Our monthly meeting is today! Because our membership goes coast to coast, we hold it via Zoom. After a talk on Francis Lovel and the Rebels of Furness Fells, we will have a short business section then general chit-chat. It’s always a good time.

Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.

Owned by Richard Haute, cousin to Elizabeth Woodville.

@utoronto.ca Celebrates: @uoftcms.bsky.social PhD Candidate Jack McCart's academic achievement. www.utoronto.ca/celebrates/j...

A Falcon and Fetterlock misericord in Ludlow. This was the heraldic sign either for Richard duke of York, or his son, Edward IV. For #WoodenWednesday

Medieval floor tiles (still in situ) at Melrose Abbey in the Scottish Borders. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #MelroseAbbey #ScottishBorders

'To add colour or leave it alone, that was the question...' Answer: add colour to a print and leave the original. Heraldry on Micklegate Bar, York, dating from 1350-75 includes the Royal Arms of England and the arms of the City of York. #MicklegateBar #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawing

The Dept of History & Department of Classics at Queen’s University invite applications for the Marjorie McLean Oliver Postdoctoral Fellowship in Classical Antiquity or Medieval Europe. Applications will be received until 15 January 2026. networks.h-net.org/jobs/69406/q...

North Americans! (Well, most of us). Time to Fall back tonight. An extra hour of sleep! (Image: BnF, département des Manuscrits, Français 455, fol. 4rof) Louis de Gruuthuse in front of a clock by the master of Margaret of York.)

It's November. Why just knock acorns down from a tree the usual way when you can do it as an interpretive dance? Image: The Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry the Met (54.1.1 f12r)

The auction closes tomorrow!

Happy Halloween! Have a picture of what is supposed to be bats but we think are clearly people in bat costumes in an "Oooh aren't we scary" pose. From the 13th C Northumberland Bestiary (Image: Getty Museum MS 100, fol. 37r)

A reminder that next week, CMS will hold two Open Houses - one in person, one virtual - for prospective students wishing to learn more about our MA and PhD Programming. Register your spot for November 4 or November 6! uoft.me/bWp

Happy Halloween! Have a picture of what is supposed to be bats but we think are clearly people in bat costumes in an "Oooh aren't we scary" pose. From the 13th C Northumberland Bestiary (Image: Getty Museum MS 100, fol. 37r)

Among the other rare items is this reproduction of a great Seal of Edward IV, issued in 1979 as part of the Quincentenary Celebrations of the founding of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. It is 50 years old & in great shape as you can see. Bid before it is too late. www.richardiii.ca/auction-2025/

Had so much fun with Laure Miolo last week sharing amazing @bodleian.ox.ac.uk manuscripts with MSt students as an introduction to the history of the book and palaeography! A blog with videos is now up on their highlights: medieval.ox.ac.uk/between-bats...

Terrible news from our colleagues at @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social. We will continue to boost their updates. See their full notice: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/save... #AncientBlueSky #SOSÉtudesanciennesUO #SOSClassicsUO

Our first half of our auction, of rare and vintage Ricardian items, is now over. It was open to members of the Society only. Now we have opened it up to everyone and there are some exciting items left. For one week only! www.richardiii.ca/auction-2025/

@londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social London Medieval Society will be hosting its first colloquium of the academic year on the 22nd November 2025 on the subject of Women and Knowledge in the Middle Ages. 😊 You can find the Zoom link here: us02web.zoom.us/j/81823681150

We have an exciting announcement coming up tomorrow. Stay tuned! Image BL Royal 3D VI

De vreemdste giraf die ik ken. Reis van Mandeville. Bovenrijn, tweede kwart 15e eeuw. St. Gallen, Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers), Cod. Fab. XVI

The CSM Online: Tune in Wednesday 5 Nov. 2025, at 11am EST to hear 2025 Boyle Prize Winner Laura Moncion talk about her dissertation, "Being a Recluse is No Small Thing: Late Medieval Women’s Reclusion in Theory and Practice." Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/n6LJh7JYKvRD...

monk no. 1: how is the illumination coming? did you include the lion of the tribe of judah? monk no. 2: yes, he hates mondays monk no. 1: ...k. what's he holding monk. no. 2: a frozen lasagna

