CALL FOR PAPERS ‼️| Otherworlds | 12th - 15th November | @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social The MEMRN team are delighted to finally share the Call for Papers for this year’s exciting Winter Conference! Abstract submissions are now open for ‘Otherworlds’ !!! 🐉

St Pancras’ Priory, Lewes, founded c.1078–82 as the first Cluniac priory in England.

Continuing with the "someone made a horrific database of poor AI translations of early medieval letters" thing, I had a good laugh at these entirely hallucinated ones. They aren't even based on existing letters! www.lateromanletters.org/letters/epis... www.lateromanletters.org/letters/epis...

Arioald to Pope Honorius I (c. 627 AD) | Roman Letters

Arioald, king, to the most holy Bishop…

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'The universities will still operate as separate academic divisions and will retain their individual names and identities. Students will attend, study and graduate from their chosen institution but staff from both universities will be employed by the university group.' It's called LASEUG.

UK’s first ‘super-university’, merging Greenwich and Kent, to launch in September

The new London and South East University Group will be UK’s third largest higher education institution

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What did it take to become king in early medieval Europe: not figuratively, but literally? What equipment did you need? blogs.ed.ac.uk/cwest3/2026/...

Delighted to have five out of the eight articles for the Journal of Medieval History special issue on Loyalty in Medieval Europe out! 👇

Loyalty in Medieval Europe

Medieval historians frequently write about loyalty, usually in the context of lords and kings, but there has been little sustained engagement with the wider role of loyalty in society. This introdu...

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Publication – « Hérésie, pouvoirs et sociétés au Moyen Âge », éd. Emmanuel Bain, Rosa Maria Dessì, Michel Lauwers, Isabelle Rosé, Warren Pezé, Alessia Trivellone rmblf.be/2026/07/23/p...

Publication – « Hérésie, pouvoirs et sociétés au Moyen Âge », éd. Emmanuel Bain, Rosa Maria Dessì, Michel Lauwers, Isabelle Rosé, Warren Pezé, Alessia Trivellone

Élaboré dans le cadre du Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique Hérésie, Pouvoirs et Sociétés (GIS HéPoS), qui a réuni au cours des dernières années des historiens et historiennes de cinq universités, c…

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On Thursday 17 September, @memsunikent.bsky.social welcomes Professor Ben Pohl (@benpohl.bsky.social) to Canterbury to give a public lecture on his recent research on the Bayeux Tapestry. 7pm, Canterbury Cathedral Lodge. All welcome - attendance is free, but registration required! Full details:

Food for Thought—The Bayeux Tapestry Revisited

A talk by Prof Benjamin Pohl, Professor of Medieval History, University of Bristol.

eventbrite.co.uk

'The new entity, known as London and South East University Group (LASE), will very quickly be thrown into the clearing process and preparations for the new academic year.' It begins to operate 1 August 2026. 1/3

Staff feel ‘in the dark’ as Kent-Greenwich merger nears

With two universities set to become one entity next month, unions say there are still too many unknowns about how the new institution will operate

timeshighereducation.com

My review of Roger Collins's Variorum collection "Clovis to Charlemagne: Frankish History and Historians" for Early Medieval Europe is now up on Early View. doi.org/10.1111/emed...

<citation type='book' id='emed70053-cit-0002'><bookTitle>From Clovis to Charlemagne: Frankish History and Historians</bookTitle>. By <author><givenNames>Roger</givenNames> <familyName>Collins</familyName></author>. <bookSeriesTitle>Variorum Collected Studies</bookSeriesTitle>. <publisherLoc>London and New York</publisherLoc>: <publisherName>Routledge</publisherName>. <pubYear year='2025'>2025</pubYear>. xiii + 211 pp. £155. ISBN 978 1 032 88052 5.</citation>

Click on the article title to read more.

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Did Charlemagne consider converting Muslims in al-Andalus to Christianity? New evidence uncovered by Lukas Dorfbauer, just published on Early View, suggests he might have - contrary to previous assumptions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A newly discovered Carolingian text: Candidus' <fi>Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti</fi>, written for Charlemagne

This article presents a newly discovered Latin text: a theological treatise titled Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti that was written by Alcuin’s friend Candidus (Wizo) at the request of Charlem...

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As #UKHE managers have been falling over themselves to act upon AI bros' 'predicting' the future (i.e.: making their sales pitch and creating the 'need' in one swift action), they'll listen to this one well, right? RIGHT?!?!?! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

A CfP for #IMC2027.

Congrats to @hwaetspur.bsky.social, who's just received author copies of his excellent new book! www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...

