.
Yet you say we're fighting For democracy.
Then why don't democracy
Include me?
You tell me mussolini's
Got an evil heart.
Well, it mus-a been in Beaumont That he had his start—
I ask you this question Cause I want to know How long I got to fight
BOTH HITLER-AND JIM CROW.
-Langston Hughes, syndicated by the Associated Negro Press, in New York People's Voice and other papers, July 3.

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Aww, my Nimbus approves of your Nimbus

A gray-and-white cat with big green eyes sitting on a coffee table, getting ready to demand cuddles. His whiskers are magnificent, and his fur, while not particularly long, is absurdly soft. Light shining through it shows off its texture.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Anyway what you need to see today is probably one of the 9 puppies that got dropped along with his mother near the ranch. Dad was probably a German Shepherd, mom is the kind of medium sized yellow dog with black mask you get from mutts after many generations.

A black and tan puppy with a short coat whose ears are valiantly trying to stand. They have made it about three quarters of the way. His front paws are both shiny white and enormous for his size.

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Email me at first dot last at wmich.edu! Let's do this!

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Let's see... mid-February gets us to my blitz through Derolez, and then we start a period of "cultural contexts." Any interest in libraries and scriptoria (Feb 17), or southern rotunda (Feb 24)? Or if we jump forward to Mar 31, that gets us to universities and commercial book production.

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Lmk if you ever want to Zoom into my class! I've got 9 grad students enrolled, all very focused and excited about the material. Pretty much optimum teaching conditions!

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Yes, it's stunning! My predecessor at WMU used to work at the Getty, and that's one of the MSS she used to highlight when she taught this course (and thank goodness for her passing down her notes, too! this is very much a community effort)

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Oh hey, I was literally JUST talking about this re: caps for classical auctoritas (except for the exceptions). Wright's chapter in OHoLP is great

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"The outer leaf of each quire (quinio) is parchment, while the remaining leaves are papyrus." Look at this, y'all!

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Wow, papyrus?! I spend so much of my time on 13th/14th-c England this is just bonkers to me

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

It’s #HandwritingDay so I thought I’d share a thread about Renaissance handwritten documents I worked with in the research that led to “Inventing the Renaissance,” and the best and worst scripts I’ve ever seen. 1/? (Continuing countdown to the release of my *absurdly fat* *absurdly orange* book!)

Detail of some handwritten Latin. A note written in the bottom left margin of a book is in smaller, paler text than the bolder letters visible in the top right corner where the main text of the book is. At the top one can read a word which begins "Ne" and then has a bizarre squiggle, The next word is clearly "pro" then a strange line. The following words, to an expert eye, can be read as "sustitudine veterii alterum requirit ut neque hoc neque illud primus Cicero usus est sine altorum" but most of hte words are very hard to make out, many have omitted letters assuming you'll recognize the abbreviation, and only the word "Cicero" is really recognizable to a modern eye.

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Which is to say, I can't exaggerate how timely and wonderful your posts recently have been :)

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Oh thank you! My class was just exploring new Roman cursive today, and that means we've got uncial and half-uncial next week. But first, they get to learn how to navigate Cappelli (plus Ad Fontes, which is one of my very most favorite web resources) on Wednesday

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Olivier Varlan @oliviervarlan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Le partage de Verdun (843) :

Un chat Lotharingie est écrasé entre un chat Francie occidentale et un chat Francie orientale.

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Also, look at how someone in the 14th-c. rewrote the text on every page, which is itself written in 9th-c. rustic capitals. This is good evidence that later readers found rustic capitals challenging to read, as they had gone out of fashion by the time Gothic script developed.

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Why did I not already have this bookmarked?! #medievalsky, you want this!

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