Josh Coulthard

Hey #medievalsky ! I’m designing a medieval hero & monsters literature class. If anybody has some syllabi they would be willing to share, I would super appreciate it !

professional secret: vikings didn't exist. medievalists invented them in 1968 in the wake of the first wave of Tolkienmania to trick people into spending their careers reading saints' lives and homily books

Anyone got any good recommendations for books about the Visigoths or, more generally, 4-7th c. Spain? 📚

How to get away with murder in medieval Ireland Duinetháide murders, where the killer didn't leave a trace or a body, carry all the intrigue of a classic murder mystery

Fantastic piece on a fascinating aspect of early Irish law, by my former PhD student and @ceilteachomn.bsky.social graduate, Dr Viktoriia Krivoshchekova, who is now a postdoc at @scs-dias.bsky.social

#MedievalSky

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I’ll be there! :)

Irish Humanities Alliance | The Good, The Bad, and The Blemished: Disability Terminology in Medieval Ireland The language surrounding disability changes over time. There are certain terms which were previously common for describing disabled people but would now be considered out of date…

Delighted to have this post published by the @irishhumanities.bsky.social, where I discuss some of the terminology surrounding disability in medieval Ireland!

www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...

Our #CFP has been extended to Friday 26th September!! @imc-leeds.bsky.social #imc2026

Still space for abstracts for the Leeds IMC call for papers hosted by Institute for Irish Studies doctoral researchers at Liverpool 'Law and Contacts in the Irish Sea Region' #medievalsky

DEADLINE EXTENDED to Friday 26th September

Really exciting call for papers for Leeds, please get in touch with Hannah and Nik by the 26th of September!

Always!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Perhaps the most vivid of the petitions

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TNA SC 8/97/4826: The Lion and the Saint of Gloucester

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to... Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

‘… social historian David Kynaston, told The Observer he suspects “a serious scandal is unfolding”

John Wyver, Ian Greaves, Erica Wagner and others on the growing battle to prevent damaging changes to the BBC’s priceless behind-the-scenes archives:

They've been called 'american gentry' and speaking as a medievalist, it's not un-apt

Reviewer 2: this needs to contain more discussion of pot shaped buckets

Very cool call for papers for next year’s Leeds IMC!

📅Save the date: Sat. 25th Oct. 2025‼️
📜 #TOEBI2025: "Education and Early Medieval England"
🏫 University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social
🗣️ Alice Jorgensen @tcddublin.bsky.social
🗣️ Lindy Brady, Edge Hill University
#️⃣ #medievalsky #OldEnglish

“Ugh”

Front cover for Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance, illustration from British Library MS Cotton Nero A X/2 of Lady Bertilak and Gawain in the bedchamber. Gawain is lying down with eyes closed, wrapped in green blankets, and Lady Bertilak is wearing a spotted dress, seated beside him with her hair up, her arms outstretched in a loose embrace and touching under his chin.

My book, Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance: Typologies of violence and desire, with @manchesterup.bsky.social, is coming out next month! I would be delighted if you might consider ordering a copy for your libraries 💚

If early medieval Aquitaine or Carolingian political culture is your jam, please do give this a read (also on Open Access thanks to @livunihss.bsky.social @livunilibrary.bsky.social)!

Fresh on early view: @eddiemeehan99.bsky.social on how Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) balanced kingship "as an office and as a dynastic status".
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Hello! It might seem strange to have my first post here be a Call for Papers, but I guess it's a statement of my interests😊

✨Call for Papers - Leeds IMC 6-9 July 2026✨
Comparative Approaches to Supernatural Encounters

Deadline for proposals = 5th September 2025

Glad you enjoyed it! Definitely the most ambitious NWMS symposium we’ve ever run :) Great to see what my constant battles with technology looked like to everyone else 😂

Be my replacement for a year and work in a great School with lovely colleagues! Please share with any modern Europeanists who might be interested!

I was originally torn before my masters between the 18th century and the 14th century :) Anti-Jacobitism specifically!

Another call for papers for our joint sponsored session with @networknorse.bsky.social - please share widely!

Attendees at Celtic Studies summer school at DIAS standing on steps of the building.

Scoil samhraidh 2025: gabhaimid ár mbuíochas le gach duine a ghlac páirt inti, agus tá súil againn gur bhain gach duine leas agus spraoi aisti.
Summer School 2025: thanks to all who took part, and we hope everyone benefited from it and enjoyed it.
www.dias.ie/2024/11/12/c...

Can anyone help with a passage from this will of 1450? Reading from "Et sinon..." in the top right corner.

I'm getting stuck with
"bonorum meorum in consilium? et p[ro?]vebil[?]"

and then

"post decessum predicte Margarete mancione mea nemi[?]detur?"

Any suggestions very welcome!