Later this afternoon, we are off to the Middle Ages with @elenarossi.bsky.social to hear about families dealing with their children going to university. Come along with us! You may join us online or in person at the Institute of Historical Research in Bloomsbury.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
‘... an adult and discreet son should be feeling ashamed when he believes and tries to extort money from his poor father, to whom he should rather be providing in necessities!'
Want to know more about this embarrassing letter from a father to his son? Join us tomorrow at the Life Cycles Seminar!
@elenarossi.bsky.social will be our speaker tomorrow at 17:30.
Join us at the IHR or online to hear her talk about the impact on families of offspring going off to university in the Middle Ages.
Every one is welcome. The registration details are in the link.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
‘... an adult and discreet son should be feeling ashamed when he believes and tries to extort money from his poor father, to whom he should rather be providing in necessities!'
Want to know more about this embarrassing letter from a father to his son? Join us tomorrow at the Life Cycles Seminar!
Are you a student who struggled with leaving home and going to university? Are you a parent who had empty nest syndrome? Well, the medieval university experience was very similar!
Join us on Tuesday to hear more 👩🏻🎓
Are you a student who struggled with leaving home and going to university? Are you a parent who had empty nest syndrome? Well, the medieval university experience was very similar!
Join us on Tuesday to hear more 👩🏻🎓
@elenarossi.bsky.social will present our next seminar on 10th. February. Elena will explore the emotional impact on family life when members travelled internationally for university in the Middle Ages.
To hear the paper, you may travel to London or listen online. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Super excited to be chairing @elenarossi.bsky.social’s paper next Tuesday! Do come along. #MedievalSky
Very glad you can make it 😃
Beauchamp's daughter was Anne, married to Richard Neville who became the Earl of Warwick. richardiii.net/richard-iii-...
Will you be joining us for the second @londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social colloquium of the year? Don't miss out #Medievalsky! Registration is free:
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Second linocut comes from the tomb of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (d. 1439) at St Mary’s Church, Warwick. I was struck by the bear emblem for the Earl of Warwickshire. This tomb was an essential visual source for the special subject I taught on - 'Joan of Arc and her Age:1419-31'.
“If you’re not going to put the clothes away, then the basket is fair game”
Thank you for supporting the side quest - maybe next I should do this unicorn from another account book… 👀
Omg these are beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
Latest crafting obsession: Linocutting!
First piece was inspired by a watermark in the fifteenth-century accounts from King's Hall, Cambridge, housed @trincolllibcam.bsky.social. I was looking for female employees and tenants for an article but became a little obsessed with the various watermarks.
Two weeks left until the LMS Winter Colloquium! 🍾😊
Make sure to register via the zoom link below. Looking forward to seeing many of you there!
#medievalsky #skystorians #histsky #academicsky
Need some help accessing medieval documents? I am available for freelance work in archives!
I have extensive experience transcribing medieval documents in Latin, Middle French, Middle English and Italian from 1200 to 1500.
Or if you need photos of documents from archives, I can undertake archive visits in London and Oxford. For more information and pricing, please contact me on elenafranrossi@outlook.com.
Need some help accessing medieval documents? I am available for freelance work in archives!
I have extensive experience transcribing medieval documents in Latin, Middle French, Middle English and Italian from 1200 to 1500.
Very excited to be speaking at the @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social in March!
Empty nest syndrome? Missing home? Spending more time partying than on your studies? These may sound like frequent struggles today, but they were also present in the Middle Ages.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
📣 NEW LONDON MEDIEVAL SOCIETY COLLOQUIUM INCOMING!!!
Join us online for the next @londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social event on 'Nonconformity'! We have some fantastic papers lined up, so make sure to register for Saturday 21st February:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Not biased at all, but this is going to be fab! Make sure to register #medievalsky
Ill Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe: Moving and Being Moved Call for Papers London, 11-12 June 2026 We are delighted to launch the Call for Papers for the III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe, which will take place in London on 11-12 June 2026. After two successful editions, this year's Colloquium will focus on movements) within and accross late medieval and early modern cities (ca. 1300-1800). Topics to be addressed may include but are not limited to: • Mobile people in urban centres, e.g. migrants, merchants, vagrants, enslaved people, minstrels, mendicants, and pilgrims. • The exchange of goods and knowledge. • Transitory urban events and performances that moved bodies and minds, including social uprisings, civic performances, dances and urban processions. • Lack of 'movement: considerations of what it means to stay put and belong in a city or to be forced to remain in a city. This is an interdisciplinary and international Colloquium which offers an opportunity for PhD students and early career scholars to share their research through 20-minute long presentations, and to receive feedback through constructive discussion. Established scholars will also be invited to present their research and methods and to contribute to discussion. There will also be opportunities for all participants to continue the conversation over coffee and lunch. Interested applicants are encouraged to send an abstract of 200 words along with a short bio to Ana Roda Sánchez (Queen Mary University of London), Eliot Benbow (Institute of Historical Research) and Emma Olson (University of Cambridge) in colloquiumcities@gmail.com by 31 January 2026. If you have any questions, please get in touch with us. We look forward to receiving your proposals and learning about your research!
*Reposted CFP with alt text*
III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities: Moving and Being Moved
London, 11-12 June 2026
Deadline abstract submissions: 31 January 2026
Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🤗🤗
#medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #callforpapers #history
Not biased at all, but this is going to be fab! Make sure to register #medievalsky
We are delighted to announce the first 2026 Colloquium! Please join us for an exciting journey through Non-Conformities 🤗🎉
The LMS Colloquia are online and free to attend, but prior registration is required. Please sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We are looking forward to it!
📣 NEW LONDON MEDIEVAL SOCIETY COLLOQUIUM INCOMING!!!
Join us online for the next @londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social event on 'Nonconformity'! We have some fantastic papers lined up, so make sure to register for Saturday 21st February:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Very excited to be speaking at the @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social in March!
Empty nest syndrome? Missing home? Spending more time partying than on your studies? These may sound like frequent struggles today, but they were also present in the Middle Ages.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
CFP: Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis. Pembroke College, Cambridge, 17–18 Sept 2026. Abstracts due 16 Jan 2026.
One month left to submit your abstracts for Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis, @pembroke1347.bsky.social (17–18 Sept 2026).
See the full #CFP below.
#Fissures2026 #medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #GenderHistory #PoliticalHistory
Breslau Codex (Wrocław, Stadtbibliothek, MS 1302, s. xii ex./xiii in.), f. 82ra, showing tear in the page but only the very edge of the text in the inner gutter.
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
