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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 5h

🍂NEW AUTUMN/WINTER TERMCARD❄️ We are delighted to share our programme of Making Space sessions and workshops taking place between October and January! Want to join the Guild but not yet a member? Fill out the simple form on our website👉https://www.guildmedmak.com/join-the-guild

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did you miss the recent Gender and Medieval Studies 2027 conference on the theme of Gender and Creativity? Don't worry, @drlauravarnam.bsky.social has written a blog post all about it! It was fantastic to see so many Guild members represented at this fantastic conference. Read below👇

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The Guild at the Gender & Creativity conference in Oxford — The Guild of Medievalist Makers

The Guild of Medievalist Makers at the GMS Conference in Oxford, September 2026.

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Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland @womenof1000.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New illustration: Božena, the peasant princess of Bohemia 🍂 #MedievalSky #Skystorians 🗃️

A blonde white woman kneels beside a stream doing laundry. Her hair is wrapped in a blue cloth, and she wears a brown apron over a simple white dress. A basket full of white cloth sits next to her. The forest around her is alive with bright autumnal colours. An oak sapling grows across the stream from the woman.

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The Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (MEMRN) @memrn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s DEADLINE DAY for the MEMRN Winter Conference 2026! 🚨 If you haven’t yet submitted an abstract to join us in Norwich from the 12th-15th November, today is your last chance! Find all the details here: memrnchase.wordpress.com/memrn-winter...

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MEMRN Winter Conference 2026

MEMRN Winter Conference 2026: Otherworlds The MEMRN Committee are delighted to announce that our popular Winter Conference event is returning for a third year! Generously supported by the CHASE doc…

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thank you Teresa for the extremely on brand dragon cushion for my office! 🐉🔥✨ And the Mearcstapan student medievalist group for their excellent calling card, now on my door: I put the diva in medieval!! 💃 (Read about their work in @guildmedmak.bsky.social blog www.guildmedmak.com/blog/meet-a-...)

Mearcstapan sticker- I put the diva in medieval

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cartoon hermeneutics @tom-kaczynski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1/ The 2027 International Congress on Medieval Studies paper proposal deadline was extended to September 22. I'm helping lead a couple of comics-related sessions. Please consider applying! DM me with any questions. See thread @kzooicms.bsky.social @guildmedmak.bsky.social

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Want a Friday night that looks a little different? 🖍📖✂️🎵 Join us tonight for Making Space! Bring your favourite beverage, a motivating snack, your creative-critical supplies, and yourself. See you soon ☕

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MAMO Conference 2027 @themamoconf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

MAMO-ists will recognise the Guild from their stall at the 2025 conference, and likely for their brilliant work bringing creative-critical people together!

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Another absolute highlight of #GMS2026 was our CREATIVE EXHIBITION, beautifully curated by Brooklyn Arnot & sponsored by @guildmedmak.bsky.social ✨ Delegates shared the most incredible handmade work (credits in the captions).

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As well as the exhibition, we had a CREATIVE SHOWCASE at #GMS2026 featuring poetry, storytelling, creative non fiction, video work, & even a beautiful performance of Hildegard of Bingen! Check out the captions in this post. Sponsored by @guildmedmak.bsky.social

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A notice for our creative-critical compatriots that there are two CFPs which may be of interest to you: 🎨 The Middle Ages in the Modern World (MAMO), Lincoln College Oxford, 2027 🖋️ 'Creative Community and the Middle Ages' panel, Leeds IMC, 2027 Read more about the calls below👇

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CFPs — The Guild of Medievalist Makers

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Guild is enormously proud of all of its members who presented at the Gender and Medieval Studies Conference 2026 on 'Gender and Creativity' #GMS2026, organised by @drlauravarnam.bsky.social with @hellomizk.bsky.social giving the plenary. Three days of medieval creative-critical fertilisation!

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Daisy Black @daisyeblack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Some of the Bayeux Tapestry story show I performed at Sidmouth will appear on this tomorrow! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

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BBC World Service - In the Studio, Stitches in time: The Bayeux Tapestry

British Museum prepares for blockbuster exhibition

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Heading back to school, the office, your desk, or your sketchbook? Why not join us for our next Making Space session, where you can work with fellow creative-critical medievalists on YOUR project, or simply carve out time to explore! 📆Fri 18 September 🕐5:30pm-7:00pm (BST) 💻Online

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We're BACK, and with our first Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost of the new academic year! This post is written by Ella and Issi of Mearcstapan a student-led medieval society dedicated to creative, critical, and collaborative approaches to the medieval world👇

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Meet a Medievalist Maker: Mearcstapan — The Guild of Medievalist Makers

“ Meet a Medievalist Maker ” is an ongoing series of blog posts introducing our members and the work they are doing. Each post is organized around our Four P’s: a project they are working on...

