Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖
@booksoflaw.bsky.social
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
Postdoc historian on the #PresentDead project
#ludonarratologist studying medieval-set TTRPGs & creating one based on the #Lombard laws: #LangobardRPG
he/him
Pinned
Happy to say, yesterday I sent off for peer review my edited collection on "Tabletop Gaming the Middle Ages", comprising eleven chapters addressing various aspects of the medieval and medievalism in board and miniature wargames, LARPs and TTRPGs
Let's hope the reviewers love it as much as I do!
🎲✨
Let's hope the reviewers love it as much as I do!
🎲✨
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My thesis is now available in Open Access!
repositorio.ulisboa.pt/handle/10400...
#queenship #medieval
repositorio.ulisboa.pt/handle/10400...
#queenship #medieval
“Pela Graça de Deus Rainha de Portugal” : funções e práticas da reginalidade no Portugal medieval
repositorio.ulisboa.pt
August 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
My thesis is now available in Open Access!
repositorio.ulisboa.pt/handle/10400...
#queenship #medieval
repositorio.ulisboa.pt/handle/10400...
#queenship #medieval
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CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns
🗓️ 22 May 2026
📍 European University Institute, Florence
👩🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni
🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick)
Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉
socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/ge...
🗓️ 22 May 2026
📍 European University Institute, Florence
👩🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni
🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick)
Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉
socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/ge...
Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns
Call for Papers Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns European University Institute, Florence 22 May 2026 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Violence puts th…
socialhistory.org.uk
October 9, 2025 at 6:49 AM
CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns
🗓️ 22 May 2026
📍 European University Institute, Florence
👩🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni
🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick)
Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉
socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/ge...
🗓️ 22 May 2026
📍 European University Institute, Florence
👩🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni
🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick)
Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉
socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/ge...
See @katexe.bsky.social, I don't _only_ talk about:
🌿 poisoning and
💀 grave robbing - I talk about
🔥 arson too.
...perfectly normal range of interests 😉
🌿 poisoning and
💀 grave robbing - I talk about
🔥 arson too.
...perfectly normal range of interests 😉
On my way to Gent for the "Medieval Texts and their Social Contexts" conference 😊
I'll be talking about the verbal repetition and orality elements in The Lombard Laws on Fire (Arson)
🔥📖⚖️
I'll be talking about the verbal repetition and orality elements in The Lombard Laws on Fire (Arson)
🔥📖⚖️
November 12, 2025 at 7:26 AM
See @katexe.bsky.social, I don't _only_ talk about:
🌿 poisoning and
💀 grave robbing - I talk about
🔥 arson too.
...perfectly normal range of interests 😉
🌿 poisoning and
💀 grave robbing - I talk about
🔥 arson too.
...perfectly normal range of interests 😉
On my way to Gent for the "Medieval Texts and their Social Contexts" conference 😊
I'll be talking about the verbal repetition and orality elements in The Lombard Laws on Fire (Arson)
🔥📖⚖️
I'll be talking about the verbal repetition and orality elements in The Lombard Laws on Fire (Arson)
🔥📖⚖️
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
On my way to Gent for the "Medieval Texts and their Social Contexts" conference 😊
I'll be talking about the verbal repetition and orality elements in The Lombard Laws on Fire (Arson)
🔥📖⚖️
I'll be talking about the verbal repetition and orality elements in The Lombard Laws on Fire (Arson)
🔥📖⚖️
Hi #MedievalSky
Does anybody have a copy to hand of Nicoletta Francovich Onesti's
Vestigia longobarde in Italia (568-774)?
If so, could you check if there is an entry for "asto"? And if there is, could you send me a photo? (I left my copy in the office)
Many thanks in advance 🤗
Does anybody have a copy to hand of Nicoletta Francovich Onesti's
Vestigia longobarde in Italia (568-774)?
If so, could you check if there is an entry for "asto"? And if there is, could you send me a photo? (I left my copy in the office)
Many thanks in advance 🤗
November 12, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Hi #MedievalSky
Does anybody have a copy to hand of Nicoletta Francovich Onesti's
Vestigia longobarde in Italia (568-774)?
