This is the first time something like this has really excited me. Proper butterflies. Aristotle writes that Empedocles claims a universal law against killing living creatures, & Cicero says he argues for the same legal standing for humans & animals. But their sources are lost. Will these be them?

The English High Court of Admiralty’s archive contains a vast number of sources for global, colonial, and maritime history c.1550-c.1850 that have seen limited by researchers. This one-day workshop will provide attendees with the skills to locate and use these challenging records,

Just published by Brill. A long-awaited, important work on reformation, revolt and the material culture of religion in the Low Countries by a distinguished scholar. #reformationinthelowcountries

Please do spread the word about the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Scholars of Colour MA Scholarship Awards -- two pots of £4,000 each, and an optional mentoring opportunity. I've very much enjoyed being a mentor to a fantastic scholar through this scheme!

The bursary application deadline for this is 7 April 👇 #MedievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Early modern literature job in my department! Permanent which is the UK equivalent to tenure track #earlymodern #acjobs www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Join tomorrow for the Florence-Baghdad-Albania-Constantinople-Venice connection!

Big news!

Un très grand livre d’histoire à paraître cette semaine. À la suite de Jacques Le Goff, Jean-Claude Schmitt et Jérôme Baschet, Pierre-Olivier Dittmar nous offre un monumental exercice d’anthropologie historique. Et nous aide à penser notre passé tout autant que notre présent.

Join us on April 3, 12pm EST, for the latest First Friday Christian Apocrypha Workshop with Lasse Lovlund Toft (University of Oslo), for his work on "Literary Cycles and Homiletic Collections: On the Literary Context and Manuscript Transmission of a Copto-Arabic Homily on the Archangel Michael."

📢 JOB OPENINGS at CSIC @cchscsic.bsky.social (Madrid)! As part of my ERC project WILDHIST, the Institute of History is hiring two 3-year postdoctoral researchers in the global history of rubber. Application deadline: 24 April 2026. More info 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012 @erc.europa.eu

Just learned of the Italian medieval surnames Fottivecchia, Tappaculo or Cacalosso; however, my actual favourite is by far Fotendarnus (fotte indarno)

Computational paleography has become a key meeting ground for the humanities and computer science. We are delighted to offer workshop at this year’s #ICDAR2026 conference to showcase the latest developments in this dynamic field. CfP is open until 22 May!

#EarlyModern #BookHistory #JewishHistory

Join us on Friday, March 27th, to consider 'Whose Middle Ages?' The Birkbeck Medieval Seminar will have four speakers (Rebecca Menmuir, Daniel Sawyer, George Bartlett, Olenka Pevny) and lots of discussion time. 🗃️ More info and registration here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Venerdì prossimo a Bologna parlerò della fine del mondo e la Venezia del Cinquecento insieme a Davide Scotto all'interno di un seminario intitolato "Da Acri a Costantinopoli: Riccoldo da Monte di Croce e Paolo Angelo sulla crisi del cristianesimo di fronte all’islam" www.fscire.it/lang/eng/whe...

Job vacancy: We are looking for an Acquisitions Editor in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Apply now! de-gruyter.onlyfy.jobs/job/3dhjdvo3... #medievalsky #earlymodern

The Reformation Colloquium meets in London at UCL 15-17 April. Programmes and speakers in link below. #Skystorians

To use LLM-based genAI is to choose to benefit from horrific worker abuse. Human beings have brains. Tech sociopaths want us to forget that. And they want us to forget that we - and especially the people they exploit the most - are human at all.

"He seemed to believe... that to abandon his work meant giving in to what fascism wanted for him: an existence so devoid of value + meaning that it would be indistinguishable from death. He held on to his briefcase not until it was too late but because it was too late."

I'm hoping to propose a panel for the SCS on the 1570s, that most pivotal decade in the later Reformation. If you're interested in joining me, send me a DM. #reformazing

📚🎒 Back to school! So excited to be in Rome to study Gəʿəz at Sapienza for 3 months supported by a British Academy Talent Development Award! My first Semitic language! And so very grateful to the community of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane for their hospitality, it’s a dream to be back here.

My colleagues at the Warburg Institute are organising some brilliant courses around languages in the Renaissance that I am very excited about: Learning Latin the Renaissance Way, by Nathaniel Hess warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... (1/2)

Call for expressions of interest to apply for a MSCA PDF on medieval antiheretical hate speech. Deadline March 16. dissinet.cz/news/article...

