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Michael Eber
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Early Medievalist, late to bluesky
Postdoc at Uni Köln
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Michael Eber @ebermichael.bsky.social · Nov 27
Hello Bluesky! I've left it long enough, so here's my introduction: I'm an early medievalist at Uni Cologne working on Latin vitae of trans monks. Aside from trans and queer history, I'm interested in Mediterranean connectivity in the Early Middle Ages, and in book/manuscript history.
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okwonga.bsky.social
So the main culture war in Germany, fought by the country’s leader, is that despite mass deportations there are still too many non-white men in German cities: which needs to change so that white German daughters can feel safer. That’s an actual position that he is taking. An incitement to violence.
jhillje.bsky.social Johannes Hillje @jhillje.bsky.social · Oct 20
“Ich habe gar nichts zurückzunehmen”

- sagt #Merz heute zu seiner “wir haben im Stadtbild noch dieses Problem”-Äußerung in Bezug auf Migration.
October 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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aspencerhall.bsky.social
Today, I resigned as Series Editor of the Hagiography beyond Tradition series & member of the Academic Board for the Premodern Health Disease and Disability series at @amsterdamupress.bsky.social with immediate effect. If any other SEs/Board Members wants to talk about my rationale, my DMs are open
aspencerhall.bsky.social Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · Jul 8
New era of @amsterdamupress.bsky.social under T&F ownership is not going well for its medievalist authors. This week is the flagship European conference for medieval studies @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2025. AUP listed as an exhibitor at book fair, incl in programme. No sign of them, online or irl
July 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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thiliel.bsky.social
Tomorrow evening at #IMC2025 come to our roundtable discussion with @chillrike.bsky.social @blairapgar.bsky.social “Let’s Continue to Get Uncomfortable!: Doing Intersectionality". You can also attend online. If you can't attend in person but you want to work with us, drop us a line here! 💕
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July 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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pastpresentsoc.bsky.social
We were pleased to support the Trans Sainthood in Translation, ca. 400–1500 Conference @ghilondon.bsky.social‬ on 22-23 May 2025

Here the organisers reflect upon the event:

pastandpresent.org.uk/reflections-...
Reflections on ‘Trans Sainthood in Translation, ca. 400–1500’ - Past and Present
by Dr Mariana Bodnaruk (Masaryk University Brno), Dr Stephan Bruhn (German Historical Institute London), and Dr Michael Eber (University of Cologne) On 22–23 May, the German Historical Institute in Lo...
pastandpresent.org.uk
July 1, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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alexsaysstuff.bsky.social
This always bears repeating. Getting a GRC is supposed to be the final confirmation, not the first step. Saying you shouldn't live as your acquired gender until you already have a GRC is a bit like saying you shouldn't live in the UK until you're already a British citizen.
cherylmorgan.bsky.social Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · Jun 6
A couple of things come to mind here. Firstly Reindorf clearly has no idea how the transition process actually works. You have to live fully in your new gender before you can qualify for a GRC, and that includes using the correct toilet.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights
Akua Reindorf said law never permitted self-ID, but trans campaigners call remarks ‘profoundly unhelpful’
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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aspencerhall.bsky.social
Hello friend

