Ancient Queens in Early Modern Drama 👑 📚 | Book History + DH | PhD Candidate @CarnegieMellon
Laura S. DeLuca
My second book review is officially out! Thrilled to have had the opportunity to review @mmvty.bsky.social's masterful book, Poetry's Data, for @sharpweb.org @sharpnews.bsky.social!
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BL Royal 13 A XI; Miscellany works on computus & astrology; France, N., or Central; f.33v @blmedieval.bsky.social
The Guardian published a list of top 100 novels as voted on by various authors and critics. I turned it into a network to foreground literary tastes and tastemakers. chriswarren.info/novels-worth...
Cornelis Visscher, The Large Cat, 1657, Engraving on ivory paper, 14.3 × 18.5 cm (5 11/16 × 7 5/16 in.), Art Institute of Chicago
Amazing treasures of medieval legal history to distract one briefly from current news and marking - the Catslechta ˙ (or Cat-sections) - an old Irish legal text on cats (the Senchas Már) which even sets out various categories of cats based on various characteristics or talents.
#medievalsky
After 17 (!!) years I'll finally finish my doctorate as a "PhD by Prior Publications." I must assess my 151 articles, books, websites, and software packages for their contributions to and impacts on my field.
As one way to make this manageable, I'll share one thing from the dossier every few days.