This Thursday, May 28th, Natasha Jenman and Dean A. Irwin will give the next #davidpattersonlecture: 'In the Footsteps the Lincoln Jewry: Walking Tour/Book Launch'! Join us online or in person at 6pm on Thursday! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #medieval #booklaunch #Oxford

Here's a #GiftLink to this New York Times obit of Sonny Rollins: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/a...

I would like to add Richie Havens. Great show. Whew.

Introduce yourself with 10 artists you've seen live: Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians Woody Nelson Bob Dylan Paul Simon Patti Griffin Joni Mitchell Leonard Cohen Lucinda Williams Mavis Staples Concrete Blond

New article: Avital Davidovich Eshed: "Cut Through the Middle: The Virgin Body and the Body Politic in Medieval Ashkenaz." #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/21591

Research Group: Joy, Pleasure, and Enjoyment in Judaism. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/21639

New article — “Rachel Was Shapely and Beautiful: A Jewish Woman in Hostile Archives,” by Adrienne Williams Boyarin. #jewishstudies #medievalsky mjsnow.hypotheses.org/21762

This is a beautiful piece of historical work across a "debris field" of an archive.

Super excited that The Medieval Lincoln Jewry has now been published by ARC Humanities Press! Featuring myself, Christopher Johnson, Emily Rose, Julie Mell, and Natasha Jenman. Collectively, we explore some of the sources for the most important of England's medieval provincial Jewish communities.

Oh, how interesting! I'm writing about her father at the moment. My latest just out: www.arc-humanities.org/978180270288...

Happy to share my latest article in Aschkenas, “Rachel Was Shapely and Beautiful: A Jewish Woman in Hostile Archives”—on a 13th-century woman from Nottingham, archival silences and hostility, and critical speculation. Check it out: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

UVic Humanities is hiring a Research Chair in AI and Cultural Change — focused on justice-centered, critical, humanist approaches to AI and related technologies. Check it out and distribute widely (deadline Aug 28). www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

🚨 #medievalsky 🚨 Middle English Dictionary update via FB: "In its 100-year history, MED has enjoyed periods of support, and periods when that support was lacking. It is about to enter on one of the latter. After this year...UMich will no longer fund ongoing editorial work and maintenance." 🧵

UVic Humanities is hiring a Research Chair in AI and Cultural Change — focused on justice-centered, critical, humanist approaches to AI and related technologies. Check it out and distribute widely (deadline Aug 28). www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

I've had a first, quick read-through of the article on the new Cædmon's Hymn discovery and it is a splendid model of clarity. You could absolutely read the abstract and introduction and get why this is a blockbuster discovery. 🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Open access!)

"Scholars from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) uncovered the manuscript that contains Caedmon’s Hymn at the National Central Library of Rome." #MedievalSky #speirgorm #Spéirghorm www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Eep! In all the #earlymodern excitement, I forgot to add the URL. hcmc.uvic.ca/eol/cambridg...

#earlymodern peeps! The good folks at UVic HCMC have created a static version of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online, so this major work of scholarship remains ACCESSIBLE AND FREE. We're also working to remediate the editions themselves into the @lemdo-uvic.bsky.social ecosystem.

www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202... #Medieval Jewish London History Day 10 May 2026 The Barbican @barbican.bsky.social @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social @oxmedstud.bsky.social @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social #Medievalists

Great new teaching resources available for The Ellesmere MS - please share widely, and reach out to the creator with feedback if you use it next semester / for your own experiments! manuscriptreader.org

Tune in to CBC's The National on Sunday for an interview with the Old Books New Science Lab researchers on their discovery of a 15th-century French Royal letter! www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/old-boo...

Jewish Quarterly Review is Now Open Access. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/20780

Here's a cute little dragon I painted on calfskin (copied from a 13th century bestiary) using traditional medieval techniques and pigments (labelled in second image) #medievalmanuscripts #medievalscriptorium #bookhistory

An amazing essay by art historian Dr. Denva Gallant. 😇 hyperallergic.com/all-about-lo... for @hyperallergic.com

✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Apply for a #grant of up to £4k for research related to Anglo-Jewry. Individuals and institutions may apply: professional or lay scholars, PhD students, organisations, museums, libraries, archives. Deadline: April 2026 Visit: www.jhse.org/jhse-awards www.jhse.org/post/jhse-gr...

