Sara M. Butler

Sara M. Butler

@sarabutler.bsky.social

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Medievalist, fond of juries, writes about violence, dog-lover, crochet enthusiast, reads Canadian fiction. Professor of medieval history at Ohio State University.

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New Blog by Cassie Watson! "A Real and Immediate Risk: Police Encounters with People in Mental Health Crisis" legalhistorymiscellany.com/2024/06/25/a... via @legalmiscellany

A Real and Immediate Risk: Police Encounters with People in Mental Health Crisislegalhistorymiscellany.com By Cassie Watson; posted 25 June 2024. In July 2023 the Home Office and Department of Health and Social Care published a policy paper setting out a new “framework for how police and health services sh...

Its Miscellany Monday! Here's one of my old posts, '“Woe unto those who know not how to syllabificate”: The Languages of Medieval Law' (2018): legalhistorymiscellany.com/2018/11/09/w... via @legalmiscellany

“Woe unto those who know not how to syllabificate”: The Languages of Medieval Lawlegalhistorymiscellany.com Posted by Sara M. Butler, 9 November 2018. When John of Salisbury (ca. 1115-1180) decried the dishonesty of lawyers in his Policraticus, he targeted the incomprehensibility of their legalese, complain...

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Not just an advance article anymore! My article on cultural memory of Alfred the Great and the medieval uses of his epithet now occupies the opening pages of volume 139 of the English Historical Review.

What’s in a Name? Tracing the Origins of Alfred’s ‘the Great’*academic.oup.com Abstract. King Alfred (r. 871–99) is the only native-born English ruler to have gained the byname ‘the Great’. This was not a contemporary sobriquet, but i

Meghan Woolley and I are editing a collection titled Emotions, Law, and Performance in England c.500-1500. Check out the CFP and get in touch if you're interested in contributing: legalhistorymiscellany.com/call-for-pap...

CALL FOR PAPERS: An Edited Collection: Emotions, Law, and Performance in England c. 500-1500legalhistorymiscellany.com This collection, tentatively titled Emotions, Law, and Performance, invites cutting-edge work on the intersections between performance theory, legal history, and the history of emotions, prompting us ...

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There is still time to register for the Battle Conference this year, but if you want to guarantee accommodation then you need to book by 19 June! #medievalsky pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...

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This made me laugh out loud. 🤣 Yes. Yes, this is the fundamental dichotomy of existence. Thank you @elleisanisland.bsky.social

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Susannah Ural and Ann Marsh Daly on Emancipation Jubilee in 1864 New Orleans -- fantastic, thoughtful article 🗃️ www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Before Juneteenthwww.theatlantic.com A firsthand account of freedom’s earliest celebrations

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Finally out, nearly a year "in press" after revised submission: academic.oup.com/jhmas/advanc.... Sorry, had no $$ to cover open-access fees. I don't have an e-offprint to share privately yet, but if you can't get access, hit me up in a couple of weeks. #histmed #PandemicThinking #GlobalHealth 🧪

The Pandemic Arc: Expanded Narratives in the History of Global Healthacademic.oup.com Abstract. Using the examples of plague, smallpox, and HIV/AIDS, the present essay argues for the benefits of incorporating the evolutionary histories of pa

Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Kesselring, "Slavery and Cartwright's Case before Somerset" (2018): legalhistorymiscellany.com/2018/10/10/s... via @legalmiscellany

Slavery and Cartwright’s Case before Somersetlegalhistorymiscellany.com Cited in James Somerset's famous 1772 trial, Cartwright's Case (1569) purportedly declared England's air too pure for slaves. But how was this case used before Somerset?

Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Cassie Watson, "Execution Delayed: Some Scottish Examples" (2018): legalhistorymiscellany.com/2018/09/23/e... via @legalmiscellany

Execution Delayed: Some Scottish Exampleslegalhistorymiscellany.com By Cassie Watson; posted 23 September 2018. Crime historians are familiar with some of the more widely reported cases of delayed or failed executions that occurred in the seventeenth, eighteenth and n...

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Plenary Announcement! We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Brinley Rhys Plenary at the 50th Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. For the exciting reveal about our guest, see the full update on our website: www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com/2025-colloqu...

