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Dorothy Dunnett Society @dunnettcentral.bsky.social · 1d

The DDS is delighted to have been able to help support two of the speakers at this important event. Giving grants is part of our charitable aims and helps us honour Dunnett's legacy.

Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 3d

MEMOrients CONFERENCE: New Encounters
Cape Town, South Africa / Online + In Person!
11th-14th December, 2025

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MEMOrients CONFERENCE: New Encounters | MEMOs

MEMOs is delighted to announce its first hybrid conference to be held from the 11th - 14th of December 2025, in person in Cape Town, South Africa, and online.

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Dorothy Dunnett Society @dunnettcentral.bsky.social · 1d

Just to alert any members who don't know about it to International Dorothy Dunnett Day, coming up on 8 November: dunnettcentral.org/internationa... There are gatherings arranged in the UK, North America and Australia, and keep an eye on the website for Europe.

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Dorothy Dunnett Society @dunnettcentral.bsky.social · 1d

The DDS is pleased to say that our third international online lecture, Dr David Heffernan on 'Forging the Triangular Alliance', is now available to watch at www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eX9...

Dorothy Dunnett International Online Lecture 3 Forging the Triangular Alliance

YouTube video by Dorothy Dunnett Society

www.youtube.com

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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 13d

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 13d

Brooch depicting lovers 1430-1450, made for the Burgundian Court.

(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

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Dorothy Dunnett Society @dunnettcentral.bsky.social · 6d

#dunnett
#dunnettcontent
#historicalfiction
#earlymodern

This week‘ s #dunnettquote is a hommage to smart Sybilla.

„…He said quietly, “Go on. And the fourth occasion?”

For the first time, Sybilla lost a little of her self-command. She said, “Do you know, if you had succeeded then, I think you would have had to answer for it yourself to those same gypsy gentlemen and not to me today. He was on his way to Mariotta when they attacked him … but you knew that, of course. It must have seemed quite fool-proof at last: Romanies can only be controlled by their King. Unluckily for you, their King at the moment is controlled by me. He learned of your commission and stopped it just in time. Richard isn’t dead, Sir Andrew; and I have three men who will swear to having been paid by you to assassinate him…“

Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

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Dorothy Dunnett Society @dunnettcentral.bsky.social · 13d

#dunnett
#dunnettcontent
#historicalfiction
#earlymodern
#ottomanhistory

Dorothy Dunnett Society @dunnettcentral.bsky.social · 13d

The #dunnettquote of the week takes Mehmet II in focus.

„…Sara Khatun had been with the Sultan’s army now for several weeks, and he had treated her and her entourage of Kurdish and Turcoman nobles with exemplary respect as she had never doubted he would; even to naming her Mother. If she had been, she would have reduced his drinking by half. The prince of twenty-three who had taken Constantinople and (fortunately for her sake) saw himself as a second Alexander conquering a second Darius of Persia, was now a beak-nosed and inflated 31-year-old. A man who spoke Arabic, Persian and Greek and liked gardens, mathematicians, catamites, military strategy and making up excellent poetry...“

Dorothy Dunnett, The Spring of the Ram

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Dorothy Dunnett Society @dunnettcentral.bsky.social · 13d

The #dunnettquote of the week takes Mehmet II in focus.

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Dorothy Dunnett Society @dunnettcentral.bsky.social · 17d

Reminder of our 3rd online lecture this Saturday 27 September at 3pm UK time.

Dorothy Dunnett Society @dunnettcentral.bsky.social · 21d

We are pleased to announce our 3rd online lecture: Dr David Heffernan, a historian of Tudor and Stuart Ireland, on ‘The O’Connors, the MacDonalds and Franco-Scottish Politics, c.1540–1560’ on Saturday 27 September at 3pm UK time. Find the Zoom link on the DDS website or email [email protected]

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Historia – the HWA @historia-hwa.bsky.social · 19d

Announced today!
Find out which writers are on the longlist for the HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition in Historia at historiamag.com/hwaddss-longlist-2025.
25 #histfic authors are through to the next round of judging.
Congratulations, all, and best of luck!
#HWADDSS25

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Dorothy Dunnett Society @dunnettcentral.bsky.social · 20d

US tariffs: An update for US residents. New rules mean that a Customs fee, reflecting 10% of the items’ total value, must be collected on everything except printed items (WG and guides). The DDS regrets that it must pass these charges (which you'll see broken down at checkout) on to US customers.

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 22d

Still space for abstracts for the Leeds IMC call for papers hosted by Institute for Irish Studies doctoral researchers at Liverpool 'Law and Contacts in the Irish Sea Region' #medievalsky

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Sharon Bennett Connolly @thehistorybits.bsky.social · 22d

Harald Hardrada's story is almost just a byline in King & Conqueror. And yet his story, and that of his wives, is fascinating,, even if some of the information, especially on Elisiv of Kyiv, is elusive
#medievalsky #womeninhistory #kingandconqueror
historytheinterestingbits.com/2020/01/26/h...

Harald Hardrada and Elisiv of Kyiv

Elisiv of Kyiv One of my favourite characters of the 1066 story is the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada. Harald led a fascinating life, even before his ill-fated attempt on the English throne; exiled…

historytheinterestingbits.com

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Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social · 22d

#MedievalSky don't forget to send in your proposals for #DigitalMedievalist sessions at #IMC2026! Thank you for the great abstracts already received! We'll be in touch in the coming days.

