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Caroline @canarycaroline.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hilariously, I've just had an email from @britishmuseum.bsky.social saying they hoped I'd enjoyed my visit to the Tapestry yesterday and inviting me to take a two minute survey. Could someone hold my beer?

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy feast of St Michael and All Angels! May you defeat the dragons bothering you today.

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I do hope the BM's management sort out the problems. The curatorial teams on both sides of the Channel and the visitors deserve better. 2/2

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Caroline @canarycaroline.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh ffs British Museum. Turned away from the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition because of closing early for a private event... after queuing for 45 minutes. Underwhelmed.

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rose Walker explores how people in the 12th century found and exchanged skilled craftsmen, revealing how artistic expertise travelled through powerful social networks & shaped some of the most striking artworks of medieval Spain and Portugal. Read the blog: buff.ly/NQ1PqHC #HispanicHeritageMonth

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How Artistic Skill Travelled in the Twelfth Century

Rose Walker explores how artistic expertise could have been loaned or gifted as craftsman travelled across Twelfth-Century Iberia.

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thanks to Charlie for spotting this. In which Hicks tries to do the most unlikely of things and talk about fashion. Thankfully the journalist took my advice and talked to Gale Owen-Crocker and @laurajcleaver.bsky.social...

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Caroline @canarycaroline.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I can't do better than the words of @lauraashe.bsky.social . Such a loss.

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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New month, new books! 👀 From medieval battles to Portuguese cinema, explore August's new books from across our subject ranges as well as titles now available in paperback 👉 buff.ly/pQCJ4m0 #BookSky

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🎉 eBook summer savings continue! Don't miss out, enjoy 50% off all eBooks until this Friday! Discount is automatically applied at checkout so all you have to do is choose your favourites 👉 buff.ly/Hi9UWGC #BookSky #Skystorians

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Caroline @canarycaroline.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Clearly bought into Sean Dyche

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Read about my walking experiments behind my book below⏬️👀

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Caroline @canarycaroline.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Looking forward to new proposals! And thank you to @lauraashe.bsky.social for taking on the editorial, and all the board members [including @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social!].

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"There is no question that this book is one of the most important studies of early Welsh literature published in this generation." SPECULUM The Medieval Welsh Englynion y Beddau edited and translated by Patrick Sims-Williams is now in paperback. Learn more: buff.ly/ZIeHzud

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Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I wear my watch in London whenever I’m there. #JustSaying #WomanUp

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Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

When you update your privacy policy too hard:

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

At #IMC2026, we're pleased to be joined once again by the Monumental Brass Society, who will be attending as part of our Historical and Archaeological Societies Fair! Come and chat to them at their stall on Thursday 9th July for more information. #IMC2026 #Skystorians #MedievalSky #LeedsIMC

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Margaret Clunies Ross explores how fourteenth-century Icelandic poets adapted the traditional skaldic style from Viking-age secular praise poetry into a form of Christian propaganda supporting the canonisation of Bishop Guðmundr Arason. Read the blog ➡️ buff.ly/6jgHw9I #BookSky #MedievalSky

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Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The 49th palaeography summer school in Birmingham incudes an advanced course on wills. It could be useful to experienced genealogists. #Skystorians #AncestryHour #Genealogy 🌳📜 ‘I leave my soul to God’: Testamentary Records c. 1300-c.1600 (with Shelagh Sneddon) palaeography.uk/study/short-...

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The 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School, 27-31 July 2026

The School, formerly the Keele Latin and Palaeography Summer School, returns for its 49th year. In 2025 The Ranulf Higden Society took over the organisation of the Latin and Palaeography Summer Sch…

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Thomas H Crofts explores how the Middle English Sir Tristrem transforms the legendary romance of Tristan and Iseult into a vibrant tale crafted for performance, rich with adventure, humour, and emotional depth. Read the blog ➡️ buff.ly/SLLi6tq @hypermetrix.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🎉 Join Richard Barber to celebrate 25 years of the Marlborough Mound Trust! To mark the anniversary a conference will be help on 15 April at the Society of Antiquaries which will look at the site's history and future plans. For more information and to book your ticket, visit: buff.ly/BpEfbRu

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

NEW: Agricultural Modernisation and the Green Revolution in the Twentieth-Century World explores the overarching history of the origins, development, and application of agricultural innovation. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/9Desqlo

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

🎉 We're so pleased to be shortlisted for Independent Publisher of the Year at The British Book Awards for the third consecutive year! Thank you to our authors, partners and team members for making this possible. 🥂 Congrats to all our fellow nominees! #BritishBookAwards #Nibbies

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Medieval manuscripts are shaped by countless decisions made by scribes, illustrators, binders, and other hands. Thomas C. Sawyer explores how these choices, both material and textual, reveal the rich and complex world behind the making of a #medieval book. Read the blog: buff.ly/1iqlhvD #medievalsky

