John A Geck

I thought this sounded familiar!

@jamescummings I was at one in Shoreditch: they just seem to love it! It's like a 6' × 8' night club.

@jamescummings Is this a Point A hotel?

@PiersatPenn Beautiful! Which MS is this?

#birdsoftwitter From the sketchbook of a 15th-century scribe.

For the record, "The Trial of Mary and Joseph" is from the N-Town Mary plays, not York, and it is not one of the later plays (14 out of 42), and there is no guild affiliation noted in N-Town.

Asking ChatGPT about Middle English lit is great: might need to use this chat to warn my students not to just expect it to write papers for you (2/2)

@METS_Texts @RobbinsLibUR @MIP_medpub Very sad news. Although it's been some time since I got my BA, I now teach Middle English and have often told my students about Russell, and held him up as one of my greatest inspirations at UR. I'll treasure my collection of his voluminous course materials all the more now.

@METS_Texts I'm also delighted to announce that after a long (sabbatical-caused) hiatus, new and updated pages, datasets, and a how-to for ourSPARQL and D3SPARQL queries will be coming in the next month!

It's our hope that this transition to TEI-XML will make our texts easier to incorporate in digital projects like @geck_john's fantastic MORROIS: Mapping of Romance Realms and Other Imagined Spaces: morrois.net/Morrois/. (2/4)

Whither did resorte (& by her meanes sometimes were Called) Mennes Wives, Womens husbands, Mennes, servaunts & Children to be disordered." #medievaltwitter #earlymoderndrama

& Com into the School, in his absence & daunce amongeste the boyes. And moreover where their should be a teachinge Schoole in the day tyme for the boyes, by her meanes it was made a dauncing Schoole at xij a Clock in the Night, & sometimes all the Night longe. [...]

A fun snippet from the Cambridgeshire documents I'm working on: I can't wait to find out more about Miss Pamplyn, she was clearly too good for 1609 Ely! Dean Tyndall’s Reasons for Firing Headmaster Pamplyn: #medievaltwitter #earlymoderndrama

grad students awkwardly closing emails to professors like

@seanwinslow @john_geck @geck_john ! Thanks for the tag!

Interested in place names in #medieval #romance literature? @john_geck, Shamiso, and I will be hanging around poster 71 at #DH2019 and would be happy to talk to you about how the MORROIS project (morrois.net) is indexing them.

I've worked in worse libraries. Lincoln Thornton, here I come!

@CEkholst @canMedievalists @MedievalMcSheff @KFDuggan @Roisin_Cossar @DrLRoach @queerdievalist @postscriptus @SeekEachLight @ellisnilsson @CreedonUna @amrasmus1300 @drkmurch @HelgaRuppe @ShammaBoyarin @kyledase @danieldotprice @hannahkirbywood @WallaceHare @emilyjhutchison @brookeleer1 ... can't recall if either of you are members, but better safe than sorry!

@CEkholst @canMedievalists @MedievalMcSheff @KFDuggan @Roisin_Cossar @DrLRoach @queerdievalist @postscriptus @SeekEachLight @ellisnilsson @CreedonUna @amrasmus1300 @drkmurch @HelgaRuppe @ShammaBoyarin @kyledase @danieldotprice @hannahkirbywood @WallaceHare @emilyjhutchison @SeekEachLight @brookeleer1

@MedievalMcSheff @CEkholst @canMedievalists @KFDuggan @Roisin_Cossar @DrLRoach @queerdievalist @postscriptus @SeekEachLight @ellisnilsson @CreedonUna @amrasmus1300 @drkmurch @HelgaRuppe @ShammaBoyarin @kyledase @danieldotprice @hannahkirbywood @WallaceHare @emilyjhutchison I'll be just out of a session in Parkinson, so that works: maybe 5 minutes after.

One quick flight on the way out of town! Thanks, #kzoo2019, it's been real!