The people of the past are not ‘us then’. They are aliens. Lean into that.
William Purkis
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Professor of Medieval History and Deputy Head of the College of Arts and Law at the University of Birmingham | #CrusadingInContext | #DistantCamera
Looking forward to my trip to Edinburgh tomorrow!
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS)@cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · 5mo ago📅 Join us tomorrow for the CMRS seminar where we welcome @williampurkis.bsky.social (University of Birmingham): Portals to Holy Places: Relics, Round Churches, and the Reshaping of the Crusading Ideal 5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square All welcome!
Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...
Medieval History Job Alert! University of Tennessee, where I used to work. Unbelievably strong medieval studies. Unbelievable that they are hiring in this climate! Please share this post. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37862790...
Assistant/Associate Professor of Medieval History (1100-1500) - University of Tenn, Knoxville job with University of Tennessee Department of History | 37862790
The Department of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville invites applications for a tenure-track professor of medieval history (1100-1500).
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One-Year Teaching Fellowship in Medieval English Literature at the Univ of Birmingham: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNG641/t...
Teaching Fellow in Medieval English Literature at University of Birmingham
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A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage edited by Andrew Jotischky and William J. Purkis - Pilgrimage to shrines and places of particular holiness was a feature of all three major religious traditions in medieval Europe and the eastern Mediterranean www.arc-humanities.org/978164189179...
Assistant Professor in the History of the Medieval Mediterranean World Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ287/a...
Assistant Professor in the History of the Medieval Mediterranean World at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
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Coming up next month from the Hospitaller Research Forum online (www.um.edu.mt/.../proje......): Jochen Burgtorf speaking on 'Editing Hospitaller Material'.
Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Medieval History- UCL - History Department #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMB509/a...
Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Medieval History at UCL
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We've created a new Starter Pack of #History institutes and research centres in the UK & Ireland bit.ly/3F3Eo2M Please do share. There will be gaps and recommendations are welcome. We hope this pack helps you keep in touch with work by and for historians in the UK & Ireland #Skystorians.
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 15 #booksky
William Purkis@williampurkis.bsky.social · 2y agoChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 14 #booksky
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 14 #booksky
William Purkis@williampurkis.bsky.social · 2y agoChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 13 #booksky
The programme for this term’s @ihr.bsky.social #Crusades and the #LatinEast seminar is now available here: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/cru... #medievalsky #skystorians
Crusades and the Latin East
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ICYMI (I did), @nytimes.com says that the Middle Ages will be hot in 2025. a coincidence that this year is the centennary of the @medievalacademy.bsky.social??? #medievalsky link --> www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/s...
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 13 #booksky
William Purkis@williampurkis.bsky.social · 2y agoChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 12 #booksky
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 12 #booksky
William Purkis@williampurkis.bsky.social · 2y agoChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 11 #booksky
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 11 #booksky
William Purkis@williampurkis.bsky.social · 2y agoChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 10 #booksky
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 10 #booksky
William Purkis@williampurkis.bsky.social · 2y agoChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 9 #booksky
Our latest Special Issue is Haunted Midlands with nearly all content Open Access! Midland History: Vol 49, No 3 (Current issue)
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Haunted Midlands. Volume 49, Issue 3 of Midland History
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The best arguments for learning Latin are not the practical ones (it helps us understand legal terms, what the Pope is saying, or how to learn German) but those which remember how engaging with cultures, literature and people very different from ourselves enriches those who do it and so all of us
marybeard@wmarybeard.bsky.social · 2y agoI don’t think we are talking about making it compulsory- but a viable option. Do we want to live in a world in which no one can read Virgil (translations can be good but don’t replace) or to have no access to language of early scientific inquiry? Or just the rich?
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 9 #booksky
William Purkis@williampurkis.bsky.social · 2y agoChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 8 #booksky
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 8 #booksky
William Purkis@williampurkis.bsky.social · 2y agoChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 7 #booksky
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 7 #booksky
William Purkis@williampurkis.bsky.social · 2y agoChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 6 #booksky
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 6 #booksky
William Purkis@williampurkis.bsky.social · 2y agoChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 5 #booksky
Our #medieval lecture for 2025 will be given by Dr Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University) on the lives and travels of medieval women. Join us in person (London) or online on Friday 7 February at 6:30pm GMT. All welcome. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1112882945...
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 5 #booksky
William Purkis@williampurkis.bsky.social · 2y agoChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 4 #booksky
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 4 #booksky
William Purkis@williampurkis.bsky.social · 2y agoChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 3 #booksky
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 3 #booksky
William Purkis@williampurkis.bsky.social · 2y agoChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 2 #booksky