Hannah Arendt 🙏 #gegenfaschismus #niewiederistjetzt #gegendasvergessen #antisemitismus #nazisraus #afdverbotprüfen #prüf

Anyone got a spare £million? Asking for.... Well, asking for me news.artnet.com/art-world/me...

Heute Abend diskutieren @kheinsohn.bsky.social, @michaelwildt.bsky.social, @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social und Nadine Rossol über die vielschichtigen Bedeutungen des 9. Novembers. Schaltet Euch dazu! Wir freuen uns auf eine spannende Diskussion! #hist4dem

Hi #MedievalSky, does anybody have a copy of Lisi Oliver's 2003 chapter “Who was Æthelberht’s Laet?” from Linda Hall's Confrontation in Late Antiquity? Many thanks in advance! 😁

Bonjour, fellow medievalists! I'm very pleased to announce a conference on Beowulf next March at the @cema-su.bsky.social Sorbonne. I have the honour of joining Francis Leneghan in giving one of the keynotes. Link below has the CFP and registration info, please spread the word! cemasorbonne.org

Would any successful Bodleian visiting fellow recipients be willing to share their application materials with me? Especially if medieval/early modern. Ta!

I talked to the @unibonn.bsky.social magazine forsch about perfectionism, the Middle Ages, and why we could do with more creativity in scholarship. This is the English translation. www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...

Ausblick auf die Diskussionsrunde am Sonntag zum 9. November als vielschichtigem Datum in der deutschen Geschichte. 👇 #hist4dem #hist4demAktion #9November

In Victoria Park, Glasgow, there's a chap who guerilla-posts unofficial notices. More of this, please.

Wer wissen will, wie "Bildungspolitik" der AfD in Sachsen Anhalt und Brandenburg jetzt schon aussieht, sollte sich den Beitrag bei Kontraste (6.11.) anschauen. Besonders empfehlenswert für alle, die gegen ein Verbotsverfahren argumentieren. www.ardmediathek.de/video/kontra...

Ich kann meine Freude kaum in Worte fassen: Mein erster Aufsatz ist heute erschienen!!!☺️🥳 Ich danke @bgebert.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy und @lasarroise.bsky.social für die tolle Zusammenarbeit und @kpo.bsky.social für die wunderbare Unterstützung!😇 #medievalsky mittelalter.hypotheses.org/37941

Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen 🏺

Am 9.11. jähren sich mehrere Schlüsselereignisse der deutschen Geschichte. Er steht für den Aufbruch in die Demokratie und deren Fragilität. #hist4dem lädt zu einer Diskussion ein über die Zerbrechlichkeit demokratischer Ordnungen und die Notwendigkeit sich für die Demokratie zu engagieren. (1/3)

There is a free online seminar on the book today, which I will sadly miss, as I’m outside digging pits and postholes. ☹️ Hope there will be an article soon. 1/2

Good article on a rare find. #medievalsky

Am Donnerstag, den 6. November wird Norbert Finzsch an der Uni Köln ab 18.15 Uhr zu einem ebenso aktuellen wie beunruhigendem Thema sprechen: Der sich seit 2021 verschärfenden Bücherzensur in den USA. Den #hist4dem Vortrag kann man auch digital besuchen: hist4dem.de/banned-books...

Five years, four authors, one book. Out now (fully open access), our new book on local priests in the tenth century 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social

Nein. Falsch. Es sind zwei rechtsextreme Parteien. Und die Linken sind nicht aus dem Parlament geflogen, sie waren schon vorher nicht drin. Das wiederum hat wirklich andere Gründe. Warum hat dieser Post, der so voller Fehler ist, soviel Erfolg? Weil sich keiner wirklich für Tschechien interessiert.

It's just two words, but a personal favourite find in a medieval manuscript is this signature of Anne, a princess of Kievan Rus and Queen (Regent) of France. Written on a 1063 charter, it reads "АНА РЪИНА" ('ana rъina' ~ 'Anne Queen'). The language is Old French, but the script is Cyrillic!

