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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds

@leedsims.bsky.social

The Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds is a major centre for interdisciplinary medieval studies. Home of the International Medieval Congress and the International Medieval Bibliography. https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 3d ago

This mosaic comes from the east church at Theodorias (modern Qasr in Libya 🇱🇾) & shows a fish sinuously swimming. Originally, the church had 50 mosaics on its floor. They have now been removed and placed in the nearby, purpose-built museum. 🕰️c540AD 📷 @jonalendering.bsky.social #MosaicMonday

Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 6d ago

Everyone who was at #NCS2026 should consider putting in papers for MAMO 2027 in Oxford! Join us!

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf.bsky.social · last mo.

❗It's here! The Call For Papers for MAMO 2027❗ - Seeking a broad range of proposals for papers and events, focusing on aspects of medievalism in the modern world. - Featuring some very special events and keynotes... - You can find a plaintext version of this CFP at shorturl.at/0FJjY.

CFP for MAMO 2027. You can find a plaintext version of this CFP at <https://shorturl.at/0FJjY>

Robert Friedrich @rofrie11.bsky.social · 7d ago

Medievalists, I'm proposing a CfP for a couple of sessions for @imc-leeds.bsky.social on "Multilingualism in the Global Middle Ages. Creating Communities through Inclusion and Exclusion". Please share and apply (and check out the beautiful 12th c. quadrilingual epitaph from Palermo) #medievalsky

Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · last wk.

August is the time for threshing and winnowing the grain. #medievalcalendar BL Add MS 18852; the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile' or the 'Hours of Joanna the Mad'; 1486-1506 CE; Bruges; ff.8v-9r @blmedieval.bsky.social

Makayla Nicholis @mak-ayla.bsky.social · last wk.

CFP for Leeds IMC 2027: Geography and Cosmography in Non-Historical Texts 📅 05-08.07.2027 📍 Leeds (UK) Deadline: 01.09.2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #LeedsIMC2027 #MedievalSky

Ricky Broome @karanthir.bsky.social · 2w ago

New blogpost from me in which I present my IMC paper from this year for anyone who wasn't able to attend and might be interested. longhairedkingsblog.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/i...

IMC 2026 Debrief Part 1: Pre-Christian Beliefs in Early Medieval Frisia

This year I (properly) attended the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds again. By “properly attended”, I mean I presented a paper and went to other sessions like …

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · last wk.

Just an illuminated cat catching an illuminated mouse in an illuminated manuscript from around 1300. #bookhistory

A cat catching a mouse. This is an illuminated detail of a page in a Missale (SBB PK Ms. theol. lat. fol. 271).

Alice Hicklin @alicehicklin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Continuing with the animal theme! A new post on an unusual gift in a charter for Marmoutier, an obscure land measure, and the 'small creatures' about to become the monks' neighbours 🐇. alicehicklin.co.uk/2026/07/23/t...

Those Small Creatures Called Conini

This very short document records a gift made by Géraud Rufus of Talmont, who appeared before the chapter of Marmoutier to gave some land at an unidentified place known as ad Saburas to honour Saint…

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Alice Hicklin@alicehicklin.bsky.social · 3w ago

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...

Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 2w ago

Congratulations to our two new PhD graduands in Medieval Studies Dr Jodie Merritt and Dr Ian Shiels after their ceremony this week #leedsmedieval #medievalsky

A man and a woman in green graduation gowns with orange piping. They are wearing soft black hats with gold tassels. The photo is outside with trees and a concrete wall behind.

Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 2w ago

Job Opportunity! University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Arts of the Medieval World - History of Art Department networks.h-net.org/jobs/70147/u...

