michaelajaneruth.bsky.social

I know this is horrible timing for anyone in Europe, but if anyone is interested in hearing about my thesis, I will be coming back to @aucklanduni.bsky.social to present my doctoral research in the Ancient History Seminar. It is available both in person and on Zoom. Would love to have you along!

It was so amazing to hear a preview of the papers just before this exciting news came out! Yay for PresentDead and yay for getting a Tuesday!

Anyone interested in interactions with the dead, come to our session at the next @imc-leeds.bsky.social !!

Congratulations!! This is an amazing achievement!

Kind of shellshocked to say that my first book has sold out! I am so proud to have been a part of telling these stories, and I am so pleased that so many people wanted to learn more about NZ medical history. Thank you everyone for the support 🥰 #aotearoahistory #feministhistory #womenshistory

Hi #Medievalsky,

Michaela and I have decided to put together a last minute #IMC2026 session proposal: *Dead Reckoning in the early medieval [?world]"

If you've anything on interactions with the dead (literary, historical, legal, etc.) and are looking for an (unfunded) session to join, let us know!

Hey! Are you still looking for someone? I hadn't got around to organizing a panel cos I've been so busy so if you wanted to put together a last minute one I'd be keen 🙂

What a wonderful Merovingianist day we had on Wednesday at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social ! Thanks to my coorganisers @beccagrose.bsky.social and @lisakaarenbailey.bsky.social and to all our speakers. Thanks especially to our respondent Shane Björnlie. I feel challenged and inspired #medievalsky

I took the 16th C limp binding workshop today and it was absolutely fantastic! Linette explained everything so well and i felt like i picked it up so quickly! Not that this is the neatest thing in the world but i got to live my book binding dreams for 3 hours! @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2025

Getting some last minute prep done on the train to the #IMC2025

#medievalsky @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Hey kids! First time at the #IMC2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social?

Here are some of Old Man Kramer's Hot Tips!

#medievalsky

@imc-leeds.bsky.social is almost upon us and since the app is now out, I thought I’d remind everyone of our 4 panels on the Merovingians happening all day Wednesday. We finally rallied everyone together so be there or be square! #merovingian #imcleeds2025 @beccagrose.bsky.social

IMC 2025: Merovingianist Mixer

We'll be at the Library bar, where campus meets Hyde Park, to avoid interrupting the Euros at Old Bar again.

All welcome, whether you work on late antique or Merovingian Gaul or want to meet people who do.

Plz RSVP to @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social for table space!

Pleased to announce that our book is in the top 20 bestsellers at Independent Bookstores in New Zealand this week! What an honour for the opening week.

#newzealandhistory #womenshistory #feministhistory #medicalhistory #womendoctors #herstory #aotearoanewzealand #nonfictionbooks #newrelease

What an amazing experience it is publishing a book 🥰 i feel so honoured to have been chosen to tell the stories of New Zealand's first women doctors. Thanks to everyone who came to our launch, I am still in shock that it is on shelves.
#booklaunch #aotearoahistory #womenshistory #feministhistory

I am very proud to say that my first book "Against the Odds: New Zealand's First Women Doctors" has officially launched! We had an overwhelming number of people turn up to the opening lecture at the @universityofotago.bsky.social last night and we received wonderful feedback. Thanks for the support!

Calling all #IMC2025 Merovingianists and late antique Gaul people!
Sunday 7th July 25, ca 5pm onwards
@michaelajaneruth.bsky.social and I will be hosting the second annual Merovingianists Mixer!

All welcome for a chill pre
@imc-leeds.bsky.social
drink, especially postgrads, ECRs & first-timers.

"No one knows which ideas will be needed to face future challenges and seize opportunities. But a community of researchers across all disciplines pursuing their best ideas is our best insurance for making sure we have access to those ideas when we need them."

Juliet Gerrard: Funding the whole pie It's a tiny portion of our overall funding, yet social sciences and humanities research makes a massive impact. Without it, the pie starts to crumble.

Great opinion piece about the removal of the humanities and social sciences from the Marsden Fund.
#fundingcuts #newzealand

thespinoff.co.nz/society/05-1...

Government's Marsden Fund cuts: All humanities, social sciences research funding slashed Cutting all research funding for the fields is a massive step backwards, critics say.

Such disappointing news to wake up to... The lack of appreciation for the humanities was one of the main reasons i left academia in NZ and it's only getting worse.
#historysky #newzealand #humanities #fundingcuts

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Feeling very conflicted... Received the final proofs back from the copyeditor and much has been changed, including what i would consider my "voice" and a lot of sentences that now mean the opposite of what I intended... Is this normal when working with an academic press?
#historysky #publishing

I now have a "readings" folder which contains a "currently reading" folder and a "currently annotating" folder. And another folder called "legit reading right now" for when i started a new research topic and didn't want it to mix with the old topic, but that is also filling up quickly 😬

Does anyone else struggle to find the balance between researching (reading) and writing? I have so many half-read books in my "currently reading" folder because i read so slowly and then run out of time to finish them before i have to start writing to meet a deadline 🤦🏻‍♀️ #medievalsky

The opening page of Gregory of Tours' Histories in the seventh-century manuscript Paris BnF 17655, complaining about the "decline or rather death" of the cultivation of the liberal arts.

Reminded Gregory of Tours doesn't start his Histories with "a great many things keep happening, some of them good, some of them bad" (as per the Penguin edition), but gets in a grumble about "the decline or rather death of the cultivation of liberal letters" first.
#medievalsky
(pic Paris BF 17655)

A fragment of a manuscript describing a cooking recipe.

When you ask what did the Middle Ages ever do for us, remember: in the 830s the monks of Fulda Abbey copied this recipe for an almost-lasagna, Patina Apiciana, from De re coquinaria by Apicius (a signature dish, if you will). Full recipe below!

NYAM Vault MS 1

I need to start posting on here more so here is my win for the day: I just found the origin of the technique I am studying for my thesis. The first pattern Gregory of Tours encountered that arguably introduced him to the concept and proved to him the power of mimicking the scriptures 🤯 #medievalsky

I couldn't have asked for a better panel. The presentations were brilliant and the audience was lovely. Thank you once again Shachar, Yaniv, and Erin! #imc2024

Final run-through of my @IMC_Leeds presentation before i print it out! If you like #merovingianhistory and #literaryhistory make sure to swing by at 9am on Wednesday!

In today's episode of #chatgpt is amazing, did anyone else know that it is able to determine what handwriting might be. This is something i am pretty decent at but sometimes i just get caught on something...

Just received some amazing feedback for my research at the St Andrews / Tübingen Graduate Conference. The paper is now up on Academia.edu and talks about the various audiences of Gregory of Tours and how he manipulated their understanding of his stories 🤔