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The back cover of the new issue of @mediumaevum.bsky.social features my predecessor, the late great Nigel Palmer, with an appeal for the travel fund being established in his name. For more on that, visit mediumaevum.org.uk/donate/palme... .

Book Launch: "Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance" New book: "Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance: Typologies of violence and desire" by Hope Doherty-Harrison

Book launch for Love & Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance on Tuesday 25 November, 5.30pm @iashedinburgh.bsky.social - please share & consider coming along! I'll be chatting to @kateai.bsky.social & Carol M Richardson.
Sign up for in-person & online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers

This sounds incredibly exciting www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

If Labour want a fairer society, they must argue for it Labour must make the political argument: taxes are the critical downpayment we all pay to live in a fairer society.  It now seems all but certain that direct taxes will rise in the forthcoming Budget...

Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society.

Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇

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Publication – Étienne de Bourbon, « Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus. Quarta pars. De dono fortitudinis (tituli 1-7a) », éd. Jacques Berlioz, Luc Ferrier Le dominicain et inquisiteur Etienne de Bourbon (Belleville-sur-Saône, v. 1190/1195 – Lyon, v. 1261) compose à la fin de sa vie dans son couvent de Lyon le Traité des diverses matières à prêcher, l…

Publication – Étienne de Bourbon, « Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus. Quarta pars. De dono fortitudinis (tituli 1-7a) », éd. Jacques Berlioz, Luc Ferrier

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If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....

University of Leicester to consult on redundancies University bosses are also planning to stop a number of courses.

... and Leicester... Languages, History...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
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Renewal editors reflect on the meaning of social democracy Renewal is a journal of social democracy, but social democracy has always been a contested concept - and one understood variously as an ideology, a movement, a historical phenomenon, or even a desired...

For anyone who is interested in an extensive discussion of what “social democracy” means, we asked the current & former editors of @renewaljournal.bsky.social to proffer their definitions & thoughts:

renewal.org.uk/blog/renewal...

Short-term Fellowships | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore.…

Applications are open for Folger Library short-term fellowships! Deadline January 15, 2026.

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Hamilton_Book award - Durham University

TOOOOOOOOOOM!!! @tombhamilton.bsky.social! Oh this is brilliant, humongous congratulations. The Natalie Zemon Davis Prize from the @16csociety.bsky.social! 🤩

#NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)

Currently bed bound so to have this wonderful book by @odavies9.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social turn up in the post is a double joy. Accessible, erudite and insightful as you would expect, but also gloriously entertaining and engaging.

Offre d’emploi – Assistant Professor in Medieval European Art and Architectural History in the World (Brown University) The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University seeks applicants at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure-track) whose scholarship focuses on histories of medieval (ca. …

Offre d’emploi – Assistant Professor in Medieval European Art and Architectural History in the World (Brown University)

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Ladino Day 2025 | Sephardic Homelands: Spanish and Portuguese Citizenship and the Question of Belonging Today - UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies In Ladino Day 2025, speakers Rina Benmayor, Dalia Kandiyoti and Devin E. Naar will discuss the significance of the Spanish and Portuguese governments' decision in 2015 to offer citizenship to descenda...

#Sephardic Homelands: Spanish and Portuguese #Citizenship and the Question of Belonging Today jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino... hybrid: www.youtube.com/live/xcCPgcu... #EspañaJudía

Lecturer in Modern History (Part time 0.6 FTE, Fixed term until 31 August 2026) at University of East Anglia Apply now for the Lecturer in Modern History (Part time 0.6 FTE, Fixed term until 31 August 2026) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

Lecturer in Modern History (Part time 0.6 FTE, Fixed term until 31 August 2026)
University of East Anglia - Faculty of Arts and Humanities - School of History and Art History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA129/l...

What David said.

I read @sachahilhorst.bsky.social and @demofuturist.bsky.social's pieces on a recent flight, alongside the excellent conversation between Jack Jeffery and Alan Finlayson on why the left doesn't understand the internet.

These three pieces alone worth the sub.

Yes, my guess is that while it would not be a perfect fit, the Main Panel PCE solution would work better at many places, and would also make it easier for many disciplines/subjects that have been restructured and/or had redundancies one or more times in this REF cycle to make a good submission.

Vermont state senator resigns over racist Young Republican chat messages Samuel Douglass was reportedly the only elected official to take part in the Young Republican group chat that included racist and antisemitic messages.

A Vermont state senator has resigned over his involvement in a Young Republican group chat after racist and antisemitic chat messages shared among its members were made public.

It was a pleasure, nay, an HONOUR to celebrate the launch of @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social 's monograph from @universitypress.cambridge.org , Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile.

Iris De Freitas Brazao: legal luminary and trailblazer, Caribbean, Canada, Wales, England, 1896-1989 Published in Black Histories: Dialogues (Vol. 2, No. 1-2, 2024)

See full review by Dr. Juanita Cox via this link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jobs For Medievalists

Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
(Full-time)
The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for the position of Melvin R.
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Shana Tova everyone. Off to Rosh Hashanah dinner.

Full Professor: Social and Economic History | Radboud University Do you want to work as a Full Professor: Social and Economic History at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!

Interesting job opportunity at my alma mater Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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BBC Radio 4 - The Long View, Flags Jonathan Freedland looks at the flying of flags now and opposite parliament in 1780.

this is a quite excellent episode of BBCRadio4 The Long View, where @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social & guests explore the parallels between the current #Flags debate & what is in imv a seriously neglected moment in British history: the Gordon Riots
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Slightly short of words today but happy to echo this from John who, with Teresa and Phil, slipped in under the wire for what turned out to be a fitting close. Great edition www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

He has done an extraordinary job. Has left a remarkable legacy.

***Please Note***
The application submission deadline for the Prize Research Grants at the Cambridge Centre for History and Economics has been extended to Monday 15 September 2025, 23.59 UK time.

Due 9/1 - Position (tenured) in ancient/late antique Jewish history, religion, and culture at Harvard academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14958

🚨Medievalist job alert! 🚨