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1 month ago

Call for Papers: The Valois (1328–1589): Governing France between Medieval and Modern French History is an international forum for major new articles covering all aspects of the histories of France and the Francophone world, from the early M

Check it out, we're planning a special issue of @frenchhistory.bsky.social for the 700th anniversary of the advent of the Valois dynasty! Details and timeline at the link below, but don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions 😊

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1 month ago

The 3rd Medieval Loyalty Research Network Workshop, 24th January 2026 – Loyalty in the Medieval World

The 3rd Medieval Loyalty Research Workshop is taking place tomorrow, 1.30pm-4.30pm on Zoom - please get in touch with myself or @mediev-el.bsky.social for the Zoom link and see here for more details of the programme: medievalloyalty.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2026/01/06/t...

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2 months ago

The 3rd Medieval Loyalty Research Network Workshop, 24th January 2026 – Loyalty in the Medieval World

Delighted to bring you the programme for the third Medieval Loyalty Workshop, online on 24th January, under the command of the terrific @katybennett.bsky.social and @mediev-el.bsky.social

All are very welcome!

Details here: medievalloyalty.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2026/01/06/t...

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2 months ago

@emgallimore.bsky.social’s thesis looks at (some) 19th C clergymen writing about the early medieval church in England, so might have some ideas?

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2 months ago

CFP: Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis. Pembroke College, Cambridge, 17–18 Sept 2026. Abstracts due 16 Jan 2026.

One month left to submit your abstracts for Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis, @pembroke1347.bsky.social (17–18 Sept 2026).

See the full #CFP below.

#Fissures2026 #medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #GenderHistory #PoliticalHistory

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3 months ago

The research group 'Loyalty in the Medieval World' is looking for papers for our online workshop on the 24 January 2026! Proposals can be on any topic relating to loyalty during the Middle Ages, abstracts due by 17 December to be sent to myself and @katybennett.bsky.social via email!

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3 months ago

Enjoying the little postcards this year, can't wait for #IMC2026 next summer for more medieval loyalties! :)

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3 months ago

Saturday 13 December
9:00-9:30 – Meet at The Department of History, 43 North Bailey
9:30-10:30 – Session 4: Noblewomen and Conflict
‘Gendering Political Allegiance in Late-Medieval Gascony’ – Katy Bennett (York)
‘Debates over Female Authority during the Guerre Folle in France, c.1485-88’ – Andrew D. M. Green (Chichester)
10:30-10:45 – Break
10:45-11:45 – Session 5: Old and New Approaches to Texts (i)
Introduction – Graeme Small (Durham)
‘Innovative Middle Ages: Digital Humanities and Medieval Italian Studies (and Franco-Burgundian material)’ – Lorenzo Dell'Oso (Durham)
Responses and Roundtable Discussion
11:45-12:00 – Break
12:00-13:00 – Session 6: Old and New Approaches to Texts (ii)
‘Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles : Tradition et Innovation depuis la Cour de Bourgogne jusqu’aux Presses Typographiques’ – Geoffrey Roger (U.L.I. Paris, online)
‘Upside-down Stemmatology: The Peace of Tournai (1385) and the Shape of the Manuscript Tradition of Froissart’s Chroniques’ – Godfried Croenen (Antwerp) & Natasha Romanova (Caen)
13:00-13:30 – Conference End and Discussion of Next Steps (for anyone interested)

A really exciting slate of papers for this year's Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar! If anyone will be in Durham and wants in (or maybe even wants to attend online, I don't know?), drop me a line and I can share details!

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4 months ago

Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis
17-18 September 2026
Pembroke College, University of Cambridge

Gendered work on medieval popular politics has tended to revolve around the exceptional. This workshop explores how studies of gender can reconfigure discourses of medieval political community. We ask how attending to gendered bodies and identities might help us better understand the fissures in political culture in medieval Europe. Marking, for example, women’s participation as either absent or rare confines their involvement to the historical margins. How did literary as well as non-literary texts from various genres, ranging from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, engage with gendered political action? How did ideas of gender stabilise or destabilise political performances?

