Dr Carly McNamara

My first husband used to tell women he and I were getting a divorce so he could hook up with them.

🚨 Celtica is now available open-access! This is the result of painstaking work going on behind the scenes since 2022. Issues 33 to 36 (2021–24) are now online, and future issues will appear online & in print. We will also digitize the back issues of the journal.
🔗 journals.dias.ie/index.php/ce...

Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey

Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...

STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia'
Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29
Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

Currently reading Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern

Just past 2500 views of my co-authored essay w/ @fancynahyan.bsky.social, "Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death." Part of an on-going effort to transform how we understand pandemics. #OneHealth #histmed www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I'm currently reading The Apothecary Diaries, volume 10

This looks like it will be a good read.

Writing in the early Frankish world

Want to learn something new this summer? This 2-day course on writing in the Early Frankish World could be for you! 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social

ies.sas.ac.uk/london-inter...

For any tourists visiting these shores this summer, I recommend this detailed map of Britain, Ireland and the Orkneys, from “Topography Of Ireland” by Gerald Of Wales (1187)

Ah this is super! A project investigating manuscripts found to be made of certain raw materials, linked to ideas of colour and purity, and linked further to the story of the latter phases of the Greenland Norse colony before its collapse.

Read this thread!!!!

#histSTM #GenderStudies

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) at University of York Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

Post-doc in domestic livestock - zooarchaeology and ancient DNA at York: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML043/p...

I'm giving a talk on the medieval monastery at Lismore for the Scottish Society if Northern Studies this Thursday, 27 February! www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-...

I'm on volume 4 of The Apothecary Diaries

They can really pull you in.

🙌Funded PhD Opportunity!🙌

Please do share widely. The DCU School of History and Geography is currently advertising paid PhD opportunities esp in Medieval Ireland, the history of Irish towns and cities, legal history and women’s and gender history

www.dcu.ie/historygeogr...

Oo! I'll have to check this one out.

Working through Rebecca Yarros' Onyx Storm.

Oo, that sounds interesting

#Viking Age jet gaming pieces from Mote Hill, #Warrington. The jet may have been sourced from eastern England. Mote Hill overlooks a strategic crossing point of the #Mersey. It was later the site of a motte and bailey castle, and close to an old church. Now in Warrington museum #medievalsky

I'd be reading more Ben Aaronovitch if I had anything new of his to read! It's really enjoyable reading.

Let it Go, by Dame Shirley Stephanie

My photo collage shows a selection of bishop and warder (rook) Lewis chess pieces carved from walrus ivory c. 1150-1200 AD. Photo top left: Two bishops and a warder. All standing. The bishops wear long garments and mitre (headgear) and hold a crozier with both hands. The bearded warder wears a long pleated garment and conical helmet with neck and ear-pieces. He is armed with a sword and kite-shaped shield inscribed with a lozenge shaped cross. Photo top right: A so-called ‘berserker’ (warder) chess piece. Standing, wearing a long garment and hood, armed with a sword and shield decorated with an interlaced saltire. The warder has large, wide- open eyes, and large upper teeth which bite the top of the shield. Height 8.2 cm. Photo bottom left: A standing warder and two seated bishops, one of which is partly obscured by the warder. The bearded warder wears a long pleated garment and conical helmet with neck and ear-pieces, and is armed with sword and shield. The seated bishops wear long garments, mitres, and each holds a crozier and a book. Photo bottom right: A warder and a bishop, both standing. The bearded warder wears a long pleated garment, and conical helmet with neck, ear-pieces and ornamented head-band. He is armed with a sword in right hand and kite-shaped shield in left hand. His eyes look to the left. The bishop wears a long garment with cloak, and mitre, and holds a crozier in his left hand and a book in his right hand.

The Lewis Chessmen for #MedievalMonday

Characterful 12th-century chess pieces with wonderfully expressive eyes! 👀

From a large gaming hoard found on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in 1831. Walrus ivory, c. 1150-1200. 📷 my own

#Archaeology

New Medieval Books: The Medieval Persian Gulf - Medievalists.net Although the Persian Gulf was not as prosperous or influential in the Middle Ages as it is today, the region boasts a fascinating history. This book delves into its communities, exploring their…

New Medieval Books: The Medieval Persian Gulf https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/new-medieval-books-persian-gulf/ #PersianGulf #historybooks #medievalbooks

Still working through RF Kuang's Babel, but will be finished in the next few days. So far it's been fantastic!

‘The Value of History’: a new briefing from the Royal Historical Society
28 October 2024

files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/u...

Call for 20-minute papers for 4th Oslo Student Conference on Medieval Europe, 21 March 2025 in Oslo/online, with the theme Lost in Translation (though other topics OK); abstracts of 250 words plus title, name, university, program, to oslomedievalstudentconference at gmail dot com by 16 December.

CfP for the Oslo Student Conference on Medieval Europe (hybrid)—a chance for students at all levels to present their work!

A figure in a late medieval manuscript drawn on a margin. They are pulling a missing piece of text on a rope and pointing to a place where it should be inserted.

Mistakes happen! If you forget to insert that one sentence in a paragraph the solution is easy. Just draw a dude in a hood and he will pull the missing text to the right place with a piece of rope!

Walters Ms. W.102 Book of Hours, late 13th/early 14th C.

www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/Walters...

I'd love to be added to the new list!