Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison

Are you a 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh? You can apply for a paid internship opportunity this summer, to work with IASH and @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social for 10 weeks.

Applications due 18 March!

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Society elects 250 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members - RHS At its latest meeting on 6 February 2026, the RHS Council elected 85 Fellows, 36 Associate Fellows, 47 Members and 82 Postgraduate Members, a total of 250 people newly associated with the Society, fro...

We are very pleased to announce today the election of 250 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members & Postgraduate Members to the Royal Historical Society following the latest meeting of the RHS Council bit.ly/4kM8yZd

We warmly welcome all those joining @royalhistsoc.org today #Skystorians 1/2

Aw thank you ever so much 💖

Letter from the Royal Historical Society: 20 February 2026 Dear Hope Doherty-Harrison, I am delighted to inform you that at its last meeting on 6 February 2026, the Council elected you a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS) in recognition of your contribution to historical scholarship.

Lovely news this morning - I've been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS)!

Students had it tough during the worst of covid. But their education continued and they were able to get their degrees, despite a global pandemic and dysfunctional government. Like 1000s of colleagues, I worked way over the odds, while dealing with domestic pressures. This action feels very cruel.

Happy almost Valentine's Day with a detail from an extraordinary survival of a pre-Reformation Scottish textile: The Fetternear Banner held by the NMS. The heart motif relates to the arms of Gavin Douglas (1474-1522) at the top of the banner, the scallop shell relates to the Graham family ❤️🐚❤️🐚❤️

#medievalsky does anyone know if there are any texts (biblical, medieval, or anything in between) about whether Judas was thought to have been born before Jesus, or the other way around? Grateful for any advice!

Oh I love them! I saw them in 2018 & again 2021, the best 💖

So delighted to receive copies of our new book! Coming in at almost 380 pages, it has ten super chapters, contains transcriptions & translations of key 15th C documents & has some v. useful maps courtesy of my co-editor, Giovanna Guidicini. Thank you @jillharrison1.bsky.social & all involved! ✨📖

Announcement: Saints Outside Hagiography Winter-Spring Series 2026 Where do saints appear outside the classic genre of the hagiography? How do they show up in art, literature, teaching texts, and everyday religious practices? This group brings together scholars interested in saints and sanctity across global history and culture, to explore how they are constructed in forms other than the single-text hagiography or ‘sacred biography’. In our online workshop sessions, we discuss two pre-circulated short excerpts from historical sources, briefly presented by scholars working on them. Friday March 6 – Saints on a Roll (or Two) Alicia Smith: Reclusive Saints as Models on the Throckmorton Layman’s Prayer Roll Laura Gisseleire: The Mortuary Roll of Lucy of Hedingham Friday March 27 – Saints in Images and Murals Marianne Kupin-Lisbin: The Miraculous St Mary of Olovo Maia Man-Abramiuc: The Transylvanian Mural of St Margaret Friday April 24 – Representations of Saints in Prayers Jenny Bledsoe: Prayers to Quiricus and Julitta in the Medieval Birth Girdle Tradition Iliana Kandzha: A Prayer to St Apollonia from De Speghel der Sammiticheyt Friday May 15 – Saints in Unlikely Places Fawaz Abdul Salam: The Sultan as a Saintly Figure in Early Ottoman Poetry Heather Blurton: William of Norwich Keystone in Girona, Spain Friday June 26 – Saints in Annals and Anti-Hagiographies Hope Doherty-Harrison: Extracts from Biographies of Judas Steffen Hope: Annalistic Hagiography? The Case of Margareta of Roskilde Friday July 31 – Saints in Teaching Texts and Epigraphs Mary Channen Caldwell: St Nicholas in the Musical Hand Kshitij Jain: Monastic Figures and Sacred Places in Jain Ritual Texts All meetings take place on Zoom, at 4pm-5:30pm CET / 3pm-4:30pm GMT / 10am-11:30am EST unless otherwise indicated. If you would like to attend these sessions, please email Laura Moncion (laura.moncion@philosophie.uni-tuebingen.de) or Alicia Smith (alicia.smith@uib.no).

Saints Outside Hagiography starts next month! A new workshop-style series, discussing work in progress on saints in unusual sources. Come and join us ❤️‍🔥 drive.google.com/file/d/1-BPc...

There's still time to propose a paper for 'Space and Place in Jewish Studies' #BIAJS2026 as the deadline for abstracts has been extended to 13 February!

I say "really very nice and good" to myself multiple times a day, I cannot stop 😅

The OLH Open Access Award 2026: call for applications The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is proud to continue its work towards its open access mission across the globe with the OLH Open Access Award 2026, a fund dedicated …

The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2026. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on #OA or with an #openaccess component.

📅 Deadline 30/06: www.openlibhums.org/news/882/

Next week we will be running a roundtable on 'Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland', co-organised by with the Scottish History Seminar.

The event will take place on Tue 10 Feb, 5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square.

