A hidden treasure of legal history for a medieval Monday – a magnificent illustrated Icelandic law manuscript (Jónsbók, MS AM 351 Fol., Skálholtsbók eldri.) #medievalsky
08.12.2025 16:58 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Absolutely top notch marginal creatures in this book of hours leaf! (2024.1.14) 😍🥰
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
08.12.2025 16:53 — 👍 72 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
The Breton Dumpster Fire: How The War of Breton Succession Blew Up The Hundred Years' War.
If you thought the succession of the French crown was contentious, just wait until you hear about Brittany.
“Herein lay the incendiary problem: Edward had been denied a claim the French throne because Salic Law did not allow succession through a female line. But Phillip was now pressing his advantage in Brittany with a claim through a woman.”
www.cjadrien.com/p/the-breton...
#medievalsky #history
06.12.2025 20:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some light reading as I prepare to teach the Hundred Years War for @medievalists.bsky.social. You can sign up for the course at www.cjadrien.com/p/courses.
#medievalsky #history
02.12.2025 19:26 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Viking Law and Order: English Edition
Watch now | How much did the Norse affect the creation of English law?
This week, we spoke with @jakestattel.bsky.social about how legal institutions in England changed dramatically from AD 900 to 1200, due in part to internal political developments and the Viking incursions.
vikingology.substack.com/p/viking-law...
#medievalsky #vikingsky #history #podcast
30.11.2025 07:13 — 👍 22 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Mine are not behaving.
20.11.2025 09:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Halloween!
#medievalsky #vikingsky #writingcommunity #history #meme
31.10.2025 21:40 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
One of my favorite restaurants, mostly because of the castle.
#travel #writingcommunity #history #travelsky #medievalsky
29.10.2025 05:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Viking Hasting Has Landed: My Saga Joins Vinci Books
The indie era is ending—the adventure is only beginning.
When I learned that their CEO is Mark Smith, who helped propel Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to fame, I had to read the email twice. This is a team that has built global success stories. Now, they’re betting on mine.
open.substack.com/pub/cjadrien...
#booksky #writingcommunity
26.10.2025 12:48 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m pretty sure this is the grave we talked about with @downham.bsky.social on our recent podcast 😂 vikingology.substack.com/p/catching-u...
#medievalsky #vikingology
18.10.2025 23:25 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Thanks, Sean, this is a great breakdown of what I was talking about! It explains a lot about what’s going on in the world today, I think.
18.10.2025 19:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Aesthetic of the North: What Tolkien Helped Me See About the Vikings
On the Viking aesthetic | New Course on Medieval Brittany
I've moved my newsletter to Fridays! This week, I reflect on something Tolkien said that gave me an "ah-ha!" moment on a tricky question about the #Vikings.
open.substack.com/pub/cjadrien...
#medievalsky #history #writingcommunity #booksky
17.10.2025 17:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I hope that wasn’t me! Haha
16.10.2025 12:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hard to say, but maybe. Good thinking there. If memory serves, the study authors didn’t bring it up.
05.10.2025 19:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Saw the “Viking” show at le Puy du Fou. It’s anachronistic, cheesy, utterly wrong….but fun as hell! Haha 😂
#travel #medievalsky #vikingsky #writingcommunity
05.10.2025 11:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is my life now. Driving through France and stopping at anything that looks remotely medieval to learn all about it. I’m in heaven!
#history #medievalsky #france #travel #writingcommunity
02.10.2025 18:42 — 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Sorry about the first one. There was a silly mistake in the last one that I had to remove. Thanks for reposting 🙏
02.10.2025 10:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Visited the Viking ship Olaf D’Olonne, built in France, today. What a treat!
#travel #vikingsky #medievalsky #writingcommunity
01.10.2025 20:52 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
This was an amazing find in the small town of La Flocellière: a church dating from 1090, before the first crusade! How cool!
#travel #medievalsky #travelsky #france
01.10.2025 05:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Nantes Cathedral finally opened again after five years!
#medievalsky #travel #writingcommunity
29.09.2025 16:50 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book fair at the Chateau de la Flocellière today. Beautiful site!
#writingcommunity #medievalsky #booksky #travel
28.09.2025 07:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ignore the ladies in the back.
24.09.2025 16:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A “traditional Scandinavian wood working atelier” of all things. So if learning how to carve wood like a 19th century Scandinavian woodworker is your thing, that’s your spot!
13.09.2025 18:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Attended a book fair at the Domaine de Roiffé today.
#writingcommunity #booksky
13.09.2025 18:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Antiquity is a bimonthly review of world archaeology edited by Professor Robin Skeates. Please be aware that we sometimes share relevant images of human remains. https://antiquity.ac.uk/
Archaeologist at North Yorkshire Historic Environment Record: special interest in Viking-Age Britain and the Great Heathen Army
Textile historian, textile artist, educator and reader. And yes, I have a cat.
Erstwhile archaeologist and historian. Musings on Vikings/Norse, Greenland, archaeology of religion, mythology, and magic.
Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@MarginalViking
Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Making the March project at the University of Manchester. Early medievalist. English society, law, landscape c. 600–1100. Book in progress on c10–11 East Anglia.
Revisiting Early Medieval Scandinavia.
A project by Jonas Lau Markussen and Connor Benson.
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Medievalist at the University of Birmingham, fan of Iceland, Vikings, running and other things
Author of the Viking Trading Lands series.
Dramatic historical adventure!
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Bite-sized Viking history videos on YouTube Shorts @Megan.Formanek
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Archaeologist | PhD Candidate | Vikings, Boats, Burials!
Flinders University & University of Edinburgh
Academic publisher @Brepols.bsky.social specialising in archaeology and history. British living in France. Sometimes writes about Vikings and goes digging in holes for old things. She/her
Archaeologist dabbling with geophysical methods, heritage management, GIS modelling and various forms of remote sensing. Hobby jazz trombone player. Norwegian living in Denmark. Sometimes books flight tickets as Dr. Stamnes
Danish #archaeologist living in in Stavanger, Norway. Still working in the trenches of #archaeology. Views are entirely my own and yes, I do tend to spend all my vacations in Scotland
Poetics, Literary criticism, Old Norse poetry, Linguistics, English studies.
Book: Historical Lacunae and Poetic Space (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022) https://www.peterlang.com/document/1183611 #PeterLangOxford.
Blog: https://whoisthereader.wordpress.com/
Gad Rausing Assoc Prof. of Viking-Age Archaeology, Oxford
Unearthing History Together. www.cancic.com Community landscape archaeology group. Formerly Appleton Area Archaeology Project - now a CIC. Dr Jane Harrison, Sarah Miles, Kathryn Murphy @sarahmiles.bsky.social @kmurphster.bsky.social
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