Danièle Cybulskie

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Author of Chivalry and Courtesy, How to Live Like a Monk, and Life in Medieval Europe. Creator and host of The Medieval Podcast. Professional nerd. she/her.

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I recommend this ep of The Medieval Podcast with @aspencerhall.bsky.social, Blake Gutt, & @5minmedievalist.bsky.social. A thought-provoking discussion of what was lost in the literature, esp hagiography, using old assumptions re gender identity. www.medievalists.net/2023/12/gend... #Medievalsky

Gender, Transgender and the Middle Ages with Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt - Medievalists.netwww.medievalists.net In the past few years, trans and genderqueer issues have come to the forefront both in society and in the way scholars are approaching medieval studies. But what do these terms mean? And how do we app...

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This week on The Medieval Podcast with @5minmedievalist.bsky.social : The Well-Laden Ship: Medieval Proverbs www.medievalists.net/2023/11/the-...

The Well-Laden Ship: Medieval Proverbs - Medievalists.netwww.medievalists.net This week, Danièle and Peter Konieczny share profound - and profoundly odd - medieval proverbs from one of their favourite books of the Middle Ages: The Well-Laden Ship.

OUT TODAY!!! 🥂🥳 You can now get hold of this wee book at all your favourite places. Some of my favourite nuggets about the medieval world are in it, and Anna’s art is quirky and fun and just right. I sincerely hope you love it and share it. It’s a little piece of my heart, just for you. 🧡

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You can now get The Five-Minute Medievalist's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse, by @5minmedievalist.bsky.social on our Patreon Shop www.patreon.com/medievalists...

Buy “The Five-Minute Medievalist's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse” on Patreon | Mediev...www.patreon.com Check out Medievalists.net’s products on Patreon

Hello, my beauties! 😍 The preorders are just starting to make their way to their new, loving homes! You can find this lovely addition to your library at Abbeville Press and all the major bookstores. Canadians looking for indies, there’s a handy dropdown on the book’s page at Penguin Canada. ❤️📖

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So. Your landlord wants his eels, but you didn't catch enough. Will he take money? Sometimes! In 1250 there was a property in Lenchwick that paid the cook of Evesham 40 sticks of eels (1000 fish) yearly. If there weren't enough eels the cook accepted 1.5 pence per stick instead. 🧪🗃️

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Since I know a bunch of you are nerd ass nerds you might be interested in checking out my online Gender and Sexuality course which starts next week. It is six weeks long and you get hour long lecture/discussion sessions and also SO MUCH LITERATURE. medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/medi...

Medieval Gender and Sexualitymedievalstudies.thinkific.com An introduction to conceptions of gender and sexuality in the medieval period. Each week historian Eleanor Janega discusses the philosophical and societal underpinnings that shaped culture and relatio...

Is this… a bad sign? 🥠🚫😳

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V excited this is now expanded to York and Oxford.

Medieval murder maps of three English cities offer window into past Online project draws on 700-year-old records of coroners’ inquests in London, Oxford and York www.theguardian.com/science/2023... #History

Medieval murder maps of three English cities offer window into pastwww.theguardian.com Online project draws on 700-year-old records of coroners’ inquests in London, Oxford and York

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A few weeks ago I spoke with @5minmedievalist.bsky.social (Danièle Cybulskie) about crime, gallows and the justice system in thirteenth-century England on her @medievalists.bsky.social podcast series. If you’re interested, you can listen to it here: www.medievalists.net/2023/08/gall...

Travis is so enthusiastic and so very knowledgeable! I hope you enjoy my chat with him on a super influential 12thC Islamic encyclopedia.

This week on The Medieval Podcast with @5minmedievalist.bsky.social - Wonders and Rarities with Travis Zadeh www.medievalists.net/2023/09/wond...

Wonders and Rarities with Travis Zadeh - Medievalists.netwww.medievalists.net One of the favourite activities of medieval scholars was to write massive encyclopedias, distilling every last detail of the known world into book form to share with an insatiably curious public. This...

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Hi medieval skeeters: I've been slowly rebuilding my collapsed Consistory site–with translations of late medieval church court witness testimony, about marriage, sex, debts, tithes, and other fun subjects. It's now consistory.org. Latin transcription soon also to be posted. 🗃️ @rauchway.bsky.social

Consistoryconsistory.org London Metropolitan Archives, MS DL/C/A/001/MS09065B, fols 2v-3r This website features witness testimony from lawsuits heard in the 1480s and 1490s before the London Consistory, the highest-level chur...

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So I did an explainer Gone Medieval episode about the Holy Roman Empire because I love it, and hate Voltaire. Please listen to it and help me prove that people actually love central europe, thank you. podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM...

Gone Medieval - Holy Roman Empire: Explainedpodcasts.google.com Voltaire famously wrote that the "The Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.” But Dr. Eleanor Janega believes that literally everything about Voltaire’s statement is w...

New date: October 17, worldwide 😎

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A new episode of The Medieval Podcast with @5minmedievalist.bsky.social - Trees and Religion in Early Medieval England with Michael Bintley www.medievalists.net/2023/09/tree...

Trees and Religion in Early Medieval England with Michael Bintley - Medievalists.netwww.medievalists.net This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Michael D.J. Bintley about the evolving role of trees in early medieval England.

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*waves* Hi friends, professional writer person here. Even for mid-list, mid-career authors, things are pretty bad right now. A lot of my colleagues are looking for day jobs & cutting back/quitting creative writing. Soooooo…I present: 3 free things you can do to help writer whose work you like.

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Nice placement at the Morgan Library gift shop for @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social & @goingmedieval.bsky.social - only note would be a little more shelf lighting.

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So. You need a map. Your editor insists, & the thing you downloaded from Wikipedia won't cut it. I can help! I draw custom maps on commission. My website has details about cost, process, etc, along with customer reviews: surprisedeelmaps.com Here are a few recent examples:

Okay, so I didn’t get a podcast out this week (I prioritized launching my kids into the new school year instead), but I did write you something: www.medievalists.net/2023/09/guid...

A Beginner's Guide to Chivalry - Medievalists.netwww.medievalists.net Here’s a quick and easy beginner’s guide to chivalry as it was understood by the knights who lived it and wrote about it.

There is so much for medievalists in this article! (Plus ça change…)

This story has it ALL, 10/10. I'm on TEAM NUN here.

Listen, You’re Gonna Want to Hear About This Nun Drama in Texasslate.com A bitter feud over sex, drugs, and power has gone all the way up to the Vatican.

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Had a wonderful time talking about crime, gallows and punishment with Danièle Cybulskie on her Medieval Podcast. Check it out here: www.medievalists.net/2023/08/gall...

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