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Medieval Lit. Monograph on the Joy of Love in European Medieval Literature (CUP): https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/joy-of-love-in-the-middle-ages/3E802E13E74AE2D5DF30E130546E9793

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Timaeus in Paradise: Metaphors and Beauty from Plato to Dante and Beyond by Piero Boitani

Timaeus in Paradise: Metaphors and Beauty from Plato to Dante and Beyond by Piero Boitani

Timaeus in Paradise is now available worldwide!

In this book, Piero Boitani traces the influence and impact of Plato’s Timaeus—and its major themes, creation and beauty—through the centuries.

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Plato #AncientWorld #AncientHistory #Timaeus

22.01.2026 08:07 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Joy of Love in the Middle Ages Cambridge Core - Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature - The Joy of Love in the Middle Ages

My book is out!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/j...

27.11.2025 09:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Appel à articles : Chaucer in the Age of Medievalism Following the Chaucer: Here and Now exhibition (2023–2024) at the Bodleian Library, the conference Chaucer in the Age of Medievalism—sponsored by the Modernités médiévales association and the New Chau...

Chaucer in the Age of Medievalism needs you! In the wake of our conference, we are now preparing a collective volume and seeking additional chapters to complement the proceedings. Please share widely!

#medievalsky

modmed.hypotheses.org/8517

21.11.2025 17:50 — 👍 26    🔁 28    💬 2    📌 1

Congratulations!!

03.11.2025 16:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile Cambridge Core - Classical Literature - Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile

My book is out! Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile, with Cambridge UP @universitypress.cambridge.org.

I am so grateful to the friends, family, colleagues, librarians and archivists who helped along the way. Nervous and excited to see it in the world!

www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

13.08.2025 12:24 — 👍 151    🔁 32    💬 18    📌 6

Reporter: “Why do you think so many countries and governments around the world are just ignoring what’s happening in Gaza?”
Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”

11.06.2025 07:05 — 👍 123    🔁 45    💬 1    📌 1

I wrote a blog post about my book!

Want some ramblings about fairy ladies, magical princesses, and serpent women (and how we should feel about them)? Or just curious about how reading medieval romance is like watching Star Wars??

It's all here, folks (and also a 35% discount 👀)!

30.04.2025 13:43 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Front page of the University of Oxford's Trinity Term 2025 Medieval Booklet.

Front page of the University of Oxford's Trinity Term 2025 Medieval Booklet.

Somehow Trinity term has already snuck up upon us, but rejoice, for that means the 📯Oxford Medieval Studies Booklet📯 is ready for viewing!

Find it in its full glory along with some other announcements in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/28/m...

28.04.2025 10:50 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Using Transkribus Editions and Transcriptions Since my first blog post, where I discussed the Scandinavian texts of the Floire and Blancheflor tradition, I have been looking more closely at the specific manuscript v…

So many Floire & Blancheflor manuscripts, so little time…thankfully the Post-REALM team make use of Transkribus! Read about Elliot Worrall’s experiences with this fantastic tool in his work on 2 Swedish texts, plus his tips on using it for your project.
postrealmproject.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/u...

28.04.2025 11:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish
📜New Directions in Old English Prose
🏫University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk
📅30-31 March 2026
⌛️Deadline: 1st August 2025

25.04.2025 11:45 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

The replies to this thread are very funny, but it’s a warning sign that one of the key functions of Googling - the ability to factcheck a quote, verify a source, or track down something half remembered - will get so much harder if AI prefers to legitimate statistical possibilities over actual truth

23.04.2025 13:48 — 👍 734    🔁 83    💬 19    📌 4

Bindingggg fragmentssssss

24.04.2025 03:17 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

23.04.2025 23:52 — 👍 5191    🔁 2204    💬 60    📌 123
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Women and Magic in Medieval Romance - Boydell and Brewer Explores the conventions and contradictions inherent in archetypes of magical femininity - from loathly ladies to monstrous mothers - in a range of popular l...

If you (or your students) are interested in genre-reading, medieval gender studies, and/or magical women in romance, please give it a read!

#medievalsky #publication #genrestudies #GenderStudies

boydellandbrewer.com/978184384665...

09.04.2025 15:40 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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I'm delighted to say that on Mon 28 April Prof Corinne Saunders (Durham) will present the 7th Annual MacDonald Lecture at the University of Groningen (17.30 - 19.00 CEST).

“Thinking and Feeling: Love and Loss in Chaucer’s Romance Writing”

Online attendees are welcome! meet.google.com/voz-rogm-jmt

11.04.2025 14:01 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2
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The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections Abstract. It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others

🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨

Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!).
academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...

03.04.2025 11:57 — 👍 270    🔁 84    💬 13    📌 8
Celestial Aspirations: Classical Impulses in British Poetry and Art
Philip Hardie

Celestial Aspirations: Classical Impulses in British Poetry and Art Philip Hardie

A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artists.

