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Louise Mathilde Simongiovanni @thefeorhhord.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I had the chance to present part of my research on the therapeutic relationship in Old English medical collections at the University of Leeds, and visit the city for the first time. Many thanks to Natalie et Saleeha for organising this and welcoming me, I had a wonderful time!

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The Long Middle Ages @thelongmiddleages.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Our third seminar will be on 26th February with talks by Giacomo Savani (University of Leeds) and Louise Simongiovanni (Sorbonne Université)! To sign up to attend, follow the link here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... We hope to see you there! #medievalsky #thelongmiddleages

A promotional poster for the third seminar of the Long Middle Ages

Date: Thursday 26th February
Time: 17:15-19:00
Place: Parkinson SR B.10 or Online via Teams

Speaker 1: Giacomo Savani (University of Leeds)
Title 1: Voiceless Spas: Non-Elite Sensory Interactions with Water and the Divine

Speaker 2: Louise Simongiovanni (Sorbonne Universite)
Title 2: Balms, Baths, and Beyond: Exploring the Therapeutic Relationship in the Old English Leechbooks

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Louise Mathilde Simongiovanni @thefeorhhord.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

⏳ Don't miss the deadline! You can send your proposal for the 'Beowulf & Circulations' conference held in Paris until January 10!

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Emile Parchliniak @emilparchy.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

📢 Appel à contributions 📢 Workshop : "Vers une approche pluridisciplinaire du jeu vidéo" Pour doctorant.e.s et masterant.e.s Date limite de proposition : 1er mars 2026 Pour plus d'informations ⬇️ pleiade.univ-paris13.fr/vers-une-app...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

In light of today’s conversation on academic accommodations, I’m going to revive a thread lost to time when I deleted my Twitter profile. It’s about a bunch of academic accommodations that instructors can offer in lieu of an extension on an assignment. 🧵

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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

My latest for National Geographic on the pervasive myth that everyone in the ancient world was ableist and eugenist. Featuring the work of @debscavator.bsky.social www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

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Did the ancient Romans really abandon people with disabilities?

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

We're at the Middle Earth map. We're at the subway map. We're at the combination Middle Earth and Subway map! And you could be too! These maps and more are for sale on my Etsy page! They make great presents for yourself and others! #LOTR #maps #subway www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...

Art. Subway style map to go with The Lord of the Rings, showing the different pathways of various parties throughout the book. The title reads: "Lord of the Rings Transit Map: One Does Not Simply Walk Ino Mordor When One Can Ride." The map takes up the middle part of the page, and there are two keys. The one on the left is titles "Standard Service Lines, and has color keys matched to the subway lines on the map. Lines are named:
"Shire-Bree Commuter Line
Old Forrest Crescent
Wildland Scenic Line
Fellowship Line
Gollum / Sméagol Line
Uruk Hai Express
Three Hunters Line
Fangorn Slow Service
Rohan to Gondor Business Line
Black Ships Ferry Service
Oliphant Direct Line
Army of the West Line
Gandalf Express

A smaller key on the right side of the map is labeled: "Limited Service Lines" and has color keys matched to the following names lines:
"Eagle Express
Paths of the Dead Line
Nazgûl Search & Resuce
Valinor Ltd."

A note at the bottom reads:
"* Mount Doom station only accepts Rings of Power in payment. Plan accordingly."

Art. Subway-style map of the itinerary in The Hobbit. The main journey is show in three different lines: red (Hobbiton to Goblin Town); green (Goblin Town to the Elvenking's Halls); and blue (Elvenking's Halls to Erebor). There are multiple stops on these lines. There is a yellow line going back from Erebor to Hobbiton, making stops at Beorn's Hall, Rivendell, and the Troll's Lair. There is an orange line directly from the Iron Hills on the map's right side to Erebor, and a purple line from Gundabad directly to Erebor.

The map's title reads: "Hobbit Transit Map" and there are directions for both There and Back Again listing the lines and transfer points. Between them, in the middle of the page, is a dragon drawn to resemble the dragon on Thror's Map from The Hobbit.

A key shows the names of each colored line:
Red: Western Lands Line
Green: Mountains and Forests Line
Blue: Barrel Line
Yellow: Gandalf Express
Orange: Iron Hills Business Line
Purple: Orc and Goblin Reserve Line

Text at the bottom right reads Surprised Eel Maps, 2025

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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📜Beowulf & Circulations Conference 📲Details: cemasorbonne.org 🏫Centre d’Études Médiévales Anglaises (Sorbonne Université) 🗣️Keynotes: Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn) & Francis Leneghan (Oxford University). 📅March 13-14, 2026 ⏰Submission deadline: 10 January, 2026‼️

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Florence Bourgne @florencebourgne.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

#medievalsky Learn to read Old English from scratch! The CEMA has been hosting monthly manuscript reading sessions at @sorbonne-universite.fr since 1984 🥰 We are now also online, one Saturday morning a month -- next session this coming Saturday, 10-12 CET. Ping me if you want to partake 🎉🎉🎉

