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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds
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The Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds is a major centre for interdisciplinary medieval studies. Home of the International Medieval Congress and the International Medieval Bibliography.
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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 12d
We are delighted to announce our research seminars for this semester in Leeds. All will be hybrid. Keep an eye out for links to register for zoom nearer the time or come in person. All welcome! #medievalsky #medievalresearch
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 2d
The battle of Cat and Mouse

BL Harley 6563; Book of Hours; c.1320 CE-c.1330 CE; England, S. E. (London); f.72r
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Dr. Jude Seal - 'Unfunded Hobbyist' @judeseal.bsky.social · 2d
Canterbury Cathedral was quite literally already full of graffiti - some of it dating back nearly a thousand years. So, from my view, this is actually continuing something that has already been happening and asking questions in an interesting way.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Anger over ‘sacrilegious’ graffiti art installation at Canterbury Cathedral
Responses to the project on display at the historic building have been mixed
www.independent.co.uk
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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 2d
Medieval History job at DCU.

#MedievalSky
#Spéirghorm
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 4d
Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History
Dublin City University - School of History & Geography #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...
Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History at Dublin City University
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Christian Cooijmans @ccooijmans.bsky.social · 3d
Very happy to finally see this in the flesh today: the remains of an early tenth-century calendar from Landévennec, Brittany, whose entry for the year 913 contains an annotation that the local coastal monastery of Winwaloe was attacked by vikings during that year.

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A medieval manuscript page from the tenth century, on vellum. Text in black ink and red rubrication using Carolingian miniscule. A marginal annotation on a manuscript, containing the (abbreviated) Latin sentence: 'Eodem anno destructum est monasterium sancti winualoei a normannis' (translation: 'In the same year, the monastery of saint Winwaloe was destroyed by Northmen').
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 3d
A 7th century Pictish symbol stone discovered in 1936 during excavations at the Knowe of Burrian - a broch at Netherbrough in the Orkney Isles. Now part of the collections at Orkney Museum in Kirkwall. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Picts #Orkney
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Agenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · 3d
Appel à contribution – Épigraphie et latinité au Moyen Âge

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Appel à contribution – Épigraphie et latinité au Moyen Âge
Le colloque international « Épigraphie et latinité au Moyen Âge », qui aura lieu au CESCM de Poitiers du 18 au 22 mai 2026 offre l’opportunité aux doctorantes/doctorants ou post-doctorantes/post-do…
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Kristen Haas Curtis @hellomizk.bsky.social · 3d
My buddy’s book is out now! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270096... Fantastic read for my medievalist friends and fellow @guildmedmak.bsky.social mates! E-book available open access!!
Public Engagement in the European Middle Ages - Arc Humanities Press
This manual uses the medieval past to teach modern scholars how to succeed in public engagement. Combining a careful study of public engagement in Europe bet...
www.arc-humanities.org
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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 3d
Ok, people, here's my @utoronto.ca Medieval Studies #Voynich lecture! I've got BIG NEWS to report about the potential original structure of the manuscript. Check it out! (new material starts around minute 14) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH28...
Lisa Fagin Davis: "The Materiality of the Voynich Manuscript"
YouTube video by U of T CMS
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Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture @mjcbac.bsky.social · 3d
East of Byzantium is excited to welcome Nazénie Garibian as the first speaker in our 2025–2026 lecture series. Join us on November 4 for "Creating Christian Sacred Spaces: The Armenian Case (4th–7th Centuries)". 12:00 pm ET on Zoom. Register: eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-eve...
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 4d
It's Wednesday. You need some eels in your life, right? And some otters?

Here you go!

A scene of otters & eels, from an early 15th C. copy of Gaston Phoebus's Livre de la chasse. Eel blood is toxic to mammals, but otters don't care. They love them some eels.

