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Medieval inc.

Endangered letters

Ancient street food

Screwtape in lockdown

In defence of misspelling

From Anaximander to Alexa

Architecture and networks

Swimming mainstream

Good habits die hard

A treasure that faileth not

The big deal about the minuscule

Header

Back stories matter

Risking your life

The gift of a book

Cutting corners

Give comma another chance

The value of time

Cowification

Liturgical grounding

The blessings of loss

Banking on the memory bank

Urban bliss

The vehicular language which made Europe

... in a healthy body

Fake quotes

Intellectual property

Within reach

The evil scribe

Hearing voices

Humility to begin with

Visible speech

For a different kind of virology

The pain of lorem ipsum

Retrofit writing

It's all jargon

Building walls

The orphanage of history

Analog speed

Of mice and users

Neo-hieroglyphs

Heresy 2.0

The illusion of personality

Calligraphic omnipresence

Bad ideas attract the good

Mechanical transformations

It starts in the classroom

The age of lockdown

More than enough

The benefit of hindsight

Literally yours

The medieval art of recycling

Contact and exchange

Letter shapes

Medieval blogging

Bestsellers

The banality of writing

An island of mediocre relevance

Vegan writing

Survival of the fittest vestige

Reading aids

Aware and transparent

Language barriers

When writing takes flight

The messiness of it all

Standards of writing

Make room for the classroom

Poets and prophets

The greatest beauty

Monks or wonks?

Wine not?

Old stories

Iconic

Rock and scroll

Please keep your distance

Essential reading

The links of inspiration

The idleness of school

Ad hominem

Private and public games

Personal war

The struggle of literature

Mathematical revolutions

Mythological bankruptcy

Montaigne's 3 lessons for the Covid age

Cultural galaxies far far away

Different heroes

Pragmatic literacy

Milestones

Infinite literature

The roots of words

Flowers and thorns

The presumptuous present

Imagination and anthropocentrism

The 'I' in A.I.

Cosmopolitan cities and speakers

The Inferno of History

Longevity

Time, chronicles and Arabic numerals

Stranger things

The mind mapping turn

Discovering arguments

Legal deposit in the ancient world

A climate of debate

The banality of paper

The digital factotum della città

A likely story

Defaulting to perfection

Logistics

Touching the limits of imagination

Homer's gravitational pull

(Un)(de)coded

Writing in awe

Cut, Copy and Paste

Sign your name across my art

Ages in literary nutshells

Ancient bestsellers

Tabula rasa

A blogging adventure

Living with the past

Lifelines

Tainted landscapes

Inconceivable

A matrix of conflict

Mysteries and miracles

The fine detail

Before the self-help book

Sacred writing

Guardians of the landscape

Hospes or hostis

Future talk

Levels of interpretation

Approximations

Modern taste

The democracy of maps

Epic beginnings

The month of the emperor

I did it my way, a modo mio

Deorbiting the oikoumene

Always on the move

In a flake of dead skin

Identifictions

The literacy of leaders

Unattempted recipes

The Lerinian Eden

The thief and the transformer

An obsession with the sea

Back to the future

Logochronics

A watertight poem

Going against the grain of the historical source

The proliferation of hybrids

Extreme survival

The people of the sea

The new heights of Mont Ventoux

Martial's three offensive lessons for writers

Script as a source of authority

Is destruction a form of reception?

An idle thought about ancient otium

Go to hell

Imperfect pictures

Alter egos and friends

The fertility of medieval history writing

The wasteland of popular history

The paradox of myths

Metamorphoses

Immanent self-flagellation

Identity crisis

The iconoduly of iconoclasm

Opening the Overton windows on the Middle Ages

The medieval Cloud

The paradox of the medieval page

Titling the untitled

The library of secrets

A tale of three classical manuscripts

Ages of information

Total control

Remembering to forget

Living in dark times

Autopsy of history

From the fake newsroom (review of I.T. Morar, Fake News during the Golden Age)

The classical theory of rhetoric

Early questions

Of heroes and heroism

One state, many tongues

Two metres apart

Happy endings

The political acrobatics of acrostic poems

Twitter and the ancient epigram

Writer’s unblock

To put your quill where your mouth is

Let us make the past in our image, after our likeness

History and timelines

Dying in custody

Fiction and non-fiction

Let's start in the middle (of things)

Are we complicit?

