Can anyone tell what this circled word is? #history #paleography

🎉📣 Announcing the IHR Research Training Courses for October - December 2025. Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Hi #medievalsky! We’re excited to announce that Issue 2 of The So What is available on our site: www.arthuriana.com/tsw-issues! #pubhums #arthuriansky And now, a quick teaser 🧵 of the pieces in this issue… /1

Our latest podcast episode is now available everywhere podcasts can be found! Today we are talking about a very popular, if you can call it that, murder from the 1500s that features a love triangle, a failed poisoning and much more - it's the murder of Thomas Arden!

Today we are talking about the murder of Marguerite Porete, who, while little known to most people, is a fascinating woman whose life ended terribly - featuring the inquisition and the Beguin movement!

Today is the feast of Tatwine, d. 734, Archbishop of Canterbury. 🕯️ Before he became ABC, Tatwine composed riddles & a grammar during his life as monk & abbot of Breedon-on-the-Hill in Mercia (now Leicestershire, barely). BAV Pal. lat. 1746 is a late-8c copy of his grammar from Lorsch. #medievalsky

Just as a reminder since this seems to be getting some citations recently. I’ve published this open access piece from my masters dissertation on Crime and Sin in Early Medieval England. doi.org/10.33929/sherm.2021.vol3.no1.08

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project. 👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

Spent my Friday afternoon in the archives with some lovely 19th century letters.

Our latest podcast episode "The Sack of Rome of 1527" is now available everywhere podcasts can be found! Listen to us talk about the politics and people surround the attack on Rome, with a special emphasis on the Swiss Guard!

Our latest podcast episode “The Cadaver Synod” in which Pope Formosus deceased body is put on trial for his supposed crimes in 897 is now available everywhere podcasts can be found! Take a listen and let us know what you think by leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts!

Prime Day is an excellent day for saying “hey, how we go get some books at the library” 📚

#OTD (Jul 05) in the year 1091: death of William of Hirsau, German abbot #OTDIH #history 🗃️ #Medievalsky

Our latest podcast episode on "The Peasant's Revolt of 1381" is now available everywhere podcasts can be found! Take a listen to our discussion on the rebellion which attempted to stand up to the policies of the crown! Let's know what you think by leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts.

Spending today recording the next podcast episode! Any guess on what it might be? 👀

Are Early Medieval Books your thing? We have a summer school course for you!👇 #Skystorians #MedievalSky ies.sas.ac.uk/london-inter...

Our new episode “Catherine Howard: The Fifth Wife of Henry VIII” is now available everywhere podcasts can be found! Hear about Catherine’s tragic life and subsequent death.

Have you listened to our episode yet on Axlar-Bjorn the only medieval Icelandic serial killer and the bloody Bender serial killers of 19th century Kansas? #medievalsky

#OTD 18 Apr 1920: SS William O'Brien reported severe leaking, and she was sinking in heavy weather 500 miles east of Philadelphia. British vessels Baltic and Minniekahda responded but found only debris. William O'Brien was lost with all 40 hands. #maritimehistory #skystorians #history #podcast

Have you ever assigned posts from my blog "The Manuscript Road Trip" in class or cited them in your scholarship? Read them for fun? Please let me know! I'm giving a paper at Kalamazoo about the project and would love to know if you find it useful. #MedievalSky manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com

Medieval Executions: The View from the Scaffold www.medievalists.net/2024/04/medi... #Medieval

The Apocalypse Tapestry is a large medieval set of tapestries currently held in Chateau d’Angers in France. The tapestry was commissioned by Louis I, the Duke of Anjou and is dated to the late 14th century. It depicts the story of the apocalypse from the Book of Revelation in the Bible.

According to coroners rolls from 1265 the following happened: “It happened in the king's highway between Goldington and Bedford on Sunday^ next before the feast of St. Lawrence in the fiftieth year [that three persons quarrelled, and one of them was killed]. Continued

Our newest podcast episode on the next wife of King Henry VIII, "Anne of Cleves: The Wife Who Lived" is now available anywhere podcasts can be found! Take a listen and if you like it let us know by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts!