Can you blame them?
A medieval painting of otters playing in a pool, chasing and catching eels and other fish. There are 10 adult otters, and what look to be 2 younger otters in a den at the base of a tree. They are all doing serious otter things: playing, eating, cavorting, eating, gamboling, eating, swimming, and eating. They are having a good time. For now. It can't last, though. This pond seems way too small to support all of these otters, and the painting has a border around it. They can't leave, and soon they will turn on each other in a bloodbath that will make the Donner Party look like a tea time at the Rotary Club. If you check back with these otters in two weeks, I suspect you'll find only carnage. That, though, is a problem for Future Otters. Today's otters are carefree, with spotless souls. Source: Morgan (MS M.1044 fol. 28r)
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 4d
#histmed #MedievalSky Minji Lee's book, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body, has just been released #OpenAccess: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
Cover image of Minji Lee, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body. On the complex imagery reproduced on the cover, read the book!
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 6d
Wondering how this turns into an entirely new narrative of the Black Death, still considered the worst pandemic in human history? It's all here: “The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta,” doi.org/10.17613/qez.... A bigger map, a longer chronology, a new story.
The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta
The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic Through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta is a module in the History for the 21st Century project (H/21), a collaborative open-access curriculum designed for studen...
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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 5d
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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Charlotte Gauthier @faraiunvers.bsky.social · 5d
Join me next year at the #SSCLE conference in Porto, from 29 June-3 July 2025. Do please share this #CFP with anyone who studies the Later Crusades (post-1291) and would like to share their research with an enthusiastic and perceptive audience. #skystorians #medievalsky #earlymodernsky
Recent decades have seen significant advances in our understanding of the later crusades (post-1291). This session aims to showcase the latest research on this fascinating topic. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers exploring new perspectives on the later crusades. Topics are not limited to, but might include: Diplomacy and statecraft Crusading and Reformation Logistics, financing, recruitment, and volunteerism Crusading in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic, and Iberia Crusades against ‘heretics’ Intellectual history of crusading Submit your paper title, abstract (250 words) and a brief biography to charlotte.gauthier.2017@live.rhul.ac.uk by 25 October 2025.
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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 5d
Find out more about feeding the crew of the Mary Rose - maryrose.org/meet-the-cre...
The Cook - The Mary Rose
Who was the Mary Rose's cook, and what food and drink did the crew of the Mary Rose have?
maryrose.org
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 7d
Oh boy, on Oct 16, @leoba.bsky.social is showing Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 1004/29, a mid-14thC physician's belt w/ calendar, tables of solar & lunar eclipses, anatomical phlebotomy diagram, & urine wheel. A 🦇 book, b/c it unfolds like a pair of 🦇 wings. libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/14872116
Coffee with a Codex On The Road: Bat Book at the Rosenbach
An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...
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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 8d
#MedievalSky #EarlyModernists you may not be aware that I offer several services: transcription (no hand too tricky), archival visits and more. I’m happiest in the period 1200-1700 but will consider anything. Get in touch via my website!

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Freelance Work
Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…
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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 8d
There's a couple of open access articles in here
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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 11d
For details of our first research seminar of the year on Italian families in Greece in the Late Middle Ages, including how to register to attend online, go to this site: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/eve... #medievalsky #Latineast #medievalgreece #medievalitaly #medievalhybridity #medievalcolonialism
Research seminar: Hybrids on the Frontier: Power and identity of Italian families in Latin Greece (13th–15th century)
Dr Nada Zečević presents a paper for the Institute for Medieval Studies seminar series
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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 9d
Registration for online attendance is open for our first two research seminars this semester. Check out events at ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval. To listen to @rhigarthjones.bsky.social on 28 October at 17.30 BST go to ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/eve... #medievalsky #globalmiddleages #abbasidhistory
Research seminar: Builder kings: Reception of Solomon in the Early ʿAbbāsid Palaces
Dr Rhiannon Garth Jones presents a paper for the Institute for Medieval Studies seminar series
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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · 9d
Heritage Show + Tell - speakers announced!

7 three-minute talks have been confirmed so far for the return edition of Heritage Show + Tell on 9 October at Leeds Central Library.

Full details including how to book your place 👇

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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 9d
In the next in our series of interviews with alumni find out what happened next for Lucy Moore after her Leeds MA in Medieval Studies #medievalsky #numismatics #medievalcoins #museums ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/new...
An Interview with Lucy Moore: A Career in Medieval Coins, Community, and Museum Curation
Leeds Alum on early medieval coinage, interdisciplinary study, and making material culture accessible to all.
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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 9d
Did you know we offer a limited number of bursaries, available to students, independent scholars, pensioners, unwaged scholars, and delegates from outside Western Europe?

You can find out more and apply here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/about/bursary/

Application deadline: 15 October 2025 ⏰

#IMC2026
Bursaries and Awards | International Medieval Congress
Bursary Applications for IMC 2026 are now open! Read below to apply.
www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 9d
Are you interested in the history of rivers? Do you wonder how historians and environmental scientists can work together? Join the EDHS seminar to hear from the ARTEMIS team about their amazing project exploring the histories and ecologies of the Scheldt. #envhist #histsci #skystorians #dh
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 11d
The Environmental #DH Seminar (EDHS) is back!

Co-organised by Lancaster & Manchester w/support from @n8cir.bsky.social, our first event features the ARTEMIS project.

Join us ONLINE at 12pm (UK) on Oct 15 to hear about this digital historical investigation of the Scheldt River Valley.

RSVP 👇
Artemis Project: A Digital Bridge to Historical Landscapes and Maps
Join us for a discussion with Iason Jongepier (University of Antwerp) & Vincent Ducatteeuw (Ghent University)
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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 9d
Interview written by our community building student assistant Emily Caffery, currently on our MA in Medieval Studies (part-time)
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