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Thomas Hendrickson

@thomashendrickson.bsky.social
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Latin philology. Latin teaching/learning. Book history. Latin in the early modern era (and other eras).

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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love early modern subtitles:
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Word of the Day: Falsus-Burgus.
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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Exciting times ahead for those of us working in the Vatican Archives and Library. It looks like they're expanding into the parking in front? infovaticana.com/en/2026/09/1... Just, please, please, keep these places open during the building work. That 3-year closure of the BAV was deeply traumatic.
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The Vatican Library and Apostolic Archive will have a new building inside Vatican City – INFOVATICANA
Pope Leo XIV has ordered the construction of a new building within Vatican City primarily intended to expand the spaces of the Vatican Apostolic Library and the Vatican Apostolic Archive, after the gr...
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I would love to visit a bookshop organized not by genre, but by smell.
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Jumping onto this (and building on the work of Julia Hillner, cited here): if you're interested in bringing some of these sources into the Latin classroom, this open-access edition includes the letters of Galla Placidia, Anicia Juliana, and other imperial women: pixeliapublishing.org/book/letters...
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Is there any good historical fiction about the third century crisis? I would read the heck out of that.
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm there right now! Just walked into some guy's house (door was open?). Lots of good cheese here, and I'm pigging out. Huh, furniture in this place sure seems big...hang on,
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Me (laboring): How can write a letter of rec that conveys something genuine, something specific about this student? Naviance (Letter Upload Site): How bout some slop?
Letter of rec website that includes "compose with AI" button.
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Spotted this on Naviance this morning when I was uploading a letter of rec. Are they *encouraging* recommenders to use LLMs?
Photo of tabs that say Upload File and Compose (with AI stars)
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Spotted just before the First Day of Class: an omen that all my cringy bad jokes will all land this semester.
A picture of a school bus. On the front, the words "School Bus" have been altered to read "Cool Bus"
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"wordy old prose" kind of sums up my interests
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Has anyone encountered this abbreviation before? (It's 18th century-- too late for Cappelli.) By context, I would guess "etc etc" but that's just a guess.
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Would you believe: this real "cleaning robot" was created (by a 6-year-old) almost entirely from materials found in the recycling bin. I'm starting to think that *paying* for children's toys is a huge scam.
A picture featuring several bits of garbage taped together, with a googly-eye added at one side. It would take a child's imagination to believe that this thing was any kind of "robot."
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Mark Thakkar @brunellus.com · 21/07/2026
Lexicographer wanted at the TLL! Deadline end of August. Somewhat surprisingly, the advert doesn’t say how good your German needs to be – the TLL is based in Munich, and it’s in the nature of the job that you need to be in the office – but of course the dictionary itself is written in Latin anyway.
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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Support our journal and become a Friend of Ceræ We’re pleased to introduce our Friends of Ceræ supporter program, a new initiative designed especially for our wonderful supporters and readers all over the world!...
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Support our journal and become a Friend of Ceræ
We’re pleased to introduce our Friends of Ceræ supporter program, a new initiative designed especially for our wonderful supporters and readers all over the world! Established in 2014, Ceræ is committed to offering open-access publishing, furthering the possibilities of the digital humanities, and forging a strong, global community of medieval and early modern scholars. Your support will help us create a regular income stream to meet our ongoing costs of running our online journal and website, hosting our annual conference, and offering our newly expanded essay prize (further details below).
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sick of all this Odyssey discourse. What I really want in a movie is something kid-friendly, maybe a comedy. You could still have classical figures, like Callimachus and Apollonius Rhodius... That's right, this whole thing has just been a lead-up to NIGHT AT THE MUSEION
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My six-year-old, digging out in the yard, declared herself to be an archaeologist named "Mud Chuckles." The name checks out.
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
With myself at left: engaging in smalltalk. With myself at right: talking at people about my nerdy interests
Illustration from a children's book. At right is Mr. Chatterbox, who smiles and talks; at left is a figure silently frowning.
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Posting my favorite gajillion-ton museum catalogue here: "Terme di Diocleziano: la collezione epigrafica"
Picture of several books on a shelf. One of which is huge, must way a gajillion pounds, and has a beautiful image of Mithras. Title is "Terme di Diocleziano: la collezione epigrafica."