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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

still thinking about proposing a special issue or essay cluster for /postmedieval/? there's still time! we're accepting proposals for guest-edited collections until 15 september. find the full #cfp on our website: sites.google.com/view/postmed... #MedievalStudies #PremodernStudies #CallForPapers

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hi Gummies! We'll be taking a break from posting over August so that we can refill our creative-critical well. We'll be back in September with news about the Autumn's events 🍂 In the meantime: keep critically-creating and making space for academic joy! (Below: print by Dorothea Braby)

Print by Dorothea Braby, with an inscription at the bottom: 'MATH SON OF MATHONWY - The Fourth branch of the MABINOGION. The Two Magicians make a bride for Lleu Llau Gyffes out of flowers'

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

Fantastic poetry event next month at the Poetry Café in London: Beyond the Bayeux Tapestry, organised by @susiecampbell.bsky.social. ‘A poetic exploration of lost histories, silenced voices, & contested notions of ‘Britishness’.’ Free but booking essential: www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-the...

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Francesca Brooks @francescabrooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Wonderful to see this collection - 'Beyond Medieval Archives: rethinking the medieval archive through creative & critical practice' - which I've edited with Carl Kears, up on the @uclpress.bsky.social website & with a pub. date! You can learn more about the chapters: uclpress.co.uk/book/beyond-...

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Beyond Medieval Archives

Beyond Medieval Archives hopes to open the field of medieval studies to more diverse, dynamic and innovative forms of creativity, criticism, publication and collective action in response to the resona...

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

#NCS2026 Jane’s performance of stories from the Seven Sages of Rome collection was fantastic! Moving, amusing, entertaining- brava! 👏 Excited to chat further with Jane about adapting medieval stories for @guildmedmak.bsky.social soon!

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Do you love J.R.R. Tolkien? Did you enjoy the poetry of the Rohirrim? There's lots more alliterative verse where it came from! Check out the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: Alliterative Verse in Arda (Beowulf-style Tolkien fan poems). #tolkien #fanfic alliteration.net/back-issues/...

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Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse, Issue 11, Summer, 2026

This issue contains alliterative fan poems set in Tolkien's Middle Earth.

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#NCS2026 was epic! ✨ (As was my journey home- two taxis, a train, a coach, a bus & a plane!!). Now to decide where to put all my @hellomizk.bsky.social merch!! We’re very grateful that @guildmedmak.bsky.social had an official presence at the Congress & we look forward to 2028!

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Dr Bea Stitches @drelvey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

After a year’s intensive research featuring 1530s Augmentations Books, endless notes, maps, and index cards, I am embarking on a huge stitched work listing the names of the men and women who were pensioned after the dissolution of the monasteries. The lives of these people were turned upside down.

A large piece of cream calico fabric. A strip of fabric is stitched on, reading The monastery oh Edyngton, Wiltshire. The name of the Rector is shown - Paul Busshe. Other names are inked on fabric and clipped together. An index card with details of the monastery is shown.

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

#NCS2026 It’s my paper this morning at 11am! In our paired Medievalism sessions organised by the brilliant Anna Opanasenko & Philomena Wolf (2nd session is after lunch). Come along, hear some poetry, & grab one of my #TeamMargery pins!

Conference session on Medievalism and Contemporary Retellings

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#MCS2026 Day 2 about to begin! I’m in Session a) Understanding the Colonizer / Reimagining the Medieval II: Postcolonial Medievalism. First up @guildmedmak.bsky.social member Marie Sophie Besson 💖

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The artist is in residence!! @guildmedmak.bsky.social co-founder @hellomizk.bsky.social is cartooning the conference! And she has THE BEST MERCH! Chaucer fans! Wife of Bath pins! Come find her! #NCS2026

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Fascinating to hear from @jdsargan.bsky.social about the Guild of Women Book Binders and their medieval inspired work! (Paging @guildmedmak.bsky.social!) #NCS2026

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

#NCS2026 Come write haiku and draw comics with us!! Come PLAY! 🥳 MODULAR HAIKU COMICS workshop starts in less than ten mins! @hellomizk.bsky.social @guildmedmak.bsky.social

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just saw the buttons @hellomizk.bsky.social has at NCS on instagram and I have never felt so much conference fomo in my life. Everyone at NCS, you MUST obtain those Wife of Bath buttons for yourself so I can live vicariously through you

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Day 1 of the New Chaucer Society Congress! Check out my posts below 👇 which I will try to remember to tag with #NCS2026

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

And big cheer for the amazing graphic design for the conference by Guild member Victoria Craggs! @guildmedmak.bsky.social 😍🥳

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

New Chaucer Society Congress is a-go! 🥳 And LOOK at our amazing @guildmedmak.bsky.social bookmarks in the conference pack!!! 🤩

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Kristen Haas Curtis @hellomizk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I am going to be happily busy at the @newchaucersociety.bsky.social Congress next week. I’m co-leading three different creative workshops AND serving as the Congress’s “artist in residence” where I’ll be working on a conference diary and chatting all things medieval comics and GuMM!

