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A book cover that reads "Conceiving Heroic Christianity in Early Medieval England" with the author's name, "David G. Pedersen" above the title on a brown background featuring a black-eyed susan. To the left is a title card that reads "Coming soon."

Text on a brown floral background that reads: "Unlike much of early medieval Europe, the early English converted to Christianity through missional efforts, not martial conquest. Thus early English converts had freedom to construct their Christian identity, producing a religious subjectivity that differed from the Latinate perspective of the missionaries who converted them. This book investigates lay texts to undermine monolithic conceptions of medieval Christianity by revealing a uniquely English religious subjectivity evident in Old English wisdom literature."

Coming this summer from MIP's Christianities Before Modernity series, "Conceiving Heroic Christianity in Early Medieval England" by David G. Pedersen!

Cover of the book “Studies on Slavery in Brazilian and African History and Literature.” Published in the series “Dependency and Slavery Studies.” The image depicts two figures in black on a stairway, with long shadows.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, we recommend the recently published book “Studies on Slavery in Brazilian and African History and Literature” by Stephan Conermann & Roberto Hofmeister Pich:
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@dependencybonn.de #slavery #colonial

Stone memorial to the saint in St Mary's Churchyard, Whitby, showing Cædmon clutching a lyre as an angel touches it.

Feb 11: Feast of Cædmon (†680), monk of Streanæshalch (Whitby). Cowherd who, in his advanced years, was divinely endowed with a gift for poetry and song. Bede says the scriptures were interpreted for him and he would create religious compositions beyond compare. #medievalsky

Cover of the Book "The Late Medieval Image Debate". The cover is simple, dark blue, with a large red initial M at the bottom for the series ‘Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts’.

Picture of the author.

🎉Congratulations - Yun Ni has won the annual New Oriental Young Scholar Award for 2025! 🏆
Take a look at her recently published book on The Late Medieval Image Debate in English and French Literature:

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@pekinguniversity.bsky.social #medievalsky #earlymodern

Freshly baked! My new publication is out: "Lawsuits and Egodocuments on sexual intimacy in early modern Bilbao" #EarlyModern @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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A worthwhile podcast also addressing the special situation here in Hamburg:

Photo of the new Editor of Medieval Encounters, Mònica Colominas Aparicio.

A warm welcome to Mònica Colominas Aparicio(Madrid) as the new Editor of Medieval Encounters! We wish Mònica all the best in her new role and pass on our heartfelt thanks to her predecessor, Uriel Simonsohn, for his successful editorial tenure.
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We are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor David Abulafia, founding member of our flagship series The Medieval Mediterranean, board member of 'Cultural Interactions', and an important inspiration for innovatory studies of the Mediterranean.
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Das Cover des Buchs "Extremereignis 'Kältewinter' im 18. Jahrhundert. Spuren in der zeitgenössischen Literatur, Kultur und Wissenschaft", erscheinen in der Reihe Historische Katastrophenforschung, zeigt einen Bildausschnitt mit der Überschrift "L'anno terribile 1709", auf dem Figuren unterschiedliche Katastrophen demonstrieren - den Krieg, den Tod, die große Kälte etc.

Wie man sich zurzeit im eisigen Berlin wärmt? Mit ‚frostigen Versen‘ des 18. Jahrhunderts, zu genießen im Sammelband „Extremereignis ›Kältewinter‹ im 18. Jahrhundert“ (hrsg. v. Anna Axtner-Borsutzky & Joana van de Löcht):
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@doctoressa.bsky.social #earlymodern

The three panelists at the Humanities for Humans event, sitting on stage under a chandelier

Moderator Irene Kacandes standing before the audience

#Empathy seems to be in short supply nowadays. As such, it deserved all the attention it got at the recent #Humanities for Humans talk, hosted by @1014nyc.bsky.social in New York. 1/3

As it is the first Tuesday in February, in accordance with xkcd's comic “Misconceptions”, check out some titles that discuss common misconceptions about the Middle Ages!

Image: Fragment of a Tapestry or Wall Hanging, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cloisters Collection, 1990. (1/2)

Tremendously excited to finally see these frescoes at Brunnenhof, #Zurich, commissioned by a Jewish family in the 14th c. To learn more about visual adaptations of the #Neidhart tradition (eastern wall), have a look at this publication: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #medievaljewishlife

Good morning, Zurich! What a pleasure to speak with PhD students and faculty from all over Europe from the @rebpaf.bsky.social doctoral network about academic publishing as career path.

Very pleased to have arrived in sunny #Zurich where it’s some 15 degrees warmer than in icy Berlin. Looking forward to giving a workshop on #academicpublishing as a #career path.

