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Former Senior Researcher at ERC project #PeopleandWriting Universidad de Salamanca. The Exeter Fragments Project. Palaeography. Diplomatics. Fragmentology. Galego. De Alveos.

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Preséntovos a app de patrimoniogalego.net. Reúne 14.000 fichas de catálogo creadas polos usuarios da plataforma e para dar contexto o Inventario do Patrimonio Cultural (Xunta) e a microtoponimia de Galicia Nomeada (RAG/Xunta). 620.000 recursos materiais e inmateriais do patrimonio cultural galego.

28.11.2025 18:37 👍 38 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 1
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Investigadores em Mateus O Arquivo da Casa de Mateus é objeto de estudo permanente e está aberto à investigação por estudiosos interessados em desenvolver temas atinentes à história e às personagens da Casa.

Fragments + Mateus. A plan for a nice Saturday afternoon.
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www.casademateus.pt/evento-e-pro...

21.11.2025 14:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Domesday at the IHR - On History IHR Fellow, Chris Lewis, writes about new publication, 'Making Domesday'.

New #OnHistory blog, IHR Fellow Chris Lewis writes about new publication, "Making Domesday: Intelligent Power in Conquered England" by Stephen Baxter, Julia Crick, and C. P. Lewis, and Domesday scholarship in the IHR.
blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/dome...

11.11.2025 12:55 👍 31 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 4
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This year's Brixworth Lecture will be given by Joyce Hill on Pastoral Provision and the Benedictine Reform. Tickets: www.friendsofbrixworthchurch.org.uk/2025/09/03/b...

30.09.2025 20:09 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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💀🦴 Empieza la cuenta atrás!!! Aqui os dejamos el programa completo del Congreso 'Morir en los límites del Imperio'
Os esperamos el 9-10 de octubre en el Salón de Grados de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia de la USAL.
Si queréis asistir vía online podéis escribirnos a arqueofunerarianw@usal.es

01.10.2025 08:21 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The 2025 Dorothy Whitelock Lecture @engfac.bsky.social will be given by Prof. Jane Roberts. All welcome. In person and online. Registration details below.
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30.09.2025 19:36 👍 31 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1
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Step back to 1086 and explore the fascinating world behind the oldest surviving Domesday manuscript!📜

Dr Chris Lewis speaks on the mysteries, gaps and stories of Exon Domesday.

👉 When: 30 October 7:30pm
👉 Where: Exeter Cathedral and online
👉 Tickets: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

30.09.2025 10:00 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate Are you passionate about early medieval Britain?  Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing?  If yes, then you may be interested in this f...

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...

29.09.2025 15:18 👍 72 🔁 79 💬 2 📌 8
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Pieces of the past: the Small Fragment folder in the Rosenthal Collection at Keio University

Now that I'm back in the UK, a little announcement: I'll be speaking at the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar (Senate House Library) on Tues 30th. Expect fragments galore!

The event is held in person & online!
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

22.09.2025 13:38 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 4
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📢 Call for Papers – EAUH 2026 (Barcelona, 2–5 Sept.)

Session 24: Invisible Currencies, Visible Cities: Trust, Information, and Urban Economies in the Late Medieval Mediterranean

👉 More info & submissions: www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#se...

15.09.2025 10:14 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT! #fragments #imc2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social

11.09.2025 11:51 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-University Göttingen Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen

There's an exciting new 3-year job in Göttingen (Germany) available as part of our project! www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...

We need someone with experience in manuscript studies and early medieval Germanic vernaculars. Digital humanities skills an advantage! Deadline: 14 July. #palaeography

18.06.2025 08:01 👍 35 🔁 29 💬 0 📌 4
The mid-8th-century ‘Irish Gospels of St Gall’; the Evangelist Mark and the incipit/beginning of his Gospel. St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 51, pp 78–9. Photo: Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen

The mid-8th-century ‘Irish Gospels of St Gall’; the Evangelist Mark and the incipit/beginning of his Gospel. St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 51, pp 78–9. Photo: Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen

Ancient Manuscripts, Modern Science!
What links medieval monks, secret ink recipes & ancient cow DNA?
Learn how Scientists used X-ray technology and genetic sequencing to uncover the secrets of 1,200-year-old Irish manuscripts in Switzerland
Read more: museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
#NMIBlog #MuseumBlog

01.06.2025 13:04 👍 221 🔁 73 💬 1 📌 13
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O Celta de novo en Europa #humorgalego #celta #davila #obichero

27.05.2025 11:42 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Allí estaremos. ¡Preparados para el viaje! 📜#PeopleandWriting

22.05.2025 20:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🧵Is the piece of parchment too small?
No problem – I’ll just stitch on another one to match!

#Materiality #MssStudies

15.05.2025 08:35 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Palaeography 2025

Do you like medieval rolls? Well who doesn’t! Don’t forget to register for Elaine Treharne’s lecture on mortuary rolls, whic is in person, at Senate House in London, on June 11th 👇📜

ies.sas.ac.uk/events/john-...

06.05.2025 16:39 👍 36 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 2
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Changing the Script: Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Tanner 10, Scribal Stints and the Question of Norms in Early 10th Century Manuscripts

Next London Palaeography Seminar: Changing the Script: Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Tanner 10, Scribal Stints and the Question of Norms in Early 10th Century Manuscripts, 21 May 2025 (online and in person) with Sharon Rowley (Christopher Newport University, VA) ies.sas.ac.uk/events/chang...

