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Centre for Antique, Medieval, and Pre-Modern Studies, University of Galway. www.universityofgalway.ie/camps

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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Next Wednesday, April 8th at 3pm, Edward Herring will give a talk titled 'Mourning Glory: honouring the dead on Apulian red-figure vases' at the UCD Classics Research Seminar. #AncientClassics @ucdclassics.bsky.social @muclassics.bsky.social @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social
The image is an Apulian volute-krater (BM F284), attributed to the Baltimore Painter and dated to 330-310 BC.
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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Announcing our upcoming Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture. Mairéad McAuley will deliver a paper on ‘Seneca’s Tragic Hands: Reading through the Body Part’ 🗓️ March 31st ⏰ 6pm 📍Hardiman Research Building (G010) Reception to follow and all welcome! #AncientRome #Classics #Seneca
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Chris Doyle @gollygee2004.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Really enjoyed chatting about all things Saint Patrick with the convivial hosts Nevena Spirovska and John Safran, for the Saturday Magazine podcast, flagship show of Australia’s @joy949.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social @campsgalway.bsky.social #stpatrick joy.org.au/saturdaymaga...
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Sat, 21st March, 2026: The Mystery of the Second, St. Patrick, Chris Doyle, Asst. Prof. Medieval History, School of History and Philosophy, Uni of Galway.
The Mystery of the Second, St, Patrick, Chris Doyle, Asst. Prof. Medieval History, School of History and Philosophy, Uni of Galway.
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Dylan Bailey (he/him) @djbirishhistory.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Great to see @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social give a talk at @uniofgalway.bsky.social as part of the @campsgalway.bsky.social seminars! Brilliant to engage with the community at Galway about our mutual research interests!
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Chris Doyle @gollygee2004.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
@campsgalway.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social Nice to see this little article out there in the world. Did an interview with Seán Moncrieff on his Newstalk show....it absolutely flew by 😃 @newstalkfm.bsky.social @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🔔 Announcing our final CAMPS Lecture of the Semester (and what a rich semester it has been)! Tiago Veloso Silva will deliver a paper entitled "The Arrouaisian Order in Medieval Ireland: A Historical and Historiographical Problem" 🗓️ March 20th 2026 ⏰ 12pm 📍THB-G010 Lunch provided and all welcome!
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
🔔 Up next, a collaboration between CAMPS and the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM): "Historical and Contemporary Multilingualism in Ireland" Lectures from Chiara Corongiu, Jasmim Drigo, and Cassie Smith-Christmas. 🗓️13/3/2026 🕑12pm 📍THB-G010 Lunch provided and all welcome!
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🚨Another brilliant CAMPS lecture incoming: Join us this Friday as Marilena Carabellese (UoG) will give a paper entitled: 'Ars Inussitata: the case of the XI epitome of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus' 🗓️ Friday 6th March ⏰ 12pm 📍 THB-G010 As ever, lunch will be provided and all are welcome!
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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Delighted to share the latest edition of Western Classics, which includes research updates and articles from the Galway Classics community: doi.org/10.13025/30223 @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social @campsgalway.bsky.social #AncientClassics #medieval
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
🚨 Announcing our next CAMPS Lecture! Luke McDermott will present 'Divine Words and Royal Narratives: Viewing Neo-Assyrian King Esarhaddon's Reign Through the Prism of Prophecy' 🗓 Friday, 27th February 🕐 12pm 📍 THB-G010, Hardiman Building Lunch will be provided and everyone is welcome!
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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Edward Herring has a new article on Magna Graecia's red-figure pottery, which appears in the latest issue of Ancient History magazine. @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social @campsgalway.bsky.social #AncientHistory #Archaeology
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In antiquity, Southern Italy was a prominent destination for Greek colonists. However, numerous people already lived in the region. The Greeks sometimes peacefully coexisted with these tribes — and so...
