🚨Phd Position in #Digital #Medieval Manuscripts Studies You will be part of an international research project, applying innovative computational methods to the study of the transmission history of the Latin Physiologus and the Bestiary. 📍Radbout University (NL) 📆15 Jan 2026 ▶️ tinyurl.com/3wtcxpfc

Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended. They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision. Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

New issue of Early Science and Medicine Vol. 30, No. 6 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @carinevanrhijn.bsky.social @jtpmedieval.bsky.social @dgb-mem.bsky.social

In the tenth century a charm to control a bee swarm was added, upside down, in the margin of an earlier mss. It's one of the earliest Old High German texts. Tim Hertogh argues in recent article it was intended as an amulet to cut out & place in a hive - explaining the margins excised elsewhere.👇

#CfP Medieval Germany Workshop 📌 1 Day #Workshop at #GHILondon | 29 May 2026 | organised by @ghilondon.bsky.social and @germanhistsoc.bsky.social | for #researchers to discuss work in progress 📝 Deadline for proposal submissions: 15 February 2026 🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

Hooray! The British Library has just released a beta version of its rebuilt Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk 2,619 hits for 'petition' in Western Manuscripts, texts in English, in case you're curious. 🗃️

1 Postdoc "Spätantike und Frühmittelalter" (Universität Wien) www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

An exciting new postdoctoral position focusing on Old English epistolary materials

We zijn nog niet klaar met Sint Nicolaas: dr. Rozanne Versendaal en dr. Rutger Kramer (@anotheraspirin.bsky.social) van de Universiteit Utrecht nemen ons namelijk mee naar het Arras van rond het jaar 1200… naar de opvoering van ‘Le Jeu de saint Nicolas’ van Jean Bodel! Luisteren dus 🎧! 🧵 1/2

𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀, 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱 By Bastiaan Waagmeester More info: bit.ly/48vHU0X #ChurchHistory #Theology #Carolingian #Literacy #Medievalsky #Medievalists

Job: 1 Postdoc-Assistent:in "Mittelalterliche Geschichte" (Universität Klagenfurt) https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-159169 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, 02.03.2026-29.02.2032, Institut für Geschichte, Universität Klagenfurt, Bewerbungsschluss: 07.01.2026 Postdoc-Assistent:in, Universität …

Hij was net zo’n icoon als Cruijff of Einstein: hoe middeleeuwse bisschop uitgroeide tot de moderne Sinterklaas

JOB Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400, University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Héél trots zijn de Utrechtste historici van de middeleeuwen op Janna Coomans en haar welverdiende Libris Geschiedenis Prijs! @humanitiesuu.bsky.social

De winnaar van de Libris Geschiedenis Prijs 2025 is Dievenland van Janna Coomans! Dat werd zojuist bekend gemaakt in OVT, tijdens de speciale slotuitzending van de Maand van de Geschiedenis in de OBA. Van harte gefeliciteerd Janna en uitgeverij De Bezige Bij!🏆📕🏆 📸Keke Keukelaar

Janna Coomans wint de Libris Geschiedenisprijs 2025 met haar boek Dievenland! Dat werd zojuist in OVT Radio bekendgemaakt. Lees het nieuws, een fragment en een interview: athenaeumscheltema.n...

www.gewina.nl/najaarsbijee... We gaan iets leuks doen, en iedereen mag komen - wel even inschrijven via deze link zodat er genoeg koffie is.

#archaeobirds 🪶

Should anyone find themselves in central London on Weds 19 November, consider yourself invited to a book launch! @earliermiddleages.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

New early medieval grave field in Nijmegen! nos.nl/l/2583849

Net afgestudeerd in de vroege middeleeuwen? Manuscripten-fanaat? Paleografie en Latijn? We hebben een part-time baan voor een Nederlandstalige getalenteerde duizendpoot: vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda... Wie vragen heeft: emailen mag. En deel dit vooral. @irenevanrenswoude.bsky.social

Happy to share that my wonderful colleagues organise a hybrid conference on the use and understanding of the Lord’s Prayer at @unituebingen.bsky.social which is also attendable online! You can find all information on this webpage konferenz.libripendis.eu#programm made by @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social

The Institute of History of the University of Bern is seeking to fill a full time professor position (open rank) in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods, beginning 1 February, 2027. ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

"The Deanspeak translator can even filter out your administrators’ most common gobbledygook. Default settings include 'deliverables,' 'synergy,' 'assessment,' and 'shared governance.'"

