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The Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds is a major centre for interdisciplinary medieval studies. Home of the International Medieval Congress and the International Medieval Bibliography. https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval
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We've had a withdrawal from one of these sessions and would be very keen to include another paper - please do not hesitate to reach out if you're interested, and to help us spread the word. Many thanks!!
#skystorians #medieval #medievalsky #premodernrace #imc2026
Yesterday I learned that there was a certain judicial ordeal during the Middle Ages known as the ordeal of bread and cheese. How have I been a medieval historian this long and been unaware of this? Please, #medievalsky, tell me Iโm not alone here!
In which we discuss oyster shells and candles, pigments and what to do when you have a hole in your parchment:
This image depicts a manuscript page from the "Guildbook of the Barber Surgeons of York" dated 1486. It illustrates the theory of the Four Humours, a medieval medical belief that temperament and health were dictated by the balance of bodily fluids: blood (sanguine), yellow bile (choleric), phlegm (phlegmatic), and black bile (melancholic). In the centre is a depiction of Christ, surrounded by figures representing these four temperaments. The manuscript is currently held at the British Library in London. Barber-surgeons used such manuscripts as part of their training for tasks ranging from bloodletting to surgery. Guildbook of the Barber-Surgeons of York (British Library Egerton MS 2572, folio 51v).
๐งตThe illustration โPersonifications of the Four Humoursโ is a coloured image in the Guildbook of the Barber-Surgeons of York. Produced there, around 1486 with later additions, the the manuscript shows the 'Four Humours' bodily fluids which affected a person's health and
This week! Don't miss it #medievalsky How did Queen Isabel of Castile and King Joรฃo II of Portugal deal with the loss of their only sons?
Includes free recipe for spiced chickpeas in cheese broth. ๐
Enhanced image of palimpsested page, original writing in red; a large illuminated 'E' can be seen in bottom right quadrant.
Somehow, an 8th-c. English liturgical manuscript ended up in Mount Sinai (where it was palimpsested and written over by a Christian Arabic scribe). For more info: Michelle Brown, austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572%2...
So excited to attend #ICMS as part of the Library Careers for Medievalists 1 roundtable! I'm very passionate about career development and alt-ac/ non-ac careers for PhDs: icms.confex.com/icms/2026/me...
Two Visiting Full-Time Faculty Positions in Spanish (Medieval/Early Modern Iberian Studies):
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Was really pleased to listen to these two great papers (L-R Saaleha Iqbal, Louise Simongiovanni and co-organizer Natalie Hopwood)
Join us on Wednesday 4 March at 4 pm GMT online only. Nรบria Silleras-Fernรกndez will speak on gendered mourning in 15th century Portugal and Castile #medievalsky #queenship #kingship #courtculture #genderstudies Go to link to register ahc.leeds.ac.uk/centre-histo...
"Kuwornu shares the diverse African presence in Renaissance Europe that he found: princes, ambassadors, saints, artists, scholars, and knightsโall revealed through art from the period"
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
Iron pan from 10th-century-AD York, possibly used to cook fish.
NEW Fish was a key part of early medieval Scandinavian diets, but lipid analysis of ceramics from Viking Age England found little evidence for aquatic products. Did Scandinavian settlers conform to Anglo-Saxon culinary traditions?
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If you are interested in medieval health, medicine and healing, broadly understood, then consider joining @leedsims.bsky.social #TheLongMiddleAges later today. The seminars are free and hybrid and you can still register to attend! #medievalsky
A โtemporaryโ but seven-year post in Medieval English literature.
This dog looks sheepish next to the initial-word at the beginning of Torah portion Tetsaveh (ืชึฐึผืฆึทืึถึผื). #ParashahPictures
BL Add MS 11639; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; 1277 CE-1324 CE; f.43r
Regular reminder that @librarycongress.bsky.social hosts an excellent large and extremely zoomable digitization of this map online: www.loc.gov/item/2003626... #HistSTM #MedievalSky
A paper ticket giving entry to Pontefract Castle grounds in 1881 for ยฃ1, with faded handwritten parts, and fixed to a piece of cardboard for safe keeping
Pontefract Castle is free entry, for all! But it hasn't always been that way... ๐ฐ
In the 1800s, the ruins were reworked into a Victorian 'pleasure park'. Entry was by subscription.