The Kings Arms pub, 3 Kings Staith, on the banks of the River Ouse, York dates from the early 17th century. It may have started as a custom house or warehouse. It was a pub from at least 1795. It was became the Ouse Bridge Inn in the late 19th century until 1974 when it reverted back to the /1

PhD Candidate, Jack McCart discovered an illumination predicting Toronto's big win! Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 78r depicts fans celebrating a Blue Jay! Go Jays Go! @torontobluejays.bsky.social

Aujourd'hui on vole les bijoux du #Louvre, et au Moyen Âge, on volait... les reliques ! Et là aussi, c'étaient des cambriolages prémédités et bien organisés... Un fil ⬇️! #medievalsky #medievalists

Image on the right is a stained glass window. On the left is a man walking holding a scroll. On the right is a kneeling knight. The second picture is a quite amazing embroidered and quilted recreation of the knight.

For those lucky enough to be local to the Cambridge MA area, I will be giving a lunch talk on November 17th that I think of as "This Manuscript is too Fucked-up to be Real, but it is!" medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/mahind... #MedievalSky

Wars of the Roses database " keeps folklore alive" bbc.com/news/article... #WOTR #RichardIII

The impressive 15th century porch of St. Mary’s Church at Pulham St Mary in Norfolk. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #PulhamStMary

Can anyone point me to good maps of tides and currents around the British Isles / sailing times as relating to the early middle ages? I'm sure there's something good and recent but I'm struggling to find readily graspable maps for students.

A pdf of his memoirs can be found on the @r3-society-usa.bsky.social website r3.org/document/com...

@portaspeciosa.bsky.social , someone is dissing your church!

Today is #AskAnArchivist day! Our team of archivists are ready to answer questions on their day-to-day job, what experience and education prepared them for their roles and about the archives collection itself. 🔍 Send us your questions!

It's #ThrowbackThursday and we have an old postcard of Swine Cross in Middleham. It was also known as The Upper Cross to distinguish it from the Middleham Market cross. It is thought that the lump of stone on the left might be Richard III's boar. See alt text for details.

Evergreen PSA.

Was at Chester Cathedral last week for the Centring the Past project, which sought to understand the lost, poorly-documented timber centres for medieval masonry vaults. This hand-carved frame recreating that of the Chester Chapter House vestibule vaults struck quite a profile on the Dean's Field.

Just look at that chancel/rood screen!

Translators of medieval romances reshaped stories to portray Irish women as more independent and proactive than their English counterparts, writes Benedetta d’Antuono, PhD researcher at the Department of Early Irish. 💘 www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...

A very Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian followers. @turiking.bsky.social , I hope you’ve found a turkey!

I cannot imagine what it would be like to find 13 rare medieval and Roman artifacts at a charity thrift store in Chilliwack, BC, but I'm glad they were donated to Simon Fraser University for further study: www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stor...

Indexes or printer's firsts (not manicules). This is the hill I die on.

The door to the Stanbury Chapel at Hereford Cathedral. The chapel is the resting place of John Stanbury, Bishop of Hereford from 1453 - 1474. Image courtesy @tbryce1485.bsky.social For #AdoorableThursday

Don't forget today's (Thursday) seminar at 4pm! #medievalsky #skystorians

Great news!! My special issue on Writing for Third Parties: Commercial Manuscript Production in the Late Middle Ages (Queeste, @amsterdamupress.bsky.social) is now available in open access. Looking much forward to your reactions! www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

Another #NewAcq incunable (permanent loan) 📚💙 📜 Morticellarium aureum ('The golden undertaker'), a manual to contemplate a Christian death, printed in Antwerp by Gerard Leeu in 1488. EHC 913035. Not sure the guy in the fancy hat is ready to contemplate anything.

Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland. scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...

Child 1 has a marketing project about restaurants and needs 300 survey responses. She can't earn higher than 70% if she doesn't reach the target. Seems unfair - some kids just don't have as many friends/family! Could you take 2 min to take the survey? Due in 2 days and she needs 100 more. Thanks!

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Thank you! There’s one more chance to join us live in Toronto this Wednesday.