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!!
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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?
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 👇🎨
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Looks like essential reading for Carolingianists, gonna need to carve out time to read this! #medievalsky
Little castle
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
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Wow this is glorious!
Can’t wait!
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 👀
*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 🤤)
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...
BSB Clm 15812, fol. 1v
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
A screenshot of a tumblr post from user kleinergeist, reading "Oh, so when YOU grab a Danish for a quick snack, it's a guilt-free, tasty little treat. But when I, Grendel,"
shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week
Our book isn't quite out yet, but this blog gives a teaser... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social
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everyone assumes that doing a phd makes you know lots of things but really what it does is make you terribly aware of how many things you just don’t know and will probably never have enough time to learn
Update on the great discovery of archived BL manuscript metadata: I started putting together a page at my website to host PDFs of the archived pages I retrieve.
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#medievalsky
Call for papers: New Directions in Old English Prose, Oxford, 30-31 March 2026 @oxembi.bsky.social roep.web.ox.ac.uk/event/confer...
Good shout!
CFP: Kalamazoo ICMS, 14–16 May 2026
Ælfric and His Copyists
Ælfric of Eynsham's copyists both ensured his works' survival of his works and complicated text histories. Proposals invited from scholars at any stage of their career by 15 Sept 2025 to the portal: icms.confex.com/icms/2026/pr....
Our new article is out in Speculum! @robin-f.bsky.social called it “ #isotopes for poets” it’s a fab ongoing interdisciplinary project on a late #Roman & #EarlyMedieval cemetery in Hampshire read more 🔗 https//doi.org/10.... @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social #archsci
🚨 Making History with Manuscripts in Medieval and Early Modern Europe is now out🚨
I thoroughly enjoyed working with Johannes and the contributors, and writing about how medieval people built their own forms of history through their engagement with MSS of Bede’s Martyrology as material objects
Are Early Medieval Books your thing? We have a summer school course for you!👇 #Skystorians #MedievalSky
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A bit of Chronicles, and rubric for a ferial reading. Red initial infilled with a ghostly seraphim, and text is in a fine, black protogothic script. Bristol Archives A/C/M/4/4.
First (pieces of a) breviary from medieval Bristol discovered, and she's a beaut! (Kath Thompson with the find, I'm just the identifier heh)
Reused as the wrapper for mid-16thc accounts.
