New article in French History! ‘By the king’s suspension, the constitution is violated’: provincial opposition to the revolution of 10 August 1792' by William S. Cormack
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Open Access here: doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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...but would you say they're offa-prints?
Well, this certainly does that! This was from Cobban's article on "Medieval Student Power" in Past and Present :)
Excerpt of a book: "And in the poetic treatise of John of Garland, the Morale Scolarium, of 1241, the author highlights the worldliness of the student body: "If you are a real scholar you are thrust out in the cold. Unless you are a money-maker, I say, you will be considered a fool, a pauper. The lucrative arts, such as law and medicine, are now in vogue, and only those things are pursued which have a cash value". John of Garland's censure is typical of the many condemnations of medieval students by a minority of enlightened critics who sought to keep alive educational notions that transcended the short term and the immediately consumable."
...so, uh, I guess we've been fighting this trend at universities for a little while now? 😅
Okay, I have pulled out of the text all the complaints about Barton grifting at the abbey so LET'S GOOOO
Cheers! (and we've even got it in the library, hurray)
Fascinating, thanks for sharing a little more! I'm really interested in how managing the kinds of disputes that come up in rural settings was integral to medieval power structures on the ground, so it's neat to have learned about this particularly spicy case :)
This sounds fascinating! Can you recommend any English translation, for those of us without the necessary language skills to branch out?
(Came over here from the "funniest sources" thread!) Did they figure out what had actually sparked the conflict, i.e. what made them go from peaceful pasture dispute to murders?
ok #medievalsky what's the funnest medieval source? like the one that students really respond to, or just the one that you absolutely delight in talking about?
for me it's Marie de France's LAIS
Definitely a missed opportunity! I advise a skim read, everything you think is going to happen is going to happen (and I say this as someone who is *terrible* at predicting how books will go).
(Someday I will write the essay about why it's so bad, I have Thoughts and most of them are about how its execution does a disservice to the point it's trying to make in just about every way possible...)
I *cannot stand* this book, and the footnotes are part of it! Honestly you and your book club should not bother finishing, it does not improve (I read the last 1/3 while waiting for a delayed airplane and I *still* wish I had used the time some other way...)
4 hours left, and some *glorious* dice (and non-dice) art for an even more glorious cause!
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
Whatever we calculate, the future in Iran now looks like Iraq or Libya, Bibi’s dream.
It’s so hard to imagine Iran, a modern built up country w huge dense cities, amazing architecture, great bookshops, trendy cafes & vibrant people, reduced to a Hollywood-movie “rubbles & ruins” war-torn country.
Palaeojackalope.
I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.
It's raining, which means it's officially the advent of slipping season here in Oslo—the wonderful few weeks where trying to get to work involves heavy-duty shoe spikes and every hill* means taking your life into your hands 🥳
*we have a lot of hills
This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions.
It does not.
It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed.
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Fun game for the history nerds! Note that you’ll need to specify CE or BCE sometimes. I got within twenty years for nine out of ten but was out by a century for the other which I’m feeling slightly sheepish about.
when-was-this-war.web.app
I've had student name pairs before, it's such a nightmare 😂 (especially when I've had to figure out which one of them didn't submit an assignment...)
This was an entertaining read from the perspective of both a historian doing quantitative work on people and a person who has lived in multiple countries!
It’s so common to come across the assertion that books were luxury objects exclusively for the elite in the Middle Ages that I want to guest curate a massive exhibition called “Meh-nuscripts: Books for the Many,” which features just workaday or unremarkable objects.
My general feeling is that every summary tool shortcuts the library shelf. In grad school there were few things I adored more than finding a book on the shelf bc I inevitably found six or seven other books on proximate shelves that I didn’t even know I needed! Process is the point!
Is it possible to write meaningful multiple-choice questions for university-level history? And if so, can anyone point me towards some good examples?
In terms of material objects, my petty research interests would very much like to have the seal of Duchess Jeanne of Brittany on her act of 29 November 1352 (because I think it was the first time she used a new design but I can't prove it!)
Duke Charles of Brittany learned that the enemy had captured the castle with his archives, and reportedly gave thanks to God for all he sends. Never have I so vehemently disagreed with someone I study 🤬
(On a documentary front, I do also long for the records of homages from the seneschalsy of Toulouse in 1389, for which we have only brief summaries...)
