Looking forward to speaking about the journeys of playing cards in our 'Games through History and History through Games' Colloquium @universityofleeds.bsky.social on Weds 21st and hearing some fascinating papers on games and colonialism. Thanks to @owenhodkinson.bsky.social for the invitation! ♠️♦️♣️♥️

📚 Congratulations to @carolinebarron.bsky.social on the publication of 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Etchings from the Research Collections of the British School at Rome'! 🖼️ This book follows a 2021–4 exhibition at @bsrome.bsky.social co-curated by Dr Clare Hornsby and Dr Caroline Barron

Congratulations to Graham Barrett, who has won the La corónica International Book Award for his book, *Text, and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia: The Written and The World, 711-1031*! Full details here with a snap of Graham at Kalamazoo to receive the award: lcclacoronica.org/journal/winn...

¡Recién salida del horno! 🔥 Reseña del libro de Graham Barrett, Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia (711–1031), imprescindible para quienes estudian cultura escrita en la Alta Edad Media 🆓 👉 revistas.usal.es/uno/index.ph... #ManuscriptStudies #PeopleAndWriting @erc.europa.eu

Please join us in congratulating the winner of the 2025 La corónica International Book Award--Graham Barrett (Durham University) "Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia: The Written and The World, 711-1031" (Oxford UP). lcclacoronica.org/journal/winn... #kzoo25 @oupacademic.bsky.social

Another soldier waiting patiently in the margin for a very long time....... BL Add MS 11695; Beatus of Liébana, Commentary on the Apocalypse; 1091-1109 CE; Spain, N.; f.194r

Another early medieval winner at Kalamazoo! Congratulations to Graham Barrett for winning La Coronica book award for his recent monograph

Join us in celebrating the winner of the 2024 La corónica International Book Award -- Sarah Ifft Decker (Rhodes College), "The Fruit of Her Hands Jewish and Christian Women’s Work in Medieval Catalan Cities" (Penn St UP, 2022) lcclacoronica.org/journal/winn...

Not all Roman curses adopt the common lead burrito of doom format. Here we have a curse inscription calling for the punishment of a thief from Merida, Spain. (yes, it's curse week in epigraphy. Finally)

With @isochesh.bsky.social visiting Tinashe’s excellent exhibition lincolnartscentre.co.uk/event/commun... take a look if you’re in Lincoln @uolconservation.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social @leahww.bsky.social @lincolncons.bsky.social @laurafg.bsky.social @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social

How is the crisis in higher education impacting history and historians in the UK? Lucy Noakes on the scale of cuts and closures, and how the Royal Historical Society (@royalhistsoc.org) can advocate for our discipline. www.historyworkshop....

Want to learn something new this summer? This 2-day course on writing in the Early Frankish World could be for you! 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social ies.sas.ac.uk/london-inter...

Last chance to book for this online introduction to Medieval Spanish Palaeography running 28 April - 1 May 👇 #MedievalSky ies.sas.ac.uk/events/intro...

Useful map which shows the location of Noah's Ark, between the two peaks of Mount Ararat BnF MS Espagnol 30; Abraham Cresques (?), Atlas of nautical charts, known as the Catalan Atlas; 14th century (around 1375 CE); Majorca; f.4r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Good to see this in the news: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Chag Pesach Sameach! Israelites cross the sea pursued by the Egyptians, with the pillar of cloud behind, & the pillar of fire ahead. #Passover BL Add 14762; 'Ashkenazi Haggadah'; 15th c; Germany, S.; ff.14v-15r

Chag pesach sameach! The frogs are very lively. 🐸 #Passover BL Add 27210; the 'Golden Haggadah'; 14th century; Spain, N.E; f.12v

UK academia’s lack of language skills ‘imperils research integrity’ www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

We are like the leaves that the many-flowered season of spring sends forth, when immediately they are increased by the rays of the sun, like them we enjoy the flowers of youth for a cubit’s span, knowing from the gods neither evil nor good.

📜 Curious about medieval scripts, books & docs from Spain? Short Course: Introduction to Medieval Spanish Palaeography 🗓️ 28 April – 1 May 2025 🖥️ Online | Part of #LIPSS @ies-sas.bsky.social ⏳ Registration closes in 1 week! ies.sas.ac.uk/events/intro... #palaeography #ManuscriptStudies

The bibliophile and bluestocking María Josefa Pimentel looking almost Wollstonecraftian in a mid 1790s miniature. The most important collector in late Enlightenment Spain? #condesdeOsuna #LazaroGaliano #miniatures #womenandbookhistory

Due to unforeseen circumstances we have an opening for a paper in the @imc-leeds.bsky.social panels that Jess Holt and I organised. If you have a paper, do think of us (happy to answer ?s). @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social @lincolnrecsoc.bsky.social imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/pre...

