iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Delighted to announce that we are initiating an annual autumn lecture series. The lectures will be held on Monday evenings at 6.30pm via Zoom and will last between 45-50 mins, followed by questions. Full details and booking information here: www.tickettailor.com/events/theec...

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The Ecclesiological Society

The Ecclesiological Society – Welcome to the Ecclesiological Society's ticket website. Here, you can sign up for and buy tickets for all of our events. Almos...

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

First proofs of the forthcoming book have arrived in my email inbox from Bloomsbury. In classic fashion: in the middle of frantic marking and at the start of the school holidays. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

gonna be adding this to my Medieval Animals syllabus next semester 👀

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Georgia O'Keeffe, Morning Sky, 1916 whitney.org/collection/w...

Abstracted image of a sunrise, in bright colors

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Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

rochester pals! the orchestra that I play in (URSO) is performing in the Prism Concert as part of Meliora Weekend next Friday at 8pm! free entry and everyone is welcome. 😊 www.sas.rochester.edu/mur/ensemble...

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Concerts

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wow, fantastic postdoc here - also pays v well, which is fair since you will need MANY skills www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSY956/p... If you've got excellent language, palaeography skills & specialist knowledge of medieval/early modern commerce, this is a job for you!!

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Merchants of the Staple) at University of York

Recruiting now: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Merchants of the Staple) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am honored to have been invited to give a public talk at Texas A&M as the Glasscock Humanities Center's Short-Term Fellow. The talk is on my medieval tattooing project, forthcoming from Cambridge UP. If you find yourself near College Station on Oct 28, come on by, my talk is open to the public.

Poster for the talk "Ethnographies of Skin" showing a tattooed Renaissance figure.

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Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

**COMING UP NEXT MONTH** ISMR presents: Francesca Ash, 'Ælfric, the Careful Translator(?): Departures from Source Materials as Teaching Devices in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints' Online lecture, 13:00 EDT/18:00 BST, Mon 19 Oct Register here: www.ticketsource.com/ideology-soc...

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"The Purpose of the Virgin Spouses in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints" at Online

Tickets are now available for The Purpose of the Virgin Spouses in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints at Online, Online on Monday 19th October 2026 at 6:00PM. Click the link for further information and to secur...

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Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am organising what I hope will be a very generative and inclusive conference in Oxford on Waters in Medieval Romance (8-9 June 2027). Please consider submitting an abstract to kirsty.bolton@ell.ox.ac.uk by 31st December 2026.

Waters in Medieval Romance
Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
8th-9th June 2027

Keynote speaker: Dr Amy Louise Morgan, University of Surrey

The element of water is hugely significant in medieval romance. Characters travel by sea and river; women rise from lakes to bestow swords upon kings or warn their daughters against sin; men and women cry tears that communicate their emotions; knights meet fairy women by fountains and springs; women bathe themselves or their children; lakes and streams provide entrances to Otherworlds and Underworlds; holy water baptises, cures, or reveals.
This conference is dedicated to representations and uses of water in romance texts, with a particular focus on the connections that water makes between both individuals and communities. Papers on romance texts from throughout the pre-modern world are encouraged. We hope to foster conversation that reflect the fluidity of romance identities. We invite papers on topics including but not limited to:
- Travel by sea, river, or lake
- Otherworldly waters
- Religious uses of water
- Water and gendered identities
- Water and national or ethnic identities
- Bathing and hygiene
- Consumption of water
- Fluidity and flux
- Connection, transformation, and stasis
Please send abstracts of 200-250 words for 20-minute papers and a short bio to kirsty.bolton@ell.ox.ac.uk by 31st December 2026.

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Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

TOMORROW, 13:00 EDT/18:00 BST: come see one of the leading lights of 21st century medieval studies give a talk on the imbrications of race, gender, and enslavement in the late medieval mediterranean world

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Nearly two millennia ago, a wealthy Roman commissioned an intricate, multicolored floor mosaic that depicted two beloved household animals: a cat named Emerald and a dog named Ocean." 🗃️ #Archaeology www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

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Stunning Roman-era mosaic discovered in Turkey features 'Emerald' the cat and 'Ocean' the dog

A cat named Emerald and a dog named Ocean were memorialized in a Roman mosaic over 1,800 years ago.

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Gwenffrewi Morgan @gjmorgan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Now published in final form with page numbers!

