Tomorrow, on the cult of Thecla.

GenAut research trip | More photos from our colleague's @dekayra.bsky.social trip to Deir al-Surian for manuscript work.

GenAut research trip | Our colleague Maria S. Thomas @dekayra.bsky.social at Deir al-Surian for manuscript work. Here are some photos!

Our colleague's yesterday paper recording. Enjoy!

GenAut talks | Maria S. Thomas, "Publishing in a Twelfth-Century Syriac Monastery: Manuscript Production, Authority, and Scribal Practice at the Monastery of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem," Thursday 26 February, online. @dekayra.bsky.social.

Congrats to our collaborators @worldlyscribe.bsky.social, Giorgia Nicosia, @madalinatoca.bsky.social, and Adrian Pirtea for their articles in the newly published thematic issue of the Journal of Eastern Christian Studies (co-edited by Marion). Several in Open Access! brill.com/view/journal...

The first talk of this years online seminar: Jakob Engberg, "The Care for the Remains of Polycarp in the Martyrdom of Polycarp in its Second Century Context." Tuesday, 17 February (10 AM CET) •Followers of the Apostles in Cultic Contexts• genaut.univie.ac.at

We're thrilled to share with you the programme for the 2026 online seminar of the project! The series is curated by our colleague Maria S. Thomas (@dekayra.bsky.social). All welcome! Let us know if you'd like to add you to the email list. genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671

Warm congrats to our colleague Giorgia Nicosia for being awarded one of the Research Awards of the Associazione Internazionale di Studi Tardoantichi. Find her in the ceremony photo! studitardoantichi.org/en/2025/11/2...

We are looking for a one-year full-time Research Associate to work on Coptic manuscripts in Manchester as part of a wonderful project that connects mss with local communities. Requires strong skills in Coptic, English, & Arabic. Deadline 31/10. Please share! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Meet our team! Starting today: Maria S. Thomas The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at ‪@dekayra.bsky.social‬

There is a new Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Vienna, offering both Senior and Early-Career 1-year fellowships for 2026/27. Deadline 1 Sept 2025. Might be interesting for someone out there. vicas.univie.ac.at/

Here's the recording of the event!

The next TeTra event is another Book in the Spotlight, this time with Sofia Puchkova. Discussant is Samuel Fernández (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile). Tuesday 1 July at 4PM CET, don't miss it! If you are not yet on the mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social

It's tomorrow!

Four-year postdoc in Syriac studies in Vienna. Join my team in the FWF START Project "Generative Authority: The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters," genaut.univie.ac.at/ Deadline June 1st. Happy to respond to any inquiries! @fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

Bookmarked: From Vienna to the World: Launching the First Public Syriac HTR Model on Transkribus – The Digital Orientalist https://digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/18/from-vienna-to-the-world-launching-the-first-public-syriac-htr-model-on-transkribus/ #htr_syrisch_transkribus Today’s post is […]

This Friday in Edinburgh. Do come along if you are around and you have a thing for letter collections!

Summer School in Salzburg, Austria, June- 30 July 4, 2025. On Biblical Manuscripts and Their Use in Biblical Studies: The Hebrew, Greek, Latin Texts of Joshua: “The Jericho story."

Effort. #medievalsky @britishlibrary.bsky.social Arundel 38, f. 65r

We've recently passed our one hundredth events mark. More than half of the papers and all lectures are available on our Youtube channel. www.youtube.com/@TeTraSemina...

Heads up Late Antiquity folks. KU Leuven Fellowships: www.kuleuven.be/lectio/visit...

Accepting applications for Introduction to Classical Armenian, a language and paleography course held from July 7 to August 1, 2025, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota. Application deadline: February 24, 2025 Learn more: hmml.org/programs/int...

Visiting Fellowships in Leuven, if you were looking for one. They basically offer a travel subsidy and accommodation for 4-6 weeks. www.kuleuven.be/lectio/visit...

