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Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I am very excited to confirm that RGB images of the Hereford Gospels are now available online under Creative Commons license, thanks to the stellar work of Dr Bill Endres: osf.io/pswd5/overview

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Durham MEMSA @durhammemsa.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

🎺 IT'S THE FINAL WEEK! 🎺 If you want to be a part of the 20th annual MEMSA conference, Connection, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World, this is your last chance! Submit your application of 300 words no later than Monday the 9th! We hope to hear from you soon!

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Lauren Randall @laurenrndll.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

One more day of Rivers of Ink at Jarrow tomorrow, then off to Durham Cathedral to finish of the tour. It’s been great to collaborate with The Projection Studio, with their fantastic installation celebrating the world’s oldest complete Bible. @durhamtheology.bsky.social

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Lauren Randall @laurenrndll.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

It’s been a busy time leading up to this! Our tour of the north east celebrating Amiatinus finally starts this Wednesday with an incredible sound and light show produced by The Projection Studio

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Lauren Randall @laurenrndll.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

C12th wall paintings of St Cuthbert at St Laurence’s Church, Pittington. Taken by Ross Ashton in preparation for our upcoming Rivers of Ink tour of the North East www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Image of Cuthbert being consecrated as bishop

Cuthbert at dinner as he has a vision of someone falling out of a tree

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Lauren Randall @laurenrndll.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Our ‘Rivers of Ink: Amiatinus and the Northumbrian Heritage’ tour of the NE England starts in February, with public talks, family drop ins and school events. The tour finishes at Durham Cathedral with talks by Francis Watson and Richard Gameson:

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Rivers of Ink: Codex Amiatinus and the Northumbrian Heritage Installation - Durham Cathedral

At the turn of the 8th Century Northumbrian monks transformed the many different scriptural books by gathering them into an all-emcompassing volume, "the Bible" as we know it today. Now known as Codez...

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Durham MEMSA @durhammemsa.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🎺 Are you interested in exploring Connections, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World? Then consider submitting a paper to the 20th annual conference, taking place 13 and 14 July 2026 at St John’s College, Durham University!

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Lauren Randall @laurenrndll.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I’ll be at the Chester Beatty museum next week for Science Week Ireland offering drop-in workshops making iron gall ink and talking about Medieval pigments. It’s a fun way of opening up the world of the scribes who produced Early Medieval manuscripts.

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Lauren Randall @laurenrndll.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🚨CfP🚨 ‘Shaping the Word: the Form and Use of Biblical Manuscripts in the Early Medieval West’ We are looking for papers exploring ways in which scriptures (including extra canonical) were used and presented during the Early Medieval period. A range of methodologies and disciplines welcome!

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Lauren Randall @laurenrndll.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

A visit to the stunning Melrose Abbey to plan the first stop on our Codex Amiatinus sound and light show tour in February 2026

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Amy Saunders @a-l-saunders.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

It’s a Coptic GIF!! Thanks @laurenrndll.bsky.social for the sneak peak from Manuscripts and the Mind at @chesterbeatty.bsky.social #manuscripts #coptic

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Lauren Randall @laurenrndll.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

We have a very exciting line up of people giving our main papers, including Richard Gameson offering a show and tell with mss in the Durham collections. Send us your queries and abstracts by the 17th November.

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Lauren Randall @laurenrndll.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

CfP 🚨 ‘Shaping the Word: the Form and use of Biblical Manuscripts in the Early Medieval West’

Folio from Codex Amiatinus, showing Ezra the Scribe writing out the text of scripture, with an open armarium in the background containing individual volumes of the books of the Bible

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Lauren Randall @laurenrndll.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

CFP: “Shaping the Word: the Form and Use of Biblical Manuscripts in the Early Medieval West” at Durham University in July 2026. We are interested in a wide range of papers exploring ways in which scriptural texts (produced roughly c. 500-1000) were presented and used.

Durham Uni, 2–5 July 2026
From c. 500-1000, Christian scriptures were produced and used in a diverse range of forms and contexts. A manuscript may include a single biblical text (the psalter, a gospel), a collection of texts (the Hexateuch, the gospels), or, rarely, a complete “New Testament” or “Bible” in the modern sense. The distinctiveness of a manuscript is shown by content and textual affiliation, its palaeographical and codicological characteristics, and its paratextual features – from illustrations of biblical narratives, author portraits, and illuminated lettering to canon tables, capitula, prefatory materials, and glosses. Once in circulation, a manuscript’s contexts of use may also vary. Different uses correspond to different users with distinct and perhaps conflicting priorities/goals. Production and use(s) may occur at the same site or at far distant times and places.

