Join us for 'From Skin to Script', a hands-on workshop in traditional parchment-making – one of the UK's most critically endangered crafts Explore how living craft knowledge affects how we understand medieval manuscripts 29 Sep - 1 Oct 2026 https://bit.ly/4gcqbRn (limited places)

Interested in the history of #OldEnglish scholarship? @emgallimore.bsky.social, Thijs Porck and I will be editing a volume on OE in the long 19th century; if you'd like to contribute a chapter, the deadline for abstracts is 1 Sept 2026, first full drafts due Sept 2027. Spread the word! #medievalsky

How I plan to enter the weekend ... #weekendsky

She loved her surgery cone for the first couple days (it made her feel powerful and intimidating) so we got her a courted ruff to look sinister in.

A CfP for #IMC2027.

overheard on tube: man to small child “did you enjoy the dungeon then, darling?”

Leaving Leeds today after a packed #IMC2026. Many thanks to @kateweikert.bsky.social for organizing 2 fantastic, generative sessions on the agency of things through time (and for introducing me to “large cat” as a unit of measurement)!

Early Medieval Europe Vol. 34, No. 3 (2026) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254... @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social @katefalardeau.bsky.social @medievaljon.bsky.social

Early Medieval Europe: Vol 34, No 3

Early Medieval Europe is an interdisciplinary medieval studies journal covering European history from the fall of the Roman Empire up until the 11th century.

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With impeccable timing, on the first day of #IMC2026, the latest issue of Early Medieval Europe is out! Featuring articles by, amongst others, @katefalardeau.bsky.social and @medievaljon.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254...

Early Medieval Europe: Vol 34, No 3

Early Medieval Europe is an interdisciplinary medieval studies journal covering European history from the fall of the Roman Empire up until the 11th century.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

*David Attenborough‘s voice* As the sun rises on this early July morning hundreds of medievalists begin their annual migration to Leeds. Scientists have not fully understood this ritual but it seems to be crucial for the survival of the whole species. Intensive days of medievaling will follow.

Traveling to Leeds today! Catch me talking about MS materiality and layered temporality in panel 1631 on Thursday (and yes, some Bede’s Martyrology content ofc) #IMC2026

It! Is! Here! Open Access (and already hoovered up by the scrapers no doubt such is our world) UK/EU paper copies will be available eventually but until then, EVERYONE now has free access! press.library.concordia.ca/projects/ill...

Kathleen E. Kennedy@themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Hey hey, it’s now official on Concordia UP’s website, 20% discount code KENNEDY2026 at CUP (CAN) or Chicago (USD, link in next post) for Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550! concordia.ca/press/illumi...

Help, #MedievalSky! There's an opening on our #IMC2026 Panel on Abbatial Identities within and without the Cloister. Do you like abbots/abbesses or another kind of 'monastic leader', and are you having second thoughts about skipping the IMC this year? Let me know and we might have a session for you!

Happy to share that my article on Bede’s Martyrology and Carolingian efforts to educate priests is now out in Early Medieval Europe! I appreciate all the feedback I’ve received that’s shaped my thoughts on priests’ books and how the Carolingian project worked in practice. doi.org/10.1111/emed...

‘He would gather us priests into one’: Bede’s Martyrology, priestly education, and the Carolingian project in the ninth century

Bede’s Martyrology (c. 725–31), a calendrical list of martyrs, is found within ninth-century manuscripts that may be inferred to have been for the use of Carolingian bishops or priests. Contemporaneo...

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a king, an icon, an inspiration. truly the muse who has been calling me as I write without me knowing it

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 3y ago

So the most British clergyman (and proto-academic) ever, our man John doesn't abandon his History of Northumberland. He's sitting on evidence that will change a key part of British history, but nope! Out of scope. So what does he do? He footnotes it. A 173 PAGE LONG FOOTNOTE. 13/22

On the way to Amherst for MAA! Excited to share (and finish) my paper about the later reception and use of Bede’s Martyrology in eleventh- and twelfth-century Bavaria

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

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CFP IS OUT FAM. Anyone want to do this?? I'll get the session proposal out. All you gotta do is read the book and turn up ready to talk about it?

Call for Proposals | Sixteenth Century Society

Call for Proposals Chicago, Illinois, October 29—October 31, 2026 The Sixteenth Century Society (SCS) is pleased to invite proposals for individual presentations, panels, and roundtables for its annua...

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Kathleen E. Kennedy@themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

FAM FAM VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: Are you attending SCSC (Sixteenth Century Society Con) in Chicago this fall?/Are you a Chicago-area medievalist or Early Modernist? Would you like to read an advance copy of my new book and then do a roundtable (or something tbd) about it at SCSC? THIS BOOK RIGHT HERE:

The “messy” course returns to London’s palaeography summer school, 8-12 June. A chance to make your own medieval manuscript. Places are limited so book now (tell your friends)! #medievalsky taught by the amazing @saracharles.bsky.social @stevelawesarts.bsky.social 👇🎨🫟 palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Introduction to Making Medieval Manuscripts (Practice Based)

This course introduces students to the complicated and messy processes of production through which pre-modern manuscripts were created. It offers a mixture of talks and practical sessions that give…

palaeography.uk

Looks like essential reading for Carolingianists, gonna need to carve out time to read this! #medievalsky

Annals in Carolingian Europe

In the 8th-9th centuries annals became the predominant genre of Frankish historiography, displaying a remarkable variety of texts. Yet for a long time scholarly appreciation of this variety has been l...

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Graffito of a castle, prob early 12th century, in church of Moings in France.

Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Caterpillar waking up halfway through metamorphosis: I'm goo. Shit. Shit. Calm down. Go back to sleep. I'm really straight-up goo right now. Fuck

Published today! Facsimile: Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts, by Siân Echard. Siân is not on here to promote it, but I will! #medievalsky #manuscripts #bookhistory www.pennpress.org/978151282705...

Facsimile – Penn Press

An unprecedented cultural history of reproductions of medieval manuscriptsFacsimiles are, or claim to be, exact copies of objects, and medieval manuscripts h...

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I’m a sucker for images of scrolls and codices within MSS! And with what looks to me like notation on the pages displayed by Saint Denis 👀

Carin Ruff@carinr.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, MS 384 is an 11th-c Gradual of the use of the Abbey of Saint-Denis. The cataloguing tells me that this image on fol. 117v depicts Saint Denis at left, pointing to his own head, which is still (or again) attached. Here's the MS: portail.biblissima.fr/fr/ark:/4309...

*screaming* (This is US distributor. The Concordia UP pre-order page AND DISCOUNT CODE go live next month, when I'll start up the promo machine. But lookee that covvvver 🤤)

Illuminating Media

Reveals the hidden power of medieval manuscript decoration and its lasting influence today. The overlooked art of late medieval English manuscript illumination—its initials, borders, and non-figurativ...

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Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Are you passionate about early medieval Britain?  Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing?  If yes, then you may be interested in this f...

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This is the feast of Rupert of Salzburg, d. 710, missionary to the Bavarians. Here's Big Rupert receiving (and in) a copy of Augustine's De Genesi ad litteram from little Abp. Eberhard I of Salzburg (d. 1164). This MS, BSB Clm 15812, was made in Eberhard's lifetime, so mid-12c. #medievalsky

Stunning 1st-century monumental gilded bronze letters and punctuation marks that had fallen from a public building in Singilia Barba, Andalusia (Málaga Museum). *First century*!

Tip for anyone trying to delete their academia account

Daniel Feshbach@danielprime.bsky.social · 12mo ago

In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree: instead click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.