Eric Wolever
@ewolever.bsky.social
Erstwhile medievalist (York, Kassel) living in Leipzig (🇩🇪). Interest in twelfth century geography, history-writing and Latin literature.
he/him 🇨🇦
he/him 🇨🇦
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Somehow, an 8th-c. English liturgical manuscript ended up in Mount Sinai (where it was palimpsested and written over by a Christian Arabic scribe). For more info: Michelle Brown, austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572%2...
February 27, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Somehow, an 8th-c. English liturgical manuscript ended up in Mount Sinai (where it was palimpsested and written over by a Christian Arabic scribe). For more info: Michelle Brown, austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572%2...
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Love this (bloodless) account of the Norman conquest in Bodleian Library MS Rawl. B 150
February 26, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Love this (bloodless) account of the Norman conquest in Bodleian Library MS Rawl. B 150
This totally passed me by at the time, but it's a really fun little text on the diffusion of medical texts in twelfth century Germany by @mqassiti.bsky.social ! (There's also a version in English for those who don't do German, if you change the language in the top right.)
Mohamed Quassiti @mqassiti.bsky.social forscht zum arabisch-lateinischen #Wissenstransfer. In seinem Gastbeitrag erzählt er die Geschichte von Constantinus Africanus, der als nordafrikanischer Migrant die Medizin des Mittelalters revolutionierte:
t1p.de/unun8
#Migration #Digitalisierung #Kulturerbe
t1p.de/unun8
#Migration #Digitalisierung #Kulturerbe
February 20, 2026 at 10:54 PM
This totally passed me by at the time, but it's a really fun little text on the diffusion of medical texts in twelfth century Germany by @mqassiti.bsky.social ! (There's also a version in English for those who don't do German, if you change the language in the top right.)
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From mid-February 2026, the MGH is able to make all articles from the DA and NA available in digital form, fully searchable and open access! #medievalsky
mgh.de/en/publicati...
mgh.de/en/publicati...
February 18, 2026 at 11:56 AM
From mid-February 2026, the MGH is able to make all articles from the DA and NA available in digital form, fully searchable and open access! #medievalsky
mgh.de/en/publicati...
mgh.de/en/publicati...
Hey, so I have a book that now exists and that you can purchase (apparently the code BB135 on the boydell webpage will get you a 35% discount) or more realistically recommend to your library! 😅
(Please don't mind the fact that I'm like a month late promoting this here...)
(Please don't mind the fact that I'm like a month late promoting this here...)
January 31, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Hey, so I have a book that now exists and that you can purchase (apparently the code BB135 on the boydell webpage will get you a 35% discount) or more realistically recommend to your library! 😅
(Please don't mind the fact that I'm like a month late promoting this here...)
(Please don't mind the fact that I'm like a month late promoting this here...)
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Paleography peeps: I'm collecting examples of premodern descriptive or evaluative (sc. judgy) language about script. E.g. Boniface requesting a book "claris et absolutis litteris scripti" because he can't read "minutas litteras ac connexas" anymore. #medievalsky 🧵
January 7, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Paleography peeps: I'm collecting examples of premodern descriptive or evaluative (sc. judgy) language about script. E.g. Boniface requesting a book "claris et absolutis litteris scripti" because he can't read "minutas litteras ac connexas" anymore. #medievalsky 🧵
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Semiotic paradox alert!
December 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Semiotic paradox alert!
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Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
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#PSA: If you feel that #KPopDemonHunters is below your lofty standards for acceptable cultural consumption, you can read Augustine's De Civitate Dei (esp. Book 8) instead.
Conversely, if you have no time for Augustine's De Civitate Dei, just watch K-Pop Demon Hunters. Better soundtrack, too.
Conversely, if you have no time for Augustine's De Civitate Dei, just watch K-Pop Demon Hunters. Better soundtrack, too.
December 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
#PSA: If you feel that #KPopDemonHunters is below your lofty standards for acceptable cultural consumption, you can read Augustine's De Civitate Dei (esp. Book 8) instead.
Conversely, if you have no time for Augustine's De Civitate Dei, just watch K-Pop Demon Hunters. Better soundtrack, too.
Conversely, if you have no time for Augustine's De Civitate Dei, just watch K-Pop Demon Hunters. Better soundtrack, too.
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Coming soon! We are excited to share our first issue in just a few months.
We are also accepting submissions for issue 2 onwards! Feel free to send any questions or ideas to @calthalas.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social or me on here, or with the editors via email tinyurl.com/tph5wvmd
We are also accepting submissions for issue 2 onwards! Feel free to send any questions or ideas to @calthalas.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social or me on here, or with the editors via email tinyurl.com/tph5wvmd
December 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Coming soon! We are excited to share our first issue in just a few months.
We are also accepting submissions for issue 2 onwards! Feel free to send any questions or ideas to @calthalas.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social or me on here, or with the editors via email tinyurl.com/tph5wvmd
We are also accepting submissions for issue 2 onwards! Feel free to send any questions or ideas to @calthalas.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social or me on here, or with the editors via email tinyurl.com/tph5wvmd
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My new article has now been published in the 2025 volume of Traditio. I use a little examined episode on the lower Rhine in the late 350s with the aid of agricultural archaeology to reveal fiscal dependency relations between the Empire & Barbaricum, & the consequences of their rupture. #medievalsky
JULIAN’S BATAVIAN CAMPAIGN, AN EMBEZZLEMENT TRIAL IN BRITAIN, AND BARBARIAN ACCESS TO THE ANNONA MILITARIS | Traditio | Cambridge Core
JULIAN’S BATAVIAN CAMPAIGN, AN EMBEZZLEMENT TRIAL IN BRITAIN, AND BARBARIAN ACCESS TO THE ANNONA MILITARIS - Volume 80
doi.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
My new article has now been published in the 2025 volume of Traditio. I use a little examined episode on the lower Rhine in the late 350s with the aid of agricultural archaeology to reveal fiscal dependency relations between the Empire & Barbaricum, & the consequences of their rupture. #medievalsky
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Well, that explains it! lol
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Well, that explains it! lol
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Because what we do involves reading things, thinking very hard about them, and then writing those thoughts down, there’s this odd perception that anyone who can do that is/can be a historian, and doesn’t (usually) need to have gone through the requisite training to be one.
