User:EmyP

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 15 years, 6 months and 4 days.

This user is a librarian - information scientist.

Some pages created

(Stubs)

• Bruce Robertson (judge)
• Niketas Scholares
• Louis Cools-Lartigue - still stub
• Midlands3Cities

Decent

• Gorleston Psalter

• (Sandbox)

Academic Bits

This user attends or attended the University of Essex	This user attends or attended UCL	This user attends or attended the University of Birmingham
BAH This user has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Russian studies.	MA This user has a Master of Arts degree in Library and Information Studies.	This user is a graduate student in Medieval History.

Doctoral Thesis

(Provisional) Paternoster beads as mentioned in the Testamenta Eboracensia - trying to show how these items were viewed by those who owned them.

MA Thesis
2015

Piety in three later 14th century Yorkshire wills from the Testamenta Eboracensia.

Past research:
2000

Chekhov

Folklore and the skazka

2001

Transliteration, libraries and the need for authority control

2002

Freedom of access to information in 20thC Russia

Interests:

• Mediæval history
  
  • Lay piety, especially rosaries/paternosters (generalised from above)
  • Women
  • Courtly culture
  • Costume
  • Lay literacy
  • Manuscripts (dating before incunabula) (MSS Template, MSS (Psalters) to create list)
    • Digitisation
    • Illumination, especially marginalia
  • Personal hygiene - need to get writing this up!!
    • Domestic Toilets, Latrines, and Bathing
    • Monastic latrines and bathing
    • Oral hygiene
    • Water usage
    • Town planning
    • Disease
    • Hygiene and etiquette - c.f. Aquamanile, The Babbees' Book(an Etiquette manual)
  • Food and nutrition (e.g. purple to orange carrots)
  • Kievan Rus', especially the purported links between Britain and Rus' before the official embassies of Elizabeth I
  • Heraldry - Familial Blazon descent and Heraldic displays (e.g. the gatehouse at Butley Priory)
• 19thC European history
  
  • Russia
  • Great Britain - social history
• Folklore (Slavic)
  
• Onomastics
  
• Autistic Spectrum Disorders (specifically Asperger Syndrome/High Functioning Autism)

Languages

en-GB -N This user is a native speaker of British English.	ru-3 Этот участник свободно владеет русским языком.	fr-3 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français.	la-2 Hic usor media latinitate contribuere potest.
lam-3 Huic usori praeclara scientia linguae latinae mediae est.	ang-1 Þes brūcere cann forðian mid grundlicgendre mǣðe Englisces.	enm-2 Muchel knoweth this segge of Englissh.	sar This user is obviously not sarcastic.
This person speaks one of the Slavic languages well enough to have a little understanding of all Slavic languages	cu-1 Сь польѕевател҄ь глаголѥтъ словѣньскы зълѣ.	ro-1 Acest utilizator poate contribui în română la un nivel de bază.	sgn-1 This user can communicate at a basic level in British Sign Language.
en This user uses British English on talk pages, but the appropriate variety of English in articles.	- This user is a translator and proofreader from Russian to English on Wikipedia:Translation.	This user participates in Pages needing translation into English.	This user is interested in Russia and is capable of speaking in a Russian accent.

Life & travels

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Given papers in (includes forthcoming):	(Leeds, Birmingham) (Cardiff) (Belfast)| (Dublin)
	Idea and layout stolen from Sebastiankessel via White Cat via Guettarda via Ezhiki

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Randomness

Þ þ This user's favorite letter in the English*† alphabet is Þ.	Ȝ ȝ This user's favorite letter in the English*† alphabet is Ȝ.	This user is an academic.	Ж ж This user's favorite letter in the Russian alphabet is жэ.	Ыы This user's favorite letter in the Russian alphabet is ы.
This user is interested in the Middle Ages.	Я This user's favourite subject is Russian.	, This user supports the use of the Oxford comma.	HIS This user's favourite subject is History.	LIT This user's favourite subject is Literature.
This user is from the Home Counties	This user drinks tea.	This user is a member of WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles.		This user identifies as a girl gamer.
This user lived in Saint Petersburg.	This user is owned by one or more cats.	This user is old enough to know better!	This user enjoys reading anything.	This user is a bibliophile.
This user is a librarian.	This user supports Amnesty International.	2 This user thinks BBC Radio 2 is worth the licence fee alone.	This user tracks what she listens to on Last.fm (EmyP).	This user remembers using a rotary dial telephone.
	AS This user has Asperger syndrome.		SYN This user is a synaesthete.