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IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

Our new term begins this week with the David Wilson lecture, held with @uclioabmmedieval.bsky.social: Sarah Semple, ‘Place and Power in Early Medieval Northumbria. New discoveries at Yeavering in context’. Weds 7 Oct, 6pm, UCL Roberts Building. All welcome! No sign-up required. Full details here:

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The Sir David Wilson Lecture in Medieval Studies 2026

The Sir David Wilson Lecture, the first event in the 2026-27 UCL Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar Series, will be given by Professor Sarah Semple (Durham University).

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IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

We're pleased to present the Earlier Middle Ages seminar schedule for this autumn! Event registration pages will very shortly be available on the IHR website. And please note that no sign-up is required for this week's David Wilson lecture with Sarah Semple (info: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...).

The schedule of seminars for the IHR Earlier Middle Ages seminar, autumn 2026.

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@ihr.bsky.social's 'European History 1150-1550' seminar will get off to great start Thursday 8 Oct 17.30 GMT with Sama Mammadova (Harvard) on consumer credit, mendicants & the Monti di Pietà in late medieval Italy. All welcome, in person at the IHR & online, registration & link below.

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European History 1150-1550

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Jake Stattel @jakestattel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

An idea on medieval 'Law and Love' that's been on my mind for a few years now, very happy that my first proper foray into legal history is now out OA in @lawandhistrev.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S073... #MedievalSky

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Love or Law: Viking Foundations of Medieval English Dispute Settlement | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core

Love or Law: Viking Foundations of Medieval English Dispute Settlement

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very pleased to have worked on this fascinating group of finds with the wonderful @francescatinti.bsky.social , and thanks to the comms team @cam.ac.uk for putting together the release. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/angl...

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Anglo-Saxon expats got special treatment in Rome’s 'Little England'

The first material evidence of the Schola Saxonum suggests the Anglo-Saxons in Rome were a thriving and valued expat community.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Charles the Bald kneels before the Crucified Christ München, Schatzkammer der Residenz, ResMü Schk 4 WL; Prayerbook of Charles the Bald; between 846 CE and 869 CE; likely Reims; ff.38v-39r

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Ed Roberts @ecroberts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

100% not to be found in London (sadly!).

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Ed Roberts @ecroberts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And thanks to you for a terrific lecture!

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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dr Niall Ó Súilleabháin has published his book, Social Elites in Medieval France: Status, Wealth and Power in the Loire Valley, c. 850-1150 (Manchester UP). The book had its genesis in Niall's PhD here at Trinity manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526187185/

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Manchester University Press - Social elites in medieval France

Social elites in medieval France - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Social elites in medieval France by Dr Niall Ó Súilleabháin

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Early medievalists may be happy to know that Simon Keynes’s collection of maps of Anglo-Saxon England has now been made freely available via @trincolllibcam.bsky.social These were commissioned by Simon and drawn (by hand) by Reg Piggott between 1991 and 2012. archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/ma...

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Maps of Anglo-Saxon England - archives.trin.cam.ac.uk

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Ed Roberts @ecroberts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm rather encouraged that more than 2/3 admitted they didn't really know whether it was "good" or "bad"!

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History Today @historytoday.com · 10/09/2026

An audacious forgery in the ninth century helped transform the papacy and the medieval Church. Its influence persists today. 🔒 September’s features are still available in the archive buff.ly/VKbSt5c

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The Medieval Forgery at the Heart of the Church

An audacious forgery in the ninth century helped transform the papacy and the medieval Church. Its influence persists today.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Fantastic piece on “Forging the Medieval Church” in @historytoday.com by Edward Roberts!

The first page of an article with title “Forging the Medieval Church”. It was written by Edward Roberts. There’s an image of a seated pope on the page.

The first full page of writing of the article on the left and on the right is a document written in Latin with red roman numerals. The document is known as the dictatus papae.

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Prof Ben Pohl @benpohl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🔥🔥🔥 Few tickets left for my upcoming talk on the Bayeux Tapestry at Canterbury Cathedral Lodge on Thursday 17 September—get yours here while you can: www.eventbrite.com/e/food-for-t...

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Food for Thought—The Bayeux Tapestry Revisited

A talk by Prof Benjamin Pohl, Professor of Medieval History, University of Bristol.

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History Today @historytoday.com · 26/08/2026

A sophisticated ninth-century forgery became a core part of Church law. Its influence endured for centuries – even after its deceit was accepted. 🔒 Edward Roberts’ new article is now in the archive buff.ly/EjSgF5C

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The Medieval Forgery at the Heart of the Church

An audacious forgery in the ninth century helped transform the papacy and the medieval Church. Its influence persists today.

