Jessica Henderson

@lucienell

PhD Candidate at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto Writing on Middle English medical verse in the 14th and 15th centuries.

Joined July 2009

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  2. Making myself a website. It's bare bones for now, but stay tuned!

  3. Reminder to self: don't type "syphilis" in to Google image search.

  4. Just discovered that the medievals called the ring finger the "leech finger." I wonder why?

  5. HM 64 folio 148r column a and column b. Same scribe. whoa.

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    "I never perceived in the consonants any hardness, but as was necessary to afford strength, like the bones in a human body" (Eliz. Elstob)

  7. Just discovered that the female version of "cuckold" is: CUCKQUEEN

  8. Whyyyyyy is Whitaker's Words down?

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    When your friend lays down some real talk for you

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  10. Sat down at 9pm and plonked out 500 words of the thesis. I'M BACK, BABY!

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    On the failures behind faculty success | |

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  12. "droblyhode" Good ol' Henry Daniel and his neologisms.

  13. Robax and chill

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    Netflix and guilt

  15. Thank jeebus for kindly departmental office admin. They put up with so much and are always there when you need them!

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    If you know any other medievalist Hendersons, and I want to top this, hook us up.

  17. Jessica Henderson followed , , and 14 others
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      Two fenced-in Field Hockey courts, to cost $9.5 million dollars, are scheduled to replace the green behind UC and Hart House. Let's keep it green.

  18. My colleague Sarah Star has discovered the 1st usage of "idiot" in English, earlier than OED attestation. c. 1379

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  19. Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night, the time of night when Troy was set on fire, the time when screech owls cry... (1/2)

  20. and bandogs howl and spirits walk and ghosts break up their graves: that time best fits the work we have in hand. -Skpr 2 Henry VI (2/2)

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