@emma-nelson.bsky.social
PhD candidate working on the medieval library of Lincoln Cathedral & assistant at Chetham's Library 📚📚📚
That looks fantastic! I booked tickets to go and see it in early October today, and I can't wait 😁
05.09.2025 22:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What a beautiful dress!
16.08.2025 10:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The summer is going by super quickly (nearly August already???)! Make sure that the deadline for “Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined” conference doesn’t sneak up on you. Get them in by 15 September!
30.07.2025 15:44 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Call for Papers for the International Medieval Congress 2026 6th–9th July 2026, University of Leeds, UK Sponsor: ‘Enabling digital research on manuscript catalogue data,’ a project at the Bodleian Libraries, funded by Digital Scholarship @ Oxford, which seeks to facilitate quantitative analysis of the Bodleian’s western medieval manuscript catalogues. Organisers: Dr Matthew Holford and Dr Sebastian Dows-Miller (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) Computational research into the contents, codicology and history of medieval manuscripts is wellestablished. “Quantitative codicology” has since the 1960s used statistical analysis to explore topics from the dimensions of the manuscript page to overall patterns of book production, but many research questions remain open. This session seeks to bring together scholars from across medieval studies who are engaged in the examination of medieval manuscripts through the lens of ‘Big Data’, to facilitate cross-disciplinary exchange within the still underdeveloped fields of quantitative palaeography and codicology. We welcome proposals from all areas of manuscript studies. Topics may include, but are not limited to: • Networks of texts and people associated with manuscripts. • Quantitative approaches to the palaeographic analysis of scripts and hands. • The application of AI and ML to large corpora of manuscript data. • Issues of data quality and provenance in quantitative manuscript studies. • The use of ‘Big Data’ as a tool for teaching manuscript studies. Potential contributors interested in using the tabular outputs of the sponsoring project can find them at the project’s GitHub repository Please send abstracts of maximum 150 words, along with 5 subject keywords and your contact details, to matthew.holford@bodleian.ox.ac.uk. The deadline for receipt of these details is 23:59 BST on 29th August 2025. If you would like to apply to the IMC separately for financial assistance, see the their advice here.
Call for papers, Leeds IMC 2026 - Big data and medieval manuscripts. Please consider submitting a proposal!
07.08.2025 16:07 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Ms. 3406, Süleyman Efendi’s endowment deed on folio 1r. Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna, ms. 3406 © 2023 by AMS Historica is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Rawda El-Hajji visiting the Church of Our Lady of Buda Castle, Budapest. © Ashraf Sarip
Once a hub of Ottoman culture, Süleyman Efendi’s library was scattered by conquest. In our PhD Research Series, Rawda El-Hajji traces these manuscripts, showing how they help reconstruct lost intellectual communities and reveal the fate of cultural heritage in times of conflict:
uhh.de/csmc-el-hajji
If early medieval Aquitaine or Carolingian political culture is your jam, please do give this a read (also on Open Access thanks to @livunihss.bsky.social @livunilibrary.bsky.social)!
06.08.2025 16:07 — 👍 22 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0This sounds like such a great idea!!
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New Walking Tour Date
The next Medieval Jewish Lincoln Walking Tour will be on Sun 7 Sept at 2:30pm. We've had amazing reviews of the tour so far, and we're excited to share this important chapter in Lincoln's history! For details and how to reserve, see: medievaljewishlincoln.co.uk
I can scarcely believe it, but it's true - after several years, I've finished my thesis research at Lincoln Cathedral library! Now it's onto the home run, getting it ready for submission in September!
03.07.2025 20:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Any Medievalists want a copy of the newest edition of Debating #Medieval Europe - The central and later Middle Ages - for... free?
Our DME books serve as an entry point for understanding the distinctive historiography of their periods.
Hit repost and we'll add you to the giveaway 📗👇 #booksky
A wonderful weekend of beautiful Cambridge libraries
22.05.2025 16:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What a splendid sight, college house glowing in yesterday's sunshine at Chethams Llibrary
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