Last year I worked as a fact-checker on the Real Vikings podcast (Noiser), narrated by Iain Glen.
The first episode is now free, exploring the Viking Age from Ragnar Loðbrok and Harald Hardrada to the wider Norse diaspora from Constantinople to Vinland.
www.noiser.com/real-vikings
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Do you know somebody who needs to learn Latin from scratch or improve their Latin to PhD standard? CMS Toronto's summer Latin program is now entirely online and a remarkable bargain for the intensity and quality of instruction. Details here: www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer...
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Presenting the Seven Liberal Arts: Astronomy, Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, Rhetoric, Logic and Grammar
BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; 14th century; Italy (Tuscany); f.29r
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What's your sign?
Are you a scholar working on cool gender stuff in Britain and Ireland? Would you like to come hang out by the seaside for a weekend while talking about your awesome research? Then have I got a symposium for you! #medievalsky #cfp
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We've had a withdrawal from one of these sessions and would be very keen to include another paper - please do not hesitate to reach out if you're interested, and to help us spread the word. Many thanks!!
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Congrats!
Two Visiting Full-Time Faculty Positions in Spanish (Medieval/Early Modern Iberian Studies):
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There is a vacancy in our project 'Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550' for a junior or postdoctoral researcher! #medievalsky
careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Junior-R...
Yes! Thought it would be, I used a lot of these during my undergraduate dissertation and don't know why I haven't been back to them.
Thanks!
is this from a sirvente? Could you post the source please? 🙏
‘The state of the world is at the present day constantly changing’
I feel like this could have been written this morning, but it’s a ‘Song on the Times’ of thirteenth-century England, during the reign of Henry III
Perhaps some things just really don’t change….
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This item is the St Mary's Abbey Figurine, a rare 13th-century figure of Christ made in Limoges, France. Created around 800 years ago, it is made of gilt-copper alloy and features champlevé enamel decoration. The figurine was discovered in 1826 within the ruins of St Mary's Abbey in York, having survived the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539. : It depicts a crowned Christ and is embellished with stone settings on the eyes, crown, and loincloth. After being missing for nearly 100 years and held in a private collection, it was purchased by the York Museums Trust and is now displayed at the Yorkshire Museum.
Crucifixes in churches up and down the country will be currently covered for Lent. This St Mary's Abbey (York) figurine, a rare 13th-century figure of Christ made in Limoges, France is made of gilt-copper alloy and features champlevé enamel decoration. The figurine was
Personally attacked by this meme
New Scutum Fidei just dropped
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I wouldn’t be here without my foundation year. It opened up my world to a career in HE. Essex UCU is fighting for the soul of our sector, and we should give them our unequivocal support.
I taught a class on “hope” last year and the few theorists who’ve written on it all point out that hope is the harder choice - that despair is easy and too often fashionable
I'm not often proud of Britain but I do love our illogical (to everyone else) mish-mash of imperial and metric measurements
reading the script for the 30-minute paper and suddenly realising it's going to need about 100 slides
Him: what are you thinking about
Me: the Angevin Empire
Very proud of @leedsims.bsky.social PhDs Natalie and Saaleha along with their colleagues Rachael (York) and Cameron (Sheffield) for putting together this fab series of 18 papers from postgraduate and early career scholars! Full programme: thelongmiddleages.com. All hybrid. Starts today! #medievalsky
Reflecting on how, post-viva, my reaction to others' good news has been increasingly (and uncharacteristically) resentful.
So to all those I know, even those I'm no longer close with: I see and hear of your successes, and I'll celebrate them. It's bloody hard out there ❤️
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The journal and conference #CFP for Volume 13 of Ceræ is now open!
Please share widely and spread the word to anyone who might be interested.
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Hidden Treasures: The Brent Eleigh Retable
This exquisite early 14th-century wall painting at Brent Eleigh (Suffolk) lay hidden behind a Victorian reredos until its discovery in 1961.
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the Bored of Peace
The Board of Peace is packed with individuals with a track record of being Bored of Peace...
A very wet and foggy Bowes castle today.
The stone castle that remains was begun under Henry II in the early 1170s to replace a timber castle built in the site of the former Roman fort of Lavatris. Its hall-keep design and planned village were fairly unusual in England.
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Little castle
Graffito of a castle, prob early 12th century, in church of Moings in France.