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Ed Roberts @ecroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Another thoughtful viewpoint here on recent poli-sci approaches to high medieval political and religious institutions...

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Tell me what you know about the literary culture of medieval Guernsey, then read this article with some exciting #manuscript #fragment news. What has made this such fun is collaborating with Guernsey's archivists and the ever-excellent @tamarajatkin.bsky.social : www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Manuscript fragments hiding in plain sight shed light on medieval Guernsey’s literary life

Researchers say texts from 12th to 15th centuries ‘hint at a culture which has not even been imagined’

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

An important read (not just for historians). Do the habits and skills of research and critical analysis really have no other cognitive , social and/or political values? (Well, in much current thinking, sadly no).

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Ed Roberts @ecroberts.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

To be honest I often think about my life choices when knee-deep in the 300 pages of registers and concordances in Fuhrmann's Einfluß und Verbreitung.

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Charlie Day's Pepe Silvia Conspiracy

ALT: Charlie Day's Pepe Silvia Conspiracy

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Ed Roberts @ecroberts.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Does mention of "Pseudo-Isidore" instil a low level of panic in you? If so, you might enjoy my article in the latest History Today on the creation and influence of these remarkable ninth-century legal forgeries: www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

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The Medieval Forgery at the Heart of the Church

An audacious forgery in the ninth century helped transform the papacy and the medieval Church. Its influence persists today.

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Sven Meeder @svenmeeder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The SOLEMNE project will organise a number of sessions for the 2027 International Medieval Conference at Leeds (5-8 July). Please find our Call for Papers attached and consider reaching out to us if your research fits our theme. We love to hear from you! #imc2027 #cfp #imc27 #medievalbsky

Call for Papers:
The Social Life of Early Medieval Normative Texts

This series of sessions examines how such norms were developed, reinforced, and established across various medieval textual and non-textual genres. Historians of different stripes are invited to address the interaction of norms and social practice in the (early) Middle Ages. These inquiries may focus on manuscript-based and legal sources from, among others, canon law, penitentials, and capitularies. Contributions from scholars working with (historical) narrative, visual, and artistic materials are also welcome. Submissions from the field of Digital Humanities that address methodological issues related to the study of early medieval norms are particularly encouraged.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to: the nachleben of Roman law; early medieval canonical collections within their manuscript contexts; the development of specific norms in penitential regulations; shaping medieval communities and social cohesion through rules and regulations; norms in hagiographical sources and their subsequent reception; the emergence of gendered rules in early medieval history; liturgical representations of normativity and meaning; and depictions of socialization in medieval images, artworks, and objects.

Please reach out to Bruno Schalekamp (Radboud University, Nijmegen; bruno.schalekamp@ru.nl).

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A thread on writing book reviews in Academia (inspired by @gillianmathys.bsky.social). Book reviews are a very delicate thing. The reality is you get least credit for it even though they matter. Most of us post-PhD, rarely get to read a monograph again from A to Z, unless... we're reviewing it.

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

New book - publication date April 2027 - #booksky #medievalsky

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The Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (MEMRN) @memrn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

CALL FOR PAPERS ‼️| Otherworlds | 12th - 15th November | @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social The MEMRN team are delighted to finally share the Call for Papers for this year’s exciting Winter Conference! Abstract submissions are now open for ‘Otherworlds’ !!! 🐉

A mysterious floating city on a rock emerges from wispy green and violet smoke and enigmatic galactic clouds. Birds and mythical creatures fly around this emerald city. The post reads: The Medieval & Early Modern Research Network, Otherworlds. Call for Papers. 12th - 15th November, University of East Anglia.

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Prof Ben Pohl @benpohl.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

St Pancras’ Priory, Lewes, founded c.1078–82 as the first Cluniac priory in England.

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Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Continuing with the "someone made a horrific database of poor AI translations of early medieval letters" thing, I had a good laugh at these entirely hallucinated ones. They aren't even based on existing letters! www.lateromanletters.org/letters/epis... www.lateromanletters.org/letters/epis...

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Arioald to Pope Honorius I (c. 627 AD) | Roman Letters

Arioald, king, to the most holy Bishop…

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

'The universities will still operate as separate academic divisions and will retain their individual names and identities. Students will attend, study and graduate from their chosen institution but staff from both universities will be employed by the university group.' It's called LASEUG.

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UK’s first ‘super-university’, merging Greenwich and Kent, to launch in September

The new London and South East University Group will be UK’s third largest higher education institution

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

What did it take to become king in early medieval Europe: not figuratively, but literally? What equipment did you need? blogs.ed.ac.uk/cwest3/2026/...

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What King Odo took from St-Denis – Earlier medieval history

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Ed Roberts @ecroberts.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

On Thursday 17 September, @memsunikent.bsky.social welcomes Professor Ben Pohl (@benpohl.bsky.social) to Canterbury to give a public lecture on his recent research on the Bayeux Tapestry. 7pm, Canterbury Cathedral Lodge. All welcome - attendance is free, but registration required! Full details:

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Food for Thought—The Bayeux Tapestry Revisited

A talk by Prof Benjamin Pohl, Professor of Medieval History, University of Bristol.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

'The new entity, known as London and South East University Group (LASE), will very quickly be thrown into the clearing process and preparations for the new academic year.' It begins to operate 1 August 2026. 1/3

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Staff feel ‘in the dark’ as Kent-Greenwich merger nears

With two universities set to become one entity next month, unions say there are still too many unknowns about how the new institution will operate

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Did Charlemagne consider converting Muslims in al-Andalus to Christianity? New evidence uncovered by Lukas Dorfbauer, just published on Early View, suggests he might have - contrary to previous assumptions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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A newly discovered Carolingian text: Candidus' <fi>Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti</fi>, written for Charlemagne

This article presents a newly discovered Latin text: a theological treatise titled Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti that was written by Alcuin’s friend Candidus (Wizo) at the request of Charlem...

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

As #UKHE managers have been falling over themselves to act upon AI bros' 'predicting' the future (i.e.: making their sales pitch and creating the 'need' in one swift action), they'll listen to this one well, right? RIGHT?!?!?! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Given AI’s exponentially growing ability to solve well-defined, data-rich problems, it is plausible that employers will place more of a premium on the skills the humanities offer, such as critical and creative thinking. Anthropic’s co-founder Daniela Amodei recently said: “I actually think studying the humanities is going to be more important than ever . . . this idea that there are things that make us uniquely human — understanding ourselves, understanding history, understanding what makes us tick — I think that will always be really, really important.”

It would be ironic if universities cut these subjects just as demand turned a corner — switching from literature to AI-prompt engineering may turn out to have been a poor trade.

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Ed Roberts @ecroberts.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Congrats to @hwaetspur.bsky.social, who's just received author copies of his excellent new book! www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...

Rob Gallagher poses with a copy of his exciting new book The Written Word in Early Medieval England.

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's my favourite time of the semester again: Today I visited the University Library w. my Lampert of Hersfeld class to look at two original charters from the 11th c. issued by the archbishop of Mainz (1043) and the abbot of St. Maximin in Trier (c. 1047), respectively. Charterrific!

Medieval charter with fragment of the original seal.

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Alice Hicklin @alicehicklin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I’ve (finally) made a blog to share some of the more intriguing charters I encounter 1st up: an 11th-century land sale where the price included “excellent cloth” called zafalbafal, possibly ṣūf al-baḥr, or sea silk, made from the fibres of Mediterranean shells 🐚 alicehicklin.co.uk/2026/07/14/c...

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Three Hundred Solidi and a Cloth from the Sea

An early eleventh-century charter from Provence records a land sale paid for with money and a mysterious cloth called zafalbafal: possibly the ‘wool of the sea’.

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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The Admonitio Generalis fragment went for a whopping £130,500 higher than the estimated high price. I.... wow.

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Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Not one question on the HE financial crisis in this 40-min interview with Bridget Phillipson, UK Secretary of State for Education. @lewisgoodall.com could you please press ministers on this? We’re losing social mobility, learning opportunities, economic prosperity, research, arts at an alarming rate

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Applications for the Mid-Career Fellowships are still open. The scheme allows UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a major project and share their insights with the wider public. Find out more: bit.ly/4f09Crd

A colour block banner promoting Mid-Career Fellowships

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Really looking forward to this lecture by Jo Story on the @insularmss.bsky.social project, on insular manuscripts and cross-European connections. #IMC2026

Image of early medieval manuscript on PowerPoint slide

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Sihong Lin @sihonglin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Glasgow is hiring a lecturer in medieval history (c.800-1500) on an open-ended basis. We are a lovely bunch in the medieval area, would be great to have a new colleague! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSF052/l...

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Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) at University of Glasgow

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) on jobs.ac.uk!

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