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Katherine Weikert
@kateweikert.bsky.social
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Medievalist 900-1200ish England and Normandy most of the time. Immigrant and misplaced Hoosier in the south of England when not in Wales. Usually tired. Trustee @castlestudies.bsky.social. She/her.

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Post a movie where you are from
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Love seeing just a small selection of books by my @uniwinchester.bsky.social History colleagues! I swear I didn't set up the table either...
A table filled with books on top, including Early Medieval Winchester, Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Holocaust Museums and National Identity in Britain, The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Joan of Navarre, The Hispanic Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Medieval Hostageship, and Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World
November 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Really interesting thread below, have a read!
October 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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The kids are all right.
A group survey with the statement 'Abelard was a complete wanker'. 93.75% answered yes, and 6.25% answered no.
October 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Really enjoying chatting to applicants over #clearing lines with my colleague @uniwinchester.bsky.social! Give us a ring and see what we can do.
A woman and a man at a long desk with multiple screens, wearing headsets while they're on phone calls. A printer and windows in the background
August 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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When is a landscape? Join The Landscape Consortium @imc-leeds.bsky.social with this #imc2026 #cfp exploring multi-scalar research and interpretations of medieval landscapes. Full cfp in alt-text. TLC is Karl Alvestad, Daniel Brown, @jwfr.bsky.social and Stefanie Schild. Please share far and wide!
Leeds IMC 2026 Call for Papers: When is a Landscape? The Landscape Consortium invites papers exploring medieval landscapes in and beyond time, their multiscalar and multitemporal constructions and interpretations, and their meanings within medieval or modern worlds. When is a landscape? Following the lead of Yannis Hamilakis’ work (2013) demonstrating that object and place are witnesses to coexistences of times, this session seeks to explore medieval landscapes as carriers of concurrent past, present and future places and meanings, and as bridges between multiple scales of studies and multiple times. We are particularly interested in creative, theoretic and interpretive research to understand how landscape can – and do – transcend temporal boundaries. Topics may include, but are certainly not limited to: • Multiscalar explorations of place and landscapes • Dynamic theories and interpretations • Multiple, concurrent times understood in landscapes and places • Microhistories or biographies of landscapes Papers are welcome from any area of the world and ‘medieval’ broadly conceived. Please send a 250-word abstract (plus key terms), short CV, and contact information to landscapeconsortium@gmail.com by 15 September. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the organizers at the same email. The Landscape Consortium is dedicated to promotion of multidisciplinary research into the landscapes of the medieval world. The organizing directors are Drs Karl Christian Alvestad, Daniel Brown, Stefanie Schild, Johannes Waldschütz and Katherine Weikert.
August 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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#cfp #imc2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Please consider an abstract for 'Things Transcending Time,' sponsored by @haskinssociety.bsky.social and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research, @uniwinchester.bsky.social, and organized by myself. Abstract below with full text in the alt.
Leeds IMC 2026 Call for Papers: Things Transcending Time This session, sponsored by the Haskins Society and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research, University of Winchester, invites papers exploring objects and their relationships to, through, or against time. Things never have one life but many, through birth, interference, additions, and even abandonment. This session seeks to understand the many ways that objects transcend time through creating it, holding or shaping it. This session also wishes to challenge the dominating hierarchy of textual studies for history (as a time and place, rather than a discipline) through objects who themselves shape or create history. ‘Object’ is broadly conceived for this session; for example, a manuscript is also an object when the research is its life as an object rather than the textual understanding of it. Topics may include, but are certainly not limited to: • Multiple or concurrent times understood or embedded in objects • Objects’ authority and agency with and against time and history • Microhistories or biographies of objects and their place(s) in time. • Theoretical or methodological considerations of object-led histories Papers are warmly invited from any academic field (art history, archaeology, history, etc.), and should be generally focussed on the Anglo-Norman worlds and their surrounds (broadly interpreted), ca 800-1300. Papers presented by ECRs in this session may be submitted for consideration to the Denis Bethell Prize from the Haskins Society. Please send a 250-word abstract (including key terms) and short CV to Katherine Weikert (Katherine.weikert@winchester.ac.uk) by 15 September. Your subject line should read ‘Things Transcending Time [your surname]’, else it is liable to be missed and unread. If you have any questions, please contact Katherine Weikert.
August 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Friends, it is harder to get tickets to NPS Sagamore Hill than to the Foo Fighters. Keep on loving your national parks, history nerds.