November 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Because what we do involves reading things, thinking very hard about them, and then writing those thoughts down, there’s this odd perception that anyone who can do that is/can be a historian, and doesn’t (usually) need to have gone through the requisite training to be one.
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It frustrates me that fields such as history are increasingly becoming something of a free-for-all. Imagine the reverse, in which a bona fide history professor publishes a polemic book claiming to ‘lift the veil on secrets’ of, say, structural engineering. It’d be considered absurd, and rightly so.
November 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
It frustrates me that fields such as history are increasingly becoming something of a free-for-all. Imagine the reverse, in which a bona fide history professor publishes a polemic book claiming to ‘lift the veil on secrets’ of, say, structural engineering. It’d be considered absurd, and rightly so.
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A common trope here is that AI-written material is easy to spot for everyone. Please, please, dissuade yourselves of this notion. Material written entirely by AI is getting through: in BA and MA theses, in job applications, in journal articles. Probably in PhD theses. And this should trouble us all.
October 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
A common trope here is that AI-written material is easy to spot for everyone. Please, please, dissuade yourselves of this notion. Material written entirely by AI is getting through: in BA and MA theses, in job applications, in journal articles. Probably in PhD theses. And this should trouble us all.
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Here's an interesting student question: in the game Pentiment [spoiler alert!], the player gets this message after a character dies in a burning building. It strikes me as anachronistic in several points, but I'm also not an expert in late medieval/early modern German law or contracts:
October 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Here's an interesting student question: in the game Pentiment [spoiler alert!], the player gets this message after a character dies in a burning building. It strikes me as anachronistic in several points, but I'm also not an expert in late medieval/early modern German law or contracts:
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Recently gave a colleague feedback on a paper that was partly written with ChatGPT. What did I learn from this and how should we deal with cases like this? Here are some thoughts 🧵(1/x)
October 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Recently gave a colleague feedback on a paper that was partly written with ChatGPT. What did I learn from this and how should we deal with cases like this? Here are some thoughts 🧵(1/x)
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This is an excellent thread on the issue of using generative AI in research. One very important point is that evaluating research & research-based arguments requires work done by human agency. A machine cannot change its mind, because a machine has no mind.
Recently gave a colleague feedback on a paper that was partly written with ChatGPT. What did I learn from this and how should we deal with cases like this? Here are some thoughts 🧵(1/x)
October 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
This is an excellent thread on the issue of using generative AI in research. One very important point is that evaluating research & research-based arguments requires work done by human agency. A machine cannot change its mind, because a machine has no mind.
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My splendid translator in France, Mikael Cabon, asked me to support an urgent campaign, launching today, opposing AI being used instead of people. I do so willingly, and feel same on behalf of audiobook readers and bookworld artists. I hope readers worldwide will show their agreement.
September 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
My splendid translator in France, Mikael Cabon, asked me to support an urgent campaign, launching today, opposing AI being used instead of people. I do so willingly, and feel same on behalf of audiobook readers and bookworld artists. I hope readers worldwide will show their agreement.
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I want to send *both* books to someone who'd find my work useful! (PP in paperback, GR in hardback—note it's also available as a free PDF! library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...) If that's you, just *quote-post* this thread, and I'll pick a recipient next week 😊 (To share without entering, just repost!)
September 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I want to send *both* books to someone who'd find my work useful! (PP in paperback, GR in hardback—note it's also available as a free PDF! library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...) If that's you, just *quote-post* this thread, and I'll pick a recipient next week 😊 (To share without entering, just repost!)
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"Can I call you back? I'm stuck in an O at the moment."
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 711; Abbreviatio Decreti "Quoniam egestas"; second half of the 12th century; p.18 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 711; Abbreviatio Decreti "Quoniam egestas"; second half of the 12th century; p.18 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
September 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"Can I call you back? I'm stuck in an O at the moment."
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 711; Abbreviatio Decreti "Quoniam egestas"; second half of the 12th century; p.18 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 711; Abbreviatio Decreti "Quoniam egestas"; second half of the 12th century; p.18 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
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Dear Pew Research,
Please ask if people believe in the Parousia. They’ll all say No because they don’t know that word but it’s a better question and the results will be funny.
Sincerely,
The CTSA
Please ask if people believe in the Parousia. They’ll all say No because they don’t know that word but it’s a better question and the results will be funny.
Sincerely,
The CTSA
fwiw “do you think Jesus will come back to Earth” is so ambiguously phrased that I’d probably say “No” at least half the time depending on what they meant by “to Earth.”
September 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Dear Pew Research,
Please ask if people believe in the Parousia. They’ll all say No because they don’t know that word but it’s a better question and the results will be funny.
Sincerely,
The CTSA
Please ask if people believe in the Parousia. They’ll all say No because they don’t know that word but it’s a better question and the results will be funny.
Sincerely,
The CTSA