Promotional graphic for a new book from British Academy Publishing titled "The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms: The Tomb ibn al-Mukhtar of the Songhay Empire and the Tarikh al-fattash of the Caliphate of Hamdullahi," authored by Mauro Nobili, Zachary Wright, and A. Diakite. The image shows the book cover featuring an ancient manuscript page.
A new volume in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series, The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms presents a new reading of West African history from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries based on close analysis of Arabic manuscripts from Timbuktu and other regions.
https://bit.ly/3Jeb8cm
28.10.2025 14:31 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
For the afternoon crowd... #medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #Scottish #History
14.11.2025 17:16 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
It's almost the end of #AdoorableThursday, but I had to share these two lovely doors from the Gede ruins in Kenya! This town was occupied between the 12th and 16th centuries CE, and can boast some amazing coral stone architecture that is still visible today.
#Archaeology #EastAfrica #Swahili
13.11.2025 21:14 โ ๐ 34 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Come along to hear specialists in pre-modern Asian & African arms, edged weapons, and combat techniques discuss their research. Hybrid #medievalsky @royalarmouries.bsky.social
14.11.2025 11:41 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2
Medieval manuscript with Latin text with two holes in the parchment repaired with meshes of colourful embroidery.
masc, n.n: a mesh, net. (MAWSH / หmaส)
Image: Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea; Interlaken (?), 14th century; Freiburg, Bibliothรจque cantonale et universitaire, Ms. L 34, f. 246v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
13.11.2025 08:01 โ ๐ 29 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
'Applications are invited from both early career and established scholars of any nationality, engaged on original research intended to produce monographs, editions or studies of documents, texts or illustrations, that include the analysis of the material features of original manuscripts'. up to ยฃ2k.
13.11.2025 08:46 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 19 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A week today - Dr David Lewis (Edinburgh) will join us to speak on 'Reconstructing the Ancient Greek Slave Trade', Thursday 20 November, 17:15-18:30 UK time (online and on campus - details in the thread below). All welcome to attend!
13.11.2025 09:02 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
MEMS to Host the Fifteenth Century Conference 2026
Are you a scholar of the fifteenth century and have an interest in the British Isles and its wider connections? If so, then you will want to know that @memsunikent.bsky.social will be hosting the 2026 Fifteenth Century Conference in Canterbury and the CfP is now open: www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
13.11.2025 09:39 โ ๐ 51 ๐ 38 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
there is one (1) pre-modern English cathedral with actual legit foundations and it is St Albanโs
in case youโre wondering.
12.11.2025 15:59 โ ๐ 355 ๐ 40 ๐ฌ 21 ๐ 3
Join us on 18 November!
@uclhjs.bsky.social @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @medievaljews.bsky.social @leedsims.bsky.social
10.11.2025 18:20 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Promotional banner inviting applications for Visiting Fellowships at the Bodleian Libraries for 2026-27, featuring an interior view of the library.
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS: Applications are now open for 2026-27!
The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.
For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
12.11.2025 16:12 โ ๐ 36 ๐ 32 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
A poster advertising an online lecture and presentation by Daniel K. Gullo (Director of the Malta Study Centre at the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at St. John's University, Minnesota) on 11 December 2025 at 18:00 hrs Central European Time.
Coming up on 11 December online from the Hospitaller Research Forum:
11.11.2025 18:41 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
An excellent summary of work and introduction to the most important study of Domesday book in a generation - or more. /1
11.11.2025 14:20 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
A detail of a piece of metal armour (a cuisse) in the Gothic style, about 1490, showing a beveled edge, two rivets, and the general silvery patina of something very old. From Austria (III.2562) ยฉ Royal Armouries.
Interested in learning more about the oldest museum in the UK and its research? Sign up to attend our next seminar online or come along on 27 November at 5.30 pm GMT: forms.office.com/e/L834SBHzKX. More info at link in bio (scroll down to events) #medievalsky #royalarmouries
09.11.2025 19:18 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
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....
09.11.2025 02:44 โ ๐ 51 ๐ 66 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2
A map of part of Britiain and northern europe showing loads and loads of roman roads, picked out in red.
Wow! ๐ฎ๐คฉ
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! ๐ค
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
06.11.2025 17:07 โ ๐ 1429 ๐ 490 ๐ฌ 67 ๐ 95
Common raven
Bird place-name of the day 109: RAMRIDGE (lost place, somewhere in Devon parish of Holcombe Burnell: www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/Resu... ). OE hremn + hrycg. โRavensโ ridgeโ. #birdsandplace #naturewriting
07.11.2025 16:58 โ ๐ 27 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Pasts Imperfect (11.6.25)
This week, historian of early Islamic material culture Rhiannon Garth Jones breaks down the reception of Roman antiquity during the Ottoman Empire. Then, dispelling myths about the Black Death; archae...
The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! @rhigarthjones.bsky.social discusses Ottoman receptions of Roman antiquity. Then, Black Death mythbusting; wampum beads in Canada; celebrating Native American Heritage Month; ancient Mexican coprolites; ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more!
06.11.2025 11:46 โ ๐ 104 ๐ 38 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 4
Research Seminar: Going deeper with the Royal Armouries
A special talk to mark the signing of a new collaborative arrangement between the Royal Armouries and the School of History.
