Happy to share that my article on Bede’s Martyrology and Carolingian efforts to educate priests is now out in Early Medieval Europe! I appreciate all the feedback I’ve received that’s shaped my thoughts on priests’ books and how the Carolingian project worked in practice. doi.org/10.1111/emed...

a king, an icon, an inspiration. truly the muse who has been calling me as I write without me knowing it

On the way to Amherst for MAA! Excited to share (and finish) my paper about the later reception and use of Bede’s Martyrology in eleventh- and twelfth-century Bavaria

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

CFP IS OUT FAM. Anyone want to do this?? I'll get the session proposal out. All you gotta do is read the book and turn up ready to talk about it?

The “messy” course returns to London’s palaeography summer school, 8-12 June. A chance to make your own medieval manuscript. Places are limited so book now (tell your friends)! #medievalsky taught by the amazing @saracharles.bsky.social @stevelawesarts.bsky.social 👇🎨🫟 palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Looks like essential reading for Carolingianists, gonna need to carve out time to read this! #medievalsky

Graffito of a castle, prob early 12th century, in church of Moings in France.

Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Caterpillar waking up halfway through metamorphosis: I'm goo. Shit. Shit. Calm down. Go back to sleep. I'm really straight-up goo right now. Fuck

Published today! Facsimile: Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts, by Siân Echard. Siân is not on here to promote it, but I will! #medievalsky #manuscripts #bookhistory www.pennpress.org/978151282705...

I’m a sucker for images of scrolls and codices within MSS! And with what looks to me like notation on the pages displayed by Saint Denis 👀

*screaming* (This is US distributor. The Concordia UP pre-order page AND DISCOUNT CODE go live next month, when I'll start up the promo machine. But lookee that covvvver 🤤)

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...

This is the feast of Rupert of Salzburg, d. 710, missionary to the Bavarians. Here's Big Rupert receiving (and in) a copy of Augustine's De Genesi ad litteram from little Abp. Eberhard I of Salzburg (d. 1164). This MS, BSB Clm 15812, was made in Eberhard's lifetime, so mid-12c. #medievalsky

Stunning 1st-century monumental gilded bronze letters and punctuation marks that had fallen from a public building in Singilia Barba, Andalusia (Málaga Museum). *First century*!

Tip for anyone trying to delete their academia account

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

Our book isn't quite out yet, but this blog gives a teaser... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social cambridgeblog.org/2025/09/peop...

everyone assumes that doing a phd makes you know lots of things but really what it does is make you terribly aware of how many things you just don’t know and will probably never have enough time to learn

Update on the great discovery of archived BL manuscript metadata: I started putting together a page at my website to host PDFs of the archived pages I retrieve. ruffnotes.org/british-libr... #medievalsky

Call for papers: New Directions in Old English Prose, Oxford, 30-31 March 2026 @oxembi.bsky.social roep.web.ox.ac.uk/event/confer...

CFP: Kalamazoo ICMS, 14–16 May 2026 Ælfric and His Copyists Ælfric of Eynsham's copyists both ensured his works' survival of his works and complicated text histories. Proposals invited from scholars at any stage of their career by 15 Sept 2025 to the portal: icms.confex.com/icms/2026/pr....

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

🚨 Making History with Manuscripts in Medieval and Early Modern Europe is now out🚨 I thoroughly enjoyed working with Johannes and the contributors, and writing about how medieval people built their own forms of history through their engagement with MSS of Bede’s Martyrology as material objects

Are Early Medieval Books your thing? We have a summer school course for you!👇 #Skystorians #MedievalSky ies.sas.ac.uk/london-inter...

First (pieces of a) breviary from medieval Bristol discovered, and she's a beaut! (Kath Thompson with the find, I'm just the identifier heh) Reused as the wrapper for mid-16thc accounts.

An excellent thread on the Cistercian ms covers, by one of the paper's authors.

🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨ Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!). academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...

Now available for pre-order: Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue by @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş. The latest amazing title in our Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures series @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social! Get yours: boydellandbrewer.com/978184384747...

important conservation-based counterpoint to arguments for academic sustainability

Exciting job opportunity to become St John's College's Special Collections Librarian www.joh.cam.ac.uk/special-coll... - permanent post, salary £41,944-£47,208 (depending on experience) plus benefits. Working with a great collection and a friendly team. @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social #LibraryJobs

Super excited to share that my book on network analysis and visualization as a method for book history will be out soon!! It's basically a how-to-start guide for book historians interested in networks 😃 www.arc-humanities.org/978180270268... #dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky

In the 1790s a London woman named Eliza Denyer developed a modest reputation as a restorer of medieval manuscripts. She was forgotten by scholars and, in one case, her restorations were deliberately replaced by a man’s. I recovered her story & tracked all her known work here: tinyurl.com/2ktztx2e

Between 1927 & 1933 four nuns at Eibingen Abbey replicated by hand the renowned manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen’s magnum opus, Scivias. When the original 12C manuscript disappeared after WWII, the replica became a facsimile-original. I tell the story of that facsimile here tinyurl.com/3mcb6vt7

Annotation in the hand of Notker Balbulus, reaching out to us across time St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 14; Bible (Job, Tob, Jdt, Est, I-II Esr); first third of the 9th century; St. Gall; p.331 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

Hey #MedievalSky! If you or someone you know wants a lectureship @uniofstandrews.bsky.social in Latin & the history of the British Isles, now's your chance We're hiring for a permanent post: 50% Latin for postgraduates; 50% history of later medieval Britain & Ireland www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD844/a...

I wrote a public-facing thing! The world feels really different from when I wrote this I the new year, but my core point remains: '...we must carry on with mundane adaptations and holding to account the mice who undermine them...'

I've often wondered what kind of woman Claricia was, to draw herself in such a playful way. I imagine her as witty, smart, and a bit subversive, someone who found joy in her labor and in her life. (this is Walters Art Museum W.26, f. 64r: art.thewalters.org/object/W.26....)

The martyrdom of St Alban, the executioner's eyes popping out and falling to the ground after dealing the final blow. Cotton MS Nero D II, f. 39.

OK, folks, brace yourselves because here comes the ultimate #BreakfastPaleography thread, in which I will trace the development of the gorgeous, gregarious, glamorous letter [g] over the course of 2,000 years!

A peacock with a tail like a hundred worlds pecking on a page of Isidore's De Natura Rerum, made in Salzburg at the end of the 8th century. BSB Clm 14300

Looking very innocent for the man who had a hairball on the bed right before I was going to start reading through proofs… at the laundromat now instead

This looks excellent! Currently workshopping my 3rd thesis chapter into an article and will be eagerly awaiting publication 👀

Excellent news! blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

Not surprised that it's community colleges that are fighting back. Community colleges serve the greatest number of people facing systemic barriers. A large percentage of community college students are the first in their family to attend college.

We join with publishers, authors, booksellers & librarians to affirm that the White House executive order recognizing only two sexes constitutes censorship and has no place in a free society. University presses strive to give voice to the breadth of human knowledge & experience. 1/2