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Elaine Treharne

@etreharne.bsky.social
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Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever.

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ignorance comes at a cost. Everpure's 'stuck in the Dark Ages' stereotyping (on left) shows how little they know about the early provision of data (on the right). Why does ushering in technologies mean mocking those upon whose knowledge we build? Clearly, these companies need trained humanists!
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this is the first one of these "the alarm must be raised" pieces that actually makes sense, largely because he says something obvious: no one at the company has any clue about how safety engineering works
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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Early Medieval City Discovered in Egypt www.medievalists.net/2026/07/earl... #Egypt
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Early Medieval City Discovered in Egypt - Medievalists.net
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a well-preserved early medieval city in the Dakhla Oasis, complete with a church, homes, Byzantine coins, and hundreds of Coptic and Greek documents.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Me: I don’t allow AI in my classroom, but I do let them bring their tablets. The Tablet: (Late antique wooden board inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad now at the BM)
Wooden board (with iron handle for hanging) inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad.
Cultures/periods
Late Roman
Production date
400-500
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot: Egypt
Africa: Egypt
Materials
wood
iron
Dimensions
Length: 40.64 centimetres
Inscriptions
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription language: Greek
Inscription subject
educational
literary
Curator's comments
TM 61042; Mertens-Pack 00611.000
Journal of Hellenic Studies (JHS) 29 (1909), p. 39 (Kenyon, Frederic G.); Chronique d‘Égypte (CdE) 68 (1993), p. 145-154 (Cribiore, Raffaella); Allen, Sutton, and West 2001: 131; Debut 1986: 260, no. 161; Cauderlier 1992: 90, no. 272.
Bibliographic references
Cribiore 1993 / A Homeric exercise from the Byzantine schoolroom (pp. 145-154)
Location
On display (G69/dc7)
Exhibition history
Exhibited:

2019-2020 21 Nov-8 Mar, London, BM, SEG, Troy
Associated names
Associated with: Homer
Acquisition name
Donated by: British School of Archaeology, Egypt
Acquisition date
1906
Department
Greek and Roman
Registration number
1906,1020.2
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number: TM 61042 (Trismegistos)
Conservation
treatment: 24.4.19 British Museum
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Don’t we all!
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ethical problem of the day. Conceiving all knowledge dissemination in history to be 'passive' (tell that to a 13thC biblical commentator) & imagining you can release others' hard-won research as an active AI agent is troubling to this humanist (not to say errorful) med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
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Manuscripts-turned AI agents can now ‘talk’ to each other, make new discoveries
Stanford Medicine researchers converted scientific papers into artificial intelligence agents that can answer questions, run analyses and collaborate to make new discoveries.
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The newly discovered cuneiform tablet fragment contains text from a section of the Treaty of Kadesh related to the treatment of Hittite and Egyptian refugees in the Bronze Age (circa 1269 BC). 🧪🏺
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'We have found traces of peace, thousands of years old': Fragment of world's oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey
Archaeologists excavating in the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusha have uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest peace treaty, signed around 1269 B.C.
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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨📚📜🚨 "With a chirograph, Pope Leo has granted the Vatican Apostolic Archive and Vatican Apostolic Library an additional area within the Vatican City State, and asked that a new building be constructed."❗️ www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
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Pope orders expansion of Vatican Apostolic Archive and Library - Vatican News
Given the increase in the Holy See’s bibliographic holdings and documentary production, the Pope expands the Vatican’s archive and library, and asks ...
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I hate it so much
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Spectacular at every folio turn: the trilingual Eadwine Psalter (Christ Church, Canterbury, c.1155: Camb, Trinity College, MS R. 17. 1). And look at those stretched-out m's!
Two folios from the Eadwine Psalter with an illustration of Psalm 42 and multiple columns of multlingual textClose-up of lower margin of illustration in Psalter. People dancing and a hart being chased (Psalm 42)Late Caroline Minuscule with elongated letter forms.
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Crikey!
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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.
From meteorologist Eric Snitil