Illustration = the Old English Hexateuch, w. an image of the creation of Eve.
Text = Everything you always wanted to know about medieval manuscripts — but were too afraid to ask
Attend the 2025-2026 CÉMA/AMAES Saturday morning sessions and learn to read medieval English manuscripts from scratch!
When — Saturday 10 am-12 noon — October 11, November 15, December 13, January 24, February 21, March 21, April 11, May 30, June 13
Where — Sorbonne & Zoom
To join at any point in the year, just e-mail us: florence.bourgne [at] sorbonne-universite.fr

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 09/11/2025

Demander l'annulation d'un concert politisé, c'est une attaque contre la liberté de programmation artistique, mais annuler un colloque au Collège de France, ce n'est pour son ministre de tutelle qu'une décision "responsable" 🙃

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Le Collège de France annule un colloque sur la Palestine « en réaction à la polémique entourant » l’événement

Le Collège de France « ne prône, ni n’encourage, ni ne soutient aucune forme de militantisme », a affirmé l’établissement qui assure de sa « stricte neutralité (…) au regard des questions de nature po...

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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 08/11/2025

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

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Florence Bourgne @florencebourgne.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

#medievalsky @cema-su.bsky.social is organizing a 'Beowulf & circulations' conference in Paris on March 13-14, 2026. Come enjoy a public reading of the poem, and two great keynotes! CFP & free (but compulsory) registration via the CEMA's new website: cemasorbonne.org

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Beowulf & Circulations

A website for Sorbonne Université's Beowulf & Circulations conference, featuring a home page with Sorbonne and Beowulf manuscript images, and easy navigation to the call for papers, progra…

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Cnut. He's forgotten about Cnut, who went on pilgrimage to Rome in 1027. Oh, and Edward I, who spent 2 months at the court of Gregory X in 1273. Otherwise, all over the detail, as per.

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Actuel Moyen Âge @agemoyen.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Aujourd'hui on vole les bijoux du #Louvre, et au Moyen Âge, on volait... les reliques ! Et là aussi, c'étaient des cambriolages prémédités et bien organisés... Un fil ⬇️! #medievalsky #medievalists

Enluminure du Moyen Âge montrant un voleur en train de couper la bourse d'une femme tandis qu'un sergent du guet lui met la main sur l'épaule

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Sébastien Fontenelle @vivelefeu.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

En librairie aujourd'hui. luxediteur.com/catalogue/to...

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Why do so many French words end in a silent x? ‘Cheveux’, ‘voix’, ‘paix’, ‘deux’, ‘mieux’, ‘faux’, ‘doux’ – the list is endless. There’s a fascinating story behind this x’s – or actually two stories. Click and zoom in on my new graphic to read about medieval abbreviations and imitating Latin:

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James T Palmer @jtpmedieval.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

New in open access #medievalsky: Bede's Medical Books! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Keepin' it Old School this time

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Louise Mathilde Simongiovanni @thefeorhhord.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Research day at the BIS, and a delicious Japanese cheesecake.

The main court of the Sorbonne under a cloudy sky

A cup of coffee, a piece of cheesecake and an open book on Old English literary forms

The cover of a French book entitled “The body in the Middle Ages”

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IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar @earliermiddleages.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

📣 The Earlier Middle Ages seminar @ihr.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Here's our autumn term schedule. First up is @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 8 October, giving the annual David Wilson Lecture (with @uclarchaeology.bsky.social). All welcome! Please sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Autumn 2025 schedule for the Institute of Historical Research's Earlier Middle Ages seminar. Full information available at https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/earlier-middle-ages

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UofG Fantasy @uofgfantasy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Call for Papers and Sessions Fantasy’s Present Pasts University of Glasgow Tuesday 23rd – Thursday 25th June 2026 Keynote Speakers: Stefan Ekman, Sofia Samatar and Helen Young More details on the conference in the post linked below - deadline for proposals is Friday 12th December.

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Fantasy’s Present Pasts – Call for Papers and Sessions – Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic

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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

#OTD 342 years ago, Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756) was born 🥳 A translator and a pioneer of Old English studies, she authored "The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue", the first Old English grammar written in English. #LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx

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Céline A Paris @celineaparis.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

J'entends Aurore Bergé sur @franceinfo.fr expliquer que les gens sont contres la loi Duplomb parce qu'ils sont désinformés. Désinformés par qui ? 14 sociétés savantes ? La ligue contre le cancer ? Le CNRS écologie environnement ?