University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Arts of the Medieval World - History of Art Department | H-Net

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Josh Coulthard @joshcoulthard.bsky.social · 3w ago

Excited to open the call for papers for this strand and roundtable on the history of emotions for next year’s International Medieval Congress in Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social sponsored by @northwestmedieval.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians #imc2027

2027 marks the 25th anniversary of Barbara Rosenwein’s seminal article, ‘Worrying about Emotions in History’ (2002), in which she first put forward the concept of ‘emotional communities’. This framework has revolutionised our understanding of medieval emotions and, crucially, redefined the methodological possibilities available to researchers looking at past societies and structures. As we celebrate this milestone, this strand invites contributions from scholars at any career stage to address the question: What comes next?

In particular, we seek to explore the role of ‘non-productive’ emotions in historical research. Emotions and affects such as anxiety, discomfort, nostalgia, paranoia, melancholy, apathy, shame, and guilt have often been overlooked in medieval historiography because they frequently lack the dramatic traces left by more expressive emotions like anger, love, and joy. Yet, these states remain some of the most profound aspects of the human emotional experience, frequently underpinning the internal dynamics of governance, negotiation, and community cohesion.

Papers may address themes such as:
The methodological challenges of mapping ‘quiet’ or elusive affective states within medieval archives.
Case studies focusing on the role of apathy, anxiety, or paranoia during periods of transition, conflict, or institutional change.
How non-productive emotions shape relationships of power, diplomacy, authority, and dissent.
The interactions of materiality and material culture with non-productive emotions.
Temporalities and shifting landscapes of non-productive emotional histories.

Call for Roundtable Participants
In addition to research papers, we are organising a roundtable on this theme. To be considered for the roundtable, please send a short response (maximum 200 words) to the organisers addressing the question: ‘What can the study of non-productive emotions add to our histories?’

Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our PGR and ECR research seminar the Long Middle Ages calls for online papers for 2026-27. Friendly supportive conveners @nrhopwood.bsky.social and @saalehaiqbal.bsky.social look forward to reading your abstracts by 17 August #medievalsky #lateantiquesky #earlymodernsky

Two women holding up their call for papers. Photo by Kivilcim Yavuz taken at our reception at the IMC two weeks ago

Call for papers. Send an abstract of no more than 250 words and a short bio to thelongmiddleages@gmail.com for a paper to last 30 minutes on any late antique, medieval or early modern topic. Papers will be online only. For PGRs and ECRs.

History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 2w ago

🔥⚔️ THE CRUSADES WERE NOT THE ENTIRE MEDIEVAL MIDDLE EAST! Our first Gloucester special sees @nicmorton.bsky.social rage that Crusades were a small part. Civilisations carried on, enemies traded and empires rose and fell. And mice making boats from pomegranates. 🐭🍎⛵ 🎧6 Aug #Medieval #History

Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ancient history has gone global. This is surely the most exciting development in the field in the last 30 years! But what "global antiquity" is and how we should study it—and why anyone should care—are all open (and challenging) questions. Some thoughts on all of this for @aeon.co.

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Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social · 2w ago

An excellent, supportive venue for sharing research, with wonderful convenors. If you are early career, consider sending in a proposal! #medievalsky #leedsmedievalstudies

The Long Middle Ages@thelongmiddleages.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Long Middle Ages is back for another seminar series in Autumn 2026 at @leedsims.bsky.social ! If you are interested in participating, please send us an abstract (250 words) and a short bio to thelongmiddlesages@gmail.com by Monday 17th August! #medievalsky #thelongmiddleages

We are excited to announce that the Long Middle Ages, a
seminar series for postgraduate students and early career
researchers working on the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early
Modern Periods, will be returning for a second series in Autumn
2026!
We welcome submissions of 30 minute papers from
postgraduates and early career researchers working in any
discipline and on any topic related to the late antique, medieval
and early modern periods. Papers will be followed by time for
questions and further discussion.
Seminars will commence in October 2026 and run on a fortnightly basis
until mid-December.
If you are interested in presenting a seminar, please send an abstract of no
more than 250 words as well as a short biography to the organisers at
thelongmiddleages@gmail.com by Monday 17 August 2026.