#DigitalMedievalStudies #MedievalStudies #DigitalHumanities #DH #AI #LLM

Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social · 27d

If you do #DigitalMedievalStudies consider submitting to panels we are organising for #IMC2026 by @imc-leeds.bsky.social, sponsored by @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social! Feel free to get in touch if you have questions!

Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · Sep 5

📜Call for Papers: Digital Medievalist sponsored sessions International Medieval Congress 2026 (Leeds, UK).

We seek proposals on the following themes:
- 'Large Language Models and Medieval Texts'
- 'Digital Methods and Materiality of Manuscripts'

▶️Full call: tinyurl.com/f82tcrzk
📆21 Sept 2025

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V.H.T. @v-h-t.bsky.social · 21d

#medievalsky #medievalwarfare

Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 23d

David Fiasson - Le Mont Saint-Michel dans la guerre de Cent Ans

Abbaye, ville et forteresse

À paraître en janvier aux PUR

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 21d

If you like this stanza, check out the rest of my Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translation:

alliteration.net/poetry/sggk/ #medievalsky #poetrysky #poetrylovers #alliterative #poem #alliteration #alliterativeverse #SirGawain #GreenKnight #translation

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Translating the Middle English poem into modern alliterative verse.

This ongoing translation by Paul D. Deane takes the classic Middle English poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by the anonymous Pearl Poet and sets it in modern alliterative verse.

alliteration.net

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 21d

AotW: Bogdan C. Smarandache, 1293: An Aragonese–Mamlūk Agreement from al-Qalqašandī’s Ṣubḥ al-aʿšā, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*

#medievalists #medievalsky

James II of Aragon (r. 1291–1327), Usatici et Constitutiones Cataloniae, Paris, BNF, Latin 4670 A (c. 1315–1325)

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 25d

Scivias I.6: The Choirs of Angels, copy from the Rupertsberg manuscript, fol. 38r., C12th, by #HildegardofBingen (#HildegardvonBingen, German, C12th). Source, www.arthistoryproject.com/artists/hild...

#nuntastic #womenartists #artherstory #FeastofStHildegard #StHildegard

This illustration, a later (C20th?) copy of a C12th artwork, has a distinct circular or "mandala" shape, superimposed over a narrow vertical gold rectangle with a decorative border in mostly white. It depicts the nine choirs of angels in concentric circles around a pale void, symbolizing spiritual hierarchy and harmony within the universe. resembling a Eucharistic Host. They are like concentric ripples in a pond, with faces of red, white and green.

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 25d

Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

The 17th-century woman who wrote about surviving domestic abuse

In the 17th century, Anne Wentworth spoke out against her abusive husband and the religious institution that protected him.

theconversation.com

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · 24d

A great opportunity to get close up to some fifteenth-century printed books at this short talk at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Monday.
#earlymodern

www.vam.ac.uk/event/yO4oRy...

National Art Library and Archive talks (Monday at 11.30 except Bank Holidays) - Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A

Join National Art Library and V&A Archive staff each Monday for a short talk on an item of their choosing. Museum visitors will encounter some extraordinary collection items and experience the Victori...

www.vam.ac.uk

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 23d

In #Renaissance culture chess was progressively considered on par with poetry, music, literature and art & therefore an eminently suitable activity for a cultivated family, like the Anguissolas, to be engaged in.

Read more: bit.ly/46eI1yj

🗃️ #arthistory #chess #skystorians #earlymodern #art

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Susanne Gruss @susannegruss.bsky.social · 21d

Negroni Week AND Publication Week? That does sound like an auspicious connection! Pirates, prepare your drink of choice!
#AcademicPublishing #earlymodern #piracy

Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 21d

Folks ... get ready ... tomorrow is the start of NEGRONI WEEK 2025 AND Practices & Narratives of Early Modern Piracy
Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800 ed @susannegruss.bsky.social & Marcus Hartner will be published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social ... these things must be connected ... 🏴‍☠️🍸🏴‍☠️🍸🏴‍☠️🍸

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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 21d

Dear #skystorians, do you sometimes struggle to bring those historical voices that were silenced and unheard until now to life? I've been ruminating on #earlymodern voices and #disability history. You can read more here:
www.public-disabilityhistory.org/2025/09/disa...

Dis/ability: The Complex Search for Voices in the Pre-Modern Era

Public Disability History is a blog journal and a forum for exchange between the diverse actors involved and invested in issues regarding disability.

www.public-disabilityhistory.org

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 21d

💎 A thoughtful piece about several distinct features quietly present in Sofonisba’s Chess Game to increase one's appreciation of this iconic masterpiece.

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #history #art #artherstory #womenartists #renaissance #earlymodern

ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/sofonisbas...

Sofonisba's Chess Game - Detailed Delights (7/9)

The benefits of looking closely

ideasroadshow.substack.com

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 21d

Making things in Global Asia

🗺️ Explore the new online exhibition by our @erc.europa.eu project CAPASIA 👉 loom.ly/ig-EXQY

The exhibit highlights the overlooked, but nonetheless worldmaking, role of Asian manufacturing in the global history of #earlymodern capitalism

🌐 #onlineexhibition #capitalism

Making Things in Global Asia Exhibition

Long before Asia became the epicentre of global manufacturing at the end of the twentieth century, it was home to sophisticated cultures of production in the early modern period (1500-1800). This rich...

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Vick Mickunas @vickmickunas.bsky.social · 27d

@dunnettcentral.bsky.social I interviewed Dorothy many years ago-she was wonderful!

www.wyso.org/show/book-no...

Best of the Book Nook: Gemini, by Dorothy Dunnett

In 1994 I started interviewing authors on the radio. I probably would never have decided to do that if it hadn't been for the fact that in those days in…

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