Today was a fun lecture day! ☺️

We are hiring .... Because John Nightingale is retiring... for a Tutorial Fellowship in European History 400-1000... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP650/t...

𝗔𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗺 𝗔𝗱𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹, 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲, 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝗲𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗺 Bryony Coombs, Jill Harrison, Giovanna Guidicini (eds) More Info: bit.ly/4tjLViJ #Renaissance #ArtHistory #History #15C

Donning my purple gloves to say happy birthday to our 1000-year-old astrolabe #histsci 📜 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Made it to St Marnock's at Fowlis Easter, with its extremely rare in situ pre-Reformation paintings. I was too excited about all the painted manuscripts... 📖

In a crazy big old house with a group of old university pals and there is a surprise at every corner...

Llyfr braslunio yn eiddo i Frances Margaret Wynne Sketch book belonging to F.M.W. [Frances Margaret Wynne] but including works by B.W. [Blanche Maria Wynne]. Sketches and watercolours of flowers, of scenes around Llanddulas and Garthewin, and of part of Lake Geneva. 1879-1887 Garthewin Add./715

Booked a log cabin up north to escape Edinburgh in Easter and walk up munros. The thought of it is keeping me going...🏔️ 'Mount of Wisdom' MS 0412, f. 020v, Bibliothèque Municipale, Carpentras.

Happy Valentines with a motif playing on the iconographic tradition of the Mystic Winepress where Christ becomes the grapes in the press. Here the sacred heart is pressed in a bookbinding press. In the centre is the Virgin of the Seven Sorrows....❤️🍇❤️

Happy almost Valentine's Day with a detail from an extraordinary survival of a pre-Reformation Scottish textile: The Fetternear Banner held by the NMS. The heart motif relates to the arms of Gavin Douglas (1474-1522) at the top of the banner, the scallop shell relates to the Graham family ❤️🐚❤️🐚❤️

Fellowship Opportunity! Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History University of Oxford - St Hilda’s College www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL341/j...

Love this colourful printer’s mark of Christophe Plantin in a customized copy of the New Testament (1564) for Hubertus Schotus, the prior of the Bois-Seigneur-Isaac Abbey! #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

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Super chuffed to find out that 'Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France and National Identity c. 1420-1550' received recognition from the Historians of British Art for 'Exemplary Scholarship on the period before 1600.' Delighted - thank you @hba-caa.bsky.social!

#jobfairy this is an intriguing one - 18 month research fellowship for an object-focused historian, museums studies person or similar at Chatsworth House! £48k + £11k travel, outreach etc #skystorians www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK358/d...

So delighted to receive copies of our new book! Coming in at almost 380 pages, it has ten super chapters, contains transcriptions & translations of key 15th C documents & has some v. useful maps courtesy of my co-editor, Giovanna Guidicini. Thank you @jillharrison1.bsky.social & all involved! ✨📖

Just received copies of our Anselm book, thank you Brepols! Thanks too to co-editors and authors who made it such a great experience-can't wait to start on the next one. Suggestions please.

The flying saint BnF Latin 12048; Sacramentarium gelasianum; 8th century (c.780 CE-800 CE); France (diocese of Meaux or Cambrai?); f.59v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

CfP: 'Scotland and the In-Between,' the annual conference of the French Society for Scottish Studies, will be held at Université de de Lorraine, Nancy, 12-14 November 2026, co-organised by IASSL member Céline Sabiron. Papers may be delivered in French or English. Full CfP: tinyurl.com/5h8v293z

When people talk about the idea that some universities must go under, there’s a certain tendency to behave as if these smaller local campuses are negligible- regrettable casualties perhaps but not ‘real’ universities. This report does a great job of illustrating why that’s wrong.

