Medieval medicine just got visionary ๐ฟโจ
On 17 March, Lauren Cole @medievallauren.bsky.social will present: โTransforming Medical Knowledge in Medieval Europe: Hildegard of Bingenโs Physica'!
๐๏ธ 17 March
โฐ 17:30 GMT
๐๏ธ IN PERSON @ihr.bsky.social & ๐ป ONLINE
Sign up now: bit.ly/londonmedieval
Make Ready! ๐ฐ On 3 March, Isobel Barnard from @kingshistory.bsky.social will present: โThe Castle in 14th Century Scotland: A Sociological Study of Masculine Identity'.
๐๏ธ 03 March
โฐ 17:30 GMT
๐๏ธ IN PERSON @ihr.bsky.social & ๐ป ONLINE
Sign up now: bit.ly/londonmedieval
Talking baby snm!!!
#medievalsky
Oval made of steel and lead engraved with the words โThe Hour is Devoted to Revengeโ
Louise Bourgeois, The Hour is Devoted to Revenge, 1999
Next week join us online for a double bill โจ with curators Helena Lahoz Kopiske & Anushka Hosain discussing representing medieval Islamicate art at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid and @mfahouston.bsky.social ๐บ๐๏ธโช๏ธ
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
#arthistory #medievalsky #museumsky
Grey poster with the details of this termโs LSMS seminar. There is an image on the right hand side of a fragment of an early medieval Iraqi wall painting (OA+.10621) from the British Museum with a male face in black pigment looking right Text is as follows: LONDON SOCIETY FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES Winter 2026 Curating Medieval Islamic Art: Re-presenting Medieval 03 Islamicate Worlds Feb Anushka Hosain (Museum of Fine Art, Houston) & Helena Lahoz Kopiske (Museo Arqueolรณgico Nacional, Madrid) Online 'Out of the Mouths of Babes': 17 Reassessing the Lost Miracle Statue Feb of Saint Rumwald at Boxley Abbey Lucy Beall Lott (St Andrews) The Castle in Fourteenth 03 Century Scotland: A Sociological Mar Study of Masculine Identity Isobel Barnard (King's College London) 17 Transforming Medical Knowledge in Medieval Europe: Hildegard of Mar Bingen's Physica Lauren Cole (Northwestern University) 31 Harvesting water: traditional ecological knowledge Mar from Medieval Spain in practice and in research Camila Marcone (Yale) ALL WELCOME! Please book via bit.ly/londonmedieval INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Tuesdays, 17.30 Institute of Historical Research
LSMS winter programme 2025/26 ft. researchers across the ๐ speaking on medieval art/environment/medicine/architecture
Tuesdays, 17:30 (GMT) at the @ihr.bsky.social in Bloomsbury or on Zoom.
All welcome, register here ๐ bit.ly/londonmedieval
#medievalsky #skystorians
Bump for my CFP for Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Deadline 14 February! Have had a few abstracts already and it's shaping up to be great. ๐๏ธ
๐ฎโ๐จ check out this termโs programme at the LSMS - material ! textual! visual! culture - big range of temporalities, scales, environments, disciplines. Lets go!
Hybrid sessions, Tuesdays, 5.30pm
Register here ๐ bit.ly/londonmedieval
#medievalsky #skystorians
Looking forward to welcoming Dr Tim Pestell from @norwichcastle.bsky.social for this term's last seminar! Tim will be speaking about the redesign of Norwich Castle's Royal Keep!
๐๏ธ Tues 9 December
โฐ 17.30 GMT
๐ป ONLINE
Remember to sign up here ๐ bit.ly/londonmedieval
General Strike 100
National museums, libraries, archives, community groups, and individuals across the UK are marking the centenary of the 1926 General Strike.
All the details here: generalstrike100.com #GeneralStrike100
TOMORROW!! Come & hear the excellent Olivia Baskerville (@ies-sas.bsky.social) about the book trade in London & the national & local claims to #medieval material culture
TUES 25 NOV 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): bit.ly/londonmedieval
#MedievalSky #Manuscripts #Skystorians
Our next seminar on 11 Nov (5.30pm) Joanna Tucker @uofglasgow.bsky.social presents on multi-scribe cartularies and chronicles from medieval Scotland
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Hybrid session - join us online or at the Senate House @ihr.bsky.social
Book here โก๏ธ bit.ly/londonmedieval
#medievalsky #skystorians
@londonmedieval.bsky.social have the excellent Olivia Baskerville @ies-sas.bsky.social, medievalist by training, presenting her research on the 20C trade in &nationalist discourse around medieval manuscripts๐ 25 Nov!
