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Ana de Oliveira Dias

@ana0dias.bsky.social
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Visual&Intellectual culture|Manuscripts& Monasticism| Early Medieval Iberian & Continental History | Researcher in Crafting Documents project & William Golding Junior Research Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford.

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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Back at my desk after a long (much-needed) break. Spent a few restorative days in the south of Portugal. One of the bonuses was finding the most spectacular and rare vase?/vessel? from 11th-century Gharb al-Andalus in a local museum! #medievalhistory #portugal
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Exciting August afternoon co-directing and shooting a video about the Brasenose College Founder’s Bible. More to come! Plus a rare glimpse of me wearing colour 😅 (black or stripes don’t work on film, or so I was told) @BNC_Members #Brasenosecollege
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My latest contribution to the (very exciting) EME podcast series 😊 It was a real pleasure!
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s publication day 🎉🥳🎊 It’s available Open Access for anyone who wishes to read it.
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
How can we read the Muslim conquest of Sicily through pottery sherds? Just out on Early View, Viva Sacco, "Ceramic ecology in an Islamic capital" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (OA)
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Ceramic ecology in an Islamic capital: changes in the production and consumption of pottery in Palermo
Palermo became the new capital of Sicily after the Aghlabid conquest in 831. The transformation of the city into a capital took many forms, including the production and consumption of pottery. The pe...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Advance notice of the British Academy reports published to be tomorrow (Wednesday) and their findings. It does not make happy reading if you value UK higher education and research.
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Early Career Researcher Podcast @ecrpodcasters.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Join us tonight if you’re at @imc-leeds.bsky.social #imc2026
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
And that’s a wrap for me! @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026 joyful as always
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Survived the heatwave in France last week. The Merovingian (or maybe early Carolingian) relic labels from Vergy were certainly the highlight of the trip!
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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Rosamond McKitterick passed away over the weekend. She was a leading historian of the Early Middle Ages. This piece from The Historians' Sketchpad offers a thoughtful and personal remembrance of her salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/a... #medievalists
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A Scholarly and a Moral Education: Remembering Rosamond McKitterick
Photo of Rosamond McKitterick, taken by the author on 1 February 2020 overlooking the Forum at Rome. Rosamond McKitterick died on Saturday 13th June 2026. As a sentence, that’s easy to write and im…
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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The second of @etreharne.bsky.social's Smithies lectures will be on Thursday 11 June, 17.15 in @ballioloxford.bsky.social - 'Medieval Manuscript Hunters & the Second World War'. All welcome! @oxmedstud.bsky.social @oxfordmedievalmss.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social
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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
🔦 Today's LRBS course spotlight is An Introduction to Book Collecting and Book Cultures, led by Dr Laura Cleaver. 🎟️ Book your ticket here by 31st May 👉️ buff.ly/dBXo2UY #rarebooks #LRBS26
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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Interested in Caroline Minuscule or in things Celtic or in Alfred the Great? Then come and hear Dr Jason Chess at the latest London Palaeography Seminar @ies-sas.bsky.social: Tuesday 28th April, 5:30pm. Book here for in person or online attendance: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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The Celtic reception of Caroline and its contribution to the Alfredian Renaissance
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Jess Hodgkinson from the @insularmss.bsky.social project discussing dry point annotations in Insular mss and photometric stereo imaging as a cutting edge technology to retrieve them!
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
#heritagescienceandmanuscripts has just started! Brilliant first talk by Brent Seales addressing technologies to retrieve writing and the Vesuvius project.
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Only a few tickets left! But the good news is that you can join us via Teams! 🎉 Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/eec9de... The countdown has started 🥁 #medievalsky #manuscripts #science #history
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I have decided not to do an official fundraising campaign, but would like to draw your attention to @littleprincesses.bsky.social trust that makes wigs for children undertaking cancer treatment.They need funds to make the wigs in addition to real hair,so please donate 💵if you can (link below)
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Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The @ies-sas.bsky.social online Winter School in Jan. 2026 includes courses by Michelle Brown (the Medieval Book); Anna Somfai (Medieval Scientific and Philosophical mss); and dream team @manuelmunoz.bsky.social @rozierhistorian.bsky.social and me (History Books). Book👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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IES: LIPS & LRBS Winter School | 2026
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The programme is out 📣 Heritage Science and Manuscripts from Antiquity and the Middle Ages! A two-day colloquium organised by the #CraftingDocuments project in partnership with the @cmtc-oxford.bsky.social (We are working on hosting it as a hybrid event. more soon) Registration info 👇🏼 #medievalsky
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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Come and work with our wonderful team! Applications open for a Full-Time Archivist post Closing date: 11th November. #Jobs #Archives #Heritage jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Yesterday, I finally visited the wonderful Pech Merle cave. A very moving and thrilling experience. Especially grateful for the patience and bravery of my 2-year old who accompanied me 40 meters underground ☺️
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Dr Manuel Muñoz García @manuelmunoz.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Don’t be shy!
