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The Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds is a major centre for interdisciplinary medieval studies. Home of the International Medieval Congress and the International Medieval Bibliography. https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval
📜The event is next Wednesday, do not miss it!
This month we’re spotlighting Dr Lucy R. Hinnie, Wikimedia & Open Knowledge Adviser at Open Research Leeds.
Lucy supports researchers and students to share their expertise openly on Wikimedia, a great example of how universities can strengthen knowledge equity!
Thank you Lucy for all your work 🙌
Stirling Bridge is open for transit, English commander John de Warenne said. “The only thing prohibiting transit across the bridge right now is a huge army of Scots ready to attack it,” he said. “It is open for transit should the Scots not do that.”
Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Pekudei (פְקוּדֵי) with a bear climbing up the central margin of the page.
#ParashahPictures
Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.58r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Four hybrids are depicted around the initial-word of Torah portion Pekudei (פְקוּדֵי).
#ParashahPictures
BL Add MS 11639; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; 1277-1324 CE; f.49v @blmedieval.bsky.social
This is an informative, interesting, and well-written piece on medieval Irish and Welsh law codes and manuscripts.
A little bird sings its heart out in the bottom margin of f. 323v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/4aG04yn
This is an incredible opportunity for a current PhD student who has not yet submitted their thesis. I am so looking forward to this exhibition!
#MedievalSky
How likely is it that Alfred the Great sent two emissaries to India in the ninth century?
⌛️ Last chance to read this recent History Matters for free
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
Thurs 26 March, Prof. Fiona Edmonds will deliver the 2026 John Bannerman Memorial Lecture (in-person and online), on a topic close to Bannerman's own work: 'Dál Riata and Northumbria, c. 700‒1000: Connections and comparisons'.
Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More info 👇
hca.ed.ac.uk/john-bannerm...
Forthcoming lecture in London (and live on YouTube apparently) on 1st April at the British Archaeological Association thebaa.org/events/lectu... #medievalsky #archaeology
The British Library’s Medieval MSS team now have a presence on Bluesky @blmedieval.bsky.social
Follow for updates as we restore more of our digitised content online!
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Happy International Women’s Day to Þora, who owned this spindle-whorl sometime in the 14th century in Iceland.
The inscription reads þo^ra:amig, ‘Þora owns me’. #runology #runes
🚨 LATE SUBMISSION WINDOW OPEN 🚨
We've had a withdrawal from one of these sessions and would be very keen to include another paper - please do not hesitate to reach out if you're interested, and to help us spread the word. Many thanks!!
#skystorians #medieval #medievalsky #premodernrace #imc2026
Yesterday I learned that there was a certain judicial ordeal during the Middle Ages known as the ordeal of bread and cheese. How have I been a medieval historian this long and been unaware of this? Please, #medievalsky, tell me I’m not alone here!
In which we discuss oyster shells and candles, pigments and what to do when you have a hole in your parchment:
🧵The illustration “Personifications of the Four Humours” is a coloured image in the Guildbook of the Barber-Surgeons of York. Produced there, around 1486 with later additions, the the manuscript shows the 'Four Humours' bodily fluids which affected a person's health and
This week! Don't miss it #medievalsky How did Queen Isabel of Castile and King João II of Portugal deal with the loss of their only sons?
Includes free recipe for spiced chickpeas in cheese broth. 😋
Somehow, an 8th-c. English liturgical manuscript ended up in Mount Sinai (where it was palimpsested and written over by a Christian Arabic scribe). For more info: Michelle Brown, austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572%2...
So excited to attend #ICMS as part of the Library Careers for Medievalists 1 roundtable! I'm very passionate about career development and alt-ac/ non-ac careers for PhDs: icms.confex.com/icms/2026/me...
Two Visiting Full-Time Faculty Positions in Spanish (Medieval/Early Modern Iberian Studies):
memorients.com/news/two-vis...
Was really pleased to listen to these two great papers (L-R Saaleha Iqbal, Louise Simongiovanni and co-organizer Natalie Hopwood)
Join us on Wednesday 4 March at 4 pm GMT online only. Núria Silleras-Fernández will speak on gendered mourning in 15th century Portugal and Castile #medievalsky #queenship #kingship #courtculture #genderstudies Go to link to register ahc.leeds.ac.uk/centre-histo...
"Kuwornu shares the diverse African presence in Renaissance Europe that he found: princes, ambassadors, saints, artists, scholars, and knights—all revealed through art from the period"
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
NEW Fish was a key part of early medieval Scandinavian diets, but lipid analysis of ceramics from Viking Age England found little evidence for aquatic products. Did Scandinavian settlers conform to Anglo-Saxon culinary traditions?
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
If you are interested in medieval health, medicine and healing, broadly understood, then consider joining @leedsims.bsky.social #TheLongMiddleAges later today. The seminars are free and hybrid and you can still register to attend! #medievalsky
A ‘temporary’ but seven-year post in Medieval English literature.
