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Scott G. Bruce
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Medieval History / Fordham University / editor of Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and Religion / Canadian / chaotic good

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Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · 5d
🥁🥁🥁Hello academic blueskyers, we are hiring again. We are looking for a proactive, communicative, motivated post-doc 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️ for our ISF project Josephus Christianus (sinowloc.wixsite.com/josephus-chr...). Feel free to circulate!

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Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · 8d
Are you an author of a new #history book published in 2025? Consider applying for our #BookPrize!

The deadline for the receipt of the nominated monographs is 28 February 2026.

ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/2026-book-pr...

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Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social · 8d
2/2 And equally delighted that Traditio 80 (2025) is now avaiable in print. This is my sixth volume as executive editor with hopefully many more to come!

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Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social · 8d
1/2: Delighted that this handsome volume of fourteen of my essays on Cluniac history has now been published by Cornell University Press.

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Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · 10d
Excited to announce this for late April! Join us by zoom, it will be online too. #lateantiquity #earlymiddleages @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 14d
Coptic spell to Acquire a Beautiful Voice, 6th–7th century CE, Egypt, ink on papyrus, 37.3 x 25.4 cm (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven)
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Worn papyrus with drawings of figures, symbols, and writing in Coptic. More here https://smarthistory.org/coptic-magical-text/

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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 28d
My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources.

Please share and give feedback!

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Xeirographa
A guided learning platform for reading Greek manuscripts with interactive transcription exercises.
xeirographa.com

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · Dec 25
How delicately a Romanesque angel uses the lightest touch of a finger to wake one of the magi, snuggled with the other 2 under their embroidered circular blanket at St Lazare, Autun, c1130 (& how beautifully the textures of pillow & blanket are represented).

Season's greetings to you all!

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · Dec 22
New volume of Traditio Vol. 80 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56113 @projectmuse.bsky.social @xuthal.bsky.social @jmharland.bsky.social @daveaddison.bsky.social

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U of T Centre for Medieval Studies @uoftcms.bsky.social · Dec 19
📜 Read "Anselm the Fool: Meditation and the Joy of Unbelief in the 'Proslogion'" by Professor James R. Ginther in 'Traditio' Volume 80.

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medieval manuscript illumination of three figures inside the letter O.

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Prof Ben Pohl @benpohl.bsky.social · Dec 15
My tasty take (pun intended) on the Bayeux Tapestry—a subject on which I had vowed never to publish. Available Open Access with @ihr.bsky.social. See what you make of it, and bon appetit! academic.oup.com/histres/adva...
Chewing over the Norman Conquest: the Bayeux Tapestry as monastic mealtime reading*
Abstract. This article offers a new contextualization of the Bayeux Tapestry by exploring its use as mealtime reading in a monastic refectory. This concept
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Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social · Dec 13
Keen to read it! Loved "Merovingian Worlds"!

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Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social · Dec 13
Will it have a later North American release, James?

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James T Palmer @jtpmedieval.bsky.social · Dec 13
"Charlemagne's Dream" is coming (just not quite yet).

#medieval
#carolingians
#apocalypse

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Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social · Dec 9
Perhaps the coolest conference venue I've ever experienced: the abbey of Saint Victor in Marseille, founded in the early fifth century by John Cassian, whose skull leers from a nearby relic display, and rebuilt in the early eleventh century.

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Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social · Nov 30
Nice! Will these be published?

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Nov 7
The first in-depth account of the lives and careers of educated slaves and freedmen in ancient Rome.

Intellectual Property by Harriet I. Flower is now available (2 Dec UK pub).

Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#AncientRome #AncientHistory
Intellectual Property: Learned Slaves and Educated Freedmen in Republican Rome by Harriet I. Flower

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Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social · Nov 6
Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.
A magical text written in the 16th century on the previously blank margin of an earlier liturgical manuscript. Part of the original liturgical text can be seen at the bottom of the leaf. The leaf would originally have been part of the outer margin of a large leaf but has been rotated 90 degrees clockwise.

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · Nov 5
New issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Vol. 68, No. 1 (2025) academic.oup.com/bics/issue/6... @ics.bsky.social @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social @camwachowich.bsky.social @graemeyward.bsky.social

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · Nov 3
Five years, four authors, one book. Out now (fully open access), our new book on local priests in the tenth century 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social
Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050
www.cambridge.org

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · Oct 7
Assistant Professorship in Early Medieval Literatures and Cultures, Fordham University:
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Assistant Professorship in Early Medieval Literatures and Cultures, Fordham University | MEMOs
Early Modern Literatures and Culture, Fordham University (NYC)
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Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social · Sep 29
I'm very excited to share the cover of my forthcoming collection of fourteen essays on Cluniac monasticism, which Cornell UP will publish in January 2026. The cover image is from fol. 1v of Angers BM 820, an eleventh-century compilation of texts related to the cult of Abbot Maiolus of Cluny.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · Sep 27
October is the time for knocking down acorns for swine to eat.
#medievalcalendar
Bodleian Library MS. Auct. D. 2. 6; c.1140 CE; England (St. Albans); f.6r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Ed Roberts @ecroberts.bsky.social · Sep 25
Excited to learn that Drew Jones's new edition & translation of Odo of Cluny's Occupatio, one of the tenth century's most intriguing but little-known Latin works, is coming out very soon: www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
Brepols - The Occupatio by Odo of Cluny
Brepols is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of histo...
www.brepols.net

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · Sep 12
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Journal of Late Antiquity
Volume 18, Number 2, Fall 2025
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/58uf6c74

CONTRIBUTORS
Sabine R. Huebner
Marion Kruse
J.-Michel Reaux Colvin
Maria Pavlou
Chengzuo Yao
Gail Tatham
Andrew Paul Wood
Gabriele Castiglia
Seth M. Stadel
and more!
  NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Journal of Late Antiquity Volume 18, Number 2, Fall 2025 #S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE CONTRIBUTORS Sabine R. Huebner Marion Kruse J.-Michel Reaux Colvin Maria Pavlou Chengzuo Yao Gail Tatham Andrew Paul Wood Gabriele Castiglia Seth M. Stadel Goudarzi Chance E. Bonar Mateusz Fafinski Anna Bonnell Freidin Michael Kulikowski Christopher Kelly Lea Niccolai Scott G. Bruce Becky Walker

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Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social · Sep 3
Is there a TOC online?

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Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social · Aug 27
NIN in Baltimore.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · Jul 31
St Paul is here to write letters and kick ass. And he has just written his last letter.

Musée de Cluny, Cl.1505, c. 1030, Echternach

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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · Jul 30
So excited that my book has a cover. Michigan's design people have outdone themselves in their styling of Mr. Murder Mittens (a massive Roman temple key from Switzerland). Full details here (the e-version will be open access come the publication date): press.umich.edu/Books/S/Stea...

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Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social · Jul 30
New in CHR: “Fragments of Greek Patristics in Eusebius’s Historia ecclesiastica and Their Readers in the Latin West.”