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Katy Bennett

@katybennett.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Medieval History 1100-1450 and HRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of York. Researching loyalty, lordship, and governance in the late Middle Ages, esp. Gascony/Aquitaine. She/her

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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Extremely lucky that so many medieval conferences take place in castles and v grateful to the Yorkist History Trust for the grant 🏰
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Yorkist History Trust @yorkisthistory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Trust recently awarded funding to @katybennett.bsky.social to attend the "English Frances" conference at the Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-la-Salle, Normandy. Dr Bennett has written about her experience for our blog: yorkisthistorytrust.org/2026/09/22/e... #MedievalSky #Skystorians
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“English Frances”: Conference Report
The Trust On…”English Frances”: Conference Report by Dr Katy Bennett The Yorkist History Trust recently provided a grant in order to allow Dr Katy Bennett to attend the conference…
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Yorkist History Trust @yorkisthistory.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's the final day to submit abstracts for the YHT sessions at @imc-leeds.bsky.social next year! We have funding available too! See below for more details:
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Statement from the RNLI Chief Executive, Peter Sparkes, beautifully written, 'Courage is the RNLI’s currency; dependable, loyal, service to others and our nations is our hallmark': rnli.org/news-and-med...
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Statement from RNLI Chief Executive Peter Sparkes
Watch a video message from the RNLI's Chief Executive Peter Sparkes on our work in the Channel and our commitment to save lives
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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
JOB!! The Department of History at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a position in medieval and/or transregional history, 7th-16th centuries. French or English, bilingualism an asset. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
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J L Laynesmith @jllaynesmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
For #LeedsIMC2027 @yorkisthistory.bsky.social are once again planning sessions on the long Fifteenth Century (1399-1525) - would you like to join us? Up to 5 bursaries of £300 each are available for scholars without institutional funding. Deadline for submissions 14 Sept: see image for more details.
Call for papers asking for proposals for 20 minute papers on new research on the period 1399-1525 for Leeds IMC 5-8 July 2027. Bursaries available as stated in main text. Please note the IMC's proposal criteria on their website. Please send a 150-200 word abstract and short biography to Dr Joanna Laynesmith at j.l.laynesmith@reading.ac.uk by 14 September 2026 stating whether uoi wish to apply for a bursary or just to propose a paper. More details about the Trust's work can be found at yorkisthistorytrust.org.
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Looking forward to speaking at this conference next month, marking the anniversary of Edward II’s deposition - online attendance is free and in-person only £10! Booking link here for anyone interested: buytickets.at/edwardiiconf...
Downfall and aftermath: Marking 700 years since the fall of Edward II, 1326-2026
Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, 25-26 September 2026
Booking link: https://buytickets.at/edwardiiconference/2185120
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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW! ⚔️ Battle Narratives in Medieval English and French Chronicles, 1066-1500 by Pierre Courroux is a study of #medieval battle narratives, exploring how chroniclers across France & England constructed accounts of warfare. #BookSky #MedievalSky #SkyStorians Learn more 👉 buff.ly/99E77xm
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My uni have just withdrawn Geography, History & Geography and Politics & Geography undergrad courses run from our Penryn campus. Terrible for Cornwall. How did the staff find out? When UCAS clearing opened at 8am 😡
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Catching up properly on Bluesky with a few small updates! 1) I passed my viva on 16 March and graduated last month, so now officially a Dr 🎓 Huge thanks to my examiners, Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social and Eliza Hartrich, and of course to my supervisor Craig Taylor
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Adam Cook @adamcook.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Working on Britain and/or Ireland in the 12th-14th Centuries? I'm putting together an @imc-leeds.bsky.social panel proposal for #IMC2027 on Borderland Communities of Rebellion. Details attached, but by no means exhaustive! If you'd like to chat, or have any questions, please get in touch.
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Nature (my camera roll) is healing 😍 extremely happy to have been back in an archive this week (for the first time since submitting the PhD in December !) and excited to get started on some new research
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Sam Riding @medievalpeasants.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Do you study medieval manors? Do you want to speak at @imc-leeds.bsky.social? Then we have the Call for Papers for you! Medieval Manorial Research: Community in the Manor. We welcome researchers of all disciplines and career stages. Deadline 4th September 2026. #IMC2027 #Skystorians #Medievalsky
Call for papers poster for IMC 2027.

