Adrienne Williams Boyarin

Copy of medieval miniature of dragon with tongue sticking out and wings raised on a brown rock. Original from Getty Museum, MS. Ludwig XV 3, fol. 89

Same image showing all the medieval pigments applied

Here's a cute little dragon I painted on calfskin (copied from a 13th century bestiary) using traditional medieval techniques and pigments (labelled in second image) #medievalmanuscripts #medievalscriptorium #bookhistory

a generous “we” there 😂

The forms and orders of Western liturgy from the tenth to the eighteenth century : a historical introduction and guide for students and musicians : Harper, John, 1947- : Free Download, Borrow, and Str... xiii, 337 pages : 24 cm

Harper’s Forms and Orders of the Western Liturgy remains useful: archive.org/details/form...

All About Love From a Black Medieval Angel A rare manuscript illustration casts Blackness not as a mirror of sin, but the ground from which love itself might take shape.

An amazing essay by art historian Dr. Denva Gallant. 😇 hyperallergic.com/all-about-lo... for @hyperallergic.com

✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

JHSE Grant Applications Apply for a grant of up to £4,000 to facilitate research and publication on topics related to Anglo-Jewry and its wider context. Both individuals and institutions are eligible to apply including profe...

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Apply for a #grant of up to £4k for research related to Anglo-Jewry.

Individuals and institutions may apply: professional or lay scholars, PhD students, organisations, museums, libraries, archives.

Deadline: April 2026

Visit: www.jhse.org/jhse-awards

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The University of Vienna
@univie.ac.at invites applications for at least 40 fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions. I am one of the potential supervisors. If you have an exciting, innovative PhD project on modern #JewishHistory, please feel free to apply: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

Screen shot of a text exchange: my 15 year old daughter asks “Do you have any medieval poetry or odes I could read?” I respond “Be still my beating heart”

I have 3 kids, and I think I’ve been preparing all their lives for this text I got late last night from my youngest (15yo).

David Suzuki: Conversation of a Lifetime | Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions Join PICS for a rare “Conversation of a Lifetime” with David Suzuki—an urgent dialogue with a defining voice able to inspire across geographies and generations.

David Suzuki is joining us in Victoria for a Conversation of a Lifetime.

As he enters his 90s, this is a rare chance to hear directly from a defining voice in climate science and ecological justice.

🗓 Feb 9 | 📍 UVic

Get your tickets today: climatesolutions.ca/event/david-...

MAA News - Speculum turns 100!

As we celebrate the centennial of Speculum in 2026, we are thrilled to publish Speculations, an ambitious oversized issue featuring more than fifty short articles that highlight possible futures of our field.
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-news-spe...

The PIMS Leonard E. Boyle, O.P. Toronto-Rome Programme in Manuscript Studies offers a full curriculum which leads to a formal diploma.
Apply for this summer's Palaeography and Codicology courses by February 1.
pims.ca/article/diploma-programme-in-manuscript-studies/

Birkbeck, University of London, is seeking a Lecturer in Medieval Studies to join our dynamic team within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Autumn 2026. As Lecturer in Medieval Studies you will contribute to the teaching of Medieval English literature and Medieval history across the Faculty, within our School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, and School of Historical Studies - this includes our BA English and BA History programmes, as well as postgraduate taught programmes in the two subject areas. This post is offered on a permanent contract at Birkbeck, full time 35 hours per week, with a salary of £44,247 rising to £60,858 per year. Teaching hours will vary from 6pm - 9pm, Monday to Friday. To be successful, you will bring research expertise in the literature, history and culture of the Late Medieval period (c.1300-1500), and demonstrate a capacity to contribute to interdisciplinary research and teaching, participate actively in curriculum development, supervise doctoral students, and help shape the intellectual life of our vibrant academic community. We would also welcome applicants who would be able to contribute to collaborative teaching programmes or research in the Faculty, in areas such as identity, race/ethnicity, or gender - experience of collaboration with cultural institutions, whether through research or teaching, is also welcome. Core responsibilities will initially include programme/module administration, teaching, supervision, assessment, student support and pastoral care. You will also be equipped to supervise doctoral students. With a PhD in any area of Medieval Studies, you will contribute the Faculty’s and Schools’ research impact and culture, and to the intellectual and cultural life of the institution and the various communities and partners with whom we work and serve.

Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended.

They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision.

Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Amazing collections, lovely people. Come and spend a year doing research @theul.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social

Updated link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/H8GG4...

I’m so glad — thanks for letting me know.

Hmmm. I just checked and it looks active to me still… try this? www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/H8GG4...

Thanks! You too — the email was from U of Chicago Press. Check junk mail?

They sent me the link last week via email (on Dec 23).

The first 50 readers can access my new short article in SPECULUM via this link (which allows a free PDF download). The piece argues that medieval Anglo-Jewish studies ought to be in conversation with critical archival studies: www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/H8GG4...

Two fragments of Rhaetian minuscule that have been digitally rejoined to reveal that they are the upper and lower part of the same leaf. At the top is a darker photograph of a piece of parchment with 8 lines of this pre-Caroline script; at the bottom is a brighter exposure of a piece with the lower fourteen lines, and an attached (18C) label that reads "Fragmentum Saec. IX ante an. 850"). From Marina Bernasconi Reusser's Research Note in the latest issue of Fragmentology

Fragmentology VIII (2025) is live. This is our biggest issue yet! doi.org/10.24446/qxs0 With studies of individual fragments and entire traditions, from the end of Antiquity through the present! All three eras: pre-medieval, medieval, and post-medieval!

And here it is, the January 2025 issue of Speculum commemorating the centennial of @medievalacademy.bsky.social! MAJOR congratulations to the editors, authors, and staff who made this fantastic issue happen. Happy 100th birthday to the MAA! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/spc/curr...

Film prompts Norwich Cathedral to remove 'blood libel' leaflet The leaflet details the medieval blood libel of Norwich Jews killing a local boy in the 12th Century.

BBC News - Film prompts Norwich Cathedral to remove 'blood libel' leaflet - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.

Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts!

www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...

www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...

Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

SOSC/HUMS 250-108 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.

Come be my colleague! Research Chair in Trans Studies position open at @uvic.ca www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

It was a pleasure to work with Rory on this exciting new project! We had so much fun working with the Barbican community!

**FINAL ORDERS** Just four days to get your abstracts in the Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages. We've already had an amazing response to the Call for Papers, but don't miss you chance to be included!

ENGL 250-106 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.

Here are two tenure-track jobs in the English Department at the University of Victoria:

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Full plain text available at: https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/24/cfp-borders-boundaries-and-barriers-real-and-imagined-in-the-middle-ages/

Just over 2 weeks left to apply to the Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers conference! It will take place in Oxford on April 20-21, 2026. We hope to provide bursaries to help with attendance. Email your abstracts to bordersboundariesbarriers[at]gmail[dot]com
#medievalsky #skystorians

Very excited to be presenting my paper “Meir of Norwich and the Formation of an Insular Hebrew Poetics” at next summer’s New Chaucer Society Congress in Freiburg!

Did Meir of Norwich know any French or English poetry? Probably! And I’ve got the Hebrew metrical evidence to strongly suggest it!