Assistant Professorship in Early Medieval Literatures and Cultures, Fordham University: memorients.com/news/assista...

October is the time for knocking down acorns for swine to eat. #medievalcalendar Bodleian Library MS. Auct. D. 2. 6; c.1140 CE; England (St. Albans); f.6r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

I'm very excited to share the cover of my forthcoming collection of fourteen essays on Cluniac monasticism, which Cornell UP will publish in January 2026. The cover image is from fol. 1v of Angers BM 820, an eleventh-century compilation of texts related to the cult of Abbot Maiolus of Cluny.

Excited to learn that Drew Jones's new edition & translation of Odo of Cluny's Occupatio, one of the tenth century's most intriguing but little-known Latin works, is coming out very soon: www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Journal of Late Antiquity Volume 18, Number 2, Fall 2025 #S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE tinyurl.com/58uf6c74#S2O#OpenAccessCONTRIBUTORS Sabine R. Huebner Marion Kruse J.-Michel Reaux Colvin Maria Pavlou Chengzuo Yao Gail Tatham Andrew Paul Wood Gabriele Castiglia Seth M. Stadel and more!

NIN in Baltimore.

St Paul is here to write letters and kick ass. And he has just written his last letter. Musée de Cluny, Cl.1505, c. 1030, Echternach

So excited that my book has a cover. Michigan's design people have outdone themselves in their styling of Mr. Murder Mittens (a massive Roman temple key from Switzerland). Full details here (the e-version will be open access come the publication date): press.umich.edu/Books/S/Stea...

New in CHR: “Fragments of Greek Patristics in Eusebius’s Historia ecclesiastica and Their Readers in the Latin West.”

The goddess Diana giving herbs to Chiron the centaur who named them after her. BL Sloane 1975; Medical & herbal collection; 12th century; f.17v

Jacopo Bisagni's new article on the Sun’s night journey and its cosmic battle with a tide-making sea monster (sometimes called Leviathan) has just been published in JML. This narrative is found in De cursu solis in nocte, a text which Jacopo discovered in the ninth-century manuscript Laon MS 422.

New Medieval Books: The Medieval Clergy, 800-1250 www.medievalists.net/2024/05/new-... #BookSky

A CRUSADER'S DEATH AND LIFE IN ACRE by Anne E. Lester & Laura K. Morreale offers a glimpse into #crusader life through the death inventory of Eudes of Nevers in 1266. From knights' wages to crusade poems, this is an exploration of #medieval Outremer. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

For Good Friday, a glorious mid-9th century Carolingian rock crystal engraving of the crucifixion. Originally from St Denis and now in the British Museum. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

'The relationship between mankind and demon-kind is always a point of contention.' Aida Amoako: When mankind encounters demons

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New volume of Traditio Vol. 79 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54478 @projectmuse.bsky.social

If you missed our recent screening of the hilarious HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940), you can enjoy a Public Domain Movie Night in your own home! 📽️ Watch the full film ➡️ archive.org/details/his-... #PublicDomain #ClassicFilm #Comedy #InternetArchive

“Changesonebruce”. Forthcoming in January 2026.

The Fall of the Angels BnF MSS NAF 15939; Vincent de Beauvais, Speculum historiale, French translation by Jean de Vignay, under the title Miroir historial, Vol I (Bks I-VII); 14th century (towards 1379 CE-1380 CE); Paris; f.11r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Professor in Latin Palaeography The Faculty of History and @wadhamcollege.bsky.social are seeking an outstanding palaeographer to join the team of medieval historians. Applications are welcome from candidates at all post-doctoral career stages, including at professorial level.

Coming this August from @brepols.bsky.social Discipline, Authority, and Text in Late Ancient Religion Nineteen essays to honor David Brakke written by his former students, his grad school friends, and various other co-conspirators www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

An interesting article by Thomas Burman on the earliest Latin quotations from the Quran, in a Carolingian-period manuscript: digital.csic.es/bitstream/10...