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🔔 Announcing our next CAMPS Lecture! Come along this Friday as Alexander Cupples (TCD) will treat us to a lecture entitled 'The Eucharistic Liturgy in the Antiphonary of Bangor.' 🗓️ Friday, 30th January 🕒 12:00 📍 TBHG-010, Hardiman Building Lunch provided afterwards. Everyone is very welcome!
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🔔 Come along to our next CAMPS Lab! Dr Eleanor Giraud (@eleanorgiraud.bsky.social) from University of Limerick will be treating us to a lecture entitled: 'Making Dominican Chant: Choices and Changes.' 🗓️ Friday 23rd January ⏰ 12pm 📍THB-G010, Hardiman Building Lunch will be provided afterwards!
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🔔 Come along to our next CAMPS Lab! Dr Eleanor Giraud (@eleanorgiraud.bsky.social) from University of Limerick will be treating us to a lecture entitled: 'Making Dominican Chant: Choices and Changes.' 🗓️ Friday 23rd January ⏰ 12pm 📍THB-G010, Hardiman Building Lunch will be provided afterwards!
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
🚨UPDATE! See below our new, even fuller schedule for CAMPS lectures this semester! All lectures will begin at 12pm on their respective Fridays. Specific details will be circulated before each lecture. Lunch will be provided afterwards, and everyone is very welcome!
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🔔What a great semester we have in store for you all! Over the course of six exciting events, we will be treated to a diverse and fascinating array of lectures. Check out our Spring 2026 schedule! 🗓️Fridays at 12pm 🍴Lunch will be provided afterwards Everyone welcome!
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
🚨 CAMPS 2026 is getting off to a strong start! Dr Michael Meere, Assoc. Professor of French and Medieval Studies at Wesleyan University presents '"The prologue presentit him selff…" : William Drummond and Theatrical Performances in Bourges, 1607’. 🗓 16 January 🕐 12pm 📍 The Bridge Room Come along!
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Chris Doyle @gollygee2004.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Lovely to see my review of Brian Lacey's Cenél nEógain and the Donegal Kingdoms, AD800-1200 (Four Courts Press) make The Irish Times last book review for 2025. @campsgalway.bsky.social epaper.irishtimes.com/titles/irish...
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The Irish Times Dec 27. 2025
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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
On January 16th, Professor Michael Clarke will present on 'The History of the Irish Book: The Handwritten Book in Ireland' at an Éigse Cholm Cille event on Columban Landscapes and Irish Manuscripts #celticstudies #medievalsky @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🐝 Come along tomorrow for what promises to be an illuminating afternoon! Dr Chris Doyle (@gollygee2004.bsky.social) will be treating us to a lecture on "Beekeeping and the medieval Irish community in the Bechbretha." Afterwards, there will be the opportunity for discussion, and, of course, lunch!
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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
At Tionól 2025, Michael Clarke will speak on Togail Troí, Jasmim Drigo on Priscian glosses, and Conor McDonough on early medieval Pauline exegesis. #CelticStudies #medievalsky @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🚨 Announcing our second CAMPS event of the semester! Dr Chris Doyle will deliver a lecture entitled "Following the Swarm: Beekeeping and the Medieval Irish Community in the Bechbretha" Come along for a fascinating Friday afternoon! 🗓️21st Nov 🕒12pm 📍Bridge Room, Hardiman Building Lunch to follow.
Poster announcing CAMPS lecture. Text reads: "Following the Swarm: Beekeeping and the medieval Irish community in the Bechbretha" by Chris Doyle. 
21st November 2025, 12pm.
Bridge Room, Hardiman Building.
Lunch to follow and all welcome. 

Image displays three hand-drawn beehives surrounded by a swarm of bees. Right side of poster is patterned with an orange honeycomb of hexagons, with three images of bees.
