🚨 LATE SUBMISSION WINDOW OPEN 🚨 We've had a withdrawal from one of these sessions and would be very keen to include another paper - please do not hesitate to reach out if you're interested, and to help us spread the word. Many thanks!! #skystorians #medieval #medievalsky #premodernrace #imc2026

Yesterday I learned that there was a certain judicial ordeal during the Middle Ages known as the ordeal of bread and cheese. How have I been a medieval historian this long and been unaware of this? Please, #medievalsky, tell me I’m not alone here!

In which we discuss oyster shells and candles, pigments and what to do when you have a hole in your parchment:

🧵The illustration “Personifications of the Four Humours” is a coloured image in the Guildbook of the Barber-Surgeons of York. Produced there, around 1486 with later additions, the the manuscript shows the 'Four Humours' bodily fluids which affected a person's health and

Tomorrow! ahc.leeds.ac.uk/centre-histo...

This week! Don't miss it #medievalsky How did Queen Isabel of Castile and King João II of Portugal deal with the loss of their only sons?

Includes free recipe for spiced chickpeas in cheese broth. 😋

Somehow, an 8th-c. English liturgical manuscript ended up in Mount Sinai (where it was palimpsested and written over by a Christian Arabic scribe). For more info: Michelle Brown, austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572%2...

So excited to attend #ICMS as part of the Library Careers for Medievalists 1 roundtable! I'm very passionate about career development and alt-ac/ non-ac careers for PhDs: icms.confex.com/icms/2026/me...

Two Visiting Full-Time Faculty Positions in Spanish (Medieval/Early Modern Iberian Studies): memorients.com/news/two-vis...

Was really pleased to listen to these two great papers (L-R Saaleha Iqbal, Louise Simongiovanni and co-organizer Natalie Hopwood)

Join us on Wednesday 4 March at 4 pm GMT online only. Núria Silleras-Fernández will speak on gendered mourning in 15th century Portugal and Castile #medievalsky #queenship #kingship #courtculture #genderstudies Go to link to register ahc.leeds.ac.uk/centre-histo...

"Kuwornu shares the diverse African presence in Renaissance Europe that he found: princes, ambassadors, saints, artists, scholars, and knights—all revealed through art from the period" www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

NEW Fish was a key part of early medieval Scandinavian diets, but lipid analysis of ceramics from Viking Age England found little evidence for aquatic products. Did Scandinavian settlers conform to Anglo-Saxon culinary traditions? 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

If you are interested in medieval health, medicine and healing, broadly understood, then consider joining @leedsims.bsky.social #TheLongMiddleAges later today. The seminars are free and hybrid and you can still register to attend! #medievalsky

A ‘temporary’ but seven-year post in Medieval English literature.

This dog looks sheepish next to the initial-word at the beginning of Torah portion Tetsaveh (תְּצַוֶּה). #ParashahPictures BL Add MS 11639; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; 1277 CE-1324 CE; f.43r

Regular reminder that @librarycongress.bsky.social hosts an excellent large and extremely zoomable digitization of this map online: www.loc.gov/item/2003626... #HistSTM #MedievalSky

Pontefract Castle is free entry, for all! But it hasn't always been that way... 🏰 In the 1800s, the ruins were reworked into a Victorian 'pleasure park'. Entry was by subscription. This ticket, giving a family entry for a year from August 1881 cost £1. That's around £70 today! 🤯

Professor John Nightingale, iconic medievalist and Fellow of Magdalen, who taught me Einhard's Life of Charlemagne, retires this summer. So Oxford and Magdalen are recruiting. There is no better place to teach and research medieval history than this: in the footsteps of Karl Leyser.

If you are interested in queenship, gender studies, or the history of death and grief, please join us on 4 March for an online only talk at 4 pm GMT. Please register at forms.office.com/e/pF2WeLQX3d #medievalsky #earlymodern #historyofemotions #historyofdeath #queenship #kingship

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

If you are interested in queenship, gender studies, or the history of death and grief, please join us on 4 March for an online only talk at 4 pm GMT. Please register at forms.office.com/e/pF2WeLQX3d #medievalsky #earlymodern #historyofemotions #historyofdeath #queenship #kingship

If you are interested in the relationship between food and war, consider coming to the Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions in York on 23 April: www.leedsfoodsymposium.org.uk.

Really recommend!

BEOWULF BY ALL: "Readers will encounter the voices of over two hundred individuals, woven together into a reading experience that is at once productively dissonant, yet strangely coherent in its extreme variation." FREE OPEN ACCESS PDF DOWNLOAD: www.arc-humanities.org/978164189471...

European Journal of Archaeology's #PaperOfTheMonth is "Diet and Mobility in Byzantine Western Anatolia: Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Ratios and Ancient DNA Evidence from Barcın Höyük and Kadıkalesi Anaia" by Rana Özbal et al.! 📚 https://cup.org/4aCGNh7 #openaccess @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social#PaperOfTheMonth

Love Your Pet Day 🐾 Medieval manuscripts are full of dogs, birds, rabbits and other companions. Sometimes helpful, often looking chaotic! Shelfmark: Bodl. 264, fols. 20v, 57v, 58r, 20v More pet content coming soon: Pets and Their People opens 11 March at the Weston Library.

OBS / Lincoln College research associate position! We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Lincoln -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 27th March

www.codicum.eu/news-and-eve... Tuomas Heikkilä is hiring a 4-year fully funded PhD in Medieval Manuscript Studies at the University of Helsinki within the ERC Synergy Project CODICUM. Interested in medieval studies, philology, history, art history, etc!

🧵The historic village of Felkirk situated on the Wakefield/Barnsley border has been given conservation status. It is perhaps best known for its lost or deserted medieval village Hodroyd. Today the site is an open grass field marked by earthworks and ridge-and-furrow patterns from 1/3

Open access

Terrific news for fans of Deutsches Archiv.

And if you still haven't had your fill of #Orkneyingasaga #SagaoftheEarlsofOrkney (who has?), I'm doing a webinar on 4th March: www.mymagazinesub.co.uk/history-scot... (see also Niall Sharples on #Vikings in the #Hebrides on Thursday)

Conférence – Eléonore Venturelli, « La pratique des rouleaux mortuaires. Une écriture collective de la mémoire (VIIIe siècle – première moitié du XIIIe siècle) » rmblf.be/2026/02/18/c...

Go beyond the battles ⚔️➡️🎵 Study medieval England through the music people sang, played, and heard. medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/engl... #MusicHistory

Happy #ValentinesDay... unless you're Richard II 😬 Did you know that Richard II died on (or around) 14 February 1400 at Pontefract Castle? He likely died of starvation - either self-inflicted, or a cruel punishment. Shakespeare over-dramatised this (of course). More info: wmandc.co/richard-ii

And here's the post on Alice Thornton's hearts by myself and Suzanne Trill. #EarlyModern

With a long line of carpet weavers in my ancestral past,* I approve of this. Carpets are important. *in Kidderminster though, not Cairo.

C'est la Saint Valentin, l'occasion de se demander ce qui se cache derrière les cartes, les chocolats et les roses ! #medievalsky theconversation.com/geoffrey-cha...

Highlights from @etreharne.bsky.social's visit to Leeds this week: a wonderful talk about mortuary rolls and a palaeography workshop for students and alumni, focusing on some of the Ripon Cathedral fragments cared for by @lulgalleries.bsky.social #medieval #manuscripts #fragmentology #palaeography

Free, onlyne, searchable Middel Englisshe Dictionarye. "The world's largest searchable database of Middle English lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500." quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-eng...

Our next Exploring the Past lecture takes place tomorrow. Book your place now! It is free and online. Basque Oak and Portuguese Wine: A Medieval Merchant Ship Reveals Her Secrets events.cardiff.ac.uk/view/basque-... @webstermedieval.bsky.social @sharewyatt.bsky.social

This #NationalInventorsDay we want to see your favourite inventions from the past! We'll start, with the 'true frame' saddle: the sturdy frame made mounted combat easier, making this invention instrumental to the rise of Mongolian steppe cultures. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Looking forward to having the formidable @etreharne.bsky.social at @leedsims.bsky.social! The seminar is free and hybrid. There is still time to register if you’re interested! #medievalsky #manuscriptstudies

#TilesOnTuesday Medieval floor tiles, Rievaulx was a Cistercian abbey, founded in 1132 by monks from Clairvaux Abbey Rievaulx Abbey, #Rievaulx, North Yorkshire

This coming Tuesday. Join us! forms.office.com/e/iP5qRb5GSk

One of the Lewis Chessmen - currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Found in 1831 on a beach at Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, the Chessmen dates to the late 12th or early 13th century. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #LewisChessmen #NMS

All welcome to our next research seminar. Elaine Treharne (Stanford) on handwriting, women scribes, digital tools and manuscripts. 10 February 5.30 pm GMT, Laidlaw Library (hybrid). To register: forms.office.com/e/iP5qRb5GSk #medieval #manuscripts #palaeography #digitalhumanities