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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
How do I explain to this gentleman that I don’t have x-ray vision or any other techniques to retrieve text covered by fur, fat and bones?
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The promises I made to @laurajcleaver.bsky.social have been fulfilled 😄 phew Out now, in Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social part of my ventures into the trade of medieval mss in the late 19th century
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
So sad to have missed this! Highly recommend @saracharles.bsky.social book “The Medieval Scriptorium”
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Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Learning more about the fascinating world of relic labels at Chelles from the brilliant @ana0dias.bsky.social #IMC2025 #craftingdocuments
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Shameless article promotion in case someone is interested. An output from the wonderful CULTIVATE MSS project led by @laurajcleaver.bsky.social in @ies-sas.bsky.social published open access in the Journal of the History of Collections.
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
@brasenoseoxford.bsky.social MS 91 - Genealogy of the kings of England to Henry VI - is on display + Jim and Dilon presenting the amazing research they have done on it! #medievalsky
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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
In case of interest, colleagues in the fantastic @ox.ac.uk Dept for Continuing Education are advertising a FT permanent post in the art of the Global South in early modern/modern art and material culture! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI408/d...
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Departmental Lecturer at University of Oxford
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Another day in @lincoln.ox.ac.uk but for very different reasons #medievalsky
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
On #ascensionday Brasenose takes over Lincoln college.
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Join us this Friday in Lincoln college, Oxford
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
We are still recruiting!
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
An amazing afternoon learning the techniques of medieval book illumination with @saracharles.bsky.social and the @oxfordmedievalmss.bsky.social And In great company @liber-ray.bsky.social @mssprovenance.bsky.social #medievalsky
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Spent yesterday’s afternoon showing some beautiful mss in #Brasenosecollege collection to our students. This is a detail from the “Founder’s Bible”, a 13th-c. Paris Bible that belonged to William Smyth, bishop of Lincoln and one of the founders of @brasenoseoxford.bsky.social #medievalsky
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Another brilliant thread by @ainoacastro.bsky.social
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Training in early Frankish palaeography is not just for those working on this period, it will help you understand Late Roman, Carolingian, and Protogothic scripts& to approach cursive writing from later centuries too. It’s a doorway to many centuries of Latin palaeography! #medievalsky #manuscripts
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Amazing evening in Merton College Library analysing this beauty! Thank you @juliawalworth.bsky.social and @oxfordmedievalmss.bsky.social #OMMG #medievalsky
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group is finally on Bluesky! Please share your widely and follow us! #medievalsky #oxford
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
51 years ago, my home country (Portugal) overthrew dictatorship. The military coup became known as the Carnation Revolution as soldiers placed the red flowers in barrels of their guns to celebrate freedom and the success of a what was mostly a peaceful revolution.
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
A few weeks ago, in beautiful Port Meadow, on my way home. Nothing beats Spring in Oxfordshire
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I’ve finally been to see this fantastic exhibition! Beautifully curated 👏🏼 a must see!
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🧵 Is this a Dire wolf... 🤔? No... Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ... 👇
Image fo a seal  - by someone that has not seen one - from Valenciennes, ms 0320, Thomas de Cantimpré, Albert le Grand. Liber de natura rerum, vers 1280, 230 × 156 mm. Folio 116, Image : IRHT https://patrimoine-numerique.ville-valenciennes.fr/ark:/29755/B_596066101_ms_0320 (http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/7876). The original colour of the skin (before it degraded) - but what is it?  (image Elodie Leveque)Mock-up of the original book binding by Elodie Leveque. Note that the fur is too dark in this mockup (image Elodie Leveque).In 2016, the team in 2016 first confronted the collection at Troyes  - but what are the bindings made of?  Image of five people, one sitting, discussing a large bound medieval text held by supports in a modern library.
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
In case you feel like looking at small pieces of parchment this evening. Online registration still open
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I’ve finally managed to visit Santa Prassede and see its wonderful mosaics + relic from the flagellation column. Unfortunately, Santa Pudenziana was closed. 😢 #medievalsky
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Good evening, Saint Peter! Looking stunning at sunset
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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A real treat this morning at the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social #InternationalWomensDay
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