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Congratulations to Diarmuid on this fantastic success!👏👏 Dr Johnson will be delivering our first CAMPS Galway lecture of the semester at 1pm on the 12th November in the Bridge Room. Make sure to come along for what promises to be a stimulating event! Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
🔔🔔 Our first CAMPS event of the semester! Dr Diarmuid Johnson will deliver a talk entitled "Why the Cambro-Normans Invaded Ireland: The Novel as a Vehicule of Comprehension." Dr Johnson's latest novel, An Cláirseoir, has recently been awarded the prestigious Oireachtas Prize. 🗓️ 12th Nov 🕐 1pm
Poster for Lecture by Dr Diarmuid Johnson. Lecture Entitled "Why the Cambro-Normans Invaded Ireland: The Novel as a Vehicule of Comprehension."  

12th November.
1pm
Bridge Room, Hardiman Research Building
Lunch to follow and all welcome!
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Societas Celtologica Europaea @soccelteuropaea.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The Societas Celtologica Europaea is now on Bluesky! ➡️ Our goal is to support the scholarly study of Celtic languages, literatures, and cultures in research and teaching and to promote cooperation among Celtic scholars. 👋 Follow us for updates on our student prizes, conferences & more!
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We are excited to announce some changes to the CAMPS committee: 1. @jasmimdrigo.bsky.social is joining Brenda Luies and sharing the position of Research Events Coordinator. Many thanks to both, and to @darcyireland.bsky.social for his fantastic work last year!
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FobiM @fobim.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Der aktualisierte Call for Papers für unser Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter ist jetzt da! Die Frist für Bewerbungen endet am 30.11.2025. Bitte weitersagen oder selbst bewerben! #medievalsky #mediävistik #skystorians
Bild des Call for Papers für das Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter, das am 19. und 20. März 2026 in Innsbruck stattfindet; der Call endet am 30.11.2025.
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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
CFP: Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-1580… Innsbruck, 19.03.2026-20.03.2026, Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.11.2025
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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
On Saturday, September 27, Jacopo Bisagni will give a live demonstration and public talk on weapons and combat in the Late Middle Ages. Tickets available through eventbrite: tinyurl.com/mtex6mk9 @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social
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Christian Schweizer @cgschweizer.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
It was a tremendous honour to give a keynote on The Legacy of the Irish Scholar Dicuil at the Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies in Bonn last Wednesday. I can’t thank @elenaparina.bsky.social and her team enough for the invitation, welcome, and the perfect organisation of the conference!
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
We are very proud of a strong presence of Galway employees and alumni at the Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies, which was a fantastic event and marvellously organised by @elenaparina.bsky.social and her great team in Bonn on behalf of the Societas Celtologica Europaea: (1/7)
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Elena Parina @elenaparina.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies starts tomorrow! So much looking forward to welcome all the wonderful scholars @cgschweizer.bsky.social @bernhardbaver.bsky.social @ninacnock.bsky.social @metamedievalist.bsky.social @medievalireland.bsky.social and a lot of others!
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Chris Doyle @gollygee2004.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
My review of Patrick Gleeson's tremendous book 'Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland AD 400-1150' (IrishTimes 23/08/25). Very hard to do it proper justice in 800 words, but already it has led me to redesign my medieval Irish lecture modules @historyatgalway.bsky.social #medievalireland.
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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Michael Clarke & Peter Kelly have a new article in the American Journal of Philology on the meaning of the adjective λειριόεις ('lilied'), which is first attested in the Iliad and Hesiod's Theogony. @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social
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Project MUSE - Muses and Cicadas: The Puzzle of the Lilied-Voice from Homer to Plato
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Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Research Assistant - School of English, Media and Creative Arts, University of Galway full-time, two-year position as a Research Assistant with Professor Marie-Louse Coolahan universityvacancies.com/university-g...
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Research Assistant - School of English, Media and Creative Arts, University of Galway 011297 | University Vacancies Ireland
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U of T Centre for Medieval Studies @uoftcms.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
We're Hiring! The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity. www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...
medieval illumination of a figure blowing a trumpet
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REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures) @rebpaf.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
✒️🗡 Thank you, @imc-leeds.bsky.social! See you again next year! ✨️🎉 #REBPAF #MSCA #IMC2025 #BookHistory #Printing
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REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures) @rebpaf.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
‼️Next year, the REBPAF Final Conference will be held in Dublin.‼️ We invite submissions of papers & posters; the deadline is 15 Dec 2025. We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to Ireland!📚 #REBPAF #MSCA #REBPAFConference #CfP #BookHistory [See images for details & how to apply.]