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Two male Texas professors are suing to flunk students who get abortions. Their reason? The students had "consensual sexual intercourse." Which the professors appear to believe is their right to punish. www.salon.com/2024/06/03/t...

Texas professors want to use abortion ban to punish students for "consensual sexual intercourse"www.salon.com It's part of a larger pattern of men using the new law to control and abuse women in their lives

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Trump’s attorney sent @propublica.bsky.social a cease-and-desist letter demanding this article not be published. The letter warned that if the outlet and its reporters “continue their reckless campaign of defamation, President Trump will evaluate all legal remedies.”

Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaignwww.propublica.org Witnesses in the various criminal cases against the former president have gotten pay raises, new jobs and more. If any benefits were intended to influence testimony, that could be a crime.

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Chinese historian Rong Xinjiang's re-examining of the #history surrounding Marco Polo and China. www.sixthtone.com/news/1015007

The Scholar Bringing Marco Polo Back to Chinawww.sixthtone.com Historian Rong Xinjiang has spent the past 13 years trying to produce the definitive Chinese edition of “The Travels of Marco Polo.”

Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Jane Card's "From Blue Lobsters to Friendly Giants: Visual Representations of the Police, c.1840–1880" (2018): legalhistorymiscellany.com/2018/08/27/v... via @legalmiscellany

From Blue Lobsters to Friendly Giants: Visual Representations of the Police, c.1840–1880legalhistorymiscellany.com In this guest post, Jane Card explores visual evidence for Victorian attitudes towards the police.

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I've just done a big revision of my post on the #intersex person Margaret Bradley of (aptly) Middlesex. Exploring the scholarship has shown this is rare evidence indeed, one of only a handful of intersex individuals documented in Europe before 1550. Read! Repost! consistory.org/2018/05/14/b...

A fascinating case in the London Consistory in 1522 of an intersex person whose husband sued to annul their marriage. 5 midwives testified in some detail that Margaret had both a vagina & a penis. Read transcription, translation, & some preliminary thoughts: consistory.org/2018/05/14/b... #histsex

Christopher Bradley c Margaret Bradleyconsistory.org I have just found this highly unusual case of an apparent intersex person named Margaret Bradley of Hackney, Middlesex, who in 1522 was sued by her/their* husband Christopher to annul their marriage. ...

Christopher Bradley c Margaret Bradleyconsistory.org In May 2024, I found in the London Consistory records this highly unusual case of an apparent intersex person. She[1] was Margaret Bradley of Edmonton and Hackney, Middlesex, whose husband Christopher...

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Book Review: Sisters of Richard III,The Plantagenet Daughters of York by Sarah J Hodder. I'm really loving the @penandswordbooks.bsky.social covers with roses on 😍 amymcelroy.blog/2024/05/23/b...

Book Review: Sisters of Richard III, Plantagenet Daughters of York by Sarah J Hodderamymcelroy.blog Genre: History, nonfiction Publisher: Pen and Sword Pub date: 15 March 2024 This book is the narrative of three women of York, sisters to not one, but two kings of England. Anne, Elizabeth and Margare...

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It's here!! *The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain* Published #OpenAccess by @uclpress.bsky.social, with chapters from @lloydbowen.bsky.social, @ellyrobson.bsky.social, @sharonhoward.bsky.social & many more: petitioning.history.ac.uk/blog/2024/05... #EarlyModern #PowerOfPetitioning 🗃️

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Very pleased to share my latest article (OA) - 3 years in the making! I trace several strands of cultural memory of Alfred the Great over the length of the Middle Ages, making the case for a widespread tradition of his sobriquet from at least the 13th century (Identifying 25 instances of its use).

What’s in a Name? Tracing the Origins of Alfred’s ‘the Great’*academic.oup.com Abstract. King Alfred (r. 871–99) is the only native-born English ruler to have gained the byname ‘the Great’. This was not a contemporary sobriquet, but i

Its Miscellany Monday! Enjoy! Here's Butler, "A Jewish Woman’s Appeal of Murder in Thirteenth-Century England" (2018): legalhistorymiscellany.com/2018/08/17/a... via @legalmiscellany

A Jewish Woman’s Appeal of Murder in Thirteenth-Century Englandlegalhistorymiscellany.com Posted by Sara M. Butler; 17 August, 2018. Setting the Scene The period leading up to the expulsion of the Jews from England in July of 1290 was a time of mounting uncertainty for the Anglo Jewry. Tha...

