About time we take the Northumbrian metropolitan elite down a peg.
Coming soon! We are excited to share our first issue in just a few months.
We are also accepting submissions for issue 2 onwards! Feel free to send any questions or ideas to @calthalas.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social or me on here, or with the editors via email tinyurl.com/tph5wvmd
My tasty take (pun intended) on the Bayeux Tapestry—a subject on which I had vowed never to publish. Available Open Access with @ihr.bsky.social. See what you make of it, and bon appetit! academic.oup.com/histres/adva...
some news 👇
we're going to find out how to overcome the numerous practical and ethical problems we face when researching the nameless.
The first issue is shaping up nicely already, look out for more news in 2026 and an appearance from the team at the Leeds International Medieval Congress!
The brilliant Prof. Alex Woolf @standrewshist.bsky.social is back on the podcast to tell us what the Scandinavian diaspora got up to in the Middle Ages & why 'The Vikings' is a problematic concept. @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3ljZ...
This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred
IMC acceptance day seems to come earlier every year.... but excited to have this session on 'Britain and Byzantium at the End of Antiquity' finalised. Co-organised with the wonderful Janel Fontaine and featuring @helengittos.bsky.social, you'll want to stick around on Thursday for this! #IMC2026
Academia and particularly the humanities is facing a global crisis. We need to be supporting each other. What we do not need to be doing is tarring kind, brilliant people with political views and personality traits they don’t have just because you disagree with the results of their research.
Apropos nothing in particular, one can disagree with a good junior scholar's arguments about a set of events in the past without maligning them as advancing a harmful political agenda whose emergence post-dates work they did on those events and with which that scholar is openly, clearly, not aligned
Friends, fellow late antiquity fans! The news are out! We are starting a new journal together with the amazing team at LUP. We want to foster interdisciplinary and exciting articles in essay form as well as peer-reviewed editions and translations of texts. Extremely excited about this!
Very pleased to see this now out in Early Medieval England and its Neighbours - and open access for all to download! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
History UK's Academic Job Boot Camp is back (11 Dec 2024). If you're an early career historian and want feedback on your academic CV/cover letter, interview and presentation, apply to take part. For more information visit their website:
www.history-uk.ac.uk/academic-job...
For those of you who (wisely) haven’t been on Twitter lately and may not know, I recently had an article come out in the EHR on early medieval British plague and its broader historiographical implications. Just message me if you don’t have access and need a pdf!
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
Coming at the start of next month, my contribution to @archaeodeath.bsky.social and Femke Lippok's "Cremation in the Early Middle Ages", which will be available Open Access with Sidestone Press: www.sidestone.com/books/cremat...
Spoke too soon, this directory does just that and should be very useful for people rebuilding networks here: bsky.app/profile/josh...
Genuinely fascinating to track the (sub)fields that have gotten starter-packed and those that haven't yet.
Made a medieval manuscripts and book history starter pack (broadly defined). It is definitely not exhaustive so please comment and I'll add you and the accounts that you think are missing!
go.bsky.app/AN9pLVo
Or even, dare I say, a companion...
Really glad to see so much of the old #medievaltwitter reunited here, but at this rate we'll need a starter pack of starter packs.
CoSMoS, a new community seeking to bring together scholars of medieval and early modern Scotland across the globe, is holding a really cool (free!) launch event where several smart people are going to talk about their research. Come give it a look! #medievalsky
www.eventbrite.com/e/cosmos-lau...
I’m very excited about this upcoming event on 24th October at 2pm (GMT+1) with the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge. I’ll be talking with Professor Bill Hurst about early medieval ideas of International Relations (there may be an elephant involved 🐘). Link for online registration below.
I've reviewed a thing and the tl;dr is: you should read it because it will, in time, make waves.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Very happy to send a PDF to the most convenient email (the author on X said that she is happy to share the file too)!
Lecturer in Medieval English Literature and Language at Glasgow (fixed term) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKG458/l...
#medievalsky
*looks nervously at my Age of Justinian course*
A neat new EHR article by Rachel Singer on the plague in sixth-century Britain. The discussion of when/how the plague arrived is interesting enough, but the final section questioning whether Britain was the late antique 'periphery' is worth reading for Byzantinists too... doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...
This came up again recently, so reposting here:
Mystery or mix-up? In 811, Charlemagne and Danish ruler Hemming negotiated a treaty on the River Eider, now often referred to as the 'Treaty of Heiligen'. Oddly enough, no exact location - no 'Heiligen' - is mentioned for this in primary sources. 🧵
Very happy to have contributed again to the Virtual-Record-Treasury-of-Ireland-website with 3 watercolour drawings for the Merchants and Mariners in Medieval Ireland Curated Collection. The texts were written by Daryl Rooney. virtualtreasury.ie/image-galler.... #MedievalSky