Philip Hardie's Celestial Aspirations is 60% off in the latest print flash sale: press.princeton.edu/sale/flash-s...

02.04.2025 14:00 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
A photograph of a character in a play. Half length, a young man with short dark hair and dark eyes speaks, looking up slightly; his right hand is raised in front of him .He is wearing a plain black shirt with the sleeves pushed up and a couple of buttons undone.

A photograph of a character in a play. Half length, a young man with short dark hair and dark eyes speaks, looking up slightly; his right hand is raised in front of him .He is wearing a plain black shirt with the sleeves pushed up and a couple of buttons undone.

Hamlet: but what if SOMETHING after death, something worse even than this?
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
Andrew Scott at the Almeida dir. Rob Icke in 2017, with subsequent transfers, and filmed; here's Scott delivering this soliloquy. Ooof 💔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdZV...

25.03.2025 09:21 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
Project MUSE - The Romance Hero in Translation: Beauty, Reputation, and Identity in <i>Partonopeu de Blois</i> and <i>Partonope of Blois</i>

My article on Partonope of Blois, beauty and the hero's identity is out!! My Postdoc project on translation and medieval romance has ended a while ago but what a joy it was to work on this wonderful romance! muse.jhu.edu/article/9518...

14.03.2025 10:19 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Career Opportunities: Full-time assistantship in medieval English (22147)

The University of Lausanne is advertising for a doctoral position. A truly wonderful place and wonderful department to spend 5 years in!
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

17.03.2025 12:01 — 👍 1    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Volume 60 Issue 2 | The Chaucer Review | Scholarly Publishing Collective

My research team’s special issue of The Chaucer Review has now been published! All pieces authored by COMMode team members @unibern.bsky.social are available open access thanks to @snsf-ch.bsky.social:

scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/chaucer...

17.03.2025 13:04 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
Career Opportunities: Full-time assistantship in medieval English (22147)

The University of Lausanne is advertising for a doctoral position. A truly wonderful place and wonderful department to spend 5 years in!
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

17.03.2025 12:01 — 👍 1    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Cartooning the Medieval A symposium exploring the potential of comics and narrative art to create new opportunities for engaging with medieval culture.

Medievalist-friends! Interested in learning about comics and narrative art and meeting cartoonists for potential collaborations? Apply to join us in Chicago from 5-6 June 2025 for a crossover workshop at the Newberry Library entitled “Cartooning the Medieval”!! www.newberry.org/calendar/car...

12.03.2025 16:45 — 👍 75    🔁 30    💬 10    📌 3

ATTENTION MEDIEVALISTS and MEDIEVAL-CURIOUS ARTISTS! This upcoming event at the Newberry Library is one you won’t want to miss!

14.03.2025 15:35 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Project MUSE - The Romance Hero in Translation: Beauty, Reputation, and Identity in <i>Partonopeu de Blois</i> and <i>Partonope of Blois</i>

My article on Partonope of Blois, beauty and the hero's identity is out!! My Postdoc project on translation and medieval romance has ended a while ago but what a joy it was to work on this wonderful romance! muse.jhu.edu/article/9518...

14.03.2025 10:19 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Middle Ages in the Modern World A multidisciplinary conference on medievalism in the post-Middle Ages

Very excited to share that registration for the 5th Middle Ages in the Modern World (MAMO) conference is now open!
24-26 June, London.
Over 100 speakers will present on the reception of the medieval world across a variety of panels, keynotes, events, performances. Take a look:
themamo.org

10.03.2025 12:37 — 👍 35    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 4
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Awards At the biennial conference of ISSEME, the following publication prizes are awarded: Best Article (paper or electronic), of at least 4000 words, in a journal or edited volume, on any subfield o…

Hey, #medievalsky, specifically #earlymedievalenglandsky Have you read or written a kick ass article, book, edition or translation over the last 24 months? Have you done or encountered some incredible outreach or teaching? Nominations are open for ISSEME's awards, details here: isseme.org/awards/

06.12.2024 08:04 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Geoffrey Chaucer | Reaktion Books This is a new account of the life and accomplishments of medieval England’s most famous poet, Geoffrey Chaucer. For over six centuries, Chaucer has epitomized poetic greatness, though in more recent y...

If you’re looking for a gift for someone right now, may I humbly suggest my little‬⁩ Chaucer biography? Smarter people than I am have said it’s great, and it’s only £16.95!

Plus it’s small enough to fit into a big stocking….

reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/geoffre....

03.12.2024 11:38 — 👍 17    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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Health and the Body in Early Medieval England Cambridge Core - European History 450-1000 - Health and the Body in Early Medieval England

this amazing new Cambridge Element by Caroline Batten is available open access for the next four weeks! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

27.11.2024 10:56 — 👍 24    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1

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