Scott G. Bruce

St Paul is here to write letters and kick ass. And he has just written his last letter.

Musée de Cluny, Cl.1505, c. 1030, Echternach

So excited that my book has a cover. Michigan's design people have outdone themselves in their styling of Mr. Murder Mittens (a massive Roman temple key from Switzerland). Full details here (the e-version will be open access come the publication date): press.umich.edu/Books/S/Stea...

New in CHR: “Fragments of Greek Patristics in Eusebius’s Historia ecclesiastica and Their Readers in the Latin West.”

Why snappy dogs, scratchy cats, and hungry worms were part of a medieval woman’s vision of the afterlife Over the course of three nights in 1422, the woman had visions of aggressive pets and insatiable worms tormenting a beloved friend.

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The goddess Diana giving herbs to Chiron the centaur who named them after her.

BL Sloane 1975; Medical & herbal collection; 12th century; f.17v

Where is the Sun at Night? New Evidence from Laon, Médiathèque Suzanne Martinet, MS 422: The Journal of Medieval Latin: Vol 35 The article explores early medieval cosmological narratives concerning the Sun’s night journey and its cosmic battle with a tide-making sea monster (sometimes called Leviathan), focussing on a text di...

Jacopo Bisagni's new article on the Sun’s night journey and its cosmic battle with a tide-making sea monster (sometimes called Leviathan) has just been published in JML. This narrative is found in De cursu solis in nocte, a text which Jacopo discovered in the ninth-century manuscript Laon MS 422.

New Medieval Books: The Medieval Clergy, 800-1250 - Medievalists.net More than 70 sources are translated here to offer readers a look into the lives of priests, bishops and other clergy in the Middle Ages. It is a wide-ranging book, covering topics from how to do…

New Medieval Books: The Medieval Clergy, 800-1250 www.medievalists.net/2024/05/new-... #BookSky

A Crusader's Death and Life in Acre by Anne E. Lester and Laura K. Morreale | Paperback | Cornell University Press A Crusader's Death and Life in Acre uses five parchment rolls that inventoried the possessions of Eudes of Nevers, son of the duke of Burgundy, at his death in Acre in 1266 to open out a panorama of.....

A CRUSADER'S DEATH AND LIFE IN ACRE by Anne E. Lester & Laura K. Morreale offers a glimpse into #crusader life through the death inventory of Eudes of Nevers in 1266.

From knights' wages to crusade poems, this is an exploration of #medieval Outremer.

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

I like it very much and look forward to reading it!

For Good Friday, a glorious mid-9th century Carolingian rock crystal engraving of the crucifixion. Originally from St Denis and now in the British Museum. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

The Penguin Book of Demons (Scott G. Bruce, editor) | Book review

'The relationship between mankind and demon-kind is always a point of contention.'

Aida Amoako: When mankind encounters demons

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New volume of Traditio Vol. 79 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54478 @projectmuse.bsky.social

If you missed our recent screening of the hilarious HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940), you can enjoy a Public Domain Movie Night in your own home!

📽️ Watch the full film ➡️ archive.org/details/his-...

#PublicDomain #ClassicFilm #Comedy #InternetArchive

“Changesonebruce”. Forthcoming in January 2026.

The Fall of the Angels

BnF MSS NAF 15939; Vincent de Beauvais, Speculum historiale, French translation by Jean de Vignay, under the title Miroir historial, Vol I (Bks I-VII); 14th century (towards 1379 CE-1380 CE); Paris; f.11r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Professor in Latin Palaeography

The Faculty of History and @wadhamcollege.bsky.social are seeking an outstanding palaeographer to join the team of medieval historians. Applications are welcome from candidates at all post-doctoral career stages, including at professorial level.

Coming this August from @brepols.bsky.social

Discipline, Authority, and Text in Late Ancient Religion

Nineteen essays to honor David Brakke written by his former students, his grad school friends, and various other co-conspirators

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An interesting article by Thomas Burman on the earliest Latin quotations from the Quran, in a Carolingian-period manuscript:
digital.csic.es/bitstream/10...

Lingua Patrum, vol. 16
𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲
Edited by Vittorio Berti, Emanuela Colombi & Carla Noce

More info: bit.ly/4jZc167

#CorpusChristianorum #Greek #EarlyChristianity #Patristics #Literature #Translation

Cover of book - image courtesy Princeton University Press.

“Without stories of progress, the world has become a terrifying place. The ruin glares at us with the horror of its abandonment.“

- Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, “The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins”

@princetonupress.bsky.social

#mushroom #economy

Fighting initial 'A'(rma) at the beginning of Virgil's Aeneid

BnF MS Latin 16236; Publius Vergilius Maro: Eglogae, Georgicae, Aeneis cum glossa; 11th century; France; f.61r
@labnf.bsky.social

Coming up soon!

Author copies of my new book Merovingian Worlds

Author copies of Merovingian Worlds have arrived!

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#medievalsky

The Miracles of Mary in Twelfth-Century France by Bruce L. Venarde | Paperback | Cornell University Press Murder in a cathedral, horrific illnesses and deformities, narrow escapes from injury and death, a vengeful dragon, a wandering eyeball, a bawdy monk and other sinners redeemed—the accounts of miracle...

THE MIRACLES OF MARY IN TWELFTH-CENTURY FRANCE by Bruce L. Venarde brings to life vivid tales of divine intervention, revealing the beliefs and struggles of a bygone era.

Available now: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Bede writes a history of the English people Rosie Garland Ask, why I carve feathers to the spike of knives when men are too busy to read. I should be bricking windows into arrow-slots; should be bending yew to longbows. The year roars with blood, the murder of faith, and enemies close, closer. Kings hammer mistrust into swords, demand battle songs, and the world deafens with terror of one's neighbour. I turn to words. Their little lamps will outlive my flicker, that of lords, and of this current fear. I grind gall, vinegar, hone my quill. Feed the dark age with light.

"Kings hammer mistrust into swords, demand
battle songs, and the world deafens with terror
of one's neighbour. I turn to words.
Their little lamps will outlive my flicker,
that of lords, and of this current fear. [...]"

- by Rosie Garland - @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social

Sweet 16 OAR Competition Begins! Welcome to the Middle Ages for Educators Sweet 16 Open Access Resource Competition, and thanks for stopping by! The  public-facing tournament is now open, and will take place as follows:ROUND 1, onlin...

Are you teaching a course this semester and have students who need some extra credit? Why not encourage them to cast their votes in the Middle Ages for Educators Sweet 16 Competition, which is now open! #medievalsky middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu/sweet-16-oar...

This manuscript of Origen of Alexandria's Homilies on the Old Testament begins with images of the Abbey's two patron saints, St Germain & St Vincent.

BnF MS Latin 11615; Origen of Alexandria, Homiliae in Vetus Testamentum; 12th c; France (Saint-Germain-des-Prés);
f.2v

1990!

Look at this stunner!

“The Monastic World” by Andrew Jotischky tells the 1200 year history of the monastery through wars, plagues and inquisitions from the Roman Times to the sixteenth century. ⛪️

From @yalebooks.bsky.social