I thought this sounded familiar!

For the record, "The Trial of Mary and Joseph" is from the N-Town Mary plays, not York, and it is not one of the later plays (14 out of 42), and there is no guild affiliation noted in N-Town.

Asking ChatGPT about Middle English lit is great: might need to use this chat to warn my students not to just expect it to write papers for you (2/2)

Whither did resorte (& by her meanes sometimes were Called) Mennes Wives, Womens husbands, Mennes, servaunts & Children to be disordered." #medievaltwitter #earlymoderndrama

& Com into the School, in his absence & daunce amongeste the boyes. And moreover where their should be a teachinge Schoole in the day tyme for the boyes, by her meanes it was made a dauncing Schoole at xij a Clock in the Night, & sometimes all the Night longe. [...]

"Fforthly, in the one End of the Schoole he kept his Daughter, & Certen boorders, she beinge Suspected to be of very loose behaviur, as the Carringe of her Selfe did plenley shewe, for she would not Stick to put one boyes apparell, & lett boyes putt one hers, [...]

A fun snippet from the Cambridgeshire documents I'm working on: I can't wait to find out more about Miss Pamplyn, she was clearly too good for 1609 Ely! Dean Tyndall’s Reasons for Firing Headmaster Pamplyn: #medievaltwitter #earlymoderndrama

grad students awkwardly closing emails to professors like

https://t.co/tjkpuAMWNv

I've worked in worse libraries. Lincoln Thornton, here I come!

One quick flight on the way out of town! Thanks, #kzoo2019, it's been real!

by age 35 you should have completed an encyclopaedia that will rule your field worldwide for centuries to come

Something about the feminization of art as "craft" + masculine domination of the craft beer world, made super obv.

Compare these medieval conduct texts to modern advice texts geared towards children or adolescents, where similar frames apply. "Gender is central to discourses of sexual conduct in both periods."

Good Wife lists a series of forbidden and permitted spaces, whilst Wise Man uses no such terms.

And a focus on what women shouldn't do through use of negation

Though audience and speaker change, both texts feature a majority of masculine references

How texts reproduce inequalities from MS Ashmole 61's How the Good Wife Taught Her Daughter & How the Wise Man Taught His Son

@dramyburge modern fears of commercial sexualization of children have evolved over the past decade from a model addressing anxieties about gender to one dealing with protection of children

Samuel Rowbotham ("Parralax") in 1830s purports "knowledge for all" against the elitism of conventional science. What you see is what you get.