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Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈

Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈

@BridgetWhearty

Queer. Feminist. Medievalist. she/they. Author: Digital Codicology. Co-PI: ‘Always Here: a Queer+Trans Global Medieval Sourcebook.' Coiner of the #CaswellTest.

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Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈@BridgetWhearty·
Digital Codicology's price in hardcover is steep ($80) I'm sorry about that, and wish there were a cheaper paperback available! (Maybe in a few years, if sales are strong enough?) In the meantime, you can get 20% off ($64) when you buy from SUP & use my author code: WHEARTY20
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Medieval Manuscripts
Medieval Manuscripts@BLMedieval·
Something very, very exciting is happening @britishlibrary Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, our new major exhibition, opens on 25 October Get your tickets now, they're cheaper than #Oasis and more chance of encountering Margery Kempe 😉 blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…
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George M Johnson Garçon@IamGMJohnson·
My book All Boys Aren’t Blue has had 7 criminal charges, and is virtually banned in all high school libraries in Texas, Florida, Georgia and Iowa (where an educator can go to jail for a year with a 1500 fine to give it to a “minor”) Fight for the right to read
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Allie Alvis (mostly on 🦋 now)@book_historia·
Jeremy is feeling better and better and is enjoying watching birds at the feeder with mother 🩷 (still no interest in squirrels)
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Little man had a stroke last night. The vet thinks it was a one time event; most of his other vitals are fine, apart from a heart murmur, but he’s stable and home. He is VERY angry at mother and father and is feeling yucky, but I’m so happy that we were able to bring him home

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Louvain Rees ⚰️@hellohistoria·
I spotted this interesting-looking manicule while looking through workhouse records 👉🏻 #Wales #History
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Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈@BridgetWhearty·
Got my first ‘that’s a very important manuscript, please make a detailed case for why you need to work with it and not the digital copy’ email back And it’s throwing me for a loop! 1/
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C. E. M. Henderson
C. E. M. Henderson@cemhend·
@BridgetWhearty I won’t even mention the “wait… am *I* wrong about history??” that goes through my head every time I mark a stack of undergrad papers lol
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C. E. M. Henderson
C. E. M. Henderson@cemhend·
@BridgetWhearty Tell them you have important codicological questions and/or need to recheck the collation. It won’t be a lie!
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Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈@BridgetWhearty·
@cemhend You’re right… but isn’t it funny how quickly we can forget our own good reasons in the face of even minor and totally reasonable questioning?!
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Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈@BridgetWhearty·
@pykelets @malcolmjnoble Reading was interrupted by tornado warning, but I finished it up after — and it’s absolutely glorious! Definitely useful for my research, and will play a central role in a new grad course I’m creating for spring
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Sarah Pyke
Sarah Pyke@pykelets·
would love to read a collection of people's 'how it moves / feels / I just want to touch this thing / mystical reasons I can barely articulate / aura desire materiality' justifications like a long prose poem, w glimpses of gold & parchment & binding & ink flickering in and out
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It’s funny to have written a wholeass book about digitization — and be asked ‘can’t you just use the digital object’ and be like ‘well… maybe? But I also just want to touch this thing 🤷🏻 because mystical reasons I can barely articulate? Because aura, desire, materiality?’ 4/4

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Spycrafty@elegantfowl·
@BridgetWhearty @GabbyStorey Indeed - sometimes digital images are easier to read than originals (though I remember facsimiles of microfiche ... eek!). It's having both available that counts.
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Cathy Hume
Cathy Hume@cathyhume·
@BridgetWhearty Is this the Huntington? I am having the same issue... they are never keen to let me see this one MS I'm working on and repeatedly tell me 1) it's precious and 2) it's digitised. I have written a tactful plea and am waiting with fingers crossed.
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Spycrafty
Spycrafty@elegantfowl·
@BridgetWhearty @GabbyStorey Materiality - letterlocking, water damage, uninked writing, seal quality, digital flattening ... the list goes on ... it's not just about bookfondling (though that is part of it ...)
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Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈@BridgetWhearty·
@elegantfowl @GabbyStorey Yes to damage and uninked writing! Re digital flattening, absolutely true. I think there’s something to be said about the kindle-ization of rare books and mss—but in some good as well as bad materiality-flattening ways.
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Bridget Whearty 🏳️‍🌈@BridgetWhearty·
@heathertweed @GabbyStorey Mmm, it’s parchment — so no watermarks. But the quality and thickness/pliableness is definitely part of what I’m curious about. And the ink quality is key! (I hear you about surreptitious eye-dabbing!)
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Heather Tweed
Heather Tweed@heathertweed·
@BridgetWhearty @GabbyStorey Would suggest you need to examine the paper stock, ink qualities etc? Clues to watermarks? I’ll never forget my tactile connection with the past when unfolding a pack of previously unread ordination papers & letters. Had to surreptitiously dab my eyes! 🥲😃
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