Sad news. His lucid 'Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books' was one of the first books that I cut my teeth in palaeography (on the manuscript fragments at the National Library of Finland) with.

Steven Van Impe@svanimpe.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sad news I've only just heard: Albert Derolez has left us. He was 91, and one of the foremost palaeographers and codicologists in the world.

A post-Leeds #IMC2026 thread. This year, I was speaking about the manuscript transmission of the polemical texts of the Investiture Contest. We had a nice session with both papers exploring the uses of network analysis. Thank you to organizers @matthewholford.bsky.social and @sebdm.bsky.social! 1/

Checking in at Leeds #IMC2026 with a strawberry and creme sandwich, inspired by this year's theme colour.

It is wild watching a potential schism unfold in the Catholic church in real time when you have been reading on the debates on excommunication in the one that happened *checks notes* 950 years ago.

A cool new game utilizing @metmuseum.org open data! Anthropeum.com · Jun 17 2026 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟦🟦🟦🟩🟨🟩 75,097 · top 4% of players today!

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.

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Last week we lost Rosamond McKitterick, today Carlo Ginzburg. The giants upon whose shoulders we have perched on. Riposate in pace. #medievalsky

È morto lo storico Carlo Ginzburg

Fu uno degli studiosi italiani più tradotti e conosciuti all'estero, per i suoi lavori sulle classi subalterne medievali e moderne: aveva 87 anni

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⚡️Update: At least 6 injured in Kyiv as Russia strikes residential buildings, historic Pechersk Lavra. At least six people have been injured in Kyiv amid a large-scale Russian attack, as a fire continues to burn at the historic Dormition Cathedral in the Pechersk Lavra.

Kyiv's historic Pechersk Lavra burns as Russian rains ballistic missiles on capital

"We ask for prayers for the salvation of the shrine from destruction. Another Russian crime against humanity, against history, against Christianity," Metropolitan Epiphanies, head of the Orthodox Chur...

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Truly one of the greats.

Tim Schmalz@timschmalz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Rosamond McKitterick (1949-2026) A formidable scholar, an inspiring teacher, a generous spirit and a supportive colleague - truly, we have lost one of the great ones. @sidneysussex.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @camedieval.bsky.social

Incendie de la bibliothèque de Condom située dans le cloître de la cité épiscopale. Le fonds ancien et une partie des archives seraient malheureusement détruits... france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/ge...

PHOTOS. "C'est le même choc émotionnel que pour l'incendie de Notre-dame", un incendie ravage une partie de cette cité épiscopale, des fonds anciens disparus

Un violent incendie a ravagé la médiathèque, située dans la cité épiscopale de Condom dans le Gers, dans la soirée du vendredi 12 juin. Des dizaines de sapeurs pompiers ont été mobilisés toute la nuit...

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Great news, please share widely: the Faculty of Humanities, University of Helsinki will open a permanent university lecturer position in Digital Humanities in Autumn 2026. Teaching-focused, future-facing methods role, linked to LingDig, HELDIG and SSH-wide methods teaching. More details in August.

🚨Last chance to join us for the DMSI 2026 at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Gain hands-on experience in #digital methods adapted to medieval texts and images. 📆Jul 10 2026 📍Leeds, UK ▶️ tinyurl.com/5cm6ymn7 And if you have already registered for the IMC, you can still add DMSI to your registration.

Looking for Medieval Latin philologists: Postdoc specializing in Digital Philology in München job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/4...

Kolme tutkijan paikkaa avoinna SKS:n johtaman, Suomen Akatemian rahoittaman Humanistisen nationalismitutkimuksen huippuyksikön SKS:n osahankkeessa ”Metanationalismi ja kansallistumisen prosessit”! Tutustu hakuilmoitukseen ja hae tutkijan tehtäviä 7.8.2026 mennessä! www.finlit.fi/ajankohtaist...

SKS hakee kolmea tutkijaa Humanistisen nationalismitutkimuksen huippuyksikköön

SKS hakee kolmea tutkijaa Humanistisen nationalismitutkimuksen huippuyksikköön määräaikaiseen työsuhteeseen. Lue lisää tehtävistä!

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Leonine reform papacy dropping new canonical authorities like it's eleventh century all over again

Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · 2mo ago

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

TONIGHT!! #MCRHumNetwork 's next event! Dr Marja-Leena Hänninen (Helsinki) will give a talk 'The death of Germanicus: the crisis and the responses of Agrippina, Antonia and Livia' on Zoom on May 25 at 6pm. She is a Roman historian and an adult educator. E-mail MCRHumNetwork@gmail.com for the link.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

AI rots your brain. Writing with ChatGPT is worse than writing shitfaced after a pub crawl.