It's my favourite time of the semester again: Today I visited the University Library w. my Lampert of Hersfeld class to look at two original charters from the 11th c. issued by the archbishop of Mainz (1043) and the abbot of St. Maximin in Trier (c. 1047), respectively. Charterrific!

I’ve (finally) made a blog to share some of the more intriguing charters I encounter 1st up: an 11th-century land sale where the price included “excellent cloth” called zafalbafal, possibly ṣūf al-baḥr, or sea silk, made from the fibres of Mediterranean shells 🐚 alicehicklin.co.uk/2026/07/14/c...

Three Hundred Solidi and a Cloth from the Sea

An early eleventh-century charter from Provence records a land sale paid for with money and a mysterious cloth called zafalbafal: possibly the ‘wool of the sea’.

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The Admonitio Generalis fragment went for a whopping £130,500 higher than the estimated high price. I.... wow.

Not one question on the HE financial crisis in this 40-min interview with Bridget Phillipson, UK Secretary of State for Education. @lewisgoodall.com could you please press ministers on this? We’re losing social mobility, learning opportunities, economic prosperity, research, arts at an alarming rate

The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 4w ago

"I seem to be living rent-free in Kemi Badenoch's head," Bridget Phillipson tells Lewis Goodall. With 93% of UK children in state schools, she says she "owns" the 'spiteful class warrior' dig over Labour's 20% private school fees increase www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/brid...

Applications for the Mid-Career Fellowships are still open. The scheme allows UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a major project and share their insights with the wider public. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4f09Crd

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.

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Really looking forward to this lecture by Jo Story on the @insularmss.bsky.social project, on insular manuscripts and cross-European connections. #IMC2026

Glasgow is hiring a lecturer in medieval history (c.800-1500) on an open-ended basis. We are a lovely bunch in the medieval area, would be great to have a new colleague! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSF052/l...

Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) at University of Glasgow

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) on jobs.ac.uk!

jobs.ac.uk

As is pretty much everything on this label! (Heat Crimes: heatcrimes.bandcamp.com/music)

HEAT CRIMES

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Charles West@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · last mo.

Any album with a track called "Techno in a Monastery" has to be worth listening to. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

And behind the accessible *quality* content now available you'll repeatedly find higher education: students who benefit and go on to create content, and academic researchers whose expertise and training make possible such content. It's rightly a dialogue, though one increasingly at risk #Skystorians

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · last mo.

This misses the point. Self-education has become more accessible in the last 20 years than at any point in history, though not through ‘amateur reading’. The problem isn’t access to information but learning how to evaluate it critically - and that brings us back to universities (and Humanities)

Our final seminar of the year will take place this Wednesday, 1 July, when we welcome Tom Lambert (Cambridge) to speak on 'The crisis of 1065 and mid-eleventh-century English politics'. All welcome! Please sign up at the link below. IHR, Wolfson NB.02, 5.30pm.

The crisis of 1065 and mid-eleventh-century English politics

Earlier Middle Ages Seminar

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Friends, Romans, fellow late antiquity fans! The first issue of Essays in Long Late Antiquity, a new journal published fully in open access by Liverpool University Press is out! We have a stunning volume for you to read with amazing contributions. 1/ liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/ella/cur...

Contents | Essays in Long Late Antiquity 1, 1

This editorial introduction explains the rationale for this journal and its place in the current research landscape of late antique studies. While this field has “exploded”, different specialisms and disciplines continue to approach the period through ...

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An academic tribute to Rosamond McKitterick, published by Reti Medievali. www.rm.unina.it?p=554

Rosamond McKitterick (1949-2026) – Reti Medievali

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Call for Papers – 11th #Symposium "Medieval Manuscripts of the Cologne Cathedral Library"📜 27 - 28 November 2026 Cologne Diocesan and Cathedral Library Deadline: 01 September 2026 #callforpapers #manuscripts #Medieval #library Further information: www.dombibliothek-koeln.de/m-article/Ca...

Call for Papers – Mittelalterliche Handschriften der Kölner Dombibliothek

Am 27. und 28. November 2026 findet in der Diözesan- und Dombibliothek Köln das 11. Symposion zu den mittelalterlichen Handschriften der Kölner Dombibliothek statt. Arbeiten aus den Bereichen Kodikolo...

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In 2017, a previously unknown fragment of the ‘Admonitio generalis’ was auctioned at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (capitularia.uni-koeln.de/en/blog/hand...). The same fragment will be up for sale again at Christie’s in a few days’ time www.christies.com/lot/lot-6594.... #medievalSky #research

Please share: with @imc-leeds.bsky.social nearly on us, if anyone needs a lift from the east of England roughly on this route (for a very small fee) then do get in touch. I’ll be doing one pickup in Cambridge but could possibly do more on the way