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Two copies of the book Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages
May 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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downham.bsky.social
Excellent presentations by researchers in Liverpool today and researchers in London yesterday incl. @natashaamberjo.bsky.social and @aspencerhall.bsky.social. This is all the things I hoped for from academia - learning, sharing knowledge & seeing the next generation rise.
downham.bsky.social Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · May 22
Off to London to be a proud PhD advisor at the Trans Saints conference, visit another PhD and attend a couple of events at the Irish embassy including one for ‘Gaeltacht chois Tamaise 2025’ then back for Graduate Day in Liverpool ❤️ cnag.london/imeachtai
May 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
ebermichael.bsky.social
It's happening today!!
www.ghil.ac.uk/events/confe...
May 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
ebermichael.bsky.social
Once more for the morning crowd: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/confe...
April 30, 2025 at 6:09 AM
ebermichael.bsky.social
Excited to finally share the program for "Trans Sainthood in Translation, ca. 400-1500" at @ghilondon.bsky.social on 22-23 May 🏳️‍⚧️🌈 If you are interested in trans saints anywhere from late antique Egypt to late medieval Iceland, join us on zoom! Registration at wwwghil.ac.uk/events/confe...
Poster for the conference "Trans Sainthood in Translation, ca. 400-1500", 22-23 May 2025 at German Historical Institute London. More information at www.ghil.ac.uk. In the background behin the title, there is a 13th century depiction of a child looking at a monk (Saint Marina/Marinus) from the manuscript Zwettl, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 13, with an added visual effect that makes it look like white light is coming from the child's eyes and being refracted into rainbow colors by the saint's halo. At the bottom, the logos of the sponsors of the conference: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, German Historical Institute London, the Hagiography Society, and the Past&Present Society. Program for Day 1 of the conference "Trans Sainthood in Translation": 22 May Welcome and Introduction: 9:00–9:30 Stephan Bruhn (German Historical Institute, London) Session 1: 9:30–11:00 Jenny Albani (Greek Ministry of Culture, Athens): The Holy Memory of a Transgender Saint in the Christian East: The Cult and Image of Pelagia the Penitent Julie Van Pelt (Universiteit Gent): Trans Sainthood and Metaphrasis: Re-writing Gender in the Metaphrastic Life of Theodora/-us of Alexandria (BHG 1730) Charles Kuper (University of Tennessee, Knoxville): Translating the Lives of Trans Saints. Crossing Time and Space in the Greek, Latin, and Syriac Lives of Euphrosyne/Smaragdos Coffee Break: 11:00–11:30 Session 2: 11:30–12:30 Michael Eber (Universität zu Köln): Lost in Translation? Defusing the Lives of Trans Saints in Latin Translation Mariana Bodnaruk (Masarykova Univerzita, Brno): Pelagia*us’ Gender Performance in Church Slavonic Versions of the Life Lunch Break: 12:30–14:00 Session 3: 14:00–15:30 Gabrielle Bychowski (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland): Imago Transvesti: St. Marinos, the Images of a Transgender God Arietta Papaconstantinou (Aix-Marseille Université): Authorial authority. Who defines the gender of Marina/Marinos (and others)? Luis Josué Salés (Scripps College, Claremont): Exporting Greco-Roman Androprimacy? Perils of Translating Trans Saints Lives into Ethiopian and Syrian Contexts Coffee Break: 15:30–16:00 Keynote 1: 16:00–17:00 Roland Betancourt (University of California Irvine): Trans In/visibility in Byzantium: Resistance, Resilience, Refusal Conference Dinner: 19:00 Program for Day 2 of the conference "Trans Sainthood in Translation": 23 May Session 4: 09:00–10:30 Juliette Vuille (Université de Lausanne): “We are Family”: Familial Ties as Gender Correction in Old English Trans Lives Clovis Maillet (Villa Medici, Rome): Eugeni/e, Hiacynth and Prothus between Genders: Images and Texts in Latin, Greek and Old English James Davison (University of Liverpool): Ælfric, Eugenia*us, and Euphrosyne*Smaragdus: Trans saints in early Medieval England Coffee Break: 10:30–11:00 Session 5: 11:00–12:00 Robert Mills (University College London): Eugenia*us in Translation: Art, Liturgy, and Landscape in Iberia Leticia Ding (Université de Lausanne): Dieudonnée, Marine and Eufrosine: Three Shades of Gender Crossing Lunch Break: 12:00–13:00 Session 6: 13:00–14:00 Johannes Traulsen (Freie Universität Berlin): Age and Asceticism in the Medieval German Vitae of Trans Saints Natasha Bradley (Lincoln College, University of Oxford): Cross-Dressing Saints in Old Norse Translation: Marina the Monk and Pelagia the Penitent Keynote 2: 14:00–15:00 Alicia Spencer-Hall (University College London): Trans Monasticism and the Trans Hagiographic Impulse: Genders, Texts, Lives Concluding Remarks: 15:00–15:15 Michael Eber (Universität zu Köln)
April 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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badgayspod.bsky.social
If you are trans, this list has resources that might help you. If you can afford the time or money, this list has organizations that need your support to keep trans people in the UK alive against the express wishes of that country’s media and political elite goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...
April 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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aspencerhall.bsky.social
Cannot wait for this to be out in the world, current ETA for hardcopy is late spring

