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

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