Ancient echo chambers

Historical blindness

The longue durée

Poetry, wine and death

The neo-scroll turn

Knocking at each other's door

An offence against language

Palinodes or the courage to say 'I was wrong'

The Romans always win until they don't

A catalogue of Cassandras

Have you ever tried Dante-dating?

Wooden myths last forever

Judging a book by its covers

The enduring charm of hybridity

To put the pan in the demic

A different kind of tourism

Dea Febris

Pseudonyms and fake news

The art of writing letters

Of individuals and crowds

Omo sanza lettere

Language acquisition

Medieval multilingualism

Guilty pleasures

To inhabit a letter

When texts want to break free

Conflict and change

Language and myths

Nostalgic wanderings

The bored ones get the best of Hell

Medieval cultural influencers

The quills of torment

The ancient lover of laughter

The Covid-19-prisoner's dilemma

Survival kit

Near Life Experience

Trinkets for the confined court

Getting bored in (not with) the 12th century

Censorship doesn't work

The phobic vindication

Fake news in history

Ovid and Covid

Like the bees

Letters addressed to a ghost

When in exile, do as the exiled do

The exterminating angels of confinement

Lost in 'translatio'

The pundits

Variations on the same theme

On a Need to Know Basis

The Covid Archipelago

In defence of ignorance

Prose and cons

Fear Of Missing Out On The Free Stuff

House arrest No. 1

Pandemiology

A sad carnival

Home alone

Dante or the man who became Easter

When bells fall silent

The invisible gift

A slight detour

Open chronicles in cloistered times

The age of self-chronicling

Sing, o muse

When Robinson Crusoe starts to cough

Between the Zoo and Foucault's Great Confinement

Camus' whispers and suspicions

The banality of writing

Life in DIY mode

When St Vitus goes marching in

Where are the leaders of yesterday

Homer in quarantine

Time and space

Consolation

Molecular clouds

Unsung merchants

When all roads lead to Rome no more

A Boccaccian response to Covid-19

Social media isolation

'Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind

Quarantine writing

The consolation of storytelling

A medieval guide against epidemics

Reader hygiene

The underlying cause

Querying the quarantine

Of viruses and plagues

Spell it out

One-worders

A mystic in a crowd of sceptics

The initial countdown

Hit and miss

Bias

Hands down

The mediation revolution

Size matters

Not too graphic

Following protocol

The books we have read

The revolt of the slaves

Division of knowledge

Pygmalion in Silicon Valley

You can hide

Too blind to see

Hearts and brains

Thoughts and boxes

To err is human, to persevere is even more human

Fictions

Reading between the lines

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here

A tale of two texts

The mighty pen

Can writing save your life?

Ratings

The modesty imperative

Preaching to the choir

The painted ancient statue

The roots of reading

Terroir

Survival and memory

Flowers of rhetoric

Intelligenti pauca

Forgotten authors

Emotecstasy

50 shades of Chinese whispers

Please send your CV

Fortune favours the boldface

Endangered sounds

Lingua franca

Accidents, mutations and miracles

Verso

Legibility and readability

Gains and losses

Porous and cellular

Like a closed book

Moving images

Genetic indeterminacy

Vehicle of freedom

The death of cursive script

Duplication and control

Written ideas

Dantedì

Opening new worlds

Conservative tech

Errors

Defying death

Bibliophilia

Ductus

The decline of private libraries

Shifting ground

Marvellous books

The act of interpretatio

The view from above (final)

The view from above (part 3)

The view from above (part 2)

The view from above (part 1)

Good reviews, bad reviews

Locus amoenus

Old years, new years