Ich hoffe, spätestens nach dem ZDF-Debakel, die jetzt in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung Merz-Stadtbild-Hetze durch eine manipulierte Umfrage legitimiert haben und nichts falsch gemacht haben wollten, merken mehr Leute, dass der ÖRR schon lange nicht mehr "linksgrün" ist, falls er das je war.

Beim Versuch, nach rechts abgewanderte Wähler zurückzugewinnen, riskiert der Kanzler durch seine Rhetorik die Entfremdung von Millionen Deutschen mit Migrationsgeschichte- auch meine. Mein Gastbeitrag als Angesprochener für @spiegel.de www.spiegel.de/politik/ciha...

CFP: Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158084 Innsbruck, 19.03.2026-20.03.2026, Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.11.2025

Unexpectedly, the OA version of "Mediterranean Connections. The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756)", The Medieval Mediterranean 145 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2025), is already out! (first they told me 27.11, then 30.10) ...Download: brill.com/display/titl...

I am very much looking forward to this workshop at which I am speaking in Bonn in November, organised among others by @akjp89.bsky.social, and funded partly by @dependencybonn.de

Der aktualisierte Call for Papers für unser Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter ist jetzt da! Die Frist für Bewerbungen endet am 30.11.2025. Bitte weitersagen oder selbst bewerben! #medievalsky #mediävistik #skystorians

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of

It appears this will already be published by the end of October! 🤓 brill.com/display/titl... (reminder: it will be in open access)

At the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies we are offering 10 fellowships for scholars at any stage in their careers to stay with us for up to 6 months (PhD candidates and senior academics) or 12 months (postdocs) to complete a research project: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/pdf-f...

Do colleagues have favourite readings to give graduate students to help them think about the problems as well as possibilties of doing inter-disciplinary work in medieval studies? I'd be grateful for suggestions please.

I'll be on ABC Nightlife's 'This Week in History' at 11.00pm (AEDT) on Sunday - 30 minutes on the life of Edgar Ætheling and the political landscape of 1066. You could make a drinking game out it: a beverage whenever I muddle my Edwards, Edgars, Harolds, and Williams. But it might get dangerous!

hey #medievalsky anyone know of any good scholarly articles talking about the medievalism of Follett's "Pillars of the Earth?"

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Chapeau to @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social for his wonderful new book which has just arrived, an amazingly global and ecumenical volume, in all senses! Beautifully produced by OUP (and before publication day!?). A spur to others!

In den kommenden Tagen wird die Bundesregierung entscheiden, wie sie am 14. Oktober in der EU zur #Chatkontrolle abstimmt. Eines ist klar: Kommt die Chatkontrolle, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sichere Kommunikation mehr geben. netzpolitik.org/2025/anlassl...

The Church of England has a female leader. ‘… she's also a former midwife who describes herself as a feminist’. I reckon this as very good news!

A warmly evocative tribute to Jinty Nelson by Alice Rio: 'Her openness about her family & how much it meant to her turned her into an inspiring role model to generations of younger women...she somehow made you feel that you could be yourself, & that this would not be counted against you.'

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

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today. h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

Look what we have here then.

4 year fully funded PhD at University College Cork in the field of Old Norse-Viking Studies, working on artistic and literary representations of the Vikings for the ERC-funded @norsemap.bsky.social project. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc... #medievalsky

The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers. We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts. Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!

Where did we get the letters of the alphabet from? And why does English use them so strangely? Here’s an excerpt from the new book, “Why Q needs U: A history of our letters and how we use them”, which takes you on a linguistic odyssey through the history of the alphabet:

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

So my understanding is that most medieval scholars no longer believe in the historicity of the berserker myth, but I'm having trouble finding focused scholarship on the issue in English. Does anyone here have a good reference article to hand on the question?

Stichwahltag. Nutzen Sie Ihre Stimme.

Nicht vor dem Altar knien, wir wissen, was dann passiert!

I finally made it to Bluesky - and our volume on the "feudal revolution" ist out (and open access!!)! www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/after-t...

What do trade tolls have to do with the "Feudal Transformation"? My take, just published:

Academic career symbolized in a picture. #Ichbinhannah #postdocchatter

I just did a little more research and found out the goat deal was a myth. Disappointing, but good to know the truth. Karl Marx was indeed imprisoned in the university jail when a student tho. www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...