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Underappreciated part of lecture prep: getting to look at lots of cool art to fill up slides

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🥳🚨Publication day!!! 🚨🥳 NECESSARY INVENTIONS: ROGER BACON, THE MIDDLE AGE, AND THE MAKING OF MODERN SCIENCE is officially out! Use PENN-ETRUITT30 (in the US) or UPPNN30 (outside the US) for a discount or ask your library to buy a copy. www.pennpress.org/978151282988... @pennpress.bsky.social

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Treating myself to this today, and it’s brilliant. My fave thing so far is learning that there was a myth confected about Roger Bacon clashing with religious authorities, which reminds me of the similar myth about Gutenberg having to invent the press in secret for fear of being accused of magic.

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I'm currently teaching a course on "shrews," and my students are obsessed with the ways that dominating supposedly unruly women has a history, and how the current woman-hating abuse of Jane Doe is connected to what we are studying. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/o...

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