🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride Month!🏳️‍🌈 Today's #medievalart #illustration is inspired by 'Le Roman de Silence', a literary piece that depicts a girl raised a boy who name themselves 'Silence'. They are accosted by both Nature and Nurture (and Reason), who argue over whether Silence should remain a man. Find yourself!

The Staithes mermaid legend deserves more love... so today is officially a #MermaidMonday for the village and its rich history. #mermaids #mermaid #folklore #britishfolklore #britishlegends #maritimelegends #staithes #yorkshirelegends @folkloresociety.bsky.social @folklorethursday.bsky.social

Another #medievalart #illustration. This time, thinking about the time they dug up a corpse and put it on trial.😅 📜Pope Formosus was a pope that sided with a duke over the king of Italy, leading to the next pope to put his rotting corpse on trial! They mocked his silence and 'grinning' throughout📜

The 2nd instalment of our Post-REALM ‘Travel & Transcriptions’ series is now live! Find out about Moritz’s visit to the British Library to see some Floris & Blancheflour manuscripts: postrealmproject.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/t... @moritzdraschner.bsky.social #medieval #medievalmanuscripts

*so* excited about this aaaaargh #MedievalSky #Skystorians 🗃️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈😇

So many Floire & Blancheflor manuscripts, so little time…thankfully the Post-REALM team make use of Transkribus! Read about Elliot Worrall’s experiences with this fantastic tool in his work on 2 Swedish texts, plus his tips on using it for your project. postrealmproject.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/u...

The anti-capitalist Bestiary is coming along nicely I think! 😎 #art #illustration #DisabledRights #TaxTheRich

Just in time for an #easter #medievalart #illustration "Lenten ys come with love to toune, With blosmen & with briddes roune, That al this blisse bryngeth; Dayes eyes in this dales..." - c1314-1349. MS Harl. 2253, f71v.

🧵 Is this a Dire wolf... 🤔? No... Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ... 👇

Happy #AprilFools ! Another #illustration in #medievalart style. With #signalgate being both hilarious and terrifying, I struggled to find a medieval equivalent. Stanczyk was a purported jester known for his wit and philosophic views. So, I imagined him being accidentally invited to a war debate! 😂

How cool is this?! Super lucky to have my very own historiated initial, courtesy of @goodenguy.bsky.social. I know I’m a bit biased, but damn he’s good 👀✍️ #medievalart #historylovers #medievalmanuscripts

With my recent exploration into #medievalart I thought it only appropriate to #illustrate my own profile picture in a medieval manuscript initial replication! 😊 #historylovers #medievalists #illustration #manuscript

Floire and Blancheflor is everywhere so we are too! @moritzdraschner.bsky.social was recently in Leiden to see the Dutch manuscripts. 📖🇳🇱Check out his blog post (and find out more about the Post-REALM project while you’re there): tinyurl.com/Post-REALM-t... #medieval #medievalmanuscripts

Over 110,000 Medieval Manuscripts May Have Been Copied by Women www.medievalists.net/2025/03/1100... #medieval #medievalmanuscripts #medievalwomen

Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry to Be Displayed in a Rare Landmark Exhibition www.medievalists.net/2025/01/tres... #MedievalManuscripts

My department at Uppsala university has just announced two open PhD positions: one in history of science and the other in history of ideas. We research, for example, colonial history of science, history of medicine, and intellectual history. Deadline: 8 April

Are you a recent recipient of a doctorate? Come work with us! This post is designed to provide experience in teaching and teaching-related administration in a world class university environment. The post is tenable for one year only from September 2025. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD111/a...

Don’t forget your papers #immigrationenforcement

AI struggles to interpret human history www.earth.com/news/ai-stru...

📣 One week until the deadline for this FULLY FUNDED PHD OPPORTUNITY 📣 Don't miss this exciting opportunity to pursue a collaborative doctoral award working with the IES & British Jesuit Archives with the excellent @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social, @lucyvinten.bsky.social, & @laurajcleaver.bsky.social

More also: the book is super expensive, but if you sign up for the launch next Weds you'll be entered into a raffle for a free copy www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... & I'm working on/with the press to get the 60% off discount code to ppl who register, even if only for a short time

This is wonderful! What an incredibly useful resource for hagiographic research!

It is an exciting time for @lostmss.bsky.social - a software upgrade, iiif-compatible, and more exciting news to come this year...

Happy to see two more articles published for @litencyc.bsky.social. Accessible entries into the complex history of ME prose romance and Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale. Pitched to students so useful teaching resources. 1. www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.... 2. www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.p...

Nominate now! If you don't see your type of #Digital #Humanities reflected in DH Awards, then nominate more of it!

*VERY EXCITING VACANCY* Join our team behind the superb Renaissance Studies as editor -- guided expertly by Wiley. Ability to combust into flames and shrug it off not a requirement. #EarlyModern excitement is Deadline: 31 Jan 2025 All info: rensoc.org.uk/vacancy-edit...

If you are in Bristol and want to hear me talk about sex you are in luck. I will be giving a talk called "What Every Medievalist Should Know About Medieval Sex and the Law" at the CMS Research Series on 27 February from 16:00-17:45. Arts Complex Research Room 6. Yay!

Fairies on Radio 4 tonight with the lovely @joannechocolat.bsky.social Tune in if you can. Listen later if you can’t

I recently prepared a page from a medieval manuscript (CCCC, MS 143, fol. 28r) for a TV programme. Here's a look behind the scenes at how it was prepared, using tradition techniques. I made four examples to show the different stages of production #bookhistory #medievalmanuscripts #medievalsky

Happy new year, all! Now that I'm back at work I'm hyped to realize that our edited volume on Lordship and the Decentralized State will be coming out in less than 3 weeks! This gives me just enough time to share the things I'm most excited about with this project... global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Margaret Paston Advent Day 22. Margaret refers to ‘disguising’ as a Christmas activity. We know the Pastons enjoyed Mummers Plays at Castor. We even have a fragment of what seems to be their ‘script’ for Robin Hood & the Sheriff of Nottingham. Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. R. 2. 64 (fragment).

Alert: great opportunity if you are interested in doing a PhD around early book. Salaried (!) Marie Curie Doctoral Research position advertised by the U of Bristol within the exciting “Remediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures” project (@rebpaf.bsky.social). uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c...

As we approach the Winter Solstice, here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century. BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r

As Christmas nears, here's a charming little nativity depicted on the Exultet Roll in Latin MS 2 of the John Ryland Library, Manchester. Left sits Joseph, and right the baby is washed in a little cup. We can also see the bees at work below. Interestingly, script is not upside down as in other cases.

When planning how to celebrate LUP’s 125th year, we wanted to make sure we were giving back to the academic community, and supporting ECRs has always been an area of importance for LUP. Find out more about our #EarlyCareerResearcher conference attendance bursaries initiative: bit.ly/125ECRs

I got to visit @unileiden.bsky.social today and looked at the only two surviving Middle Dutch witnesses of "Floris ende Blancefloer" – in two 14th-c. manuscripts that differed greatly in look and feel!

Finally emerged from my social media hermitage. What better way to celebrate than sharing some of the cool books and libraries I've visited this year...