A great resource :) “Epistolæ: Medieval Women's Letters… a collection of medieval Latin letters to and from women. The letters collected here date from the 4th to the 13th centuries, and they are presented in their original Latin as well as in English translation...” (epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu)

Two fully funded 3-year PhD scholarships at the Faculty of Theology in Copenhagen. Please share widely! #PhD #Theology #UCPH employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

Today marks the publication of Unruly Books: Rethinking Ancient and Academic Imaginations of Religious Texts, edited by myself, Liv Ingeborg Lied, and Marianne Bjelland Kartzow! We delve into "unruly books" of antiquity and what they tell us about how people have understood books—then and now.

#openaccessmiddleages Jonatan Pettersson and Anna Blennow (eds.): Models of Change in Medieval Textual Culture (2024). Link: www.degruyter.com/do...#openaccessmiddleages #medieval

For those who missed it, the recording of Ted Erho's paper onthe Ethiopic version of Alexander I of Alexandria's letter is now up on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6gU...

The day after tomorrow! There is still time to register!

Le plus sympathique portrait d'évangélistes du Moyen Âge : saint Matthieu, dans des évangiles bretons de la fin du 9e siècle (Boulognes-sur-mer, ms. 8, f. 8).

𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗽𝘂𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙥𝙪𝙨 𝙉𝙖𝙯𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙯𝙚𝙣𝙪𝙢 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙥𝙪𝙨 𝘿𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙖𝙘𝙪𝙢 Edited by Caroline Macé 𝘈𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 More info: bit.ly/3yfrADs #ChurchFathers #Literature #Religion #Medievalsky #Medievalists #GreekLiterature #EarlyChristianity #ChurchHistory

Some recycled music used as binding material in the Canongate Burgh Court Books, ECA SL150/1/3, 1577-1580.

Check out @ellakirsh.bsky.social 's fantastic article on the teaching of shorthand writing to often enslaved people in the later Roman empire - just published open access in the latest issue of the Journal of Roman Studies www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Palimpsests and Related Phenomena across Languages and Cultures Edited by Jost Gippert, José Maksimczuk, and Hasmik Sargsyan @degruyterbrill.bsky.social #openaccess www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Spread word! Peter Van Nuffelen is recruiting two postdocs for his ERC Advanced Grant project 'New Polities. Political Thought in the First Millennium'. The candidates should have experience with Hebrew, Middle-Persian or Arabic sources. Ghent and its university come highly recommended.

New book series: Receptio Patristica: Studies in the Afterlife of Early Christian Texts and Writers. The series editors, Anthony Grafton and Paolo Sachet, look forward to receiving proposals for monographs, edited volumes, single-author collections, and Festschriften. brill.com/display/seri...

New #epistolography volume, on fictional letter and power, in Open Access: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Still very excited that this 11th century Breton copy of Bede's Commentary on The Gospel of Mark is back in Brittany www.lefigaro.fr/culture/patr...

Das Akademienvorhaben »Die alexandrinische und antiochenische Bibelexegese in der Spätantike« @bbaw.bsky.social wünscht frohe Festtage und ein gutes neues Jahr 2025. 1/8

Out soon: "The Reception of Philo of Alexandria" My contribution is on Eusebius. Looking forward to this!

From the same journal thematic issue:

We are thrilled to announce the preliminary TeTra programme for 2025, which is now available on our new website: tetra.univie.ac.at! Wishing you a very good, hopefully restful Christmas break, and an even better new year, Your Tetra team – Marion, Giorgia, Andy and Dan

See you next year!

Space, mental maps, and Byzantine storytelling in tomorrow's TeTra seminar. It's still possible to register for our final meeting of 2024.

Join us on Thu 19 December at 10 AM CET for the last paper of the year by Piril Us MacLennan (UGent) who will speak about Cognitive Mapping and Spatial Hierarchies in Attaleiates’ History! If you're not yet on the mailing list, don't forget to register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social!

Repurposing manuscripts as marginalia in other manuscripts.