Delighted we could help! The manuscript comprises eight tables, which bring together the fundamental tools for computing conjunctions (a term encompassing planetary conjunctions and lunar and solar eclipses), one of the most complex phenomena to compute in the Middle Ages.
12.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
A new academic year & the Upper Library is finally re-opened. The exhibition this term features Merton's 'newest' medieval manuscript (MS 329) acquired this year with the generous help of @thefnl.bsky.social. Booklet of 14th-century astronomical tables! Eclipses, conjunctions and more!
10.10.2025 17:28 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
The couple are debating which route to take?
10.10.2025 17:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations!!
27.09.2025 14:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Merton College Chapel putting on a good welcome for today’s wedding! 😍
20.09.2025 11:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I love the expression ‘pop-up display’, as if the books and captions just appeared like mushrooms in the lawn!😀 Not that I don’t enjoy putting them together.
15.09.2025 17:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It was too cloudy to see the lunar eclipse tonight, so here’s some fun diagrams of eclipses from a 13th century astronomical compilation, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Arch. Selden. B. 34, f. 47v 🌘
07.09.2025 19:54 — 👍 105 🔁 32 💬 2 📌 4
Call for Papers - The Sale of Governance in Pre-Modern Europe and the Mediterranean (1100-1600)
Call for Papers
The Sale of Governance in Pre-Modern Europe and the Mediterranean (1100-1600)
Workshop
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-pap...
08.09.2025 17:37 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Apply now! John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Application Deadline: November 3, 2025
POSITION DESCRIPTION
The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is pleased to announce a John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellowship for a recent Ph.D.
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/apply-now-jo...
27.08.2025 19:27 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Zwetschgenkuchen 2023 and 2025– thank goodness some good things don’t change. #vacation #Allgäu
22.08.2025 16:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Society was kindly gifted a replica model of 'The Monk Astride a Wyvern' from The Met Museum by Prof. Mary Carruthers. The original dates from the mid c.12th, and was made in Magdeburg, Germany.
We need your help naming our new wyvern-riding wordsmith mascot! Comment your suggestions below 👇
22.08.2025 13:24 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
My kind of news!!
14.08.2025 14:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Girton Fellows solve a 130-year-old Chaucerian literary mystery
I'm so thrilled to have this published! Starting from a chat over lunch at @girtoncollege.bsky.social, James Wade & I chipped away at this & have made some fascinating discoveries.
The actual article should be published later today. In the meantime, more here: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/song...
16.07.2025 08:28 — 👍 212 🔁 50 💬 13 📌 13
@sebfalk.com Who do I hear on the radio this morning?? 👏👏
16.07.2025 08:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Books, Beer, and Murder: The Medieval Scribes of Oxford
Books, Beer, and Murder! Excited to give this upcoming talk on scribal shenanigans in Medieval Oxford on 14 August in the incredible @oxfordprestrust.bsky.social Painted Room, check out the OPT’s event page to join the fun!
📜🍺🗡️🎉
www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk/event/books-...
04.07.2025 11:20 — 👍 41 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
In 17c Netherlands you could enjoy drinking your cool beer from a ‘book’. Very nice blindstamped boards, raised bands, fore-edge ties. #Rijksmuseum #Bookart
02.07.2025 13:37 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 2
There's still plenty of times to get tickets for our 80th anniversary event on 'Memory and Commemoration' on Saturday 18th June:
www.eventbrite.com/e/memory-and...
01.06.2025 07:21 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Join us this Friday in Lincoln college, Oxford
28.05.2025 11:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Reinventing a vital art conservation material
Art conservation requires specialized materials. What happens when one vital material is threatened? gty.art/4kEb6Yg
28.05.2025 16:51 — 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2
Registration DEADLINE Friday 16th for online summer school Advanced Readings in Medieval Latin, May 27–July 3. Two 1½-hour classes per week for 6 weeks, $500 (£375ish). We've not had many takers, so at just over £20 per hour this is pretty cheap for small-group tuition. marco.utk.edu/summerlangua...
06.05.2025 13:11 — 👍 8 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
CfP ‘Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library’
Submit by 16th May
This 2-day symposium (9-10 Sept at UCL) will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
02.05.2025 14:13 — 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 2
The best way to end the week—looking at manuscripts with a great group! 😍
02.05.2025 22:08 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Amazing evening in Merton College Library analysing this beauty! Thank you @juliawalworth.bsky.social
and @oxfordmedievalmss.bsky.social
#OMMG
#medievalsky
02.05.2025 19:23 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Just caught the Sunday night broadcast of In Our Time, on Typology, with @harryspillane.bsky.social , @mirierubin.bsky.social and Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe 👏👏
And BBC Sounds has a reading list too
20.04.2025 22:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Dramatic results of cleaning late medieval masonry at Merton College.
29.03.2025 12:07 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Friends of the Nations’ Libraries, or FNL, awards grants for acquisitions to regional and national archives, libraries and museums. www.fnl.org.uk.
Fondé en 1998, le Réseau des Médiévistes Belges de Langue Française se veut un lieu de contacts et d’échanges entre disciplines relevant des études médiévales | Gestion : Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani (UNamur/Archives de l'État, @nruffini.bsky.social).
The interdisciplinary Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol concerned with all aspects of the history, culture, art and representation of medieval Europe.
Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social. Temporalities, 6-9 July 2026.
Pedagogical approaches to palaeography, codicology, and early print. Organisers: Mary Boyle (@maryrboyle.bsky.social), Tristan Franklinos, Jessica Rahardjo, Seb Dows-Miller (@sebdm.bsky.social)
The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures supports and promotes research into the cultures and intellectual life of the Middle Ages.
Turning the study of medieval manuscripts into a more collaborative pursuit. 📜 📚
Follow us for more information about our seminar series, workshops, and training sessions.
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DPhil in History from Magdalen College, Oxford | Medieval women and universities | PGR Rep at HistEdSocUK | Colloquium Secretary at London Medieval Society | she/her
The Grad Student Committee of the @medievalacademy.bsky.social of America offers programming and opportunities for grads across disciplines of medieval studies. https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/Graduate_Students
We conserve buildings and monuments, manage and share green open space, champion thoughtful planning and organise Oxford Open Doors.
The Libraries and Archives of Magdalene College, Cambridge. https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/library-news
Pratt Fellow in History at Memorial University, Newfoundland.
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Susan Wabuda, Ph.D. (Cantab.), F.R.Hist.S., FSA. Historian. My opinions are mine. A recent book on Thomas Cranmer. Fordham University. Connecticut farms. Democracy. DMs discouraged.
Inscription: the Journal of Material Text - Theory, Practice, History
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Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Library and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
We're Cambridge University's home for the history of science.
Open Mon-Fri, 12.30-16.30.
Next Saturday opening, 18 October, 10.00-16.00.
Curator Emeritus at Oxford's History of Science Museum; STEM historian, particularly instruments and material culture - current research focused on astrolabes and astrology in medieval and renaissance Europe. (Disclaimer: focus known to wander.)
