Early medievalists may be happy to know that Simon Keynes’s collection of maps of Anglo-Saxon England has now been made freely available via @trincolllibcam.bsky.social These were commissioned by Simon and drawn (by hand) by Reg Piggott between 1991 and 2012. archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/ma...

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More positively I am really pleased that SNIFF: A HISTORY OF SMELLS is out today!! Published by @yalebooks.bsky.social and out in all good bookshops. It's a history of smell across time and space that takes in a panoply of pongs and perfume from paper and ink to stink bombs and whale oil.

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POV you have Things To Say about the Aeneid.

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The Parthenon is just as sublime as you have heard. Walk through the thick late summer air past the kids on skateboards and the guys strumming guitars, and here is the Temple. Step inside, turn a corner, and WHOOOOOAH, there is the goddess. [Made by Alan LeQuire, after Phidias.]

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📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜The #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📖 A History of Old English Verse Layout: Poetics on The Page ✍️Rachel A. Burns 📲ARC Humanities Press: www.arc-humanities.org/978180270116...

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