If so, could you check if there is an entry for "asto"? And if there is, could you send me a photo? (I left my copy in the office)
Many thanks in advance 🤗
Does anybody have a copy to hand of Nicoletta Francovich Onesti's
Vestigia longobarde in Italia (568-774)?
If so, could you check if there is an entry for "asto"? And if there is, could you send me a photo? (I left my copy in the office)
Many thanks in advance 🤗
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Hi #MedievalSky, does anybody have a copy of Lisi Oliver's 2003 chapter “Who was Æthelberht’s Laet?” from Linda Hall's Confrontation in Late Antiquity?
Many thanks in advance! 😁
Many thanks in advance! 😁
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Hi #MedievalSky, does anybody have a copy of Lisi Oliver's 2003 chapter “Who was Æthelberht’s Laet?” from Linda Hall's Confrontation in Late Antiquity?
Many thanks in advance! 😁
Many thanks in advance! 😁
Hi #MedievalSky, does anybody have a copy of Lisi Oliver's 2003 chapter “Who was Æthelberht’s Laet?” from Linda Hall's Confrontation in Late Antiquity?
Many thanks in advance! 😁
Many thanks in advance! 😁
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Hi #MedievalSky, does anybody have a copy of Lisi Oliver's 2003 chapter “Who was Æthelberht’s Laet?” from Linda Hall's Confrontation in Late Antiquity?
Many thanks in advance! 😁
Many thanks in advance! 😁
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A hidden treasure of Norwegian medieval legal history - a magnificent illuminated legal manuscript from an edition of King Magnus Lagabøte's Landslov (Magnus the Lawmender's National Law) (Photo: The Royal Library, Copenhagen)
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
November 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
A hidden treasure of Norwegian medieval legal history - a magnificent illuminated legal manuscript from an edition of King Magnus Lagabøte's Landslov (Magnus the Lawmender's National Law) (Photo: The Royal Library, Copenhagen)
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
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My book is now available open access on project muse, with OAPen launch coming soon. Hard copies should start going out this week (if they have not already): you can get yours for 50% off with code SAR50.
November 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
My book is now available open access on project muse, with OAPen launch coming soon. Hard copies should start going out this week (if they have not already): you can get yours for 50% off with code SAR50.
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Debby Banham, Claire Burridge, Lea Olsan eds. Early Medieval Medicine in Context: Transmission, Translation and Transformation - Boydell & Brewer, November 2025
boydellandbrewer.com/book/early-m...
boydellandbrewer.com/book/early-m...
November 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Debby Banham, Claire Burridge, Lea Olsan eds. Early Medieval Medicine in Context: Transmission, Translation and Transformation - Boydell & Brewer, November 2025
boydellandbrewer.com/book/early-m...
boydellandbrewer.com/book/early-m...
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Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.
Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
October 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.
Just ran masquerade #TTRPG
players made into vampires in an attempt to destabilise Prince Katherine's city, in an attack led by the anarch powerhouse Mary. The 'lush' ancilla Lydia survived through the efforts of her bodyguard-ghoul hubby George 'Wick'.
NPC inspirations not spotted until after😉
🧛🏼♀️🎲
players made into vampires in an attempt to destabilise Prince Katherine's city, in an attack led by the anarch powerhouse Mary. The 'lush' ancilla Lydia survived through the efforts of her bodyguard-ghoul hubby George 'Wick'.
NPC inspirations not spotted until after😉
🧛🏼♀️🎲
October 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Just ran masquerade #TTRPG
players made into vampires in an attempt to destabilise Prince Katherine's city, in an attack led by the anarch powerhouse Mary. The 'lush' ancilla Lydia survived through the efforts of her bodyguard-ghoul hubby George 'Wick'.
NPC inspirations not spotted until after😉
🧛🏼♀️🎲
players made into vampires in an attempt to destabilise Prince Katherine's city, in an attack led by the anarch powerhouse Mary. The 'lush' ancilla Lydia survived through the efforts of her bodyguard-ghoul hubby George 'Wick'.
