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

Very sad to say that the love of my pet-owning life suddenly died this week. RIP Leonard the cat. A noble and cuddly animal who always knew when I needed him. I will miss him very very much.

After 2 weeks away, I’m about to head into the office and tackle the email I’ve missed. I’m sure it will be fine.

In the meantime, you can read the story of this object and the Roth Collection here: www.leeds.ac.uk/news-arts-cu...

Hey kids! First time at the #IMC2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social? Here are some of Old Man Kramer's Hot Tips! #medievalsky

All taken care of! A big public thank you to @medievaljews.bsky.social.

Does anyone have easy access to Cecil Roth's JEWS OF MEDIEVAL OXFORD? If so, I need to see pp 126–137 and would very much appreciate photos and/or scan sometime in the next few days. #medievalsky @medievaljews.bsky.social? @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social?

New article by Elisheva Baumgarten: "The Art of Weaving and the Art of Embroidery: Jewish Women’s Professions in a Medieval European Perspective." #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17815

Super excited to share the CFP for the 'Borders, Boundaries, Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages' conference. Organised by Tash Jenman (Oxford), Naomi Reiter (QMUL), and myself (Lincoln/OCHJS) this will be held in Oxford 20-21 April 2026. All welcome, please share!

A spec. iss. of EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH, ed. S Fein and T Goodmann, in honour of late Osage poet & medievalist Carter Revard, is now live!: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54946. (A stand-alone book version is forthcoming from @archumanities.bsky.social—but u can reach out if you need access.) So proud of this one.

Extraordinary moment at the exhibition in the Bode Museum that brought, in the same room, Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus and the manuscript of Walter Benjamin’s On the Concept of History. Methodology of history’s equivalent of nuclear fission.

A spec. iss. of EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH, ed. S Fein and T Goodmann, in honour of late Osage poet & medievalist Carter Revard, is now live!: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54946. (A stand-alone book version is forthcoming from @archumanities.bsky.social—but u can reach out if you need access.) So proud of this one.

Publication day! My new article in ASCHKENAS has appeared: "The Mother Tongues of Medieval English Jews"—ever wondered if the Jews of medieval England might have spoken English? This article's for you, #medievalsky. Check it out: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Explore the collection online 📜

Fascinating article on a subject about which I confess I had never thought, one way or another. #openaccess too!

Never thought about this! Very cool

Find the whole issue of Aschkenas on Jewish Moneylending and Documentary Culture in the Middle Ages here: www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/... #jewishstudies #medievalsky @medievaljews.bsky.social @mmzpotsdam.bsky.social

Now that I have a big screen the table of contents for this volume. It began life as a set of panels at the EASJ Congress in 2023(??) and brings together so many amazing scholars of medieval Jewry, with more on the way! Hopefully emphasises the importance of scholarly, as well as medieval, networks!

Publication day! My new article in ASCHKENAS has appeared: "The Mother Tongues of Medieval English Jews"—ever wondered if the Jews of medieval England might have spoken English? This article's for you, #medievalsky. Check it out: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

"The work of archive is justice. Hope is not helpful to the work of archive, nor its companion, optimism, but faith is indispensable. The voices of ghosts matter. And how we respond to them matters." V Harris I do not hope that what we do in the archive is important. I have absolute faith that it is

This OpEd from last week is important. What kind of Jew is allowed at Harvard under its new campaign against IHRA-defined "antisemitism" that's designed to equate Jewishness with loyalty to the Israeli government? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Many of you know I've been working on the La sfera project with scores of friends for about 5 years. We were thrilled to receive support to bring it to a larger public, and crushed when we lost it when it was nearly 70% complete. We are now seeking donations to finish it www.sferaproject.org/donate

Our next ATNU Virtual Speaker is @janellejenstad.bsky.social on 23 April 2025, talking about "From Macbeth to Mucedorus: Changing how we Edit and Publish Early Modern Plays". Register now! research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/at...

The Journal of the Canadian Historical Association invites you to a roundtable discussion of Rowan Dorin’s Ferguson-Prize-winning book, “No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe”. #cdnhist #medieval #roundtable #skystorians @medievalatx.bsky.social

🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨ Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!). academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...

MAA News - MAA Centennial Digital Humanities Showcase As part of the celebrations for the MAA's Centennial Year, the Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Committee and the Graduate Student Committee have partnered to organize a year-long series www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-news-maa...

We are very sorry to learn of the death of the medieval historian, Bob Moore, who published as R.I. Moore. Elected a Fellow of the RHS in 1975, Bob Moore taught at Sheffield and Newcastle. He was known for his work on persecution and heresy and as an early proponent of world history bit.ly/4iXCAb2

Well this new description of my book, in the context of all that’s going on in the world, just made me start ugly crying while waiting outside a pharmacy.

Congratulations to @aboyarin.bsky.social, whose book The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess: the Polemics of Sameness in Medieval English Anti-Judaism (2021) received the @medievalacademy.bsky.social Jerome E. Singerman Prize: www.medievalacademy.org/page/Singerm...

Really looking forward to participating in this conference, a critical look at the return of lachrymose historiography, at Penn at the end of the month! Registration is open and there may possibly be a zoom option. jwst.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...

SUNY Geneseo is hiring a Special Collections Librarian to oversee the SCs/archives in our recently and beautifully renovated Milne Library. I'm on the hiring committee, so happy to answer general questions about the position. #jobfairy jobs.geneseo.edu/postings/5137

JOB: TT Assistant/Associate Professor, English, UNBC Medieval or Early Modern universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

Applications are open for the Summer Latin Program at the Centre for Medieval Studies, Toronto! Note that Basic Latin is online, a great opportunity for anyone who's been wanting to start Latin and doesn't have a local option. www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer... #medievalsky

Just heard the very sad news about Francis Newton, an expert in the manuscripts of Monte Cassino. He was very kind to me as a PhD student and beyond. It truly was a blessing to know him and learn from him -- both about Beneventan palaeography and how to be generous with knowledge. Requiescat in pace

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 @medievalacademy.bsky.social Publication Prizes! Such an amazing group: Copeland, Coomans, Ballan, @wendylbelcher.bsky.social, Delmolino, Borland, Kersey, and @aboyarin.bsky.social! www.themedievalacademyblog.org/2025-medieva...