@booksoflaw
Early #medieval -ist, focusing on the #history of #law and #lawbooks from the 6th-13th centuries. Postdoc historian on the #PresentDead project #ludonarratologist studying medieval-set TTRPGs & creating one based on the #Lombard laws: #LangobardRPG he/him
Screen from computer in War Games; Matthew Broderick’s face is reflected over the text: “shall we play a game?”
Another exciting #CFP! “Playing Camelots,” is a special issue interested in pieces that examine #Arthuriana in various game genres thru the lens of play, illuminating how Camelot continues to evolve—not only as text & myth, but as system, strategy, & shared experience! #arthuriansky #medievalsky
Screen grab of a call for papers at Leeds IMC. The text reads: TIME FOR CHANGE: TEMPORALITIES & CASTLES Call for Papers - Leeds IMC 6-9 July 2026 - 'Temporalities' What is a castle in time? Is there a time of castles, for castles? Can castles be atemporal? What does a castle studies engaging with questions of temporality look like? Whose castle temporalities matter? Can we call time on the castle studies of yesterday, yesteryear? Can the lens of temporality challenge castle knowledges and interpretations? This panel welcomes proposals which examine temporalities and temporalities in castle studies as a field of inquiry at the intersection of (among others) medieval studies, architecture, archaeology, history, heritage and medievalism. Papers of between 15-20 minutes, by researchers at all career stages, discussing any aspects of castle studies research including but not limited to the following, are welcome: • Temporality in castle studies; • Remembering and memorializing in castle Obscured history, identities and heritages in spaces, communities, themes: past and castles past and present present; • Medieval temporalities and the heritage • Temporally situated antiquity, novelty and innovation in castles; • Planning, timing, scheduling, recording in • castle communities, lives, societies; • Ruined, lost and fictional castles in time Parallel and contradictory times; • Time and temporality in the reception of castles; Please send proposals (a title and abstract of no more than 200 words; short biography of 50 words or less), or any questions, to Dr William Wyeth (william.wyeth@english-heritage.org.uk) by 15 September 2025. This session is organised by Emma Fearon (Nottingham Trent University) and William Wyeth (English Heritage)
Please share: due to withdrawal I have a space on my castles panel for #LeedsIMC.
If you’ve an idea needs airing on time and temporalities in castles, give me a shout/submit via link! imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/pre... @imc-leeds.bsky.social @castlestudies.bsky.social
Original CfP below ⬇️
I shall make it my mission to find some!! 😉
Maybe:
🐎 riding someone else's horse without their permission,
🌱 or jumping over the fence into someone else's garden
Happy Birthday!!!
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Kate. Kate! @katexe.bsky.social !!
I've broken my horrific themes of poisoning and arson and grave robbing steak! I'm doing corrections at the moment on a piece on *checks notes* ... ummmm... secret killing/murder...
Swing & a miss, huh 🤣
Want to know the date of the Tremulous Hand of Worcester, or why medieval documentary ‘forgery’ is, more properly, imaginative fiction? My book is now available in paperback! 🥳
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270086...
Hey #BookSky look at this AMAZING video narrated by @itsdanicarr.bsky.social !
3x Lecturers and 1x Associate Lecturer in History
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Did you know you don’t have to wait until every Monday to dive into material texts? 📚✨
Catch up on past talks (2020–present) anytime on our YouTube channel - revisit old favorites or catch up on what you missed!
Scholarship on demand, whenever curiosity strikes.
▶️ www.youtube.com/@pennsworksh...
page 211 of Rivers 1987 translation of the Ripuarian laws, from §86.2 (on poisoning/poison-magic where the victim surives but is injured) to the start of §88.1, where a person plunders a corpse before burial. The final law cuts off partway through, and §88.2 is ommited entirely. In this final law, the perpetrator has dug up the already-buried corpse and plundered it, and now gaisn the legal status of "wargus", that is "outlaw", (which is possibly a metaphorical 'wolf').
oh, actually, and the bottom of p. 211, as I think there might be more cut off from the page there in that previous photo 😉
Hi Sarah!! I hope you're well?
I'm here pleading a favour once more, if you're near the same library at some point and have a chance...?
Could you photograph the rest of Lex Ripuaria, §88: Rivers (1987) Laws of the Salian and Ripuarian Franks, p. 212?