07.05.2025 16:39 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Early Latin-Old English Glossaries Colloquium (May 30-31, 2025)

Early Latin-Old English Glossaries Colloquium to be held on Zoom, May 30-31, 2025.

I will be THERE! Details on signing up to Zoom in are at the link. (Reposting bc the original post w/the link disappeared.)

epinal-erfurt.artsci.utoronto.ca/index.php/ea...

#medievalsky

05.05.2025 15:41 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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A few weeks ago, a colleague asked me for help dating a medieval document long considered a forgery. Yes, a forgery—but one with a precise date: the year 1033. And yet no one had ever asked: what if that date actually matches the likely time it was produced? 👇 #MssStudies

05.05.2025 16:35 👍 101 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 8
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Manuscrito que fala do fim dos tempos regressa ao lugar onde foi feito há 836 anos Exposição leva ao mosteiro do Lorvão um comentário ao Livro do Apocalipse. Oportunidade rara para ver uma obra que é do mundo e costuma estar numa casa-forte na Torre do Tombo. Até 18 de Maio.

Exposição leva ao mosteiro do Lorvão um comentário ao Livro do Apocalipse. Oportunidade rara para ver uma obra que é do mundo e costuma estar numa casa-forte na Torre do Tombo. Até 18 de Maio.

01.05.2025 06:46 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
This is a flyer for the Digital Medieval Studies Institute at the University of Leeds (UK). The event takes place on July 11, 2025, and features a one-day workshop program focused on digital scholarly methods for medievalists.
The flyer has a dark blue background with code/programming elements and includes a circular image of a medieval manuscript illustration showing a figure in blue clothing and a flower. The DMSI logo, the University of Leeds logo and the Digital Medievalist logo appear in the bottom right corner.
The workshops offered include:

Geospatial Tools for Mapping the Middle Ages (led by Carrie Benes)
Cooperative Network Visualization with NetCreate (led by Nathan Howard)
Artificial Intelligence: Image Analysis Applied to Medieval Manuscripts (led by Dominique Stutzmann)
Foundations in Working with Medieval Manuscripts Using IIIF (led by Paul Mollahan and Tom Crane)
Seeing Beyond: Practical and Low-Cost Multispectral Imaging (led by Helen Davies)

The flyer includes a "Register Now" button, contact information (dmsi.hello@gmail.com), and a registration URL (https://tinyurl.com/DMSI-2025-UK). The event is organized by N. Kivilcim Yavuz and Laura Morreale.

This is a flyer for the Digital Medieval Studies Institute at the University of Leeds (UK). The event takes place on July 11, 2025, and features a one-day workshop program focused on digital scholarly methods for medievalists. The flyer has a dark blue background with code/programming elements and includes a circular image of a medieval manuscript illustration showing a figure in blue clothing and a flower. The DMSI logo, the University of Leeds logo and the Digital Medievalist logo appear in the bottom right corner. The workshops offered include: Geospatial Tools for Mapping the Middle Ages (led by Carrie Benes) Cooperative Network Visualization with NetCreate (led by Nathan Howard) Artificial Intelligence: Image Analysis Applied to Medieval Manuscripts (led by Dominique Stutzmann) Foundations in Working with Medieval Manuscripts Using IIIF (led by Paul Mollahan and Tom Crane) Seeing Beyond: Practical and Low-Cost Multispectral Imaging (led by Helen Davies) The flyer includes a "Register Now" button, contact information (dmsi.hello@gmail.com), and a registration URL (https://tinyurl.com/DMSI-2025-UK). The event is organized by N. Kivilcim Yavuz and Laura Morreale.

📜 There is still time to apply for the remaining few spots at the Digital Medieval Studies Institute UK edition, a one-day event on digital methods for medievalists, sponsored by Digital Medievalist!

📆 July 11 2025, University of Leeds
▶️ Info and registration: tinyurl.com/yeyhact4

#medievalsky

29.04.2025 08:32 👍 13 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 2
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Friday 2 May, 5pm, @regentsox.bsky.social and on zoom I'll be talking after the AGM of the Henry Bradshaw Society @oxmedstud.bsky.social. #medievalsky

28.04.2025 11:19 👍 50 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 1
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@usaloficial.bsky.social @esmicroproj.bsky.social La semana que viene estaré en el Colegio Público de Monterrubio para hablarles a l@s alumn@s del cole y sus compañeros del CRA de Castellanos y San Cristóbal del concepto de comunidad y valoraremos el patrimonio histórico del pueblo y sus aledaños 👇

24.04.2025 10:12 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Tres fragmentos en escritura visigótica conservados en la Biblioteca KBR de Bruselas | Anuario de Estudios Medievales

In September 2023 I discovered a few mss fragments at the #KRB (Brussels). I identified 2 wrote in Old Spanish, now a paper identifying 3 Latin fragments has been published doi.org/10.3989/aem.... All these have a common feature: they were taken from Spanish ecclesiastical libraries in the 1960.

15.04.2025 16:01 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Upcoming conference for anyone around in Sherborne next month

Upcoming conference for anyone around in Sherborne next month

Lectures and an exhibition in Sherborne next month for anyone interested in early medieval Wessex

10.04.2025 14:12 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Palaeography 2025

Book now for @etreharne.bsky.social on Mortuary Rolls as Evidence of Scribal Practice, a lecture in London on 11 June! Not to be missed 👇📜📝

www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

28.03.2025 09:29 👍 27 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0

Excellent seminar! Some really interesting pieces that have been under the radar for too long. Parabéns!

25.03.2025 22:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

#MedievalSky starring @o-xico.bsky.social

11.03.2025 22:15 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0