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Come and work with us! @theul.bsky.social 📚
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Fellowship Opportunity!
Research Fellowship
University of Cambridge - Newnham College
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK466/r...
Job offer for medievalists at the University of Warsaw: historia.uw.edu.pl/en/job-offer....
My dear friend & colleague Grzegorz Pac is looking for a postdoc to join his project Recognising Saints in the High Middle Ages.
Rubric introducing the prayer Gracias tibi ago domine found in Canberra, National Library of Australia, MS Clifford 1097/7 fol. 22v.
Late-medieval Books of Hours were tools for navigating both earthly & spiritual challenges. Elizabeth Burrell's article in @parergon.bsky.social 42.1 explores English & French examples held in A/NZ libraries, providing transcriptions & translations of some apotropaic texts.
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new piece on the newsletter! me & @lollardfish.bsky.social talk with the wonderful @larisag.bsky.social about a new "Travel in the Middle Ages" - a new exhibition opening soon at the Getty
#medievalsky
free to read and SUBSCRIBE! -->
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A map for Monday, 13th century copy of Image du monde (Image of the world) by Gautier of Metz. Delightful red and blue initials, a drawing of a king in the margin, and diagrams including a T-O map (Asia on top, Europe left, Africa right). (UPenn LJS 55) #medievalsky
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August's 'Will of the Month' post is live over on the @materialwills.bsky.social blog 📜
We've been thinking about community & craftsmanship in the will of a French Protestant refugee, and the 'Huguenot' trades of silk-weaving, silversmithing, and watchmaking ⌚
#history #earlymodern #skystorians 👇
Still looking for suggestions of digital editions of #EarlyModern life-writing, diaries, memoirs etc. Is there anything comparable to Alice Thornton's books out there?
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/
Do any #HistMed #HistSci #Museums people know how large #EarlyModern apothecary storage boxes might have been? @rouge1767.bsky.social and I are wondering...
"Now that most mental effort tied to writing is optional, we need new ways to require the work necessary for learning. That means moving .. toward in-class blue book essays ... and other assessments that call on students to demonstrate knowledge in real time." #Gift www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
📣Are you a #histmed scholar whose book proposal belongs in our Social Histories of Medicine series?
The @sshmedicine.bsky.social Annual Book Development Prize Competition is open for submissions!🥳
Secure £2,000 in funding to help turn your idea into a published monograph or collection! Details👇
Occasionally, I’m reminded that as a woman and a historian I’m not to be taken seriously. Recently, someone mansplained to me that women were called a variety of rude things in the past.
Me: yes, I know, I’ve literally written books about this.
Man: anyway, did you know women were called harlots?
Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), Durham (UK):
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Look what came today! Honored to be in this volume. Thx @nursingclio.bsky.social !
Sound advice from an early 16thC French Speculum Principis: "Speak Not Against the Sun" and "Do Not Make Water Facing the Sun" [fol. 39 recto], c. 1512/1515. (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Painting of a man and two women looking on in fear as some billowing curtains part to reveal a black dog with glowing eyes, and behind is forked lightning.
#MythologyMonday A hellhound haunts the Hanging Hills in Meriden, Connecticut, and is said to be a death omen: "If you meet the Black Dog once, it shall be for joy; if twice, it shall be for sorrow; and the third time shall bring death."
🎨 John R. McDermott from Saturday Home, July 1947
Someone has stolen the key to the Aumbry at church. Until the locksmith breaks into it we don't know if they also stole the reserved sacrament or not. Which means that currently we have Schroedinger's Reserved Sacrament. Until we can confirm it either way, Jesus both IS and IS NOT in there.
August 25, 1554 – Death of the Duke of Norfolk
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LJS 419 is our favorite herbal! It includes paintings of plants, some realistic and some… not so realistic. It was written on paper in Italy, over the course of the 15th century. Watch to the end and you may see someone you know! #medievalsky
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CFP REMINDER!
Just a reminder that there is one week left until our deadline for Volume 4 of Apardjón - 1 September 2025. We are especially interested in interdisciplinary approaches within the field of Viking and medieval Scandinavia. Full details are in our CFP. #MedievalSky
🎺 Job alert! 🎺
Durham University is advertising for an Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), permanent and full-time!
Great department, lovely colleagues, beautiful historic city! Deadline for applications is 28/09/25!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ050/a...
PhDone! Was great to see all the pals at Cambridge last month 🎓
