Today! Graduate English Speaker Series talk by Marion Turner, J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at University of Oxford, "Premodern Fictionality: Aristotle, Ibn Rushd, Chaucer”.
www.english.utoronto.ca/events/gradu...
06.10.2025 16:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖The Riddle Ages: Early Medieval Riddles, Translations & Commentaries
📲 theriddleages.com
©️Birmingham University
✍️Megan Cavell, Matthias Ammon, Neville Mogford, Jennifer Neville, Alexandra Reider & Victoria Symons
06.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Book with many doors on the cover "non-canonical English syntax"
Chapter on "Talking About (non-) canonicity: a study of linguistic terminology" by Sven Leuckert & Sofia Rüdiger
A new publication, it is out now! 🎉 www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...
01.10.2025 16:29 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week...
📖Old English Poetry in Facsimile
📲 oepoetryfacsimile.org/index.html
©️Medieval Academy of America
✍️Director and Senior Editor: Martin Foys
✍️Associate Editor: Kyle Smith
💻Digital Mappa: www.digitalmappa.org
29.09.2025 13:45 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
What a thrilling object to find in the mail/post!
Congratulations to @stefanfatsis.bsky.social I can’t wait to read it!
29.09.2025 16:51 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography
At the end of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, about 400 million people are native English speakers. With those for whom English is a second language, the number reaches far above: betw…
I guess I should share this, as I'm in it. On the other hand, if you read it and don't think you'll be interested in the conversations with any of the other lexicographers in the book, then you're that much less likely to buy the book. But what the hell.
lithub.com/how-to-build...
29.09.2025 18:13 — 👍 21 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 3
#OTD 342 years ago, Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756) was born 🥳 A translator and a pioneer of Old English studies, she authored "The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue", the first Old English grammar written in English.
#LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx
29.09.2025 11:48 — 👍 23 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
Jobs For Medievalists
Tenure-track Assistant Professor of English: Medieval Literature
Review of applications will begin 10 November, 2025
The English Department at Trinity University seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in medieval
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...
12.09.2025 16:17 — 👍 13 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0
New research may rewrite origins of the Book of Kells, says academic
Exclusive: Author challenges assumption monks on Iona created manuscript, instead positing its origins are Pictish
The Book of Kells was likely to have been created 1,200 years ago in Pictish eastern Scotland, rather than on the island of Iona, according to research that challenges long-held assumptions about one of the world’s most famous medieval manuscripts.
The Book of Kells is an intricate, illuminated account of the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John that was long thought to have been started in the late eighth century at the monastery on Iona before being taken in the 9th century to the monastery of Kells in County Meath, Ireland, after a Viking raid. Continue reading...
New research may rewrite origins of the Book of Kells, says academic
26.09.2025 05:19 — 👍 89 🔁 34 💬 3 📌 8
⏰Reminder: Registration for #TEI2025 is still open #medievalsky.
📲Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/toebi-annu...
📨We look forward to welcoming you to University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
📜Theme: Education and Early Medieval England
24.09.2025 17:24 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
📲Registration for #TEI2025 is open: www.eventbrite.ie/e/toebi-annu...
📨Come join us at own our next annual conference at University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
📜The theme is "Education and Early Medieval England" and our programme is available to view online.
19.09.2025 12:45 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Who was the first king of England? 👑
Robinson Fellow, Professor David Woodman, thinks more people should know that Æthelstan created England in 927AD – should his story be on the school curriculum?
David makes the case in his groundbreaking new biography 👇
shorturl.at/t07ej
02.09.2025 09:38 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Opening of a 10th-century manuscript that is now in the Parker Library as CCCC MS 183. Opening shows a full page portrait of King Aethelstan (d. 939) presenting a book to St Cuthbert, or rather the community of St Cuthbert, then already in exile from Lindisfarne. The full page image has a floral border in red, king under an arch on the left and St Cuthbert in front of a brick structure topped with a cross.
Right of the image contains the beginning of Life of St Cuthbert, written in Latin. First three lines in red (rubric) is followed by two lines of monumental script in multiple colours, after which the text itself continues in usual brown ink.
Earliest extant portrait of an English king: Aethelstan (r. 924–927) with St Cuthbert from the Parker Library copy of Bede's two Lives of St Cuthbert (CCCC MS 183)
Prof David Woodman of @camhistory.bsky.social highlights Aethelstan's impact on England's history
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/new...
08.09.2025 15:04 — 👍 61 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 0
Cambridge historian seeks recognition for first English king
Aethelstan ruled England from 927AD and united the kings of other areas under a single crown.
A University of Cambridge academic has joined calls for greater recognition of the first king of England, Aethelstan:
12.09.2025 18:01 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
A History of England in 25 Poems by Catherine Clarke
Powerpoint slide, Laura Varnam, Creative (Hi)Stories: Responding to Violence through Witness and Revoicing
New blogpost on Creative (Hi)Stories! Launch event for @cathamclarke.bsky.social's A History of England in 25 Poems; the 'Stories, Places, Violence' symposium in assoc. with the Tower of London project; and upcoming Chaucer Day for school teachers! drlauravarnam.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/c...
