⏰Reminder: There's still time to register for #TEI2025 #medievalsky! 📜Theme: Education and Early Medieval England 📲Registration is available here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/toebi-annu... 📨We hope to see you at University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social 📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025

My review, in Speculum, of Jacqueline Fay's excellent Materializing Englishness in Early Medieval Texts: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Literary hivemind: suggestions for excellent creative work (fiction, poetry, other) that engages somehow with the history or literature of the medieval period?

📣 Call for Contributors: Edited Volume - The Medieval in Museums @archumanities.bsky.social 🖼️📜 🗓️ Abstract deadline: 3 Nov 2025 (17:00 GMT) ⏰ Full #CfP: bit.ly/CfPMiM

Our new podcast by ECRs, for ECRs is here. Tune in as researchers share their academia survival tips. The first episodes of Confessions of an Early Career Researcher are available now. Subscribe for our final episodes, going live 15 October. https://bit.ly/47PXZQH

📲Registration for #TEI2025 is open: www.eventbrite.ie/e/toebi-annu... 📨Come join us at own our next annual conference at University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social 📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025 📜The theme is "Education and Early Medieval England" and our programme is available to view online.

Are you a #school #teacher introducing students to #Chaucer? Come along to this amazing #free #event on Saturday 4 October, to discover resources & share expertise. From tackling the #medieval language to creative methods. I'll be there! ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... Please share! Booking info 👇

Hello everyone! Sharing a cfp for the International Medieval Congress at Leeds next summer, organised by Gummies Marie Besson and Brooklyn Arnot. Check it out!

Looking forward to speaking about my creative-critical work at TOEBI. Also can't wait to visit Dublin. Never been before!

📨You are warmly invited to our next annual conference at University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social 📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025 📜The theme is "Education and Early Medieval England" and our programme is available to view online. 📲Registration is now open: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1631647263...

The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast welcomes proposals of single episodes for its fifth season. After four successful seasons, The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast (MMA) will return for its fifth in 2026. www.themedievalacademyblog.org/the-multicul...

🚨THIS BOOK IS ALMOST REAL!!!🚨 @manchesterup.bsky.social out here making dreams come true!

Submitted my paper abstract for next year's Leeds IMC 🤞.

Jobs For Medievalists Tenure-track Assistant Professor of English: Medieval Literature Review of applications will begin 10 November, 2025 The English Department at Trinity University seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in medieval www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...

New post up on the Guild website- the brilliant Daisy Black! I’ve learned so much from Daisy’s amazing performances and her scholarship. Check it out!

I've started a new series on my blog where I retell some of the lesser-known stories from early medieval England. The latest (seaxeducation.substack.com/p/bothelms-b...) is about a monk, a broken arm, and the powers of divine moss. Do check it out, and maybe one day I can afford my rent!

'I researched medieval birthing chambers, read combat manuals, tried on replica armour, and befriended a horse and a hawk.' Meet performance storyteller @daisyeblack.bsky.social in our new Meet A Medievalist Maker blogpost! 👇

SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! Announcing the Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize: two juried mini-grants of $250.00 each to support emerging artists l for the creation of a new minicomic that engages with medieval culture. More details available here: www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

📨You are warmly invited to our next annual conference at University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social 📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025 📜The theme is "Education and Early Medieval England" and our programme is available to view online. 📲Registration is now open: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1631647263...

#medievalsky #TOEBI #OldEnglish

We are delighted to announce that English Studies has officially joined this digital space! 📖 Looking forward to sharing the wonderful contributions from scholars working on language, literature & culture in the English-speaking world. More details on the journal 👇: @tandfresearch.bsky.social

I've been talking about this network a lot recently! If you're a UK ECR (you have your PhD in hand), sign up for it! You don't need an affiliation. You get access to their brilliant events (they fund your travel so you can attend), offer biannual conference funding, + access to larger funding opps.

We are supporting applications to the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship scheme. Submit your internal expression of interest by 10 November 2025 – selected applicants must complete the full application to the Leverhulme Trust by 19 February 2026. More info: www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun...

