🚨CfP: Land and Power in the Late Roman World. Deadline: 11 Jan 26, event 29 Jun-1 July 26. Come join the Land & Loyalty team in sunny Tubingen to discuss why land was so important in the late Roman world. ECRs especially solicited! research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...

research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/... And the prizes keep rolling in for my counterpart - latest on the L&L blog, Dr Giordana Franceschini wins a research award from the Associazione Internazionale di Studi Tardoantichi for her thesis!

I’ve put together a list of funding sources for graduate students in biblical studies and early Christianity. Most of these are only available to students in the U.S. but many of them don’t have citizenship requirements. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#Seminar: "Reforming Justinian’s empire: The praetorian prefect John the Cappadocian" Giordana Franceschini (Tübingen) 🗓️ 28 November, 4:15pm 📍Room SO3, Swallowgate 💻 Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject) #AllWelcome

2-year position for a woman - could be a medievalist!

And the news is... We're recruiting! Applications are now open for our 2026 @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral Scholarships. So, if you want to study at PhD level pre-modern handwritten cultures and the organisation of knowledge and power within them, do investigate our refreshed website.

Come for Aleksander's paper, stay for my first paper from "Land & Loyalty: the politics of land in the later Roman world" @staclassics.bsky.social, on why female grant recipients aren't mysterious exceptions but central to understanding late Roman land grants. research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/

I am very much looking forward to this workshop at which I am speaking in Bonn in November, organised among others by @akjp89.bsky.social, and funded partly by @dependencybonn.de

The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers. We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts. Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!

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...

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...

Any UK-based PhDs working on medieval women interested in giving a lighting talk to this seminar? It'd be good to get some premodern representation.

Delighted to say that I've been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2025-26, and we are hiring a 1-year full-time lecturer in early medieval history to replace me. Deadline 7 August. Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about the role! jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3

IMC '26 CfP for a new strand Future Insight and Its Discontents in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (200–900 CE) We invite proposals for papers interrogating the methods and outcomes of acquiring future insight in the cultures of Late Antiquity and early Middle Ages. +

📣 call for applications 📣 Two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. Please share widely! www.historyworkshop....

And, for anyone with @imc-leeds.bsky.social catch-up, it was a great paper (as were all our contributions and the response from @lisakaarenbailey.bsky.social .) I had no idea that early Islamic scholars had the same problems as some Carolingian penitential authors when it comes to sex positions...

Our latest Land & Loyalty update isn't about late Roman land grants, or confiscation - instead, my colleague Giordana won the “Giuliano Crifò” prize for her PhD on John Lydus's De Magistratibus. research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/... One of the best things about L&L is such expert colleagues!

What a wonderful Merovingianist day we had on Wednesday at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social ! Thanks to my coorganisers @beccagrose.bsky.social and @lisakaarenbailey.bsky.social and to all our speakers. Thanks especially to our respondent Shane Björnlie. I feel challenged and inspired #medievalsky

Heading to the IMC? Tomorrow Sheida will be presenting on 'Early Islamic Sexual Taboos: The Boundaries of Permissibility in al-Ṭabarī and al-Ṭabarānī's Narratives', as part of @beccagrose.bsky.social and Grace Stafford's panels on 'Sex Education and Late Antiquity'. 11:15-12:45, Esther Simpson 2.08

Tomorrow I'll be presenting a paper in the First St Andrews Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop in Late Antique and Early Medieval Studies at the @staclassics.bsky.social I'm looking forward to this great initiative!

@imc-leeds.bsky.social is almost upon us and since the app is now out, I thought I’d remind everyone of our 4 panels on the Merovingians happening all day Wednesday. We finally rallied everyone together so be there or be square! #merovingian #imcleeds2025 @beccagrose.bsky.social

IMC 2025: Merovingianist Mixer We'll be at the Library bar, where campus meets Hyde Park, to avoid interrupting the Euros at Old Bar again. All welcome, whether you work on late antique or Merovingian Gaul or want to meet people who do. Plz RSVP to @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social for table space!

Combined Classics Library Bursaries (up to £300) now accepting applications to assist unfunded scholars who wish to visit the Combined Classics Library in summer 2025 in order to advance or complete a project of research or scholarship. Details here: https://shorturl.at/XRjqg

#Seminar, Wednesday 28 May 2025 at 3pm: “On societal leave: potential factors explaining the presence of harvest contractors in the Roman world.” Speaker: Lluís Jerez i Bertolín (Birmingham) Hybrid: Rm S3 Swallowgate, and Teams For meeting link, email [email protected] #AllWelcome

At the Connecting Late Antiquities project we've compiled a list of digital projects on late antiquity - one step to, erm, connecting late antiquities! Huge thanks to @bnduman.net & @laurahartmann.bsky.social Take a look, the variety is mindblowing! www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/research/...

Team! We are looking for a new *permanent* medievalist-Latinist to work with us at St Andrews! #medievalsky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD844/a...

3-year postdoctoral research fellowship at Cambridge to work on comparative aspects of "Science & Civilization in the Ancient World" (defined as up to 1000 AD); application deadline March 31st, 2025, with a start date in October 2025. #HistSci

Research #seminar next week: "Unauthenticated letters in late Roman North African disputes..." Becca Grose (St Andrews) 🗓️ 19 February ⏰ 2.15pm 📍 hybrid: room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (To get Teams meeting link: email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)

Heads up #ancientsky and please RS: ReMeDHe is accepting nominations for the Heidi Marx Prize for the best article published in the last 3 years on medicine, health, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean Deadline is firm at March 1 Details here: www.remedhe.com/the-heidi-ma...

Save the dates! The Centre for Late Antique Studies has an exciting programme of seminars this semester. late-antiquity.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/ All seminars are hybrid unless otherwise stated. For information email Sophie Schoess ([email protected]) or Anna Kelley ([email protected])

Apply to our 2nd PhD project (see full list & DL here: www.komldsp.org.uk/projects/) Why are some charters in landscape and others in portrait form? Explore the materiality of early medieval English charters with Prof. Julia Crick & Dr R. Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social #PhD #cfa #skystorians

Calling all #IMC2025 Merovingianists and late antique Gaul people! Sunday 7th July 25, ca 5pm onwards @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social and I will be hosting the second annual Merovingianists Mixer! All welcome for a chill pre @imc-leeds.bsky.social drink, especially postgrads, ECRs & first-timers.

WE ARE HIRING - TWO RESEARCH ASSOCIATES FOR 15 MONTHS We are looking for someone who can use their expertise in ancient languages such as Coptic, Syriac, or Middle Persian to investigate late antique / early medieval sources for domestic slavery. Apply here: jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/11...

Lots of other people's cool work on letters, animals travel networks, epigraphy, etc! + a paper from me on all these references to letters with dodgy seals and signatures in late antique North Africa and why they might not be all forgeries but simply and intentionally unauthenticated.

Research fellowship for candidates "specialising in the ancient and early medieval Near and Middle East, the ancient and early medieval Mediterranean, the ancient and early medieval East, South, and South-East Asia, or early medieval Europe." 📜 #medievalSky

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.

A reminder about the EME/BSR fellowship: a month's stay in Rome for someone doing/recently finished a PhD on early medieval European history. Deadline 31st January. bsr.ac.uk/second-bsr-e...

Becca Grose gave a very thought-provoking paper on mixed status marriages in Late Roman North Africa at the Earlier Middle Ages @ihr.bsky.social seminar this evening. It is always nice to see Augustine put in his proper social context; Becca did this brilliantly.