New article by Liverpool PhD Dr Eddie Meehan "Identity, exemplarity and the ideal king in early medieval Ireland" open access academic.oup.com/histres/adva... #history #leadership #ireland #medievalsky

Now... @helsinhashtags.bsky.social, what do you think, should we ask for copyright clearance to put this in our book proposal?

Check this out! :)

Alright Old Norse folks, how are we translating 'skráveifa' as in Jón skráveifa Guttormsson?

There's one ghost 👻 in the Star Chamber catalogue, STAC 8/151/7, allegations that a ghost was haunting a husband and wife so that they "could not thrive". Happy Halloween 🎃 discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C5...

tl;dr 1. Studies of genAI in the classroom show that it harms learning 2. The quality of AI-generated text is irrelevant to its most negative effects on teaching 3. The way AI has entered the classroom is as a money-making project extracting new labour, not a “tool” serving teachers’ actual needs

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We are delighted to announce that the call for papers is now open on the theme of WOMEN AND THE WEIRD The deadline to submit an abstract is 10 November 2025, find the full details attached!

Last year’s brat symposium is (and might very well always be) my favourite academic event. Super creative research in an informal, experimental space. Come along, it’ll be a blast! 🍏

From one book to another, a promo banner for LITTLE KINGDOMS has arrived in the post, handily displayed by my wife (stood behind the poster)

Also featuring my first attempt at a poster academic poster!

Exciting news! I am now the Medieval Editor for @epoch-history.bsky.social PGR Magazine www.epoch-magazine.com/joshua-coult...

Enjoyed showing students today the amazing 1063 charter signed by Anna, queen of France, in cyrillic.

Hey #medievalsky ! I’m designing a medieval hero & monsters literature class. If anybody has some syllabi they would be willing to share, I would super appreciate it !

professional secret: vikings didn't exist. medievalists invented them in 1968 in the wake of the first wave of Tolkienmania to trick people into spending their careers reading saints' lives and homily books

Anyone got any good recommendations for books about the Visigoths or, more generally, 4-7th c. Spain? 📚

Fantastic piece on a fascinating aspect of early Irish law, by my former PhD student and @ceilteachomn.bsky.social graduate, Dr Viktoriia Krivoshchekova, who is now a postdoc at @scs-dias.bsky.social #MedievalSky www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Delighted to have this post published by the @irishhumanities.bsky.social, where I discuss some of the terminology surrounding disability in medieval Ireland! www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...

Our #CFP has been extended to Friday 26th September!! @imc-leeds.bsky.social #imc2026

Still space for abstracts for the Leeds IMC call for papers hosted by Institute for Irish Studies doctoral researchers at Liverpool 'Law and Contacts in the Irish Sea Region' #medievalsky

DEADLINE EXTENDED to Friday 26th September Really exciting call for papers for Leeds, please get in touch with Hannah and Nik by the 26th of September!

TNA SC 8/97/4826: The Lion and the Saint of Gloucester

‘… social historian David Kynaston, told The Observer he suspects “a serious scandal is unfolding” John Wyver, Ian Greaves, Erica Wagner and others on the growing battle to prevent damaging changes to the BBC’s priceless behind-the-scenes archives:

They've been called 'american gentry' and speaking as a medievalist, it's not un-apt

Very cool call for papers for next year’s Leeds IMC!

📅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 💚

If early medieval Aquitaine or Carolingian political culture is your jam, please do give this a read (also on Open Access thanks to @livunihss.bsky.social @livunilibrary.bsky.social)!

Fresh on early view: @eddiemeehan99.bsky.social on how Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) balanced kingship "as an office and as a dynastic status". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hello! It might seem strange to have my first post here be a Call for Papers, but I guess it's a statement of my interests😊 ✨Call for Papers - Leeds IMC 6-9 July 2026✨ Comparative Approaches to Supernatural Encounters Deadline for proposals = 5th September 2025

Glad you enjoyed it! Definitely the most ambitious NWMS symposium we’ve ever run :) Great to see what my constant battles with technology looked like to everyone else 😂

Be my replacement for a year and work in a great School with lovely colleagues! Please share with any modern Europeanists who might be interested!

Another call for papers for our joint sponsored session with @networknorse.bsky.social - please share widely!

Scoil samhraidh 2025: gabhaimid ár mbuíochas le gach duine a ghlac páirt inti, agus tá súil againn gur bhain gach duine leas agus spraoi aisti. Summer School 2025: thanks to all who took part, and we hope everyone benefited from it and enjoyed it. www.dias.ie/2024/11/12/c...

Can anyone help with a passage from this will of 1450? Reading from "Et sinon..." in the top right corner. I'm getting stuck with "bonorum meorum in consilium? et p[ro?]vebil[?]" and then "post decessum predicte Margarete mancione mea nemi[?]detur?" Any suggestions very welcome!

I think about this quite often with the several major 7th c. battles between Northumbria and Mercia. Sure, they redefined dynasties and ushered in new regimes each time, but think of the 'Northumbrian' farmer in the Yorkshire Dales; would she have cared if 'her' king had been beheaded 70 miles away?

With some surprise, I am delighted to announce that I am taking a Tenure-Track job as Assistant Professor of Queer and Medieval Literature at SUNY Oneonta. Advice for incoming assistant professors is warmly welcomed! 🩷

Registration is now open for conference on the manuscript known as the "Book of Lecan", collaboratively organized by @ria.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social. Taking place 2-3 October at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin: shop.maynoothuniversity.ie/index.php?ap...

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

Treasure acquired! Also, the brilliant @pdht.bsky.social is now on BlueSky. I've been working for them as a collections manager for about 2 years, mainly in the world of policies and procedures, but the other day I had the superb opportunity to sign off and do a handshake deal for a 7th c. object

I'm a baker with a PhD, naturally I had to get my thesis turned into a cake 🤷🏻‍♀️

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

Last Ancient Celtic Lecture with @davidstifter.bsky.social at DIAS Summer School :)

As with most issues, the root cause of this is landlordism: very untalented, greedy people who own lots of buildings charging absurd rents for businesses to function, which then forces the businesses to match these rates w/ high prices, driving customers out, resulting in the businesses closing

obviously c) is that they should only be allowed to enter university challenge as “Oxford” and “Cambridge” unless each college wants to be individually assessed for the REF

Medieval Manuscripts Were Bound in Seal Skin, New Study Finds www.medievalists.net/2025/04/medi... #medievalmanuscripts

And the STAC 5 data enhancements are complete. You can now search the whole of STAC 5, nearly 40,000 items for Elizabethan Star Chamber proceedings, by short title, plaintiff, defendant, case code, and more. Enjoy! discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1...