@AlexRALee

Medievalist. #Bianchi1399 book @Brill_History. Plague, popular religion, pilgrimage. Teaching Liberal Studies. Copyeditor. #hEDS &c. She/her.

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Really excited that the page for my talk at Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 on 28 April has gone live- click through to book tickets to hear me talk about #Bianchi1399, #plague and miracles ckhh.org.uk/mcw/details/plag…
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Deadline for submissions for #DisMed panel at #IMC2025 extended to 24 September Please submit your abstracts to continue our conversations on disability in academia docs.google.com/document/d/1…

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Medievalists with Disabilities Roundtable IMC 2025 After six successful roundtables bringing up issues around disability in Higher Education, we propose another roundtable for IMC 2025. We invite...

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Deadline for submissions for #DisMed panel at #IMC2025 extended to 24 September Please submit your abstracts to continue our conversations on disability in academia docs.google.com/document/d/1…

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Medievalists with Disabilities Roundtable IMC 2025 After six successful roundtables bringing up issues around disability in Higher Education, we propose another roundtable for IMC 2025. We invite...

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CFP for the Medievalists with Disabilities roundtable at IMC 2025 #IMC2025 #DisMed docs.google.com/document/d/1…

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Medievalists with Disabilities Roundtable IMC 2025 After six successful roundtables bringing up issues around disability in Higher Education, we propose another roundtable for IMC 2025. We invite...

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CFP for the Medievalists with Disabilities roundtable at IMC 2025 #IMC2025 #DisMed docs.google.com/document/d/1…

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Medievalists with Disabilities Roundtable IMC 2025 After six successful roundtables bringing up issues around disability in Higher Education, we propose another roundtable for IMC 2025. We invite...

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I was delighted to participate in the Medieval Canterbury Weekend last weekend and bring my #Bianchi1399 to a new audience Read more about the whole event here #MCW blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenth…

Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 | Centre for Kent History and Heritage

Before I get to the main business for this week, I want to remind readers that the Becket Lecture is less than a fortnight away on Tuesday 14 May. It will be given by Professor Elisabeth van Houts...

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Delighted that my article on the #Bianchi1399 at Empoli is out — hit me up if you'd like a link to a free PDF journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…

The Bianchi of 1399 at Empoli: A Tuscan Visual Commemoration | Source: Notes in the History of Art:...

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For a tl;dr version, see my latest blogpost: bianchi1399.wordpress.com/20…

The Bianchi at Empoli

The Bianchi at Empoli Image 2 While I was doing my PhD, I came across information about a Bianchi image at Empoli. I tried as hard as I could to find more information out about it, but could only m…

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I've updated my Online Toolkit for Medieval Italian and Latin with new links where original Cappelli links were broken bianchi1399.wordpress.com/20…

Online Toolkit for Medieval Italian and Latin

My writing at the moment has involved a lot of going back over images of manuscripts I’ve taken, to then translate them for myself and use them in my chapter. My sources have been in a mixtur…

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I've updated my post on low-stakes icebreakers ready for the start of term- what strategies do you use to help get to know new classes? bianchi1399.wordpress.com/20…

Icebreakers: Updated

I’m teaching in two institutions this academic year, so there are lots of students to get to know in each of the different classes. I’ve never been the biggest fan of ice breakers, as I…

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Proofs have come in for my article on exciting new-to-me Bianchi images at Empoli #Bianchi1399
Text reads: The Bianchi of 1399 at Empoli: A Tuscan Visual Commemoration. Alexandra R. A. Lee

ALT Text reads: The Bianchi of 1399 at Empoli: A Tuscan Visual Commemoration. Alexandra R. A. Lee

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Can anyone recommend any medieval (ish) primary sources on jinn in English?
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Absolutely delighted by the Ancient World commonplace book entries my students presented today- some really creative uses of AI (picking apart its inconsistencies and issues in the text and images they got it to generate)
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This is what the assignment is all about: bianchi1399.wordpress.com/20…

Commonplace Book Assignment

Pedagogically, I’m not a big fan of exams. This is something it’s taken me a while to realise as it was the part that I found most straightforward at school and as an undergrad, and I hated coursew…

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Yes! ⁦@LukeTurnerEsq⁩ on the extortionate and exploitative catering at the British Library and elsewhere. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Why I’m campaigning for the £1 cuppa to be available all around Britain | Luke Turner

I’ve done a tea-and-biscuit survey of the country’s cultural institutions and high-street chains – and I’m afraid we’re being taken for mugs, says the author Luke Turner

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Hi #MedievalTwitter, do we know if you can access manuscripts and archival documents while wearing acrylic nails? How do archives and libraries feel about this?
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A new blogpost on my commonplace book assignment for my Liberal Studies students bianchi1399.wordpress.com/20…

Commonplace Book Assignment

Pedagogically, I’m not a big fan of exams. This is something it’s taken me a while to realise as it was the part that I found most straightforward at school and as an undergrad, and I hated coursew…

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Tell me about your favourite history of medicine youtube channels/videos - I'm assembling a list for a course I'm teaching this term #HistMed
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