Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz
I teach at Oxford University. Memory historian interested in medieval and epic literature, modern nationalism, asymmetric warfare, health humanities, gender.
- Chaucer famously asserts that what women want is sovereignty. However, I believe that what women want is to be asked *whether they have sufficient ponies* (and, when the answer is a woebegone negative, offered more ponies). In this essay, I will--
- If you send me a photo of your pet, I will be unable to resist replying with what I infer to be your pet’s political opinions
- How did it take 5 years of teaching medieval lit for me to finally receive an essay titled ‘Slay, Queen’ 😂
- 19th century pearl-clutching about terrorists become less classy is the funniest thing I’ve read today
- Love that my friend sent me this as a vacation idea for us 😂 news.artnet.com/art-world/br...
- Sadly unsuccessful in convincing any children that Santa Claus is short for ‘Santa Von Clausewitz’ and that he is not merely judging one’s naughtiness/niceness but one’s grand strategy for the year.
- My dad just approvingly commented, 'Sometimes cvilisation advances at a jump, rather than a crawl'.
- Christmas has me thinking about trends in the use of gold in Christian iconography
- Well that’s the ‘whose historical dinner party’ question answered. Despite years of fangirling, I had no idea the famous bellydancer Tahiyya Carioca was so politically active!
- I’ve been lifting to deal with the stress of the academic job market and now I’m fairly likely to represent GB in 2026 so I think that tells you all you need to know
- This is just to say— I have fucked up some fadhas that were in the book manuscript and which Reviewer 2 was exasperated to see Forgive me they were coimpléasc so duaisiúil and so aimrhéateach
- Note-to-self to use this Irish recolutionary handbill as an article title.
- I think this is the same royal visit to Ireland in 1903 in which Maud Gonne hung half a black petticoat from a broomstick as a flag outside her home. When the police removed it, she replaced it with a new black flag made from the petticoat's other half.
- I’m in rural Wales on a journey to a portal to the Otherworld (as you do). My friend has used half his luggage to bring a rice cooker because, even if we end up at an Otherworldly banquet, this man isn’t convinced there will be correctly-made rice.
- 'Late 20th c. machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artifical...self-developing and externally designed...Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.' -Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto
- Reposted by Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-SchwartzGenuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
- Absolute burn from Richard the Lionheart [source is Hilary Rhodes, ‘Richard the Lionheart, Contested Queerness, and Crusading Memory’]
- There's no way to quite get it across in English but I love the saint Colum Cille's description of a young warrior as 'eólach cech ernmaiss'. It's like, 'learned in all forms of death-by-iron'
- One phrase in the English language stands out as for its exceptional versatility. In this essay I will--
- Normal family whatsapp chat
- Why is girls' night so hard to organise
- It’s Walter Benjamin’s yahrzeit. He was a philosopher who chose to die whilst fleeing the Nazis in 1940. He is the only historical figure I *miss*, irrationally, as though he was a friend I suddenly lost.
- Re: the Charlie Kirk murder in the USA: If you're not familiar with Horst Wessel, now would be a great time to look it up.
- The documents are Napoleonic era, but I nonetheless hear this in Picard's voice and expect tha next word to be 'stardate'
- Unexpected delight at the names for different classifications of gunship
- Someone should start a vegan shop and call it Seitanic Panic
- www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/i-san... A poet I hadn't heard of before today
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- Best team shirt ever, such a vibe
- Friends are doing a romantic weekend away to learn how to forge swords, and, may I just say, that is absolute GOALS ⚔️
- The book manuscript is handed in to the publisher! And the research assistants have both received carrots as per their contract.
- Omg is TikTok just a new version of tableaux performance, eg St Edna’s kids doing skits
- This might be my favourite book of 2025, it’s such a fascinating and beautifully written read
- Packing for a trip: 15 minutes of throwing clothes haphazardly into a bag followed by 1.5 hours agonising over how to limit myself to a max of one book per day 😭
- Look at this long boi! [Seanchus Mór, TCD] www.isos.dias.ie/TCD/TCD_MS_1...
- This was not the thing I was searching my old notebook for, but nonetheless—
- Oddly reassuring that Constance Markievicz was scared to talk to girls [source: H Moloney, Witness statement 391, Bureau of Military History]
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- My student just called Marie de France’s Lanval a passenger princess (his fairy lover rescues him on horseback by pulling him up behind her) and I will never see that knight’s name again without thinking of this 😂
- I was thinking about how Jewish demons just aren’t EVIL the way Christian demons are. And I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s because they often have chicken feet. Just TRY being menacing whilst scuffling up to someone all tippity-tappity on little chicken feet
- This ending of the Welsh Dream of Maxen Wledig in the Mabinogion is so….unsettling
- Reposted by Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz2-yrs full-time #postdoc position in #digitalhumanities and #oldnorse in Paris at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social open for applications - there were some issues with the pdf circular, so I published the text on my blog. Please circulate widely. www.kakapitan.com/post/postdoc...
- I just finished reading an obscure 13th-century Arthurian text in which Lancelot is Jewish and the holy grail is a soup-kitchen charity dish.🤯
- There’s something about the matter of fact storytelling here that really amuses me. Source is a 13th c Arthurian romance written in Italy.
- Mark Twain, describing Queen Victoria’s Jubilee procession, 1897 [source: Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory]
- ‘Sometimes it is harder to live for a cause than to die for it’. -Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington [source: British Militarism as I have Known It (1917)]