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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Edward Herring has a new article on Greek-indigenous relations in southeast Italy, spanning from the foundation of Tarentum to the Roman conquest in 272 BC. The article appears in the newly released collection 'The World of the Western Greeks' (ed. Kathryn Lomas, @routledgehistory.bsky.social)
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“A bane to the Iapygians” | 21 | Greek-indigenous relations in southea
Both Diodorus Siculus (8.21) and Strabo (6.3.2) preserve an account of the Tarentine foundation Oracle in which it is foretold where the city would be
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Secondly, in Session 1020, we have myself elucidating one manuscript of the ‘Irish Reference Bible’ in “‘Today, you will be with me in paradise’: Notes on Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 447 (376) and the Textual Transmission of ‘Pauca problesmata’”. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
First, in Session 1020 (Programme page 252), we have my own colleague Christian Schweizer (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social) discussing ‘Dicuil’s Grammatical Texts’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Congratulations to Dr Ciaran Arthur, who has been awarded funding from @researchireland.ie's Pathway Programme to re-examine interpretations of obscure texts in British and Irish communities during the medieval period. For more on his project, Connect 4, see www.universityofgalway.ie/classics/res...
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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Jacopo Bisagni's new article on the Sun’s night journey and its cosmic battle with a tide-making sea monster (sometimes called Leviathan) has just been published in JML. This narrative is found in De cursu solis in nocte, a text which Jacopo discovered in the ninth-century manuscript Laon MS 422.
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Where is the Sun at Night? New Evidence from Laon, Médiathèque Suzanne Martinet, MS 422: The Journal of Medieval Latin: Vol 35
The article explores early medieval cosmological narratives concerning the Sun’s night journey and its cosmic battle with a tide-making sea monster (sometimes called Leviathan), focussing on a text di...
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
A fantastic opportunity to do a fully funded PhD at CAMPS and with @galwayclassics.bsky.social on linguistic obscurity in medieval texts!
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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
New, fully funded PhD studentship in the Department of Classics at the University of Galway is now available
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Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The much anticipated, incredible, 'Words on the Wave' exhibition opens in @nmireland.bsky.social today! FREE TO ALL. Can't make it? Listen to Matt Seaver & Dr Diarmuid Ó Riain on what makes it so special & about Irish connections w/Switzerland going back 1,400 years. open.spotify.com/episode/3o3x...
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Ireland and St Gallen in Early Medieval Europe with the National Museum of Ireland
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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Accompanying the monograph is a beautiful new teaching aid, a facsimile of Laon, B.M., MS 422 by Incipit Facsimiles, which will be used by Classics Galway to teach medieval science, palaeography, and manuscript studies #MedievalStudies #Manuscripts #MedievalSky @campsgalway.bsky.social
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Laon Computistical Miscellany -- Facsimile Editions and Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
YouTube video by Facsimile Finder - Manuscript Facsimile Editions
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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Congratulations to Jacopo Bisagni and Paula Harrison on the release of their new monograph on Laon, B.M., MS 422 written in collaboration with Isabelle Draelants @cnrs.fr. This comprehensive study focusses on the scientific, cosmological, and computational content of this manuscript from ca 815.
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Any #medievalsky members heading to the Leeds International Medieval Congress take care about emails from Global Travel Experts (ops@gtravelhost.com) asking you to 'confirm your booking.' Seems to be an elaborate scam & has targeted other international conferences: www.faops2024.org/gnuboard/bbs...
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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Extended deadline: 6 June 2025 PhD studentship The Lives and Miracles of St Laurence O'Toole Work on Latin Miracula under Dr Jesse Harrington (DIAS) and Dr Niamh Wycherley (Maynooth). www.dias.ie/applications... @niamhwycherley.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMW428/r...
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Applications open for Research Ireland Pathway PhD Studentship. – DIAS
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