54 years and a day apart this week two Early Medieval hoards were discovered in Cheshire. The Castle Esplanade hoard of Viking silver & Anglo-Saxon pennies, AD900-950 found #OTD in 1950 & the lovely Huxley Hoard of Viking arm rings, an ingot & lead fragments found in 2004, AD850-950 📸 me & NML

For anyone interested in vikings: a symposium on the impact of the viking Great Army, to be held at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge on 24 April 2026.

Third-year ASNC students visiting the Wren Library (@trincolllibcam.bsky.social) to look at medieval manuscripts with @rorynaismith.bsky.social - many thanks indeed for being such gracious hosts!

Publication – « Aristocratic networks. Elites and social dynamics in Italy in the age of Lothar I », éd. Giuseppe Albertoni, Manuel Fauliri, Leonardo Sernagiotto rmblf.be/2025/11/25/p...

Interested in early medieval history? Read the proceedings of the latest Dorestad conference online FREE here, including my chapter about gold and silver in Frisia after Dorestad's disappearance in the 850s. For a .pdf of my chapter, DM/email me. #medievalsky www.sidestone.com/books/dorest...

On advance access: "Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664-687 in England" by @rorynaismith.bsky.social (University of Cambridge) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Oh wow, major work of interest to #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory. A new special issue devoted to "Environmental Challenges in Premodern Eurasian and Mediterranean Narratives": journals.uio.no/JAIS/article.... Kudos to the editors for bringing this work so quickly into print!

BBC News - Solid silver Saxon cross found in Leeds field goes on show - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...

New 📖 & stocking filler 🎁 from the FeedSax project team - Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300 Congratulations to the FeedSax team! You can get it in print from Nov 21st. @archanchistleic.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...

"IT IS AGREED AND MOST EVIDENT THAT ALL MASTERS ARE EVIL..." So begins the speech of the slave character Pantomalus in the Querolus, the only extant late antique comedy. It will feature in a slavery sourcebook that we are working on. Read more in our newest blog post: tinyurl.com/zrmc4a6s

For a limited time only - a digital offprint of our interdisciplinary article rewriting the early history of Bruges and the coast of Flanders, and proposing it and Boulogne as mints of Charlemagne. shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-...

The first find of Viking age dirhams on the Danish island of Falster - in 🇩🇰 www.tv2east.dk/guldborgsund...

Chris Wickham's 'Framing the early Middle Ages, Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800' (2005) is widely seen as a milestone in early medieval studies. New research published by Robert Portass, Peter Sarris and Caroline Goodson (@cjg70.bsky.social) now offers a critical response to Wickham’s ideas ⬇️

Now available Open Access! academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Thomas Keyes demonstrating how manuscripts like the Book of Kells and Lindisfarne Gospels were made. Videos from a Lottery funded project based at the Tarbat Discovery Centre. Thanks to @victoriawhitworth.bsky.social for the link www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJd...

Many congratulations @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social on this superb new book - I look forward very much to reading it!

THIS WEEK: Please join us and @uclioabmmedieval.bsky.social for the Sir David Wilson lecture, with @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 'From Mesoamerica to Early Medieval England: Money, Materiality and Society'. Weds 8 Oct, 6.15pm, Archaeology Lecture Theatre G6. All welcome! www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

This year's Brixworth Lecture will be given by Joyce Hill on Pastoral Provision and the Benedictine Reform. Tickets: www.friendsofbrixworthchurch.org.uk/2025/09/03/b...

The 2025 Dorothy Whitelock Lecture @engfac.bsky.social will be given by Prof. Jane Roberts. All welcome. In person and online. Registration details below. 👇

📣 The Earlier Middle Ages seminar @ihr.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Here's our autumn term schedule. First up is @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 8 October, giving the annual David Wilson Lecture (with @uclarchaeology.bsky.social). All welcome! Please sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A feast for the eyes! 😍 One of the finest Carolingian coins ever seen, à gold solidus of Louis the Pious, minted in the 810s, in an auction with Jean Elsen. 💯% genuine as die-linked with previously known coins. elsen.bidinside.com/en/cat/156/2...

Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...

For #EpigraphyTuesday an amazing #Roman gold fibula (a decorative pin for fastening garments/a brooch) carrying the Latin inscription VTERE FELIX - use this happily, one of the most common inscriptions on Roman finger rings and fibulae. From Ostrovany, Slovakia, late 3rd c. AD 📷 KHM Wien 🏺

Coming next spring ... yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Congratulations to Dr Ben Guy, who has been awarded an AHRC standard grant to fund a major collaborative project on the early Welsh charters and their boundaries! www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/2025/09...

