Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @CaitlynBBS

I teach at Oxford University. Interests in Medieval literature and modern nationalism. Also: health humanities, asymmetric warfare, memory, epic. Chipping Norton, England Joined March 2018

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These texts are Napoleonic era but I nonetheless hear it in Picard's voice and expect tha next word to be 'stardate'

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Unexpectedly delightful: names for classes of gun ship

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Someone should open a vegan shop in middle America and call it Seitanic Panic

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I hadn't heard of this poet before...asymptotejournal.com/poetry/i-sang-…

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The book manuscript has been submitted!

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Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh OMN | Celtic Studies MU @CeilteachOMN

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Tá acadúlaí den scoth á lorg againn do ról mar Ollamh Cúnta / Léachtóir i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh chun teagasc lárnach a chur ar fáil sa chlár in Oidhreacht Chultúrtha na hÉireann (@HeritageMU) agus i Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge (@EarlyIrishMU). Gach eolas: buff.ly/TYhcuXi

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3 months ago

Have you ever been awakened by someone of ethereal beauty bringing you coffee in bed—and the first words out of your mouth in response are an account of your dream about John Wycliffe translating the bible into the vernacular? Yeah definitely me neither, who even does that, pfff

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4 months ago

Based on this review by DA Binchy, it's probably *fortunate* they were dead before their book came out

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4 months ago

I just finished reading an obscure 13th-century Arthurian text in which Lancelot is Jewish and the holy grail is a soup-kitchen charity dish.🤯

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4 months ago

What is a fox fable?? I’m so intrigued

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Wylfċen @wylfcen

5 months ago

English is full of “lexical gaps,” words that are implied to exist but don’t, because we borrowed a bunch of words from Latin but not other, related words. Somebody made a chart to show it↓

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5 months ago

You can now follow me here, as I'll be posting less often on Twitter: bsky.app/profile/caitly…

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Told my brain to buckle up and write up a research proposal on internment camps and it literally did this?! There once was a girl from Perahhh Who was traveling on her gap yahhh She adopted a tom , now just like its mom Instead of mew it says myaaaahhh

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Offering pregnant women...toasted rhubarb? From the History of Physick, 1726. 'Above all he John of Gaddesden understood the sweets of being concern'd in the eases of pregnant Women; he recommends toasted rhubarb to them.'

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5 months ago

Was waiting for the ‘then drown him!’ But I guess it’s implied

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama

5 months ago

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold