In April 2027, the 11th PhD conference in the History of Science, Medicine, and the Humanities is happening! Deadline for abstracts is 1 December 2026. The event is open to researchers in any stage of their PhDs. Curious? Read the report on the previous edition @shellsandpebbles.bsky.social.
Carine van Rhijn🟥
@carinevanrhijn.bsky.social
Historian of things early medieval at Utrecht University.
Offre d’emploi – Professorship in History of the Earlier Middle Ages with a Focus on Material Cultures (Open Rank) rmblf.be/2026/09/30/o...
Offre d’emploi – Professorship in History of the Earlier Middle Ages with a Focus on Material Cultures (Open Rank)
The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in history of the earlier Middle Ages with a focus on material cultures (open rank) starting on 1 August 2028. Depending on the qua…
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Jobs For Medievalists The Department of History at Johns Hopkins University invites applications for a full-time position in Medieval European and/or Mediterranean History (400-1500) at the rank of Associate Professor (with https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-medievalists-346/
1 Akad. Rätin / Akad. Rat (w/m/d) "Alte Geschichte" (Univ. zu Köln) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...
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0,65 Akademische:r Mitarb. (w/m/d) "Mittelalterliche Geschichte mit dem Schwerpunkt spätes Mittelalter" (Univ. Heidelberg) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...
Funded PhD opportunities with a short deadline. Join our early medieval cluster at Liverpool with 7 PhDs currently working with the Institute of Irish Studies on all aspects of Irish, British and Icelandic topics and connections www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/col... #museums #medievalsky
Collaborative PhDs | Research | National Gallery, London
As part of collaborative consortia, the Gallery hosts a cohort of PhD students funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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For those not on Instagram, details of a memorial service in memory of Rosamond McKitterick: 5 p.m. on Friday 23 October 2026, at Great St Mary’s, the University Church.
Deze week is dr. Janna Coomans van de Universiteit Utrecht terug in Middeleeuwen! In de nieuwste aflevering spreken we over haar onderzoek naar brand in de middeleeuwen: van preventie tot het blussen van branden. Deze aflevering is nu overal te beluisteren 🎧 ➡️ linktr.ee/middeleeuwen
Brand in de middeleeuwen | Middeleeuwen
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Friends, if you've ever worked in the Dutch National Archives, consider signing this petition. Its administrators want to completely shut down its public educational programs and turn it into a repository of exclusively government records. #skystorians 🗃️
Belangrijke petitie. Ik heb meteen getekend! Jij ook?
Job posting: Assistant Professor of Medieval European History, Texas Tech University. Applications due October 15, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/assista...
Assistant Professor of Medieval European History, Texas Tech University | Mary Jaharis Center
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Heb je de aflevering met dr. Carine van Rhijn (@carinevanrhijn.bsky.social) over de Rotulus al geluisterd? Deze fascinerende boekrol is ook online heel goed en mooi te bekijken 👇 ➡️ Bekijk de (digitale) Rotulus: e-codices.ch/en/bbb/0803/... Luisteren kan oa hier: shows.acast.com/middeleeuwen...
De Rotulus lost alles op: een boekrol vol advies van 1000 jaar geleden | Middeleeuwen
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Offre d’emploi – Tracing the Free Spirit in Brussels: Heresy and Repression in the Early Fifteenth Century rmblf.be/2026/09/15/o...
Offre d’emploi – Tracing the Free Spirit in Brussels: Heresy and Repression in the Early Fifteenth Century
Departement: Departement LetterkundeRegime Voltijds Bepaal mee de toekomst – Universiteit Antwerpen De Universiteit Antwerpen is een dynamische, toekomstgerichte Europese universite…
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Deze week neemt dr. Carine van Rhijn (@carinevanrhijn.bsky.social) van de Universiteit Utrecht ons mee naar de fascinerende wereld van de Rotulus: een boekrol vol advies van 1000 jaar geleden! Ga met ons mee op reis… en dat kan overal waar je podcasts luistert 🎧
De Rotulus lost alles op: een boekrol vol advies van 1000 jaar geleden | Middeleeuwen
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Great to see press interest in the current exhiting exhibition at the Fries Museum (@friesmuseum.bsky.social) on Redbad, leader of (some) Frisians around 700 CE. (www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...) Still, this interview in #NRC newspaper reads like a missed opportunity. 🧵 1/6
Hoe machtig was de Friese oerkoning Redbad? ‘We weten zo weinig!’
Geschiedenis: De vroegmiddeleeuwse Redbad was misschien wel meer dan zomaar een machthebber langs de Noordzeekust. Een tentoonstelling in het Fries Museum wil het debat aanzwengelen over deze historis...
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Another obituary of Rosamond McKitterick, by Irene van Renswoude brill.com/view/journal...
In Memoriam Rosamond McKitterick 1949–2026
"In Memoriam Rosamond McKitterick 1949–2026" published on 20 Aug 2026 by Brill.
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This autumn I teach a class on The Syriac World - the fascinating world of the Syriac Churches, from India to Guatemala, from Sweden to Australia - when you're a graduate student in or outside the Netherlands and want to join, let me know! For more information, see hlmvandenberg.me/2026/08/12/4...
#44 The Syriac World – update courses autumn 2026
Among the courses I teach, two relate particularly to global and transnational Christianity/ies, one in Dutch (BA level) and one in English (MA level). These two courses are open to those not enrol…
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Job offer. 3-years postdoctoral position on the on the project "Networks of Book Circulation and the Making of Reading Communities in Late Antiquity" led by Marta Szada at Nicolaus Copernicu University in Toruń. More here: bitly.is/4cmwGyW
With good academic news from my friends so rare these days, I want to shout about Claire Burridge's exciting new ERC project even though she's not on here! How cool is this?! Congrats Claire!
Researching food and pharmacy in medieval Northern Europe - Faculty of Humanities
How did people in the Middle Ages think about the relationship between food and health? With funding from the EU, Claire Burridge will shed new light on this question.
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Nearly 5000 researchers applied for an ERC starting grand in the last round. Just over 400 (less than 9%) were successful. Many people applying are spending up to 12 months working seriously on their application. This is absolutely crazy. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
ERC Starting Grants: €705 million to back Europe's next generation of researchers
The European Research Council (ERC) has today announced the winners of its latest Starting Grant competition. The funding, worth €705 million in total, will go to 421 early-career researchers across E...
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Ancient parchments, covered in ancient disease DNA! Researchers led by @ucddublin.bsky.social's @gingerhowley.bsky.social recover the genes of a deadly animal pathogen from medieval manuscripts. @science.org
Ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment
Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged
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#cfp #medievalsky I'm co-organizing a session on classical reception for IMC 2027. Please do contact me if you have any questions! @imc-leeds.bsky.social
Appel à contribution – Women as Winners and Losers of Reforms in the 11th and 12th Centuries / Reformgewinnerinnen und -verliererinnen? Eine Spurensuche nach Frauen in Reformkontexten des 11. und 12. Jahrhunderts rmblf.be/2026/08/27/a...
Appel à contribution – Women as Winners and Losers of Reforms in the 11th and 12th Centuries / Reformgewinnerinnen und -verliererinnen? Eine Spurensuche nach Frauen in Reformkontexten des 11. und 12. ...
The terms “reform losers” and “reform winners” (Reformverlierer and Reformgewinner) have recently been introduced in German-speaking scholarship to examine the dynamics of self-positioning and expe…
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JOB: TT Assistant Professor, History, University of Ottawa Medieval/transregional requires teaching in English & French universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
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Postdoc job alert! Early medieval charters, monastic economics and XML-TEI, starting January 2027. Come join a lovely department @livunihss.bsky.social, brilliant project team with @unituebingen.bsky.social and awesome city! #medievalsky #digitalhumanities www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSO571/p...
The SOLEMNE project will organise a number of sessions for the 2027 International Medieval Conference at Leeds (5-8 July). Please find our Call for Papers attached and consider reaching out to us if your research fits our theme. We love to hear from you! #imc2027 #cfp #imc27 #medievalbsky
Coming soon. It's now in the hands of the copy-editors and all those other professionals that make us academics look good.
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.