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

"Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."
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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 17/09/2026
Nearly 500 years ago, Henry VIII’s dissolution enforcer saved a dangerous Catholic manuscript from likely destruction. Now its lost pages have been rediscovered! 📜 New Cambridge research exposes the split loyalties of one of Tudor England’s great survivors. Find out more: bit.ly/4y1neJW
A historical-themed poster featuring two individuals with a handwritten manuscript displayed on a stand. The text above reads, "New Cambridge research: Henry VIII’s dissolution enforcer stashed a dangerous Catholic manuscript." Behind them is an illustrated map with an inset of a historical figure in period attire.
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The New Chaucer Society @newchaucersociety.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thanks to the generosity of the NCS community, the Edith Rickert Fund has successfully provided a grave marker honoring Rickert's contributions to Chaucer studies. Our sincere thanks to all who helped make this lasting tribute possible. #medievalsky 🔗 newchaucersociety.org/page/EdithRi...
gravemarker reading: In Memory of Martha Edith Rickert July 11, 1871 - May 23, 1938 Writer, Scholar, and Professor Editor of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
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Dr Sian Witherden @sianwitherden.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’m pleased to share that records for parish churches and chapels are now available on Medieval Libraries of Great Britain - mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk #provenance #manuscripts @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Gale Owen-Crocker's new book, is a masterpiece (as is all her work). Her detailed research shows "that the Tapestry is basically English, a product of Anglo-Saxon tradition, although that tradition had evolved by incorporating features of continental art, some ultimately Byzantine... 1/2
Front cover of new book, The Design of the Bayeux Tapestry, by Gale Owen-Crocker. Shows a scene from the tapestry.
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Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hem hem
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you look closely at the image in CCCC 286, you'll see a later addition of a little handbell in the upper right. It's a sanctus bell, a symbol of the moment of transubstantiation at mass. Cool, eh! I wrote about this in an essay 'Word & Image' mentioned in my 'Perceptions of Medieval MSS' (158)
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The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Going to see the Bayeux Tapestry? Be sure to look out for the image that may well have been inspired by the 6thC Augustine Gospels (CCCC MS 286) parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal... The 11thC embroidery was probably made at Canterbury where the MS was then at St Augustine’s Abbey #bayeuxtapestry
A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry that resembles the scene of Last Supper in the St Augustine's Gospels (CCCC MS 286)