All seminars will take place online. If you have any further questions,
please do get in touch.
We look forward to receiving your proposals!

Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Come and do #DH at Leeds! #digitalhumanities #digitalmedievalstudies #medievalsky

Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds@leedsims.bsky.social · 3w ago

Lectureship here at Leeds in English Language with focus on digital humanities. Could suit a medievalist? jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm going to be Lecturer in Global Medieval History at the University of Leeds for the foreseeable, which is both a surprising and delightful thing to announce!

Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 3w ago

Normans at #IMC2027! Call for papers sponsored by the Battle Conference. Full details in the alt text and pasted in successive posts. Deadline for abstracts 15 Sept. #medievalsky #archaeology #skystorians @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Communities, Change and Collaboration in Norman History
Organised by Dr Mark Hagger (Lincoln) and Prof. Leonie Hicks (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Sponsored by the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies

2027 marks two significant anniversaries: the 50th anniversary of the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies and the millennial anniversary of William the Conqueror’s birth in 2027. It also marks the European Year of the Normans. We hope to organise sessions reflecting communities, change and collaboration in Norman history and welcome proposals that draw on historical, literary, archaeological, and art-historical approaches and sources. Potential contributors might like to think about the following themes although these are not exclusive:

- communities of practice: writing, researching and teaching the Norman past in the middle ages and now
- comparative approaches across different areas conquered and settled by the Normans to communities and change
- communities of different sorts, e.g. financial, administrative, religious, ecological, social and cultural etc.
- landscapes
- tools and theories for understanding change, communities and collaboration as applied to the Normans e.g. digital humanities, knowledge exchange, mapping, etc.
- modelling collaborative approaches to Norman history
- how Norman historiography has change/is changing the way we understand the Normans

Please send abstracts for 20 minute papers (in person or virtual) to Prof. Leonie Hicks (leonie.hicks@canterbury.ac.uk) by no later than 15 September 2026.

Proposals should include
• Title
• Abstract (max 200 words)
• Your name, institution, and role
• Full contact details (these will be used by Leeds IMC to contact you)

Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 3w ago

Lectureship here at Leeds in English Language with focus on digital humanities. Could suit a medievalist? jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lectureship in English Language

Ranked 29th in the world (QS 2026) English Language at the University of Leeds has a strong reputation for the quality of both its research and its teaching. Based in the School of English, the Englis...

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 3w ago

🏺Anyway, have an artefact from Scotland and on display at the National Museum of Scotland for your troubles. A Pictish stone carving of a goose and fish. 📜 www.nms.ac.uk/collections/...

A tall stone with a stylised carving depicting a goose on the top and a fish on the bottom

Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️@ellisnilsson.bsky.social · 3w ago

One of Bornholm's oldest and largest round churches, Østerlars kirke. Oldest bits from the 12th c. Dedicated to St Lawrence (Lars). Some of the church seems to have been used for military defense. The main round section has 3 levels that you can climb up to using the staircase in the wall!

A white-washed round church in front of a blue sky with the greenery of a cemetary in the foreground.

Naomi @naominar.bsky.social · 3w ago

It was great to present at the Leeds IMC last week and to hear so many great presentations on topics from dragons to sheriffs, and to see at least one powerpoint communicate research findings through memes! The social events were fun too. I enjoyed meeting everyone, hopefully I’ll come again!

Me presenting my paper at the conference

Mary Catherine O'Connor @marycoconnor.bsky.social · 3w ago

Leeds IMC 2027 CALL FOR PAPERS @jonasza4.bsky.social and I are organising more sessions for next year's Leeds IMC - Check out our CfP here on "Communities of the Realm: Shaping Thirteenth Century Norway"

Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social · 4w ago

We have reached the end of #IMC2026. What a joy as always to get to work with colleagues in the @midagesmodgames.bsky.social strand (Blair Apgar, @robehoughton.bsky.social @jubalbarca.bsky.social @vinicius-marino.bsky.social and Tess Watterson). Thanks also to everyone who attended my presentation 😊

Selfie of Mariana holding a badge with her name. She is wearing a Sailor Moon inspired dress

Booklet of the Leeds International Medieval Congress.

