I’m honoured and delighted to have been invited to chair the upcoming online launch of @lukaempf.bsky.social’s book on Thurs 19 March 4.30-5.30pm CET. Info is in the attached flyer—please share widely, and join us!

Timaeus in Paradise is now available worldwide! In this book, Piero Boitani traces the influence and impact of Plato’s Timaeus—and its major themes, creation and beauty—through the centuries. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Plato #AncientWorld #AncientHistory #Timaeus

My book is out! www.cambridge.org/core/books/j...

The Joy of Love in the Middle Ages

Cambridge Core - Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature - The Joy of Love in the Middle Ages

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Chaucer in the Age of Medievalism needs you! In the wake of our conference, we are now preparing a collective volume and seeking additional chapters to complement the proceedings. Please share widely! #medievalsky modmed.hypotheses.org/8517

Appel à articles : Chaucer in the Age of Medievalism

Following the Chaucer: Here and Now exhibition (2023–2024) at the Bodleian Library, the conference Chaucer in the Age of Medievalism—sponsored by the Modernités médiévales association and the New Chau...

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My book is out! Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile, with Cambridge UP @universitypress.cambridge.org. I am so grateful to the friends, family, colleagues, librarians and archivists who helped along the way. Nervous and excited to see it in the world! www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile

Cambridge Core - Classical Literature - Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile

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Reporter: “Why do you think so many countries and governments around the world are just ignoring what’s happening in Gaza?” Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · last yr.

This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

I wrote a blog post about my book! Want some ramblings about fairy ladies, magical princesses, and serpent women (and how we should feel about them)? Or just curious about how reading medieval romance is like watching Star Wars?? It's all here, folks (and also a 35% discount 👀)!

Boydell & Brewer@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · last yr.

From exotic princesses to wicked witches, Jane Bonsall explores how magical femininity was imagined by romance readers in late #medieval England in our latest blog post: buff.ly/edWgwaj @janebonsall.bsky.social

Somehow Trinity term has already snuck up upon us, but rejoice, for that means the 📯Oxford Medieval Studies Booklet📯 is ready for viewing! Find it in its full glory along with some other announcements in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/28/m...

So many Floire & Blancheflor manuscripts, so little time…thankfully the Post-REALM team make use of Transkribus! Read about Elliot Worrall’s experiences with this fantastic tool in his work on 2 Swedish texts, plus his tips on using it for your project. postrealmproject.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/u...

Using Transkribus

Editions and Transcriptions Since my first blog post, where I discussed the Scandinavian texts of the Floire and Blancheflor tradition, I have been looking more closely at the specific manuscript v…

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📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📜New Directions in Old English Prose 🏫University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk 📅30-31 March 2026 ⌛️Deadline: 1st August 2025

The replies to this thread are very funny, but it’s a warning sign that one of the key functions of Googling - the ability to factcheck a quote, verify a source, or track down something half remembered - will get so much harder if AI prefers to legitimate statistical possibilities over actual truth

Bindingggg fragmentssssss

Lisa Fagin Davis@lisafdavis.bsky.social · 2y ago

"The fragment was preserved by accident in the binding of a book in Hereford Cathedral’s library." Like I always say: survey those early bindings...you never know what you might find! #Fragmentology ftw! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

If you (or your students) are interested in genre-reading, medieval gender studies, and/or magical women in romance, please give it a read! #medievalsky #publication #genrestudies #GenderStudies boydellandbrewer.com/978184384665...

Women and Magic in Medieval Romance - Boydell and Brewer

Explores the conventions and contradictions inherent in archetypes of magical femininity - from loathly ladies to monstrous mothers - in a range of popular l...

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I'm delighted to say that on Mon 28 April Prof Corinne Saunders (Durham) will present the 7th Annual MacDonald Lecture at the University of Groningen (17.30 - 19.00 CEST). “Thinking and Feeling: Love and Loss in Chaucer’s Romance Writing” Online attendees are welcome! meet.google.com/voz-rogm-jmt

🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨ Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!). academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...