From juries to tithing-groups, from haywards to cowherds, from the lord’s steward to the harvest workers in the field: the institution of the manor played a key role in shaping rural medieval communities. Research into such populations has traditionally looked to court rolls, accounts and surveys to understand how ordinary people lived their lives. Yet, the scale and complexity of manorial documentation preserved in modern archives presents a significant challenge and much remains critically under-studied. At the same time, other methodologies incorporating archaeological, landscape, and material culture evidence have much to contribute to our understanding of medieval manorial communities, although multi-disciplinary approaches remain under-explored.

We would like to invite papers from researchers who work with manorial documents, either as a means of understanding medieval life and community, or as archival objects in their own right. We also welcome papers focused on non-documentary source bases, comparative studies combining material and documentary evidence, or studies comparing manorial communities across a broad chronological and geographical range. If you research the medieval manor, we would like to hear from you!

Approaches to communities may include (but are not limited to):
Daily peasant life
Manor courts, custom, customary law
Lordship and seigneurial agency in the manor
Communities in the landscape
Manorial material culture
The use and materiality of manorial documents in the archive

Please send a title and abstract of no more than 250 words, and a short biography including name, institutional affiliation, and email address to jenni.lane@york.ac.uk and samuel.riding@history.ox.ac.uk. The deadline for proposals is Friday 4th September 2026. 
We welcome proposals from researchers in any discipline and at all career stages. Please indicate in your submission whether you intend to present virtually or in-person.
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Dr Caroline Bourne @carolinebourne.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Call for papers Communities in Medieval Wales & the March, @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2027, sponsored by the Mortimer History Society. If you are researching any aspect of Medieval Wales & the March, please consider submitting a paper proposal for our strand at next year's IMC. #MedievalSky #Skystorians
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Dr Ellen Gallimore @emgallimore.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2027 on Building Scientific Communities: The Transmission of the Quadrivium in the Early Medieval Period (c. 300-1000 C.E.). Posted on behalf of Dr Robyn Stewart (University of York) who is not on Bsky. Deadline 1 Sept 2026 for 250-word abstracts.
A call for papers for Building Scientific Communities: The Transmission of the Quadrivium in the Early Medieval Period (c. 300-1000 C.E.), with an invitation to contact robyn.stewart@york.ac.uk with submissions.
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
For those at @imc-leeds.bsky.social today, Eleanor Bailey and I have organised four sessions on Loyalty (in various forms) today, all in Newlyn GR.01 - hope to see people there!
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Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Searching for: Lecturer in Medieval Literature Location: Newcastle, GB DL: 9 July 2026 Fixed Term, 10 months Sept 2026 - June 2027 Salary: £36,636 to £38,784 jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
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Lecturer in Medieval Literature
Lecturer in Medieval Literature
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Hannah Boston @hannah-boston.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This paper, from the brilliant @katybennett.bsky.social, explores the use of the idea of the ‘natural lord’ in late medieval Gascony. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... More to follow soon!
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The ‘natural lord’, natural loyalty, and the construction of English legitimacy in late-medieval Gascony
This article examines references to the English king as ‘natural lord’ in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Gascony. The ‘natural lord’ represents an important, yet understudied, political concept ...
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Pleased to see this out! Really enjoyed reviewing this volume, which makes an important contribution to the theorisation of lordship
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The Haskins Society @haskinssociety.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We're looking for an Assistant Editor for the Haskins Society Journal! Applications due by April 27.
HSJ: Assistant Editorship! 

The Haskins Society Journal is accepting applications for the position of Assistant Editor. The Assistant Editor will be involved in all stages of the review and editing process, including copy editing, communicating with authors and reviewers, and tracking the progress of manuscripts. Candidates should have strong skills in communication, language, ethics, and organization. 

