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The @medievalacademy.bsky.social Leyerle-CARA Prize supports the research of an MAA member who needs to consult materials available at the University of Toronto. This includes all it collections, including the vast network of U of T Libraries. Apply by January 31!
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Members of the Richard III Society will be pleased to know that there are places available for the talk by @richardasquith.bsky.social on 'Death of a Yorkist Mayor: Executing the Will of Sir Ralph Verney (d. 1478)' This zoom meeting is on 22 November. Check your email for details on how to register.

Please do pass this on to anyone who may be interested! ☺️ #medievalsky #skystorians

A fun look today at @rialibrary.bsky.social’s manuscript of the week! The 15th-century Leabhar Breac / The Speckled Book (RIA MS 23 P 16) is a collection of religious, literary and historical works, including the lives St Patrick, St Brigid and Alexander the Great 📜🎉

We like the way the last letter seems to be walking away from the rest of it...

I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story.

I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.

Take a peek at our new book of hours! Made in Bruges, ca. 1470, this lovely illuminated book has several full-page miniatures, decorated margins, and many large and small illuminated initials. (UPenn Ms. Codex 2324) #medievalsky

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Meme. Medieval drawing of a cooper, putting the lid on a barrel with a hammer, while surrounded by other barrels. The man -- we'll call him Ædwallow-- is wearing a pink shirt and blue leggings, as if he's planning on going to gender reveal party later and he wants to cover all his bases. He's wearing a somewhat shapeless red hat that might -- or might not -- keep his ears warm. He has a white apron tied around his waist. He is clean-shaven, and his face looks young. His expression is terribly intense, and it doesn't take much imagination to believe that he is sealing his rival in this barrel. Perhaps this was a man named Flord whom Ædwallow had called a friend in his youth, until he had ran off with Ædwallow's mother to live a life of crime together as petty toast thieves in Malta. Ævence spent years tracking them down, & now's he's caught them and stuffed them in barrels to ship back home, for reasons only he knows. Meme text reads: "Staring down the barrel of a too-eelaborate plan"

Eel smuggling is a major problem today. But it's not new!

In 1463, London city officials arrested 9 Zeeland merchants who tried to slip 97 barrels of salted eels past customs at Billingsgate. They wanted to avoid import fees, but wound up facing a £40 fine.
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Are you a medieval maker? Or know someone who is? Email hello@medievalmarginalia.com for a chance to be featured in my holiday gift guide!

There are over 4,000 members. You'll find the same mix of people as you might find walking down the street somewhere.

North American scholars come and work at Birmingham for a month. Deadline 15 November! #nacbs

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Hmm. I wonder if we or @richardiiisociety.bsky.social are there. We were very early adopters! But maybe our reach wasn’t enough… 🤔

Does anyone recognize this 15th-century coat of arms (Italian?)

A Road Map of the Yorkist Age The Trust On…A Road Map of the Yorkist Age In a slight departure from our normal blogposts, here we present a guest post: Dr David Harrison discussing his fascinating new publication, Histori…

Are you interested in the roads and bridges of #medieval England and Wales? In our latest #blogpost, Dr David Harrison discusses his fascinating new map that provides crucial insights into the road network as it existed in the 15th century yorkisthistorytrust.org/2025/11/10/a... #Skystorians

A mockup of a Zoom meeting but the attendees are all medieval people including Richard III, Anthony Woodville, Cecily Neville, and others.

Our monthly meeting is today! Because our membership goes coast to coast, we hold it via Zoom. After a talk on Francis Lovel and the Rebels of Furness Fells, we will have a short business section then general chit-chat. It’s always a good time.

It's gorgeous. Have you seen the heads of Elizabeth II and Philip outside on one of the North windows?

Very brightly painted ceiling in blue with gold stars. The angels are also vivid in a variety of colours.

All Saints North Street in York could probably tell you.

Different people run different social media.

Where did this occur?

A magical text written in the 16th century on the previously blank margin of an earlier liturgical manuscript. Part of the original liturgical text can be seen at the bottom of the leaf. The leaf would originally have been part of the outer margin of a large leaf but has been rotated 90 degrees clockwise.

Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.

Certainly our favourite. 🥰
So much so that people in North America might want to buy him from us, and save on postage. www.richardiii.ca/ricardian-me...

Owned by Richard Haute, cousin to Elizabeth Woodville.

Jack McCart awarded Dean's Doctoral Excellence Scholarship Jack McCart, a PhD candidate at the Centre for Medieval Studies in the Faculty of Arts & Science, has been awarded the faculty's Dean’s Doctoral Excellence Scholarship. The scholarship recognizes stud...

@utoronto.ca Celebrates: @uoftcms.bsky.social PhD Candidate Jack McCart's academic achievement.
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a Misericord. In the middle is a bird surrounded by a fetterlock on which it is standing. On either side are similar, closed fetterlocks.

A Falcon and Fetterlock misericord in Ludlow. This was the heraldic sign either for Richard duke of York, or his son, Edward IV. For #WoodenWednesday

Medieval floor tiles (still in situ) at Melrose Abbey in the Scottish Borders. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #MelroseAbbey #ScottishBorders

Pencil and watercolour drawing of a masonry wall with two cross-shaped arrow loops and three rectangular windows interspersed with shields bearing coats of arms. Two are the Arms of the city of York. The third are Royal Arms of 1330-1350 with a great helm with a lion crest above it.

Pencil drawing of a masonry wall with two cross-shaped arrow loops and three rectangular windows interspersed with shields bearing coats of arms. Two are the Arms of the city of York. The third are Royal Arms of 1330-1350 with a great helm with a lion crest above it.

'To add colour or leave it alone, that was the question...' Answer: add colour to a print and leave the original. Heraldry on Micklegate Bar, York, dating from 1350-75 includes the Royal Arms of England and the arms of the City of York.

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True! And less than 2 months before days start getting longer.

A man sits in front of a very large clock with tools at his feet. He has both arms raised. A crowd of people in late 15th C clothing stand near him, most with their hands folded as though in prayer.

North Americans! (Well, most of us). Time to Fall back tonight. An extra hour of sleep!
(Image: BnF, département des Manuscrits, Français 455, fol. 4rof) Louis de Gruuthuse in front of a clock by the master of Margaret of York.)