The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections

Abstract. It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others

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A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artists. Philip Hardie's Celestial Aspirations is 60% off in the latest print flash sale: press.princeton.edu/sale/flash-s...

Hamlet: but what if SOMETHING after death, something worse even than this? www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Andrew Scott at the Almeida dir. Rob Icke in 2017, with subsequent transfers, and filmed; here's Scott delivering this soliloquy. Ooof 💔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdZV...

My article on Partonope of Blois, beauty and the hero's identity is out!! My Postdoc project on translation and medieval romance has ended a while ago but what a joy it was to work on this wonderful romance! muse.jhu.edu/article/9518...

The University of Lausanne is advertising for a doctoral position. A truly wonderful place and wonderful department to spend 5 years in! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

My research team’s special issue of The Chaucer Review has now been published! All pieces authored by COMMode team members @unibern.bsky.social are available open access thanks to @snsf-ch.bsky.social: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/chaucer...

Volume 60 Issue 2 | The Chaucer Review | Scholarly Publishing Collective

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The University of Lausanne is advertising for a doctoral position. A truly wonderful place and wonderful department to spend 5 years in! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Medievalist-friends! Interested in learning about comics and narrative art and meeting cartoonists for potential collaborations? Apply to join us in Chicago from 5-6 June 2025 for a crossover workshop at the Newberry Library entitled “Cartooning the Medieval”!! www.newberry.org/calendar/car...

Cartooning the Medieval

A symposium exploring the potential of comics and narrative art to create new opportunities for engaging with medieval culture.

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ATTENTION MEDIEVALISTS and MEDIEVAL-CURIOUS ARTISTS! This upcoming event at the Newberry Library is one you won’t want to miss!

Kristen Haas Curtis@hellomizk.bsky.social · 2y ago

Medievalist-friends! Interested in learning about comics and narrative art and meeting cartoonists for potential collaborations? Apply to join us in Chicago from 5-6 June 2025 for a crossover workshop at the Newberry Library entitled “Cartooning the Medieval”!! www.newberry.org/calendar/car...

My article on Partonope of Blois, beauty and the hero's identity is out!! My Postdoc project on translation and medieval romance has ended a while ago but what a joy it was to work on this wonderful romance! muse.jhu.edu/article/9518...

Very excited to share that registration for the 5th Middle Ages in the Modern World (MAMO) conference is now open! 24-26 June, London. Over 100 speakers will present on the reception of the medieval world across a variety of panels, keynotes, events, performances. Take a look: themamo.org

The Middle Ages in the Modern World

A multidisciplinary conference on medievalism in the post-Middle Ages

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Hey, #medievalsky, specifically #earlymedievalenglandsky Have you read or written a kick ass article, book, edition or translation over the last 24 months? Have you done or encountered some incredible outreach or teaching? Nominations are open for ISSEME's awards, details here: isseme.org/awards/

Awards

At the biennial conference of ISSEME, the following publication prizes are awarded: Best Article (paper or electronic), of at least 4000 words, in a journal or edited volume, on any subfield o…

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If you’re looking for a gift for someone right now, may I humbly suggest my little‬⁩ Chaucer biography? Smarter people than I am have said it’s great, and it’s only £16.95! Plus it’s small enough to fit into a big stocking…. reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/geoffre....

Geoffrey Chaucer | Reaktion Books

This is a new account of the life and accomplishments of medieval England’s most famous poet, Geoffrey Chaucer. For over six centuries, Chaucer has epitomized poetic greatness, though in more recent y...

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this amazing new Cambridge Element by Caroline Batten is available open access for the next four weeks! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Health and the Body in Early Medieval England

Cambridge Core - European History 450-1000 - Health and the Body in Early Medieval England

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I'm not much present on here but as my first post I'm happy to share that I have been offered a contract with CUP for my first book 'The Joy of Love: A Medieval Literary History'! I am overJOYed!