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Not NPS Sagamore Hills but NPS Vanderbuilt Mansion. A large Greek revival house with a six column portico, temple front, and balustrade cornice.
July 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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I saw my book! I am a paperback writer! @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social
Me, holding up my book Gender, Space and Authority in the Anglo-Norman World, in front of the Boydell publishers stand at the Leeds IMC
July 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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It is a bit dawn of the living dead, right? #bunnies #imc2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social
The silhouette of four bunnies, ears high, under a picnic table and in front of a nondescript building
July 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Some excellent @castlestudies.bsky.social action @imc-leeds.bsky.social this afternoon! Organised by @willwyeth.bsky.social, 'Arguing About Castles' featured papers from @swallowtailarch.bsky.social, Christian Clarkson (Simpson & Brown), and Ryan Prescott (Leeds).
Title slide for 'Reframing Newhouse Castle: Lincolnshire and the "Anarchy", 1135-54' for the talk by Ryan Prescot. Title slide for 'Castle Studies in three Private Sector: what heritage consultants do (and don't do)' a talk by Christian Clarkson Title slide for 'Leisure, Literature and Legend: reconstructing Edward I's and Queen Eleanor of Castile's Castles and Boroughs through Innovative Landscape Context,' a talk by Rachel Swallow
July 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I'm taking a turn back into medievalism and society in my #imc2025 paper with @rluzmore.bsky.social this year. Part of the #landscapeconsortium sessions, we'll be talking about medieval landscapes today and the ideas-informed society in #s1737 on Thursday. #medievalsky @imc-leeds.bsky.social
A laptop screen with a ppt presentation called 'Timeless Terrains: Medieval and Modern Mental Landscapes Today' by Ruth Luzmore, University of Southampton, and Katherine Weikert, University of Winchester. At the bottom are the logos for both universities alongside that of the Institute for Applied Thought Leadership. The logo of the Landscape Consortium, with those words below a wandering pathway uphill through trees, with a tower and small gabled building on the horizon. All in brown on cream background.
July 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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I did just hit send on an email closing 'going to go have a weekend now', but I really didn't expect my laptop to take it so aggressively
A laptop with an extra screen behind it. The laptop screen is dark, but the extra screen has a beautiful, but terrifying, irregular pixilated pattern on it.
June 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Talking about this beautiful city IN this beautiful city! Off to give a lecture to Souvenir Normand while standing over the very place of the Roman forum!
Me (long wavy hair, sunglasses, blue jacket) in front of Winchester Cathedral
June 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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I'm behind on many things, but I'm determined to get this book review done (today?) for the Society of Medieval Archaeology. Setting those intentions, making it public.
A book on my lap, with a building diagram, and a laptop towards my feet, which are resting at the end of a loveseat.
June 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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What's your sign?
A marquee from the Chicago Lyric Opera which says 'THE LADIES ARE KILLING IT IN THE 25/26 SEASON'
June 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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A combo! There's a cat out of shot, too ❤️
A table in a garden with a red mug of coffee and a laptop open to a word doc. Behind it is a wooden fence with hanging baskets, some sedums and a small wisteria, and ferns in a blue hanging basket.
June 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Update!

This is the only feedback I want.
Screenshot of a WhatsApp message in which the messenger has said, 'Holy fuck that is one bastard of a spreadsheet' and my answer was 'Yeah right?'
June 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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(Gif for anyone who didn't grow up with American late night informercials)
A white man in a blue polo shirt behind a metal shelf of pots of a product called OxyClean saying 'but wait, there's more!'
April 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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No facts, only vibes
A worried-looking chicken figurine next to a scared-looking blue bulbous figurine of no identifiable species (though looks vaguely like a blue Casper the Friendly Ghost)
April 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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You're a star, Jo. Love you xxx
A black cat about to headbutt a phone camera while standing on a laptop
March 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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It's a weird time, but here we are: I've been appointed Head of Humanities at Winchester. My biggest hope is that we can do some good; my realistic hope is that we can work together to try to mitigate damages in HE. Never where I saw my career going, but the time and place led to this. Wish me luck.
Bored looking cats at a party. One is trying unsuccessfully to remove a parry hat.
March 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Well, this guy's got opinions about the part-time module structure of the History and Archaeology degree.
A black cat sitting on a desk peering at a laptop, with a bigger screen behind it and a second laptop to the side. There is also a cup of water, mug of coffee, and can of kombucha on the desk.
March 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Not mine, but the actual last on my roll is my sister's good boy Ky.
A gray cat in your face looking skeptical
March 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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No cheating. Post the last photo of your pet.
A black cat sitting on a woolly blanket on a couch, getting his chin rubbed.
March 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM