It was a pleasure to present at the Australian Early Medieval Conference hosted by @jaema.bsky.social on the subject of Vikings in Old Frisian texts yesterday. I presented via Zoom, but at least there was one individual who heard it live… #Vikings #Medieval #Frisia

CFP: “Shaping the Word: the Form and Use of Biblical Manuscripts in the Early Medieval West” at Durham University in July 2026. We are interested in a wide range of papers exploring ways in which scriptural texts (produced roughly c. 500-1000) were presented and used.

Happy discovery while searching for teaching materials for early medieval Bible week: the Stockholm Codex Aureus is online and freely downloadable as a very high-res PDF from the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/urn-... #medievalsky #paleography #bookhistory

We had an absolute blast at the AEMA Conference! Three days of conversation, questions, and investigations, joined by colleagues from across the globe. This year saw papers on vikingr, slave revolts, Islamic poets, weather-witches, and much, much more!

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

📣 BSR / Early Medieval Europe Fellowship – Call for Applications! Are you a PhD student or early career researcher in early medieval European history? Apply now! ⏳ Deadline: 30 January 2026 More info here: bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...

Group expedition today to see the Galloway Hoard! Absolutely glorious.

University of Copenhagen is hiring: Tenure-track assistant professor in early medieval history at the Faculty of Humanities

It's 2:30 am my time, so I won't be able to attend - but if you're somewhere in a friendlier time zone, this looks great!

Our new article is now published Open Access in CATENA! We present one of the first micromorphological cases of Dark Earth in Czechia, at the early medieval stronghold of Mikulčice. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ca...

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...

Oct 2-4 hybrid from Melbourne (Australian Catholic University) - #AEMA Australian Early Medieval Association conference -- Tempestuous Times: Crisis, Change, and Allegory. Registration: aema.org.au/conference-r... Abstracts: aema.org.au/conference-a...

Knowledge Commons upload 'A context for the Birka grave Bj581? Women and military leadership in the tenth century' (2024 but previously published in German) #medievalsky #archaeology #history #gender works.hcommons.org/records/reqx...

New open-access book from @brepols.net with comparative studies on elites in medieval Poland in Norway, including contributions by @hopesteffen.bsky.social and many others: www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB... #medievalsky

Always wanted my name on a gig poster (even if only in the tiny print) Registration for AEMA 2025 is now open, with online registration starting from just $10 AUD (that's just £4.88, €5.59, or $6.54 US): aema.org.au/conference-r...

4-year funded PhD in Old Norse-Viking Studies at UCC, working on the Literature & Art strand of the NorseMap Project. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

Registration for our conference is open! We offer both in-person and online registration (at very reasonable rates). Here's the link to register: aema.org.au/conference-r... And here's the link for the abstracts of this year's papers: aema.org.au/conference-a...

Registration Open: Conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

An interesting new blog series by @ajaltamimi.bsky.social translating the Roman History of Paul the Deacon. #medievalsky www.aymennaltamimi.com/p/paul-the-d...

Free book download of collected papers on Knowledge Commons ‘No Horns on their Helmets? essays on the Insular Viking Age’ #medievalsky #history #vikingsky #archaeology works.hcommons.org/records/xc6k...

One week until the Australian Early Medieval Association's twenty-fifth annual conference! This year we're meeting around the theme of "Tempestuous Times"!

Still space for abstracts for the Leeds IMC call for papers hosted by Institute for Irish Studies doctoral researchers at Liverpool 'Law and Contacts in the Irish Sea Region' #medievalsky

Call for #medievalsky & related other ski’s!! Guest editors for issues & clusters—we summon you!!! We’re currently looking for individuals or teams interested in #bardcore, craft medievalism & medieval crafts, changing climates, early globalities, & more! #cfp Full guest ed call linked 👇

There are still so many interesting sessions at @imc-leeds.bsky.social looking for papers! This one might be of interest to our members, but also to readers of journals like @postmedieval.bsky.social or @arthurianajrnl.bsky.social. What other Leeds IMC Calls for Papers are still open?

