Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

SMH for this 1957 NYT Obit writer who made up an extra husband for Dr. Helen Louise Cohen because he couldn't understand a woman lecturing at Columbia and Hopkins. "She and Dr. Cohen..." Nope. She *was* Dr. Cohen (1915, Teachers College, Columbia), medieval lit. www.nytimes.com/1957/07/20/a...

Truly, I am filled with joy for these families. And in the end, the only way to free them was to make a deal to end the war, not to keep inflicting violence on Gazans. Netanyahu could have done this a year ago, if he had actually cared about the lives of the hostages above his political career.

Yom Kippur begins at sunset on 1st October. Here is the Initial-word panel at the beginning of Kol Nidrei. #YomKippur Bodleian Library MS. Michael 619; Maḥzor for the High Holidays; Western Ashkenazi rite (Tripartite Maḥzor, volume 3); 1320-1330 CE; f.100v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

@medievaljews.bsky.social and I were quoted in The Times last week about a project we've been helping on to commemorate London's medieval Jewish cemetery. A free exhibition on the site is now at St Giles Cripplegate church until 16 September. #medievalsky www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

Not explicitly medieval, but a great convo that's definitely of interest to medievalists who work on premodern race!

An ongoing thread of some excellent books by #womenintranslation - all read since last August. 🧵 #WITMonth #TranslationThurs #BookSky #ReadWomen 💙📚

Very excited to read this!

My book, Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance: Typologies of violence and desire, with @manchesterup.bsky.social, is coming out next month! I would be delighted if you might consider ordering a copy for your libraries 💚

Medieval History Job Alert! University of Tennessee, where I used to work. Unbelievably strong medieval studies. Unbelievable that they are hiring in this climate! Please share this post. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37862790...

"...graduates in computer science, computer engineering and graphic design all have unemployment rates at 7% or greater; young workers who hold a number of much-maligned humanities degrees—including English, history and philosophy—are all more hirable."

Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Pinchas (פִּינְחָס) with this image of Pinchas holding a javelin and shield. #ParashahPictures Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.92r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

"Ray, who is in his late 20s, was born in a refugee camp in Nepal and came to the U.S. as a kid. He was recently deported to Bhutan — where he had never lived in and where his family faced persecution. Within 24 hours of his arrival, Ray said Bhutanese authorities ordered him to leave."

FANTASTIC post here from Lucy- check it out!

I'm so thrilled to have this published! Starting from a chat over lunch at @girtoncollege.bsky.social, James Wade & I chipped away at this & have made some fascinating discoveries. The actual article should be published later today. In the meantime, more here: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/song...

Saving this 1911 poster for the next time I teach the Wife of Bath’s Tale and gender essentialism.

Fellowships at the (stunning) Beinecke are open for scholars local + far (due Jul 31) + grad students (due Sept 15), and you're able to use materials from other Yale special collections: beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fel...

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Medieval History we’ve asked eight distinguished historians each to use an article from the journal’s first five years as a jumping off point to discuss historiographical trends. @tandfresearch.bsky.social

📣 CFP: Shakespeare Quarterly special issue Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century / The Twenty-First Century’s Shakespeare This will be Vanessa I. Corredera, Arthur L. Little, Jr. and my first issue as Editors! Please submit your finest! More info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

In the extraordinarily unlikely event that anybody has managed to miss the *very subtle* launch of the CFP this week for 'Borders, Boundaries, Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages' just sharing this again...

Current RHS funding programmes include our next round of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' to support academic activities. Grants are for a maximum of £2000 for early career historians to complete a discrete project. The call for this next round runs until 5 September bit.ly/3ZAJfjK #Skystorians

Hands down, my favorite admin duty is serving on my uni's Fulbright interview committee. The absolute passion and intellectual ambition of the students who apply, whether or not they get an award, is deeply inspiring. It is heartbreaking to think of this opportunity being taken away from them.

Latest coverage of ‪@medimurdermaps.bsky.social‬: Noblewoman may have ordered brazen murder of priest outside St Paul’s in 1337 Historian mapping medieval murders has evidence John Ford’s stabbing was revenge hit by impenitent ex-lover www.theguardian.com/education/20... #History 🗃️

They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women. Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.

If you missed last week's webinar: "Muslim-Jewish Relations in the Middle Ages: A Conversation Between Sara Lipton and Hussein Fancy", it is now up on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/cFK_469PkNs?...

