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Exeter Cathedral @exetercathedral.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Announcement: A selection of The Exeter Book’s famous riddles are now on display for the first time since the opening of the Treasures Exhibition in 2025. The Exeter Book is a treasured item listed on the UK UNESCO Memory of the World Register, preserving nearly all surviving Anglo-Saxon riddles.

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hwaet! Winchester is advertising for a 0.5FTE, open-ended contract in English Lit (pre-1800). Deadline 14 October for applications. Please share this with anyone who might be interested! www.winchester.ac.uk/About-Us/Wor...

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MedievalCanter @medievalcanter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hi, another great blog from Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh on Kent and Canterbury history abd heritage events. Please have a read! kchh.org/exploring-me...

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Saintly Archbishops and Pastoral Care texts - exploring the Middle Ages - KCHH

Featuring talks on medieval magic and the cults of three Canterbury archbishops

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MedievalCanter @medievalcanter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sad news of Paul Bennett and a host of good news of Kent History events. Please do read Sheila's great blog kchh.org/investigatin...

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Nightingale Lecture 26 plus - KCHH

From the impact of the Black Death to medieval hospitals - exploring the past

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Delighted to be at this year's Nightingale Lecture @unikent.bsky.social, supported by @memsunikent.bsky.social and @camems.bsky.social, to hear Prof. Mark Bailey on the late medieval economy. We start with Sheila Sweetinburgh's introduction.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A huge thank you to CNN, MS NOW, Politico, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, PBS News, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, the Associated Press, Reuters, Getty Images, and AFP for standing together in defense of a free press.

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Finding Common Ground Day 2 also featured Joshua Zeunert's excellent 20-minute film "SOIL | LIFE (LESS)" You can view a short excerpt here: youtu.be/C-fj1ZUKFgk?...

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SOIL | LIFE(LESS) - Joshua Zeunert

YouTube video by SOIL || documentary podcast

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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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Vicki Blud @vickiblud.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Every year #IMC2026 manages to remind me why I became a medievalist. Barely 10 minutes into day 2 and the speaker is inviting everyone to join a metal band called The Rats of Heresy.

Manuscript illustration showing a grey cat sitting in an ornamental flourish, surrounded by black rats. The cat is staring out of the picture looking pretty fed up. Taken from BnF Latin 22 f. 317v.

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MedievalCanter @medievalcanter.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Loved Alicia's keynote on transfers and dysphoria- and the sparkly jeans were fab too

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Vicki Blud @vickiblud.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Transness is (presented as) new; Transness is (seen as) antiquated. #IMC2026 #s1199

Slide headed TRANSNESS IS NEW

Left: screenshot of flyer for Political Network for Values, 2022 with headline
“CHILD (AND WOMEN) PROTECTION POLICIES IN THE FACE OF THE TRANS AGENDA”

Right:
* social contagion
* mass psychogenic illness
* Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria

Pull quote:
"a cultural enthusiasm that spreads like a virus"
Shrier, Irreversible Damage, 39

Below:
Screenshot of X post from 30/11/25
Betydlig @betydlig71269
The so called "trans agenda' is an astroturfed, globalist funded smokescreen which aims to normalise institutionalised paedophilia & child abuse. End of debate. Anyone onboard with it is a sick, deranged, twisted POS whose soul has been starched by the woke mind virus.
10:50 AM • Nov 30, 2025 • 16 Views

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Ivy Gold Girl O @ivygoldgirt
They drank the koolaid and infected each other with some type of trans-virus
It isn't normal. The media needs to stop normalizing it
They need to stop pushing the trans agenda like it is the latest fashion item because it is life changing and a lot of it cannot be undone
3.13 AM Mar21, 2025 - 47 Viners

Slide headed: TRANSNESS IS ANTIQUATED

Pull quote:
"We live in a postmodern age that promotes an alternative metaphysics"
Anderson, "Transgender Ideology"

* Transness as a secular heresy

Pull quote:
"On the one hand, they claim that the real self is something other than the physical body, in a new form of Gnostic dualism, yet at the same time they embrace a materialist philosophy in which only the material world exists."
Anderson, "Transgender Ideology"

Left:
Manuscript image showing Cathars being expelled from Carcassonne in 1209, Grandes Chroniques de France, c. 1415, BL Cotton MS Nero E 1), fol. 20v

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Vicki Blud @vickiblud.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

@aspencerhall.bsky.social suggests that if trans people are to be medieval and untimely, the trans saints of medieval hagiography offer a model of continual timeliness and even temporal euphoria. #IMC2026 #s1199

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Vicki Blud @vickiblud.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Tess!! Hope you’re having a great time in Rochester, we miss you over here!