Interested in Caroline Minuscule or in things Celtic or in Alfred the Great? Then come and hear Dr Jason Chess at the latest London Palaeography Seminar @ies-sas.bsky.social: Tuesday 28th April, 5:30pm. Book here for in person or online attendance: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Celtic reception of Caroline and its contribution to the Alfredian Renaissance

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Suomessa @kansallisarkisto.fi palvelutarjonnan muutokset digitalisaatio edellä puhuttavat arkistojen käyttäjiä. Samaan aikaan toisaalla: Iso-Britannian The National Archives strateginen visio painottaa arkistoja yhteiskunnan sydämessä – saavutettavina, inklusiivisina ja kestävinä.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hardly noticed but at the end of last week the Government vision for archives in England was launched. No money attached as far as I know. Aim is for archives to be 'at the heart of society' through being accessible, inclusive and sustainable www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

Eilen @kansalliskirjasto.fi "Traditio ja muuntelu: Keskiajan liturginen laulu Turun hiippakunnassa" -hankkeen laulutyöpajassa tutustumassa eri sääntökuntien liturgisiin eroihin ja niiden jälkivaikutukseen varhaisessa luterilaisessa kirkkomusiikissa tutkijatohtori Jorma Hannikaisen opastuksella.

"WIJ Christina medh Gudz näde Sweriges Göthes och Wendes vthkorade Drottningh..." Tällä päivämäärällä perustettu Helsingin yliopisto juhlisti 386-vuotispäiväänsä tarjoamalla kakkua yliopistomuseolla. @helsinki.fi celebrated its 386th anniversary with cake at the university museum.

@kansalliskirjasto.fi tarjoaa jälleen mahdollisuuden tutustua kokemuksellisesti Suomen keskiaikaiseen kirkkolauluun laulutyöpajaan osallistumalla! The Finnish National Library is offering yet another chance for experiential introduction to Finnish medieval liturgy in singing workshop in Helsinki!

Kansalliskirjasto@kansalliskirjasto.fi · 4mo ago

Tervetuloa laulamaan keskiaikaisia lauluja ja tutustumaan keskiajan kirkkojen laulumusiikkiin! 📜 🎶 Kaikille avoimessa työpajassa lauletaan yhdessä vanhinta Suomessa soinutta nuotillista musiikkia, suoraan keskiaikaisista käsikirjoituksista. 👉 Lisätietoa: www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/fi/tapahtuma...

Aamu-tv:stä huomasin, että sentään yksi obskyyriin tutkimusaiheeseeni (investituurariita) liittyvä ilmaisu on jäänyt yleiseen tietoisuuteen.😅 From morning TV I noted that at least one expression relating to my obscure research topic (the Investiture Contest) remains a figure of speech in Finnish.😅

Rest in peace Jürgen Habermas, one of those giants on whose shoulders even my thesis is perched on.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 5mo ago

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.

Eilen päättyi #diesmedievales 2026 Jyväskylässä – kolme päivää vanhojen ja uusien tuttujen tapaamista, kiintoisia esitelmiä sekä vanhan musiikin yhtye Yr Awenin esityksiä. Esittelin itse väliaikatietoja väitöskirjastani investituurariidan poleemisten tekstien välittymisestä (painotus alaotsikossa😅).

Keskiajan tutkimuksen seura Glossa ry:n Dies Medievales -konferenssi käynnistyi Jyväskylän yliopistolla. 30-vuotista taivaltaan juhlivan seuran juhlaseminaarissa seuran jakaman Valoisa keskiaika -kunniamaininnan sai Bergenin yliopiston professori Kirsi Salonen. #glossa #diesmedievales

Eilen viimeinen vierailu @kansallisarkisto.fi ennen peruskorjausta epävarmoissa tulevaisuudentunnelmissa nauttimassa vanhan tutkijasalin hengestä – ja kirjajakelusta🤭 Hyvästit myös uudelle tutkijasalille, jossa ensimmäistä kertaa valkeni historiantutkimuksen luonne 1700-luvun kirjeiden parissa🥲

As a network historian, I am overly fascinated by this cool social graph of Bluesky users – however, it seems to put me in the 'British Academic Historians' cluster instead of 'Finnish Progressive Professionals' like most of my Finnish compatriots. Oh well, if that's what my academic peer group is🤷‍♂️

Theo Sanderson@theo.io · 6mo ago

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail