Sihong Lin
@sihonglin.bsky.social
Historian of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages @UofGlasgow. Writes on Byzantium, Britain, and everything in between.
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The brilliant Prof. Alex Woolf @standrewshist.bsky.social is back on the podcast to tell us what the Scandinavian diaspora got up to in the Middle Ages & why 'The Vikings' is a problematic concept. @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3ljZ...
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November 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The brilliant Prof. Alex Woolf @standrewshist.bsky.social is back on the podcast to tell us what the Scandinavian diaspora got up to in the Middle Ages & why 'The Vikings' is a problematic concept. @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3ljZ...
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This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred
well, what the heck. it's the tuesday before thanksgiving, and whoever is on here deserves a treat: the first new translation I've posted in a long while: the Life and Martyrdom of Susanna:
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Life and Martyrdom of Susanna
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November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred
IMC acceptance day seems to come earlier every year.... but excited to have this session on 'Britain and Byzantium at the End of Antiquity' finalised. Co-organised with the wonderful Janel Fontaine and featuring @helengittos.bsky.social, you'll want to stick around on Thursday for this! #IMC2026
November 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
IMC acceptance day seems to come earlier every year.... but excited to have this session on 'Britain and Byzantium at the End of Antiquity' finalised. Co-organised with the wonderful Janel Fontaine and featuring @helengittos.bsky.social, you'll want to stick around on Thursday for this! #IMC2026
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Academia and particularly the humanities is facing a global crisis. We need to be supporting each other. What we do not need to be doing is tarring kind, brilliant people with political views and personality traits they don’t have just because you disagree with the results of their research.
October 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Academia and particularly the humanities is facing a global crisis. We need to be supporting each other. What we do not need to be doing is tarring kind, brilliant people with political views and personality traits they don’t have just because you disagree with the results of their research.
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Apropos nothing in particular, one can disagree with a good junior scholar's arguments about a set of events in the past without maligning them as advancing a harmful political agenda whose emergence post-dates work they did on those events and with which that scholar is openly, clearly, not aligned
October 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Apropos nothing in particular, one can disagree with a good junior scholar's arguments about a set of events in the past without maligning them as advancing a harmful political agenda whose emergence post-dates work they did on those events and with which that scholar is openly, clearly, not aligned
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Friends, fellow late antiquity fans! The news are out! We are starting a new journal together with the amazing team at LUP. We want to foster interdisciplinary and exciting articles in essay form as well as peer-reviewed editions and translations of texts. Extremely excited about this!
We are delighted to launch Essays in Long Late Antiquity: a new #OpenAccess journal in the field of first millennium studies encouraging interdisciplinary and superregional approaches, edited by @calthalas.bsky.social & Jakob Riemenschneider. Find out more: bit.ly/ELLA-blog @unierfurt.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Friends, fellow late antiquity fans! The news are out! We are starting a new journal together with the amazing team at LUP. We want to foster interdisciplinary and exciting articles in essay form as well as peer-reviewed editions and translations of texts. Extremely excited about this!
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Very pleased to see this now out in Early Medieval England and its Neighbours - and open access for all to download! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Anglo-Saxons: Myth and History | Early Medieval England and its Neighbours | Cambridge Core
The Anglo-Saxons: Myth and History - Volume 51
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December 5, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Very pleased to see this now out in Early Medieval England and its Neighbours - and open access for all to download! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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History UK's Academic Job Boot Camp is back (11 Dec 2024). If you're an early career historian and want feedback on your academic CV/cover letter, interview and presentation, apply to take part. For more information visit their website:
www.history-uk.ac.uk/academic-job...
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Academic Job Boot Camp
History UK is pleased to be running the Academic Job Boot Camp again this year on 11 December 2024, 12-4pm online. All early career historians are encouraged to apply, with preference being given t…
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November 10, 2024 at 1:22 PM
History UK's Academic Job Boot Camp is back (11 Dec 2024). If you're an early career historian and want feedback on your academic CV/cover letter, interview and presentation, apply to take part. For more information visit their website:
www.history-uk.ac.uk/academic-job...
www.history-uk.ac.uk/academic-job...