#CfA 📢 LECTIO Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027, KU Leuven Visiting fellowships at the KU Leuven Institute for the Study and Transmission of Texts, Ideas and Images in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. ⏰6 March 2026 🔗 www.kuleuven.be/lectio/visit... @lectio-institute.bsky.social

My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com

"Hiring committees can’t solve the structural or financial crises facing the humanities in the UK but they can recognise and redress their role in aggravating them."

Have you applied, or are you thinking of applying, for a PhD at the Warburg Institute? Explore our scholarship opportunities for students starting in October 2026. Deadline for the Rubinstein Scholarship and the JB Trapp Scholarship: 5pm, Friday 20 March

Do not join academia.edu If you did in the past, then just leave.

Another day, another report of a for-profit academic website exploiting user data 🙄😫 Create an account on Knowledge Commons (hcommons.org)! We're a nonprofit where users can create websites, upload works to our open access repository, and so much more. And guess what? We don't sell your data! 💖

Shocking news. Obviously one doesn't know the ins and outs, but it's hard to comprehend how such a large and weathy university as UCL finds itself unable to support a cutting-edge humanities research institute. Solidarity with everyone affected. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

François Soyer, "Imperfect Sodomy: The Lisbon Inquisition and the Repression of Heterosexual Anal Intercourse in Portugal, 1580–1800." Journal of the History of Sexuality 35, no. 1 (2026), pp. 1-27. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

If you don't have any plans for this weekend, how about a trip to the Berlinale? If you'd rather stay at home, we recommend the recently published book ‘Textiles in Manuscripts’, which offers a burst of colour to brighten the grey winter www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #berlinale #medievalsky

Join us next Thursday 26 Feb at 10 AM CET for a paper by Maria S. Thomas (UniVie) on the manuscript production of the Syriac Orthodox monastery of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem in the twelfth century! If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social

Am I the only one who thinks micro-credentials and lifelong learning is, the way it is being done and for the most part, the gigification of higher education?

📄 New paper: Pre-Editorial Normalization for Automatically Transcribed Medieval Manuscripts in Old French and Latin Thibault Clérice, @rachelbawden.bsky.social , Anthony Glaise, Ariane Pinche, @dasmiq.bsky.social (2026) arxiv.org/abs/2602.13905 We introduce Pre-Editorial Normalization (PEN). 🧵⬇️

Job in my department, one year renewable for three, early modern Iberian Atlantic world. I’m on the committee, happy to have a conversation/answer questions as far as is appropriate. March 15 deadline. apply.interfolio.com/181565?utm_s...

June 22-25 - Medieval Mediterranean Coinage (Intro.) June 29 - July 2 - Mediterranean Magic (Intro.) June 2 9 - July 2 - Reading Armenian Manuscripts (NEW) July 6-9 - Sephardic Culture: An Introduction July 13-16 - The Archivo General de Simancas (Intro.) August 3-6 - Reading Medieval Catalan

Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminars for 2026 May 18-21 - Reading Archival Latin May 18-21 - Reading Medieval Greek Manuscripts June 15-18 - Reading Ottoman Turkish June 15-18 - The Archivo General de Indias: A Global Archive (NEW) June 22-25 - Medieval & Early Modern Cartography

Todo lo que quiso saber sobre el hebreo y no se atrevió a preguntar (México, 1650): régimen de verdad y ficción en un texto técnico novohispano 24 febrero 17.00 CDMX, medianoche España, 18.00 Colombia, 20.00 Argentina y Chile Zoom: unam.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #EarlyModern #HistoriaIndiana

As Google Books starts to sink, it's worth remembering how Google organised a separate class of employees to do the actual labour of the book scanning, and kept them in a separate building on the Google campus with none of the privileges of regular Google staff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0RT...

It was good while it lasted.

We often think of book censorship as denying access to texts. Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman consider cases where censorship of information was used as a way to preserve access to books, altered to hide their affiliation with Martin Luther: hmml.org/stories/series-books-sandwiching-a-forbidden-text

Since I first listened to Noel talk about Llull years ago, I've been waiting for this book to come out. Very excited it's here!

Coming to a bookstore near you this summer! Thanks to everyone who made this possible. [Link in comments 👇]

Make sure to join us online on Monday 2 February for @amaterialworld.bsky.social talk 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices' warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #MaterialCulture #History

A reminder that applications for this post close this Sunday 1 February. @ihr.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social