Beth Spacey
@bcspacey.bsky.social
Lecturer in Medieval History. Living and working on Turrbal and Yuggera land. She/her.
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Issue 42.1 of @parergon.bsky.social is out, follow the link to take a look! This open issue contains articles on a range of topics, as well as a cluster on the reception of Aristotle in early modern China. Look out for our feature posts for each article over the next week.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
August 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Issue 42.1 of @parergon.bsky.social is out, follow the link to take a look! This open issue contains articles on a range of topics, as well as a cluster on the reception of Aristotle in early modern China. Look out for our feature posts for each article over the next week.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
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In exciting news, The Routledge History of the Devil is up and available to preview (and ask your libraries to consider preordering). It will be out in May. I am sorry to report that, though it comes in at nearly 600 pages, we couldn't *quite* stretch it to 666: www.routledge.com/.../Raiswe.....
The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition
Covering a period of 2000 years, this book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the devil's role in the Western tradition and draws from history, religion, art, literature, media studies, and an...
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March 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In exciting news, The Routledge History of the Devil is up and available to preview (and ask your libraries to consider preordering). It will be out in May. I am sorry to report that, though it comes in at nearly 600 pages, we couldn't *quite* stretch it to 666: www.routledge.com/.../Raiswe.....
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My co-author, @FancyNahyan.bsky.social, and I are happy to announce that, after an 8-month delay, our essay “Plague History, Mongol History, and the Processes of Focalisation Leading Up to the Black Death” has finally been published. It’s open-access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #histmed 🧪
Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al. | Medical History | Cambridge Core
Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al.
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February 17, 2025 at 8:46 AM
My co-author, @FancyNahyan.bsky.social, and I are happy to announce that, after an 8-month delay, our essay “Plague History, Mongol History, and the Processes of Focalisation Leading Up to the Black Death” has finally been published. It’s open-access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #histmed 🧪
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There are:
- 10 days for our CFP for the 2025 Ceræ conference
- 17 days left to snag a book to review for Volume 12 of the journal
- 40 days left to submit for Volume 12 on the theme of 'Dreams, Visions, and Utopias'
So many opportunities - #historysky, #gradsky, join in!
ceraejournal.com
- 10 days for our CFP for the 2025 Ceræ conference
- 17 days left to snag a book to review for Volume 12 of the journal
- 40 days left to submit for Volume 12 on the theme of 'Dreams, Visions, and Utopias'
So many opportunities - #historysky, #gradsky, join in!
ceraejournal.com
CERÆ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Visit the post for more.
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February 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
There are:
- 10 days for our CFP for the 2025 Ceræ conference
- 17 days left to snag a book to review for Volume 12 of the journal
- 40 days left to submit for Volume 12 on the theme of 'Dreams, Visions, and Utopias'
So many opportunities - #historysky, #gradsky, join in!
ceraejournal.com
- 10 days for our CFP for the 2025 Ceræ conference
- 17 days left to snag a book to review for Volume 12 of the journal
- 40 days left to submit for Volume 12 on the theme of 'Dreams, Visions, and Utopias'
So many opportunities - #historysky, #gradsky, join in!
ceraejournal.com
I've just clicked 'submit' on my paper proposal for the ANZAMEMS 2025 conference! Get those abstracts in! The deadline is 14 Feb.
Ok, we get it. You're chill, like to leave things last minute. But the deadline for our #CFP is here! Get your abstracts in by Friday, escape the northern winter, and join us in Melbourne on 3-5 December to talk all things #medieval and #earlymodern.
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February 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I've just clicked 'submit' on my paper proposal for the ANZAMEMS 2025 conference! Get those abstracts in! The deadline is 14 Feb.
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January 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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The eleventh volume of Ceræ journal is now live! This volume features three articles themed on 'Metamorphosis, Transformation, and Transmutation', two varia, and a record nineteen book reviews! Please, #medievalsky and #earlymodernsky, read on: ceraejournal.com/2025/01/22/c...
Ceræ Volume 11: Published!
2025 is upon us, and with it comes the publication of Ceræ’s eleventh volume, featuring three themed articles, two creative varia, and a record nineteen book reviews. This issue follows the theme o…
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January 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The eleventh volume of Ceræ journal is now live! This volume features three articles themed on 'Metamorphosis, Transformation, and Transmutation', two varia, and a record nineteen book reviews! Please, #medievalsky and #earlymodernsky, read on: ceraejournal.com/2025/01/22/c...
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We're hosting our next conference this coming October -- "Always Here: Non-Binary Gender, Trans Identities, and Queerness in the Global Middle Ages (c. 250-1650)."
Please send us your abstracts!
Please send us your abstracts!
January 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
We're hosting our next conference this coming October -- "Always Here: Non-Binary Gender, Trans Identities, and Queerness in the Global Middle Ages (c. 250-1650)."
Please send us your abstracts!
Please send us your abstracts!
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Are you an early-career researcher working in Early Modern or Modern French History?
In partnership with @frenchhistory.bsky.social, we're running two book development fellowships to support you with your first book.