Looks like there's a new book incoming from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social this summer on the political thought of Vilnius Jesuit Jan Chądzyński brill.com/display/titl...

#NewPublication 📚 We're happy to share that Volume 27 of the DSS publishing series is out now!

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A Companion to Rome c. 400-c. 1050 is a major new volume edited by Professor of Early Medieval History Caroline Goodson (University of Cambridge) and Professor Julia Hillner (Universität Bonn). Part of Brill’s series Companion to European History, it is the result of over seven years' scholarship by 32 contributors from across Europe and America.

NEW 🙌 'A Companion to Rome c. 400-c. 1050' edited by
Caroline Goodson and Julia Hillner.

A new urban history of late antique and early medieval Rome - the result of over seven years' scholarship by 32 contributors from across Europe and America.

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Book cover with Dürer's initials and the title: ‘Albrecht Dürer's Four Apostles. Image, Word, and Meaning’, by Carl P. E. Springer.

The painting depicts the four apostles John, Peter, Paul and Mark, painted by Albrecht Dürer.

New in our series of ‘mini’ monographs: “Albrecht Dürer’s Four Apostles” (C. Springer). Painted 500 years ago, #Dürer's diptych retains an uncanny ability to move viewers who live in very different times and places but still deal with the same issues of division and unity.
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Book cover with the title "Bernhard von Clairvaux: Apologia. Monastische Tradition und Rhetorik im 12. Jahrhundert". By Iva Adámková

It's #Hideacakeday! The Cistercians would certainly have been happy to follow this practice. In "Bernhard von Clairvaux: Apologia", Iva Adámková highlights Bernard's criticism of monastic habits, including the consumption of cake ingredients!
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#medievalsky

Purple visual reading: Webinar: Academic Networking and Collaboration. Wednesday, 28 January 2026

Join us next week for our first free #webinar of 2026 and learn essential skills to help you #network and #collaborate successfully in the year ahead. With our resident experts Gareth Dyke and Scott McCleary.

📅 Weds, January 28, 10am CET

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Explore the volume "Towards an Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists," edited by Alexandra Lee, Hope Doherty-Harrison and Elizabeth Champion, here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

The cover shows a medieval illustration of Gawain and the Green Knight before the king.

#internationalplaydate Day, but no one has time? Just pick up "Gaming the Medieval English Text" by Julie Nelson Couch and Kimberly K. Bell (Series Ludic Cultures), which is all about multidimensional games with readers!

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@mip-medpub.bsky.social #medievalsky

Squirrel Appreciation Day

#medievalsky #TimelineCleanse

@britishlibrary.bsky.social Add 42130, f. 33r

Today is “Take a Walk Outdoors Day”! So: grab a good book (preferably from De Gruyter) for a sunny bench, wrap up warm, and head out into the fresh air!

#brueghel #earlymodern

The Container Lab onboard the ONE Recognition, arriving at Hamburg harbour on 16 January 2026. Image: Screenshot from Hamburg Port Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEVmH5I6dqg

Welcome back! Somewhere onboard this ship is our Container Lab, which was stationed in Puducherry, India, for the past 1.5 years to study historical palm-leaf manuscripts. It has now safely returned to Hamburg and is awaiting its next mission

Calendar for January, including Anthony Abbot whose feast is #otd 17 Jan, from a private Office book 'for a lady', 15thC, Bruges,
Bodleian Library Oxford MS. Douce 12, fol. 004r.

Another illuminated medieval manuscript gem.

#medievalsky #manuscript

Thank you to Postdoctoral Guest Researcher Dr. Darlan Lorenzetti, who presented his research on "Sinners, Masters and Slaves: The reception of Augustine of Hippo's theory of slavery in Alonso de Sandoval S. J." in today's Research Seminar.

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The first page of Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrighty, showing Baker’s secretary hand and the unfinished drawings of Noah’s Ark and of shipbuilders. Reproduced by permission of the Pepys Library, Cambridge.

Unfolding the multiple lives of a shipbuilding manuscript: Our first Artefact of the Month in 2026 is known as 'Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrighty' and reveals the interactions between mathematics and practice in the Scientific Revolution:

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Book cover featuring a fresco by Juan de Borgoña depicting The Conquest of Oran in 1514. Title: Liturgy of Empire: Reading the Mozarabic Rite in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800, published in the series The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, Volume: 87

We are delighted that Columbia News interviewed Susan Boynton about her recently published book on the reception of the Neo-Mozarabic Rite in Europe:
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Our recommendation: Read the book as well!
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