Here is the depiction of a seder table from the 'Ashkenazi Haggadah'. #Passover BL Add 14762; the 'Ashkenazi Haggadah'; c.1460 CE; Germany, S.; f.6r

Family around the Seder table, with the pets beneath the table #Passover BL Add 26968; Forli Siddur; 1383 CE; Italy, Central (Romagna, Forli); f.119v

A miniature of Chaucer at the beginning of the Tale of Melibee; it is April after all...... MS EL 26 C 9; Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; ca. 1400-1410 CE; f.153v The Huntington Library, San Marino, California

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 410 hodie est diēs matris in Britanniā (Today is Mother's Day in Britain). Silvius flosculum Minimae dat (Silvius gives Minima a posy). "te amo valde, Mamma!" ("I love you very much, Mummy!)

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus BnF Latin 12048; Sacramentarium gelasianum; 8th century; France (diocese of Meaux or Cambrai?); f.143v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Take courage! BL Stowe MS 17, 'The Maastricht Hours'; 14th century; f.240v

Love this little parade of ducks, hens & chicks which surround the coat of arms of the German humanist Johannes von Botzheim (d. 1535). Tasty strawberries too! In his copy of Walter Burley’s ‘De vita et moribus philosophorum’ (Nuremberg, not after 1473). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.3.A.7.2[852]

A bear hiding in the margin BL Add MS 16577; Mahzor according to the Italian rite; 1450 CE-1474 CE; Italy; f.59r

Please read and circulate this letter from CUCD and various learned societies in defence of Ancient History and Religion and Theology at Cardiff University cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/03/11/o...

🏺How exciting to find Etymologiae inscribed on a slate tablet 😍 This one was excavated in 1894 at the abbey of Villers-la-Ville in the southern Netherlands, dated to the 13th century, 2/2, now in the KBR Brussels. Contains bits of book IV on medicine 🩺 🔗 uurl.kbr.be/1559692 #medievalsky

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 397 mane gelida est, sed Silvius aestuat (It's a frosty morning, but Silvius is warm). in palliolo virgato amictus est, et poculum vaporans tenet (He's wrapped in a stripy cloak and holding a steaming cup). musculus laetus est (He's a happy little mouse)!

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 395 Silvius arculam rubram prope cavum invenit (Silvius finds a red box near the mouse hole). ubi operculum tollit, tres musculi parvi et albi exsiliunt (When he lifts the lid, three little white mice pop out)! quattuor mures summissim cachinnant (The four mice giggle).

For the 750th anniversary of the events of 1275, I took the opportunity to consider the fifteen months after Edward I's return to England from the crusades as they related to the Jews for @historytoday.com. Very happy to see it out! @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

A pillar of spotted dolerite stands outside the church of St Llawddog, Cilgerran #SirBenfro / #Pembrokeshire Dual Latin and Ogam (Ogham) inscriptions commemorate Trenegussus (or Trenagus), son of Marcus Treni, who died in the late 6th century AD 📷 Aug 2015 #StandingStoneSunday

First job of the weekend is revisiting TNA E 101/249/10 - my favourite list of debts from medieval England, produced in 1262. Thankfully, the editor's comments on my article require very little work so I could, you know, just spend the day playing with this roll!

New Article! Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social on 'Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

I cannot begin to say how excited I am to have a talk on Anglo-Jewry in my diary for '25 which requires me to do no work! Looking forward to hearing Natasha Jenman, Luka Liu, and Josh Outhwaite talk about Lincoln @mirierubin.bsky.social @medievalfemina.bsky.social @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social

Well this forthcoming book looks perfectly delightful from a great scholar: "Gardens in Northern Iberia in the Early Middle Ages: Practice, Product, and Sale" by Wendy Davies: academic.oup.com/book/58984

Today, the #IMEMSSpotlight is on Dr Graham Barrett! Find out more about Graham's research here: 👉 tinyurl.com/49cetz4e

Welcome to all new followers and people coming over from the other side! I have made a first attempt to create a list/starter pack of Medieval Historians on this platform. By no means complete so please give me a sign if you think you also qualify as a medieval historian! go.bsky.app/UaK1DAa

I’m putting together an Iberian & Latin American Studies (literature, film, and history) Starter Pack for those of us migrating from the other site. I’ll be updating the list as more join! go.bsky.app/FQXc4sg

A starter pack for Medieval Iberia, al-Andalus and the Maghreb. This is a very incipent pack. Please let me know if I can add you! go.bsky.app/AWY44RV

We made a Starter Pack of Centres (sorry, US followers) for Medieval Studies in the UK and beyond. Do let us know if you’d like to be added … go.bsky.app/PAQh2go

Lots of new followers so intros. I'm interested mainly in medieval Jews. I love records and co-convene a seminar on Anglo-Jewish records at Oxford. I'm also working on 3(?!) vols: an ed. col. on the Med Lincoln Jewry, an ed. of Hebrew/Hebrew-Latin docs and a book on Jews and Christians as neighbours

In two weeks, I’ll be giving a lecture at the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (Oxford) on the topic of my book project. Jewish-Christian relations with a smattering of graphs!

The Mona Lisa of the Early Middle Ages. St Anne from the Faras cathedral in what is now Sudan, 8th/9th century. One of the extraordinary masterpieces of African art. Today in the National Museum in Warsaw.