Lingua Patrum, vol. 16 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 Edited by Vittorio Berti, Emanuela Colombi & Carla Noce More info: bit.ly/4jZc167 #CorpusChristianorum #Greek #EarlyChristianity #Patristics #Literature #Translation

“Without stories of progress, the world has become a terrifying place. The ruin glares at us with the horror of its abandonment.“ - Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, “The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins” @princetonupress.bsky.social #mushroom #economy

Fighting initial 'A'(rma) at the beginning of Virgil's Aeneid BnF MS Latin 16236; Publius Vergilius Maro: Eglogae, Georgicae, Aeneis cum glossa; 11th century; France; f.61r @labnf.bsky.social

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Author copies of Merovingian Worlds have arrived! www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk/products/mer... #medievalsky

THE MIRACLES OF MARY IN TWELFTH-CENTURY FRANCE by Bruce L. Venarde brings to life vivid tales of divine intervention, revealing the beliefs and struggles of a bygone era. Available now: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

"Kings hammer mistrust into swords, demand battle songs, and the world deafens with terror of one's neighbour. I turn to words. Their little lamps will outlive my flicker, that of lords, and of this current fear. [...]" - by Rosie Garland - @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social

Are you teaching a course this semester and have students who need some extra credit? Why not encourage them to cast their votes in the Middle Ages for Educators Sweet 16 Competition, which is now open! #medievalsky middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu/sweet-16-oar...

This manuscript of Origen of Alexandria's Homilies on the Old Testament begins with images of the Abbey's two patron saints, St Germain & St Vincent. BnF MS Latin 11615; Origen of Alexandria, Homiliae in Vetus Testamentum; 12th c; France (Saint-Germain-des-Prés); f.2v

Look at this stunner! “The Monastic World” by Andrew Jotischky tells the 1200 year history of the monastery through wars, plagues and inquisitions from the Roman Times to the sixteenth century. ⛪️ From @yalebooks.bsky.social

🚨 Applications for the first international Medieval Studies Summer School @bristolcms.bsky.social and @uobartsmatter.bsky.social are now live! 🚨 Poster attached and full info/online application form here: www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s.... Please share widely #medievalsky!

Self-portrait of the German nun Guda, scribe and illuminator: "Guda peccatrix mulier scripsitque pinxit hunc librum." Frankfurt, Stadtund Universitätbibl. Ms. Barth. 42; 12th century; f.110v

Visual poetry, the medieval way. (Paris, BnF, Lat. 2422, 9th century; digitized and more: https://buff.ly/4hZoIg5). #medievalsky #booksky #visualpoetry

Applications are now open for the 2025 instalment of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies’ Leonard E. Boyle, O.P., Toronto-Rome Diploma Programme in Manuscript Studies, which will convene in Rome from June 2 to July 4, 2025. Deadline: February 1, 2025 pims.ca/article/dipl...

Guest blog for our early medieval medicine project from Tim Hertogh on the "Rotulus of Muelinen"... which will be the subject the project's first critical edition! #medievalsky

Forthcoming on December 16! Vigor Mortis: The Vitality of the Dead in Medieval Cultures, ed. Scott G. Bruce and Stephen Gordon (Routledge).

Your moment of Gwen. 💕

Gino D'Achille's cover for the Ballantine paperback edition of "A Princess of Mars" (1977) was less voluptuous and sensual than Frazetta's or Whelan's, but he captured the bleakness of Barsoom and sinewy strength of the Tharks.

A fascinating example of Roman propaganda mixed with play. So-called Vettweiss-Froitzheim Dice Tower, bearing an inscription: PICTOS VICTOS HOSTIS DELETA LVDITE SECVRI "The Picts defeated, the enemy has been destroyed, play in safety." Now in Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn.

Shane Bobrycki's The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages shows the importance of collective behavior in early #medieval Europe. Out now! Learn more about the history of crowds during the five hundred years between the age of circuses and the age of crusades: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

You may also be interested in my book with @princetonupress.bsky.social , where I talk about the elephant Harun al-Rashid sent to Charlemagne. (8/8)

#TTRPG Tuesday! This is a sort of #medieval religious saving throw table (well, a divination tool) known as "Sortes Apostolorum" (Lots of the Apostles). This 12th c. #manuscript instructs a priest to ask a question, roll 3d6, and look up the results in the table. The "C C C" in red means "6 6 6".

I grew up reading the Del Rey paperbacks of ERB's Martian Tales with evocative covers by the great Michael Whelan. His rendering of "A Princess from Mars" (1985) remains a favorite of mine.

ERB's story "Under the Moons of Mars" was serialized monthly in All-Story Magazine from February to July 1912 and soon thereafter published as a novel entitled "A Princess of Mars." Frank Frazetta made this stunning painting for a paperback edition published by Ace in 1970.