⬇️ A fantastic-looking programme for the term ahead!

👨‍🏫 🧭 We’ll be kicking off the new academic year with the return of the Denys Hay lecture to @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, as we welcome @philippebuc.bsky.social from @unileiden.bsky.social to deliver a talk on his recent comparative historical research looking at both medieval Europe and Japan.

Free conference - 'Roman History in Carolingian Europe', 22-24 Sept in Edinburgh. Find out more and register: edin.ac/4noqMQB #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Romanhistory #Edinburgh

It is publication day for Love & anti-Judaism in medieval English romance @manchesterup.bsky.social! Thank you so much @siobhanmup.bsky.social for believing in this project. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183170/

Learn about Renaissance women scholars, painters, sculptors & architects in this series of 25 min lectures by Professor Jill Burke. Made for Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures at the @edincollegeofart.bsky.social. #OER @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social ‪ open.ed.ac.uk/renaissance-...

📕This work takes a fascinating look at themes of accessibility and inclusion in relation to medieval studies — including a chapter from our own @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social, who also co-edited the book! ⬇️ Find out more below about a hybrid book launch being held for it next month: bit.ly/3HRAM5W

Tariffs are in the news - but what about their history? Pleased to announce a new VSI that draws on Early Medieval Europe's back catalogue in this area. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

CALL FOR PAPERS!!! The MEMRN Committee are delighted to share the call for papers for our second annual Winter Conference: Fragmented Worlds, Shared Histories. Please share widely! Sponsored by @chase-dtp.bsky.social

New episode of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME: Renaissance Beauty — makeup, hair, skincare in 16th century Italy With me, comedian Tatty Macleod, and expert historian Professor @jillburke.bsky.social Available now on BBC SOUNDS, and coming to other podcast apps in 28 days www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

🥳 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social PhD student Jess Nutt won Best Speaker for her paper 'Sagas and Swords: Early #Medieval #Wales and Evidence of #Viking Conflict' @ Society for Medieval Archaeology Student Colloquium @exeter.ac.uk last week! 🏆 📷 C. Mason #EdinArch #archaeology @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social

And team! Suzanne Trill, @sharonhoward.bsky.social and @hagenilda.bsky.social.

📖 We can't wait to read this new, cross-cutting look at such an important part of the Middle Ages! ⬇️ You can click below to find out more about the book: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

🧪 📜 It's great to see @uoe-llc.bsky.social PhD student @seerauberaine.bsky.social in action at this week's @durhammemsa.bsky.social conference, speaking in the first picture about representations of female healers in twelfth-century French narrative literature.

🙏 It's fantastic to see @cvspragg.bsky.social flying the flag for @edincollegeofart.bsky.social, both in giving her paper and in being part of the organising committee that delivered such a successful conference! ⬇️ Look below to see some of what went on at @kingjamesconf.bsky.social last week!

LAMPS SEMINAR SERIES CALL FOR PAPERS AUTUMN 2025 Please submit your paper to us at [email protected] Deadline: 29th August 2025

🙌 As we look back at a great #IMC2025, we’d like to thank @imc-leeds.bsky.social and all those who attended for making it a great event! ⬇️ We’ve included some photos from talks given on Tuesday and Wednesday — all thanks to @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social PhD student Felix Chang for snapping them!

At a loose end now that #IMC2025 has ended? Fill the yawning hours with the latest issue of Early Medieval Europe! The issue includes: Robert Flierman and Hope Williard on Merovingian letter-writing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📌 📅 Though #IMC2025 may be drawing to a close, our students will be busy organising and moderating three sessions across the day! ⬇️ Find out more about them by clicking the link below! bit.ly/UoE-IMC-Thu

🌟 💬 Today our staff and students are involved in sessions throughout the day at #IMC2025 — click below for a full list of what they're up to! ➡️ bit.ly/IMC-IMC-Wed @imc-leeds.bsky.social @edincollegeofart.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #SkyStorians #MedievalSky

Interested in ghosts, witches, and haunted houses? Come listen to @imc-leeds.bsky.social Blurred Boundaries of Religious Dissent session III: The Supernatural, today at 16:30.

⚔️ ⚖️ What impact did the Vikings have in Wales? And what were the enduring effects of successive legal codes in Sicily? ⬇️ These are just some of the topics our staff and students are discussing at #IMC2025 today — click below for a full list! bit.ly/UoE-IMC-Tues

⬇️ @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social will also be moderating this session later today!

🤝 💬 As #IMC2025 kicks off, our own @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social will be pulling double duty, taking part in a roundtable celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, and co-introducing the day’s final keynote, delivered by Julia Smith of @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

Our new article is out in Speculum! @robin-f.bsky.social called it “ #isotopes for poets” it’s a fab ongoing interdisciplinary project on a late #Roman & #EarlyMedieval cemetery in Hampshire read more 🔗 https//doi.org/10.... @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social #archsci

📚 🗣️ Students and staff from across our university will be taking part over all four days of #IMC2025 — follow us next week for daily updates! 💻 You can also click this link for a full list of sessions they'll be involved with: bit.ly/UoE-IMC ⬇️ And find some highlights of what's to come below:

🙌 Great to see @northernstudies.bsky.social among the exhibitors taking part in #IMC2025!