The University of Vienna @univie.ac.at invites applications for at least 40 fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions. I am one of the potential supervisors. If you have an exciting, innovative PhD project on modern #JewishHistory, please feel free to apply: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

I have 3 kids, and I think I’ve been preparing all their lives for this text I got late last night from my youngest (15yo).

David Suzuki is joining us in Victoria for a Conversation of a Lifetime. As he enters his 90s, this is a rare chance to hear directly from a defining voice in climate science and ecological justice. 🗓 Feb 9 | 📍 UVic Get your tickets today: climatesolutions.ca/event/david-...

MAA News - Speculum turns 100! As we celebrate the centennial of Speculum in 2026, we are thrilled to publish Speculations, an ambitious oversized issue featuring more than fifty short articles that highlight possible futures of our field. www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-news-spe...

The PIMS Leonard E. Boyle, O.P. Toronto-Rome Programme in Manuscript Studies offers a full curriculum which leads to a formal diploma. Apply for this summer's Palaeography and Codicology courses by February 1. pims.ca/article/diploma-programme-in-manuscript-studies/

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...

Amazing collections, lovely people. Come and spend a year doing research @theul.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social

Updated link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/H8GG4...

The first 50 readers can access my new short article in SPECULUM via this link (which allows a free PDF download). The piece argues that medieval Anglo-Jewish studies ought to be in conversation with critical archival studies: www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/H8GG4...

Fragmentology VIII (2025) is live. This is our biggest issue yet! doi.org/10.24446/qxs0 With studies of individual fragments and entire traditions, from the end of Antiquity through the present! All three eras: pre-medieval, medieval, and post-medieval!

And here it is, the January 2025 issue of Speculum commemorating the centennial of @medievalacademy.bsky.social! MAJOR congratulations to the editors, authors, and staff who made this fantastic issue happen. Happy 100th birthday to the MAA! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/spc/curr...

BBC News - Film prompts Norwich Cathedral to remove 'blood libel' leaflet - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts! www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his... www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

Come be my colleague! Research Chair in Trans Studies position open at @uvic.ca www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

It was a pleasure to work with Rory on this exciting new project! We had so much fun working with the Barbican community!

**FINAL ORDERS** Just four days to get your abstracts in the Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages. We've already had an amazing response to the Call for Papers, but don't miss you chance to be included!

Here are two tenure-track jobs in the English Department at the University of Victoria: www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf... www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

Just over 2 weeks left to apply to the Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers conference! It will take place in Oxford on April 20-21, 2026. We hope to provide bursaries to help with attendance. Email your abstracts to bordersboundariesbarriers[at]gmail[dot]com #medievalsky #skystorians

Very excited to be presenting my paper “Meir of Norwich and the Formation of an Insular Hebrew Poetics” at next summer’s New Chaucer Society Congress in Freiburg! Did Meir of Norwich know any French or English poetry? Probably! And I’ve got the Hebrew metrical evidence to strongly suggest it!

OMG PEOPLE! I have the BL hack of all BL hacks. Why didn't this occur to me before? It turns out the Wayback Machine has snapshots of MS metadata from the old Digitised Manuscripts site. I tried it for the Benedictional of St. Æthelwold, in honor of his day, and lo! web.archive.org/web/20140305...

The Medieval Foremothers Society invites proposals for two hybrid sessions honoring Sharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz) at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI in May 2026. Full CFP below!👇✨

For the first time since the Princeton Geniza Project began in 1986, we have published our metadata collated from over 30,000 Geniza documents and the People, Places, and histories of the Middle East and premodern Jewish communities found therein! zenodo.org/records/1583...

New book — Reading Across Cultures: Translating Romances, Fables, and Poetry in Medieval Ashkenaz, by Caroline Gruenbaum. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18229