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theatlantic:

laphamsquarterly:


“I am very cold”
“The parchment is very hairy.”
“Oh, my hand.”

—Notes from medieval monks and scribes in the margins of their work
Our latest issue “Means of Communication” is now online. Take a break from the scriptorium to check it out! 

This is awesome. 

“Now I’ve written the whole thing: for Christ’s sake, give me a drink.”

Some of these are really moving, it’s easy to forget that the people transcribing these works weren’t just monk-shaped automata slaving away tirelessly on some different planet. But some of them are also hilarious.

“the hand that wrote it is no more”IT CEASED TO BEIT EXPIRED AND LEFT TO SEE ITS MAKER THIS IS AN EX-HAND 

You’re officially my favorite. Okay.

This is History porn.

historianowl:

emilyisbatmannow:

blackbirdmcnight:

skabritches:

lord-kitschener:

theatlantic:

laphamsquarterly:

“I am very cold”

“The parchment is very hairy.”

“Oh, my hand.”

—Notes from medieval monks and scribes in the margins of their work

Our latest issue “Means of Communication” is now online. Take a break from the scriptorium to check it out! 

This is awesome. 

“Now I’ve written the whole thing: for Christ’s sake, give me a drink.”

Some of these are really moving, it’s easy to forget that the people transcribing these works weren’t just monk-shaped automata slaving away tirelessly on some different planet. But some of them are also hilarious.

“the hand that wrote it is no more”
IT CEASED TO BE
IT EXPIRED AND LEFT TO SEE ITS MAKER 
THIS IS AN EX-HAND 

You’re officially my favorite. Okay.

This is History porn.

2 months ago | 4,975 notes
It’s on!

So I just started typing the project to my Master’s Degree. For months I scribbled it on several notebooks, making notes and looking for quotations, thinking how the hell I’m going to make those people at the University believe I’m gonna make an amazing job. I figured it out today.

I’ve also read a lot (a lot!) all this time, mostly theoretical books. Today I began writing in fact. I’m so excited! I have deadlines again and to me this is the greatest motivation. 

I have a scheme to my project glued to my wall and I’m not afraid to use it!

*happy*

2 months ago | 2 notes
fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

I had already picked out 4 books on the online library catalog.  This is why me browsing the stacks is NEVER a good idea…
On the plus side, they were all books on the various topics I’m writing on this semester!

Oh, we all do it.

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

I had already picked out 4 books on the online library catalog.  This is why me browsing the stacks is NEVER a good idea…

On the plus side, they were all books on the various topics I’m writing on this semester!

Oh, we all do it.

2 months ago | 187 notes
(…) I can see a young historian at the subway or at a Luxembourg street bank. He just bought, with the money of two sandwiches, The Identity of France. Starving, he devours Braudel’s introduction (…)

~

Marcel Detienne, picturing most of us, young historians of our age, buying books with the money saved for food and reading at streets.

(The book is Comparing the Incomparable, 2008.)

2 months ago | 1 note
Studying alone, listening to a calm album by your favourite band, comfortable clothes, tea and no disturbing outsiders whatsoever. That’s quality studying, right?

~ Myself, realizing that today was a good day to do academic stuff.

2 months ago | 1 note
mediumaevum:

The Chained Library at Hereford Cathedral is a unique and fascinating treasure in Britain’s rich heritage of library history.There were books at Hereford Cathedral long before there was a ‘library’ in the modern sense.
The cathedral’s earliest and most important book is the eighth-century Hereford Gospels; it is one of 229 medieval manuscripts which now occupy two bays of the Chained Library.
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My heart stopped for a second and now I’m in love.

mediumaevum:

The Chained Library at Hereford Cathedral is a unique and fascinating treasure in Britain’s rich heritage of library history.

There were books at Hereford Cathedral long before there was a ‘library’ in the modern sense.

The cathedral’s earliest and most important book is the eighth-century Hereford Gospels; it is one of 229 medieval manuscripts which now occupy two bays of the Chained Library.

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My heart stopped for a second and now I’m in love.

3 months ago | 347 notes
Os mortos falam / The dead can talk

(Translation after the cut.)

Eu tenho esse relacionamento estranho com meus objetos de estudo. Uma coisa até meio maluca: eles falam comigo. Eles me fazem perguntas, eles me dizem que livros comprar, que caminhos seguir. E uma boa quantidade de besteiras também.

Já posso ser considerada esquizofrênica?

Não é brincadeira! Inês de Castro fala comigo. Camões então, fala pelos cotovelos. Inclusive, Inês, se eu a xingo, ela me atira coisas. A última vez caiu um livro (sobre ela) da minha estante direto na minha cabeça. 

Estou falando isso porque hoje a tarde eu fui a uma livraria que adoro e, diante de várias prateleiras sobre História de Portugal e sobre Luís de Camões (são lado a lado, eu juro) e Inês e Camões falaram na minha cabeça:

Inês disse: “Aqui você não vai encontrar nada que te ajude sobre mim, sabe?”

Camões disse: “Aqui há muitas coisas sobre mim, cuidado pra não comprar porcaria.” e quando eu peguei os livros que comprei, ele disse “Esses são boas escolhas.”

Quem sou eu para desafiar os mortos, não é mesmo? Se eles falam, eu que não vou discutir. 

PS: Os livros são: “Os Lusíadas e a História”, de Jorge Borges de Macedo e “Camões e o pensamento filosófico de seu tempo”, um livreto com ensaios de Egídio Namorado, Luís de Sousa Rebelo, Roger M. Walker e João Mendes. Assim que possível, publico resenhas ou fichamentos, para os interessados. :)

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3 months ago
O primeiro de muitos

Olá!

Eu ainda estou de bom humor. :) Ao longo deste ano, eu garanto que isto vai mudar. Drasticamente. Afinal de contas, é o ano que me dispus a estudar para o Mestrado. Isso é um big deal, minha gente. 

Eu não sei, mas parece que sou viciada em estudar. Mal comecei o ano e já estou pensando em mil táticas de estudo, em mil maneiras de organizar meu tempo…Estou muito animada. Minhas férias terminaram no dia da colação de grau. 

Por enquanto o Mestrado é uma meta. A seleção só acontece no segundo semestre, tem muito chão ainda pra andar até lá: é preciso montar um projeto de pesquisa e é preciso estudar para as provas. E comparecer a eventos, e fazer contatos, e ler muito, escrever mais ainda.

Muito trabalho pela frente. Eu nunca tive medo de trabalho. :)

Translation after the cut. :) (I must practice my English.)

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3 months ago | 1 note
Oh yep. Not hard at all.

Oh yep. Not hard at all.

3 months ago | 1,745 notes

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