AS EVER free & open to all, book here โก๏ธ bit.ly/londonmedieval
London local history and heritage organisations starter pack, now updated to welcome @londontopsoc.bsky.social to Bluesky! go.bsky.app/6ZX5gxf
***tomorrowโs @londonmedieval.bsky.social seminar postponed***
Insecurity of fixed term posts
70,000 HE academic staff.
Almost half of teaching only staff.
Two-thirds of research-only academic staff.
ALL on fixed term contracts.
This isnโt flexibility, itโs exploitation.
Live tomorrow at 7 PM we expose the hypocrisy at the top of HE: youtube.com/live/rZRbCP0YJโฆ
*Call for Contributors* The Medieval in Museums
@archumanities.bsky.social
Check out the full CfP via link โก๏ธ bit.ly/CfPMiM
Welcoming chapters/dialogues/critical-creative texts from scholars, museum professionals, creative practitioners
deadline: Mon 3 Nov (5pm GMT)
#MedievalSky #MuseumSky #CfP
๐ฃ Call for Contributors: Edited Volume - The Medieval in Museums
@archumanities.bsky.social ๐ผ๏ธ๐
๐๏ธ Abstract deadline: 3 Nov 2025 (17:00 GMT) โฐ
Full #CfP: bit.ly/CfPMiM
We warmly invite you to another term of exciting seminars - our programme this term explores manuscripts, identity, & heritage from Central Europe to the States, Scotland to the South East ๐
bit.ly/londonmedieval
Next week join us for the first LSMS seminar of the term with @annamolnar.bsky.social speaking on late medieval womenโs financial literacy!
๐ฃ๏ธOnline & in-person @ihr.bsky.social
๐๏ธ Tues 30 September
โฐ 17.30 GMT
โ๏ธ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Loving the responses and how much people enjoy beautiful historical writing! Do have a look through the replies for excellent reading commendations and add your own, #SkyStorians ๐๏ธ
Pleased to share the LSMS programme for this fast-approaching term ๐ featuring academics & practitioners working across times, geographies, methodsโ
as ever, *all are welcome* but booking required: bit.ly/londonmedieval
@londonmedieval.bsky.social #skystorians #medievalsky
New Call for Papers for more sessions on premodern race & racialisation at #IMC2026!!
@medievalgeorgie.bsky.social and I are looking forward to receiving your proposals ๐
If you have any questions, please do reach out!
@imc-leeds.bsky.social
#premoderncriticalracestudies #medievalsky #skystorians
I'm so proud to be part of the History Workshop project, supporting a brilliant team of Early Career historians who have built the best site for radical, engaged history online. Do consider applying for this opportunity! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...
Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers have become increasingly prominent themes in historical scholarship. There is, therefore, a pressing need to examine how these constructs have shaped the lived experiences of historically marginalised groups, as well as how they were perceived, defined, and engaged with by those groups. This conference seeks to reorient discussions around borders, boundaries, and barriers by foregrounding the experiences and perspectives of marginalised groups and considering how these divisions were perceived from the peripheries of societies. Rather than treating these concepts as abstract or solely geopolitical, we will explore the ways in which they have operated โ both historically and historiographically โ as tools of exclusion and differentiation. Organised by Natasha Jenman (University of Oxford), Naomi Reiter (QMUL), and Dean A. Irwin (University of Lincoln/OCHJS), the conference will focus on individuals, religious groups, social groups, societal constructions, and natural phenomena. Participants are invited to explore the role played by evolving borders, boundaries, and barriers in the medieval world as part of group identities; and how groups used them to their advantage. Likewise, it will consider the extent to which borders, boundaries and barriers have been imposed upon the medieval world by modern scholars. Possible topics for consideration include: โข Legal jurisdictions โข The natural and the supernatural worlds โข Socio-economic strata โข Ritual and religion โข Space, time, and the environment โข Gender and sexuality โข Disability โข Transgression, delinquency, and the grey middle space This conference adopts a broad chronological and geographical approach with submissions from all historically-related disciplines being welcome. The conference will take place on 20 and 21 April 2026 in Oxford. To submit, please send a title, abstract (c. 250 words), and a bio (c. 100 words) to: bordersboundariesbarriers@gmail.com.
Iโm co-organising a medieval conference next year in Oxford! Please take a look at the CfP and consider submitting an abstract, by the 15th of September, to bordersboundariesbarriers@gmail.com. We hope to be able to provide funding to help cover expenses of attendance.
#medievalsky #skystorians
back frm @themamoconf.bsky.social & inspired by
๐ LOCAL MEDIEDVALISMS with co-pannelists @maiablumberg.bsky.social & @linseyhunter.bsky.social
๐public interp of MA w/ @emilyrobinson.bsky.social & @krmaude.bsky.social
๐ practical resistance to far-right MA use @menysnoweballes.bsky.social