We invite abstracts for 25-minute papers, as well as expressions of interest for participation. We welcome papers with a historical, literary, or interdisciplinary focus. Potential topics could include but are not limited to:

• Frameworks for understanding non-normative gender expressions in political spaces.
• Studies of politics at the intersection of gendered, queer, or trans methodologies.
• Histories of masculinities in political community.
• Emotion and/or Affect
• Weaponized/defensive gender
• Manoeuvring bodies through political crisis
• Inclusion and exclusion
• Different sites of political discourse, such as domestic and non-violent conflict.

Collectively, the papers will interrogate the role of gender in political discourse. Selected papers may be considered for inclusion in an edited volume. Means-based bursaries for speakers may be available by further application.

Please submit a title and abstract of no more than 200 words to Alice Raw (ar889@cam.ac.uk) and Abbie Fray (abigail.fray@unibe.ch) by 16 January 2026.

Call for Papers! Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis #medievalsky #Fissures2026

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4 months ago

Call for Papers for the 10th Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar: Durham University, 12-13 December 2025

Image: Jardin d'amour à la cour de Philippe le bon, duc de Bourgogne, Musée de Versailles
Tradition and Innovation
For the tenth meeting of the Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar (Durham, 2025), we invite proposals for 20-minute papers on the theme of Tradition and Innovation.
We would welcome any explorations of this theme based on original research on France and/or Burgundy between c.1250 and c.1500, or which reflect on developments in modern scholarship relating to these territories, in any field, including history, art, literature, languages and music. Papers might examine (but are not limited to considering):
 Major shifts in politics, society, culture, literature, art or music within the Franco-Burgundian lands during the late Middle Ages.
 The durability of established practices and structures in these regions.
 Old and new approaches in historiography looking back at late medieval France/ Burgundy – including new approaches to ‘English Frances’ and ‘Lordship and the Decentralised State’.
 Continuity and change in textual analysis and other scholarship relating to late medieval France/Burgundy.
We would particularly welcome submissions from postgraduates and early career researchers, as well as scholars at any stage in their research. The deadline for paper proposals (of around 100 words) is 31 October. Please send proposals/queries to Professor Graeme Small (g.p.small@durham.ac.uk) and Dr Andrew Green (admgreen7@gmail.com).

A reminder that there's about a week left to pitch your paper for this year's interdisciplinary Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar, the loveliest event of its kind, at Durham in mid-December! There's a great (and non-exclusive) theme, and it's lots of fun for ECRs and senior scholars alike!

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5 months ago

At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!

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1 year ago

For the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, 1066, here is thread on why 'who was the rightful king?' is the wrong question to ask, why we don't know the complete story and why that makes things more interesting. 1/ #medievalsky #skystorians #historyedu #historyteachers

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6 months ago

Full plain text available at: https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/24/cfp-borders-boundaries-and-barriers-real-and-imagined-in-the-middle-ages/

Just over 2 weeks left to apply to the Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers conference! It will take place in Oxford on April 20-21, 2026. We hope to provide bursaries to help with attendance. Email your abstracts to bordersboundariesbarriers[at]gmail[dot]com
#medievalsky #skystorians

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6 months ago

Just over two weeks left to send us your abstracts! #CfP #IMC2026 #medievalsky

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6 months ago

And Open Access, too! 😁

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7 months ago

Vacancy: the Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator - RHS The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and develop...

Vacancy with the Royal Historical Society: Membership and Office Administrator bit.ly/46TgZNA

We look to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £31,904 pro rata. Closing date Monday 8 September #Skystorians

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7 months ago

Call for Papers @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026 ‼️ The 'Loyalty in the Medieval World' network welcomes papers which explore the intersections between the concept of ‘loyalty’ and the conference theme of ‘temporalities’, c.500-1500! Get in touch by 15 September

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7 months ago

CFP: Leeds IMC 2026
The Society for Fourteenth-Century Studies invites papers on any aspect of the long 14thC across the Plantagenet estates.
📅 6–9 July 2026
📨 Title + abstract by 31 Aug 2025
✉️ Laura.Tompkins@hrp.org.uk & dgreen@harlaxton.ac.uk

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8 months ago

Félicitations! 🥂

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8 months ago

For those at @imc-leeds.bsky.social, I’m part of what promises to be two great sessions on oaths, trust, and allegiance this afternoon, both in Esther Simpson LG.08. Looking forward to discussing all things allegiance!

