![]() The conference’s theme is deviance, and I have the profound privilege of giving a keynote there. The inspiration for the outpouring of my creative spirit was the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference, taking place 5-6 April 2019 at Kellogg College. Not yet content, I toiled onwards, pouring sweat and blood into a dazzling relic, a timeless work of art: my first professional Blingee (Fig. 1), based on the fine work of Erin Black for GIF IT UP 2016, now burnished with my paper title. And so was born my first professional gif (Fig. It was time I began my true calling, the journey for which I had prepared daily by scrolling through the internet and the Giphy gospels for hours on end. Until that portentous day, at 3 o’clock after my third cup of strong coffee. But I had not felt it, surging through the fibres of my being and my brain in a compulsive thrum. I had heard the call for a long time, years even. On the 2nd of April in the year of our goddess(es) 2019, I felt the call. It’s one of a series of bas-de-pages depicting the story of The Three Living and the Three Dead, in which three kings are confronted by three of their dead ancestors and warned to remember the dead, lest they take life for granted. The image is an illumination from the bottom of a page (aka a bas-de-page) of the Smithfield Decretals. The creator, Black, describes the gif: ‘This GIF celebrates both #PageFrights and the #SkeletonWar with three skeletons dancing on a manuscript page. 1300, with illuminations added in England (London), c. ![]() Skeletons from the ‘Smithfield Decretals’ ( Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria), southern France (probably Toulouse), c. Black text overlays gif, reading ‘Defiantly Deviant: Disability, Temporality & Medievalist Methodologies’ (added by Spencer-Hall). Made for GIF IT UP 2016, by Erin Black, posted 18/10/16. 1: Untitled gif of three skeletons dancing, using detail of a bas-de-page MS scene of the Three Dead.
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