Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

When the Groom Paid the Dowry: New Study Rethinks Marriage in Medieval Catalonia www.medievalists.net/2025/07/when... #MedievalMarriage

Three-year VAP in Medieval Middle East/Islamic History at Colby's History Department jobs.chronicle.com/job/37887745...

Is the Book of Kells from Pictland rather than Ireland? Great to see this @theguardian.com piece about @victoriawhitworth.bsky.social's new book on Kells, published by @headofzeus.bsky.social next month: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/book-of-k... www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

The much-anticipated news is now here. I am very excited to announce that my book, soon out with York Medieval Press, is now available for pre-order! Hats off to @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and the awesome Mont-Saint-Michel design team for the cover! boydellandbrewer.com/book/robert-...

Penn Press and @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social are delighted to announce that @thejqr.bsky.social will become fully Open Access beginning with the winter 2026 issue (coming in January)! www.pennpress.org/blog/jewish-...

K-12 Updates and Call for Proposals K-12 Updates and Call for Proposals The Medieval Academy’s K-12 Committee is testing ways to best engage with K-12 educators. We are currently developing two modes of engagement. www.themedievalacademyblog.org/k-12-updates...

Does your teaching touch upon the Black Death? Then don't miss the one and only Dr. Monica Green's open-access, introductory teaching module for the History for the 21st Century (H21) project! www.history21.com/owit-module/... #earlymodern #histmed #medhumanities #medieval #worldhistory

The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast welcomes proposals of single episodes for its fifth season. After four successful seasons, The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast (MMA) will return for its fifth in 2026. www.themedievalacademyblog.org/the-multicul...

So proud to have co-written this newly published book w/my brilliant friend Anne E. Lester; I just remembered the book came into being largely b/c of an #NEH grant Anne received in 2020-2021, allowing us to follow up on our pandemic zoom calls together. cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/a-c...

Good morning! Rise and shine!

Just under a week left to submit a proposal for our sessions at @imc-leeds.bsky.social next year and to apply for a bursary! #Skystorians #MedievalSky

Jobs For Medievalists Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Classical Studies: Medieval Literature Department of English: Trinity University, San Antonio TX Review of applications will begin November 10, 2025 Tenure-trackAssistant Professor of www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...

So far my time in WI has been great. The weather’s been beautiful, and I added 2500 words to my book manuscript. irh.wisc.edu/current-irh-...

how it feels to contribute to an edited volume

{Coming very soon} Public Engagement in the European Middle Ages: Medieval Solutions for a Modern Crisis by Christopher D. Fletcher -This manual uses the medieval past to teach modern scholars how to succeed in public engagement. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270096...

Medieval Studies is one of the eliminated programs. hartfordbusiness.com/article/ucon...

A stunning and infuriating analysis of what’s wrong with the University of Chicago, with no doubt some relevance to other places too. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

Why not go all the way and sever the hard sciences from Humanity - not just the Humanities.* If AI is good at anything, it's cold rationality. Let robots teach other robots sciency stuff, and have universities focus on something that only humans can do well - the study of humans. *insert sarcasm

Professor - Late Antiquity, University of Toronto: memorients.com/news/profess...

Ducks walking on Hydrangea petals.

My Kingdon Fellow profile at the U of Wisconsin-Madison is up on the IRH website, but I'm still in Texas. Moving there by the end of the month! irh.wisc.edu/staff/soifer...

Oh dear, someone hasn't bothered to study any Visigoth history... To me it's always a bit iffy when people can't write about how cool one civilisation/culture/religion was/is without having to bash/downplay/insult another.

My department is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor in early Christianity (our search last year was among those canceled because of budgetary uncertainty). Review of applications begins September 3, 2025. Full job description and application requirements in the link. #AcRel

"In short, there is a serious mismatch between the actual employment landscape for humanities graduates and the general perception of it among relevant constituencies...a misunderstanding that became acute during the 2008 recession and has not appreciably abated since then." bit.ly/46v59cm

Attention religious studies scholars

I held off publishing my Medieval Studies jobs report this year since I thought the market would be worse (for obvious reasons). But in history there are 4 jobs so far (a lot for the end of July). New one at TN: tinyurl.com/3z3buz7j. The others are Hunter, Baylor, T-A&M-San Antonio.

***Job Opportunity in History*** Assistant Professor of Public History and Documentary Film, Texas State University 16/ jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/53034

Western Medieval Manuscripts (and fragments) @keiouniversity.bsky.social (Japan)! Enjoy a few spare minutes and browse this remarkable collection! Something for everyone's taste and interest! dcollections.lib.keio.ac.jp/en/western-m...

#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar @ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!

New Book! The Nuremberg Mahzor: History, Codicology, Liturgy and Art. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18172

A talk by Julie Harris: "Laurent d’Arvieux and the King’s Bible: A Hebrew Codex in Christian Hands." #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18152

Delighted to say that I've been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2025-26, and we are hiring a 1-year full-time lecturer in early medieval history to replace me. Deadline 7 August. Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about the role! jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Assistant Professor, Medieval Europe or Early Modern Europe (Texas A&M University, San Antonio) #medieval #earlymodern #medievalsky memorients.com/news/assista...

Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Medieval History (Global), Baylor University (Texas, USA) #GlobalMiddleAges #medievalsky #medieval memorients.com/news/assista...

I'd love to see the cost modeling on all of this along with the 10 year revenues/expenditures in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

Job: Tenured full professor and Schusterman Center director position at University of Texas at Austin. mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18031

New publication: "The Co-production of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Artefacts, Rituals, Communities, Narratives, Doctrines, Concepts." Edited by ed. Katharina Heyden and David Nirenberg. mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18059

I'm so thrilled to have this published! Starting from a chat over lunch at @girtoncollege.bsky.social, James Wade & I chipped away at this & have made some fascinating discoveries. The actual article should be published later today. In the meantime, more here: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/song...

This is a really important point. Folks who decry lectures assume students will get content in other ways. But they don't.

Unsurprisingly, there is lots of excited chatter at #IMC2025 about the Bayeux Tapestry/Canterbury Embroidery coming to visit next year. Anyway, a quick thread. #medievalsky #BayeuxTapestry 1/

🎉 Happy Birthday, Artemisia Gentileschi! 🎨 Born July 8, 1593, Artemisia Gentileschi was a true trailblazer. A powerful painter who defied expectations, her legacy still inspires. But did you know these three facts about Artemisia's extraordinary life? (🧵1/5)

An interesting stamp from my collection.

Here is an un-paywalled story about the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry: news.artnet.com/art-world/ba...

Kitten paw prints on a Roman clay tile 🐱 🐾 A moment in time captured some 2,000 years ago when a kitten walked across the wet clay tile as it lay out to dry. Lullingstone Roman Villa, Kent. 📷 by me #TilesonTuesday #Archaeology

New book: Marc M. Epstein, "People of the Image: Jews and Art," (Penn State University Press, 2025). #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17897

New book: François Soyer, The Blood Libel in Medieval Antisemitism #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17976

My favorite tree, the Angel oak. Believed to be between 400 and 500 years old, this Southern live oak's limbs seem to go on forever. #BlueSkyArtShow #GetOutside