Deadline for abstracts today!

So delighted to see my first book up online with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @anzamems.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social. DM or email me for a review copy request form, and ask your uni librarian to buy the book!! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

So proud of my @flindersuniversity.bsky.social PhD researchers, Kate Lawrence and @danclaggett.bsky.social who gave their first ever @anzamems.bsky.social papers last week. Fantastic work!

We had a wonderful time at @anzamems.bsky.social and a great two panels on Public Health - too busy having excellent talks to remember to get a group photo! A particular congratulations to our Rose Byfleet (@medicifangirl.bsky.social) for winning the George Yule prize for best postgraduate paper.

Please join us in celebrating the success of Monash MRS members at the recent @anzamems.bsky.social prizes! Dr Jason Crow - Chris Jones Book Prize 2025 for A new Material Interpretation of Twelfth-Century Architecture: Reconstructing the Abbey of St Denis

Guess who's hosting the next @anzamems.bsky.social conference?! Can't wait to see you all @flindersuniversity.bsky.social in 2027!

#anza25 keynote, A/Prof Kate Franklin, Tufts University: "Time Travels and the Possibility of Redemption in a Fragmented Armenian Manuscript"

#anza25 @parergon.bsky.social Next gen plenary panel conference.anzamems.org/parergon-nex...

#anza25 keynote, Prof Emma Dillon, King’s College London: "Belonging with Songs: Towards an Historical Anthropology of Medieval French Song"

On the sidelines of #anza25 in Melbourne, it was wonderful for past, present, and incoming members of the Ceræ committee to meet in person and talk about our own research. L-R: @ohwowbee.bsky.social @mattfirth.bsky.social @mlcseah.bsky.social @ericasteiner.bsky.social Natasha Bailey Andrea Wait

Hamza Surbaland @monashuniversity.bsky.social on public health in Mughal India 1707-1719 @anzamems.bsky.social

Prof. Helen Young on the horror of the extreme Right. But also on the horror of their poetry @anzamems.bsky.social

Conference doggo Olive says welcome to day 3 of #anza25 @anzamems.bsky.social !! 🐶♥️

Melclaire Sy Define @deakinuniversity.bsky.social on the impact of colonialism on Indigenous Tagalog Poetry at @anzamems.bsky.social

Prof. @medievalafterlives.bsky.social on the role of literature - and especially medievalist tropes - in extremism at @anzamems.bsky.social

New issue of @parergon.bsky.social edited by @mattfirth.bsky.social, Dr Cassandra Schilling and me!

Our publishing manager Guy Carney is currently attending the @anzamems.bsky.social 15th Biennial Conference in Melbourne, Australia! Be sure to stop by the Brepols booth to say hi and learn more about publishing with us. More info: brepols.net/Authors #Medieval #EarlyModern #Renaissance #History

Applications Open: The Maimonides Scholarship #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/applica...

CFP Reminder: George Rudé Seminar in French History and Culture #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/cfp-rem...

CFP: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches in Early Modern and Medieval Studies #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/cfp-cro...

Day 2 of #anza25 has begun! @anzamems.bsky.social

Ouch! @ericasteiner.bsky.social discussing tattooing in the ancient/early medieval world, why people got tattoos, what they looked like and the (painful looking) implements they may have used @anzamems.bsky.social

Great seminar yesterday & first #anza25 day today with @anzamems.bsky.social. If you’re around at @unimelb.bsky.social & want to hear about Montaigne, possibility, & early modern multilingual theatre, including Shakespeare, I’d love to see you in the first panel of tomorrow, featuring yours truly!

McCaughy Professor of Early English Literature and Language @sydney.edu.au Daniel Anlezark closes Day 1 of @anzamems.bsky.social!

This week i am at the @anzamems.bsky.social conference in Melbourne! On Tuesday, i attended the wonderful PG/ECR palaeography workshop (decided I love Bâtard). Yesterday I presented my paper on prophecy in Shakespearean romance (it went well thanks!) and the brilliant keynote by Leah DeVun.

@flindersuniversity.bsky.social ARC DECRA Fellow in Medieval History, @mattfirth.bsky.social speaking at @anzamems.bsky.social on political friendships in Wessex!

Flinders PhD candidate, @danclaggett.bsky.social, presenting his research on ship burials at the @anzamems.bsky.social 2025 conference. (Note here his use of @flindersuniversity.bsky.social alumna, Dr Claire Ratican's, new book!)

Prof. Dan Anlezark opens the first of the panels presenting research from our #ARC project "Finding Friendship" at @anzamems.bsky.social 2025 conference!

The @anzamems.bsky.social conference is officially open! #anza25

Dr James Kane @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on ideas of friendship (or their absence) in the narratives of the First Crusade @anzamems.bsky.social conference 2025.

ANZAMEMS 2025 conference begins! @erinsebo.bsky.social on friendship in Beowulf and trying to understand the titular characters seemingly very unfriendly act of allowing his friend to be eaten by Grendel 🤔 @anzamems.bsky.social

A/Prof. Claire Wlaker on objects and spaces of friendship in early modern convents @anzamems.bsky.social conference!

All ready for day 1 of the @anzamems.bsky.social conference! @parergon.bsky.social #anza

Several of the team is going to be presenting at @anzamems.bsky.social this week! We're excited! See the following link for a more detailed breakdown of our panels, focusing on premodern public health across Italy, Mughal India, and England premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org?p=1568#more-...

The @anzamems.bsky.social Seminar: Intensive Palaeography Workshop is underway! #anza25 Have fun everyone!

Palaeography workshop day was an excellent start to @anzamems.bsky.social

THIS FRIDAY! Come and hear the fabulous @ebenbow.bsky.social about #LowCountries Merchants in and around London: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians

Today's knowledge commons free download "Vikings' Settlements in Ireland Before 1014" (2014) #ireland #vikings #medievalsky #history #archaeology works.hcommons.org/records/4ae7...

Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity

Officially out in the Journal of Medieval History vol. 51.5, my article on the intersection of viking activity and the Icelandic conversion (c. 1000AD) and how religious concerns shaped saga conceptions of the viking past.

ANZAMEMS Reading Group #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

PhD Opportunity: Middle English Arthurian romance #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

The next issue of @parergon.bsky.social is on its way, guest-edited by me, @erinsebo.bsky.social and Cassandra Schilling. There's a great group of scholars here who collectively consider, from multiple perspectives, questions of how medieval England perceived its place in a wide and complex world.

Book Launch: Emotions and the Letter #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

Can't wait for this special issue of @parergon.bsky.social! Always great to work with Dr Cassandra Schiling and @flindersuniversity.bsky.social DECRA Fellow in Medieval History, @mattfirth.bsky.social and of course, ANU's Prof. Rosalind Smith!

The ANZAMEMS website will be offline this weekend as we transition to a new server and a fresh look. We should be back online for your medieval and early modern studies needs early next week...

13th Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

Workshop CFP: Feelings of Safety and Security in the Early Modern World #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

1/4📜 New on ISOS: RIA MS 24 B 1, a Táin Bó Cuailnge manuscript by Peadar Ó Longáin. Digitised with @dias.ie @ria.ie & @unimelb.bsky.social for @anzamems.bsky.social ANZAMEMS 2025. Thanks to Sarah Corrigan @corrigans.bsky.social for underscoring its importance to Irish scribal tradition and the Táin.