We're looking for an Assistant Editor for the Haskins Society Journal! Applications due by April 27.

It's April & while no doubt there are some people labouring, these fashionable ladies are picking flowers and making wreaths. The April Labour of the Month from University of Manchester MS 164 4r

Happy Hug a Medievalist Day! #MedievalSky

With 200+ tickets claimed for my public lecture on the Bayeux Tapestry on 30 April, there are only a few spaces left! Get your free ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-lec.... When they’re gone, they’re gone!

We're delighted to loan Matthew Paris's (d.1259) 'Chronica Majora' to Lincoln Castle exhibition See the Siege of Lincoln in 1217 displayed along with Magna Carta - visit these two stars while you can! www.lincolncastle.com/events/event... CCCC MS 16ii, ff. 55v-56r tinyurl.com/mre3xwp4 #MedievalMSS

We are all saddened to hear of Stephen’s passing. Steven presented at Haskins and at Haskins-sponsored conference events, and published his excellent work in our journal. He will be sadly missed within our community.

We're extending the deadline for submissions to the Bethell Prize to Saturday, Jan. 31 by midnight CST. Details at: thehaskinssociety.wildapricot.org/bethellprize If you've already submitted your essay but would like to use the additional time, feel free to submit a revised version. #MedievalSky

The remains, believed to be of 25 individuals including Emma of Normandy, were jumbled together in mortuary chests at Winchester Cathedral

So far in 1066: • Edward the Confessor has died. • Harold Godwineson has been named king instead of Edgar Ætheling. • Edward has been buried. • Harold has been crowned. It's still only 6 January.

An astoundingly brilliant talk, and a great beginning to the last day of #Haskins2025 !

Saying goodbye to the beautiful venue of #Haskins2025 after two and a half days of brilliant papers and even better conversations over coffee and drinks. Eagerly looking forward to the next one.

Extremely excited to discover the Hampton conference hotel has a waffle iron #Haskins2025

And that, joyfully and sadly, is a wrap for the 44th International Conference of the Haskins Society. A great inaugural year at the University of Miami, our home for another two years. #Haskins2025 ##medievalsky

And we're moving into our concluding panel, on Conquest and Aftermath in both England and Sicily. #Haskins2025 #medievalsky

Alison Beach has just finished up inspiring this gathering of medievalists with the possibilities of telling far more empathetic and inclusive stories of medieval people. #Haskins2025 #medievalsky

Haskins is now in the Latin East. Nicholas Paul, in a strong panel of exemplary scholarship, shows us Matthew Paris' directions for how to get there. #Haskins2025 #medievalsky

Paul Oldfield takes the Haskins Conference through the changing "devotional landscape" of 12C Palermo. #Haskins2025 #medievalsky

Session 4 is full of revelations and thoughtful insights regarding penance, pain, childbirth, and the medieval body. #Haskins2025

We are back at it, now exploring legal ideals and messy realities. Frances Eshleman wraps up another strong panel. #Haskins2025

@haskinssociety.bsky.social Shai Cohen presents on the Virtual Maimonides project. #Haskins2025

Paul Freedman takes Haskins into the world of medieval English and Catalan cookbooks. #Haskins2025

@haskinssociety.bsky.social Paul Freedman takes Haskins into the world of English and Catalan cookbooks. #Haskins2025

My view during the @haskinssociety.bsky.social Council meeting this morning. #Haskins2025

I’m excited that the Haskins Society has moved to a hybrid conference. I’ve never been able to make it to one (and can’t attend this year‘s) but will be present virtually next year. I planned to submit an abstract for a paper for 2026 but, alas, missed the deadline.

I'll be briefly presenting in the New Research Forum tomorrow morning on my (relatively) recent dissertation turn towards the environment as a key component of early medieval landscape research around the firths.

On my way to Miami for the @haskinssociety.bsky.social conference and very excited! Planning to ditch my sweater (an absolute necessity today in Boston) about halfway to balmy FL...

We're excited to welcome both our in-person as well as our virtual attendees for the 44th annual Haskins Society Conference at the Univ. of Miami this weekend! Be sure to tag us or use #Haskins2025 so that we can share your posts & pictures!

If you haven’t registered for our conference yet,l on 14-16 November, you can still do so by following the link below Online attendance is back: available for just $20 (Zoom links and access codes to be sent prior to the conference) thehaskinssociety.wildapricot.org/event-6239326

Very excited to help with this in January. It’ll be history manuscript-tastic 🤓 Please share!

📣Seminar Announcement!📣 Join us on 4 Nov at 4 PM in room K114 at UCD for a seminar on medieval gender Papers will be delivered by Prof. Ruth Karras @rmkarras.bsky.social speaking about The Invention of Gomorrah, and Aisling Walsh on the expectations of women as crusaders Hope to see you there!

@rozierhistorian.bsky.social and @rosiebonte.bsky.social chatted to Jo last week, about copy editing. Authors take note! Episode 34: a guide to copy editing for academic authors open.spotify.com/show/7vbaa4n...

Here's a video of the Bayeux Tapestry being carefully removed from its case and packed away. I had my heart in my mouth while watching. And yes, I do have nightmares about it crossing the channel! I had my heart in my mouth just watching this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7ys...

An exciting find! www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Enjoyed hearing all about the amazing events and PG degree courses at @memsunikent.bsky.social yesterday. Please share, and feel free to enquire with questions! #medieval

15,000+ searchable charters from the early Middle Ages...

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site www.bl.uk/collection/d... And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!

A fabulous new survey of the so-called Hedeby coinage of the early 9th century by an expert on the subject, free to download: tidsskrift.dk/BMG/issue/vi...

Call for Papers @imc-leeds.bsky.social Following my recent fieldwork sailing down the Seine in a reconstructed tenth-century ship, @stevedehailes.bsky.social and I are organising a panel on practice-based/experiential research in medieval studies. We welcome abstracts from any field. #Medievalsky

An opportunity to participate in the Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast:

Reminder: Abstracts are due by Sept. 15!

Reminder: Abstracts are due by Sept. 15!

Reminder: Abstracts are due by Sept. 15!

The Haskins Society is pleased to be co-sponsoring a sesson on "Things Transcending Time" at the 2026 IMC in Leeds. Abstract deadine: 15 September 2025 @kateweikert.bsky.social

Delighted to announce that Krisztina Ilko and I are organising a set of panels for next year's IMC as a continuation of the some of the themes of the Bonn workshop back in January, this time focusing on chronological shifts in high medieval political culture. Details below and do feel free to share!

10 days to go to submit an abstract for this @haskinssociety.bsky.social/Battle session @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026! #medievalsky

1/20 A thread about the appearance of the ‘Papal Banner’ in episode seven of #KingandConqueror. In an article that was published in 2021 in the @haskinssociety.bsky.social Journal, I expressed some scepticism about the veracity of William of Poitiers’ claim that the papacy sponsored the Norman...

Reminder: Abstracts are due by Sept. 15!