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Palenik Iris @palenikiris.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Had to leave the @imc-leeds.bsky.social already but I am enjoying my purchase from the book fair immensely (@aspencerhall.bsky.social).

Book written by Alicia Spencer Hall on a table in a train.

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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

New tech support team at @imc-leeds.bsky.social seems a little sus. Eager though! 😆

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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The end of a wonderful #IMC2026. Thank you to everyone who participated and congratulations to the fabulous IMC team who made it all possible #leedsmedieval #medievalsky @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Men in plate armour and mail on a very hot day. IMC red banners. People watching

Axel Müller and two men in medieval costume and plate armour leaning on a red IMC banner. Trees and a horse in background. Horse is in the shade. Red brick university buildings behind them

Four women at the conference reception desk all wearing their staff lanyards: clockwise top left to bottom right: Ellen Gallimore, Sharna Connolly, Alice Dargue, Rose Sawyer

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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I want so many of these. (I already have the Petrovskaias, obvs.)

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MedievalCanter @medievalcanter.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The next 48 hours are crucial. The government has just launched a consultation on guaranteed hours. Sign this petition asking them to stand firm on their pledge to tackle insecure work and ban exploitative zero-hours contracts. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...

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Stamp out zero-hours contracts: protect all workers from exploitation

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This is an information you may need today: cuddling with a unicorn was an image for the virtue of accuracy! The woman cuddling with the 🦄 is representing "Reinligkeit", which stood, in #earlymodern German meaning, for accuracy and precision (‘Sauberkeit, Genauigkeit, Sorgfalt’). #skystorians

A detail from a 1732 print showing a woman cuddling with a unicorn.

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MedievalCanter @medievalcanter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

A great report on the Canterbury History Weekend at University of Kent. Some fantastic speakers and a wonderful engaged audience - it was terrific! kchh.org/canterbury-m...

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Canterbury Medieval Weekend 2026 - KCHH

The Canterbury Medieval Weekend 2026 was a great success.

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MedievalCanter @medievalcanter.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

As the new Archbishop of Canterbury arrives in the city having walked from St Paul's, Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh reflects on medieval pilgrimages to Canterbury kchh.org/thinking-pil...

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Thinking pilgrimage - Canterbury, Eastbridge and Maison Dieu, Dover - KCHH

From the Archbishop's pilgrimage and Eastbridge to Dover at Night, events highlight the value of community.

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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Cat's officially out of the bag #IMC2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #MedievalSky 🗃️

Leeds International Medieval Congress 2026

Alicia Spencer-Hall will be giving a keynote (paper 1199): 'Timely Images': Medieval Trans Saints, Historiographical Dysphoria and/as Trans-Temporal Methodology (Language: English)

Description

In Transgender Warriors, Leslie Feinberg writes: 'I couldn't find myself in history. No-one like me seemed to have ever existed'. Such a feeling - what I call 'historiographical dysphoria' - is familiar to marginalised subjects, those of us who have been written out of cis-hetero-normative history. Gender dysphoria refers to the distress and dis-ease caused by a mismatch between one's assigned gender and one's identified gender. Historiographical dysphoria is an artefact of gender dysphoria, and, more generally, the multifarious dysphorias that come from an authentic existence that does not, cannot, and will not fall in line with the dominant norms of cis-hetero-normative society. This is the distress and dis-ease caused by the wilful cleaving of an individual from the past, from the collective past of their community. Transphobic rhetoric insists upon the newness of transness, and indeed trans people. We are a symptom of modernity's degradation, a disease in urgent need of cure. There we no trans people in the Middle Ages, no queer people, no crips either. We have no past, and, as such, we will not be allowed a future. This is the story that traditionalist historiography so often tells. In recent years, things have begun to change. Trans saints have become ever more visible in scholarship, a vital resource for trans and genderqueer people at a time of ever-rising transphobia. We turn to the past to survive the present and to scope out new ways of being in the future. This paper articulates the possibilities and pleasures of trans-medievalist work, focussing on trans saints. This is scholarship that attends to trans lives, experiences, and traces in the medieval past and operates 'trans' time itself. It rejects normative linear chronology in favour of the fierce embrace of trans-queer-crip time(s), of the blurry temporalities of transition itself. In this way, trans-medievalist work offers a powerful methodology for the entire medievalist field.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