The disappearance of the Princes in the Tower is one of England’s greatest historical mysteries. Did Richard III murder Edward V and his brother Richard? Or did they escape, their identities lost to time? Join the Q&A. #MedievalSky #HistoricalFiction www.elizabethjstjohn.com/updates/the-...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗟𝗮𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗼-𝗦𝗮𝘅𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝗰. 𝟲𝟬𝟬-𝗰. 𝟵𝟬𝟬 By Kristen Carella More info: bit.ly/4bCIQC6 #history #medievalists #law #medievalsky #historysky

🚨Job klaxon!🚨A chance to come to Exeter and be Sarah Hamilton for a year! Happy to field any questions. (NB: the 0.6 FTE is dictated by the fact that she works part-time, so the buyout only covers her regular duties.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI610/l...

Discover our newest titles in #MedievalStudies with this newsletter. Go to: bit.ly/41Dpice #Medievalsky #Historysky #MiddleAges #ReligiousHistory #ArtHistory #Linguistics #Medievalists

Bones recovered from a Dominican friary in Exeter show arrows fired from longbows (bodkin type) could penetrate right through the human skull, creating small entry and large exit wounds. As deadly as gunshots. #medievalsky #medievalwarfare #middleages

Hey #MedievalSky! If you or someone you know wants a lectureship @uniofstandrews.bsky.social in Latin & the history of the British Isles, now's your chance We're hiring for a permanent post: 50% Latin for postgraduates; 50% history of later medieval Britain & Ireland www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD844/a...

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Book Review: The Shardlake Series by C. J. Sansom

Our latest podcast episode “Jane Seymour: The Other Woman” is now available everywhere podcasts can be found! Take a listen and let us know what you think by giving us a review on Apple Podcasts! #tudorhistory

Our latest podcast episode “Jane Seymour: The Other Woman” is now available everywhere podcasts can be found! Take a listen and let us know what you think by giving us a review on Apple Podcasts! #tudorhistory

New Merch Alert! #tudorhistory my-store-d80ef8.creator-spring.com

Essential reading for early medievalists: Julia Smith's new study of the field's history, and perspectives on its future. doi.org/10.1017/ean....

Want a distraction? Our new podcast episode “The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn” is now available everywhere podcasts can be found! Take a listen and give us a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review on Apple Podcasts.

Future hint for Medieval Murder podcast listeners 😉

This is a manuscript illustration of the death of the antichrist dating from the 15th century. It was created by an anonymous author using a woodcut that was then colored. It is currently located in the Albertina Collection in Vienna.

Lochmaben Castle (Scotland) reconstruction. Built by King Edward I of England. Seized by Maxwell family in 1588 & held for the Spanish King along with Morton & Caerlaverock. Even Spanish Armada troops garrisoned Lochmaben against an English siege oked by King James VI of Scots. #LochmabenCastle

Have you checked out the Medieval Murder website that has our merch, book reviews and blog posts? How about listened to any of our podcast? We also have a Kofi link for our followers to support us if they feel like it!

Very excited to have written the featured article in edition 22 of The Historians Magazine entitled “Sir Christopher Wren: England’s Renaissance Man?”!

Happy holidays from everyone here at Medieval Murder! To celebrate the holidays we’re doing a second holiday special featuring the Murder of Thomas Becket the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170 which is now available everywhere podcasts can be found!

New book haul for the new year! @lollardfish.bsky.social @profgabriele.com

Getting away with crime or getting justice? Sometimes medieval criminal court records reveal instances in which localities and/or individuals took the punishment of crime into their own hands. The castration case of Tom, son of Leofwin, from the year 1202 is one such case. 🧵1/5

Happy holidays from everyone here at Medieval Murder! To celebrate the holidays we’re doing a special episode covering some of our favorite Medieval and Early Modern Holiday Traditions and folktales including the Icelandic Yule Lads, Krampus, the Yule Log, and Hogmanay.  #medievalsky

snowball fight, italy, ca. 1400