🎙️ Last week our own Steve Boardman was featured on the BBC's 'In Our Time', speaking with Rhiannon Purdie and Michael Brown of @uniofstandrews.bsky.social on John Barbour's 'The Brus', the earliest surviving major work of Scots literature. ⬇️ Click below to listen! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Hot off the press: my contribution to marking JMH's 50th anniversary, looking at the historiography of 'reform' since the publication of Constance Bouchard's article in JMH 5 (open access). doi.org/10.1080/0304...

It was inspiring to share medieval images & scripts with young people at Glasgow Science Festival yesterday. Featuring 3D-printed stamps designed from medieval illustrations & marginalia, made by my very talented husband Judd Harrison! & of course Bryony's wonderful quills & oak-gall ink for ARC.

Finished part 1 of the science festival -teaching kids to make medieval manuscripts all day in the Riverside Museum. Now for part 2 and adults at the Advanced Research Centre (ARC). A different crowd to please! It's a long day! 😂

🚨 REMINDER 🚨 THERE ARE STILL A FEW DAYS LEFT TO REGISTER 😃 Join us in Glasgow (or ONLINE) from 9-11 July for an amazing line up of speakers and roundtables, plus much more ... Scan the QR code below or access the link here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

Reminder! We're on the lookout for one more paper for a hybrid panel at @imc-leeds.bsky.social! If anyone on #medievalsky or #historysky or #earlymodernsky has an interest in "Women's Experiential and Intellectual Paradigms of Awareness," please contact us at [email protected] before June 4!

We're looking forward to welcoming Edinburgh University Press back to #IMC2025! 😁 Visit their Bookfair stand during the congress to browse their fantastic collection of books!🎉 Why not visit www.euppublishing.com or www.linkedin.com/company/edin... and x.com/EdinburghUP #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

I arrived home to these yesterday; several copies of my book, published by @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

💻 This week our university will co-host the 3rd Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival! 📚 Join to find out more about recent publications on Byzantine literature, history, archaeology and material culture. ⬇️ Click the link below to find out more: hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...

👑 This three-day, hybrid conference will feature contributions from our own @cvspragg.bsky.social and Catriona Murray, plus recent PhD graduates Ashlyn Cudney and Elisabeth Rébeillé-Borgella. ⬇️ Click below to see the programme and find a link to register before the 8 June deadline!

PUBLIC LECTURE - 20 MAY We are very pleased to announce the second of our guest lectures this year. Niall Ó Súilleabháin (Université de Poitiers) will be giving a paper on 'Family, Household and Servitude in Medieval France (AD 900 – 1100)'. Attend in-person in Leicester or virtually over Teams.

✍️ Next week @edincollegeofart.bsky.social will host Prof Alexa Sand for a lecture discussing what a range of marginalia designs reveal about life in late medieval Flanders and northern France. ⬇️ Find out more and book your place by clicking below! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wordplay-i...

📜 Our next reading group will welcome visiting research fellow Charles Briggs, and discuss his in-progress work on the origins of humanism in the Middle Ages. 💻 Students on our mailing list can find the extract in their inboxes, but DM us if you can't find it or would like to be added to the list!

📢 This lecture series starts today! Click this link to watch online, or follow the link included in the post below to find out more and to book free tickets to attend in person! 💻 www.eventbrite.com/e/gifford-le...

I’ll be talking about my own efforts to find the ‘truth’ of Rosslyn and what’s at stake when we cede monuments to pseudo-historians. Please join me!

This Wednesday, we have our manuscript workshop at the Centre of Research Collections, Main Library (3-4:45pm) followed by @callumhendleman.bsky.social's paper 'A dialogue with the dead: Grief and performance in the Threnos Epitaphios of Ioannes Chortasmenos' at Teviot!

⛪ Next week join us for a bonus seminar with our own @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social, who will share findings from her research into the famed Rosslyn Chapel, discussing the religious and practical roles of the architectural and artistic designs within! #History #Edinburgh #HCA #Seminars #Rosslyn

#Gaelic language and culture in Scotland have a long history, often subsumed by English. Is there hope for their future? ⌛ Last chance to read the April Behind the Times for free buff.ly/q6xVb2e

⏰️ Join us tomorrow for our next seminar! 👀 And check back on our account later this week for am extra seminar taking place in May!

CfP from University of Edinburgh: Workshop on Emotions and Scottish History. Deadline: 21 May 2025.

We've had many thoughtful and unexpected responses so far! Clearly the viking world means many different things to many different people. But we'd still like to hear 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 take! Add your voice to the Great Viking Survey at vikingsurvey.org Anonymous, fully secure, and open to all (18+)

Registration is currently open for the MEMRN Spring Showcase, kindly sponsored by @chase-dtp.bsky.social. Join us for this free online conference event celebrating our global MEMs studies community! Register here forms.gle/FUEqtkF5zrGH...

📅 Join us for our last talk of this semester on Wednesday 23 April! ♟️ We'll be welcoming Krisztina Ilko to discuss her recent research into visual depictions of chess in medieval Europe and beyond, and what they mean in terms of cross-cultural interaction and the concept of a ‘Global Middle Ages.’

📜 A great chance for @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social postgrads to get hands-on experience with manuscripts and papyri!