A fantastic little book this - Jane's letters, with observations on social life, the state of the roads, the practices of the parish church and much else - add insights into a village now completely different to the one she knew. Pretty much the only building left from her time is the church. 🗃️

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

An exciting new postdoctoral position focusing on Old English epistolary materials

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Fragmentarium @fragmentarium.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The e-codices December 2025 update is live, with 31 manuscripts! Enjoy them all! www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/all/...

Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, D III 14, f. 104r – Medizinische Sammelhandschrift
http://www.e-codices.ch/de/ubb/D-III-0014/104r. Detail of a 12th-century medical manuscript showing a grotesquely inhabited initial Q for a text that would begin Quadrimerum expertum ad asmaticos... The manuscript is ruled. The short version of the initial description is that it portrays a doctor, nurse, and patients. In detail, the inhabited figures include a woman nursing a human and a dragon, while a bearded gentleman with an unguent bottle is applying two cupping horns to different parts of the nursing human. The dragon, on the other hand, does not need any medical treatment, but nevertheless requires nourishment for flight and other dragon-like activities. The script is a transitional hand that cannot possibly compete with that dragon for our attention.

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

My book, Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance: Typologies of violence and desire, with @manchesterup.bsky.social, is coming out next month! I would be delighted if you might consider ordering a copy for your libraries 💚

Front cover for Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance, illustration from British Library MS Cotton Nero A X/2 of Lady Bertilak and Gawain in the bedchamber. Gawain is lying down with eyes closed, wrapped in green blankets, and Lady Bertilak is wearing a spotted dress, seated beside him with her hair up, her arms outstretched in a loose embrace and touching under his chin.

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MedievalCanter @medievalcanter.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Well I certainly won't ever use them again

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This might also be a good opportunity to share my poem 'Medieval Mystic Margery Kempe in Tesco', published last year in The London Magazine (thank you!). It has a flavour of the medieval/modern mash-up that I enjoy! #gms2025 #teammargery thelondonmagazine.org/poetry-medie...

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MedievalCanter @medievalcanter.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Georgia is fab, great to see everyone at UWP reception last night. Thank you to all our guests

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Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Popping this out there for the evening crowd. It's part of a new writing project - I'm excited and nervous, so any support would be welcome! Here, I'm writing about how a long-ago writer captured grief for a wanted baby that didn't come to be. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/grief-care...

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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

#GMS2025 was fantastic-inspiring, encouraging, and also exhausting. I thought I might have a wander around London tonight, but after 3 days of conferencing and 1 of walking the entirety of Canterbury I ordered food in and am going to watch some fluff.

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

This will be amazing!

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

If you read nothing else today, read this.

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I appreciate all the shares I’ve had on this! It will be a really fun course & it also gives me some welcome additional income after the cuts that were made to my main post, which kick in from August… The realities of HE life these days.

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Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

This comment absolutely made my day. I've been working really hard with my writing, and it is so lovely to feel as if we're starting to build a real community here on bluesky.

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De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

#PrideMonth might be drawing to a close, but we’re just getting started: Only two days until this year's Gender & Medieval Studies conference on charity and care in the global Middle Ages! medievalgender.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/GMS-2025-Conference-Programme.pdf @medievalcanter.bsky.social

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De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Possibly the best backdrop for a Medieval Studies conference (and the prettiest name tags). A great day at #GMS2025, thank you @medievalcanter.bsky.social!

View through a stone archway with columns, looking out onto a garden and historic stone building in sunlight.

Name tag reading “Eva Locher” placed on top of a blue book titled Queering the Mediterranean, with part of an old map visible underneath.

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