So sad

If I had finished my history graduate studies (I couldn't due to crippling anxiety for the thesis/dissertation defences), this is what I would have wanted to be when I grew up, a codicologist. I'm so sorry to hear of her death. The mediaevalist world has lost a bright light who brought her enthusiasm for mediaeval manuscripts and increasing access through digital projects to many both in and out of the field.

https://www.medievalists.net/2023/07/johanna-green-passes-away

How did I miss this?

March 31st was Hug a Mediaevalist Day.

Hug a Medievalist (From the New Yorker)

Today is International Hug a Medievalist Day. Do I really want to hug a medievalist?, you wonder. Yes! you do. Medievalists are the best kind of historian, in my opinion (which is why I majored in medieval history in college): they are always very interested in the body, the bawdy, and the beautiful, by which I mean they have a profound interest in the nitty-gritty of Western culture—in its material composition and the spiritual and intellectual urges that give rise to it. Perhaps because they delight in details and see worlds within them, medievalists are uniformly possessed of an excellent if slightly juvenile sense of humor, which becomes more pronounced when they drink and their inherent social awkwardness wears off.

Via Medieval News.

A special belated hug goes out to my major professor, E Randolph Daniel, who put up with so much from me that he deserves a hug for every year since he first had me in class. :)