Colleen Curran

I once introduced myself as Carolyn Minuscule while on a research trip in Germany.

Good news in the British Museum polling re. the Bayeux Tapestry visit: 71% of parents want their children to learn more about the story of 1066 and 76% of responses agreed '1066 is an important part of British history and people should learn more about it'.
Fund the Arts and Humanities!
#Medievalsky

Just try it: 'Primitus pantorum procerum praetorumque pio potissimum paternoque praesertim privilegio panagerieum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgantes'
(British Library, Cotton ms Domitian A IX)

Reading Aldhelm's letters aloud in a Moira Rose accent is very enjoyable.

The 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School, 27-31 July 2026 The School, formerly the Keele Latin and Palaeography Summer School, returns for its 49th year. In 2025 The Ranulf Higden Society took over the organisation of the Latin and Palaeography Summer Sch…

Calling #Skystorians #MedievalSky the 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School (formerly the Keele summer school) is open for bookings. 27-31 July in Birmingham. 👇

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When you stare into a manuscript and the manuscript stares into you

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Opening pages of Pauline Stafford's British Academy memoir of Dame Jinty Nelson with abstract text: Summary. Jinty Nelson was a leading scholar of early medieval European history, with a special focus on Francia in the late 8th and 9th centuries. She was at the forefront of a generation that re-vivified the study of the early middle ages, in her case especially concerned with the working of the Carolingian political system and the re-evaluation of the role of the aristocracy alongside king and church in early medieval politics. She was a pioneer of the study of women’s and gender history, demonstrating not only its intrinsic interest and importance, but also that political history could not be understood without attention to both. She had a deep and humane interest in the people of the past. Her academic career was spent entirely at King’s College, London, where she was an outstanding and much-loved teacher. Her professional contribution and recognition went far beyond that, and were marked by her election in 2000 as the first woman President of the Royal Historical Society. She became a champion of the subject and its teaching, wherever that was practised. In 2006 she was made a Dame of the British Empire for services to History.

Now available, the British Academy memoir of Dame Jinty Nelson (1942-2024), historian and first female President of the Royal Historical Society: bit.ly/4qUa0ua

The memoir is written by Professor Pauline Stafford @pstafford.bsky.social and available via @britishacademy.bsky.social #Skystorians

Congratulations! Please give Ozzy an extra pet from me.

Professor John Nightingale, iconic medievalist and Fellow of Magdalen, who taught me Einhard's Life of Charlemagne, retires this summer.
So Oxford and Magdalen are recruiting. There is no better place to teach and research medieval history than this: in the footsteps of Karl Leyser.

This has been a slog but I’m pleased to day that I’m currently checking the proofs, which means this book will soon be out in the wild!

Sure - it's 'et prosperis'

My favourite ligatures of the day (Vienna, ÖNB, for. 17r)

London International Palaeography School The London International Palaeography School is a series of intensive courses in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies.

Do you or your students need to hone your skills for working with medieval manuscripts? We have in-person short courses for you in June. Book now to avoid disappointment! 👇 #MedievalSky #ManuscriptSky

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AH-MAAAAAZING

I wish I could apply!

Sarah, Cillian, AND the project focuses on Vatican MS Reg. Lat. 2078? The dream!

The first page of the programme for the conference reads as follows: Rhagflaenir gan Ddarlith Goffa Henry Loyn, 24 Ebrill 2026 Preceded by the Henry Loyn Memorial Lecture, 24 April 2026 16:45: Derbyniad / Reception (Oriel Viriamu Jones, Prif Adeilad / Viriamu Jones Gallery, Main Building) 17:30: Darlith Goffa Henry Loyn / Henry Loyn Memorial Lecture (Darlithfa Wallace, Prif Adeilad / Wallace Lecture Theatre, Main Building) Yr Athro / Professor John Hines: ''Pentref diffaith' neu 'Dasgwedd': golygion ar y safle hanesyddol ac archeolegol yn Cosmeston, Bro Morgannwg’ / ‘'Deserted Village' or 'Taskscape': perceptions of the historical and archaeological site at Cosmeston, Vale of Glamorgan’ Saturday 25 April / Dydd Sadwrn 25 Ebrill All sessions will be held in the Glamorgan Building (Committee Room 1). Cynhelir pob sesiwn yn Adeilad Morgannwg (Ystafell Bwyllgor 1). 9.30-10:00 Welcome and Coffee / Croeso a Choffi 10:00-12:00 Session 1 / Sesiwn 1 Thomas Clancy, ‘What's the Commotion? Sound, Structure and Sense in Ystoria Gereint uab Erbin’ Natalia Petrovskaia, ‘“Revisiting the “Cauldron Story”: Some Implications of Fractal Structures in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi’ Kit Treadwell, ‘A widowed countess owns the castle’: Positions of Widows in Medieval Welsh Literature’ Jessica Shales, ‘The Arthur of the Welsh?’ 12:00-13:00 Lunch / Cinio 13:00-14.30 Session 2 / Sesiwn 2 Russell O Riagain, ‘The Welsh kingdoms and the Scandianvian diaspora, c.AD790–1110’ Buffy Revell, ‘Economy, Diet and Status: New perspectives on human:animal relations in medieval Wales’ Gwen Jones-Edwards, ‘Yr Hen Ogledd: Cyfarfyddiad y Gymraeg a’r Aeleg ar lannau’r Clud, ac olion y cyfarfyddiad hwnnw yn y ganrif rhwng 1150 -1250' (*‘The Old North: The meeting of Welsh and Gaelic on the banks of the Clyde and its traces in the century 1150-1250')

