📢 Call for Book Chapters in our book series 'Old Norse Studies' TIMES OF CHANGE: NORWAY IN THE 13TH CENTURY, ed. Mary Catherine O’Connor & Jonas Zeit-Altpeter 📅 Abstract deadline: 31 July More information on submissions below. See the full Call here: trivent-publishing.eu/blog/post/36...

J1577.1 Inviting to a feast only those whose households have never been touched by death.

Strasbourg Cathedral - As part of the ‘625 Years of Gutenberg’ commemorative year, here are photos taken last week of Strasbourg Cathedral and the largest page ever printed of the first page of Gutenberg’s Gospel of St John in Strasbourg Cathedral www.visitstrasbourg.fr/en/fiche-sit... #medievalsky

So unbelievably angry. This is blatant child abus, a shocking escalation in the kind of everyday violence against trans kids that has already cost lives. Everyone involved in enacting this must resign, and every teacher, counselor, and social worker must be vociferous in our condemnation. Get loud.

dude you gotta love people. thats the whole point. if youre not loving people what are you even doing

Listen it’s an uncomfortable truth that the modern university is a select number of academic disciplines in the traditional liberal arts (which of course includes some social sciences & STEM) and then some groups playacting

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Weekend! ☀️ #medievalsky @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS Douce 134, f. 49v

Just finished Rita Felski's The Limits of Critique which was incredibly interesting and thought-provoking and made me hyper aware of my academic writing style 😅

Super excited to have so many people interested in Roman royal portraiture from my last thread. While I have you, let’s keep talking about Nero’s portraits and modern people who want them to be Polaroids. /1

"The Univ. of Hertfordshire has decided to close all eight Humanities undergraduate programmes in English Language and Linguistics, English Literature, Creative Writing, History and Philosophy.... PLEASE sign this petition to support staff and students in Humanities" www.change.org/p/save-the-h...

As Sonja and others have admirably shown, that just isn’t how royal portraits work — at all. Portraits aren't Polaroids. They're complex pieces of public messaging that reflect dynastic priorities & shifting alliances more than familial affinity. Let’s consider the portraiture of Elizabeth I. /2

It's not 1536, but Anne Boleyn has taken over the news. Recently a team of computer scientists, electrical engineers and a historical novelist think they have discovered the “true face” of Anne (& her mother) by applying AI-based computational facial recognition to Holbein sketches. The catch? /1

Kijken naar Amrita Sher-Gil is als luisteren naar Janis Joplin en Kurt Cobain

You could just read scholarship before you cite it and only coauthor pieces with other people who do the same.

Because I am regularly exposed to students I can give the anecdotal report that someone saying “He used AI” is derisive as fuck. It implies that you are useless for group work, likely an active problem not just lazy and ignorant. That the only reason you’re in university is wealth.

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRO233/d... one year post in Old Norse #medievalsky

The first publication arising from the NorseMap Project is now available open-access via Boydell & Brewer. It looks at the recent use of the Vikings in and around the MAGA movement. openaccess.boydellandbrewercms.com?fileid=-47834 #Vikings #ERC #FrontierResearch

PSA, re: scams. There are several Lit Hub-related email scams making the rounds. The latest is someone impersonating LH editor Jonny Diamond, offering paid publicity packages. This is a scam! Don't do it!

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Today on #IDAHOT, I want to send a strong message of support to the LGBTIQ+ community. The EU stands with you. For every person’s right to live and love openly. And to be true to its authentic self. Your journey and safety matter. I will always be your ally.

i’m sorry but if you look at lupita nyong'o and DON’T see a face that could launch a thousand ships i truly cannot help you

More than 1,000 people gathered in Selma on Saturday for the first leg of All Roads Lead South’s National Day of Action for Voting Rights protests that oppose a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that organizers say weakens protections under the Voting Rights Act.

A masterpiece

What book are you getting buried with? I'm leaning towards The Master & Margarita by Bulgakov! #Booksky

Found this post on reddit and the last bit nails it: “Please don't remember her for the horrific end to her life. Remember her for who she was, a true blessing. To everyone around her.”

“Desecrating Homer” like this these guys are spending their nights reading classical Greek and discussing how Fitzgerald’s translation doesn’t quite capture the orality of the original.

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old mummy with a papyrus fragment of the “Iliad” sealed in a clay packet outside its wrappings. It is the first time a literary work has been found playing a functional, spiritual role in the mummification process.

trans people deserve to live, freely and openly and safely and unconditionally

A popular conspiracy theory about a cluster of hantavirus cases claims that the well-documented illness is a scam, perpetrated by either the Israeli government or some other undefined group of Jewish people. None of this is true. That hasn't stopped the theory spreading wildly on social media.

woman: *minds her own business while being beautiful* the worst men in the world: this is an attack on me personally. summon the fleet

#MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

For the #DHmakes letterpress crowd 🚺 ♀

A192.1.2 God killed and eaten.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Pope:”Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.” Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

What's this? Freshly printed programmes! We're finishing up our last tasks to prepare for Norse in the North TOMORROW! See you there! #medievalsky #nitn2026

I’m skeptical.

#Atlas | De NL cartograaf Abraham Ortelius is ook bekend van zijn prachtige kaart van IJsland (1585), met veel interessante details en mooie illustraties van fauna ( #Zeemonsters) 💧Filmpje hierover: youtu.be/ndSVTLHrh14?...

One good thing that entertainment journalists covering The Odyssey can do is never to ask Nyong'o, Page, or Nolan about this. When a prominent racist and transphobe says something racist and transphobic, go make his life miserable and leave his targets alone. They have nothing to defend or explain.

Rawbraining it

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

Saddened to hear news of the death of Anna Ritchie, one of the key authors to read when I did an undergraduate module on Vikings in Scotland many years ago. A list of her key publications here: www.ssns.org.uk/news/anna-ri... #archaeology #scotland #medievalsky

No matter how well-known Arkady Martine's "A Memory Called Empire" is, it deserves more.

G246 Witches bake bread.