So delighted to receive copies of our new book! Coming in at almost 380 pages, it has ten super chapters, contains transcriptions & translations of key 15th C documents & has some v. useful maps courtesy of my co-editor, Giovanna Guidicini. Thank you @jillharrison1.bsky.social & all involved! ✨📖

Always great to dig in the collection: small 1588 book by Bonaventure Bertram bound in 11th century gospel of Matthew. 😍😍

Andrew Wyeth, Groundhog Day, 1959 (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Our Adornes book is listed (coming soon):

I am spending an awful lot of time currently following up leads like this that lead me to the awful words: 'current location unknown.' Whatever happened to those 14th C breviary fragments used to hold fish-hooks for an old man in Carnwath I wonder? ....

Flashback to a key Auld Alliance moment for me - making haggis from scratch for my in-laws in France - a mildly traumatic experience! Also an early recipe for haggis, Sloane BL MS 1986, f. 55r. Happy Burns night! #BurnsNight

Sometimes the internet just does not work. I'm having one of those days. I seem unable to access the KB manuscript catalogue, which is soul destroying & the volume I need of the 'Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum' (years 1916-20) is one of the few undigitised arghhh!

Oh please oh please www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some breaking art historical news for you - a lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn was unveiled today at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s been missing for more than 200 years. 1/3

Closing date 31 January: applications are now invited for the Society's new Applied History Fellowships with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson: bit.ly/4ijiuII Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months #Skystorians

The best testament to Agnes’ cult in the Nordic sphere is the Icelandic manuscript Kirkjubæjarbók (AM 429), which is a collection of material on women saints. The book contains a translation of her passio, attributed to Ambrose (ff.61r-69r). (5/n)

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

AHA members: The AHA is accepting applications for the 2026-27 research grants until February 15, 2026. Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars and to those with specific research needs. 🗃️

📢 ✌️ We're kicking off our event programme for this semester off with two CMRS sessions! 🎨 📜 First join us tomorrow as our own @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social discusses depictions of Judas in medieval art and literature. 📅 ➡️ Then later this week ...

Remember, ‘everyone has a part to play in making the university more financially resilient’ www.heraldscotland.com/news/2577015...

Just added 'the Scottish Medievalists' to: go.bsky.app/43xNSFh

This 👀: I run a class on late-medieval political satire and this ⬇️ is going straight in there. Visual literacy has always been important and using animals in images to underscore the abuses of the world is perennial...

New essays for #medievalsky folks - including a #histsci -related essay on elephants in medieval England, and an essay on race and Beowulf. 🗃

Some news: UCLA CMRS is taking over Manuscripta (www.brepols.net/series/mss), and I am going to be the general editor. The new blurb is below. To wit, the journal is going to now focus on GLOBAL premodern manuscripts. Still, I am going to keep the focus. This is your nerd shit: codicology, single ms

Every time I think I have a handle on the corpus of 'Scottish' manuscripts for my book, a new one pops up. The latest is as perplexing as it is delightful. In a private collection, so perhaps this is why it had escaped my notice, but there are so many more questions to answer....

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This entire thread is exactly right about what’s happening at Edinburgh.

Peeking through a parchment tear...

Fellowship Opportunity! Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships Open to artists whose work would benefit from primary research related to the early modern world (ca. 1400-1800) and it's legacies. Applicants NOT required to hold a formal degree. www.folger.edu/research/the...

Treasures at the Bodleian. A wonderful exhibition in its last few weeks. (Bodley 264; Douce 292; Gutenberg Bible)

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Just written a thing and I now have to edit out 700 words - why is my life always this????😢 (BnF, Français 875 f.10v)

#DigiBodAdvent day 10, one for the Middle English and Scots fans, the Sinclair manuscript (MS. Arch. Selden. B. 24). The earliest Scottish vernacular verse anthology and the unique witness to "The Kingis Quair" attributed to James I. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/ea06...

Incidentally, this fascinating manuscript was commissioned by a Scottish princess in 1464: Isabella duchess of Brittany,daughter of James I of Scotland. The scribe (according to a colophon) was Jehan Hubert: