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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Graduate students! The Debbie White Gender and Medieval Studies Student Essay Prize 2026 is now open for entries! Closes July 31st. Well worth entering! Full details here medievalgender.co.uk/prizes-bursa...

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Prizes & Bursaries – Gender and Medieval Studies

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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Book Launch: A History of Poetry in Italy, 1200-1600 18 March 5:30–7:30pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social Catherine Keen, Guyda Armstrong & Rhiannon Daniels launch their book, which reveals the poetry of Italy (1200-1600) as a site of creative plurality in genre, form & language. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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IAS Book Launch: A History of Poetry in Italy, 1200–1600

In conjunction with the Centre for Early Modern Exchanges, the IAS is delighted to welcome Catherine Keen, Guyda Armstrong and Rhiannon Daniels to launch their new book.

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qUCL @qucl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 14 10 February 2026, 3:30pm-5pm An informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 14

The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.

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Caitlín Kane @ctlnkane.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Join us for this term's Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group @ucl-ias.bsky.social ! Next week we'll be discussing queerness in Yde et Olive. For more info: tinyurl.com/4dszt672.

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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Cat's officially out of the bag #IMC2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #MedievalSky 🗃️

Leeds International Medieval Congress 2026

Alicia Spencer-Hall will be giving a keynote (paper 1199): 'Timely Images': Medieval Trans Saints, Historiographical Dysphoria and/as Trans-Temporal Methodology (Language: English)

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In Transgender Warriors, Leslie Feinberg writes: 'I couldn't find myself in history. No-one like me seemed to have ever existed'. Such a feeling - what I call 'historiographical dysphoria' - is familiar to marginalised subjects, those of us who have been written out of cis-hetero-normative history. Gender dysphoria refers to the distress and dis-ease caused by a mismatch between one's assigned gender and one's identified gender. Historiographical dysphoria is an artefact of gender dysphoria, and, more generally, the multifarious dysphorias that come from an authentic existence that does not, cannot, and will not fall in line with the dominant norms of cis-hetero-normative society. This is the distress and dis-ease caused by the wilful cleaving of an individual from the past, from the collective past of their community. Transphobic rhetoric insists upon the newness of transness, and indeed trans people. We are a symptom of modernity's degradation, a disease in urgent need of cure. There we no trans people in the Middle Ages, no queer people, no crips either. We have no past, and, as such, we will not be allowed a future. This is the story that traditionalist historiography so often tells. In recent years, things have begun to change. Trans saints have become ever more visible in scholarship, a vital resource for trans and genderqueer people at a time of ever-rising transphobia. We turn to the past to survive the present and to scope out new ways of being in the future. This paper articulates the possibilities and pleasures of trans-medievalist work, focussing on trans saints. This is scholarship that attends to trans lives, experiences, and traces in the medieval past and operates 'trans' time itself. It rejects normative linear chronology in favour of the fierce embrace of trans-queer-crip time(s), of the blurry temporalities of transition itself. In this way, trans-medievalist work offers a powerful methodology for the entire medievalist field.

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Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

My book published yesterday! If it looks like your thing, maybe suggest your library buys a copy, or offer to review it for a journal, or you can get 35% off with code BB135 boydellandbrewer.com/book/motherh...

Cover image for Motherhood and its Spaces in Medieval Romance by Kirsty Bolton. Illustration shows a group of women helping a post-partum woman in bed.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The inkless doodles of Eadburg, an 8th-c. nun, discovered by new technology: now published by Jessica Hendy-Hodgkinson in EME doi.org/10.1111/emed... (Open access)

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qUCL @qucl.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 12 The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. 25 Nov 2pm-3:30pm with @ctlnkane.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 12

The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.

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Caitlín Kane @ctlnkane.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Join us for this term's Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group @ucl-ias.bsky.social ! Newcomers very welcome, just email me to sign up! For more info: tinyurl.com/y7kue3ek.

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 10 29 July 2–3:30pm with @ctlnkane.bsky.social The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 10

The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.

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Caitlín Kane @ctlnkane.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Join us for the Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group summer edition @ucl-ias.bsky.social ! Tomorrow we'll be looking at some excerpts about sexy Satan from George Sinclair’s 'Satan’s Invisible World Discovered' (1685). For more info: bit.ly/464J3NH.

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Caitlín Kane @ctlnkane.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I'm so late to the party but what an amazing #GMS2025 in Canterbury! Thank you @menysnoweballes.bsky.social for some incredible closing words 🙏

Programme cover for Gender and Medieval Studies Conference on Gender: Charity and Care, 2-5 July 2024, Canterbury.

A group of people in medieval costumes, including chainmail and tunics, walking through a cobbled street in Canterbury.

A photo of the exterior of Canterbury Cathedral in the sunlight with a clear blue sky behind.

Speaker Rachel Moss presenting in front of a PowerPoint slide showing the 'This is fine' dog meme with flames, overlaid with the text 'We are not fine.'

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

What a wonderful generative @medievalgender.bsky.social! It was an honour to get to close out the conference.

Me standing in front of a PowerPoint that says What does a truly feminist conference look like when the world is on fire?

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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 9 15 July 2025, 2pm-3:30pm This is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 9

The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.

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Caitlín Kane @ctlnkane.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Join us for the second term of the Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group @ucl-ias.bsky.social! Next week we'll be looking at one of the N-Town Plays. For more info: bit.ly/3QybydC.

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

St Catherine of Siena (1347-80), depicted with book & crucifix, and sporting a dove atop her head. A woodcut from an edition of her works published at #Venice by Cesaro Arrivabeno in 1517. Now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Norton.e.47.

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Caitlín Kane @ctlnkane.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Join us for the next session of the Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group @ucl-ias.bsky.social! For more info: bit.ly/qtp-group.

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qUCL @qucl.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 3 25 February 2025, 2pm-3:30pm The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 3

The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is a new informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.

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