To apply, please submit a letter of interest and a CV by April 27, 2026 to haskinssocietyjournal@gmail.com . The letter should discuss your interest in the position, current research activities, and any previous experiences that would be relevant to this position. If you have any questions about this position or the application process, please contact the editorial team at haskinssocietyjournal@gmail.com.
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Borthwick Institute for Archives @uoyborthwick.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🚨FIXED TERM ARCHIVE JOB KLAXON🚨 We are looking for an experienced archivist to develop and implement a scoping project to re-catalogue and make available the York Archdiocesan Archive (6 months full time, or 12 months part time). Full details at the link: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/proj...
Close up of an ornately decorated capital I, taken from Archbishop's Register 28 in the Archdiocesan Archive.
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Check it out, we're planning a special issue of @frenchhistory.bsky.social for the 700th anniversary of the advent of the Valois dynasty! Details and timeline at the link below, but don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions 😊
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Call for Papers: The Valois (1328–1589): Governing France between Medieval and Modern
French History is an international forum for major new articles covering all aspects of the histories of France and the Francophone world, from the early M
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The 3rd Medieval Loyalty Research Workshop is taking place tomorrow, 1.30pm-4.30pm on Zoom - please get in touch with myself or @mediev-el.bsky.social for the Zoom link and see here for more details of the programme: medievalloyalty.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2026/01/06/t...
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 The 3rd Medieval Loyalty Research Network Workshop, 24th January 2026  – Loyalty in the Medieval World
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Hannah Boston @hannah-boston.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Delighted to bring you the programme for the third Medieval Loyalty Workshop, online on 24th January, under the command of the terrific @katybennett.bsky.social and @mediev-el.bsky.social All are very welcome! Details here: medievalloyalty.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2026/01/06/t...
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 The 3rd Medieval Loyalty Research Network Workshop, 24th January 2026  – Loyalty in the Medieval World
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Abbie Fray (she/her) @abbiefray.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
One month left to submit your abstracts for Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis, @pembroke1347.bsky.social (17–18 Sept 2026). See the full #CFP below. #Fissures2026 #medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #GenderHistory #PoliticalHistory
CFP: Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis. Pembroke College, Cambridge, 17–18 Sept 2026. Abstracts due 16 Jan 2026.
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Eleanor J Bailey @mediev-el.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The research group 'Loyalty in the Medieval World' is looking for papers for our online workshop on the 24 January 2026! Proposals can be on any topic relating to loyalty during the Middle Ages, abstracts due by 17 December to be sent to myself and @katybennett.bsky.social via email!
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Eleanor J Bailey @mediev-el.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Enjoying the little postcards this year, can't wait for #IMC2026 next summer for more medieval loyalties! :)
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A really exciting slate of papers for this year's Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar! If anyone will be in Durham and wants in (or maybe even wants to attend online, I don't know?), drop me a line and I can share details!
The Tenth Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar, Durham, 12-13 December 2025:
Tradition and Innovation
Friday 12 December
12:45-13:15 – Meet at The Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 7 Owengate
13:15-14:15 – Session 1: French Monarchs and their Relatives
‘The Succession Dispute of 1316-17 and the Origins of the Hundred Years War’         – Justine Firnhaber-Baker (St Andrews) 
‘A Diplomatic Anomaly in Valois-Luxembourg Relations? The Embassy of Charles V of France to Emperor Charles IV in 1372’ – Lili-May Borucki Yeh (St Andrews)
14:15-14:30 – Break
14:30-16:00 – Session 2: Judicial and Political Practices
‘Having a Stake in the Execution: Innovations in Capital Punishment by the Office of the Inquisition in Toulouse between 1283 and 1347’ – Héléna D. M. Lagréou (Dublin)
‘Defining Lordships for Fun and Profit’ – Erika Graham-Goering (Oslo, online)
‘The Cheese and the Corpses: A Microhistorical Approach to Loyalty and Legitimacy in Lancastrian Normandy, 1417-1437’ – Eleanor Bailey (Sheffield)
16:00-16:15 – Break
16:15-17:15 – Session 3: Images and Objects
‘Reimag(in)ing Tradition: Desire, Image, and the Innovation of Visual Ethics in Jean Wauquelin’s Belle Hélène de Constantinople’ – Rebecca Dixon (Liverpool)
‘Mallets and Other Weapons in the Uprising of the Maillotins’ – Samuel Richter       (St Andrews)
17:15-18:15 – Drinks Reception
18:15 – Conference Dinner at Spice Lounge, Durham Market PlaceSaturday 13 December
9:00-9:30 – Meet at The Department of History, 43 North Bailey 
9:30-10:30 – Session 4: Noblewomen and Conflict 
‘Gendering Political Allegiance in Late-Medieval Gascony’ – Katy Bennett (York)
‘Debates over Female Authority during the Guerre Folle in France, c.1485-88’                       – Andrew D. M. Green (Chichester)
10:30-10:45 – Break
10:45-11:45 – Session 5: Old and New Approaches to Texts (i)
Introduction – Graeme Small (Durham)
‘Innovative Middle Ages: Digital Humanities and Medieval Italian Studies (and Franco-Burgundian material)’ – Lorenzo Dell'Oso (Durham)
Responses and Roundtable Discussion
11:45-12:00 – Break 
12:00-13:00 – Session 6: Old and New Approaches to Texts (ii)
‘Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles : Tradition et Innovation depuis la Cour de Bourgogne jusqu’aux Presses Typographiques’ – Geoffrey Roger (U.L.I. Paris, online)
‘Upside-down Stemmatology: The Peace of Tournai (1385) and the Shape of the Manuscript Tradition of Froissart’s Chroniques’ – Godfried Croenen (Antwerp) &        Natasha Romanova (Caen)
13:00-13:30 – Conference End and Discussion of Next Steps (for anyone interested)
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Alice Raw @aliceraw.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Call for Papers! Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis #medievalsky #Fissures2026
Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis
17-18 September 2026
Pembroke College, University of Cambridge


