I'm hiring for a funded PhD in 'global' medieval history or trans-Mediterranean entanglements at my chair in Bochum, Germany, from 1 Oct 2026 — 3 yrs, your own project, 3 hrs/week teaching in the History Department, at 65 %of TVL-13 (~€2050/month after tax). Apply by 31 May — or please share 👇

15% off in the US for pre-orders at bookshop.org/p/books/char... #CharlemagnesDream #medievalsky

If anyone in the UK fancies pre-ordering my new book #CharlemagnesDream with 20% off this week, that is a thing here: uk.bookshop.org Released this October! #medievalsky (Only the ebook when I checked but I have queried whether the hardback might be included)

Post-Doc Mittelalter: bald wird vorausstl. eine Post-Doc-Stelle (A13, 100%) zum Mittelalter in Bonn ausgeschrieben. Die Stelle wird thematisch, zeitlich und räumlich offen sein, Bewerbungsschluss bereits Anfang Juni, Start vorausstl. September. Interessenten stellen sich gerne bereits darauf ein.

Great list 🙂 Ok a bit biased as there are two books from our household on it but it is still a great list.

Our early Latin medicine project is still doing its Manuscript of the Month blog - here is Jeff Doolittle on a fragment of the Old Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/04/24/2... #medievalsky

NEW! Open access co-authored essay on the Corpus of Early #Medieval Latin #Medicine and some things we have learned. Enjoy! #medievalsky brill.com/view/journal...

Vacancy: Assistant Professor of Celtic, with a specialism in Old Irish, University of Cambridge. #MedievalSky www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

"Charlemagne's Dream" is coming (just not quite yet). #medieval #carolingians #apocalypse

Another new arrival: Burridge, Banham and Olsan (eds) Early #Medieval Medicine in Context!

New on my desk in #medieval fun! (I contributed maps).

Come hang out next year! #medievalsky

Dioskurides-Fragment aus dem 9. Jahrhundert entdeckt. Wenn's um Feigen geht, dann ist es das Ende des 1. Buches der "Materia medica". www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/un... #histmed #medievalsky #bookhistory

New in open access #medievalsky: Bede's Medical Books! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Keepin' it Old School this time

Call for applications! 📣 The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝 1/3

Big workshop coming up in Southampton on #apocalyptic literature in Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the early Middle Ages - all welcome, in person or online! Any queries do get in touch. #medievalsky

Fresh on early view: @eddiemeehan99.bsky.social on how Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) balanced kingship "as an office and as a dynastic status". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Vol 12.2 is OUT! This time we have a special issue for you: "Contours of Spiritual Formation from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century", with essays by Jean-Claude Schmitt, Leandro Alves Teodoro and Pablo Martin Prieto #medievalsky

Brilliant, sweeping, magnificent and highly recommended! Glad @thetudortimes.bsky.social enjoyed House of Lilies

Are you a doctoral student working on medieval history who'd benefit from a stay in Paris?

If anyone likes medieval podcasts by the way "All You Ever Wanted to Know about the #Merovingians" came out on History Extra last week with me chatting about my book "Merovingian Worlds" (Cambridge UP 2024)! (This is the Apple link but it's on Spotify and a load of other places...) #medievalsky

"The popularity of seasonal healthcare and dietary regimes to prevent illness discovered has surprising parallels with modern day social media wellness influencers," said @jtpmedieval.bsky.social - nice coverage of a bit of research we have funded www.thetimes.com/article/4415...

Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine getting some attention today in the Times! If you missed it last week our handlist of "new" pre-1000 medical manuscripts can be found here cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/handlist/ #medievalsky

NEW from the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine... our handlist of the 198(!!!) pre-1000 manuscripts with medical texts not included in the standard catalogues. It's been a productive first phase for the project... but a lot of work still to do! #medievalsky

Please share: we have a Teaching Fellow in Roman History post available! I want to be up front: 0.4 FTE for basically 10 months. We know what that means, but we are supportive, friendly & not cruel taskmasters. Applications close June 30. Full advert here: jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/11....

Any Medievalists want a copy of the newest edition of Debating #Medieval Europe - The central and later Middle Ages - for... free? Our DME books serve as an entry point for understanding the distinctive historiography of their periods. Hit repost and we'll add you to the giveaway 📗👇 #booksky

Giveaway! I have 1 copy of a Lithuanian translation and 1 copy of the Chinese translation of “The Bright Ages.” Respond below for a chance to get one! #medievalsky #booksky

New publication from myself today: "The fame and significance of Dunkeld in the tenth and eleventh centuries" clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...

Free to download for the next two weeks: Rick Sowerby's excellent new book Natural and Supernatural in Early #Medieval England! #medievalsky

Congratulations to Jacopo Bisagni and Paula Harrison on the release of their new monograph on Laon, B.M., MS 422 written in collaboration with Isabelle Draelants @cnrs.fr. This comprehensive study focusses on the scientific, cosmological, and computational content of this manuscript from ca 815.

Hot of the press: new blog by Jeff Doolittle on a tenth-century manuscript on medical recipes, veterinary science and cosmetics cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/05/15/m... #medievalsky

These are great books. Medieval medicine is cooking at the moment. (Opinion not at all skewed by being at a conference this week with Debby Banham, Deborah Hayden, and also the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine gang...)

Discover all our #journals in #MedievalStudies via bit.ly/4klLvmW #MedievalSky #Medieval #AcademicJournal #Kzoo2025 #IMC2025

Registration DEADLINE Friday 16th for online summer school Advanced Readings in Medieval Latin, May 27–July 3. Two 1½-hour classes per week for 6 weeks, $500 (£375ish). We've not had many takers, so at just over £20 per hour this is pretty cheap for small-group tuition. marco.utk.edu/summerlangua...

Historians being cautiously curious about how things work in other times and places is a good thing

Hey gang! For your entertainment I've got a new piece on the Merovings in this month's History Today magazine - enjoy! #medievalsky

Delighted that my article, ‘The Circle of the World: The Global Diplomacy of Caliph al-Manṣūr’, is now out OA with BSOAS. Come for a journey stretching from the Atlantic to China, tracing how the caliph brought the world to Baghdad: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges

Teaching and Research Fellow in Imperial and Global History- The University of Edinburgh - CAHSS / School of History, Classics & Archaeology / History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS220/t...

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...

New job at Oxford - do please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...

Assistant Professor in the History of the Medieval Mediterranean World Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ287/a...

Apocalyptic Monsters #medievalsky There was no way it wasn't going to be fun, was there? 😊

Oh #medievalsky - some apocalypse fun! Also I might make a guest appearance...

Starting this week with @carinevanrhijn.bsky.social writing about "Healing with Vultures" in our medicine project blog! cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/03/31/1... #medievalsky

DRAMA

Chair in Divinity at St Andrews... with door open for #medieval (I think) #medievalsky www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

May or may not have finished writing the draft "The Carolingians but They're the Bad Guys" book. Some of them were pretty bad. Suspect it might be more complicated than that...

So proud 😊 It looks amazing

So, #MedievalSky... what are some of your favorite online research tools & helpful websites & other fun medieval things online?

Do you need help with medieval Latin? I offer language teaching *and* research assistance, so if you just want a quick answer – e.g. a transcription or translation, or a manuscript identification – I can do that too. Further details here: latin.brunellus.com #medievalLatin #medievalSky