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Apropos Latin dictionaries, Lewis & Short is also available via Johan Winge's website alatius.com. I find it to be more reliable than Perseus, which crashes just about every time I use it. #LinguaLatina #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #skystorians #LatinLanguage #classics

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Lewis and Short

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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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Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

**COMING UP NEXT WEEK** ISMR presents, Prof. Michelle Armstrong-Partida, 'Enslaved Women & the Church in the Late Medieval Mediterranean' Online lecture, 13:00 EDT/18:00 BST, Mon 21 Sept Register for the stream here www.ticketsource.com/ideology-soc...

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Global Maritime History @globalmarhist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thank you to @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social for this fantastic post.

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What a great surprise today to find that my 2018 study on plague in East Africa--my first foray into laying out the global implications of moving the Eurocentric narratives of the Black Death onto a larger platform--has now been recognized by Africanists themselves! (Links in following posts.) 🧪🗃️

Quoted passage: "What Green (2018) terms the ‘living archive’ of genetic data extends, too, to disease. Combined with linguistics and documentary evidence, evidence for the evolution and transcontinental movements of the pathogen Yersinia pestis can help archaeologists and historians draw Africa more squarely into narra- tives of global history. Strains of the plague present today in the Great Lakes region demonstrate that East Africa’s history in the past five centuries or so is part of a broader history of one lineage of Y. pestis, a role for the continent that has hitherto barely been recognized, if at all. How this strand of the plague entered East Africa remains unknown but the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Ethiopia and trans-Saharan routes are all possibilities (Green 2018), with the latter possibly evidenced by terracotta statuettes depicting individuals with buboes and pustules from the Middle Niger region of West Africa (McIntosh 1998, 247–9)."

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American Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

HUMP DAY! 🐫 But also new episode! This one is about medieval caves, how they’re thought of as dark, mysterious, and passageways, and how @profgabriele.com & guest Alex D’Alisera would rather be inside. Enjoy! #medievalsky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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Medieval Caves with Alexander D’Alisera

Podcast Episode · American Medieval · September 9 · 53m

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Sven Meeder @svenmeeder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Proofs! Great to see the first contours of our article 'Law and Marriage'. It discusses the canonical tract known as the 'De Ratione Matrimonii' and offers its first critical edition + translation. Soon in Traditio, volume 81! See: canones.org/topics/news/

Preview of article 'LAW AND MARRIAGE BETWEEN THE EIGHTH
AND TWELFTH CENTURIES: THE TEXT, CHARACTER,
AND RECEPTION OF THE DE RATIONE MATRIMONII' by BRUNO SCHALEKAMP, GIDEON DE JONG, AND SVEN MEEDER
Abstract: The short canonical tract entitled De ratione matrimonii, dating to the late eighth or early ninth century, offers straightforward rules on marriage drawn from a variety of authoritative texts. Its enduring appeal is evinced by the survival of at least twenty-three manuscript witnesses from the early ninth to the twelfth century, uninfluenced by important developments regarding marriage within Christian society during that period. Despite its potential to shed light on fundamental thoughts on the topic of marriage within Christian society between the eighth and twelfth centuries, this short tract has escaped the close attention of modern scholars. This article presents the tract, describes its context and character and provides its first critical edition with an English translation. An examination of the text
reveals its dependence on a peculiar version of the Irish Collectio canonum Hibernensis, offering insights into the development of this important early medieval canonical collection. In addition, the tract is a rare example of a set of pragmatic guidelines for early medieval societies, through its focus on practical rather than doctrinal norms about starting, living in, and ending a marriage. The study of the
mostly fragmentary witnesses to the text not only sheds light on medieval concerns about rightful marriage but also reveals the conscious editorial choices made by individual scholars and copyists throughout this period.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just as an FYI this week on Gone Medieval it is just me going on and on about my favourite thing - Bohemian History. So if you wanna know more about Přemýšl Ottakar I, I got you. share.google/SLudihslceae...

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Gone Medieval

Podcast · History Hit · From long-lost Viking ships to kings buried in unexpected places; from murders and power politics, to myths, religion, the lives of ordinary people: Gone Medieval is History Hi...

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Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I now have a faculty page!! www.sas.rochester.edu/his/people/f...

