Surprised Eel Historian, PhD

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 16:16 UTC

it is, according to the folks I've read, the only place on the planet with precisely this kind of crater. and of course there's a major battle fought there.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 16:06 UTC

Right? I hadn't know about it before, either

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 15:59 UTC

It's been a quite mapsome month, and I thought I'd share one of my favorites that I've done. This is a map of The Nördlinger Ries impact crater, for @profgabriele.com and @lollardfish.bsky.social 's forthcoming book, "Oathbreakers."

It's the first time I've drawn a topographical map like this.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 14:52 UTC

Fishing, of course! It is, tbf, harder now than it used to be

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 14:25 UTC

The origin of the term isn’t chest, but my best understanding is that 25 eels was probably about s as many eels as you could thread on a stick for smoking (mostly eel-rents were paid in smoked eels). And over time that became a standard unit.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 14:23 UTC

Not at all!!

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 14:17 UTC

It is. She did a great job

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 20:20 UTC

It's fine. It's just a medievalist's reflex. Flung rhetoric aside, I'm very much with you

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 19:30 UTC

But I thought you valued expertise, no? And despaired at uninformed people making judgements about things they don’t understand? Perhaps I misunderstood.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 18:51 UTC

As soon as you delve into it

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 17:25 UTC

Public policy set by “I did my own research” judges. Fuck.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 17:22 UTC

Thanks!

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 17:22 UTC

Thank you!

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 16:06 UTC

That’s a good article. She did a nice job. It was a thing! A big part of my doctoral dissertation involved pulling that story together

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:31 UTC

My man...medieval thinkers were generally *way* better at this sort of thing than modern jurists.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:11 UTC

Eel-rents in medieval England became less common over the centuries, but didn't completely disappear for a long time. In 1572, for example, Gilbert Attwell rented a water mill in Brambridge from the High Sheriff of Hampshire for 41s 6d each year, as well as 125 eels (5 sticks). 🗃️🧪

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:28 UTC

Or a historian, fwiw

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:06 UTC

Gotta keep labor in place, and let money travel seamlessly. That’s the goal.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:14 UTC

Thank you!

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 23:51 UTC

You can’t forget things from Home Depot if you don’t go.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 23:27 UTC

NICE

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 20:19 UTC

Cool! Thanks for sharing

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 20:18 UTC

Thank you! I'm tickled

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 19:39 UTC

Here’s the link to the (very well done) article:

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 19:39 UTC

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 19:32 UTC

It’s me, quoted in The New Yorker, like I know what I’m talking about. Oh, the places my very weird dissertation has taken me!

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:32 UTC

The pre-modern English didn't have a monopoly on eel metaphors. The French had some awesome ones, too! My favorite is this enjoyable expression that means to try to do something impossible: "rompre l'anguille au genou" -- to break an eel over your knee (like a stick). 🗃️🧪

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 14:26 UTC

That’s a good book in a lot of ways, though the history in it is kinda iffy. Eventually, I’ll get my book written!

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 03:12 UTC

The sunset tonight. SMH.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 17:05 UTC

Utah: home of the Ladder-Day Saints

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 13:35 UTC

Seems like it ought to be

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 19:06 UTC

Pray for squids, and the gods respond

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