Dr Alex Lee

Really excited that the page for my talk at Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 on 28 April has gone live- click through to book tickets to hear me talk about #Bianchi1399, #plague and miracles ckhh.org.uk/mcw/details/pl…

Deadline for submissions for #DisMed panel at #IMC2025 extended to 24 September Please submit your abstracts to continue our conversations on disability in academia docs.google.com/document/d/17t…

CFP for the Medievalists with Disabilities roundtable at IMC 2025 #IMC2025 #DisMed docs.google.com/document/d/17t…

I was delighted to participate in the Medieval Canterbury Weekend last weekend and bring my #Bianchi1399 to a new audience Read more about the whole event here #MCW blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/me…

@JudeSeal @UKDisHistHub @MCRDeafCentre Unfortunately I'll be away researching, but thanks for flagging

We are very excited to announce that we are hosting an event on the 6th June 2024 at @MCRDeafCentre! And we want you to come and share your research and projects relating to #DisHist! So if you’re working with, or interested in, this area, please consider joining us!

For a tl;dr version, see my latest blogpost: bianchi1399.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/the…

Delighted that my article on the #Bianchi1399 at Empoli is out — hit me up if you'd like a link to a free PDF journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

@NikkiClark86 @PilgrimTeresa I use Tibetan Folk Tales which often feature animals sacred-texts.com/asia/tft/index… alongside Haiwang Yuan, Awang Kunga and Bo Li's Tibetan Folktakes (World Folklore Series, 2015)

I'm teaching a class on medieval bestiaries next week. The ones we're using are European, and I was thinking it would be great to push that wider and think about animal symbolism elsewhere in the world. Anyone know anything about non-western premodern animal vibes?!

I've updated my Online Toolkit for Medieval Italian and Latin with new links where original Cappelli links were broken bianchi1399.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/onl…

I've updated my post on low-stakes icebreakers ready for the start of term- what strategies do you use to help get to know new classes? bianchi1399.wordpress.com/2024/01/05/ice…

Proofs have come in for my article on exciting new-to-me Bianchi images at Empoli #Bianchi1399

@SACJournal Those sound great, thank-you

@AlexRALee Amira El-Zein, Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn. Travis Zadeh, “Commanding Demons and Jinn: The Sorcerer in Early Islamic Thought.” In Alireza Korangy and Daniel J. Sheffield, eds., No Tapping around Philology, 131–60.

Can anyone recommend any medieval (ish) primary sources on jinn in English?

@AliceISullivan @MedievalWorldCC Great, thank-you

@AlexRALee Write to Adam Ali at UToronto who has an engaging article on the topic in the upcoming @MedievalWorldCC - karwansaraypublishers.com/products/medie…

This is what the assignment is all about: bianchi1399.wordpress.com/2023/09/28/com…

Absolutely delighted by the Ancient World commonplace book entries my students presented today- some really creative uses of AI (picking apart its inconsistencies and issues in the text and images they got it to generate)

Hi #MedievalTwitter, do we know if you can access manuscripts and archival documents while wearing acrylic nails? How do archives and libraries feel about this?