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I came across a neoLatin author (Lipsius) who paraphrased a bit of "Aelianus"- but I couldn't find it anywhere in Aelian. New fragment? No! I eventually tracked down Lipsius' source (Ermolao Barbaro) who gave the verbatim quotation, which revealed it was actually from John Lydus. Fun rabbit-hole.
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I have a Latin student right now who loves math-- so lots of reading Newton/Leibniz/Euler/etc. It's a lot of fun to be reading something soooooo different from my usual.
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New book day:
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Latin nerds: if you were going to introduce students to the Gradus ad Parnassum, which edition would you use?
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Reminds me of the Fondo Momigliano at the library of the Scuola Normale in Pisa. I wonder how many other academics' libraries have been kept together?
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Grabbing my wallet and rushing to my time machine....
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
👀
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Now that the Society of Pius X is out, can we have a Society of Pius II (dedicated to reading erotic novels written in Latin)?
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Well, I guess that question has now been answered.
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It's too bad that the inter-rex was always male. Robs us of the term in-be-queen.
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Dr. Barry Torch @barrytorch.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
There's only a few days left to get your abstracts together and emailed to @hannah-historian.bsky.social and I for an edited collection on "Letters as Paratexts in the Early Modern World"! See the CFP in the post below! Deadline 15 June! #earlymodern #bookhistory #premodernhistory #medievalsky
The first page of Apuleius' *Opera*, printed 1469, by Giovanni Bussi, Konrad Sweynheym, and Arnold Pannartz, in Rome. Text is a letter from Giovanni Bussi to Pope Paul II, with the letter serving as the preface to Apuleius' works.
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
As we say in Minnesota, "No thanks but no thanks"
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Finally targeted by the fake book club scam. I was beginning to feel left out.
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Kalshi also DM'd me asking me to work their predictions (as conjectures) into the critical apparatus of a Latin edition!
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
TOM BOMBADIL, TECH SUPPORTE: Hey dol, merry dol! Floweres and starres and rayne! Turne off your machyne and wayte, then turne it on agayne!
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I had somehow missed this, but Anna Pisarello's open-access tiered reader of Cicero's "Pro Archia" won the Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award from CAMWS-- it's great to see the book get that recognition: pixeliapublishing.org/2026/06/05/p...
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Pro Archia Poeta Oratio wins 2026 Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award! - Pixelia Publishing
Congratulations to Anna Pisarello on winning the 2026 Ladislaus J. Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) for her Cicero: Pro Archia Poeta Ora...
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Love the motto: È bello doppo il morire vivere ancora.
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I don't love the experience of flying, but I DO love long, uninterrupted periods of reading. I think tomorrow is going to be a fumetti flight.
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Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Looking for Medieval Latin philologists: Postdoc specializing in Digital Philology in München job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/4...
job-portal.lmu.de
Postdoc specializing in Digital Philology (m/f/x)
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
That's what I'm talking about. (Well, no, I'm not actually talking about it, but I'd like to be.)
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
"The Letter Z in Light of Latin Inscriptions (First to Seventh Centuries AD)"-- this is what I'm here for!
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I love the quotation marks around "return date." Like they don't even pretend that I'll be returning them by then.
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Not gonna lie about how much this line up would have excited me back in 3rd grade. Vanilla Ice coming off his steal-the-show performance in Ninja Turtles 2. Young MC, whose Bust a Move I *still* have memorized (with all the words garbled, because I was 9 and had no clue what he was talking about).
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Revisionist history: some dinosaurs had feathers.
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
πολλὰ τὰ δεινὰ κοὐδὲν ἀνθρώπου δεινότερον πέλει
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Latin version of Magnifica Humanitas not available yet?
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Well, I took care of that hornets' nest. (Probably didn't need the zelda shield, but my kids insisted)
Picture of a man in jacket, hood, scarf, and gloves, holding zelda shield
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
(trailer voice) In a world where tetrarchs rule and honor the old gods, one man is about to make a stand....
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Who owns this place? Fortunato?
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Best name on the internet today: Radbod
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
You know, you really don't get new Venetic inscriptions every day...
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