I would love to have used Liz Truss as an example of dodgy modern Anglo-Saxonism when writing this: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A mummy portrait of a soldier from Fayum in Egypt. Dating to around 130 AD, the portrait is part of the collections at the Altes Museum in Berlin. 📷 My own. #Fayum #AltesMuseum

Many congratulations to @ninacnock.bsky.social , who recently completed a doctorate in ASNC and has now been awarded the 2025 Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß-Prize for the best PhD thesis in Celtic Studies! 🎉🎉🎉

Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) wishes to recruit an Associate Professor/Professor in CDH from Jan 2026 Specialisms: Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/associa...

#MedievalSky Financial Times has a free behind-the-scenes piece on the diplomatic negotiations btw France & England that brought about the "exchange" of the Bayeux Tapestry, scheduled for 2026: www.ft.com/content/3f1e...

A very interesting new article out in @enghistrev.bsky.social from Ingrid Rembold on the discourse around orphans, widows and protection in the Carolingian World. academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

An exciting day of papers for those interested in early medieval charters (on 9 September). If you’d like to attend, do send me a message!

Forgot to mention this yesterday, but this new volume--the Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy, edited by Richard Flower--has now officially been published and should be available through Cambridge Core for those who have access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

For #FindsFriday the unique and remarkable Khazar coin inscribed "Moses is God's messenger", from the huge Spillings hoard found on Gotland in 1999. The coin (dated c. 837) is the only physical proof that Khazars converted to Judaism. From the Gotlands Museum book "The Spillings Hoard"

#IMC2025: This evening, don't miss our own Caroline Palmer, Brepols' Rosie Bonté, Rory Naismith (Cambridge) and Charlie Rozier (UEA) in conversation about the author/publisher relationship. buff.ly/j7wDpQu @rorynaismith.bsky.social @rosiebonte.bsky.social @rozierhistorian.bsky.social

Finally able to share: A Festschrift in honour of the one and only Ros Faith. Twelve essays on peasants and rural society in the 7th-14th centuries, edited by @hannah-boston.bsky.social and me, coming later this year with UHerts Press. www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book...

For #FindsFriday a great picture of the Roswinkel hoard (just a few of its 144 coins) which a group of us are publishing in full in the next issue of Palaeohistoria - the first time that's been done, despite the fact it was discovered in 1870. Photo Wijnand van der Sanden.

***SANAS OBRACH | JOB AD*** Celtic & Gaelic at @uofglasgow.bsky.social is advertising a full-time, fixed-term lectureship in #CelticStudies. Application deadline: 23 July. I'd be delighted to chat to anyone considering an application - my email is in the ad www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Amazing opening keynote from @rorynaismith.bsky.social I learned so much about early medieval English communities (especially gilds). Intrigued at the idea of building community around the prevention and/pursuit of "knifing" blokes 😅

New Exhibition in Liverpool starting this September www.visitliverpool.com/event/treasu... #medievalsky #museums

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

🧬In Neolithic Çatalhöyük, family was built on social relations rather than blood ties. Genetic analysis shows that over time, co-residents were no longer genetic relatives. Female subadults were buried with 5x more grave goods. 🔍A surprising story of Neolithic social life.

@ihr.bsky.social has released a lovely set of videos on Youtube of interviews with eminent historians; made in the 80s and 90s, these are a lovely snapshot of titans in the field from a generation ago. www.youtube.com/@instituteof...

Want to know more about one of the most influential scholars of British (especially early medieval) coinage? Come to a special event in memory of Michael Dolley, organised by the British Numismatic Society and held at @britishacademy.bsky.social on 11 July: www.britnumsoc.org?view=article...

Delighted to see this out with @enghistrev.bsky.social: A new look at the thing we call the Danelaw. What's behind the idea that England had three legal provinces, one of them Danish? And what did contemporary writers actually mean by 'Dena lagu'? (Open Access) doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...

A very good new article on ‘The Limits of the Danelaw’ by Richard Purkiss is now available open access from @enghistrev.bsky.social . Highly recommended! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

We're hiring @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! Seeking a Lecturer/Assistant Professor for the Department of Early Irish and programme in Irish Cultural Heritage @maynoothuniversity.ie next year. Deadline 25 June 2025. More info here: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

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