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🎧 Listen to Kathryn A. Smith, author of The Painted Histories of the Welles-Ros Bible, talk with Danièle Cybulskie about the complexities of translating the Bible during the Middle Ages on this episode of The Medieval Podcast 👉 buff.ly/8HjuYqh #medievalsky #skystorians

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The Welles-Ros Bible with Kathryn A. Smith — The Medieval Podcast

Much in debate in England in the fourteenth century was how – and even if – the Bible should be translated into everyday language. Enter Maud de Ros, Lady Welles, the woman responsible for the most…

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

We're thrilled to have been shortlisted for the Independent Publisher of the Year award for the third time! 🎊 #nibbies #BritishBookAwards

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

We don't know how much of the reward Licence donated. And tbh would have been better had he waived his portion of the reward so that a museum might have been able to purchase the hoard. Also, he and the landowner kept a coin each...

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Mario Damen @mariodamen.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Very happy with the positive review of/Trés heureux avec le compte rendu très positive de 'A Chivalric Life. The Book of the Deeds of Messire Jacques de Lalaing', in @lemoyenage.bsky.social by Matthieu Marchal: shs.cairn.info/revue-le-moy.... The book appeared in 2022 @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

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A Chivalric Life

First English translation of the chivalric biography of the foremost knight of the late Middle Ages.

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🎧 Tune in to the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast to hear author @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social in conversation with Miranda Melcher about her book Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300–1640. ➡️ buff.ly/FTv0jet #medievalsky #skystorians

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

"Humans remade nature and nature remade humans." In this blog, Piet van Cruyningen shares how the adaptability and resilience of settlers in the #MiddleAges, transformed the challenging wetlands along the North Sea Coast into high-yielding cropland. buff.ly/0N2jfme #medievalsky

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Attention all Norman postgrad scholars! Here are the details for the Marjorie Chibnall Prize 2026. The Battle Conference will be in Swansea next year. Supervisors, please talk to your students and encourage them to submit. battleconference.wordpress.com/marjorie-chi... #skystorians #medievalsky

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Marjorie Chibnall Prize 2026

The Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize: call for submissions The Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize, offered in memory of the former director of the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies and co-founder o…

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

"The fact that a well-founded overview of "The Norse and Celtic Charlemagne" is now possible is in itself a great merit of the book." - SPECULUM. Save 50% on Charlemagne in the Norse and Celtic Worlds with code BB050. Ends 31 August 2025. #medievalsky buff.ly/qJVHnWl

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Publishing this month, Storytelling in Gaelic from AD 700 to the Present, edited by Alice R Taylor-Griffiths and Seosamh Mac Cárthaigh, examines common themes and connections in #Gaelic storytelling from the #MiddleAges to present day. Learn more: buff.ly/o4MbAC8 #medievalsky

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

In this blog post, Kathryn A. Smith tells us about her research into the lavishly illustrated Welles-Ros Bible. Read the blog ➡️ buff.ly/HyO5WZ5 #medievalsky

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

In our latest blog post, Emil Lauge Christensen tells us about the narration of adventus – the elaborate ceremony of lordship on their arrival – in #medieval England. Read the blog 👉 buff.ly/N9Ef2ZC #medievalsky

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Prof Ben Pohl @benpohl.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Love the new shopfront of our ‘Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures’ series @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social! 📚 Check it out: boydellandbrewer.com/bristol-stud..., and browse the titles on our back catalogue here: boydellandbrewer.com/books/series... 📚 #medievalsky #skystorians @bristolcms.bsky.social

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Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures

This series draws on a long tradition of multidisciplinary research at the University of Bristol's world-leading Centre for Medieval Studies

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Published this month, the Journal of #Medieval Military History: Volume XXIII examines the diverse ways in which medieval European cities, towns, and other urban communities engaged with warfare. ⚔️ Find out more: buff.ly/imb6xLG #medievalsky

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

In our latest video Q&A, Deborah McGrady tells us about the research she did for her book, Joan of Arc: The Life of a French Cultural Icon, and why #JoanofArc has such a lasting legacy. Watch the blog: buff.ly/daq3GQe #medievalsky

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Haven't received page proofs yet, but I have a short review of this volume forthcoming. It's obviously a specialized text but also a quite interesting window into late medieval craft & recipe culture. #HistSTM #medievalsky