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir
21 juillet 2025
L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024.
Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans.
Nous refusons de les voir mourir.
L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe.
Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias.
Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ».
Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères.
Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ».
Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%.
L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

'Ye' in names such as 'Ye Olde Inn' was originally pronounced 'the'. The pronunciation with y is due to a misinterpretation. 'Ye' originated as a second-best way of writing 'þe', þ being thorn, the original English letter for the th sound. Click my new infographic to read the story of thorn:

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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Such a joy to see this out in the world at last - and now available fully #OpenAccess from @brepols.net! Huge thanks to my co-editor @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social, all our contributors, & @researchireland.ie for making this project possible against all odds 🎉🥂 www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

👹 Possessed by demons? What a nuisance. But don't worry this herbal remedy will sort you out! The video features a 14th century German Herbarium (MS O.2.48) from @TrinCollCam, Cambridge, on display at our #CuriousCures exhibition. 🎟️FREE tickets here: loom.ly/kVqsPRY

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Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud @chercheurjuteux.com · 12/04/2025

Les gens qui gueulent contre Hidalgo et les décisions dans Paris devraient regarder ce genre de cartes et voir la réduction absolument dingue des émissions de dioxyde d'azote en 18 ans.

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Slippy @damnslippy.slippy.me · 06/06/2025

There was ZERO need for this paragraph about the power of slow consistent habit formation to be this sexy. I now ship the tectonic plates.

It is the human equivalent of geological
pressure. Two tectonic plates can grind
against one another for millions of years, the tension slowly building all the while. Then, one day, they rub each other once again, in the same fashion they have for ages, but this time the tension is too great. An earthquake
erupts. Change can take years--before it happens at once.

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The fourth and final paper for the Global Perspectives panel is ‘Gnosticism in the Medievalist Game Genshin Impact’ by Emilienne Parchliniak, is live on our website now! Come check it out and comment your questions: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=722 #MAMG25

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Gnosticism in the Medievalist Game Genshin Impact – The Middle Ages in Modern Games

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

One more bookish set for good measure. These biscuits are inspired by the weird and wonderful world of medieval illustration.

9 square biscuits decorated with illustrations from medieval manuscripts, including Reynard the Fox, a dog, a knight fighting a snail, a peacock, a hedgehog, a bat, and a fish. The set features shades of rich russet red, cobalt blue, gold, brown, turquoise, and green. Some biscuits include small sections of blackletter calligraphy.

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Actuel Moyen Âge @agemoyen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Et c'est reparti 🙄😑. Le youtubeur Casus Belli se demande dans sa dernière vidéo si "la première croisade était justifiée". On est dans de la grosse désinformation, pleine d'erreurs, d'approximations et d'éléments de langage de l'extrême droite. Un fil ⬇️ ! #medievalists TW : manipulation, violence

Capture d'écran d'une vidéo youtube intitulée "La première croisade était-elle JUSTIFIEE ?" par Casus Belli

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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

📢 It's #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week... 💻 A Thesaurus of Old English 🏫 University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social 📲 oldenglishthesaurus.arts.gla.ac.uk

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SHMESP @shmesp.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

AAC SocioMA | Pour une sociologie médiévale anr.fr/Projet-ANR-2... Appel à communica6on Premières journées d’étude du projet SOCIOMA « Penser la société en catégories au Moyen Âge » Oxford, 11-12 décembre 2025 PRÉSENTATION BRÈVE

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

‘Other communications show that researchers worked to remove the copyright pages from the books they had downloaded.’ If you’re a writer or artist of any kind, this piece will turn your stomach. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

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This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No “Economic Value”

As more than a dozen lawsuits churn ahead, newly unsealed case files reveal the company’s stance: The pirated books Meta used to train its AI, including ones by Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Woodson, and...

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The word 'fund' is etymologically related to 'bottom'. It comes from Latin 'fundus' (bottom; ground), which has the same distant ancestor as 'bottom'. These words have been growing apart for over 5000 years. A Latin f- where English has b- can also be seen in 'frāter' vs. 'brother'. Here's more:

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Mike MacFerrin @icesheetmike.myatproto.social · 01/04/2025

FYI Cory Booker is still talking. Here’s the live feed on YouTube if y’all wanna watch (or just check if he’s still on the floor): www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMx... He’s quickly approaching segregationist Strom Thurmond’s 24-hr filibuster record. About 71,000 ppl are watching live right now.

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Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker

YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I hate these arguments based on relevance but: 1. Latin is still exceptionally relevant 2. Everyone should have a chance to study it 3. Sitwell imagines a world of soulless worker bees who are allowed no interests 4. Doing interesting things for their own sake is an important act of resistance

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Fascinated by health and wellbeing? So were our medieval ancestors. Our new exhibition, Curious Cures, takes us back hundreds of years to a world of ritual healing and herbal recipes, stargazing, and surgery. 🔗Book your FREE ticket loom.ly/kVqsPRY #CuriousCures

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Delighted to share the beautiful cover for our volume, Towards An Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists, edited by Alexandra R. A. Lee, E. R. P. Champion, and me. Coming soon from @mip-medpub.bsky.social for the Premodern Transgressive Literatures series ✨

A pink and purple background with an image of a medieval manuscript in the centre, containing an illustration of a closed castle. A woman at the top of the castle looks down at a man outside the castle. A modern additional image of a ramp has been placed at the doors of the castle, extending out of the medieval border of the illustration.

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