NPC inspirations not spotted until after😉
🧛🏼♀️🎲
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📗New project publication📗
"Liturgy, Literature & History: Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the Middle Ages" is now available #OpenAccess from @britishacademy.bsky.social & @livunipress.bsky.social
Free download here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
#MedievalSky
"Liturgy, Literature & History: Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the Middle Ages" is now available #OpenAccess from @britishacademy.bsky.social & @livunipress.bsky.social
Free download here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
#MedievalSky
October 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
📗New project publication📗
"Liturgy, Literature & History: Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the Middle Ages" is now available #OpenAccess from @britishacademy.bsky.social & @livunipress.bsky.social
Free download here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
#MedievalSky
"Liturgy, Literature & History: Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the Middle Ages" is now available #OpenAccess from @britishacademy.bsky.social & @livunipress.bsky.social
Free download here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
#MedievalSky
Making my way to Cornwall for my dad's 80th 🥳
Also to do:
📜🔥 Prepare paper on arson and verbal repetition in the Lombard laws #medievalsky
🎲💀 Revise character creation for my Re-Opening #TTRPG (a one shot spin-off from my #LangobardRPG)
🎲🧛🏼♀️ Run Masquerade for Hallowe'en
Also to do:
📜🔥 Prepare paper on arson and verbal repetition in the Lombard laws #medievalsky
🎲💀 Revise character creation for my Re-Opening #TTRPG (a one shot spin-off from my #LangobardRPG)
🎲🧛🏼♀️ Run Masquerade for Hallowe'en
October 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Making my way to Cornwall for my dad's 80th 🥳
Also to do:
📜🔥 Prepare paper on arson and verbal repetition in the Lombard laws #medievalsky
🎲💀 Revise character creation for my Re-Opening #TTRPG (a one shot spin-off from my #LangobardRPG)
🎲🧛🏼♀️ Run Masquerade for Hallowe'en
Also to do:
📜🔥 Prepare paper on arson and verbal repetition in the Lombard laws #medievalsky
🎲💀 Revise character creation for my Re-Opening #TTRPG (a one shot spin-off from my #LangobardRPG)
🎲🧛🏼♀️ Run Masquerade for Hallowe'en
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After 18+ years, A GIRL AND HER FED is done, at least for now. Everyone welcome our new god of joy to the Weirdness Pantheon.
www.agirlandherfed.com
#comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics
www.agirlandherfed.com
#comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
After 18+ years, A GIRL AND HER FED is done, at least for now. Everyone welcome our new god of joy to the Weirdness Pantheon.
www.agirlandherfed.com
#comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics
www.agirlandherfed.com
#comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics
Having a quick break and am re-familiarising myself with some of the first edition Vampire The Dark Ages (1996) rules for an upcoming TTRPG or two in the planning.
Jumping mechanics reveal more options for travel between medieval cities than I had expected 😉
🧛🏻♀️🎲
Jumping mechanics reveal more options for travel between medieval cities than I had expected 😉
🧛🏻♀️🎲
October 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Having a quick break and am re-familiarising myself with some of the first edition Vampire The Dark Ages (1996) rules for an upcoming TTRPG or two in the planning.
Jumping mechanics reveal more options for travel between medieval cities than I had expected 😉
🧛🏻♀️🎲
Jumping mechanics reveal more options for travel between medieval cities than I had expected 😉
🧛🏻♀️🎲
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Unexpectedly, the OA version of "Mediterranean Connections. The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756)", The Medieval Mediterranean 145 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2025), is already out! (first they told me 27.11, then 30.10) ...Download: brill.com/display/titl...
October 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Unexpectedly, the OA version of "Mediterranean Connections. The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756)", The Medieval Mediterranean 145 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2025), is already out! (first they told me 27.11, then 30.10) ...Download: brill.com/display/titl...
Finally continuing, and we're in Londinium
🎲 Pockets picked in the market, but Merlin (!) gave me a coin
🎲 In the squires mock quarterstaff battle, I fumbled and took 6 damage...
🎲 then after Arthur pulled the sword, King Lot tried to kill him. Shouted a warning, but got punched for another 3!
🎲 Pockets picked in the market, but Merlin (!) gave me a coin
🎲 In the squires mock quarterstaff battle, I fumbled and took 6 damage...
🎲 then after Arthur pulled the sword, King Lot tried to kill him. Shouted a warning, but got punched for another 3!
Yesterday I ran the 6ed #Pendragon #TTRPG solo-quest from the starter set, and managed to roll so badly that my Page:
🎲 Was run over by a hobbyhorse in joust training (took 6 damage on 1d6),
🎲 Got lost in the woods on a boar hunt,
🎲 Dropped a platter, got sent to the stables and missed the feast.