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Jon Dell Isola @medievaljon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You can see an update about the Database of Medieval Digital Resources here, reach out if you are interested in helping out or want to submit a project! It's a great resource you should all check out: mdr-maa.org #medievalsky

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Medieval Digital Resources – Created by the Medieval Academy of America

Created by the Medieval Academy of America

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Hella Hannah 🌟 [Comms Open!] @hellahannah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The first Przewalski’s foal born on the steppes of Kazakhstan in 200 years <3

A digital sketch of a Przewalski’s horse mare and foal trotting on a blank background. The text beneath them reads “restoring the species with mama”

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Michael Eber @ebermichael.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We've extended the deadline for submissions for "Queer and Trans Medieval Communities" at next year's @imc-leeds.bsky.social to *8 September*! If you work on any aspect of medieval trans and queer communitie(s), please consider sending in an abstract. We'd love to hear from you!

As the existence of the trans and queer community is under constant and increasing threat across the world – with alt-right political rhetoric in the West seeking to rupture solidarity for and within the global queer community – the work of the historian has never been more vital. Historians have long found solidarity and recognition of queer experiences and practices with individuals and groups of the past. In concert with the wealth of current research being produced in trans and queer medieval studies, this panel session responds to the urgency of this present moment. In the face of existential threats, we recognise the importance of finding community with one another, which includes understanding our community has a history. This panel session seeks not only to contribute to transtemporal and scholarly trans and queer community building, but to better understand what historical trans and queer communities and practices may have looked like – including the mechanisms and structures that attempted to preclude such community formations. Engaging with and making legible such histories constitutes an act of compassion both with historical actors and with living members of our community today. It also constitutes an act of resistance, by finding existence and continuity in community.
Presentations may address but are not limited to the following topics:
-Cultivating cross-temporal queer and trans community
-How trans and genderqueer experiences manifest in the Middle Ages
-Spaces in which queer/trans community could be manifested in the Middle Ages
-Communal failure/loss of community
-A failing or absence of a trans and queer community
-Texts, codes, etc. used in constituting queer/trans communities in the Middle Ages
-Methodologies available for talking about trans/queer communities
EXTENDED TO 8 SEPTEMBER
TITLE, ABSTRACT (200 WORDS) AND BIO (150 WORDS) TO:
Michael Eber michael.eber@uni-koeln.de
Hannah Victoria hjohnson@aup.edu
Oliver Wilkin o.lg-wilkin@outlook.com

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

First pretty accurate depiction of Stonehenge, produced of course by a Flemish painter! Lucas d'Heere of Ghent, in 1574. It's his day.

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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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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

JOB: TT Assistant Professor, History, University of Ottawa Medieval/transregional requires teaching in English & French universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Conference: Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500-2026 in Lucerne, Switzerland, 8-10 October 2026. There will be a hybrid possibilty to attend, please register. #skystorians #earlymodern

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 23/08/2026

Researchers say texts from 12th to 15th centuries ‘hint at a culture which has not even been imagined’

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Manuscript fragments hiding in plain sight shed light on medieval Guernsey’s literary life

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🧵 Medieval Inquests & Bail Records I’ve been working on Inquests & writs of bail (C144 records) for nearly a decade. They’re a great source for many aspects of medieval life, not just the law. For instance, they reveal causes of death unrelated to crimes, e.g. drunkenness. bsky.app/profile/kfdu...

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Jonathan Hsy 許維成 @jonathanhsy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The semester is approaching! If you’re teaching race & premodern contexts, check out throughlines.org - premodernist scholars across fields (including literature & other disciplines) with informational videos, reading lists, classroom activities, and much more! @acmrs.bsky.social

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Throughlines — Race in the premodern classroom

Created by field-leading scholars, Throughlines’ pedagogical approaches offer accessible and critical ways to incorporate discussions of race in the premodern studies classroom.

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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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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

✌️please do get in touch if you’re interested in hearing about potential future Things.

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

@danlor.bsky.social and I are very excited to announce THE FOUCAULT CENTURY, a symposium at the University of Pennsylvania on Sept. 24-25 to commemorate the centennial of Michel Foucault’s birth and the 50-year anniversary of History of Sexuality, Vol. 1! This event is free and open to the public!

A promotional flyer for "The Foucault Century"

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Ellen Arnold @medievalpenguin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I am so excited that this is finally out! The series is the work of an amazing set of historians. I edited volume 2, with contributions from @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and many others --intended for general reference and classroom use. Tell your librarians!!! www.bloomsbury.com/us/cultural-...