Look what is going to come out before the end of the year: brill.com/display/titl...

I am very excited to announce (and show off the awesome cover of) a new edited volume coming in December! Just the perfect stocking stuffer or gift for your favorite Carolingian aficionados! #Medieval

International attention for the CEMLM Handlist: www.sciencesetavenir.fr/archeo-paleo...

Se pueden consultar en Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine (CEMLM), el catálogo más completo hasta la fecha sobre medicina altomedieval, reúne centenares de manuscritos dispersos por bibliotecas y archivos de toda Europa www.eldiario.es/spin/cientos...

Médicos da Idade das Trevas sabiam mais do que você pensa. O Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine (CEMLM), financiado pela Academia Britânica, reuniu centenas de manuscritos medievais contendo material médico anterior ao século XI. #historia📚⚕ overdoso.com.br/2025/07/18/m...

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Uncatalogued Arabic manuscript from West Africa — a fragmented. Loose leaves, varying paper sizes. Topics include mathematics, astrology, talismans, magic, divination, and treatises. I am looking for assistance with describing this manuscript, if interested, please DM me. Thanks

Over 60 medieval manuscript fragments from St John's Library's collection have been uploaded to Digital Bodleian 🥳 These medieval fragments were removed from college library books and are now known collectively as MS 235. You can view them here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/partners/st-... (a 🧵)

🎉 NWO-subsidie voor onderzoek naar anonieme middeleeuwse schrijvers! Collega @irenevanrenswoude.bsky.social en @carinevanrhijn.bsky.social (UU) onderzoeken hoe mensen tussen 750 en 1000 omgingen met teksten zonder bekende auteur. Hoe betrouwbaar was kennis zonder naam? 👉 tinyurl.com/45bwhwds

Na een lange en chaotische avond, stemde de Tweede Kamer voor de asielwetten van minister Faber. Het wordt zélfs strafbaar om ongedocumenteerde mensen te helpen met onderdak, een maaltijd of kleding. Help ons dit beleid tegen te houden, teken én deel de petitie: groenlinkspvda.nl/petitie/stop...

Great news: Anonymous Knowledge has been given funding!

It even gets better: The Times gives half a page to the project today, featuring @jtpmedieval.bsky.social , a caudron and some choice Scottish vegetation.

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

Earĺy medieval medicine people, anonymous knowledge folks, others: the first phase of our Handlist has just gone live! More will follow.

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

People, it has been postponed! We will let you know as soon as there is a new date.

Teaching Fellow in Global (and they mean it) Medieval History at Leeds www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNP726/t...

I am doing a wee online talk on my book as part of the International Society for the Critical Study of Divination seminar series this Wednesday 25th June at 12.00 BST/13.00 CET. @carinevanrhijn.bsky.social is my kind respondent! Zoom link: fau.zoom.us/j/63863821152 All welcome! #MedievalSky

Prognostics people: Jo and I will be talking about her book - ideal lunchtime entertainment next Wednesday, thanks to the Erlangen Centre seminar series.

new 3-year position for a postdoctoral research fellow as part of the ERC project INSULAR (funded by UKRI) based in Göttingen, Germany Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Early Medieval Manuscript Studies and Germanic Philology #medievalsky

🚨Job Alert: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Early Medieval Manuscript Studies and Germanic Philology, with experience in #DigitalHumanities to work with the INSULAR project (Göttingen, Germany). #medievalsky

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.