Feast scene from the Bayeux Tapestry:  "Et hic episcopus cibum et potum benedicit" (And here the bishop blesses the food and the drink) written above a scene of 6 people eating and drinking around a curved table; one person carrying more food to the table, and two red animals (dogs?) 
It is the scene depicting a feast with Bishop Odo of Bayeux and his nobles are arranged around a circular table, very similar to the Last Supper panel in the Augustine Gospels. Odo is also shown in a pose similar to the figure of Christ, blessing his wine just as Christ was shown blessing his food. Feast scene from the St Augustine's Gospels (CCCC MS 286):  "Cena domini" (Lord's Supper) written above a scene of 8 disciples and Christ eating and drinking around a curved table
A scene from scene of Lord's Supper resembles the one in the Bayeux Tapestry with Bishop Odo of Bayeux and nobles feasting around a curved table
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Codicological genomes". Not a term I expected to hear, but I guess it will become part of the medievalist vocabulary now. Great summary of an intriguing study. (And no, fellow codicologists, you still do not have to wear gloves. The DNA in your books is too degraded to do any damage.) #MedievalSky
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The backside! The Bayeux Tapestry was one of the things I covered in a seminar on "Medieval Britain in Eight Objects" a few years ago. What I particularly love about it is the back. You can tell a lot from behind the scenes!
The back of the Bayeux Tapestry Odo feasting scene.The front of the Bayeux Tapestry feasting scene.
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"It’s that honesty that makes this not just a fascinating medieval relic but a universal depiction of the madness that is war...The dead bodies pile up in mounds as Saxon after Saxon falls.." Jonathan Jones's heartfelt review of the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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The Bayeux tapestry: a stupefying, thrilling, horrifying masterpiece that shakes the earth
The greatest battle ever depicted in art is here at last – and it hurtles along, making your heart pound with its sense of doom and destiny, culminating in fires and corpses on a battlefield full of p...
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Where are the Old English specialists, the early English medievalists? Time to speak up?
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Likeness.
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Lari Ahokas @ahokas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#JobKlaxon #DigitalHumanities #DH University Lecturer @helsinki.fi, apply until 3 Oct:
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Woman, drawn in eleventh-century England, peeping through holes natural to the membrane of this densely inhabited manuscript (Oxf., Bodleian Library, MS Barlow 4)
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Researchers find Britain’s 11th-century ‘Conquest Man’ was Scandinavian – but did he land with the Norman army? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Researchers find Britain’s 11th-century ‘Conquest Man’ was Scandinavian – but did he land with the Norman army?
It’s ‘plausible’, though more likely the Humberside resident was one of many immigrants to Viking-controlled Danelaw
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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Thank you for letting people know about @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2027-28 fellowships, @medievalacademy.bsky.social! More info about our Medieval & Early Modern Manuscripts Collection: research.hrc.utexas.edu/pubmnem/ #medievalsky 🗃️ 📜
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Stanford Quad 1926. Department of Military Tactics! 👀
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Manuscript Hunters! My new project, HANDMADE, on Neil Ker & his international network of scholars is running at CESTA. Since June, three fab undergrads have used AI to list, describe, & transcribe 10,000 letters and postcards from 1933-1982. We now have an incredible resource for further analyses.
A large poster showing text and visualizations emerging from the Manuscript Hunters project on Neil Ker. The key research questions for the Neil Ker correspondence project.
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Farewell, Dolly Parton. You were great.
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Talking of the #BayeuxTapestry, here's a beautiful piece of (tourist?) art from 1914 that I picked up 25 years ago at an antique show in Peterborough. Made by Mlle Leclerc of Bayeux in 1914. It's faded, but accomplished and rather lovely.
An embroidered copy of a Bayeux Tapestry ship, in faded reds, purples, and creamsClose-up of the stitching of part of embroidered copy of a Bayeux Tapestry ship, in faded reds, purples, and creamsEmbroidered copy of marginal dragon from Bayeux Tapestry in reds and creamsBack of the framed embroidered copy of the Bayeux Tapestry made by Mlle Leclerc in 1914
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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Our new paper is out! 📚📜 www.nature.com/articles/s40... #parchment #conservation #MedievalManuscripts #BookScience
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Parchment damage assessment: a review of methods, multimodal workflows, and a transparent reporting framework - npj Heritage Science
npj Heritage Science - Parchment damage assessment: a review of methods, multimodal workflows, and a transparent reporting framework
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Andrew Prescott @ajprescott.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Manuscript fragments shed new light on literary culture of medieval Guernsey: 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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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Fancy a trip round Anglo Saxon England? A wonderful collection of hand drawn maps have been digitised and are available here:https://archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/maps-of-anglo-saxon-england #anglosaxon #maps #england
A detailed map of England and Wales showing Anglo Saxon place names.
Drawn by and in black ink.
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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Join us for 'From Skin to Script', a hands-on workshop in traditional parchment-making – one of the UK's most critically endangered crafts Explore how living craft knowledge affects how we understand medieval manuscripts 29 Sep - 1 Oct 2026 bit.ly/4gcqbRn (limited places)
From Skin to Script is a practical workshop in traditional parchment making.
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Imagine! Your referee is only C.S. Lewis, and this is how he closes: ‘On the personal side, he would prove a very agreeable colleague. I have known him for several years and I have never heard of anyone who did not like him.’ (Speaking of the wonderful Neil Ripley Ker.)
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Very happy to get this finished shortly, but which cover to choose?
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Eddie Meehan @eddiemeehan99.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026
Postdoc job alert! Early medieval charters, monastic economics and XML-TEI, starting January 2027. Come join a lovely department @livunihss.bsky.social, brilliant project team with @unituebingen.bsky.social and awesome city! #medievalsky #digitalhumanities www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSO571/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Liverpool
An opportunity for an academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
www.nichibei.org/2026/07/hist...
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Historic documents in limbo with proposed National Archives closure | Nichi Bei News
The National Archives at San Francisco and Chicago faces closure, according to an e-mail sent to staff on June 23. With the closure and the process to move files out […]
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Shadow Tor @shadowtor.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Recreating the past - some of the illustrative graphics by Shadow Tor for Time Team’s lost Cerne Abbey special #timeteam #3drecreations #digitalmodels
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 09/08/2026
An absolute must read, especially for those at institutions proposing versions of ‘computational humanities’ or ‘tech humanities,’ which are often framed on industry terms rather than humanistic ones
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
#HappyInternationalCatDay from Eloise and Millicent
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is extraordinarily bad, as even the UK copyright libraries (e.g. Cambridge) have moved over to frequently only acquiring the ebook version of new publications. If you don't own the hard copy, you're just renting and you are at the mercy of the publisher.
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Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Hwæt! A new edition of the Electronic Beowulf has been released by Kevin Kiernan (University of Kentucky). You can explore it here: ebeowulf.uky.edu Beowulf is one of our greatest literary treasures, and the unique manuscript is held at the British Library.
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Electronic Beowulf 5th ed
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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is completely the precise nonsense I'm here for...
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
In the curious Cantor Arts exhibition at Stanford, “JANE! anything but plain”, Jane Stanford (yes, problematic) is variously depicted as a decapitated saint—here with death mask; an “imperious micromanager”; a tasteless obsessive; and an “outsize controller”. How this ever got staged is beyond me.
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 20/07/2026
Australia is planning some of the world's toughest AI regulations • Water usage will be limited • AI data centers will be required to become net producers of energy • AI companies can't train on Australian creators' work without their permission • Proposals expected to be introduced in 2027
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