@jamespaz.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval English Literature at the University of Manchester (https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/james.paz).
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Photograph of the Old Quadrangle, illuminated, with trees and other landscaping. Beyer building covered in red ivy in the background.
Photograph of the neo-gothic John Owens building, illuminated, with the leaves of a tree in the foreground.
Photograph of the Main Library, illuminated from within, with planters outside.
🐝 Knowledge. Wisdom. Humanity. 🐝
The new term is well underway, and we are here to support you in your studies! 📖
Get started with our Special Collections here: https://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/special-collections/using-the-reading-rooms/
⏰Reminder: There's still time to register for #TEI2025 #medievalsky!
📜Theme: Education and Early Medieval England
📲Registration is available here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/toebi-annu...
📨We hope to see you at University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
My review, in Speculum, of Jacqueline Fay's excellent Materializing Englishness in Early Medieval Texts: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
04.10.2025 12:17 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Literary hivemind: suggestions for excellent creative work (fiction, poetry, other) that engages somehow with the history or literature of the medieval period?
03.10.2025 08:44 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 34 📌 1
📣 Call for Contributors: Edited Volume - The Medieval in Museums
@archumanities.bsky.social 🖼️📜
🗓️ Abstract deadline: 3 Nov 2025 (17:00 GMT) ⏰
Full #CfP: bit.ly/CfPMiM
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📲Registration for #TEI2025 is open: www.eventbrite.ie/e/toebi-annu...
📨Come join us at own our next annual conference at University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
📜The theme is "Education and Early Medieval England" and our programme is available to view online.
Are you a #school #teacher introducing students to #Chaucer? Come along to this amazing #free #event on Saturday 4 October, to discover resources & share expertise. From tackling the #medieval language to creative methods. I'll be there! ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... Please share! Booking info 👇
09.09.2025 15:01 — 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 2
Call for papers for Leeds International Medieval Congress, 'Reading Repetition: Non-Linear Temporalities and Layered Meaning in the Middle Ages and Beyond'
Hello everyone! Sharing a cfp for the International Medieval Congress at Leeds next summer, organised by Gummies Marie Besson and Brooklyn Arnot. Check it out!
16.09.2025 18:22 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to speaking about my creative-critical work at TOEBI. Also can't wait to visit Dublin. Never been before!
17.09.2025 11:49 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📨You are warmly invited to our next annual conference at University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
📜The theme is "Education and Early Medieval England" and our programme is available to view online.
📲Registration is now open: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1631647263...
The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast welcomes proposals of single episodes for its fifth season.
After four successful seasons, The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast (MMA) will return for its fifth in 2026.
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/the-multicul...
Book cover preview of "Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha in the medieval North Sea" by yours truly. Cover image of a hell mouth from the Utrecht Psalter (ca. 9th c)
🚨THIS BOOK IS ALMOST REAL!!!🚨
@manchesterup.bsky.social out here making dreams come true!
Submitted my paper abstract for next year's Leeds IMC 🤞.
15.09.2025 11:54 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Jobs For Medievalists
Tenure-track Assistant Professor of English: Medieval Literature
Review of applications will begin 10 November, 2025
The English Department at Trinity University seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in medieval
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...
New post up on the Guild website- the brilliant Daisy Black! I’ve learned so much from Daisy’s amazing performances and her scholarship. Check it out!
09.09.2025 13:53 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
I've started a new series on my blog where I retell some of the lesser-known stories from early medieval England. The latest
(seaxeducation.substack.com/p/bothelms-b...) is about a monk, a broken arm, and the powers of divine moss.
Do check it out, and maybe one day I can afford my rent!
'I researched medieval birthing chambers, read combat manuals, tried on replica armour, and befriended a horse and a hawk.'
Meet performance storyteller @daisyeblack.bsky.social in our new Meet A Medievalist Maker blogpost! 👇
SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! Announcing the Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize: two juried mini-grants of $250.00 each to support emerging artists l for the creation of a new minicomic that engages with medieval culture. More details available here:
www.newberry.org/calendar/new...
The programme for the TOEBI 2025 annual conference featuring 20 minute papers, lightning papers, workshops, and a round table discussion on Education and Early Medieval England as well as a Viking walking tour in the evening and conference dinner.
📨You are warmly invited to our next annual conference at University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
📜The theme is "Education and Early Medieval England" and our programme is available to view online.
📲Registration is now open: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1631647263...
#medievalsky #TOEBI #OldEnglish
04.09.2025 12:55 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
We are delighted to announce that English Studies has officially joined this digital space! 📖 Looking forward to sharing the wonderful contributions from scholars working on language, literature & culture in the English-speaking world. More details on the journal 👇: @tandfresearch.bsky.social
04.09.2025 11:33 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1I've been talking about this network a lot recently! If you're a UK ECR (you have your PhD in hand), sign up for it!
You don't need an affiliation. You get access to their brilliant events (they fund your travel so you can attend), offer biannual conference funding, + access to larger funding opps.
We are supporting applications to the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship scheme.
Submit your internal expression of interest by 10 November 2025 – selected applicants must complete the full application to the Leverhulme Trust by 19 February 2026.
More info: www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun...
Also publishing today is Strange matter: Medieval disruptions of time edited by Bleisteiner, Hartmann and Johnston which offers exciting new perspectives on the premodern fascination with materiality + the ways in which the Middle Ages experienced time manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175960/
02.09.2025 16:36 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Happy official publication day to @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social ! Her book Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance: Typologies of violence and desire is now available and I can confirm it's a fascinating read manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183170/
02.09.2025 16:31 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
A reminder that our next Making Space Session (a friendly online co-working event) is taking place this Thursday 4th September, 5:30pm-7:00pm BST, hosted by @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social!
You're welcome to work on your own creative-critical project, or respond to our optional theme: harvest 🍂🪓🍏🍄
Out now: ‘How to Submit a Journal Article and get it Published’
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