Lynneth Miller Renberg

The letters UiT covered in snow, on a snowy lawn

October looks pretty different than usual this year…. (There’s a lot going on. May the snow picture be a small break from it all).

Subtheme: Movement as Resistance and Refuge | Medieval Colloquium

Sewanee subtheme on movement as resistance and refuge is live! Submit a proposal to think about the potential readings of movement as response to crisis with me: www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com/movement-as-...

Subtheme: Movement as Resistance and Refuge | Medieval Colloquium

Sewanee subtheme on movement as resistance and refuge is live! Submit a proposal to think about the potential readings of movement as response to crisis with me: www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com/movement-as-...

Delighted to be getting started on a Fulbright year at Universitetet I Tromsø. With email access and an office sign, it is about as official as it gets!

A baby in a headband holding a book with dancing women on the front

A toddler in a blue dress holding a paperback book with dancing women on the front

Reposting this iconic “baby with book baby photo” along with the updated version, in honor of my book’s paperback release! (It’s also 50% off with code BB094 right now on @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social’s website, so, in short, a steal).

Series Focus: Gender in the Middle Ages To celebrate the publication of the 25th book in the Gender in the Middle Ages series, we invited the series editors, Diane Watt and Jacqueline Murray, to share their reflections on its significance a...

"Proofed," the Boydell & Brewer Blog's Series Focus: Gender in the Middle Ages: guest post written by Diane Watt and Jacqueline Murray, editors of the Gender in the Middle Ages series.
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The Cats Of Cyprus (Church History On Vacation) On a recent trip to Turkey and Greece, where I loved the churches, mosques, and museums we were able to tour, my daughter had a very different highlight

All the news is heavy right now. I wrote about cats and Helena Augusta to cope. www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

Dancing Plague of 1518 Not Just the Tudors · Episode

For more on this… shameless plug for a podcast episode: open.spotify.com/episode/4X01...

Dancing Plague of 1518 Not Just the Tudors · Episode

Forgot to share this when it dropped, but if you’re interested in dancing plagues, give it a listen. open.spotify.com/episode/4X01...

Extremely difficult to read document in cursive script. Actually this is a charter of lady Clotilde, Paris AN/K//2/10, from 673

My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you

Merovingian cursive:

A program for the International Congress of Medievalist Studies, held up in front of a building and greenery

Shameless self promotion- a picture of a panel in the ICMS program, titled “Dance in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: A Multidisciplinary Panel Honoring Lynneth Renberg’s Women, Dance, and Parish Religion in England”

The best place to be in early May. 🗃️ #icms2025

Okay, why does this book matter? We held a conference in Melbourne in 2023, believing democratic-decay scholarship needs to pay attention to Rome, the only old democracy to fall from internal causes. I don’t need to say why that matters now. We want to bring #ancientbluesky and #polisci together. 🧵

What Makes A Pope Great? On Popes And Pastoral Care With the recent passing of Pope Francis, there has been a lot of discussion about the pope’s legacy. Described by NPR as “one of the most popular popes in

Thinking about popes today on @anxiousbench by looking at one of my favorites, the early medieval pope Gregory I. What makes a pope great? And how do we evaluate papal legacies? www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

Nicene Theology and Eusebius of Caesarea with Adam Renberg The London Lyceum · Episode

If you are interested in learning more about the theology of the Council of Nicaea for its 1700 year anniversary (or my work!), this podcast episode from the London Lyceum is a good start.

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In Support Of Expansive Education Is education meant to protect young people from ideas that might be challenging or upsetting, or meant to expand their perspectives? In short, should education be protective or expansive?

My monthly post for @anxiousbench.bsky.social, with some thoughts on education (maybe especially for those in Christian education): www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

Congratulations!! So thrilled for you.

This made me cheer. It gets directly at a problem I’ve often noticed: people don’t fundamentally understand what a historian *does*.

Mothers Of The (Nicene) Church: Helena Augusta As I stared at the fragments of the cross of Christ on display in the Cathedral of Palma de Mallorca last year, I was struck with the apparent

As I continue to reflect on the Council of Nicaea for its 1700th anniversary this year, it seemed appropriate to share about the mother of Nicaea this Women's History Month: Helena Augusta.

Read about it here: www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

The book is on a white table with a plant and a coffee mug nearby. The book cover is bright pink with the title in bold white letters.

Happy Release Day! 🎉

Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry by @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social

We are so excited for this book to finally be hitting bookstore shelves! Get your copy here: bakerbookhouse.com/products/598...

Book spine with St Patrick depicted in gold.

St Patrick's Day #shelfie from a slightly battered copy of Spicilegium Ossoriense, 1874, by Patrick Francis Moran. Have a good day!

That's Numberwang! On Quant Methods and Medieval Manuscripts. — Sonja Drimmer When I lived in the UK I watched a lot of Mitchell and Webb. A British comedy duo who should be more famous among Americans than they are, they made sketches just the side of absurd where—unlike Monty...

On calculating the number of female scribes and their manuscript output in medieval Europe.

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My colleague teaches a similar course and talks about the AIDS epidemic- one of the things she has students engage is “Rent.” It’s a great course!

Call for papers! 🗃️ #earlymodern this year’s focus is the revolutions of 1525…. But all papers related to religion in the early modern era welcome!

I also note in a word doc which image numbers go with each MS/volume, and file photos for each into separate and clearly labeled folders. Have fun, and hope you find great things!

Echoing the advice of photographing the call slip in every photograph! I break up between volumes by photographing the spine or box for the new volume. Also make sure to have the folio number visible in each picture- if no folios in the MS, use a sticky note to keep track in each picture.

Laura L. Gathagan, author of, The Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders c. 1031-1083, shares her insights on the post-Conquest queen in our latest author Q&A blog. ##WomensHistoryMonth buff.ly/xGVhhX6

In honor of International Women's Day I've started reading this important new work by the redoubtable Merry Wiesner-Hanks. #earlymodern 🗃️