Want to impress someone special this Valentines Day? 'Medieval Love Letters' by Myra Stokes and our own Ad Putter has some helpful medieval love letter templates, including 'How to dissuade women from taking the veil' and 'Persuading someone to marry for money'! #medievalsky #skystorians

Episode 144 is up! This time I chat with Director of Sound at Skywalker Sound - Randy Thom! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

Mise au concours/Ausschreibung/call for applications Doctoral School Manuscripts and the Challenge of Immateriality Fribourg, IEM, 7-9 September 2026 French: www.unifr.ch/mediaevum/fr... German: www.unifr.ch/mediaevum/de... English (missing details): www.cuso.ch/activity/?p=...

Our latest quarterly round up: a busy three months in the life of the Hong Kong History Centre here at the University of Bristol @hongkonghistory.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

Leaves from an early gradual, with traces of textual criticism (populis => famulis). Look at the music, too! (Beaune, Bibliothèque Gaspard-Monge, 36 [35]) arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/m...

FitMA has its own webpage! If you want to know more about Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle, have a look! Exciting events coming up (remote attendance is possible)! hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/researc...

This is TODAY! Not too late to register. Hope to see you later.

Nice and early fragments from a MS of Jerome's commentary on Isaiah. The switch between Latin and Greek gives a fitting teaser for the announcements we have in store for you this week @ FitMA! (Colmar, Bibliothèque des Dominicains, 29 [40]) arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/m...

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As a teenager, I was obsessed by the potential of CGI and digital art, and I spent so much time doing silly little projects with 3ds Max. I somehow found some renderings from 2005-2008 and they don't look too terrible. I preferred drawing portraits, but I hope I never find any of those.

We are really excited to announce the second of our fantastic keynote speakers: author, literary historian, Middle English and Biblical poetry expert... our very own Dr Cathy Hume (@cathyhume.bluesky.social)! 🎉🎊🎉

Fragmentological curiosity made me discover these leaves from a manual on housekeeping. How was a medieval steward expected to keep the kitchen clean and the master's horse healthy? #medievalsky fragmentarium.ms/overview/f-c... My article in the latest issue of Fragmentology: doi.org/10.24446/dpf5

AND HERE IT IS, as reproduced by Kehr in 1953 (plate XII)! I give you...the latest known surviving papal bull on papyrus!

Great to see my new study of the Bayeux Tapestry getting some traction across the Channel! If you’re interested in my argument—namely that the embroidery was designed as mealtime reading in a monastic refectory—you can read the article for free here: academic.oup.com/histres/arti...

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!

Are we living through a new Victorian era? youtu.be/E4D5doaKulk

Let's choose kindness in 2026. youtu.be/lopMMkz0law

The Earth’s core has more power than humanity could ever use. Clean heat, clean power, and even UK-sourced lithium to reduce our dependency on China. The tech hurdles are big, but the payoff is bigger and Cornwall is showing the way

The e-codices December 2025 update is live, with 31 manuscripts! Enjoy them all! www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/all/...

Hear ye, hear ye! Very exciting news! 🎉Our PGRs have now released the call for papers for their annual CMS PGR conference (the longest-running PGR medieval conference in the UK!) We'd be so grateful if you could share this with anyone who may be interested! #medievalsky #skystorians

Delighted to announce that more than 80 MS fragments from Gubbio, dating to s. XI-XII, have just been published online, thanks to the hard work of my PhD student, Laura Rogari. You can access them on @fragmentarium.bsky.social: fragmentarium.ms/search?sQuer...

Tell you what, both Roofman (an excellent drama, despite the silly poster) and The Smashing Machine should also be on everyone's watch-list. These films won't not save cinemas, esp. in a disastrous box office year like 2025, but they show that movies are alive and kicking.

Big thanks to the folks at Industrial Light & Magic Vancouver for making me feel so welcome this week. And to the amazing people I had the fortune to interview for my upcoming article.

If you enjoyed The Ballad of Wallis Island, then maybe Good Fortune is worth a try. Keanu Reeves does a pretty bad Johnny Depp impression throughout, and the finale is weak, but I'd still recommend it.

I missed my train this evening and, as it was late, I bought a pasty from West Cornwall Pasty inside Temple Meads station. The last time I bought a pasty from them, in 2014, it was ca. £4.50. Now it's £7.59. That's an increase of about 68.7%. Happy inflation, everybody!

Objectively the best Medieval Summer School out there 😉 Please consider sharing and, even better, applying! 🙂

If you liked, as I did, The Baltimorons, then chances are you're really going to enjoy The Ballad of Wallis Island.

Now equivalent to 3 US credit-hours, so go fill an elective with some intense medieval studies in this 3-week short-course!

We can't wait to watch this!

We hope that everyone is having a wonderful reading week! Here's a sneak peek at some of the CMS Research Seminars we can look forward to in the second half of the semester! #medievalsky #skystorians

Delighted to run this summer school again! Please, take a look at our new site and share this with colleagues and students who may be interested. www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...

Our brilliant PGRs are at it again! After last year's inaugural and highly-successful brat symposium (organised by CMS PGRs Shauna Roach, Sarah Collinson, Harry Lewis, and Isla Dawson), this year's committee is once again inviting Bristol PGRs to consider how 'brat' connects with their own research.

We absolutely loved having you -- come back and see us soon! 🥰

The Baltimorons is a truly lovely film. I wholeheartedly recommend it and wish more movies like this got made these days. Give it a chance, and you won't regret it.

Hwæt is this wonderful scene of creative chaos? Could it be the very successful first week of Old English AND Old Norse Reading Group?! #medievalsky #skystorians

Are Labour unlucky (or are they just rubbish)? www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgzn...

A great review of an excellent documentary, which is a lot of fun to watch! I'd also strongly recommend the interview with the director, Jon Spira, on Jamie Benning's podcast channel: @filmumentaries.bsky.social.

Call for Papers! Symposium in honour of our much-missed colleague Prof. Malcolm Heath, Leeds, 21-2 May 2026. Paper proposals of no more than 500 words to be sent by 1 December to Prof. Emma Stafford ([email protected]) ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/r... fb.me/e/3B3AY9ZZZ

Just arrived!

Book review just published! Send me an email if you’re interested in a copy: doi.org/10.1111/1468...

👏With huge thanks to @lcostantini89.bsky.social our annual CUCD statistics report is up at: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/0... 📣Highlights include: overall increase in UG students, an increase in students taking Greek ab initio, and higher PGT student numbers! Read more for details.

We need to tax wealth not work. Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets. Someone made a game to show this: therichdont.work

Want to work with the FitMA-team? Here is your chance! Join our great project and get paid for it! Two postdoc positions open! #classicsky #medievalsky #philsky www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Fragments from classical authors are rare! MS of Seneca's Letters 64 & 65 (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 2855). The connection with Fragm. 1622 was not noticed. www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...

Straw men: Robin Hardy's "British folk horror oddity like no other, now fully authorised" THE WICKER MAN (FINAL CUT) (2013) rescreens 9pm tonight, NFT3 BFI Southbank #MovieDrome projectedfigures.com/2013/09/27/t...