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15,000+ searchable charters from the early Middle Ages...

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JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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Digitised manuscripts and archives - British Library View more than 2,000 of our digitised manuscripts and archival documents, including the Sherborne Missal and Octateuch, Four Gospels and Synodicon.

More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site www.bl.uk/collection/d...

And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!

A fabulous new survey of the so-called Hedeby coinage of the early 9th century by an expert on the subject, free to download: tidsskrift.dk/BMG/issue/vi...

Call for Papers @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Following my recent fieldwork sailing down the Seine in a reconstructed tenth-century ship, @stevedehailes.bsky.social and I are organising a panel on practice-based/experiential research in medieval studies. We welcome abstracts from any field. #Medievalsky

An opportunity to participate in the Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast:

Reminder: Abstracts are due by Sept. 15!

Reminder: Abstracts are due by Sept. 15!

Reminder: Abstracts are due by Sept. 15!

The Haskins Society is pleased to be co-sponsoring a sesson on "Things Transcending Time" at the 2026 IMC in Leeds.

Abstract deadine: 15 September 2025

@kateweikert.bsky.social

Delighted to announce that Krisztina Ilko and I are organising a set of panels for next year's IMC as a continuation of the some of the themes of the Bonn workshop back in January, this time focusing on chronological shifts in high medieval political culture. Details below and do feel free to share!

10 days to go to submit an abstract for this @haskinssociety.bsky.social/Battle session @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026! #medievalsky

It's from the Old English Hexateuch (British Library, Claudius B.iv).

Papal Banner depicted in the BBC series King and Conqueror

1/20 A thread about the appearance of the ‘Papal Banner’ in episode seven of #KingandConqueror. In an article that was published in 2021 in the @haskinssociety.bsky.social Journal, I expressed some scepticism about the veracity of William of Poitiers’ claim that the papacy sponsored the Norman...

Reminder: Abstracts are due by Sept. 15!

Reminder: Abstracts are due by Sept. 15!

Reminder: Abstracts are due by Sept. 15!

BIG NEWS! We, the MEMRN committee, are delighted to share the dates for our second annual in-person Winter Conference. Join us from the 14th - 16th of November at the University of East Anglia and online for three days of panels, social events, workshops, networking sessions, and adventure in the historic city of Norwich. The Call for Papers and details on how to apply to speak at the event are available via the MEMRN website and our social media. The deadline for submitting an abstract is Friday 12th September. We look forward to seeing you there!

BIG NEWS! We are delighted to share the dates for our second annual in-person Winter Conference.

Join us from the 14th - 16th of November at the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and online. The Call for Papers is available via the MEMRN website and our social media. We look forward to seeing you!

Leeds IMC 2026 Call for Papers: Things Transcending Time This session, sponsored by the Haskins Society and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research, University of Winchester, invites papers exploring objects and their relationships to, through, or against time. Things never have one life but many, through birth, interference, additions, and even abandonment. This session seeks to understand the many ways that objects transcend time through creating it, holding or shaping it. This session also wishes to challenge the dominating hierarchy of textual studies for history (as a time and place, rather than a discipline) through objects who themselves shape or create history. ‘Object’ is broadly conceived for this session; for example, a manuscript is also an object when the research is its life as an object rather than the textual understanding of it. Topics may include, but are certainly not limited to: • Multiple or concurrent times understood or embedded in objects • Objects’ authority and agency with and against time and history • Microhistories or biographies of objects and their place(s) in time. • Theoretical or methodological considerations of object-led histories Papers are warmly invited from any academic field (art history, archaeology, history, etc.), and should be generally focussed on the Anglo-Norman worlds and their surrounds (broadly interpreted), ca 800-1300. Papers presented by ECRs in this session may be submitted for consideration to the Denis Bethell Prize from the Haskins Society. Please send a 250-word abstract (including key terms) and short CV to Katherine Weikert (Katherine.weikert@winchester.ac.uk) by 15 September. Your subject line should read ‘Things Transcending Time [your surname]’, else it is liable to be missed and unread. If you have any questions, please contact Katherine Weikert.

#cfp #imc2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Please consider an abstract for 'Things Transcending Time,' sponsored by @haskinssociety.bsky.social and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research, @uniwinchester.bsky.social, and organized by myself. Abstract below with full text in the alt.

“A Noble Theme”: Orderic Vitalis as a Historian of Crusade - Medievalists.net This article explores how the Norman monk Orderic Vitalis incorporated the First Crusade into his Ecclesiastical History, offering insights into early crusading narratives and their reception in…

“A Noble Theme”: Orderic Vitalis as a Historian of Crusade, by @rozierhistorian.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/07/a-no... #crusades #historysky

Really happy to see my article here on Orderic Vitalis

It was very fun to write! #medieval

Image of exhibition case and contents for the 'Sing Joyfully' exhibition.

Today, we proudly opened our exhibition, Sing Joyfully: Exploring Music in Lambeth Palace Library, to the public! 🎉

👉 Learn more on our Sing Joyfully homepage: www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/sing-joyfully/

#SingJoyfully #LambethPalaceLibrary

Sign the Petition Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

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The final day of #Battle2025 saw us thinking about clerical ambition and planning for @haskinssociety.bsky.social and @imc-leeds.bsky.social in 2026…

The Lost Song of Wade: Peterhouse 255 Revisited Abstract. Short verses from the Song of Wade survive in an early-thirteenth-century sermon collection found in Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 255. They constitut

If you caught me & James Wade (no relation) in the newspapers or on the radio & were wondering where's the real academic article, wonder no longer!

Here it is, complete with the full transcription & translation so you can decide for yourself what it's all about

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Cropped image of a high medieval manuscript showing two women with rocks defending the gates of a castle from soldiers in chain mail bearing swords.

CFP: “Women, Lordship, and the Culture of War”
A Haskins-sponsored session at the 2026 ICMS in Kalamazoo, MI (14–16 May)

Apply by 15 Sept. 2025 at icms.confex.com/icms/2026/pr...

@kzooicms.bsky.social #MedievalSky

FYI, @kzooicms.bsky.social

FYI, @kzooicms.bsky.social

CFP: “Women, Objects, and Space”
A Haskins-sponsored session at the 2026 ICMS in Kalamazoo, MI (14–16 May)

Apply by 15 Sept. 2025 at icms.confex.com/icms/2026/pr...

#MedievalSky

CFP "Historical Aspects of Engla Land: Beyond Beowulf"
Session(s) celebrating the historical study of Early Medieval England at
@kzooicms.bsky.social 2026.
We welcome papers focusing on any historical aspect between 500 and 1070. Co-Sponsored by
@haskinssociety.bsky.social!