If you want some palaeography goodness, medieval female literacy, and a touch of digital humanities, @etreharne.bsky.social and mine Medieval Networks of Memory: Writing the Mortuary Roll in Thirteenth-Century Britain is now out. Really excited for this one! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

While the near-total loss of the NEH is horrific, it has been death by a 1000 cuts for decades: the loss of summer seminars abroad, of postdoc funding, of all of the tiny bits of $ that enlightened K-12 teachers' & junior faculty's work & lives. Sarah & I will be mostly fine; the next gen won't.

The Society of American Archivists is providing a free webinar to help you learn how to advocate for archives which are under grave threat, along with museums, galleries, and libraries, in the USA. Apr 21, 2025 03:00 PM EST/EDT Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Sad to be leaving the Speculum editorial board, but very proud that the end of my term coincides with the Speculum's first review of a digital humanities project. I enthusiastically reviewed Adrienne Williams Boyarin's "Medieval Anglo-Jewish Women database." majw.uvic.ca/index.html

@medievalacademy.bsky.social to offer three summer skills workshops, in Old French, Latin Paleography, and Medieval Latin. Only $125 for five weeks! More information here: www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-summer-s...

Summer Latin programming is open for registration! CMS offers three levels of Latin courses both online and in person! Registration deadline: May 1. uoft.me/bjy

This part is particularly fascinating for those interested in contemporary uses of the medieval. "In 1940, the medieval embroidery fell into the hands of the German occupiers, who were interested in it for racial ideological reasons." #medievalsky

I made a 4-min podcast of me reading an excerpt of my new @mitpress.bsky.social book, Conceiving Histories. Catch it here👇 www.isabeldavis.co.uk

@lvhicks.bsky.social Seen this? www.canberratimes.com.au/story/890776...

Unexpected encounter with a star yesterday: the extraordinary beauty of the Rothschild Pentateuch

In Torah portion 'Yitro' (יִתְרוֹ) Moses receives the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai while the people wait at the foot of the mountain. #ParashahPictures BL Add MS 22413; Tripartite Maḥzor; 1300-1329 CE; Germany; f.3r

"The Belle Da Costa Greene Award of $2,000 will be granted annually to a medievalist of color for research and travel. The award may be used to visit archives, attend conferences, or to facilitate writing and research." DUE 15 FEB More on award & Greene: www.medievalacademy.org/page/GreeneA...

🚨FUNDING ALERT🚨Hey #MedievalSky! @medievalacademy.bsky.social wants to give you money. Funding for Medievalists of Color, for MedievALLists (i.e. not tenured) and students! Apply by Feb. 15: www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-news-upc...

Found this interesting tidbit on a reread of Juliet Barker's "Conquest." I can think of a very good reason why a man with the last name "Convers" would have been eager to settle in Normandy and integrate into a French Christian family. #medievalsky

Welcome to 2025 and to a brand new 📯Medieval Booklet📯 ! Hilary is stronger than ever with almost 50 (!!) pages of medieval conferences, lectures, seminars, reading groups, events, and opportunities, ready to view at users.ox.ac.uk/~fmml2152/me.... Which means it's time for... a Big Booklet Thread!

Andrew Seal on the struggle with the overabundance of books (and underabundance of time to read them)... Does It Hold Up? How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read open.substack.com/pub/metahist...

Job alert: the National Library of Scotland is looking to recruit a permanent, F/T curator of early modern books and other printed material. Please share widely! nls.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

Annual obligatory reshare, for the Impending Night, of Matthew Willis’ essay on Nittel Nacht, or Ashkenazi Jewish Christmas Eve, featuring pogroms, Zombie-Wizard Jesus, and the tense yet necessary relationship between tradition and modernity. daily.jstor.org/nittel-nacht...

Medieval England was never an "essentially homogenous country, with little diversity", and a certain anti-immigrant twitter thread is an example of why we need to expand definitions of "diversity" when thinking about the medieval past before it's coopted to exclude people in present. #medievalsky

Another Margaret Paston Bonus Window—an interview I gave on Late Night Live on ABC national radio www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

okay how did it take me THREE YEARS at this university to find out there is a courtyard where the now defunct Byzantine Studies department had themselves immortalised in mural form??

Wow: “Fund will create a repository for the professional papers of medievalists”, managed by “an endowed position in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. The Penn Libraries expects to invite applications for this new position soon.”

The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis

I will be talking about my new book on Zoom on December 11. I think it's open to everyone, not just NACBS members.