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Delfi Nieto-Isabel

@delfinietois.bsky.social
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IHSS fellow @QMHistory | PhD Medieval Cultures| Heresies, women & social networks| Former Research Associate @HarvardDivinity & Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow #firstgen

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Vlaisnut Forg @vlaisnut.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
When prices get ridiculous, it’s time for the economics of indulgence. You didn’t vote for this either, but you’re getting it anyway…
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Can't miss this line-up of amazing scholars!!
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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This year's conference is organised by @medievalcanter.bsky.social at Canterbury Christ Church, 2-5 July. Theme is "Gender: Charity and Care". Plenty of time to get your abstract in--they're due March 31 Full info 👉 medievalgender.co.uk/2025-canterb... #MedievalSky #Skystorians 🗃️ #CfP
Save the Date! Wednesday 2 – Saturday 5 July 2025. Be inspired by love, charity and care to consider gendered literary, political/historical, and theological texts and responses, all forms of religious belief and none, and social/socio-economic, and environmental explorations of the subject from caring to apocalyptic climate emergency. 
Topics might include:
• Religious devotion and almsgiving globally (including generosity in Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism (d̄āna), 
• Jewish philanthropy (tzedakah) and Islamic charitable giving (sadaqa) 
• Gift-giving and donations in texts, documents, material culture, drama and depictions from saints to chuggers, lay piety, and non-normative medieval beliefs, including the opposites of charity and care - cupidity and neglect. 
• Charitable locations: leperhouses, hospices and hospitals, and the care of the sick and dying, childbirth and childcare.
• Charity in urban and rural domestic settings and gardens, guilds, church ales and help ales.
• Charity and care for bodies, feelings and nature: emotions, senses, sensualities, sex, chastity, and inclusive genderings. 
• Convenor: Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, Centre for Kent History & Heritage, Canterbury Christ Church University
• Kindly email abstracts and questionsto GMS 2025 Liaison Dr Diane Heath, Diane.Heath@ScienceMuseum.ac.uk
• AbstractDeadline: Monday 31 March 2025
PLEASE PUT ‘GMS 2025 ABSTRACT’ IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR EMAIL – THANK YOU
• Abstracts 200 words max (+ bio) for papers (20 mins); panels, poetry, performance, posters and art also welcome
• ECR travel bursary aid available on receipt of tickets (post attendance) via the Kate Westoby Fund.

• Location: Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1QU 
• Conference begins Wednesday 2 July; Conference Dinner on Thursday; Conference ends Saturday am.
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Sita Steckel @steckel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
And here it is!
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Patrick Hart @silcrow.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Job alert: the National Library of Scotland is looking to recruit a permanent, F/T curator of early modern books and other printed material. Please share widely! nls.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
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Curator (Early Modern Era) - Edinburgh
This is a permanent curatorial role in the Department of Published Collections. The role of the Curator (Early Modern Era) is to curate the Library’s published collections from 1455 -1690, a period th...
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
🔔Exciting news!!! 📢 The Society for the Study of Medieval Emotions organizes its Second Conference. Check out the Call for papers below.👇
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Following in the footsteps of Margery Kempe in wonderful King's Lynn (formerly known as Bishop's Lynn, of course)
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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Congrats to Prof. Jaume Aurell on publication of his "Historians' Autobiographies as Historiographical Inquiry", the first new title for 2025 in the @cambridgeup.bsky.social Elements in Historical Theory and Practice series. Available free to download till Feb. 5. doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Historians' Autobiographies as Historiographical Inquiry
Cambridge Core - Global History - Historians' Autobiographies as Historiographical Inquiry
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Vlaisnut Forg @vlaisnut.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Breaking News: As of 20 January 2025, the prevailing cosmological model will be that God started the Big Bang to Make the Universe Great Again.
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Vlaisnut Forg @vlaisnut.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
If you find yourself using “detached from the Hubble flow” as a metaphor for loneliness, then you, my friend, are a true cosmologist.
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Kudos to the branding team! #OntheRoadAgain
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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Only 5 days in and we have over 400 votes! Some of the contests have clear winners, while others are separated by only a few votes, so please vote and encourage others to do so (but only once! duplicates are deleted!). And stay tuned to see who makes it to round 2.
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Interested in women, religion and networks? Don't miss out on this opportunity to meet like-minded people!! The CfP for the #H-WRBI annual conference is out. Deadline: 31 January
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Tomorrow, join us if you can for a much needed conversation between disciplines on how to address violence against women @qmul.ac.uk
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
High winds won't stop us! Here we come Whitby Abbey
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Weekend in Durham, fulfilling my cathedrals-to-visit bucket list. Bede and Cuthbert in one place? Couldn't miss that! #DurhamCathedral
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Patricia Stoop @dr-patriciastoop.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
All welcome! Tuesday 10 December 2024, 6 PM Brussels time durhamuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: ISHWRA Meeting 10 December. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Patricia Stoop (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium) – 'Women Religious in the Low Countries (c. 1350-1600) and their roles in the production and circulation of literature and knowledge'. A far greater n...
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Thanks to an agreement with #SEGA our students are learning about historical games directly from Senior Producer, Janos Gaspar, and Senior Game Designer Luke Holmes! How to deal with 'difficult' pasts, teleology and anachronisms? Q&A to follow! @qmul.ac.uk
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
De Madrid al cielo, o eso dicen...
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
In Madrid for a fascinating workshop to train PGRs in network methods, women and objects! @qmul.ac.uk
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Thanks @medievalists.bsky.social, we'll keep them in mind for our Medieval Worlds on Film module next year! 😂 @mirierubin.bsky.social
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Happy Saint Andrew's Day from here down south
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Don't judge me... someone had to start 🤗🤗
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Gustavs Strenga @strenga.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Exciting project is looking for a postdoc fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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A postdoc position is available as part of the research project, “Fama in Medieval Denmark (c. 1240-1340): Rumors, Reputation and Public Opinion (FMD)”.
The Department of Culture and Language is offering one fully funded 24 months postdoc position starting on September 1, 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter. The postdoc will be based at SDU, Odens...
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This is what cultural appropriation looks like in our home, not half bad! Happy TG to all who celebrate!
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Preparing tomorrow's lecture on Medievalist gaming, so much needs to change still, but at least now we're asking the questions! Playing Spot the Difference with these two images... #PremodernWorldsonScreen @mirierubin.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk
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Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I wrote up a short blog post for a heritage campaign I'm involved with, trying to save the Control tower at former RAF Tangmere savetangmeretower.com/tangmeres-ro...
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Tangmere’s Royal Visit, 1944 – Tangmere
By July 1944, RAF Tangmere had played its crucial role in supporting the Allied landings in Normandy during Operation Overlord . Famously, in April 1944, during
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
After the amazing paper by @drhanwill.bsky.social in the last seminar, I'm counting the minutes to hear about Sean Irvin's work in our fantastic School's Research Seminar @qmul.bsky.social
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Stefan Bauer @stefanbauer.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
On Thu, 28 Nov, 5:30pm UK time, Carlotta Paltrinieri (RHUL ) will speak about ‘Women in the (Early Modern) News’. In person at the IHR London and also online via ZOOM. All welcome! Please share. To register, please visit www.history.ac.uk/seminars/ita...
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Italy 1200-1700
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Today's the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and it's the perfect day to announce the second event in the Gender Forum series with the brilliant @jecfree.bsky.social and Isadora Cruxên. Join us if you can!
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
There's no rest for the (wicked) medieval scholar, thankfully so! At the November Colloquium of the London Medieval Society on Identit(ies)
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
In a couple hours I'll be the respondent in a session on women prophets organized by *The Other Sister* project. Frances Kneupper, Eleonora Cappuccilli & Unn Falkeid are the speakers! The Erithrean Sibyl (in BL Royal MS 16 G V) hasn't confirmed her attendance yet...
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
When a friend sends a voice note with an "emergency question" about heresy at 8 in the morning, that means they know you well!!
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Now that Ridley Scott is trending, we're turning to his Kingdom of Heaven to discuss race and racialization in historical 'premodern' films @mirierubin.bsky.social #QMHistory
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Reproductive Health Care across Time starts! Caitlin Williams convincing us to stop using "medieval" to describe poor health care, many would be surprised!
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It's snowimg in Bedfordshire! 😍😍🥶🥶
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Getting ready for the launch of our Gender Forums tomorrow. An interdisciplinary dialogue on women, gender and sexuality across time periods put together by the excellent @jecfree.bsky.social and myself. Join if you can! @qmul.bsky.social #QMUL_IHSS
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I just heard of Björn Weiler's passing. He was such a character. I saw him last back in December, at a conference in Cambridge. His laptop was down, his slides gone, and he improvised a whole paper just standing there and dazzling everybody with his booming voice. Sit tibi terra levis.
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
It's Children in Need Day, help out if you can! www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk
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We're there for you- BBC Children in Need
We’re There For the UK’s Children and Young People
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Sorry about the trains, but that was one hell of a seminar in the best possible way @drhanwill.blsky.social
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The theme for our Pre-Modern Worlds on Screen class today, had a last minute addition. Apologies in advance!
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
Very excited abot my digital seminar this week. How can we account for absence in historical sources? Can the digital help?
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
Taking the liitle one to her first Halloween party 🎃🎃🎃🎃
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Climbing down from the roof of Elstow Abbey's tower. The cobwebs are NOT Halloween props...
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Delfi Nieto-Isabel @delfinietois.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Taking Halloween way too far...👻
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