Come and hear curators of the national Royal Armouries museum talk about their research. Thursday 27 November (hybrid), 5.30pm. Go to link to sign up for online attendance
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/eve... #medievalsky #royalarmouries #armour #historicalweapons #armsandarmour #museums #militaryhistory
05.11.2025 16:01 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Research Seminar: Going deeper with the Royal Armouries
A special talk to mark the signing of a new collaborative arrangement between the Royal Armouries and the School of History.
Come and hear curators of the national Royal Armouries museum talk about their research. Thursday 27 November (hybrid), 5.30pm. Go to link to sign up for online attendance
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/eve... #medievalsky #royalarmouries #armour #historicalweapons #armsandarmour #museums #militaryhistory
05.11.2025 16:01 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Great example. Iโve often heard people say they believe medieval people discouraged or punished female literacy, whereas Mary is usually shown reading during the Annunciation, so every medieval person constantly saw images of the #1 female role model reading. The anti-learning Middle Ages is a myth.
04.11.2025 16:59 โ ๐ 149 ๐ 32 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
A medieval manuscript featuring handwritten text and hand-drawn anatomical illustrations. There are sketches of human figures and medical instruments related to surgery on the anus. The ink is dark brown, and the pages are aged and yellowed, giving the book a well-used appearance.
A medieval manuscript featuring handwritten text and hand-drawn anatomical illustrations. There are sketches of human figures and medical instruments related to surgery on the anus. The ink is dark brown, and the pages are aged and yellowed, giving the book a well-used appearance.
How did medieval people treat an anal abscess?
๐น John Arderne, a 15th-century English surgeon, relieved the pain with a suppository of oil of roses and raw egg yolk.
This manuscript (@trincolllibcam.bsky.social , MS O.2.49) is on display at our Curious Cures exhibition.
Tickets: loom.ly/kVqsPRY
03.11.2025 12:12 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1
Mamluk Maqฤmas on the Black Death
| Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
I am delighted to announce that my co-authored article on Mamluk maqamas on #BlackDeath has just been published in a lovely special issue of JAIS. journals.uio.no/JAIS/article...
#plague #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory #histmed 1/2
04.11.2025 11:35 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Enseignant-chercheur en Histoire ร l'universitรฉ de Caen Normandie et dir-adjoint MRSH de Caen. Histoire et Archรฉologie des campagnes de la Normandie et du monde atlantique.
Historian of West Africa based at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #Nigeria #DigitalHumanities www.vincenthiribarren.com
Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own
Independent Publisher of the world's largest academic archaeological series with over 4000 titles.
@ipghq Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year '22
Archaeologist @school_of_arch @UniofOxford, @LinacreCollege
Ethiopian and African History researcher. Professor of Ge'ez at UESD (Madrid). Author of Historia de Etiopรญa (Catarata, 2022) and Lalibela (National Geographic, 2018), among other books and papers.
Independent researcher, former curator Ethiopian collections and the first black curator at the British Library. All my view.
Scholar of early African literature and translator of medieval Ethiopic texts. Author of Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks, which helps academics globally to write publishable academic articles in 12 weeks.
Research centre at McGill University studying the history, economy, & cultures of the Indian Ocean world from China to Southeast & South Asia, the Middle East & Africa.
https://indianoceanworldcentre.com/
Researcher working with Swahili archaeology and the material culture of medieval East Africa. Based in Germany/Switzerland.
Assistant Librarian at the Royal Irish Academy. Libraries, history, art, theology, music and all that good stuff.
An interdisciplinary forum for graduate students and ECRs in Old Norse held in Reykjavรญk every April | ๐๐ http://histudentconference.wordpress.com/e-book-release/
German literature & manuscript culture up until 1650. Likely libraries.
@uni-jena.de
http://linktr.ee/malenaratzke
Banner image: Kรธbenhavn [Copenhagen], Det Kongelige Bibliotek, GKS 79 2ยบ, fol. 011r (detail). https://t1p.de/speculum-humanae-salvationis
professor of environmental history, Trinity College Dublin: oceans past, marine environmental history, uses of the past
Beatriz Galindo Professor at University of Alcalรก. Book Historian & #Dante Scholar | Medieval & Early Modern Nerd. Co-Founder & Managing Editor of 'Bibliotheca Dantesca.'
#bookhistory #marginalia #rarebooks #italian #libraries #Mediterranean #popbooks
Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature and Philosophy at the University of Calgary / Lover of history, poetry, novels and costume dramas/ Mother of Vicky. /
Italian Canadian Writer from Siena
Professor of Medieval Literature in the Department of English and Related Literature at York and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies
He/Him ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ โจ Asst. Prof. of Queer and Medieval Literature @SUNY, previously UCLA, York, UO โจGender, Empire, and Race in the Old Norse World โจmy own bad opinions
Celtic Studies PhD in progress @ Sydney Uni: ancient/medieval tattooing.
Finds rabbit holes & side quests irresistible!
Environmental humanities โข Geomythology โข Historical body modifications โข Medieval mistranslations, misnomers & mysteries.
Head of School/Prof at UCD Archaeology; Early Medieval archaeologist; Director @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social Member Royal Irish Academy; Fellow Society of Antiquaries; Dad of boys; Dog Dad; Hurling/Camogie; IC Member; Own Opinions here