Gendered work on medieval popular politics has tended to revolve around the exceptional. This workshop explores how studies of gender can reconfigure discourses of medieval political community. We ask how attending to gendered bodies and identities might help us better understand the fissures in political culture in medieval Europe. Marking, for example, women’s participation as either absent or rare confines their involvement to the historical margins. How did literary as well as non-literary texts from various genres, ranging from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, engage with gendered political action? How did ideas of gender stabilise or destabilise political performances? 

We invite abstracts for 25-minute papers, as well as expressions of interest for participation. We welcome papers with a historical, literary, or interdisciplinary focus. Potential topics could include but are not limited to:

•	Frameworks for understanding non-normative gender expressions in political spaces.
•	Studies of politics at the intersection of gendered, queer, or trans methodologies. 
•	Histories of masculinities in political community. 
•	Emotion and/or Affect
•	Weaponized/defensive gender
•	Manoeuvring bodies through political crisis
•	Inclusion and exclusion
•	Different sites of political discourse, such as domestic and non-violent conflict. 

Collectively, the papers will interrogate the role of gender in political discourse. Selected papers may be considered for inclusion in an edited volume. Means-based bursaries for speakers may be available by further application.

Please submit a title and abstract of no more than 200 words to Alice Raw (ar889@cam.ac.uk) and Abbie Fray (abigail.fray@unibe.ch) by 16 January 2026.
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
A reminder that there's about a week left to pitch your paper for this year's interdisciplinary Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar, the loveliest event of its kind, at Durham in mid-December! There's a great (and non-exclusive) theme, and it's lots of fun for ECRs and senior scholars alike!
Call for Papers for the 10th Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar: Durham University, 12-13 December 2025














