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Christine Axen

@ChristineAxen

PhD #medievalist lover of #DH and unicorns. 13c S France, #episcopal history, #digitalmapping, nuns, space & power. Weekly themed lectures @HistoryHappyHrs

 New York, NY
Joined August 2015
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Thank you @Brepols 🙌🏼 Too many good titles to choose from! #imc2018 teapaw.org/Brepols/status/1013807…
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At #IMC2018, @ChristineAxen was happy to find a copy of ‘Episcopal Power and Local Society in Medieval Europe’ with her article in it on the bishop Zoen of Avignon! #Congrats @EPISCOPUSorg
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OED Word of the Day: memento vivere, n. A reminder of life; a reminder of the pleasure of living bit.ly/2Jokql1
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OED Word of the Day: potpanion, n. A drinking companion bit.ly/2IkbOIm
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Wait, the former abbey of Clairvaux is now a high security prison?? Who allowed that omg
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Now: closing roundtable on gender & dress f/ Dan Smail, Laurel Ann Wilson, Sarah-Grace Heller #DressFordhamMVST
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Wilson: imp part of female activity in fashion is SUBVERSION in addition to creation/industry #DressFordhamMVST
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For ex, color breakdown bw male & female clothing items invited qs about status, fashion, value, change/time, &c #dalme #DressFordhamMVST
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Sarah-Grace Heller: where there’s a court, there’s a fashion! Scholars must extend focus to Constantinople & beyond #DressFordhamMVST
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Heller: consumption impulse most visible in tiny details of accessories, not full silhouettes #DressFordhamMVST
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Annamarieke Willemsen focuses us on “Identity in Detail” using late medieval “shiny stuff”—silver on belts & purses #dressfordhammvst
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Heart belt-ends, from 160+ submerged villages in 1530 St Felix flood in Zeeland. SOOO much to learn from such discoveries! #DressFordhamMVST
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Earrings! Dog collars! Willemsen posits horizontal influence rather than imitation of nobility in cheaper material #DressFordhamMVST
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Moreira: Enigmatic seal rings required unscrambling & rearranging of letters in probable name—why the extra steps?? #DressFordhamMVST
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6c episcopal monograph! Built into floor to lay claim to sacred space in model of Christogram #DressFordhamMVST
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Moreira unsure whether this erotic swivel ring would be acceptable as a betrothal ring...the LEGS say much! Greek inspo? #dressfordhammvst
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Moreira: Since signet rings spent more time on fingers than making seals, served as “portable connection” to sacred, as Christian identifier
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Isabel Moreira surveys 1000s of Merovingian seal rings across status & gender, incl those reused from Rome #DressFordhamMVST
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Check out high res seals & matrices, w aid of changing light direction for close inspection!! digisig.org/
.@frangelegetege John McEwan starts off w look at authenticity of 19c statues on London viaduct. Hat battles ensued! #DressFordhamMVST
7B: Ornaments & adornments! Seals, belts & purses, oh my #DressFordhamMVST
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