#funwithlanguages Originally, "dishevelled" meant "bare-headed, with shaven head", from French deschevele

Hey, ich war heute Vormittag in der Leder- und Falknereiwerkstatt von Michael Pongratz in der Nähe von Landshut und habe in zwei Stunden viele spannende Eindrücke ins lederverarbeitende Gewerbe erhalten. Blogbeitrag mit Bildern folgt! #Recherche #GermanBooksky

💥 A Whole Lot of History 💥 📰 EXCLUSIVE: Prehistoric Gold Torc Hoard Found in Cumbria 💛 📰 Iron Age Silver Coin & Mini Model Weaponry Hoard Unearthed in Gloucestershire 🪙🗡 📰 Ancient Greek Shipwreck ⛵️🏺 📰 Devon’s Largest Roman Silver Hoard 🏛 open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

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#Onthisday May 30, 1431, 19-year-old Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in the Place du Vieux-Marche in Rouen, France. Condemned for heresy by an English-dominated tribunal, her conviction was posthumously overturned in 1456, and she was canonized as a saint in 1920.

Unser Banner für die #DoKomi kommendes Wochenende. Es gibt eine ganze Halle für Bücher. Kommet in Scharen nach Düsseldorf! Bücher: weltenruder.de. #GermanBookSky #BuchSky #QueerLesenW

Mit der Farbe #Gelb verbinden sich im #Mittelalter ziemlich miese Eigenschaften. Was dahintersteckt, erfahren Sie im Artikel des Tages www.dwds.de/wb/gelb%20vo...

Mirthquake "entertainment that excites convulsive laughter" first attested 1928, in reference to Harold Lloyd movies (www.etymonline.com/search?q=mirth) I think I wouldn't mind one. #interestingwords

Upcoming Medieval Studies Online Courses for Summer and Fall 2026 www.medievalists.net/2026/05/upco... #medieval

If any medieval nerds are bored, here are some images of unidentified documents from the Bristol Records Office: archives.bristol.gov.uk/records/PicB... #medievalsky #medieval #bristol #archives

Do you want to learn to read old documents? Do you need to learn some Latin? The 49th Palaeography Summer School is for you! 👇 Tell all your friends. #palaeography #Skystorians #MedievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...

This is so good. And no, it's not AI. Timelapse of the building of the 4,500-year-old Neolithic hall near Stonehenge. Mesmerising. Imagine what it would be like if we could show this video to the ancestors. © English Heritage

A game where you get to sort books in a library??!

May 25: Feast of Bede (673-735), priest of Gyruum (Jarrow), biblical scholar. Wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English People. When news of his death reached missionaries, Boniface wrote ‘the candle of the Church, lit by the Holy Spirit, was extinguished’. Originally May 26.

Book Review: “Self-Help from the Middle Ages: What the Seven Deadly Sins Can Teach Us About Living” by Peter Jones adventuresofatudornerd.com/2026/05/23/b... #BookReview

Kennt ihr die neue Plattform, auf der man in verlagsunabhängig herausgebrachten Büchern stöbern kann? Seht sie euch doch mal an. www.indiependables.com/books/2162?s... #books #selfpublishing #verlagsunabhängig #bücher #lesen #booksky

🚨 DOE postdocs! 🚨 #medievalsky

www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/postdoc... Two postdocs at the dictionary of Old English!

The Pictish army of Bridei son of Beli, king of Fortriu, defeated that of Ecgfrith son of Oswiu, king of the Northumbrians, #OTD in 685. northages.wordpress.com/2016/05/19/t...

May 20: Feast of Alcuin (Ealhwine) (†804), scholar and theologian. He was born in Northumbria and educated at the cathedral school in York. In 781, he met Charlemagne, who he became a key advisor to. In 796 he became abbot of St Martin at Tours. Alcuin, centre, depicted c.831

If you read a book that amuses you, educates you, upsets you, excites you, enthralls you, or moves you, it's incredibly easy to let that author know. One click. #shareit

Ladies! If your man: *​has a burning passion... for hell *speaks mostly in dead languages *is peer-reviewed (so you know he’s worth the commitment) *​has a robust index *is dense, yet actually makes sense when you open him up ​That’s not your man: that’s Translating Hell, my new book!

Looking for similarities and differences between Cornwell's Uhtred and Hunlaf from my A Time for Swords series. The most obvious is their religion, with Hunlaf being Christian and pious and Uhtred being pagan. What other differences and similarities can you think of?

🥳 Heute feiere ich die Veröffentlichung des Taschenbuchs meines Kurzgeschichtenbands „Gossenkinder“, deshalb treten alle Protagonisten aus unehrlichen Berufen noch einmal zusammen auf, um Lust auf die Geschichten rund um ihren Beruf zu machen. Welcher Beruf klingt am widerlichsten? #GermanBookSky

Ich feiere auch die kleinen Erfolge: mein Autoren-Newsletter hat 10 Abonnenten erreicht 🥳 Wollt ihr mich auf meiner Reise begleiten? Im Moment: #DerGeschichtenerzähler. In Zukunft? Seid gespannt 😃 #GermanBookSky substack.com/@alexandersa...