Session Proposal, International Medieval Congress (Leeds, 2026) Stories as Pilgrims: Transformation and Travel How stories move across borders & time, medieval to modern. Adaptation, history, pedagogy, and literary views welcome. 👉 Reach out by Sept. 25. #IMC2026 #MedievalStudies #Adaptation

Includes a large number of titles of possible interest to #medievalsky and #earlymodern folks: 👇 📚

Hi #Medievalsky, Michaela and I have decided to put together a last minute #IMC2026 session proposal: *Dead Reckoning in the early medieval [?world]" If you've anything on interactions with the dead (literary, historical, legal, etc.) and are looking for an (unfunded) session to join, let us know!

Early English Queens, 850-1000 has just been reviewed in @jaema.bsky.social 20.2. McLeod states that it 'finds an ingenious structure to tell a difficult and timely story' & 'is highly recommended'. Links to the review & the book (all formats): Review → search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/... Book ↓

Hi #MedievalSky! My proposed paper for the Leeds #IMC2026 didn't get into the session i was hoping for. Does anybody need a paper on (social) transition of dead bodies from death to burial and re-opening in early medieval law? (Focusing particularly on the Salic laws)

Finally, Christopher White (hey, that's me!) discusses some eleventh century ghost stories from Thietmar of Merseburg's Chronicon, in "The ghosts of our ancestors: Reading religious anxieties in the ghost stories of Thietmar of Merseburg": search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...

The fourth article here is actually the third in the journal (slight mix up on my part!) in "Gildas and the 'Age of Arthur'", Stephen Joyce writes about the role of King Arthur in Gildas's views of kingship and England: search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...

In the third article, "Eleventh-century climate change in the context of eschatological themes", Christine Grundy discusses medieval climate change and the end of the world: search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...

The second paper, by Geoffrey D. Dunn, discusses "The natural and the supernatural in book 1 of Paul the Deacon's 'Historia langobardorum' and their impact upon Lombard identity formation": search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...

The first paper in the most recent volume of our Journal is "The 'castrum superius' in Salzburg and the Roman roots of early medieval geography", by Eva Weiler, examining the foundation of the nunnery of St Erintrudis in 700CE: search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...

"Early medieval society was much richer and more globally connected than most people believe."

Becca Searby and I are accepting proposals for ‘Approaching Medieval Sources’, a series which provides in-depth companions to medieval sources @routledgehistory.bsky.social We’d love to hear from you if you would like to discuss a potential volume! See the attached CfP for more information.

While the Call for Papers for our annual conference may be closed, we are still open to submissions for our Journal! JAEMA publishes scholarly articles on the Late Antique and Early Medieval world, see our website for details: aema.org.au/journal/

Released today, the latest Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association contains articles on: The reuse of Roman fortifications in Salzburg Paul the Deacon's use of the supernatural and Lombard self-identity Gildas and King Arthur Climate change and eschatology & German ghost stories!

The latest issue of The Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association has just been released! search.informit.org/toc/jaema/20/2

Another major aDNA paper on early medieval Europe. Hard to keep up.

📨You are warmly invited to our next annual conference at University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social 📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025 📜The theme is "Education and Early Medieval England" and our programme is available to view online. 📲Registration is now open: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1631647263...

If you thought you'd heard everything I have to say about @leafandstream.bsky.social's book on Willibrord, well, you'd be wrong! My (very positive) review for Early Medieval Europe has now appeared on early view: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“Where did we put that cross”

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

How can Indigenous histories change our understanding of the medieval period? Solveig Marie Wang shows how medieval stories reveal the Saami at the heart of the Nordic world — and why recognising their history matters in the fight against racism and far-right myths.

#OTD in 565: St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland A follower of Columba swam in the loch and the beast came after him, Columba made the sign of the cross and commanded: "Go no further. Do not touch the man. Go back at once" #medievalsky

You have about a week to submit to Dan Reeve and I’s IMC panels on queer and trans temporalities ! #imc2026 #medievalsky @imc-leeds.bsky.social

While the Call for Papers for our annual conference may be closed, we are still open to submissions for our Journal! JAEMA publishes scholarly articles on the Late Antique and Early Medieval world, see our website for details: aema.org.au/journal/