Also publishing today is Strange matter: Medieval disruptions of time edited by Bleisteiner, Hartmann and Johnston which offers exciting new perspectives on the premodern fascination with materiality + the ways in which the Middle Ages experienced time manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175960/

Happy official publication day to @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social ! Her book Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance: Typologies of violence and desire is now available and I can confirm it's a fascinating read manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183170/

A reminder that our next Making Space Session (a friendly online co-working event) is taking place this Thursday 4th September, 5:30pm-7:00pm BST, hosted by @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social! You're welcome to work on your own creative-critical project, or respond to our optional theme: harvest 🍂🪓🍏🍄

Out now: ‘How to Submit a Journal Article and get it Published’ Listen now on Apple and Spotify (links in bio)

Trying my hand at some blackout translation: translate, compose then decompose the poem.

Still (re)composing my first-person translation of The Phoenix in what little time remains of the summer. Thinking with and about fire as a model for creative-critical practice. What can destructive recreation do? How can we remake old poems by burning and breaking them down?

wulf-heort, adj: wolf-hearted, cruel. (WULF-HEH-ort / ˈwʌlf-ˌhɛɔrt) #OldEnglish #WOTD

I want to write a new blogpost, academic pals! What’s your best advice for sustaining your motivation as an early career scholar, post PhD, without institutional affiliation? How can you feel supported in carrying on with your work? And what can those of us lucky enough to have jobs do to help?

Looking forward to this!

📅Save the date: Sat. 25th Oct. 2025‼️ 📜 #TOEBI2025: "Education and Early Medieval England" 🏫 University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social 🗣️ Alice Jorgensen @tcddublin.bsky.social 🗣️ Lindy Brady, Edge Hill University #️⃣ #medievalsky #OldEnglish

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 💚

þunor-rād, f.n: thunder, a peal of thunder. (THUH-nor-RAWD / ˈθʌ-nɔr-ˌraːd) #OldEnglish #WOTD

📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish ⏰Reminder: Submission deadline: 1st August 2025‼️ 📜New Directions in Old English Prose 📲Details: roep.web.ox.ac.uk/event/confer... 🏫University of Oxford 📅30-31 March 2026

I know IMC just happened… but, anyone Old Norse-y fancy giving a paper next year?

Really exciting lineup of papers this year for the biggest symposium the NWMS has ever run!

I've now drafted all 20 creative translations for my current project. Still need to work and rework them but nice to have the foundations there.

📢Call for Contributions‼️ 📜Early Medieval Riddles Session 📍International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds 📅6-9th July 2026 📲Send abstracts to Megan Cavell (University of Birmingham) & Jennifer Neville (Royal Holloway University of London) ⏰Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 10th September 2025.

If you have not yet come across @drlauravarnam.bsky.social's wonderful creative/critical work, you need it in your life! This is a good place to start: creativecritical.net/against-misd...

Summer is packed with conferences, research, and teaching prep...but how about taking some time for your own creative criticality? Our next Making Space Session is taking place on Thursday 7th August 5:30pm-7:00pm (BST). Make sure you've joined the Guild to receive a link!

It was a lot of fun to present this at @imc-leeds.bsky.social and to respond to some really thought-provoking questions. Now, after some recovery, I need to start the next poems and commentaries on fire, heat and light! #IMC2025

The @imc-leeds.bsky.social has finished after another fantastic year! We’re already looking forward to another fun-filled IMC in 2026! Proposals are now open for IMC 2026 with a special thematic focus on ‘Temporalities’ 📜 Read more👇 www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2026/

📢Call for Contributions‼️ 📜New Directions in #OldEnglish Pedagogy: Instructional Simulations in Beginning Old English 📍International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS), Kalamazoo 📅May 14-16, 2026 📲Send abstracts to Donna Beth Ellard (University of Denver) & Simon Thomson (HHU Düsseldorf)

Nice time at Leeds #IMC2025! Paper, round table, some moderating. I always forget how tiring (but rewarding) these things are.

Are you ready for @imc-leeds.bsky.social? We are! Catch commissioning editor @siobhanmup.bsky.social at our stand all week to talk all things Medieval at MUP 👋 AND get 30% off all our essential Medieval titles while the conference runs - browse the reading list ⬇️ tinyurl.com/v86xj9vn #imc25

Good morning from our booth at @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Come and browse our books and say hello to the @manchesterup.bsky.social team #LeedsIMC2025