Ruth Karras

Job! Judaic Studies & the Medieval/Renaissance Center at Binghamton are looking for a Talmud/Medieval Rabbinics specialist! I have long been part of the Med/Ren group myself and I can vouch it is very active, supportive, and functional. Good people!

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I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Assistant Professor in Women's History, University of Ottawa

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🤩 Check out the shiny new website of Bristol's world-class Centre for Medieval Studies (@bristolcms.bsky.social), home to over 35 full-time medievalists and over 160 research students and research associates: medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🤩 @uobartsmatter.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians

I was guessing it must actually be Italian American sausage bc you can get lots of Italian meats here, right from Italy, but not the sausage.

£77,816 er annum. What an exciting post.

Knowledge, Writings, and Networks in Normandy and Beyond in the Late Thirteenth Century: A Study of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 181 Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 181, a manuscript compiled in Normandy in the late thirteenth century, contains diverse important works spanning from Normandy to East Asia. This study analyses...

And Wendan Li on a thirteenth century manuscript that reveals a great deal about intellectual networks particularly around Eudes of Rouen www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Labour Litigation in the Court of Common Pleas in the Fourteenth Century In the second half of the fourteenth century, English labour legislation gave rise to a mass of litigation in the court of Common Pleas. This paper draws on a database of nearly 2000 pleas enrolled...

A couple of new articles in JMH! Nicholas Amor on labor litigation after the Black Death #medievalsky 🗃️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Research Chair in Transgender Studies - Victoria, British Columbia (CA) job with UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA | 398896 The University of Victoria invites applications for a Research Chair in Transgender Studies, a prestigious academic ...

Well this is an exceptionally good history job. Wonders never cease.

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Christopher de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

Cover of the Journal of Medieval History, special issue for 50th anniversary

Hardcopy is here!

🚨Job Klaxon🚨

Open rank Professorship in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods

📍Institute of History, University of Bern (🇨🇭)
📆Deadline: 19 October 2025
▶️ Information: tinyurl.com/56ywncuj

#Medievalsky #DigitalHumaniities

Submissions are now open for the Medium Ævum Essay Prize 2026!

📅Deadline: 12:00 midday (GMT) 1st December 2025
📝6,500-8,000 word essay
👩‍🎓Open to graduate students and those who have graduated from a higher degree in the last 3 years
🏆£500

Read more on our website: mediumaevum.org.uk/essayprize

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Shitty first draft achieved. One week remaining to make it something i can show to people.

I am now counting how many words I ‘write or repurpose’ i.e. paste from conference paper to article

Very much feeling this today.

Assistant Professor - Modern European History All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...

My department is hiring! We're looking for an assistant professor in modern European history. Please spread the word. 🗃️

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Publication – Charles West, « Europe in the Eleventh Century. Beyond Revolution and Reform » Eleventh-century Europe was diverse and fast-changing. Historians have often debated this change through two sets of competing arguments, one about the shifting role of the Church and the Papacy, a…

Publication – Charles West, « Europe in the Eleventh Century. Beyond Revolution and Reform »

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An Irish passport

Oh you beauty

Was Jesus’ crucified body wrapped in the Shroud of Turin? A newly discovered Medieval document is the earliest written evidence to suggest not - Taylor & Francis Newsroom Newly uncovered medieval evidence is the latest to cast doubt on the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, the linen cloth many believe was used to wrap the crucified body of Jesus. Following analysis,...

New research by Nicolas Sarzeaud on the Shroud of Turin

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No better feeling as an academic than someone you’ve mentored getting an academic job. Better than publishing a book.

I always include a note that says something like ‘Need cite Authorname?’ so I don’t come back to it and go ‘what was I thinking?’ But sometimes it’s just ‘Check this’

Attending my 50th HS reunion didn’t make me feel nearly as old as reading an article about how Born to Run was released 50 years ago

So @elisewang.bsky.social tells me the first record of a significant Romani arrival in Paris is 1427. This is the first ref I’ve seen in the 2000+ folios of these records I’ve looked at

And by ‘interested’ I mean ‘want me to send you a photo’. The hand is really terrible and I’m not transcribing stuff I don’t really need, so I can’t tell you any more about it.

Reading Paris ecclesiastical court records from 1460s and came across unusual case in which a couple consulted’Egyptian’ women to help them conceive a son. I am not doing anything with this so if you are interested lmk

Víking Across Conversion: Depictions of Víkingar in the Sagas of Icelanders Vikings commonly feature in the Íslendingasögur (Sagas of Icelanders). The words víking (the act of raiding) or víkingr (a raider) appear over 180 times across the forty-some texts of the corpus. H...

New article by Matthew Firth in Journal of Medieval History www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....