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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reposting for daytime Bsky users. Eleanor is simply exceptional at everything she does - scholarship, creative outputs, and now film consulting?! Incredible!

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well...the 'wulf' is out of the bag. Professor Daniel Wakelin and I were the Middle English consultants for Robert Eggers' upcoming film Werwulf, in UK theatres on January 1st 2027!

An image of a screenshot from a webpage from IGN that reads 'Eggers did copious amounts of research on England in the 13th century for the screenplay, he co-wrote with his The Northman collaborator, Sjón. The film’s dialogue is in Middle English, although it’s been altered by dialect coach William Conacher to make it more comprehensible for the modern ear. Eggers also worked with two Middle English scholars at Oxford University, Eleanor Baker and Daniel Wakelin, who helped make the dialogue more period accurate.'

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What I’m trying to say is we clearly needed a Bayeux Tapestry ride, à la Jorvik Viking Centre; OR we all sit while the tapestry is put on a conveyor belt (baggage reclaim / sushi bar style). Hire me for more innovative solutions.

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

British Museum and British Library have had an exhibition overbooking problem for a long time. I’ve spent too much time shuffling in a queue in overbooked and poorly designed exhibs! There must’ve been endless logistical conversations around the particular challenges of the tapestry, surely?

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Here is the poster (made by Emilia Herok) of my Ovid series next month! Note esp. the roundtable, with Akari Kobayashi (Oxford), Brigid Ehrmantraut (@standrewshist.bsky.social), Ben Nagy (KU Leuven) and Katherine Parish (@engfac.bsky.social). Event poster and how to join here: tinyurl.com/msxuanfv

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MAMO Conference 2027 @themamoconf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just over a week left to submit abstracts for MAMO 2027!

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🖼️ Walter Crane

AUTUMN.
THE corn is cut, and on the bough Are reddest apples hanging now.
Harvest moon illustration, workers walk through field carrying harvest.

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Am excited to be heading to Kraków on 5-6 Oct to give a series of talks! I'll be speaking on forgeries of Ovid (or, 'The Game of the Nose') and Ovid's exile (or, 'Ovid's Exilic Afterlives'), as well as hosting student workshops and a research roundtable. Online attendance possible - message me.

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Does anyone have access to The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities (2025)? Am in need of one chapter from it.

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

POV you have Things To Say about the Aeneid.

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What an endeavour. Monumental. German. Historical, even.

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MAMO Conference 2027 @themamoconf.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A MAMO reminder that we're accepting abstracts through to 30th September. Thanks to everyone who has submitted proposals so far!

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Classical reception at Leeds IMC 2027! Submit a paper proposal for “Communities and the Classics in the Middle Ages” until 15 September. A range of topics welcome. See the CFP at the official Leeds padlet: u1.padletusercontent.com/uploads/padl...

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Amphibian update: the frogs have been VERY cute these past weeks.

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A Leeds classical reception panel! (Promise the image isn't adult content, it's Dante)

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Is there a handy list or publication of medieval manuscripts produced IN Oxford, pre-1500? Out of my depth here bibliographically. @obs1922.bsky.social?

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Is there a handy list or publication of medieval manuscripts produced IN Oxford, pre-1500? Out of my depth here bibliographically. @obs1922.bsky.social?

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I got nuked for adult content again!!!! Just say you don’t like Dante!!!

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

How unusual to see a journal spell its own name wrong.

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

Everyone who was at #NCS2026 should consider putting in papers for MAMO 2027 in Oxford! Join us!

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Have already been censored for adult content, although gambling with the devil apparently doesn’t have its own warning tag.

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Follow me around Freiburg’s Augustinermuseum until I forget to update. Things I like #1: playing backgammon against a serpent during the Last Judgement, 15th c.

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

On Margate sands I can connect hair with ice cream

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Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yesterday, in her all-staff talk our VC chose to highlight the recent election of 5 FBAs from the University of Exeter. She failed to point out that 4 of us (with many of our colleagues) have just been placed at risk of redundancy. #DefendExeterUni @exeterucu.bsky.social

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

When will someone do the real exposé on the British Library: the state of the toilets? Why are they always like... that?

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Really enjoyed reading this new piece from Tania Demetriou on Chapman's 'Ovid's Banquet of Sense', which I hadn't come across before but sounds extremely fun, aromatic lentils and all - academic.oup.com/res/advance-...

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George Chapman’s ‘Old Lesson in Philosophy’: a new source for Ovid’s Banquet of Sense*

Abstract. This article presents a hitherto unknown, key source for George Chapman’s epyllion, Ovid’s Banquet of Sense (1595) and pursues the new reading of

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Friend and I are concerned that this doesn’t have a particularly happy ending so conclude that it’ll be the first of a series: Uprising II: 2 Merciless 2 Wonderful Uprising III: Chester Drift

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The Odyssey? Never heard of it. The upcoming Peasants' Revolt film feat. Andrew Garfield as Wat Tyler, however... www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3YO...

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The Uprising | Official Trailer (Andrew Garfield, 2026)

YouTube video by Entertainment Tonight

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Arcadia at the Duke of York: electrifying, spellbinding, captivating, synonym synonym synonym

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I’ll never get tired of manicules. Emphasis on sleeves today.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I had not posted about it but as I am now earnestly grappling with it: I am writing another book for @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Bodleian Publishing, 'Tales of Horror from Medieval England'. Expect translated narratives of violence, sorcery, fearsome creatures, the undead, and the end times.

A medieval manuscript illustration of a skeleton representing death holds a spear aloft, ready to strike an emaciated man who lies in bed, an attendant at his side. From Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 53 F. 118r.

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The MAMO conference is back! CFP below

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Sweltering in London for now but next week is the International Gower Congress in 💃🏼 Alicante 💃🏼 ! Can’t wait - speaking about Gower’s stubborn reception and a @lincoln.ox.ac.uk English student will speak on some original research on the Vox Clamantis

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Tackling the hardest thing of all today: graphic design. It is not for me. How do people produce such excellent posters? Although - have we lost the art of the conference poster?

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

An incredible article by @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social in @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social alongside some inspiring pieces. Inscription is probably the coolest journal around and Eleanor highlights some crafty Chaucerian medievalism!

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

An unusual initial today. @lincoln.ox.ac.uk lat. 59, Aulius Gellius.

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I love older scholarship. 1931, this.

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Has anyone on here viewed manuscripts and/or visited Milan's Ambrosiana for research purposes? Would appreciate advice!

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

We're on day 2 of our Teaching with Ovid conference! Kicking off with a panel about teaching the Metamorphoses. Later today, workshops on teaching with manuscripts and using editions; and more thematic panels. See the programme in the post below 👇

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Our conference 'Teaching with Ovid' kicks off today! 2 days of sharing pedagogical insights, theories, and practical exercises from 30 educators who teach Ovid, or teach with Ovid. Here's the programme, and be in touch if you'd like to join! drive.google.com/file/d/1nbLa...

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Programme: Teaching With Ovid 2026

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Just gorgeous - Jackie Morris’ ‘House Sparrows’ for the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk’s exhibition on birds. Our sparrows are especially cheeky this year!

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Is it just me or does this wagtail look increasingly lost? Sir - you can fly

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