Music, reading, eating. Sounds like a great combination, so thank Evaristo Baschenis for providing it for us today.

Gridogram 2025-12-07, Sunday Sayings ⏱️ 02:29 🎯 100% 🔎 7/278 www.gridogram.com

Resurrection miracle for #M402

6th December is the feast of St Nicholas. Here St Nicholas is depicted resurrecting three murdered children from a pickling vat. BL Stowe 12; 'The Stowe Breviary'; 14th century; England, E. (Norwich); f.225r

6th December is the feast of St Nicholas. Here the initial 'A'(pres) depicts the body of St Nicholas being translated in a boat. BL Royal 20 D VI; Wauchier de Denain, Lives of the Saints; France, Central (Paris); 13th century; f.153v

Gridogram 2025-12-05, Friday Book Club ⏱️ 01:58 🎯 100% 🔎 293/294 www.gridogram.com Quand il n'en reste qu'un... 🙄

Gridogram 2025-12-04, Thursday of Thought ⏱️ 04:33 🎯 100% 🔎 11/225 www.gridogram.com

The back cover of the new issue of @mediumaevum.bsky.social features my predecessor, the late great Nigel Palmer, with an appeal for the travel fund being established in his name. For more on that, visit mediumaevum.org.uk/donate/palme... .

Spring School zu arabisch-islamischen Astrolabien des Mittelalters in Frankfurt - auch für Studierende interessant… #medieval #cfp

Reflection of the skyline of Rotterdam in the windows of the Depot of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. See comment for the entire building. #photography #urbangaze #EastCoastKin #rotterdam #boijmansvanbeuningen #architecture

Faroe Islands for @gweneng.cpesr.fr We know why 🥰

Gridogram 2025-12-02, Top Dog Tuesday ⏱️ 04:18 🎯 100% 🔎 8/398 www.gridogram.com

1973 -- Paul Mc Cartney Live & Let Die / cover by Gun's & Roses youtu.be/iXKVA5Xs90M?...

Job alert!! Postdoctoral position (36 months) on the TGL-ReACH project: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

This is so problematic. Creating big-money grants (7m EUR!) is such a travesty. Instead of funding 1 researcher, why not fund 25 with smaller grants? It would create more ideas, secure more careers, and create so much more innovative knowledge. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Born #OTD in 1898: C. S. Lewis, creator of Narnia! This hand-drawn map is his own sketch, later redrafted by Pauline Baynes for Prince Caspian. Spot Aslan’s How, Cair Paravel and Lantern Waste on the map. 🦁 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 220/1, fol. 160

Less than 4,000 signatures to go to reach the 100,000 milestone. We need a full investigation into Russian interference in our democracy. We need to see how deep the rot goes, and hold those responsible to account. Sign and share! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Thrilled to see this beautiful volume now in print, and honoured to have contributed a chapter—where I explore the theatricality of some of Isaac Oliver’s miniatures. tansey-miniatures.com/en/activitie...

This is a very interesting interview with @melissaterras.bsky.social on @transkribus.bsky.social 's co-operative model, and how to balance financial imperatives with academic imperatives. #DigitalHistory

#boomerfeeling When you see labels like this and you think this is the end of civilization--or at least spelling. You've got to love the financial whiff: funds and bonds 😜

Sorbonne/Brüsel this morning. Excellent Schuitten vibes 🤩

📣 Le samedi 11 avril 2026 à Paris je vous propose un grand événement pour fêter les 9 ans de ce podcast, une Super Table Ronde ! Vous avez jusqu'au 17 décembre pour réserver votre place, avec quelques options possibles ! fr.ulule.com/passionmedie...

Definitely for @mathile.bsky.social !

#medievalsky @cema-su.bsky.social is organizing a 'Beowulf & circulations' conference in Paris on March 13-14, 2026. Come enjoy a public reading of the poem, and two great keynotes! CFP & free (but compulsory) registration via the CEMA's new website: cemasorbonne.org

The world is beginning to wind me up! BL Harley MS 4940; Matfre Ermengaud's Breviari d'amor; France (Toulouse?); 14th century; f.28r

Tony Hunt (1944-2025) 😢

Medieval bathing for #M402 Mens sana in corpore sano 😉

Under Pressure to Cut Costs, a University Closes Its Press (Bucknell University, Pennsylvania) www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

#medievalsky Learn to read Old English from scratch! The CEMA has been hosting monthly manuscript reading sessions at @sorbonne-universite.fr since 1984 🥰 We are now also online, one Saturday morning a month -- next session this coming Saturday, 10-12 CET. Ping me if you want to partake 🎉🎉🎉

🤞Va-t-on assister à des aurores boréales en France, ce soir ? Les probabilités sont fortes, mais il est toujours difficile de l'affirmer avec certitude. 🧵👇

University of Cambridge - Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400: memorients.com/news/univers...

Assistant Professor, Bilkent University - Department of English Language and Literature: memorients.com/news/assista...

🎺🎺 Petit rappel de dernière minute: les candidatures pour l'atelier "Une carrière d’historien hors de l’université? Valoriser des parcours alternatifs" (Ciéra, École nationale des chartes, @dhi-paris.fr ) sont encore possibles jusqu'à demain (12.11.25)! Infos: www.dhi-paris.fr/de/termindet...

Schöner Anlass und verdiente Auszeichnung: Gudrun Krämer erhielt gestern den Preis des Historischen Kollegs in einem feierlichen Festakt in München: www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/fur-b...

🎧 Cette semaine @franceculture.fr reçoit les historiennes et historiens de la Grande Guerre 🎙️ J'étais hier au micro de @xaviermauduit.bsky.social, avec @lionelpabion.bsky.social, pour une passionnante discussion sur la préparation du soldat à la guerre et l'aptitude au combat

Aaron Sachs, author of Up from the Depths, speaks with Donovan Hohn about chapter 72 of Moby Dick for @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social’s The World in Time podcast:

My kid just had an exam in school that involved being assigned some chapters, summarizing them, then having an open-book test on the details. The teacher encouraged them to use AI to prepare. This paragraph does a great job explaining why I found it so disturbing. www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Do not forget to pre-register! forms.gle/tBYNu7Bx2NXs...

Bonjour, fellow medievalists! I'm very pleased to announce a conference on Beowulf next March at the @cema-su.bsky.social Sorbonne. I have the honour of joining Francis Leneghan in giving one of the keynotes. Link below has the CFP and registration info, please spread the word! cemasorbonne.org

The Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem; the Cave in Bethlehem Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Gr. 127; Miniatures from a Proskynetarion, a pilgrim’s guide book to the holy places in Jerusalem and Palestine; 1693 CE; Jerusalem; f.34r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

The battle of Cat and Mouse BL Harley 6563; Book of Hours; c.1320 CE-c.1330 CE; England, S. E. (London); f.72r

#medievalsky This colleague working on linen maintenance is looking for medieval images of mousetraps! (Tagging @enniusredloeb.bsky.social !)

Je suis à la recherche d'iconographie médiévale de souricières ou tapettes à souris. Je suis certaine d'en avoir déjà vu, et je ne remets pas la main dessus ... une idée @lamusee.bsky.social Je travaille sur l'entretien du linge, si, si il y a un lien !

Yeah you know what, the description of Lugaid beheading Cú Chulainn was really missing hand-drawn emoticons, that's absolutely what we needed in this specific moment

#M402 Bodies!

My book is out today! 🎉 I wrote a blog on what the book is about and why you should read it! blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/11/06/f... #skystorians #medievalsky 🗃️