- £1000
- Mentoring from editors
- Deadline 21 March
tinyurl.com/53amvrv7
In partnership with @frenchhistory.bsky.social, we're running two book development fellowships to support you with your first book.
- £1000
- Mentoring from editors
- Deadline 21 March
tinyurl.com/53amvrv7
January 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Are you an early-career researcher working in Early Modern or Modern French History?
In partnership with @frenchhistory.bsky.social, we're running two book development fellowships to support you with your first book.
- £1000
- Mentoring from editors
- Deadline 21 March
tinyurl.com/53amvrv7
In partnership with @frenchhistory.bsky.social, we're running two book development fellowships to support you with your first book.
- £1000
- Mentoring from editors
- Deadline 21 March
tinyurl.com/53amvrv7
Exciting news! The CfP for the Dec 2025 Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies conference is open! Proposals are due by 14 Feb. Can't wait! #medievalsky #earlymodernsky
Exactly how high was submitting a proposal for our #medieval and #earlymodern studies conference on your list of new year's resolutions? Might as well get that one done early. Come join us in Melbourne on 3-5 Dec, just get your proposals in before 14 Feb.
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conference.anzamems....
January 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Exciting news! The CfP for the Dec 2025 Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies conference is open! Proposals are due by 14 Feb. Can't wait! #medievalsky #earlymodernsky
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I haven't seen this on Bluesky, so sharing the CFP for this fantastic sounding upcoming conference on Emotion and Politics in the Medieval World. #medieval #emohistory
January 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I haven't seen this on Bluesky, so sharing the CFP for this fantastic sounding upcoming conference on Emotion and Politics in the Medieval World. #medieval #emohistory
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New Medieval Books: The Latin Continuation of William of Tyre, translated by James H. Kane and Keagan J. Brewer published by @routledgehistory.bsky.social https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/new-medieval-books-the-latin-continuation-of-william-of-tyre/ #CrusadeTextsinTranslation #Crusades #Books
New Medieval Books: The Latin Continuation of William of Tyre - Medievalists.net
As part of the Crusade Texts in Translation series, this account chronicles events in the Near East from 1184 through the conclusion of the Third Crusade. Written by an anonymous author reflecting on…
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January 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
New Medieval Books: The Latin Continuation of William of Tyre, translated by James H. Kane and Keagan J. Brewer published by @routledgehistory.bsky.social https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/new-medieval-books-the-latin-continuation-of-william-of-tyre/ #CrusadeTextsinTranslation #Crusades #Books
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Happy New Year fellow ghost enthusiasts! Only 8 days left to get your abstracts in for our ghost conference in Limerick this June. 🏃♂️ 👻
Ghost Conference Alert!! 👻
We are organising a conference on historical representations of ghosts at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick in June 2025. CFP attached! Please share! #earlymodern #twitterstorians #emotions #emostorians
We are organising a conference on historical representations of ghosts at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick in June 2025. CFP attached! Please share! #earlymodern #twitterstorians #emotions #emostorians
January 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Happy New Year fellow ghost enthusiasts! Only 8 days left to get your abstracts in for our ghost conference in Limerick this June. 🏃♂️ 👻
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Interested in researching the history of witchcraft and magic? The join us to discover the wealth of resources available to you from IHR_Library, The Warburg Institute, Senate House Library. 16 May 14:00-15:30 BST Online Register today via: history.ac.uk/events/resea...
Researching the history of witchcraft and magic
history.ac.uk
April 8, 2024 at 10:54 AM
Interested in researching the history of witchcraft and magic? The join us to discover the wealth of resources available to you from IHR_Library, The Warburg Institute, Senate House Library. 16 May 14:00-15:30 BST Online Register today via: history.ac.uk/events/resea...
It feels timely to reshare this reminder that while some medieval Latin Christians interpreted eclipses as signs, many also had sophisticated understandings of the astronomy behind how and why they occur. #MedievalSky #eclipse 🌘
Medieval Christians saw the lunar eclipse as a sign from God — but they also understood the science
When it came to making sense of lunar eclipses, medieval Christians did not necessarily resort to superstition, magicians, and moon-eating monsters.
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April 9, 2024 at 8:35 PM
It feels timely to reshare this reminder that while some medieval Latin Christians interpreted eclipses as signs, many also had sophisticated understandings of the astronomy behind how and why they occur. #MedievalSky #eclipse 🌘
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Coming up on 1 March at 10am AEDT, our first seminar of the semester!
Dr Paige Donaghy (U Queensland) on '"When her ship was laden with wares, then she could take in passengers": pregnant women's sexuality in England, c. 1600-1750.' Email Zoom link: cmrs-postgraduatecommittee [at] monash [dot] edu
Dr Paige Donaghy (U Queensland) on '"When her ship was laden with wares, then she could take in passengers": pregnant women's sexuality in England, c. 1600-1750.' Email Zoom link: cmrs-postgraduatecommittee [at] monash [dot] edu
February 21, 2024 at 3:46 AM
Coming up on 1 March at 10am AEDT, our first seminar of the semester!
