Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesBeauty of a Game @beautyofagame.bsky.social · 16/10/2026The last time the Milwaukee Brewers were in the World Series you could get 12 8-track tapes for only a dollar through The Gorman Thomas Tape Club®. 681235302 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 16/10/2026As a kid from rural Wisconsin, outside Milwaukee, I believe I'm obliged to post: GO BREWERS !!!!!!! 281 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesWilliam Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 16/10/2026It is with overwhelming sadness that colleagues across @unibirmingham.bsky.social learned of the death last Friday of Prof. Chris Wickham. Chris’s colleagues and friends from around the world are invited to contribute to this online Book of Condolence: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/pr...birmingham.ac.ukProfessor Chris Wickham - University of BirminghamIt is with overwhelming sadness that colleagues across the College of Arts and Law learned of the death last Friday of Professor Chris Wickham. 13012 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 13/10/2026They continue to be fearless and foolish. 0162 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026 2550551033 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesWaterfront Media HFX @wfmhfx.bsky.social · 12/10/2026(Event ) Safety and consent have always been top priorities at Hal-Con ** Release waterfrontmediahfx.ca/news/safety-... 0208 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Our yard is full with baby red squirrels! They're just leaving the nests, adorable and so stupid. Walked up to one nibbling a seed in the driveway, and it eventually climbed up this tree to look at me while I chatted and took pictures. I could hear adult squirrels barking madly from other trees. 1214 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesKathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Many people like to laugh at medieval illuminations of stag-snails, oh those funny medieval artists making up anim... 61373358 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesCharles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 10/10/2026New to me: a Zanj rebel coin www.britishmuseum.org/blog/zanj-re...britishmuseum.orgThe Zanj Rebellion: an ancient coin reveals a fight for freedomDiscover how this rare coin provides insights into a bloody but little-known slave revolt and the people who forged a fleeting sovereignty. 23311 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesThe Medieval Academy of America @medievalacademy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Call for Papers - The Medieval Reception of Greek Antiquity The Medieval Reception of Greek Antiquity (CfP) The Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at the University www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call… 0116 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Our whole house shook over here in Sambro. 010 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesThe Medieval Academy of America @medievalacademy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Jobs For Medievalists Assistant or Associate Professor – Mediterranean and its Hinterlands, 500-1500 CE - Department of History Position overview Position title: Assistant Professor or Associate Professor Salary range: The current www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs… 072 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Enjoying the last flowers of this long hot summer. Our Rose o' Sharon always blooms last of all and this year is covered in blooms. Pale blue autumn asters are everywhere, the black eyed Susans aren't bothered by the cold anyway, and the squash keep putting out blooms but never fruits. So it goes. 1140 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesDr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 08/10/2026Punching my ticket to Kalamazoo 829091 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We've grown milkweed for a few years but this was the first when it was covered with caterpillars. Only saw one of them go chrysalis, but hopefully most of them transformed and flew off to Mexico. 150 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesSociety for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures @mediumaevum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Medium Aevum Essay Prize 2027 is now open to submissions! 📅Deadline: 12:00 midday (GMT) Tuesday 1st December, 2026 👩🏾🎓Eligibility: Graduate students and those who have completed a higher degree within the last three years 📝Submission: An essay of 6,500-8,000 words 🏆Prize: £500 11312 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesElizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"... the manuscript’s folded sheets may have originally been piled on top of each other as “singulions” ... but were mis-bound in a more typical “nested” arrangement at some point in the mid to late 15th century." Something sensible about the Voynich manuscript?! Mirabile dictu! 😱 #MedievalSkytheguardian.comA medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text 14710 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The mysterious death of a scientist at a plague institute in Siberia has sparked “next pandemic” panic. I wrote about what we know, what we don’t, why plague is not the Black Death in 2026 and the real outbreaks we ignore while worrying about hypothetical ones. bktitanji.substack.com/p/plague-is-...bktitanji.substack.comPlague is Scary but That Doesn’t Make It the Next Pandemic.Why a mysterious death in Siberia has captured our attention while far more consequential outbreaks struggle to do the same 1013750 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesMonica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#MedievalSky In case your students this week come in w/ questions about the Russian plague case currently in the news, you can tell them: 1) if this is plague (Yersinia pestis), there is nothing unusual about it (a) being in Russia or (b) being the subject of lab research. Plague is worldwide. 27037 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesJoëlle @realrollo-koster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Pope Leo gave a Golden Rose to Lourdes, I had to say something: theconversation.com/what-1-000-y...theconversation.comWhat 1,000 years of golden roses tell us about popes’ authority and influence, from Leo IX to Leo XIVPopes have bestowed golden roses on warriors, rulers, women – and, increasingly in recent decades, shrines. 032 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This put me in a brief panic and I had to check the section on black bile in one of my books to make sure I didn't write it! 010 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Well, that's a lot closer to the likely real number than those who still quote Dan Brown ! as evidence, who said 5 million women were burnt at the stake (yes I know, in a novel, but it pretends to truthiness). 110 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I spent too long trying to find a camouflaged moth or brown creeper before actually reading your description! 010 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval Remediesthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Today, Oct 4, is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi: the day when you can bring your pets to church for a blessing. 501453427 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Did my first sea turtle patrol walk of the season. Unseasonably warm so the turtles are probably not getting cold shock yet! Visited with the stinky cormorant colony but not too close. 0110 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026So, is the frog Carter, or Dyspepsia? 