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For those of you who (wisely) haven’t been on Twitter lately and may not know, I recently had an article come out in the EHR on early medieval British plague and its broader historiographical implications. Just message me if you don’t have access and need a pdf!
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Contextualising Edix Hill: First-Pandemic Plague and Britain*
Abstract:. The 2019 discovery of Yersinia pestis ancient DNA at Edix Hill in Cambridgeshire unquestionably confirms that plague was present in sixth-centur
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November 9, 2024 at 11:13 PM
For those of you who (wisely) haven’t been on Twitter lately and may not know, I recently had an article come out in the EHR on early medieval British plague and its broader historiographical implications. Just message me if you don’t have access and need a pdf!
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
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Coming at the start of next month, my contribution to @archaeodeath.bsky.social and Femke Lippok's "Cremation in the Early Middle Ages", which will be available Open Access with Sidestone Press: www.sidestone.com/books/cremat...
November 10, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Coming at the start of next month, my contribution to @archaeodeath.bsky.social and Femke Lippok's "Cremation in the Early Middle Ages", which will be available Open Access with Sidestone Press: www.sidestone.com/books/cremat...
Spoke too soon, this directory does just that and should be very useful for people rebuilding networks here: bsky.app/profile/josh...
Really glad to see so much of the old #medievaltwitter reunited here, but at this rate we'll need a starter pack of starter packs.
November 10, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Spoke too soon, this directory does just that and should be very useful for people rebuilding networks here: bsky.app/profile/josh...
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Genuinely fascinating to track the (sub)fields that have gotten starter-packed and those that haven't yet.
November 10, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Genuinely fascinating to track the (sub)fields that have gotten starter-packed and those that haven't yet.
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Made a medieval manuscripts and book history starter pack (broadly defined). It is definitely not exhaustive so please comment and I'll add you and the accounts that you think are missing!
go.bsky.app/AN9pLVo
go.bsky.app/AN9pLVo
November 10, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Made a medieval manuscripts and book history starter pack (broadly defined). It is definitely not exhaustive so please comment and I'll add you and the accounts that you think are missing!
go.bsky.app/AN9pLVo
go.bsky.app/AN9pLVo
Really glad to see so much of the old #medievaltwitter reunited here, but at this rate we'll need a starter pack of starter packs.
November 10, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Really glad to see so much of the old #medievaltwitter reunited here, but at this rate we'll need a starter pack of starter packs.
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CoSMoS, a new community seeking to bring together scholars of medieval and early modern Scotland across the globe, is holding a really cool (free!) launch event where several smart people are going to talk about their research. Come give it a look! #medievalsky
www.eventbrite.com/e/cosmos-lau...
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October 22, 2024 at 4:42 PM
CoSMoS, a new community seeking to bring together scholars of medieval and early modern Scotland across the globe, is holding a really cool (free!) launch event where several smart people are going to talk about their research. Come give it a look! #medievalsky
www.eventbrite.com/e/cosmos-lau...
www.eventbrite.com/e/cosmos-lau...
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I’m very excited about this upcoming event on 24th October at 2pm (GMT+1) with the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge. I’ll be talking with Professor Bill Hurst about early medieval ideas of International Relations (there may be an elephant involved 🐘). Link for online registration below.
October 21, 2024 at 11:39 AM
I’m very excited about this upcoming event on 24th October at 2pm (GMT+1) with the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge. I’ll be talking with Professor Bill Hurst about early medieval ideas of International Relations (there may be an elephant involved 🐘). Link for online registration below.
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I've reviewed a thing and the tl;dr is: you should read it because it will, in time, make waves.
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Image and Ornament in the Early Medieval West: New Perspectives on Post‐Roman Art. By Matthias Friedrich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. 300 pp. £85. ISBN 9781009207775.
Click on the article title to read more.