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Congratulations to Prof. Sara Butler on receiving the Distinguished Scholar Award at the recent Faculty Awards Celebration. It is presented to faculty members in recognition of outstanding scholarly activity, research or creative works. Congrats, Dr. Butler! @sarabutler.bsky.social

My new LHM post: "Pilgrimage, Anglo-Venetian Relations, and Public Urination: The Murder of John English." Enjoy! legalhistorymiscellany.com/2024/05/16/p...

Pilgrimage, Anglo-Venetian Relations, and Public Urination: The Murder of English Johnlegalhistorymiscellany.com Posted by Sara M. Butler, 16 May 2024. A statue of a puer mingens (peeing boy), by Andrea della Robbia, c. 1490 (Florence). Bode Museum, Berlin. Courtesy of Wikipedia. Depictions of the Middle Ages on...

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A fascinating case in the London Consistory in 1522 of an intersex person whose husband sued to annul their marriage. 5 midwives testified in some detail that Margaret had both a vagina & a penis. Read transcription, translation, & some preliminary thoughts: consistory.org/2018/05/14/b... #histsex

Christopher Bradley c Margaret Bradleyconsistory.org I have just found this highly unusual case of an apparent intersex person named Margaret Bradley of Hackney, Middlesex, who in 1522 was sued by her/their* husband Christopher to annul their marriage. ...

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I do love my job. I would, in fact, do it for free. But--and this is the really important thing--NOT for my employer, and absolutely the fuck not within the parameters my employer dictates. You're not paying me to teach and research. You're paying me to do it in a manner that is useful to you.

It also runs on the idea that academics do all of this for love: — love of the intellectual work — love of the academic “lifestyle” — love of the cultural capital it supposedly brings — love of teaching Because if you love it, they don’t have to pay you a living wage or respect your time.

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Mark Hagger's article on the Bayeux Tapestry as petition in Journal of Medieval History is available here and well worth a read www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #medievalsky #skystorians

The Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry Revisitedwww.tandfonline.com This article revives the suggestion, previously made by Otto Werckmeister and Shirley Ann Brown, that the Bayeux Tapestry was intended to act as part of a petition to free Bishop Odo of Bayeux from...

Brill's Later Medieval Europe series has a new series editor (me!) and a new board: Carrie Benes (@cebenes2), Jessalynn Bird (@BirdJessal48181 ), Emily Hutchinson (@emilyjhutchison.bsky.social), Sebastien Rossignol, and Claire Weeda (@c_weeda)! Check us out: brill.com/display/seri...

Later Medieval Europebrill.com "Later Medieval Europe" published on 08 May 2024 by Brill.

This is my Hoffman mentee! Very articulate. I'm so glad they had a graduation.

Ohio State history major and Hoffman Fellow Elizabeth Albertson was interviewed by 10TV on graduation day. Elizabeth spoke about her experiences at Ohio State and life as a Buckeye. www.10tv.com/embeds/video...

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Ohio State history major and Hoffman Fellow Elizabeth Albertson was interviewed by 10TV on graduation day. Elizabeth spoke about her experiences at Ohio State and life as a Buckeye. www.10tv.com/embeds/video...

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🗃️ The Spring 2023 issue of the JWH is open access for at least a month! View TOC here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/49293 This issue also includes WAWH Prize Winner Celia Crifasi's "Fluid Bodies: Wet Nurses and Breastmilk Anxieties in Eighteenth-Century Madrid." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Project MUSE - Journal of Women's Historymuse.jhu.edu

Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Kesselring, "Mapping Durham’s Medieval Sanctuary Seekers" (2018). legalhistorymiscellany.com/2018/07/02/m... via @legalmiscellany

Mapping Durham’s Medieval Sanctuary Seekerslegalhistorymiscellany.com Just how far did people seeking sanctuary in late medieval England flee, and why?