030 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesKatherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Come work with us at Winchester! We're hiring a 0.5FTE open-ended contract in pre-1800 English Lit. Details at the link. Deadline 14 October. Please share! Lecturer in English Literature at University of Winchester share.google/2la1PLwY1Tey...share.googleLecturer in English Literature at University of WinchesterAn opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in English Literature is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings. 1128 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesRosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026Butterbutt. An older comic. 233023746 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm doing something similar, but rather darker: a Golgari plague deck. Every card fits the history of the Black Death or modern epidemiology of plague. There are a lot of disease-themed cards in MTG! 110 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Only 91 more, keep it going!! 010 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesBad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A few years ago, this post of mine went viral (millions and millions of views) and it continues to circulate every few months. It seems to be making the rounds again. Posting it again here in case anyone needs this today. - Doug Murano, Founder & CEO, Bad Hand Books 1133682 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesKatherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hwaet! 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...winchester.ac.uk 01515 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesElizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"What the islanders discovered were extensive burial grounds, decorated stonework and early buildings – all the features belonging to a major sixth-century monastery, comparable to the much better known site of Iona a little to the south-west." #MedievalSky www.theguardian.com/science/2026...theguardian.com‘Hugely exciting’ finds on tiny Scottish island shed light on spread of ChristianityCommunity-funded archaeological excavations of ‘really important’ sixth-century monastery also rewrite story of Lismore 03813 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesThe Medieval Academy of America @medievalacademy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jobs For Medievalists The Department of History at Johns Hopkins University invites applications for a full-time position in Medieval European and/or Mediterranean History (400-1500) at the rank of Associate Professor (with www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs… 01010 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I wonder how he makes his hit lists. I'm not a Shakespearean of any sort. 221 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026He got me twice over the years, and of course cursed me out for not replying. I wonder just how many total have been Tarica’ed? 160 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Quite a story from my home county. Worth mentioning this is also where Stevie Ray Vaughan crashed and died. 170 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesDr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Migrations. From ‘Ortus sanitatis’ (Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach, 23 June 1491). Inc.3.A.1.8[37] @theulspeccoll.bsky.social cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-INC-... 14312 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesMonica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Very cool! The Medieval Academy of America & @uchicagopress.bsky.social have kindly agreed to temporarily lift the paywall on a short essay I published a few months ago: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/.... Dating, dating, dating. Vital for the historian; essential for interdisc. dialogue.journals.uchicago.eduThe Future of Time: Methodological Dialogues between Philology, Archaeology, and Genomics | Speculum: Vol 101, No 1 26427 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesDr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️🌈 @benwt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Call for papers! “Reading Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Religion and Politics: Marginalia and Manuscripts” @rorymaclellan.bsky.social and I are putting together a panel for next year’s SRS conference in London. Deadline for 200 word abstracts is tomorrow Please get in touch and repost! 12018 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm currently finishing a critical edition of Henry Daniel's medical compendium, "Aaron Danielis", with Tess Tavormina and Sarah Star. Perhaps will be out late 2027. An amazing work, with over 2000 entries, not just herbal, but culinary, household, chemical, lapidary, lexicographical, hospital, etc. 260 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I hereby elect the Les Mis/Rage Against the Machine mashup quilt for U.S. president. We just need a constitutional amendment to allow textiles to hold office. 0201 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Daniel also gives evidence for professional soap making by the "saponarii". He includes lye (lexiva) in his herbal and describes it as "gutta saponarij prima fortis", "first strong flow of the soapmaker". This refers to water dripped (gutta) through wood ashes to make potash lye, necessary for soap. 170 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Much of Henry Daniel's information about manufactured soaps is translated from a twelfth-century Latin herbal from Italy known as "Circa instans", which in turn relied on information from Arabic books and physicians. But the information was still likely relevant and valid in later medieval England. 1131 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Many plants contain saponins, organic chemicals that lather in water and can be used like soap. "Soapwort" obviously is one of the best known and soapiest, but soybeans, corn-cockle, baby's breath, also lather. Henry Daniel mentions "crowsoap" often as a soap plant, but I haven't identified it yet. 2140 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Tagging @fakehistoryhunter.net @michellefranklin.bsky.social for medieval bathing 270 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Some of his Middle English description: "Sapo: sope. Þer is o sope spatanticus & þat is Frenche sope; & sapo note muscat, & hard sope, & nesch sope, qwich is blac sope. Sope is hot & dry. Sope sarazyn, sope spacareus, & Iewes sope þat the wasch with silk, qwich is migthi for brennyng & scaldyng." 1110 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 24/09/202614th English herbalist Henry Daniel included soap in his herbal, and described French soap, nutmeg soap, soft soap, black soap, "Saracen soap" (i.e. Muslim), soap the Jews use to wash silk. He prescribed it medically with warm water for skin conditions: "scabbe", serpigo, impetigo. #histmed #medhist 1130 0
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So much I love here (busy nuns! soapwort marginalia! medieval people kept clean!), but the plant was called "saponaria" not "saponifera". Soapwort was used for washing, but real soap was made in many medieval homes, and imported in large quantities and many varieties. 23412 0
Reposted by Dr. Black's Medieval RemediesJesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A carved "pillar-biter" from the church of St. Bavo in Haarlem, from 1509-1517. With roots in Medieval iconography, pillar-biters represented hypocrisy and false piety. More here: www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/dev... 35957221 0