Many thanks 😀✨
There will come a day when I can read about the Asturian king Fruela the Cruel without ‘Cruella De Vil‘ playing around and around in my head. Until that day however:
🎶Fruela the Cruel, Fruela the Cruel, if he doesn’t scare you no evil king will…🎶
#medievalsky
Ewe monster!
Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.
The lovely Michelle Pfeffer has invited me to speak at the Divination, Oracles and Omens seminar at Magdalen College, Oxford. 4pm on Wednesday 25 February. All welcome, free to attend!
My paper is called 'Doing onomancy in the later Middle Ages' and I will share more info as I have it! #MedievalSky
A copy of the book ‘Ancient Egypt in Video Games’ edited by Jennifer Cromwell
Always exciting to get the latest delivery off @dgb-history.bsky.social’s ‘Video Games and the Humanities’ conveyor belt!
Dare the Realm of the Sauvage King!
In the heart of Logres, an enchanted wood festers and grows. It is the realm of Madog, King of the Forest Sauvage, and it holds many great perils… and strange wonders. How will you fare?
www.chaosium.com/pendragon-th...
Hawks offered women both real and symbolic means to express gender, power and status within a male-dominated world.
Thanks for posting this! Apart from the anachronistic moments when people assume that early modern witchcraft can be ascribed to the early middle ages (waves at re[dacted] 2), I sometimes forget the 'recent' shit going on...
Added to my reading 😁
In the 1970s, an invention of tradition connected the fight for women’s liberation with the figure of the witch. However, this narrative grounded in male fantasies of the 19th century (Bachofen, Grimm, Michelet, and many others). The German “völkisch” feminism followed this pattern, as did Second Wave feminism after the Second World War, especially in its esoteric, spiritual, and ecological branch. The narrative gained ground in the European, the transatlantic and the postcolonial Women’s Movements. Modern witchcraft research has unmasked the “witchcraft narrative” as a mere invention of tradition. However, the “witch narrative” remains alive in the work of the Autonomist Marxist feminist Silvia Federici. The spirit of Grimm and Michelet, which had been conveyed via Gage, Murray and her epigones of spiritual feminism and eco-feminism, still breathes in Federici's books. This article deconstructs Federici’s witches. They are not the granddaughters of the witches who had not been burned, but simply the epigones of the witches invented by males during the 19th century.
SO SO GLAD to see a PROPER rebuttal against Silvia Federici's very wrong scholarship in the latest Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft! Thank you, Rita Voltmer!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Delighted that peer-review on my "Tabletop Gmaing the Middle Ages" just came back - and we rolled a Crit!
(*must* be published, with minor corrections)
Hopefully these eleven chapters on the Medieval and Medievalism in Board- and Miniature War- Games, LARP and TTRPGs will be in print 2026/27!
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Cover image for "How to Ensure Predictability in Legal Pluralism: Merchants and their Interaction in Late Medieval Europe," edited by Gregor Rohmann and Ulla Kypta.
A couple of new open-access titles of possible interest to scholars of medieval Europe -- this one on merchants, legal pluralism, and predictability in commerce: www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde... #MedievalSky
a graphic with classical art in the background - "dramatic scene with monks at a crypt". the text overlaid on top says: gothHoblin's grimoire It's our funeral ttrpg micro grants 6 grants - $50 USD each Applications open until Jan 31
In 2025 we raised ~$300 to fund a new website which remains unspent. As our final act upon this material plane, we will be using that money to award 6x $50 USD micro grants to ttrpg designers or content creators that could use a small boost.
APPLY HERE before Jan 31: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Just discovered that "Werkzeuge der Historiker:innen", which is intended to be a new introduction to the #historicalauxiliarysciences, also includes a chapter on genetic history by Jörg Feuchter.
#medievalsky
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this seems like an interesting conference cfp #medievalsky
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it's funny how 10 yrs ago historians would talk about how twitter would be the most amazing archive for future social history and now people are posting old screenshots going 'i found the tweet!' like they've unearthed a long-lost charter that was lurking in a dusty municipal archive in a small town
I am really looking forward to the release of this - Not least because the Pendragon TTRPG is looking like it will be the first game I run for the medievalists group I'm setting up here in Graz, and hopefully also in February/March too 😁
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I know, I've been almost hoping I'll add that typo in too! 🤣
Acquired - new muscle-memory typo (that I think I actually want to keep...)
🐒 'hegemonkey' for 'hegemony'