This ticket, giving a family entry for a year from August 1881 cost ยฃ1. That's around ยฃ70 today! ๐คฏ
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.
Poster for a talk that includes the following text: University of Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies and the Centre for the History of Ibero-America (CHIA) present: Nรบriaย Silleras-Fernรกndez (University of Colorado, Boulder): โWhen the Political is Personal: Gendering Mourning in the Royal Courts of Castile and Portugalโ Wednesday 4 March, 4 pm GMT (online only via zoom). Please register at https://forms.office.com/e/pF2WeLQX3d The image background is of an elaborate monastic cloister - specifically the one at Batalha in Portugal dating to the 15th century (author Raph)
If you are interested in queenship, gender studies, or the history of death and grief, please join us on 4 March for an online only talk at 4 pm GMT. Please register at forms.office.com/e/pF2WeLQX3d #medievalsky #earlymodern #historyofemotions #historyofdeath #queenship #kingship
Copy of medieval miniature of dragon with tongue sticking out and wings raised on a brown rock. Original from Getty Museum, MS. Ludwig XV 3, fol. 89
Same image showing all the medieval pigments applied
Here's a cute little dragon I painted on calfskin (copied from a 13th century bestiary) using traditional medieval techniques and pigments (labelled in second image) #medievalmanuscripts #medievalscriptorium #bookhistory
Poster for a talk that includes the following text: University of Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies and the Centre for the History of Ibero-America (CHIA) present: Nรบriaย Silleras-Fernรกndez (University of Colorado, Boulder): โWhen the Political is Personal: Gendering Mourning in the Royal Courts of Castile and Portugalโ Wednesday 4 March, 4 pm GMT (online only via zoom). Please register at https://forms.office.com/e/pF2WeLQX3d The image background is of an elaborate monastic cloister - specifically the one at Batalha in Portugal dating to the 15th century (author Raph)
If you are interested in queenship, gender studies, or the history of death and grief, please join us on 4 March for an online only talk at 4 pm GMT. Please register at forms.office.com/e/pF2WeLQX3d #medievalsky #earlymodern #historyofemotions #historyofdeath #queenship #kingship
If you are interested in the relationship between food and war, consider coming to the Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions in York on 23 April: www.leedsfoodsymposium.org.uk.
Really recommend!
BEOWULF BY ALL: "Readers will encounter the voices of over two hundred individuals, woven together into a reading experience that is at once productively dissonant, yet strangely coherent in its extreme variation." FREE OPEN ACCESS PDF DOWNLOAD:
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The cover of the "European Journal of Archaeology" featuring several thumbnail images of archaeological artifacts. Beside the image are banners reading "European Journal of Archaeology" and "Paper of the Month".
European Journal of Archaeology's #PaperOfTheMonth is "Diet and Mobility in Byzantine Western Anatolia: Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Ratios and Ancient DNA Evidence from Barcฤฑn Hรถyรผk and Kadฤฑkalesi Anaia" by Rana รzbal et al.!
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#openaccess @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social
Medieval manuscript illustration featuring a human figure in a patterned robe gesturing towards a rabbit playing a horn. The scene is adorned with decorative floral elements and gold accents.
Medieval manuscript illustration showing a person riding a donkey, followed by a running dog and a wolf. The scene is surrounded by decorative floral patterns with gold leaves. The text above is in Old French.
A medieval manuscript illustration features a person seated, adorned with a gold robe, and gesturing towards a green parrot perched on their hand. The scene is bordered by intricate blue and gold designs.
A medieval illustration depicting a person holding a circular object, possibly a mirror or shield, facing a creature resembling a goat with a long, curved tail. The scene includes decorative foliage with multicolored leaves. The background is parchment-like, typical of manuscript art.
Love Your Pet Day ๐พ
Medieval manuscripts are full of dogs, birds, rabbits and other companions. Sometimes helpful, often looking chaotic!
Shelfmark: Bodl. 264, fols. 20v, 57v, 58r, 20v
More pet content coming soon: Pets and Their People opens 11 March at the Weston Library.
OBS / Lincoln College research associate position!
We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Lincoln -- ยฃ500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 27th March
www.codicum.eu/news-and-eve...
Tuomas Heikkilรค is hiring a 4-year fully funded PhD in Medieval Manuscript Studies at the University of Helsinki within the ERC Synergy Project CODICUM. Interested in medieval studies, philology, history, art history, etc!