The second page of the programme reads as follows: 4.45 - 16.15 Session 3 / Sesiwn 3 Jenny Day, 'O ‘Gaerau Ffwg’ i ‘Dir Meigion’: hunaniaethau’r Gororau ym marddoniaeth Gutun Owain' (*‘From ‘Caerau Ffwg’ to ‘Tir Meigion’: Marcher Identities in the Poetry of Gutun Owain’) Gruffudd Antur, ‘Gutun Owain: ailystyried ei lawysgrifau a thymor ei oes' (*‘Gutun Owain: Reconsidering his manuscripts and lifespan’) Adam Chapman, ‘Negotiating the bounds of Personal Authority in the 15th century March: Edward IV and William Herbert through the eyes of Hywel Dafi and Guto'r Glyn’ 16.15-17:00 SSMLL Annual Meeting / Cyfarfod Blynyddol SSMLL 17:00-18:00 SSMLL Keynote Lecture / Darlith Gyweirnod SSMLL Professor/ Yr Athro Helen Fulton, ‘Political Poetry in the Wars of the Roses: Constructing Marcher Lordship in Welsh, English, and French’ Sunday 26 April / Dydd Sul 26 Ebrill 9:00-11:00 Session 4 / Sesiwn 4 Scott Lloyd, ‘From Tref to Cantref: Mapping Medieval Welsh Boundaries for the Digital Age’ Elissa Chiariotti, ‘The Rubricators of the Hendregadredd Manuscript (NLW MS 6680B)’ Pietro Giusteri, ‘A Digital Scholarly Edition of the Liber Commonei: Work in Progress' Makenzie Marshall, ‘The Missing Dark Dragon: An Exploration of the Modified ‘Prophecy of the Eagle’ in Peniarth 27ii’ 11:00-11.30 Coffee / Coffi 11.30-13:00 Session 5 / Sesiwn 5 Rhiannon Jones, ‘Courtly Love Codes for a Poet’s Politics: A Re-examination of ‘Rhieingerdd Efa ferch Madog ap Maredudd’ by Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr’ Josh Coulthard, ‘ “Boen ar Gymry beunydd”: The Political Worlds of the Uchelwyr in Fourteenth-Century Wales and Beyond' Philip Hume, ‘Cherchez la Mère (‘shulde Roger Mortimer [d.1282] of right have been Prince of Wales’?)’

The third page of the conference programme reads as follows: 1-2 Cinio / Lunch 2-3.30 Session 6 / Sesiwn 6 Luciana Cordo Russo, ‘Crusade discourse and epic elements in Kedymdeithyas Amlyn ac Amic' Peter McIntosh, ‘The Hidden Queen: Do the Hereford Gospels hold a clue to a lost queen of Wales?’ Brigid Ehrmantraut, ‘Geoffrey of Monmouth, Gerald of Wales, and the Ruins of Caerleon Revisited’ * Papers in Welsh with simultaneous English translation. / Papurau yn Gymraeg gyda chyfieithu ar y pryd i'r Saesneg. To register for the conference today, visit mediumaevum.org.uk/events/medieval-wales Registration closes on 20 April I gofrestru ar gyfer y gynhadledd, ewch i mediumaevum.org.uk/events/medieval-wales Bydd cofrestru'n cau ar 20 Ebrill. The prices for attendance are then given as a table. In person attendance for members is £50, while online attendance is £10. In person attendance for non-members is £60, while online attendance is £15. In person attendance for students is £20, while online attendance is free.

The full programme for the SSMLL Annual Conference 2026, Medieval Wales, is now available!

Join us 25-26 April at @cardiffuni.bsky.social and online for two days of research exploring the languages and literature of medieval Wales.

'I don't know; it might be there ;)'
(Although, to be very fair, I do get it if this editor was not able to see the manuscript for whatever reason. It is just very annoying.)

Screaming at this 19th century editor who just gives folio ranges for where the text might be 🥲

This is an odd and niche request, but does anyone know how the shelfmarks of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana would have been updated between the 1880's and now?

📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
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JELLY. They are so beautiful!!

As I said last week:

I did not see this last week. Thank you for re-posting because I needed the reminder

Oh... oh okay, then.

Explore our Latin Palaeography courses led by Dr. Marigold Norbye 26-27 Feb 2026. Choose between introductory or intermediate levels.

Discover more details about our introductory course here: buff.ly/xlyrEnM
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Vacancies - Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

Available Oslo PhD positions – heritage conservation, archaeological & paleoenvironmental geochemistry, & on the POLYCHROME project (concerning historical sources on changing attitudes to medieval objects after the Reformations in the Scandinavian countries) #jobfairy
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