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October 21, 2024 at 6:11 AM
I've reviewed a thing and the tl;dr is: you should read it because it will, in time, make waves.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Lecturer in Medieval English Literature and Language at Glasgow (fixed term) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKG458/l...
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Lecturer in Medieval English Language and Literature at University of Glasgow
Recruiting now: Lecturer in Medieval English Language and Literature on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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October 19, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Lecturer in Medieval English Literature and Language at Glasgow (fixed term) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKG458/l...
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
A neat new EHR article by Rachel Singer on the plague in sixth-century Britain. The discussion of when/how the plague arrived is interesting enough, but the final section questioning whether Britain was the late antique 'periphery' is worth reading for Byzantinists too... doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...
Contextualising Edix Hill: First-Pandemic Plague and Britain*
Abstract:. The 2019 discovery of Yersinia pestis ancient DNA at Edix Hill in Cambridgeshire unquestionably confirms that plague was present in sixth-centur
doi.org
October 21, 2024 at 11:37 AM
A neat new EHR article by Rachel Singer on the plague in sixth-century Britain. The discussion of when/how the plague arrived is interesting enough, but the final section questioning whether Britain was the late antique 'periphery' is worth reading for Byzantinists too... doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...
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This came up again recently, so reposting here:
Mystery or mix-up? In 811, Charlemagne and Danish ruler Hemming negotiated a treaty on the River Eider, now often referred to as the 'Treaty of Heiligen'. Oddly enough, no exact location - no 'Heiligen' - is mentioned for this in primary sources. 🧵
Mystery or mix-up? In 811, Charlemagne and Danish ruler Hemming negotiated a treaty on the River Eider, now often referred to as the 'Treaty of Heiligen'. Oddly enough, no exact location - no 'Heiligen' - is mentioned for this in primary sources. 🧵
October 18, 2024 at 7:07 AM
This came up again recently, so reposting here:
Mystery or mix-up? In 811, Charlemagne and Danish ruler Hemming negotiated a treaty on the River Eider, now often referred to as the 'Treaty of Heiligen'. Oddly enough, no exact location - no 'Heiligen' - is mentioned for this in primary sources. 🧵
Mystery or mix-up? In 811, Charlemagne and Danish ruler Hemming negotiated a treaty on the River Eider, now often referred to as the 'Treaty of Heiligen'. Oddly enough, no exact location - no 'Heiligen' - is mentioned for this in primary sources. 🧵
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Very happy to have contributed again to the Virtual-Record-Treasury-of-Ireland-website with 3 watercolour drawings for the Merchants and Mariners in Medieval Ireland Curated Collection. The texts were written by Daryl Rooney. virtualtreasury.ie/image-galler.... #MedievalSky
September 25, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Very happy to have contributed again to the Virtual-Record-Treasury-of-Ireland-website with 3 watercolour drawings for the Merchants and Mariners in Medieval Ireland Curated Collection. The texts were written by Daryl Rooney. virtualtreasury.ie/image-galler.... #MedievalSky
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Who wants their Friday brightened up by @carinevanrhijn.bsky.social writing about LIZARD SHAMPOO?
You know you do.
cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/09/20/m...
#medievalsky
You know you do.
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#medievalsky
MMOTM 9: London BL Add 19725 – Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine
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September 20, 2024 at 9:44 AM
Who wants their Friday brightened up by @carinevanrhijn.bsky.social writing about LIZARD SHAMPOO?
You know you do.
cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/09/20/m...
#medievalsky
You know you do.
cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/09/20/m...
#medievalsky
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New article in @enghistrev by John Merrington, on Bede's reading of Gregory of Tours academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
Bede and Gregory of Tours: A Reconsideration*
Abstract. Although the Historiae of Gregory of Tours (composed in the late sixth century) has frequently been invoked as an influence on Bede’s Historia Ec
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September 19, 2024 at 8:52 AM
New article in @enghistrev by John Merrington, on Bede's reading of Gregory of Tours academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
Just when I'm happy to call it quits on all things medieval on social media...
September 19, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Just when I'm happy to call it quits on all things medieval on social media...