Dr Paige Donaghy (U Queensland) on '"When her ship was laden with wares, then she could take in passengers": pregnant women's sexuality in England, c. 1600-1750.' Email Zoom link: cmrs-postgraduatecommittee [at] monash [dot] edu
Dr Paige Donaghy (U Queensland) on '"When her ship was laden with wares, then she could take in passengers": pregnant women's sexuality in England, c. 1600-1750.' Email Zoom link: cmrs-postgraduatecommittee [at] monash [dot] edu
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Come join us at Parergon journal! We're looking for new members of our dynamic ECR committee. You'll get experience behind the scenes of a vibrant, interdisciplinary medieval & early modern studies journal. Who wouldn't want that? Details in the link.
www.anzamems.org?p=12697
www.anzamems.org?p=12697
Parergon 2024 Early Career Committee Call for Nominations | ANZAMEMS Inc
www.anzamems.org
February 13, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Come join us at Parergon journal! We're looking for new members of our dynamic ECR committee. You'll get experience behind the scenes of a vibrant, interdisciplinary medieval & early modern studies journal. Who wouldn't want that? Details in the link.
www.anzamems.org?p=12697
www.anzamems.org?p=12697
Back to it today after an invigorating 3 days in the beautiful Ōtautahi Christchurch for the @anzamems.bsky.social conference. Lovely to catch up with and meet lots of wonderful people. My thanks to the organisers and everyone who came along to my paper.
February 11, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Back to it today after an invigorating 3 days in the beautiful Ōtautahi Christchurch for the @anzamems.bsky.social conference. Lovely to catch up with and meet lots of wonderful people. My thanks to the organisers and everyone who came along to my paper.
I'm getting increasingly excited about heading over to Aotearoa New Zealand next week for the @anzamems.bsky.social conference! My paper, 'Reading Medieval Latin Christian Narratives of the Latin East through Settler Colonialism: A “Useful” Anachronism?', will be on Friday afternoon. #Medievalsky
January 30, 2024 at 10:46 PM
I'm getting increasingly excited about heading over to Aotearoa New Zealand next week for the @anzamems.bsky.social conference! My paper, 'Reading Medieval Latin Christian Narratives of the Latin East through Settler Colonialism: A “Useful” Anachronism?', will be on Friday afternoon. #Medievalsky
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So exciting to see the Top 100 Ballads go live! What an amazing new resource. 🗃️
Find out what was at the top of the #EarlyModern charts on the website.
There are also recordings, images and essays to explore 100ballads.org
Find out what was at the top of the #EarlyModern charts on the website.
There are also recordings, images and essays to explore 100ballads.org
January 26, 2024 at 9:38 AM
So exciting to see the Top 100 Ballads go live! What an amazing new resource. 🗃️
Find out what was at the top of the #EarlyModern charts on the website.
There are also recordings, images and essays to explore 100ballads.org
Find out what was at the top of the #EarlyModern charts on the website.
There are also recordings, images and essays to explore 100ballads.org
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Delighted to share news of the publication of the Routledge Handbook of French History, ed. David Andress!
Alongside my essay on ‘France and the Crusades in the Later Middle Ages’, it includes pieces by 3 of my ANU colleagues (Drs Gemma Betros, Ben Mercer, and Robert Wellington) and over 50 others.
Alongside my essay on ‘France and the Crusades in the Later Middle Ages’, it includes pieces by 3 of my ANU colleagues (Drs Gemma Betros, Ben Mercer, and Robert Wellington) and over 50 others.
The Routledge Handbook of French History
Aimed firmly at the student reader, this handbook offers an overview of the full range of the history of France, from the origins of the concept of post-Roman
www.routledge.com
January 27, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Delighted to share news of the publication of the Routledge Handbook of French History, ed. David Andress!
Alongside my essay on ‘France and the Crusades in the Later Middle Ages’, it includes pieces by 3 of my ANU colleagues (Drs Gemma Betros, Ben Mercer, and Robert Wellington) and over 50 others.
Alongside my essay on ‘France and the Crusades in the Later Middle Ages’, it includes pieces by 3 of my ANU colleagues (Drs Gemma Betros, Ben Mercer, and Robert Wellington) and over 50 others.
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For those interested, mine and Sue Edgington's new edition, translation, and commentary on a little-known 12th-century (c.1190) Jerusalemite text now available OA with Crusades: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 24, 2024 at 6:34 PM
For those interested, mine and Sue Edgington's new edition, translation, and commentary on a little-known 12th-century (c.1190) Jerusalemite text now available OA with Crusades: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Friends, there is a 5-year position in Italian Renaissance history going at Monash, in my department! Please share widely >> medievalsky skystorians earlymodern careers.pageuppeople.com/mob/513/cw/e...
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Italian History
Contribute expertise in Italian Renaissance history and broader European/transnational contexts to our dynamic academic environment!
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January 17, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Friends, there is a 5-year position in Italian Renaissance history going at Monash, in my department! Please share widely >> medievalsky skystorians earlymodern careers.pageuppeople.com/mob/513/cw/e...