I will be giving a paper at the History of Liturgy seminar at the IHR in London at 5.30pm on Monday, 16 Feb. Link for in-person and Zoom registration in the first comment. 👇
The next History of Liturgy Seminar is in London @ihr.bsky.social on Monday 16 Feb 17.30.
The award-winning @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social on
The Augustinian Friars & their Liturgical Cult of Saint Augustine.
In-person (chat! drinks! people!) or online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
#medievalsky
Many congratulations to @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social for winning the @medievalacademy.bsky.social prize for best article in critical race studies!
Thank you so much!
Proofs!
Lent 2026 Term Card for the Cambridge Medieval History Research Seminar. All sessions take place at 4pm in Sidgwick Lecture Block Room 5!
With the first copy of The Sons of St Augustine!
Leo XIV is the 1st Augustinian Pope, but did you know that his order once performed green-fingered, dragon-slaying miracles?
@drkrisztinailko.bsky.social from @camhistory.bsky.social @queens.cam.ac.uk reveals the forgotten lives of these wild medieval saints 👇
https://bit.ly/4rP25Qj
#skystorians 🗃️
Queens' JRF (@camhistory.bsky.social) @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social's new book, The Sons of St Augustine, challenges major assumptions about the medieval Catholic Church and early Renaissance.
Read more about her publication on our website, and the Cambridge University press release.
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Wild medieval saints! 🔥🔥🔥 Dragons and miraculously sprouting cherry twigs. An evil walnut tree growing above the tomb of Nero. For these and much more in my book, 'The Sons of St Augustine' (OUP), I am delighted to share the wonderful media release that Cambridge published this morning:
Artist: what would you like on your coat of arms?
Lady: a giant skeleton fish.
Artist: say no more.
What is the point of an index if the page numbers "may, on occasion, appear on only one" of the pages listed? Apparently, this is for the benefit of the digital users. But what about the benefit of the readers of the actual physical book? #academicpublishing
Book cover plan, now complete with the blurb on the back! 📕
Book proofs! Very exciting to see this coming together at last.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Just a quick reminder that we are still eagerly awaiting your paper proposals for the next IMC! ⏰🎓👇 @imc-leeds.bsky.social
Very excited to spread the news that @ryan1992reading.bsky.social and I are organising a session for the Leeds IMC next year on political culture in the High Middle Ages! Please drop us a message if interested and share widely.
The College intends to appoint a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) from 1 October 2026 in each of the following subject areas: Music and Pure Mathematics/Mathematical Statistics.
For more information visit our vacancies page on our website: www.queens.cam.ac.uk/about-us/vac...
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.
A gigantic stack of copyedits to read through over the weekend!
Dieses Zinnpferdchen vom Konstanzer Fischmarkt aus der Zeit des 14./15.Jahrhunderts war das Spielzeug eines Kindes der Oberschicht.
Auch Kinder aus weniger wohlhabenden Familien spielten im Mittelalter gerne mit Tierfiguren, jedoch waren diese aus Holz oder Ton gefertigt.
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The Broletto is the main civic complex in Novara. The building is famous for its purist reconstruction in the 19th century, but I would love to know if the frescoes on the upper rim have some historical basis. So many fantastic belligerent figures!
Sadly, the diocesan museum in Novara doesn’t maintain the hours listed online…
The cathedral of Novara has been rebuilt, but it preserves some 12th-c. spolia and a handsome 15th-c. reliquary bust of the 11th-c. saint Bernard of Aosta.
Cheers from Novara! I have two hours until the archives open - so I will be exploring the city.
'Jinty Nelson in Thirteen Articles', edited by Alice Rio bit.ly/46WkC5j
New in 'Transactions', a special essay celebrating the work of medieval historian Jinty Nelson (1942-2024). Thirteen historians choose articles (1977-2016) that have had a lasting impression on their own careers #Skystorians
A semi-serious question: why are medieval lions moustachioed?
Congrats, this is a great topic! In case of interest, I recently worked on a fascinating tombstone of an Italian woman in Yangzhou from the Yuan: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