19.09.2025 09:53 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Publicity photo of Samuel L. Jackson
Happy birthday to the great eighteenth-century critic and lexicographer Samuel Johnson.
18.09.2025 14:45 — 👍 363 🔁 31 💬 15 📌 3
Ep. 7: What haffen Vella? Why are Englishes unequal? feat. Danica Salazar
Spotify video
Oxford English Dictionary World English Editor Danica Salazar talks about Philippine English, language inequality, and ‘world Englishes’
open.spotify.com/episode/4cFP...
12.09.2025 10:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Bologermanica
The Dictionary of Old English. Interview with Stephen Pelle.
youtu.be/4NEiOQdjGxg?...
17.09.2025 22:28 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We were very pleased to get the news today that the Australian National Dictionary Centre will be saved, thanks to an anonymous donation and the halt on involuntary redundancies under the Renew ANU plan. We thank everyone for their generous support through these difficult times.
18.09.2025 06:18 — 👍 90 🔁 33 💬 3 📌 10
YouTube video by Bologermanica
The Dictionary of Old English. Interview with Stephen Pelle.
The Dictionary of Old English. Interview with Stephen Pelle.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NEi...
17.09.2025 23:31 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📨You are warmly invited to our next annual conference at University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
📜The theme is "Education and Early Medieval England" and our programme is available to view online.
📲Registration is now open: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1631647263...
17.09.2025 11:38 — 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week...
📖Beowulf on Steorarume: Beowulf in Cyberspace
📲 heorot.dk
©️ Benjamin Slade
💻 Syd Allan
15.09.2025 11:41 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Bigger, bolder, bodelicious! The new 3rd edition of this textbook just arrived:
www.routledge.com/Studying-the...
15.09.2025 06:54 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Read about @cathamclarke.bsky.social fabulous new book as she reflects on the importance of the School of Advanced Study (SAS), @senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social and all the School's libraries in championing the humanties.
15.09.2025 08:56 — 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
A History of England in 25 Poems - On History
This new book from IHR Professor Catherine Clarke explores the history of England in new ways—drawing on her work here in the Institute. It’s been quite a journey. From hours in the archive to writing...
I was invited to write a post for the @ihr.bsky.social blog about #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems.
'The book tells a story about how England has been shaped over the centuries - and, between the lines, I think it tells a story about my working life here at the IHR...'
blog.history.ac.uk/2025/09/a-hi...
12.09.2025 20:06 — 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1
The Irish Manuscripts Commission, founded 1928, preserves primary manuscript sources for Irish history in print and online. Browse our collection, including free digital resources at irishmanuscripts.ie
assistant professor of English Language
at the University of British Columbia. cognitive linguistics, metaphor theory, corpus linguistics, gesture studies. she/her, singular they is as old as Chaucer.
http://elisestickles.com
Random entries from the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (unofficial account)
Dictionary of Old Norse Prose - Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog.
A random word of the day with a defined citation, the previous day’s Wordle solution, plus occasional updates from the editors.
https://onp.ku.dk/
Publicity Manager for books and the Oxford English Dictionary at Oxford University Press. South African/British. Wife of historian, mother of daughters, keeper of cats.
Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. Bringing Spanish scholars in English Studies together since 1976. More info: http://aedean.org
Peer-reviewed journal focusing on Literature, Language and Culture of English-speaking world, eight issues a year, founded in 1919, published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Bluesky account for the Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026, hosted by Lancaster University.
Professor of English Linguistics, Heidelberg University
Linguist, publisher, typographer, medievalist, immigrant. Into Le Guin, Wonderland, Hobbits, Unicode, minority languages. 🖖🏻🏴🇮🇪🇪🇺🏳️🌈
The theme of the 26th conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE26), which will take place in-person only at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, July 25–27 2025, is ‘World Englishes through Space and Time’.
The Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester.
https://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/
We are one of four Schools in the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester.
Promoting world-leading research using the unique special collections of The University of Manchester Library.
Open to visitors Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
AHRC-funded project ‘Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers’, based at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/
@manchester.ac.uk @uomhums.bsky.social
Register and join us in Düsseldorf from July 2 - July 4, 2025!
https://isseme.org/conference/dusseldorf-2025/
Dr. 🎓 LMU Munich 👩🏫 Sociolinguistics, (post) colonial varieties of English 🌎 stylistics, historical fiction 📺 Québécoise ⚜ she/her
The official account for Oxford Academic, featuring Oxford University Press's academic news and insights.
Medievalist working on OE, Vikings, ON myth, runes and public history. Professor in the Dept. of English at UCC. Author of creative works 'Norse Myths' and 'Legends of Norse Mythology'.
