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...

oooh...not long now birlinn.co.uk/product/the-...

Delighted to see this out in Open Access! Here's the table of contents:

James has helped organise four panels for the IMC, featuring @rorynaismith.bsky.social on shady deals in the Fens; Roy Flechner on redistribution & the Papacy; Bronwen Neil on monks & prostitution; @relicsclerics.bsky.social on priests & bankers - and much more besides, including a panel on slaving.

Very pleased to get copies of this today! Many thanks to all the contributors and to @brepols.net for a very pleasant experience.

Senior Curator: Mediterranean Antiquities University of Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMW351/s...

Our #medievalMSS have been online for over 15 years Have we had any impact to the field? @stewartbrookes.bsky.social agrees with a resounding YES! www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/ope... Have you used parker.stanford.edu/parker? We'd love it has influenced you! #medievalSky

Many congratulations to @rorynaismith.bsky.social for winning the Otto Gründler Book prize, just announced at @kzooicms.bsky.social!

Massive congrats to @rorynaismith.bsky.social for winning the big book prize in Medieval Studies this year! Listen to Rory chat with me about coins here: www.medievalists.net/2024/04/medi...

Bob Berkhofer announcing the winner of the 2025 Otto Gründler Book Prize: Rory Naismith. Congratulations @rorynaismith.bsky.social !!

Where you can also get @rorynaismith.bsky.social on Making Money in the Early Middle Ages

Another superb Open Access article now out in Early Medieval England and its Neighbours, by the great Stuart Pracy, on heriots - death duties for warrior elites - in early medieval England: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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

New #SpeculumSpotlight episode!! @medievalacademy.bsky.social

Another excellent new (open access) article now available in Early Medieval England and its Neighbours, looking at late Old English poems and their representation of Britain, by the great David Callander: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's a good time to be a medieval/modern numismatist, with two great job opportunities now available. One is a four-year postdoctoral post in Vienna (jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...); the other is a permanent job as curator at the British Museum (bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com/templates/CI...).

Lecturer in Digital History  UCL - History Department #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI974/l...

Extremely pleased to announce (and first ever post here) that Danica Summerlin and my special issue on 'law beyond the legal renaissance', funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social, is now out, with open access introduction www.tandfonline.com/toc/flgh20/4... .

If anyone is interested, here is a video of a very enjoyable talk I had with Javier Mejia for the Evonomic and Political History Podcast a few weeks ago. Also available as a podcast. m.youtube.com/watch?featur...