All welcome!

cost of living crisis is absolutely demolishing students' capacity to study but no worries, we've funded everyone to have a go at this thing that makes you worse at learning...no you are not getting paid, the tech companies are, obviously

literally thousands of people with unique expert knowledge and skills being made redundant, universities in the brink of closure, but sure, let's publicly fund the bullshit machine

Tomorrow evening! Especially for early-career scholars in Jewish studies…

The CFP for the Gender & Medieval Studies conference 2026 is now LIVE! The theme is Gender & Creativity. The conf will be held in Oxford, 8-10 Sept, abstracts due to me by 13 April. Full details on the GMS website (artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social) medievalgender.co.uk/2026-oxford/

Flashback to a key Auld Alliance moment for me - making haggis from scratch for my in-laws in France - a mildly traumatic experience!
Also an early recipe for haggis, Sloane BL MS 1986, f. 55r.
Happy Burns night! #BurnsNight

aww thank you so much!!

Ill Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe: Moving and Being Moved Call for Papers London, 11-12 June 2026 We are delighted to launch the Call for Papers for the III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe, which will take place in London on 11-12 June 2026. After two successful editions, this year's Colloquium will focus on movements) within and accross late medieval and early modern cities (ca. 1300-1800). Topics to be addressed may include but are not limited to: • Mobile people in urban centres, e.g. migrants, merchants, vagrants, enslaved people, minstrels, mendicants, and pilgrims. • The exchange of goods and knowledge. • Transitory urban events and performances that moved bodies and minds, including social uprisings, civic performances, dances and urban processions. • Lack of 'movement: considerations of what it means to stay put and belong in a city or to be forced to remain in a city. This is an interdisciplinary and international Colloquium which offers an opportunity for PhD students and early career scholars to share their research through 20-minute long presentations, and to receive feedback through constructive discussion. Established scholars will also be invited to present their research and methods and to contribute to discussion. There will also be opportunities for all participants to continue the conversation over coffee and lunch. Interested applicants are encouraged to send an abstract of 200 words along with a short bio to Ana Roda Sánchez (Queen Mary University of London), Eliot Benbow (Institute of Historical Research) and Emma Olson (University of Cambridge) in colloquiumcities@gmail.com by 31 January 2026. If you have any questions, please get in touch with us. We look forward to receiving your proposals and learning about your research!

*Reposted CFP with alt text*

III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities: Moving and Being Moved

London, 11-12 June 2026

Deadline abstract submissions: 31 January 2026

Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🤗🤗

#medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #callforpapers #history

Get your hands on some really great books in British & Irish Jewish studies, including Gavin Schaffer's 'An unorthodox history', Tony Kushner's 'The Jewish pedlar', a study of Jewish refugee nurses by Jane Brooks, & 'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social

Thank you so much for inviting me & for all the wonderful conversations afterwards @kateai.bsky.social & @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social ✨

📢 ✌️ We're kicking off our event programme for this semester off with two CMRS sessions!

🎨 📜 First join us tomorrow as our own @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social discusses depictions of Judas in medieval art and literature.

📅 ➡️ Then later this week ...

Self-Injury and Truth in Hebrew and Latin Versions of the <em>Seven Sages of Rome</em> This article compares three medieval versions of the ‘Seven Sages of Rome’ narrative: the Latin Dolopathos (1184–1212) and Historia septem sapientum (1300–1342) and the Hebrew Mishle Sendebar (1100–12...

New articles in the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Global Premodern Literature in the Digital Age: The Seven Sages of Rome/ Sindbad/ Syntipas/ Dolopathos

1) "Self-Injury and Truth in Hebrew and Latin Versions of the Seven Sages of Rome" by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social : doi.org/10.16995/olh...

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Special Collection: Global Premodern Literature in the Digital Age: The Seven Sages of Rome/ Sindbad/ Syntipas/ Dolopathos olh.openlibhums.org/issue/1302/i... #openaccess @openlibhums.org @mosspepe.bsky.social @daisyeblack.bsky.social
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ICYMI just 133 days until Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages. The committee are so excited for April and hearing all of the amazing papers.

What better gift to get the medievalist in your life this Holiday Season than registration for our *little* conference?!

Super excited to see that the sessions that Birgit Wiedl and I organised for @imc-leeds.bsky.social have been accepted! Four panels, and a round table, considering Jews and Christians in medieval Europe!

Self-Injury and Truth in Hebrew and Latin Versions of the <em>Seven Sages of Rome</em> This article compares three medieval versions of the ‘Seven Sages of Rome’ narrative: the Latin Dolopathos (1184–1212) and Historia septem sapientum (1300–1342) and the Hebrew Mishle Sendebar (1100–12...

My article 'Self-Injury and Truth in Hebrew and Latin Versions of the Seven Sages of Rome' is now published in OLHJ & available open access. Very grateful to Bettina Bildhauer, @janebonsall.bsky.social & the @7sagesresearch.bsky.social community for making this work possible.
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Final proofs off for Anselm Adornes: Travel, Trade, Cultural Exchange, and Intellectual Networks in Scotland, Bruges, and Jerusalem. It is so beautiful!
Such a rewarding project. With enormous thanks to my co-editors @jillharrison1.bsky.social and Giovanna Guidicini
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