This conference aims to explore topics related to both the physical presentation and the use of scriptural manuscripts produced in the Early Medieval period (c. 500–1000 CE). We welcome paper proposals from scholars working in all areas of this field, including PhD students. Whatever the specific topic, priority may be given to papers that also relate it to the wider focus of the conference on both “form” (or “production”) and “use”. We hope to be able to cover presenters’ full conference costs with the exception of travel.
Titles and Abstracts of proposed papers should be submitted to Lauren Randall (lauren.m.randall@durham.ac.uk), copied to Francis Watson (francis.watson@durham.ac.uk), by Monday 17 November. Abstracts should not exceed 150 words. Papers should be 25 minutes, allowing 20 minute discussion. There will be keynote papers/presentations. Please contact us if you have any questions!

This event forms part of our sub-project “Text, Format, and Reader”, focused on Codex Amiatinus and funded by the Glasgow-based “Paratexts Seeking Understanding” project (Templeton Religion Trust)

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Dr Manuel Muñoz García @manuelmunoz.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

And we’re back! Our highly-rated Latin Palaeography and Early Modern English Palaeography courses are back with a twist: this time they’ll run across 6 week instead of 2, giving you more time to really dig into the content and your practice at your own pace. Apply now! Www.imemsdurhamlearn.com

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The Durham Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies Learning Centre

The Online Learning Centre for the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham University.

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Lauren Randall @laurenrndll.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Dore Abbey’s abbey door(way). Great skeleton painted on the left, too!

Showing doorway of medieval abbey building from the inside

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Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I’m at the airport en route to #EABSBL, so it feels like the perfect time to send a copy of my book, Reimaging the Magdalene, on a journey too! 💛 like and 🔁 RT and I’ll draw a winner on the feast of Mary Mag (22/07, heathens) Let’s see where it ends up… #Giveaway

The book cover, featuring Artemisia’s Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy

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Lauren Randall @laurenrndll.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This cute little cat-like creature in Egerton 609

Image of manuscript page, showing a little doodle sign-off with a picture of a cat-like creature

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Lauren Randall @laurenrndll.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

A grumpy looking Luke for the start of his gospel in Amiatinus

Screenshot of the opening of the Gospel of Luke in the Northumbrian Codex Amiatinus, the initial letter Q is decorated with a moody looking face

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Dr Tom de Bruin @tdbiii.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Together with @siobhanjolley.bsky.social, I'm organising a symposium this summer in Nijmegen (NL). We have the opportunity to support 2 PGRs with travel grants to attend and participate. Feel free to share and hit us up with questions.

Student Bursaries:
Liberating Biblical Women? Feminist Afterlives of
the Bible in the 21st Century
One-Day Symposium, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 1st July 2025
We invite postgraduate students to submit applications for participation in a one-day symposium
exploring contemporary feminist reinterpretations of biblical women in modern media. This
symposium will bring together scholars to examine how biblical narratives about women are
reconstructed, reimagined, and reinterpreted in contemporary cultural products.
Contemporary media frequently presents interpretations of biblical women, which are routinely
touted as ‘feminist’: from television series like The Chosen to films such as Mary Magdalene and
contemporary art by artists such as Nalini Malani. But in these media patriarchal values and
judgements of women’s roles in society often still dominate. These media are entangled in
normative representations of gender identities in which women cannot be separated from the roles
of homemaker, helpmeet, mother, and whore.
Two travel grants of up to €250 each are available for postgraduate students to participate in the
symposium. Recipients are expected to submit a 5000-word paper by 1st June 2025. The paper will
be pre-circulated among attendees and discussed at the symposium. Selected papers from the
symposium will be included in a forthcoming edited volume.
Application Requirements
• Abstract outlining your proposed paper (300-500 words)
• Brief biographical statement (150 words)
• Institutional affiliation, where you are a registered student

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Lauren Randall @laurenrndll.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Seagull with more of a comment than a question at #sblaar24

Demanding looking seagull in front of a view of San Diego marina

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Lauren Randall @laurenrndll.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I usually use the fantastic digitised Amiatinus, but using even the half-size facsimile gives such a different impression of how the pages and diagrams work together

Open facsimile of codex Amiatinus, a purple page with gold letters providing the contents of the Bible. The second page, a diagram with two cruciform shapes containing an alternate list of the books of the Bible.

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Lauren Randall @laurenrndll.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Had a go at making Iron Gall ink recently, it’s really simple to do (excuse my bad uncial)

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