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Kristen Haas Curtis @hellomizk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Calligraphy workshops are FULL! Some spots remain in humor writing, crafting events, and haiku comic adaptations (you will be stuck with ME in any of the three! Hee hee!)! Come get creative with us!

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Kristen Haas Curtis @hellomizk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Heading to the @newchaucersociety.bsky.social Congress in Freiburg in a couple weeks? Come craft jokes and gag comics with @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social and me! ZERO drawing skill required. The link is available in the most recent email from the NCS organizing committee.

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Are you attending the NCS 2026 in Freibourg? Then don't forget to sign up for the sessions organised by the Guild on: ✏️haiku comics 🤣writing and illustrating jokes 🪶medieval scripts 📣and public events! Check your emails from NCS for instructions on how to sign up - places are limited!

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Kristen Haas Curtis @hellomizk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Heading to the @newchaucersociety.bsky.social Congress in Freiburg in a couple weeks? Come make adaptation comics with @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and me! ZERO drawing skill required. The link is available in the most recent email from the NCS organizing committee.

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Alice Hicklin @alicehicklin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Gauthier de Dargies, knight and trouvère, in embroidery form from last year 🧵🪡

Gauthier de Dargies in his miniature in the Chansonnier d'Arras 133r. His horse is brown and his clothing largely a mustard colour with burgundy decoration

Gauthier de Dargies depicted by me in embroidery form. He is on a mustard wool felt hoop against a green wall. The hoop is held in my hand by a ribbon

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Demon balls! I'm so excited to be involved in a project organised by @hellomizk.bsky.social, pairing medievalists with artists to produce brand new #comics. I'm working with the amazing Dan Berry, on the story of #Guthlac. Dan just sent me this - inspired by a demon in the #medieval Guthlac Roll 1/2

Sketch of a demon by Dan Berry.
The demon is green with horns, forked tail, and very prominent testicles!! Inspired by a demon in the 13th-century Guthlac Roll.
A swallow sits on the demon's shoulder, giving disdainful side-eye.

Roundel from the 13th-century Guthlac Roll showing the demons being scourged - the one at the front (in a headlock) is the inspiration for our ballsy devil
https://crowlandabbey.org.uk/guthlac-roll/

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

General registration will be live via the GMS website from Mon 20th July!

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James Paz @jamespaz.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Paper and PowerPoint finally finished. Maybe see some of you in Session 616! #IMC2026 imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/mee...

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

'A coding repository feels like a palimpsestic space [...] like the marginalia found in our favourite manuscripts' Our latest Meet a Medievalist Maker post is by Victoria Craggs, the senior designer and developer who created the New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress 2026 posters!👇

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Meet a Medievalist Maker: Victoria Craggs — The Guild of Medievalist Makers

“ Meet a Medievalist Maker ” is an ongoing series of blog posts introducing our members and the work they are doing. Each post is organized around our Four P’s: a project they are working on...

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Are you at @imc-leeds.bsky.social and presenting on a creative-critical topic? Tag us know and we will repost your panel for visibility! #IMC2026 #IMC #medieval

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Daisy Black @daisyeblack.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

On my way to @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Looking forward to attending the MRDS New Voices in medieval drama session (with my PhD student and other excellent scholars doing wildly exciting work). Then giving a paper on using eco criticism in performance storytelling on Tuesday with @jamespaz.bsky.social.

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This afternoon @hellomizk.bsky.social and @drlauravarnam.bsky.social ran their fantastic workshop on haiku and modular comics, and their use for thinking through medieval literature 🖍 If you missed out, Laura and Kristen will be reprising this session in person for NCS 2026 in a few weeks time!

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Now available to pre-order, if you like your sinister electronic medieval soundscapes 👌... libraryoftheoccult.bandcamp.com/album/yclept...

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Yclept Thorn, by Hawksmoor

11 track album

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We cannot promise you cooler weather for tomorrow, but we can promise you cool medieval creative-critical practice❄️ Join us for 'The Craft so Fast to Learn: Modular Haiku Comics' by the chillingly creative and bitingly critical duo @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and @hellomizk.bsky.social ✏️

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Looking forward to lots of GuMMies joining us on Saturday! No experience of writing poetry or drawing comics needed!

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