Draft text of my forthcoming book review in the journal Mediaevistik: "The introduction of gunpowder technology into late medieval Europe brought new forms of violence as well as indirect transformations in military strategy, urban fortification designs, and even different types of wounds that physicians struggled to understand and treat. In addition, it generated a host of new texts on technical subjects that made their way into manuscript and eventually printed book culture. This volume by Axel Müller presents a critical edition and English translation of one of the most popular texts from this genre, the so-called “Firework Book” explaining how to prepare, preserve, and utilize different types of gunpowder. The edition is based on a 15th-century manuscript in New High German that currently resides in the Royal Armouries collection at Leeds, and it includes a transcription and translation of the entire text, along with commentary and analysis.
The first question this volume has to address concerns the very nature of the text. Unlike other medieval works of literature or natural philosophy where one might hope to arrive at, or at least approximate, a primary urtext based on a genealogy of surviving manuscript copies, the Firework Book in its surviving incarnations is not a single original work with modifications and commentary so much as a genre of literature with no clearly identifiable author or foundational text. Müller’s introduction does a fine job of surveying what can be learned from the variety of early manuscripts, including the largely mythical origin stories contained within them, as well as the Firework Book’s place within the broader literary landscape of writings on gunnery, fencing, military training, war chronicles, and other bellicose subjects. Versions of this text first appeared during the early 15th century, when other German-language practical manuals in topics like field medicine and apothecary recipes were similarly emerging."

"The manuscript used for this edition includes two parts in slightly different hands, with the first part characteristic of core materials in the Firework Book genre, while the second part delves more widely into incendiary devices other than cannons, such as fire arrows and other flammable projectiles, and is linked to a set of illustrations at the end of the manuscript.
For the main part of the volume, the 200+ pages of transcription and translation of the Leeds manuscript are cleanly laid out on facing pages, and indeed the straightforward artisan’s language permits nearly line-by-line matching of the original phrasing, with ample discussion of translation choices in the footnotes for each page. After a brief introductory statement on how important it is for nobles to have competent defenders and skilled master gunners if they “fear that they may be besieged by their enemies and threatened in their castles, strongholds, or towns,” the text begins with a series of questions whose form could easily be seen as an extension of late medieval disquisitions on physics, even as the particulars explore novel subjects and ingredients. There are discussions of whether the projectile from a cannon is driven directly by fire or by the vapor coming from a gunpowder explosion, whether a projectile will travel farther if it fits more tightly into the barrel, and how the antagonistic cold and hot properties of saltpeter and sulphur produce the force that propels these projectiles. "

"The ordering of gunpowder recipes within the main text can seem rather haphazard, for example with multiple sets of instructions for making “the best” powder. Yet the details within them offer a range of illuminating glimpses into late medieval craft culture, from the types of ingredients available for purchase through apothecary shops, to thoughts on harvesting and using different types of wood, to pungent instructions on whether urine for a particular recipe should be aged for several days or come from someone who drinks wine, to comparisons with the legends of Alexander using Greek fire in antiquity and the “necromancer and alchemist” said to have first discovered the method of firing guns. Together these narrative details illustrate the links between different realms of practical knowledge in the medieval era, alongside the efforts of practitioners of one branch of semi-secret learning to present their trade as having special value and connection to the nobility.
Müller’s book concludes with a nuanced analysis of the structure and terminology of the Firework Book and then a useful list of known manuscript copies of this text for anyone who might wish to compare the transcribed text with other examples from the genre. While it might be easy to pigeonhole this volume as mostly a curiosity of late medieval military history, in the editor’s hands it becomes a much broader window into both the practical features and the self-representational rhetoric of artisanship and craft culture during this period. Historians of medieval physics, technology, alchemy, recipe collections, and even book and manuscript history are likely to find much to interest them."

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Prof Ben Pohl @benpohl.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Congrats to @themedievaldrk.bsky.social and Melek Karataş on the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections, the latest title on our Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures (BSMC) series with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social. If you’d like to be next, get in touch! @bristolcms.bsky.social

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

To celebrate the publication of the 25th book in the Gender in the #MiddleAges series, we invited the series editors, Diane Watt & Jacqueline Murray, to share their reflections on its significance & their hopes for future volumes. Read the blog 👉 buff.ly/Kq6jia4 #medievalsky

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

This book tells the story of St Stephen's Chapel, from the 13th century to the present day. 16 chapters explain the building, its religious life & its political significance. Use BB077 for 50% off and free shipping until June 8. Find out more: buff.ly/oQNes2j #medievalsky

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MAMO Conference 2027 @themamoconf.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Amongst their many relevant publications, Profs Weisl and Squillace have recently co-edited the volume 'Medievalisms in a Global Age' with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social. Hear their plenary on Tuesday 24th, 4-5pm, Safra Room. #MAMOmonth boydellandbrewer.com/978184384703...

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Medievalisms in a Global Age - Boydell and Brewer

Discusses contemporary medievalism in studies ranging from Brazil to West Africa, from Manila to New York.Across the world, revivals of medieval practices, i...

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