Image: Jardin d'amour à la cour de Philippe le bon, duc de Bourgogne, Musée de Versailles 
Tradition and Innovation 
For the tenth meeting of the Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar (Durham, 2025), we invite proposals for 20-minute papers on the theme of Tradition and Innovation. 
We would welcome any explorations of this theme based on original research on France and/or Burgundy between c.1250 and c.1500, or which reflect on developments in modern scholarship relating to these territories, in any field, including history, art, literature, languages and music. Papers might examine (but are not limited to considering):   
	Major shifts in politics, society, culture, literature, art or music within the Franco-Burgundian lands during the late Middle Ages.
	The durability of established practices and structures in these regions.
	Old and new approaches in historiography looking back at late medieval France/ Burgundy – including new approaches to ‘English Frances’ and ‘Lordship and the Decentralised State’. 
	Continuity and change in textual analysis and other scholarship relating to late medieval France/Burgundy. 
We would particularly welcome submissions from postgraduates and early career researchers, as well as scholars at any stage in their research. The deadline for paper proposals (of around 100 words) is 31 October. Please send proposals/queries to Professor Graeme Small (g.p.small@durham.ac.uk) and Dr Andrew Green (admgreen7@gmail.com).
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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!
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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
For the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, 1066, here is thread on why 'who was the rightful king?' is the wrong question to ask, why we don't know the complete story and why that makes things more interesting. 1/ #medievalsky #skystorians #historyedu #historyteachers
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Naomi @naominar.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Just over 2 weeks left to apply to the Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers conference! It will take place in Oxford on April 20-21, 2026. We hope to provide bursaries to help with attendance. Email your abstracts to bordersboundariesbarriers[at]gmail[dot]com #medievalsky #skystorians
Full plain text available at: https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/24/cfp-borders-boundaries-and-barriers-real-and-imagined-in-the-middle-ages/
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Just over two weeks left to send us your abstracts! #CfP #IMC2026 #medievalsky
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
And Open Access, too! 😁
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 12/08/2025
Vacancy with the Royal Historical Society: Membership and Office Administrator bit.ly/46TgZNA We look to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £31,904 pro rata. Closing date Monday 8 September #Skystorians
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Vacancy: the Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator - RHS
The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and develop...
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Call for Papers @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026 ‼️ The 'Loyalty in the Medieval World' network welcomes papers which explore the intersections between the concept of ‘loyalty’ and the conference theme of ‘temporalities’, c.500-1500! Get in touch by 15 September
The ‘Loyalty in the Medieval World’ network welcomes proposals which explore the
intersections between the concept of ‘loyalty’ and the IMC 2026 theme of ‘temporalities’.
Was there a shift in how the concept of loyalty was used and perceived by people across the
Middle Ages? To what extent, if at all, were bonds of loyalty an archaic predecessor to the
coercive potential of a centralising medieval ‘state’? How did the language (e.g. treue, fides,
leal), theories, and practices of loyalty change or stay the same in the medieval period? What
can the study of loyalty do for the historian of medieval political society? Submissions could
reflect on:
• Emotional frameworks of loyalty
• Political frameworks of loyalty
• Ethical and legal frameworks of loyalty
• The theory and practice of loyal behaviour
• Loyalty and identity
• Loyalty and power
• Horizontal loyalties and solidarities
• The material culture of loyalty
• Contested and/or multiple loyalties
• Disloyalty