Slide that says 'Swords, Sighs and Silences: The Sounds of Conflict in Medievalist Games' Professor Mariana J López, School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York. There are images from Age of Empires.

Book 'Sonic Pasts: acoustical heritage and historical soundscapes'

Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 3w ago

Latest from the Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast (@mmapod.bsky.social ): "Tadghout explores how knowledge was not only preserved but actively reworked through processes of copying, annotation, and translation." On Avicenna & the Canon of Medicine. www.multiculturalmiddleages.com/post/books-w...

Books Without Borders: Arabic Manuscripts and the Making of the Global Middle Ages (Tadghout)

In this episode of The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast, Mourad Tadghout examines the central role of Arabic manuscript culture in shaping the intellectual history of the medieval world. It follows the production, circulation, and transformation of manuscripts from major centers such as Baghdad, Cairo, Córdoba, Fes, and beyond, tracing how texts moved across linguistic, religious, and geographic boundaries.

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 3w ago

A very exciting museum job - working with the BM’s amazing early medieval collections. You’ll be working with an excellent and supportive curator too (which we know matters!!) Fixed term till Dec 28. bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...

Project Curator: Early Medieval European Collection (Documentation)

About the Documentation & Digitisation Programme

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 3w ago

You might be wondering how this decline in the number of people entering academic disciplines in the humanities affects something like a project devoted to researching, writing, and publishing histories of place (or local histories)? These early career researchers are essential to our work. 🗃️ 1/5

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3w ago

In perhaps our most devastating briefing we find early career staff in the humanities as a whole have declined by 20% since 2016/17. Between 23/24 and 24/25 early career staff across all SHAPE subject areas fell by 6%, (from 52,795 to 49,410 FPE). That is the pipeline for our disciplines

The British Academy
Mapping SHAPE academic staff briefing:
Pathways for early career
SHAPE
academics are in decline

Juliane Witte @julianewitte.bsky.social · 3w ago

Now that everyone has returned from this year's @imc-leeds.bsky.social, I thought I'd share my CFP for next year's on female communities and networks again 😊 feel free to reach out with questions as well! #MedievalSky

In line with IMC’s thematic focus on communities, this series of sessions will explore female networks and communities in the Middle Ages from a variety of methodological, theoretical, and disciplinary angles. While many medieval sources focus expressly on men and male characters, relationships between women and female characters exist, even if they are sometimes hidden away at the margins. The goal of these sessions is to put female networks, communities, and relationships at the centre of our focus and thereby gain a more nuanced insight into the Middle Ages and our engagement with the time period and its various outputs.

In this context, both “network” and “community” are defined as broadly as possible, namely as relationships of any sort between medieval women, female characters in texts, and/or female audiences (both medieval and modern, both scholarly and popular). The aim of these sessions is to explore where and how such networks and communities can be located, how they are depicted, what effect they have upon their narratives or their historical surroundings, and how we connect to them now. The desire is for these sessions to be as broad and exploratory as possible, inviting scholars from a variety of disciplines.

Papers could address intersectional communities, religious networks, the performance of community, inclusion/exclusion, and much more in historical, literary, and/or material contexts. Doctoral Candidates, late-stage MA students, and Early Career Researchers are actively encouraged to send in proposals. I am planning an edited volume based on these sessions.

Please send an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short biography to juliane.witte@uni-tuebingen.de by the 31st of July 2026. Please do state whether you’d prefer to attend in person or online. Feel free to also reach out with any questions!

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3w ago

Six of the eight Lewis chess queens. The meaning of their gesture is debated.