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Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (anzamems.org). Posts by Matt Firth, BlueSky novice extraordinaire.
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@flindersuniversity.bsky.social ARC DECRA Fellow in Medieval History, @mattfirth.bsky.social speaking at @anzamems.bsky.social on political friendships in Wessex!
December 3, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Flinders PhD candidate, @danclaggett.bsky.social, presenting his research on ship burials at the @anzamems.bsky.social 2025 conference. (Note here his use of @flindersuniversity.bsky.social alumna, Dr Claire Ratican's, new book!)
December 3, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Prof. Dan Anlezark opens the first of the panels presenting research from our #ARC project "Finding Friendship" at @anzamems.bsky.social 2025 conference!
December 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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The @anzamems.bsky.social conference is officially open! #anza25
December 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Dr James Kane @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on ideas of friendship (or their absence) in the narratives of the First Crusade @anzamems.bsky.social conference 2025.
December 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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ANZAMEMS 2025 conference begins! @erinsebo.bsky.social on friendship in Beowulf and trying to understand the titular characters seemingly very unfriendly act of allowing his friend to be eaten by Grendel 🤔 @anzamems.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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A/Prof. Claire Wlaker on objects and spaces of friendship in early modern convents @anzamems.bsky.social conference!
December 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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All ready for day 1 of the @anzamems.bsky.social conference! @parergon.bsky.social #anza
December 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Several of the team is going to be presenting at @anzamems.bsky.social this week! We're excited!

See the following link for a more detailed breakdown of our panels, focusing on premodern public health across Italy, Mughal India, and England premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org?p=1568#more-...
December 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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The @anzamems.bsky.social Seminar: Intensive Palaeography Workshop is underway! #anza25 Have fun everyone!
December 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Palaeography workshop day was an excellent start to @anzamems.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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THIS FRIDAY! Come and hear the fabulous @ebenbow.bsky.social about #LowCountries Merchants in and around London: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods

FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Today's knowledge commons free download "Vikings' Settlements in Ireland Before 1014" (2014) #ireland #vikings #medievalsky #history #archaeology
works.hcommons.org/records/4ae7...
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity
Carolingian Biodiversity
How Interdisciplinary Can and Should Work
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November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Officially out in the Journal of Medieval History vol. 51.5, my article on the intersection of viking activity and the Icelandic conversion (c. 1000AD) and how religious concerns shaped saga conceptions of the viking past.
Víking Across Conversion: Depictions of Víkingar in the Sagas of Icelanders
Vikings commonly feature in the Íslendingasögur (Sagas of Icelanders). The words víking (the act of raiding) or víkingr (a raider) appear over 180 times across the forty-some texts of the corpus. H...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
November 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
PhD Opportunity: Middle English Arthurian romance #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
November 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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The next issue of @parergon.bsky.social is on its way, guest-edited by me, @erinsebo.bsky.social and Cassandra Schilling. There's a great group of scholars here who collectively consider, from multiple perspectives, questions of how medieval England perceived its place in a wide and complex world.
November 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Book Launch: Emotions and the Letter #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Can't wait for this special issue of @parergon.bsky.social! Always great to work with Dr Cassandra Schiling and @flindersuniversity.bsky.social DECRA Fellow in Medieval History, @mattfirth.bsky.social and of course, ANU's Prof. Rosalind Smith!
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The ANZAMEMS website will be offline this weekend as we transition to a new server and a fresh look. We should be back online for your medieval and early modern studies needs early next week...
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
13th Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Workshop CFP: Feelings of Safety and Security in the Early Modern World #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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1/4📜 New on ISOS: RIA MS 24 B 1, a Táin Bó Cuailnge manuscript by Peadar Ó Longáin. Digitised with @dias.ie @ria.ie & @unimelb.bsky.social for @anzamems.bsky.social ANZAMEMS 2025. Thanks to Sarah Corrigan @corrigans.bsky.social for underscoring its importance to Irish scribal tradition and the Táin.
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
October 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM