Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

🔔 job opportunity at @cam.ac.uk in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400 in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Bird place-name of the day 109: RAMRIDGE (lost place, somewhere in Devon parish of Holcombe Burnell: www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/Resu... ). OE hremn + hrycg. ‘Ravens’ ridge’. #birdsandplace #naturewriting

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! @rhigarthjones.bsky.social discusses Ottoman receptions of Roman antiquity. Then, Black Death mythbusting; wampum beads in Canada; celebrating Native American Heritage Month; ancient Mexican coprolites; ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more!

Come and hear curators of the national Royal Armouries museum talk about their research. Thursday 27 November (hybrid), 5.30pm. Go to link to sign up for online attendance ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/eve... #medievalsky #royalarmouries #armour #historicalweapons #armsandarmour #museums #militaryhistory

Come and hear curators of the national Royal Armouries museum talk about their research. Thursday 27 November (hybrid), 5.30pm. Go to link to sign up for online attendance ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/eve... #medievalsky #royalarmouries #armour #historicalweapons #armsandarmour #museums #militaryhistory

Ymportant newe booke about Dante and scholarshippe -- open access onlyne www.ici-berlin.org/publications...

Great example. I’ve often heard people say they believe medieval people discouraged or punished female literacy, whereas Mary is usually shown reading during the Annunciation, so every medieval person constantly saw images of the #1 female role model reading. The anti-learning Middle Ages is a myth.

How did medieval people treat an anal abscess? 🌹 John Arderne, a 15th-century English surgeon, relieved the pain with a suppository of oil of roses and raw egg yolk. This manuscript (@trincolllibcam.bsky.social , MS O.2.49) is on display at our Curious Cures exhibition. Tickets: loom.ly/kVqsPRY

I am delighted to announce that my co-authored article on Mamluk maqamas on #BlackDeath has just been published in a lovely special issue of JAIS. journals.uio.no/JAIS/article... #plague #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory #histmed 1/2

From Central Asia to a Viking-Age grave in Sweden. Copper-alloy flask with Arabic script. Found in a grave in Aska, Östergötland. It illustrates the Viking world's long-distance trade networks, and the routes by which dirham silver reached Scandinavia My 📷 Ref. Historiska museet

Getting away with crime or getting justice? Sometimes medieval criminal court records reveal instances in which localities and/or individuals took the punishment of crime into their own hands. The castration case of Tom, son of Leofwin, from the year 1202 is one such case. 🧵1/5

Spread the word! A new postgraduate and early career researcher seminar series at @universityofleeds.bsky.social! For those studying the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern periods. We look forward to reading your proposals! #medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique

Isabella Lewis (@leedsims.bsky.social) writes our latest blog post about St Andrew the Fool. Looking at Andrew's hagiography from the 10c., Isabella explores the intersection of sexual violence and race in the Christian East #churchhistory #skystorians eccleshistsoc.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/s...

In my world, the holiday season IS deviled egg season (and my mom makes a mean one!). And of course it’s medieval. Many, many of the good things are!

This week I talk about the distinction between a king and a tyrant, featuring quotes from my hometown after the Boston Massacre, John Locke, and naturally, Arnulf #medievalsky

JOB Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400, University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

A new interview blogpost from me! This time talking to @alexharvv.bsky.social about his book "Forgotten Vikings". We also touch on the importance of promoting academic history outside academia.

"The two listed here are the clearest examples of women reporting such crimes, but they are by no means the only ones..." theconversation.com/written-acco...

It's Halloween! Let's look at some scary eels! Susan Hill's 1983 horror novel THE WOMAN IN BLACK, takes place at the secluded & haunted Eel Marsh House. A dark & tortured estate, set in a fen full of eels! Much creepier than setting the stage at Lamb Meadows. 1/6 🗃️🧪

A few days left to respond to my call for papers for the @latineast.bsky.social conference in Porto next year - expressions of interest for papers on modern uses of the crusades welcome by 4 Nov.

In fantastic news for medievalists, 'Perfume and Milk' from Florence + the Machine's new album Everybody Scream contains references to Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love, and allusions to the General Prology of the Canterbury Tales (as well as, I think, the opening of Fitt II of SGGK)

Happy Halloween from Leeds IMS - and from the friendly bats on this cloister window from Lisbon cathdral #medievalsky #gothicarchitecture #sedelisboa #bat #Halloween

Marginalia can be depressing. The marginalia next to this case from Nottinghamshire in 1280-81 has five esses, each of which has an abbreviation mark that looks like a nine. This is abbreviated Latin for "suspensus". In other words, five people were hanged.

Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...

Guest post today on @thehistorybits.bsky.social website, talking about the release of my new book on the formidable women of the Burgundian Empire #medieval #womenshistory @penandswordbooks.bsky.social historytheinterestingbits.com/2025/10/29/g...

These terrifying bats are looking forward to #Halloween 🦇🦇🦇😱 Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Today! 5.30. Sign up forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast Let's roll.

It was great to write this blog post for the @guildmedmak.bsky.social and to give readers a little glimpse into my creative-critical practice, as my 'ecocreative' translations turn from storms 🌧 and ice ❄ to heat and fire 🔥 via the OE poem on The Phoenix #medievalsky.

Tuesday 5.30 for new research on the materiality of Abbasid palaces. Hybrid #medievalsky

@londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social London Medieval Society will be hosting its first colloquium of the academic year on the 22nd November 2025 on the subject of Women and Knowledge in the Middle Ages. 😊 You can find the Zoom link here: us02web.zoom.us/j/81823681150

Did you know that classics students at @wwu.edu put out a weekly newsletter in Latin? You can read it online or subscribe to receive it in your inbox Friday 🤓 #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #skystorians #languages

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments. #medievalsky www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

This is the feast of Proclus of Contantinople, d. 446. BNF grec 1335 is a 14c MS that includes his letters. Here are the opening and closing of that collection, ff. 181r and 185v. The catalogue says the MS is written on "bombycin," which I had to look up... 🧵

Now, that is some really interesting news!!!

{Open access} Public Engagement in the European Middle Ages: Medieval Solutions for a Modern Crisis by Christopher D. Fletcher www.arc-humanities.org/978180270096...

In 1316, the manor court of Wakefield fined almost every unmarried woman in the district. Their alleged crimes? Premarital sex or marrying without permission. It sounds like a moral purge, but the truth, buried in the Latin of the Wakefield Court Rolls, tells a much more practical story.

My blog post with the ADAM network has now been published. It's about precarity, the future of small subjects, and communal approaches to academic work. I hope it will resonate with some. #IchBinHanna #KleineFaecher #SkandiRetten difficultmedieval.com/2025/10/23/h...

Julia's new article is available free Open Access, as is all content published in Transactions bit.ly/486BF5d The journal's editors welcome submission of research articles and comment pieces, on historical practice and debate, from historians working within and outside education 2/2 #Skystorians

Conference: "Reconsidering Courtly Environments, c. 1200-1800” To join the conference as a digital participant for free, please register by 17 November. More info and registration can be found here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conference...

Assistant Professor of English, Medieval Studies (Texas State): #medievalsky memorients.com/news/assista...

University of North Alabama - Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor of History (Medieval) #medievalsky memorients.com/news/univers...

University of Kiel - Doctoral Researcher in History of Knowledge of the Medieval World #medievalsky memorients.com/news/univers...

Gossip, paleography, and "a massive, almost unstudied source" in @rayclemens.bsky.social's latest post: open.substack.com/pub/raymondc... #medievalsky

Yesterday I taught the final class of a course based on my book 'The world of Clovis'. Part of an outreach programme mainly attracting retirees. One of the most interesting questions: "All this time you've said nothing about Clovis' personality. Why?". My instant response was: "How could we know?".

In Part 2 of the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover, @oliviaglaze.bsky.social considers the policy and impact potential of research on languages, identity and culture within the medical humanities. thepolyphony.org/2025/10/21/l...

So pleased to launch the CfP for the III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities!! Looking forward to your paper proposals 🤗🥳 Deadline 31 Jan 2026 @ebenbow.bsky.social @emmaolson5.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #cfp #earlymodern #history #urbanstudies #callforpapers

Congrats to @laurysarti.bsky.social on her new book on Merovingian Francia and the Roman Empire, open access and downloadable here (scroll to bottom of page) brill.com/display/titl...