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medievalist & leisure witch / PhD-ing @Cambridge_Uni / reproductive healthcare / childbirth&maternity / medicine&ritual / textual materiality / she.her.sí.í.
Cambridge/Dublin
Joined November 2016
Honouring the brave women who do noble work risking life and limb as initials
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I'm so grateful to receive an honourable mention for the HJ's ECR prize!
📣In this HJ Highlight, listen to @roisin_donohoe (@CamHistory) talk about her article 'Locating Childbirth Devotion in the English Parish Church, 1450–1580', awarded an Honourable Mention in the HJ EC Prize👇 📢Read open access here: https://t.co/P9CwZszMjL
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📢We are delighted to announce that Jack Bowman (@DrJackBowman) (@WarwickHistory) and Róisín Donohoe (@roisin_donohoe) (@CamHistory) have been given Honourable Mentions in our inaugural Historical Journal Early Career Prize! ✨Stay tuned for insights into their articles📖
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The Medieval Women exhibit at the @britishlibrary @BLMedieval was one of the best curated and presented exhibitions that I have seen in my life. It had a great wealth of objects and books (liturgical, medical, epistolary, legal, devotional, etc). Please go!!!
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My new History Today essay - on how the history of astrology and divination can reveal the hopes and anxieties of people in the past - is open access for a few more days! ✨
The concerns of daily life prompted #earlymodern people to seek reassurance in fate, stars, and #astrologers. ⌛𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆’𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟳 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 https://t.co/kJOoWU2XRT
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Fabulous carvings on this tomb located within Jerpoint Abbey, County Kilkenny #tombtuesday #medievaltwitter #ireland #history #archaeohistories #Archaeology
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When the scribe hasn’t left much space for an ‘S’, but you’re determined to cram one in anyway . . . It might be a bit squashed, but this initial is still beautiful! (@NewCollegeOx, MS 8, f. 223v) #Manuscript #ManuscriptMonday #Medieval #MedievalTwitter
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No rest for the wicked! Demons hard at work affecting the weather & sabotaging those at sea. From Olaus Magnus' 'History of the Northern People', the rest of Europe's introduction to Scandinavia, printed in 1555.
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Carved ivory netsuke depicting a mouse traveler, attributed to the 19th century, Japan. Signed by Gyokuseki.
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A 15th-century collection of medical treatises, with accompanying drawings of women performing different treatments, including cupping (Sloane MS 6, f. 177r) Learn more about medieval women in the medical profession in today's blogpost https://t.co/i8ANZl9fLn
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Women held a number of different medical roles in the medieval period, serving as healers and caregivers, wet nurses, hospital staff, midwives and paid professionals. https://t.co/i8ANZl9fLn
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📣NEW ISSUE OUT NOW!📘 Featuring articles from #twitterstorians including @roisin_donohoe, @Emmanuel__DM and many others! #New #Issue #History #Read #September 👉Read online here: https://t.co/EPnQjRaNv0
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📘From our latest issue! Róisín Donohoe (@roisin_donohoe) (@CamHistory) on 'Locating Childbirth Devotion in the English Parish Church, 1450–1580' #Childbirth #Religion #Women #Ritual #Space #Materiality #Parish 👶 🔓Read open access here: https://t.co/P9CwZszeud
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My article on intersensory experiences of the plague in seventeenth-century London is now open access!
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The gorgeous seal of Coldingham Priory in Scotland, showing a portrait of the Virgin Mary and infant Christ, dated 1536 (Egerton Ch 366) https://t.co/NvSPQj7U5W
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Next Wednesdays (1pm BST) I'm giving a talk (online!) about care work and vocational intimacy during plague epidemics. I'll be focusing on breastfeeding and the vulnerability of wet nurses' bodies. Anyone is welcome to attend. Please share!! https://t.co/yM7TmN3pY8
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We ❤️ Jane Lumley. The first known English translator of Euripides The first named English female dramatist Owner with her husband of a vast library of manuscripts and printed books Legend 📜🖋️📚🦸♀️ https://t.co/FssvsLKKo0
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