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8 months ago

A screencap of Academia.edu's Account Settings under the header "AI Settings" showing their AI-enhanced Outputs feature is automatically turned on with a green switch unless you turn it off and do your part to de-enshittify the internet.

If you're getting notifications from Academia(.)edu about AI versions of your papers now being podcasts, that's because the (predatory) platform has opted you into AI-enhanced outputs, which you can turn off in your Account Settings here.

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8 months ago

I'm constantly thinking about the fact that despite all the focus on 'impact', they don't seem to count the context in which we have the most impact of all: teaching students, and especially those from a wide range of backgrounds

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8 months ago

Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.

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8 months ago

I remember discovering and being v entertained by John II and John III Paston as an undergrad

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8 months ago

Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers have become increasingly prominent themes in historical scholarship. There is, therefore, a pressing need to examine how these
constructs have shaped the lived experiences of historically marginalised groups, as well as how they were
perceived, defined, and engaged with by those groups.
This conference seeks to reorient discussions around borders, boundaries, and barriers by foregrounding the
experiences and perspectives of marginalised groups and considering how these divisions were perceived from
the peripheries of societies. Rather than treating these concepts as abstract or solely geopolitical, we will explore
the ways in which they have operated — both historically and historiographically — as tools of exclusion and
differentiation.
Organised by Natasha Jenman (University of Oxford), Naomi Reiter (QMUL), and Dean A. Irwin (University
of Lincoln/OCHJS), the conference will focus on individuals, religious groups, social groups, societal
constructions, and natural phenomena. Participants are invited to explore the role played by evolving borders,
boundaries, and barriers in the medieval world as part of group identities; and how groups used them to their
advantage. Likewise, it will consider the extent to which borders, boundaries and barriers have been imposed
upon the medieval world by modern scholars. Possible topics for consideration include:
• Legal jurisdictions
• The natural and the supernatural worlds
• Socio-economic strata
• Ritual and religion
• Space, time, and the environment
• Gender and sexuality
• Disability
• Transgression, delinquency,
and the grey middle space
This conference adopts a broad chronological and geographical approach with submissions from all
historically-related disciplines being welcome. The conference will take place on 20 and 21 April 2026 in
Oxford. To submit, please send a title, abstract (c. 250 words), and a bio (c. 100 words) to:
bordersboundariesbarriers@gmail.com.

I’m co-organising a medieval conference next year in Oxford! Please take a look at the CfP and consider submitting an abstract, by the 15th of September, to bordersboundariesbarriers@gmail.com. We hope to be able to provide funding to help cover expenses of attendance.
#medievalsky #skystorians

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9 months ago

A fab opportunity for #MedievalHistory students interested in the Medieval March and the Mortimer family. The Mortimer History Society have opened applications for their 2025 Student Bursary: 2 awards of £1,000!

Check out the application here: mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/society/burs...

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11 months ago

Associate Professor in History, 1000-1500 at University of Oxford Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Associate Professor in History, 1000-1500 on jobs.ac.uk!

New job at Oxford - do please share widely!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...

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1 year ago

Associate Editor of the journal French History – SSFH

The @frenchhistory.bsky.social is recruiting another associate editor to join our team, with a preference for an 18th c or revolution specialist.
The journal team are a wonderful intellectual community behind loads of recent exciting initiatives 🗃️ frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/associate-ed...

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1 year ago

The martyrdom of St Alban, the executioner's eyes popping out and falling to the ground after dealing the final blow. Cotton MS Nero D II, f. 39.

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1 year ago

Rethinking the aristocracy in Capetian France, 987–1328 Any analysis of medieval French society requires a detailed study of the aristocracy. Landowning elites were a dominant force in France throughout the Midd

The latest issue of French History is out now, a special issue on 'Rethinking the aristocracy in Capetian France, 987–1328' edited by Daniel Power doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

I think this is our first ever #medieval special issue @frenchhistory.bsky.social !

👸🤴🦄💂🧑‍🌾🏰🇫🇷

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