Callum Hendleman

We're proud to present our seminar series for the new semester; alongside our regular postgraduate seminars, we will be hosting two manuscript workshops! We look forward to seeing postgraduate students new and old at our first seminar on Tuesday 30th September, which will be followed by drinks!

The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.

Discount code

For the fans of the eleventh century (there are dozens of us!), here's a 30% pre-order discount from @oxunipress.bsky.social on my book, due out next month.

LAMPS SEMINAR SERIES CALL FOR PAPERS AUTUMN 2025

Please submit your paper to us at lampsedinburgh@gmail.com
Deadline: 29th August 2025

📚 🗣️ Students and staff from across our university will be taking part over all four days of #IMC2025 — follow us next week for daily updates!

💻 You can also click this link for a full list of sessions they'll be involved with:
bit.ly/UoE-IMC

⬇️ And find some highlights of what's to come below:

💻 This week our university will co-host the 3rd Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival!

📚 Join to find out more about recent publications on Byzantine literature, history, archaeology and material culture.

⬇️ Click the link below to find out more:

hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...

Behold the hole in the parchment!

MS Dd.4.17; Books of Hours; 14th Century C.E.; East Anglia;
f.36v @camdiglib.bsky.social

This Wednesday, we have our manuscript workshop at the Centre of Research Collections, Main Library (3-4:45pm) followed by @callumhendleman.bsky.social's paper 'A dialogue with the dead: Grief and performance in the Threnos Epitaphios of Ioannes Chortasmenos' at Teviot!

"The story is taken from the life of Saint James the Greater as told in the Golden Legend by Jacopo da Voragine1, and is associated with a sort of magical competition between the Saint and the sorcerer Hermogenes. Saint James had returned to Judea from Spain, and was confronted by a certain Philetus, a follower of Hermogenes, who was sent by the latter to discredit Saint James as a false prophet to the Jewish populace. However, Philetus himself was converted, which so enraged Hermogenes that he used his magical powers to torment his erstwhile disciple and dispatched demons to fetch Saint James to him. The creatures, however, were powerless against the Saint, and Hermogenes himself, ultimately became a Christian. Here the moment is depicted in which Philetus, kneeling at the altar on the left, has already been converted, and the furious magician has just sent his infernal monsters, which surround an unyielding Saint James." -Sotheby's https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2009/old-master-paintings-am1074/lot.62.html

St. James dressed as a pilgrim to Santiago. Behind a bunch of of the Jameses?

Demons doing trapeze tricks

Monkeys, demons, owls hanging out and smoking

Wonderfully unhinged painting of by an unknown Flemish artist of the 17th century with St. James, dressed as a pilgrim, in a magic battle with the sorcerer Hermogenes. Monsters, demons, monkeys, trapeze acts, fakes Jameses…what else could you want in a painting? #earlymodern #arthistory

We should just come back to old tested academic traditions. Articles should have titles like "Some More Thoughts on Medieval Kingship" (87 pages), "Merovingian Gaul. A History" (3 pages, no footnotes), and "An Interesting Pendant from Paris" (unknown pagination, published in village-based journal).

We are excited to present our (tentative) schedule for the 2025 Lamps Seminar Series featuring postgraduates from Edinburgh and around the world. We hope to see you at our inaugural session on the 5th March!

Also, join our mailing list here: mailchi.mp/8f15fd897f53...

Cfp: 3rd Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival The 3rd Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival will occur 30-31 May. The deadline for submissions is 6 April, 2025.

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Third Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival (30-31 May 2025).

This is an exciting opportunity for authors to share recently published books on on any area of #LateAntique and #ByzantineStudies (AD ca.300–ca.1500)!

hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...
#byzantium

Monomachos Crown at the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest
Its seven plates depict Emperor Constantine ΙΧ Monomachos, Macedonian Empresses Zoe and Theodora, and the personifications of Truth and Humility.

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Very exciting!🫡

🚨LAMPS SEMINAR SERIES CALL FOR PAPERS 2025🚨

Please submit a 300 word abstract to lampsedinburgh@gmail.com by the 7th February. All subjects related to the Late Antique and Medieval worlds are welcome!

See the poster below for full details:

Then perish

Thought I’d share this on here for any interested grad students.

CFP for Edinburgh’s international grad conference, happening next year on 24-25 April. Applications are open for anyone working on Late Antiquity and the Medieval period (venturing beyond the Centre’s Byzantine and Islamic focus).

Visual poetry, the medieval way. (Paris, BnF, Lat. 2422, 9th century; digitized and more: https://buff.ly/4hZoIg5). #medievalsky #booksky #visualpoetry

Couldn’t refuse the mini pilgrimage to check out the new(ish) exhibition at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social.
Personal highlights obviously included Christine de Pizan’s Harley MS 4431 and this lovely print of the Alexiad, along with this fish-frog (or fish-toad?) amalgam in it’s rather dapper cape.

Could I be added, I work on Byzantine literature

Hi Sharon, would love to be added to this!

I’d love to be added to this list Mateusz

Hi Mario, I’d love to be on the list as well

Hi Zeynep, could you add me too

Hi Nikos, would love to be added to the list

🚨ALL-NEW ALL-DIFFERENT LAMPS🚨
LAMPS is BACK (soon)! We are holding a meeting on Thursday 21st November in Room 2.26, Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing from 11-12PM to discuss the future of LAMPS. If you're a postgraduate at Edinburgh interested in helping out, please come along!