Dr Tiggy McLaughlin
@amalasuentha
late antique historian, theology teacher, writer; still writing about Jesus's flesh in Merovingian Gaul
Local readers: Breaking the Silence is now available at Werner Books! #booksky #indybookstore #independentbookstore
Does anyone have a copy of "Disgust in Early Christianity" by Andrew Crislip they could please share with me? Thank you! #icanhazpdf #academicsky
My writing spot for the summer. #writingcommunity #skystorians
I'm excited to announce that my book, God in the Flesh: Materially and Christology in Late Antique Gaul, will be published with Fortress Press! #medievalsky #skystorians #academicsky #lateantiquity
Where are all my women in PHLEGM at? Yes, I will be adopting this phrase henceforth and encouraging female students on this path.
My 3 year old thinks the past participle of "break" is "brunk," and I'm here for it. "Go home, helicopter, you're brunk."
In just under 24 hours, you get to see the COVER of Breaking the Silence, my forthcoming young adult novel on magical music in late-Carolingian Trier! #medieval #booksky #writingcommunity #coverreveal
This is the best post I've seen like this so far. H/t @chandlerprof.bsky.social
This week in the St Patrick Parish Flesh Chronicles, the seemingly flesh-averse musical director picks this gem for the Epiphany. Are there just not that many choices for this day? Or is it actually the pastor (who was absent) who doesn't like singing about flesh? We may never know...
It's kind of mind-blowing that I've been this long in the education and writing fields and didn't have a favorite pen until now. And also that this is the pen. ##writingcommunity #academicsky
The responsorial psalm at mass today, but the cantor sang, "all shall see the salvation..." I guess sixth-century Merovingians aren't the only people who are uncomfortable with flesh.
I can't believe I've been working on this novel for six weeks! It's nearing the home stretch, AND that week one excitement I haven't felt in over a month is BACK! #writeRAWR #writingcommunity
For the Feast of St. Martin - and old selfie with his equestrian portrait in the Cleveland Museum of Art (because it always kills me that at some point in the middle ages, he somehow acquired a horse) #medieval
New month, new trackers, same goal. Time to finish this draft! #writeRAWR #booksky #authorsky #amwritingya #medieval
25% in to this rough draft and the characters are starting to come together #amwritingya #writingcommunity #writeRAWR #writingchallenge
Look at these beautiful trackers! All set for a fresh novel draft and a fresh writing challenge! #WriteRAWR Today, I officially started "Taming the Beast," a YA historical fantasy set in late-Carolingian Francia #amwriting #amwritingya #booksky #authorsky #skystorians #medievalsky
Hey late antiquers! Tomorrow is your last chance to submit a proposal for one of the Late Antiquity sessions at Kalamazoo last year! Share widely!! icms.confex.com/icms/2026/pr... #kzoo2026 #medievalsky #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky
No, Adobe, I do NOT want AI to summarize this document because it's long. In fact, I want nothing more than to read this long document and learn from it and engage with it. 😡 Will be reading all my PDFs in Firefox from now on.
I don't know if this is true (and neither do they, it seems), but I've always wondered the same thing, and this answer totally makes sense and is hilarious!
It finally happened. Thankful for our school librarian, who can fix it. 💙📚
I learned some Tulsa history over the weekend (in addition to a bunch of late antique history) at Shifting Frontiers XVI. Thanks to Jon Arnold at TU and his co-organizers for a great conference!
Happy to see my ancestors show up in the final session of Shifting Frontiers!
#manuscriptmonday What is going on in this Book of Hours illustration? Wrong answers only. #medievalsky