Author of Joan of Arc: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works (2023). Co-editor Cinema Medievalia (2024). Medievalism 🏰, film 🎥, astronomy 🪐, comics, Transformers 🤖, books 📚, antiquing, 🖊️, Star Wars 🚀. he/him https://linktr.ee/scottmanninghttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mvnseb5ipk2nFinished reading Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, which was a helluva journey. Starting on The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Quin. 🪐📚💙16 Sep 2026 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvnseb5ipk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mul5vf67dk2bDe Re Militari published an extensive review of my Joan of Arc book. Loads of praise and critiques. Still processing it, but unique from other reviews so far, the reviewer argues the book is better suited for seasoned scholars, not beginners. ⚜️🗡️👑 📚💙 https://deremilitari.org/2026/09/scott-manning-joan-of-arc-a-reference-guide-to-her-life-and-works-reviewer-mary-anne-gonzalez/03 Sep 2026 00:09 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mul5vf67dk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mucimnyqic27A mid-14th century depiction of the Devil in Dante’s Divine Comedy. It’s faded, but you can make out Satan munching on Judas, Brutus, and Cassius. 🔥 😈 Currently on display at the Morgan Library. 🗃️ Unidentified artist, Florence, c. 1345-55 📷 mine30 Aug 2026 13:27 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mucimnyqic27https://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mu354ws3xc2cRIP Peter Cullen. I am not ok.27 Aug 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu354ws3xc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mtbo5p2gcc2zI can’t believe how riveted i was reading about a water stain for 3 pages 💙📚17 Aug 2026 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbo5p2gcc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mt7c7rhls22pFinished The Company Man (1988) by Joe Clifford Faust, and moving onto Song of Solomon (1977) by Toni Morrison. 🪐📚💙16 Aug 2026 13:29 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt7c7rhls22phttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mstvrwvbfc2xcurrently reading The Company Man (1988) by Joe Clifford Faust. it takes place in a post current world order. no nations. only corporations. i can’t put this thing down. 🪐📚12 Aug 2026 00:47 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mstvrwvbfc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3msg2e6w2bc2tJust received my copy of the new limited edition steelbook of Luc Besson’s The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). Love the yellow! Going to compare the extras with previous releases.06 Aug 2026 12:32 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3msg2e6w2bc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mrqb7tood22z2026 reading check-in. here are all the books i’ve read so far. all but dante and homer are new to me. trying to read the stuff i’ve always heard about, but never read. #booksky Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 1/328 Jul 2026 20:36 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrqb7tood22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mrphofjuz222currently reading Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. 4 chapters in and this thing is ridiculously entertaining. 💙 🪐28 Jul 2026 12:59 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrphofjuz222https://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mrgltd2yhc2njust got my copy of The Transformers: The Movie; The Soundtrack - The Reformatted Edition. this bad boy is going in my 2017 corolla and never leaving.25 Jul 2026 00:19 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrgltd2yhc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mrcs5k2h2c2rA coworker saw me carrying a book on the train, and he explained to me how he gets through soooo many books by asking AI for mini-synopses. “If my commute is 20 min, I ask for a 19-min read of a book. Tale of Two Cities? Done!” I died a little inside. 💙📚23 Jul 2026 12:02 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcs5k2h2c2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mr5ta2jx3c2nI’m halfway through Heinlein’s A Stranger In a Strange Land, I have no idea where it’s going, and I’m entertained as hell. 🪐📚💙21 Jul 2026 12:38 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr5ta2jx3c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mqzd265cq22ci’ll admit the odyssey would have been better if nolan used period accurate armor in the scene with the 50-ft cyclops19 Jul 2026 17:38 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqzd265cq22chttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mqu3uep2tk2tWas fortunate to see a pre-screening of #TheOdyssey last night. Some original props were on display. Epic film. Moved me emotionally. Stayed true to the spirit of Homer in many ways. Looking forward to a second viewing.17 Jul 2026 15:46 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqu3uep2tk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mqu3p46kc22tFinished reading The Picture of Dorian Gray. Up next is A Stranger in a Strange Land. 📚🪐17 Jul 2026 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqu3p46kc22thttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mqkpkuslgs2xFinished reading Sense and Sensibility. Next up, The Picture of Dorian Gray. 🖋️📚13 Jul 2026 22:12 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqkpkuslgs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mq3jgrmrss2kafter finally reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the cabin really ain’t in it much 📚💙07 Jul 2026 21:12 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq3jgrmrss2khttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mokoxuivn22gif i mailed my journal to you, would you keep it safe or would you take it to austria like a moron?18 Jun 2026 11:11 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mokoxuivn22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mobaq5rk4k2enever forget that Poseidon died for your sins 🌊 🔱14 Jun 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mobaq5rk4k2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mmef377edc2wWake up! New Transformers blog just dropped! 🗃️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 May 2026 12:07 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmef377edc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mlqeifusxk2ofolks, i got myself a whale of a highlighter. this thing could swallow 3 John whole in a few strokes, leaving no white space in its wake. fear me, Melville! 🐳 📚💙13 May 2026 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqeifusxk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mliz2jvwik2rWhile reading Moby-Dick, the blog by @begemot.bsky.social is invaluable. Chapter by chapter musings, and he tracks down many of the images that Melville describes. Strongly recommend. 🐳 📚💙 https://beigemoth.blog/2019/09/17/chapter-56-of-the-less-erroneous-pictures-of-whales-and-the-true-pictures-of-whaling-scenes/10 May 2026 14:50 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mliz2jvwik2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mlex6syvgc2wFarewell. I am starting a Melville sentence, and I may not return. 🐳 📚💙09 May 2026 00:06 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlex6syvgc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mkzki2z7h22gI was in a used bookstore yesterday and the owner was explaining how she can’t keep the classics on the shelf because of . . . teenagers. They’re not trusting anything online because of AI, so they want the real deal. There is a waiting list for Salinger and Harper Lee. 📚💙04 May 2026 11:19 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzki2z7h22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mkx722hb3c2asorting through an old library and in the back of a copy of Trésor Poétique is a handwritten timeline of British royalty from Henry VIII to George V 📚💙 🗃️03 May 2026 12:49 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkx722hb3c2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmanning.com/post/3mkb6dywoy22nconsolidated all my arthurian mass market paperbacks 📚💙24 Apr 2026 18:38 +0000at://did:plc:xtuyyflqewldpekkuo4m5fd2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkb6dywoy22n