Picture of a book: A Cultural History of the Environment in the Age of Emperors, edited by Ellen Arnold. There is a medieval elephant on the cover.

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’m thrilled to be taking part in this year’s amazing @sims-mss.bsky.social mss online lecture series to share my work on the pecia system and university book production! 🤗📜🎉 www.library.upenn.edu/sims/event-s...

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The Pecia System and the Medieval University Book Trade, ca. 1200-1340

Alison Ray (Royal Irish Academy Library) explores how medieval manuscripts were mass-produced at universities in the thirteenth century at low cost for members of the academic milieu.

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

as the semester sneaks up, 2 things of interest to you: 1/ What is AI and why is it happening to me? (CC-BY, ready for you to borrow, adopt, or invite me to do) hfroehli.ch/2026/03/24/w... 2/ my new article about why hosting all your projects on websites is bad www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Medievalists/Europeanists: if these two historic years of flooding are not already on your teaching timelines, they need to be. New narratives of the climatic & epidemiological histories of the late Middle Ages are forming, & this kind of evidence will be central. #MedievalSky #ClimateHistory 🧪🗃️

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Ruth Karras @rmkarras.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Berks workshops for early to mid-career scholars in the history of women, gender and sexualities. Papers from all time periods/geographies welcome in all the seminars, although I’d be especially happy to have premodern ones in the marriage seminar berksconference.org/big-berks-20... 🗃️ #medievalsky

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Big Berks 2027 - Berkshire Conference of Women Historians

2027 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Gender, and Sexualities Big Berks 2027 “Beyond Boundaries: Gender, History and the Futures We Imagine” Minneapolis, MN · June 10–13, 2027 Call for Pr...

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Isabella Lewis @irvlewis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Very excited to announce that I am co-organising a session with @nick-mayhew.bsky.social on Sexual Violence in the Middle Ages for the International Medieval Congress in 2027. We welcome all proposals dealing with sexual violence in the Middle Ages. See the CFP below. @imc-leeds.bsky.social

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

On Sept 28, from 13:00 to 14:00 EST, the editors of Medieval Feminist Forum are hosting a FREE virtual workshop on how to prepare and publish a journal article. Graduate students and ECR welcome ! Please register to attend no later than Sept 24 HERE (bit.ly/4qcwurp). #medievalsky

Register here: http://bit.ly/4qcwurp

AN ONLINE WORKSHOP
GETTING IT PUBLISHED!
SEPT 28 13:00-14:00 EST
Join the editors of Medieval Feminist Forum, Dr. Lucy Barnhouse (Arkansas State) and Dr. Basil Arnould Price (SUNY) for a FREE virtual workshop on how to prepare and publish a journal article.
We welcome any scholars of the Middle Ages interested in attending, especially graduate students and early career scholars.

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Juliane Witte @julianewitte.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I'm organising sessions about medieval female networks and communities for next year's (2027) @imc-leeds.bsky.social!! The CFP is purposefully broad and open, so do share with whoever you think might be interested and hit me up with any questions! #MedievalSky

In line with IMC’s thematic focus on communities, this series of sessions will explore female networks and communities in the Middle Ages from a variety of methodological, theoretical, and disciplinary angles. While many medieval sources focus expressly on men and male characters, relationships between women and female characters exist, even if they are sometimes hidden away at the margins. The goal of these sessions is to put female networks, communities, and relationships at the centre of our focus and thereby gain a more nuanced insight into the Middle Ages and our engagement with the time period and its various outputs.

In this context, both “network” and “community” are defined as broadly as possible, namely as relationships of any sort between medieval women, female characters in texts, and/or female audiences (both medieval and modern, both scholarly and popular). The aim of these sessions is to explore where and how such networks and communities can be located, how they are depicted, what effect they have upon their narratives or their historical surroundings, and how we connect to them now. The desire is for these sessions to be as broad and exploratory as possible, inviting scholars from a variety of disciplines.

Papers could address intersectional communities, religious networks, the performance of community, inclusion/exclusion, and much more in historical, literary, and/or material contexts. Doctoral Candidates, late-stage MA students, and Early Career Researchers are actively encouraged to send in proposals. I am planning an edited volume based on these sessions.

Please send an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short biography to juliane.witte@uni-tuebingen.de by the 31st of July 2026. Please do state whether you’d prefer to attend in person or online. Feel free to also reach out with any questions!

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