New: Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture @courtauld.bsky.social. Preliminary deadline 17 Nov. For more info visit courtauld.ac.uk/study/postgr... - or DM me.

Things are bleak but if the ‘resurgence of libraries’ is an outcome of medievalcore and dark academia trends then there is hope www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Geoffrey Luttrell, patron of the Luttrell Psalter, died 650 years ago today - 23 May 1345 also his 69th birthday. Ars longa, vita brevis. (British Library, Add MS 42130). (Speaking of brevis, I’ve posted a much longer blather about this on insta). Happy anniversary, Geoffrey Luttrell.

Goya’s luminous salmon steaks are completely ravishing - like he painted them for an hour and a half, then ate them. One of the many extraordinary works on loan to @courtauld.bsky.social from the Oskar Reinhart Collection for Goya to Impressionism, opening on Valentine’s Day.

Lecturer in Early Modern Art History (1400-1800) - AC2505RXLS University of St Andrews - School of Art History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU715/l...

In Tom Stoppard’s Invention of Love, the young A. E. Housman has a line I can’t get out of my mind since seeing Hampstead Theatre’s production last weekend (so much so that I looked it up):

don’t draw medieval art much - unsure why, maybe avoiding work/relaxation cross-contamination. But @tomnickson1981 and @sacharpg’s Medieval Multiplied show @courtauld, which is centred on the most incredible ivory mirror case, made me want to. courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/med...

Delighted to see the unicorn horn, once in the treasury of St-Denis, back on display, in an excellent case and perfect location @museecluny 🤩🦄. #unicorn #unicornhorn #medievalsky

A year old today: Cosmo has been celebrating all day, primarily through the medium of snacks. 🥰 #korthalsgriffon #longhairpointinggriffon

'Some of those affected are understood to be considering legal action, citing a significant impact on their plans to develop. Politicians including shadow education minister Neil O’Brien and former universities minister Lord Johnson of Marylebone have also spoken out against the move.' 1/2

The suspension of Degree Awarding Powers process by OfS is extremely concerning - esp for small institutions that have invested huge amounts of time effort + £££ in starting on the process. Worth reading @wonkhe.bsky.social and Rob Pepper’s com at the end wonkhe.com/blogs/hate-t... #HE #ofs

Happy December c/o the Sherborne Missal (BL, Add MS 74236, fol. 11v)

Ford Lectures! Jocelyn Wogan-Browne! Bet these'll be great! @oxmedstud.bsky.social #medievalsky www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l...

The 891-year-old Smithfield meat market is closing, bringing to an end the medieval triumvirate of church, hospital, and market (the fairground and field with a horse pool and gallows are long gone…). Image: Lobel’s map of London c1520 #medievalsky #medievallondon

Cosmo is impervious to Bert but highly pervious to treats #stormbert #korthalsgriffon

Storm Bert is still blowing hard - 40+ mph gusts this morning. Worth consulting windy dot com as well as this Austrian diagram of c1300 before taking my reluctant hound for a walk. #medievalsky

🍸📚 Reading Elizabeth de Burgh’s 1359 statutes for the foundation of Clare College - established in the wake of the plague, with student numbers down - is rather remarkable given the absolute state of things in 2024. 1/2 #medievalsky

Bluesky giving me c2011 flashback, when you could have an intense, sprawling convo with mss specialists all over the world about inky cat footprints or the material evidence of spectacle use in manuscripts… ps any tips finding on medieval art and medieval mss convos? #medievalsky #historysky

Is bluesky a light at the end of the tunnel…? Keen to find out…. c/o Hieronymous Bosch’s vision of the afterlife (in the Accademia, Venice)