, such as women, children, exiles, and migrants.
Please send a paper title, affiliation, and abstract of up to 150 words to Eleanor Bailey
ejbailey98@outlook.com, Katy Bennett katy.bennett@york.ac.uk, AND Jenny McHugh
j.mchugh@lancaster.ac.uk.
Deadline 15th September.
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Laura Tompkins @aliceperrers.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
CFP: Leeds IMC 2026 The Society for Fourteenth-Century Studies invites papers on any aspect of the long 14thC across the Plantagenet estates. 📅 6–9 July 2026 📨 Title + abstract by 31 Aug 2025 ✉️ Laura.Tompkins@hrp.org.uk & dgreen@harlaxton.ac.uk
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
For those at @imc-leeds.bsky.social, I’m part of what promises to be two great sessions on oaths, trust, and allegiance this afternoon, both in Esther Simpson LG.08. Looking forward to discussing all things allegiance!
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
If you're getting notifications from Academia(.)edu about AI versions of your papers now being podcasts, that's because the (predatory) platform has opted you into AI-enhanced outputs, which you can turn off in your Account Settings here.
A screencap of Academia.edu's Account Settings under the header "AI Settings" showing their AI-enhanced Outputs feature is automatically turned on with a green switch unless you turn it off and do your part to de-enshittify the internet.
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Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I'm constantly thinking about the fact that despite all the focus on 'impact', they don't seem to count the context in which we have the most impact of all: teaching students, and especially those from a wide range of backgrounds
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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.
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Naomi @naominar.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I’m co-organising a medieval conference next year in Oxford! Please take a look at the CfP and consider submitting an abstract, by the 15th of September, to bordersboundariesbarriers@gmail.com. We hope to be able to provide funding to help cover expenses of attendance. #medievalsky #skystorians
Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers have become increasingly prominent themes in historical scholarship. There is, therefore, a pressing need to examine how these
constructs have shaped the lived experiences of historically marginalised groups, as well as how they were
perceived, defined, and engaged with by those groups.
This conference seeks to reorient discussions around borders, boundaries, and barriers by foregrounding the
experiences and perspectives of marginalised groups and considering how these divisions were perceived from
the peripheries of societies. Rather than treating these concepts as abstract or solely geopolitical, we will explore
the ways in which they have operated — both historically and historiographically — as tools of exclusion and
differentiation.
Organised by Natasha Jenman (University of Oxford), Naomi Reiter (QMUL), and Dean A. Irwin (University
of Lincoln/OCHJS), the conference will focus on individuals, religious groups, social groups, societal
constructions, and natural phenomena. Participants are invited to explore the role played by evolving borders,
boundaries, and barriers in the medieval world as part of group identities; and how groups used them to their
advantage. Likewise, it will consider the extent to which borders, boundaries and barriers have been imposed
upon the medieval world by modern scholars. Possible topics for consideration include:
• Legal jurisdictions
• The natural and the supernatural worlds
• Socio-economic strata
• Ritual and religion
• Space, time, and the environment
• Gender and sexuality
• Disability
• Transgression, delinquency,
and the grey middle space
This conference adopts a broad chronological and geographical approach with submissions from all
historically-related disciplines being welcome. The conference will take place on 20 and 21 April 2026 in
Oxford. To submit, please send a title, abstract (c. 250 words), and a bio (c. 100 words) to:
bordersboundariesbarriers@gmail.com.
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Chloë R McKenzie @chloermckenzie.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
A fab opportunity for #MedievalHistory students interested in the Medieval March and the Mortimer family. The Mortimer History Society have opened applications for their 2025 Student Bursary: 2 awards of £1,000! Check out the application here: mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/society/burs...
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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
New job at Oxford - do please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...
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Associate Professor in History, 1000-1500 at University of Oxford
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The @frenchhistory.bsky.social is recruiting another associate editor to join our team, with a preference for an 18th c or revolution specialist. The journal team are a wonderful intellectual community behind loads of recent exciting initiatives 🗃️ frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/associate-ed...
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Associate Editor of the journal French History – SSFH
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Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The martyrdom of St Alban, the executioner's eyes popping out and falling to the ground after dealing the final blow. Cotton MS Nero D II, f. 39.
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The latest issue of French History is out now, a special issue on 'Rethinking the aristocracy in Capetian France, 987–1328' edited by Daniel Power doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... I think this is our first ever #medieval special issue @frenchhistory.bsky.social ! 👸🤴🦄💂🧑‍🌾🏰🇫🇷
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Rethinking the aristocracy in Capetian France, 987–1328
Any analysis of medieval French society requires a detailed study of the aristocracy. Landowning elites were a dominant force in France throughout the Midd
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Have been looking forward to this delivery, excited to get stuck into this after teaching prep is done this week!
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
New in French History @frenchhistory.bsky.social, 'Regional networks in revolt: opposition to the Valois in Gascony at the end of the Hundred Years’ War, c.1452–1453', by Andrew Green academic.oup.com/fh/article-a... 🏰⚔️🤴👸⛰️ #medieval
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Regional networks in revolt: opposition to the Valois in Gascony at the end of the Hundred Years’ War, c.1452–1453
Abstract. This article offers a reassessment of late medieval resistance to the Valois monarchy, through examining south-western France in the mid-fifteent
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