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

@amsterdamupress.bsky.social @parkerchronicle.bsky.social

#CripSky #DisabilitySky #MedievalSky #Skystorians 🗃️
Front cover of Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages. On a pale grey background, a medieval wooden crucifix casts a shadow to its right. Christ is missing his arms and part of his left lower leg. The Crucific is worn, in the process of disintegration. This volume significantly expands current understandings of both disability and sanctity in the Middle Ages. Across the collection, heterogeneous constructions, and experiences, of disability and holiness are excavated. Analyses span the tenth to the fourteenth century, with discussion of holy men and holy women, Western Christian and Buddhist traditions, hagiographic texts, images, and artefacts. Each chapter underscores that disability and sanctity co-exist with a vast array of connotations, not just fully positive or fully negative, but also every inflection in between. The collection is a powerful rebuttal to the notion of the integral relationship of disability—medieval and otherwise—with sin, stigma, and shame. So doing, it recentres medieval disability history as a lived history that merits exploration and celebration. In this way, the volume serves to reclaim sanctity in disability histories as a means to affirm the possibility of radical disability futures.
February 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
ebermichael.bsky.social
Might I add the important nuance that all the nerds involved in that schism agreed that the answer to both was "yes", but split the church over whether it was ok to posthumously honor one specific guy for saying "yes" to both in a way that was specifically worded to _not_ piss anybody off...
lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · Feb 17
i think a lot of catholic history happened because people were bored. why else would the acacian schism, which hinged on whether jesus was "fully divine and fully human" or whether he was "one person with a divine and human nature", last 35 years. there was just nothing else to talk about i guess
February 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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tarekshuk.bsky.social
Auch wenn in den heutigen Abstimmungen SPD und Grüne nicht mitgestimmt haben, so hat ihre Politik, haben Wettläufe um inhumane Grenzpolitiken und offen rassistisches Hetzen zwischen den bürgerlichen und rechten Parteien diesen Tag erst möglich gemacht. Eure Brandmauer my Ass.
January 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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politicalbeauty.bsky.social
Friedrich Merz hat heute eines sehr verantwortlich klar gemacht: Wer die CDU wählt, wählt AfD.
January 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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livunipress.bsky.social
We are delighted to launch Essays in Long Late Antiquity: a new #OpenAccess journal in the field of first millennium studies encouraging interdisciplinary and superregional approaches, edited by @calthalas.bsky.social & Jakob Riemenschneider. Find out more: bit.ly/ELLA-blog @unierfurt.bsky.social
The new journal launched by LUP, Essays in Late Long Antiquity, in a bright orange front cover with a blue and cream background with an Open Access orange lock logo.
December 11, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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calthalas.bsky.social
Friends, fellow late antiquity fans! The news are out! We are starting a new journal together with the amazing team at LUP. We want to foster interdisciplinary and exciting articles in essay form as well as peer-reviewed editions and translations of texts. Extremely excited about this!
livunipress.bsky.social Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Dec 11
We are delighted to launch Essays in Long Late Antiquity: a new #OpenAccess journal in the field of first millennium studies encouraging interdisciplinary and superregional approaches, edited by @calthalas.bsky.social & Jakob Riemenschneider. Find out more: bit.ly/ELLA-blog @unierfurt.bsky.social
The new journal launched by LUP, Essays in Late Long Antiquity, in a bright orange front cover with a blue and cream background with an Open Access orange lock logo.
December 11, 2024 at 10:55 AM
ebermichael.bsky.social
Hello Bluesky! I've left it long enough, so here's my introduction: I'm an early medievalist at Uni Cologne working on Latin vitae of trans monks. Aside from trans and queer history, I'm interested in Mediterranean connectivity in the Early Middle Ages, and in book/manuscript history.
November 27, 2024 at 10:00 AM