Hildegard of Bingen used such a similar thing, too! bsky.app/profile/dona...

I gasped! A medieval notebook with several wax 'pages' was found in a German latrine!! Incredible rare find, text not yet translated, but they're working on it! Previous owner must have been so upset. Look at these amazing photos: www.lwl.org/pressemittei...

Had a hella good time chatting with Michelle! 🔥🔥🔥Tune in for answers to all your burning questions about the inferno!🔥🔥🔥

This was great! I'm happy to know more about the audio pronunciation files, plus cool regional words and usages.

Is joggeresse the female form of jogger? NB: The text said "jogleresse", but the spell-checker decided that this was wrong. Which it isn't.

🎉 Das Probeexemplar für die Taschenbuchausgabe meiner Kurzgeschichtensammlung „Gossenkinder“ ist da. 🥳 youtube.com/shorts/rUAuW... #GermanBookSky #Neuerscheinung #Gossenkinder

📝 The discovery in Rome of a copy of a poem apparently composed by the cowherd Caedmon has been announced. The rediscovered manuscript (c. 800-830) of Bede's Ecclesiastical History includes Caedmon’s Hymn, but this version includes it in Old English, not Latin! 📰 open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

Frisch gebloggt: ein kleiner Einblick in zwölf der schlimmsten Berufe des Mittelalters. birgitconstant.de/die-schlimms... #GermanBookSky #MedievalSky

#Coverreveal Juppie, die neuen Cover sind da! Ich habe meine Northumbria-Trilogie neu eingekleidet. Danke an das Team von GetCovers für das Redesign und an die Teams bei ScandinavianBook bzw. @Booksfactory_eu für die tollen Druckausgaben der Bände 1 bis 3. #GermanBookSky

Am Samstag war ich auf der #Buchmesse Seitenzauber. Leider gab es wenig historisch Interessierte, aber (Dark) Romance und queere Literatur waren ziemlich beliebt, von dem was ich gesehen habe. Wer also in diesen Bereichen schreibt, sollte sich die Messe unbedingt anschauen. #GermanBookSky

Now let us praise Heaven-Kingdom's guardian, the Maker's might and his mind's thoughts, the work of the glory-father—of every wonder, eternal Lord, the holy Creator, middle-earth mankind's guardian, eternal Lord, the Lord almighty. (transl. R. Liuzzo.) #CaedmonsHymn #medievalsky

The Birth of Medieval Europe Revealed by Ancient DNA www.medievalists.net/2026/04/the-... #medieval #ancientDNA #genome

British Museum: Bayeux Tapestry Tickets on Sale 1 July www.medievalists.net/2026/02/brit... #BayeuxTapestry #BritishMuseum

Shameless book promotion time! Why buy my book? + Missionary lumberjacks (St Boniface) 🪓 + A demon in an outhouse + Miltonic gloomy Satan + Jesus melting the gates of hell + A monastery built by a giant from hell manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175038/

So looking forward to this!

Medieval journal has left us 7,000 weather reports www.medievalists.net/2024/04/medi... #weather

Dear #booksky, please send more readers my way. I’d love to connect with more people who read books, post about #books, write #bookreviews, share #recommendations, and enjoy thoughtful conversations about #literature ⏰📚💙📚🪐📚🌶️📚💡 #booklovers #bookworm #readers #amreading #bookaddicts 📚🎧🩸📚🖋️📚⏳📚⚡️

If DNA tests can’t tell you if you have a Viking somewhere in your family tree, how could you know? The short answer is that you can’t. However, no one likes to hear that answer, so…I wrote this. #history #medievalsky #vikingsky #ancestry cjadrien.com/viking-ances...

Black Death Mass Grave Identified in Germany, Study Finds www.medievalists.net/2026/04/blac... #archaeology #Germany

Tipp für Selfpublishing-AutorInnen und LeserInnen #Bücher #booksky #germanbooksky

#medienQOTD (Frage des Tages) Tag 83: Bevorzugt ihr eher schlichte, nüchterne Cover oder auffällige Cover? #medienclub #cover

Wer drei Sonderausgaben meiner Bücher sowie einen handgemalten Farbschnitt bestaunen und/oder einfach nur mit mir quatschen will, kommt nächstes Wochenende zum Tisch 19 im Hauptgebäude der Rosenheimer Buchmesse. Wir sehen uns! #GermanBookSky #Buchmesse

Wer von Euch ist auch auf der Buchmesse Rosenheim nächstes Wochenende? #GermanBookSky #Buchmesse

⚔️ 9th-century sword hilts ⚔️ Left: Eigg, Inner Hebrides, Sco. (copper-alloy, silver, gilt) Right: Søndersø, Jutland, Den. The immense expense of, and status associated with, the swords owned by Scandinavian elites across the Viking world is self evident here. My 📷 NMS | NMD