🎲 Was run over by a hobbyhorse in joust training (took 6 damage on 1d6),
🎲 Got lost in the woods on a boar hunt,
🎲 Dropped a platter, got sent to the stables and missed the feast.
October 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Finally continuing, and we're in Londinium
🎲 Pockets picked in the market, but Merlin (!) gave me a coin
🎲 In the squires mock quarterstaff battle, I fumbled and took 6 damage...
🎲 then after Arthur pulled the sword, King Lot tried to kill him. Shouted a warning, but got punched for another 3!
🎲 Pockets picked in the market, but Merlin (!) gave me a coin
🎲 In the squires mock quarterstaff battle, I fumbled and took 6 damage...
🎲 then after Arthur pulled the sword, King Lot tried to kill him. Shouted a warning, but got punched for another 3!
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Good News folks, you CAN now in fact, play this
The free demo for Legend of Khiimori is now available on Steam for everyone. Check it out, give it a try, tell a friend. Show everyone how much you want horse games 💪❤
The free demo for Legend of Khiimori is now available on Steam for everyone. Check it out, give it a try, tell a friend. Show everyone how much you want horse games 💪❤
October 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Good News folks, you CAN now in fact, play this
The free demo for Legend of Khiimori is now available on Steam for everyone. Check it out, give it a try, tell a friend. Show everyone how much you want horse games 💪❤
The free demo for Legend of Khiimori is now available on Steam for everyone. Check it out, give it a try, tell a friend. Show everyone how much you want horse games 💪❤
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Just arrived. The posthumously published book of my late colleague, Dr Colmán Etchingham. Thanks to everyone who saw it through to publication. We plan to hold an event in Maynooth to mark its publication (details to follow). Available to order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/vikings...
#MedievalSky
#MedievalSky
October 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Just arrived. The posthumously published book of my late colleague, Dr Colmán Etchingham. Thanks to everyone who saw it through to publication. We plan to hold an event in Maynooth to mark its publication (details to follow). Available to order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/vikings...
#MedievalSky
#MedievalSky
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these thoughts have been rattling around in my brain for about a year and i finally had some time to scribble them down. some thoughts on how games might emulate the act of 'doing' history
jenyth.com/2025/01/03/h...
jenyth.com/2025/01/03/h...
Historical interpretation as non-linear narrative
How games can reflect history as a discipline, not just historical facts.
jenyth.com
January 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
these thoughts have been rattling around in my brain for about a year and i finally had some time to scribble them down. some thoughts on how games might emulate the act of 'doing' history
jenyth.com/2025/01/03/h...
jenyth.com/2025/01/03/h...
I remember being at a conference in 2009 or 2010, and the American speaker paused to ask the audience how to pronounce Launceston - only to be met by a chorus of English medievalists all pronouncing it wrong... 🤣
Fowey
But the nearby hamlet of Penventinue will probably get even more people, and a bit further off Launceston for sure 😉
But the nearby hamlet of Penventinue will probably get even more people, and a bit further off Launceston for sure 😉
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I remember being at a conference in 2009 or 2010, and the American speaker paused to ask the audience how to pronounce Launceston - only to be met by a chorus of English medievalists all pronouncing it wrong... 🤣
Fowey
But the nearby hamlet of Penventinue will probably get even more people, and a bit further off Launceston for sure 😉
But the nearby hamlet of Penventinue will probably get even more people, and a bit further off Launceston for sure 😉
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 9, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Fowey
But the nearby hamlet of Penventinue will probably get even more people, and a bit further off Launceston for sure 😉
But the nearby hamlet of Penventinue will probably get even more people, and a bit further off Launceston for sure 😉
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New in open access #medievalsky: Bede's Medical Books!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Keepin' it Old School this time
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Keepin' it Old School this time
October 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
New in open access #medievalsky: Bede's Medical Books!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Keepin' it Old School this time
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Keepin' it Old School this time
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Our October hangout is coming up! Join us for some informal chat this Saturday.
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
Bodies and Being Colloquium
A monthly online gathering open to scholars of all disciplines and career stages who are interested in the pre-modern body.
www.eventbrite.ca
October 7, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Our October hangout is coming up! Join us for some informal chat this Saturday.
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory