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Dr Elena Rossi
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I just really like History | DPhil in History from Magdalen College, Oxford | Medieval women and universities | Colloquium Secretary at London Medieval Society | she/her
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Dr Elena Rossi @elenarossi.bsky.social · 14d
Need some help accessing medieval documents? I am available for freelance work in archives!

I have extensive experience transcribing medieval documents in Latin, Middle French, Middle English and Italian from 1200 to 1500.
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Beauchamp's daughter was Anne, married to Richard Neville who became the Earl of Warwick. richardiii.net/richard-iii-...
elenarossi.bsky.social Dr Elena Rossi @elenarossi.bsky.social · 5d
Second linocut comes from the tomb of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (d. 1439) at St Mary’s Church, Warwick. I was struck by the bear emblem for the Earl of Warwickshire. This tomb was an essential visual source for the special subject I taught on - 'Joan of Arc and her Age:1419-31'.
February 11, 2026 at 1:32 PM
elenarossi.bsky.social
Will you be joining us for the second @londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social colloquium of the year? Don't miss out #Medievalsky! Registration is free:

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February 11, 2026 at 1:23 PM
elenarossi.bsky.social
Second linocut comes from the tomb of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (d. 1439) at St Mary’s Church, Warwick. I was struck by the bear emblem for the Earl of Warwickshire. This tomb was an essential visual source for the special subject I taught on - 'Joan of Arc and her Age:1419-31'.
February 11, 2026 at 1:21 PM
elenarossi.bsky.social
“If you’re not going to put the clothes away, then the basket is fair game”
February 10, 2026 at 3:48 PM
elenarossi.bsky.social
Latest crafting obsession: Linocutting!

First piece was inspired by a watermark in the fifteenth-century accounts from King's Hall, Cambridge, housed @trincolllibcam.bsky.social. I was looking for female employees and tenants for an article but became a little obsessed with the various watermarks.
February 10, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social
Two weeks left until the LMS Winter Colloquium! 🍾😊

Make sure to register via the zoom link below. Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

#medievalsky #skystorians #histsky #academicsky
londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social London Medieval Society @londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social · 27d
We are delighted to announce the first 2026 Colloquium! Please join us for an exciting journey through Non-Conformities 🤗🎉

The LMS Colloquia are online and free to attend, but prior registration is required. Please sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We are looking forward to it!
February 5, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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elenarossi.bsky.social
Need some help accessing medieval documents? I am available for freelance work in archives!

I have extensive experience transcribing medieval documents in Latin, Middle French, Middle English and Italian from 1200 to 1500.
February 2, 2026 at 11:41 AM
elenarossi.bsky.social
Need some help accessing medieval documents? I am available for freelance work in archives!

I have extensive experience transcribing medieval documents in Latin, Middle French, Middle English and Italian from 1200 to 1500.
February 2, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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elenarossi.bsky.social
Very excited to be speaking at the @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social in March!

Empty nest syndrome? Missing home? Spending more time partying than on your studies? These may sound like frequent struggles today, but they were also present in the Middle Ages.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
‘I would be pleased if he did not pursue his studies further, but instead came home’: The Impact of University Studies and their International Character on Family Relations in the Middle Ages
www.history.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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elenarossi.bsky.social
📣 NEW LONDON MEDIEVAL SOCIETY COLLOQUIUM INCOMING!!!

Join us online for the next @londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social event on 'Nonconformity'! We have some fantastic papers lined up, so make sure to register for Saturday 21st February:

us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
January 19, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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elenarossi.bsky.social
Not biased at all, but this is going to be fab! Make sure to register #medievalsky
londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social London Medieval Society @londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social · 27d
We are delighted to announce the first 2026 Colloquium! Please join us for an exciting journey through Non-Conformities 🤗🎉

The LMS Colloquia are online and free to attend, but prior registration is required. Please sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We are looking forward to it!
January 20, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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*Reposted CFP with alt text*

III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities: Moving and Being Moved

London, 11-12 June 2026

Deadline abstract submissions: 31 January 2026

Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🤗🤗

#medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #callforpapers #history
Ill Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe: Moving and Being Moved Call for Papers London, 11-12 June 2026 We are delighted to launch the Call for Papers for the III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe, which will take place in London on 11-12 June 2026. After two successful editions, this year's Colloquium will focus on movements) within and accross late medieval and early modern cities (ca. 1300-1800). Topics to be addressed may include but are not limited to: • Mobile people in urban centres, e.g. migrants, merchants, vagrants, enslaved people, minstrels, mendicants, and pilgrims. • The exchange of goods and knowledge. • Transitory urban events and performances that moved bodies and minds, including social uprisings, civic performances, dances and urban processions. • Lack of 'movement: considerations of what it means to stay put and belong in a city or to be forced to remain in a city. This is an interdisciplinary and international Colloquium which offers an opportunity for PhD students and early career scholars to share their research through 20-minute long presentations, and to receive feedback through constructive discussion. Established scholars will also be invited to present their research and methods and to contribute to discussion. There will also be opportunities for all participants to continue the conversation over coffee and lunch. Interested applicants are encouraged to send an abstract of 200 words along with a short bio to Ana Roda Sánchez (Queen Mary University of London), Eliot Benbow (Institute of Historical Research) and Emma Olson (University of Cambridge) in colloquiumcities@gmail.com by 31 January 2026. If you have any questions, please get in touch with us. We look forward to receiving your proposals and learning about your research!
January 21, 2026 at 9:29 AM
elenarossi.bsky.social
Not biased at all, but this is going to be fab! Make sure to register #medievalsky
londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social London Medieval Society @londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social · 27d
We are delighted to announce the first 2026 Colloquium! Please join us for an exciting journey through Non-Conformities 🤗🎉

The LMS Colloquia are online and free to attend, but prior registration is required. Please sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We are looking forward to it!
January 20, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Reposted by Dr Elena Rossi
londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce the first 2026 Colloquium! Please join us for an exciting journey through Non-Conformities 🤗🎉

The LMS Colloquia are online and free to attend, but prior registration is required. Please sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We are looking forward to it!
January 20, 2026 at 3:17 PM
elenarossi.bsky.social
📣 NEW LONDON MEDIEVAL SOCIETY COLLOQUIUM INCOMING!!!

Join us online for the next @londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social event on 'Nonconformity'! We have some fantastic papers lined up, so make sure to register for Saturday 21st February:

us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
January 19, 2026 at 6:19 PM
elenarossi.bsky.social
Very excited to be speaking at the @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social in March!

Empty nest syndrome? Missing home? Spending more time partying than on your studies? These may sound like frequent struggles today, but they were also present in the Middle Ages.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
‘I would be pleased if he did not pursue his studies further, but instead came home’: The Impact of University Studies and their International Character on Family Relations in the Middle Ages
www.history.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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abbiefray.bsky.social
One month left to submit your abstracts for Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis, @pembroke1347.bsky.social (17–18 Sept 2026).

See the full #CFP below.

#Fissures2026 #medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #GenderHistory #PoliticalHistory
CFP: Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis. Pembroke College, Cambridge, 17–18 Sept 2026. Abstracts due 16 Jan 2026.
December 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
Breslau Codex (Wrocław, Stadtbibliothek, MS 1302, s. xii ex./xiii in.), f. 82ra, showing tear in the page but only the very edge of the text in the inner gutter.
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
elenarossi.bsky.social
There’s still time to register! 👇🏻

#medievalsky
londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social London Medieval Society @londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social · Oct 30
Please join us on 22 November to discuss Women and Knowledge. We cannot wait to listen to and engage with all presentations 😁

This event is free to attend, but prior registration is required through this link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Thank you! We look forward to seeing you there!
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social
Only a few days left to register for the upcoming LMS Colloquium! Looking forward to seeing you all on Saturday 🎉
londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social London Medieval Society @londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social · Oct 30
Please join us on 22 November to discuss Women and Knowledge. We cannot wait to listen to and engage with all presentations 😁

This event is free to attend, but prior registration is required through this link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Thank you! We look forward to seeing you there!
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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My amazing pal @aliceraw.bsky.social is organising a fantastic conference on gender and political crisis - check out the call for papers below 👇🏻
aliceraw.bsky.social Alice Raw @aliceraw.bsky.social · Nov 11
Call for Papers! Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis #medievalsky #Fissures2026
Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis 17-18 September 2026 Pembroke College, University of Cambridge Gendered work on medieval popular politics has tended to revolve around the exceptional. This workshop explores how studies of gender can reconfigure discourses of medieval political community. We ask how attending to gendered bodies and identities might help us better understand the fissures in political culture in medieval Europe. Marking, for example, women’s participation as either absent or rare confines their involvement to the historical margins. How did literary as well as non-literary texts from various genres, ranging from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, engage with gendered political action? How did ideas of gender stabilise or destabilise political performances? We invite abstracts for 25-minute papers, as well as expressions of interest for participation. We welcome papers with a historical, literary, or interdisciplinary focus. Potential topics could include but are not limited to: • Frameworks for understanding non-normative gender expressions in political spaces. • Studies of politics at the intersection of gendered, queer, or trans methodologies. • Histories of masculinities in political community. • Emotion and/or Affect • Weaponized/defensive gender • Manoeuvring bodies through political crisis • Inclusion and exclusion • Different sites of political discourse, such as domestic and non-violent conflict. Collectively, the papers will interrogate the role of gender in political discourse. Selected papers may be considered for inclusion in an edited volume. Means-based bursaries for speakers may be available by further application. Please submit a title and abstract of no more than 200 words to Alice Raw (ar889@cam.ac.uk) and Abbie Fray (abigail.fray@unibe.ch) by 16 January 2026.
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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aliceraw.bsky.social
Call for Papers! Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis #medievalsky #Fissures2026
Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis 17-18 September 2026 Pembroke College, University of Cambridge Gendered work on medieval popular politics has tended to revolve around the exceptional. This workshop explores how studies of gender can reconfigure discourses of medieval political community. We ask how attending to gendered bodies and identities might help us better understand the fissures in political culture in medieval Europe. Marking, for example, women’s participation as either absent or rare confines their involvement to the historical margins. How did literary as well as non-literary texts from various genres, ranging from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, engage with gendered political action? How did ideas of gender stabilise or destabilise political performances? We invite abstracts for 25-minute papers, as well as expressions of interest for participation. We welcome papers with a historical, literary, or interdisciplinary focus. Potential topics could include but are not limited to: • Frameworks for understanding non-normative gender expressions in political spaces. • Studies of politics at the intersection of gendered, queer, or trans methodologies. • Histories of masculinities in political community. • Emotion and/or Affect • Weaponized/defensive gender • Manoeuvring bodies through political crisis • Inclusion and exclusion • Different sites of political discourse, such as domestic and non-violent conflict. Collectively, the papers will interrogate the role of gender in political discourse. Selected papers may be considered for inclusion in an edited volume. Means-based bursaries for speakers may be available by further application. Please submit a title and abstract of no more than 200 words to Alice Raw (ar889@cam.ac.uk) and Abbie Fray (abigail.fray@unibe.ch) by 16 January 2026.
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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abbiefray.bsky.social
Very excited to announce this CfP! Please share widely with anyone who might be interested! #medievalsky #skystorians #cfp #histmed #Fissures2026
aliceraw.bsky.social Alice Raw @aliceraw.bsky.social · Nov 11
Call for Papers! Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis #medievalsky #Fissures2026
Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis 17-18 September 2026 Pembroke College, University of Cambridge Gendered work on medieval popular politics has tended to revolve around the exceptional. This workshop explores how studies of gender can reconfigure discourses of medieval political community. We ask how attending to gendered bodies and identities might help us better understand the fissures in political culture in medieval Europe. Marking, for example, women’s participation as either absent or rare confines their involvement to the historical margins. How did literary as well as non-literary texts from various genres, ranging from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, engage with gendered political action? How did ideas of gender stabilise or destabilise political performances? We invite abstracts for 25-minute papers, as well as expressions of interest for participation. We welcome papers with a historical, literary, or interdisciplinary focus. Potential topics could include but are not limited to: • Frameworks for understanding non-normative gender expressions in political spaces. • Studies of politics at the intersection of gendered, queer, or trans methodologies. • Histories of masculinities in political community. • Emotion and/or Affect • Weaponized/defensive gender • Manoeuvring bodies through political crisis • Inclusion and exclusion • Different sites of political discourse, such as domestic and non-violent conflict. Collectively, the papers will interrogate the role of gender in political discourse. Selected papers may be considered for inclusion in an edited volume. Means-based bursaries for speakers may be available by further application. Please submit a title and abstract of no more than 200 words to Alice Raw (ar889@cam.ac.uk) and Abbie Fray (abigail.fray@unibe.ch) by 16 January 2026.
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
elenarossi.bsky.social
Very excited for the @londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social’s first colloquium of the year on ’Women & Knowledge’! #medievalsky will you be joining us on 22nd November?

us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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elenarossi.bsky.social
Have you registered for our first colloquium of the year? #MedievalSky
londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social London Medieval Society @londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social · Oct 30
Please join us on 22 November to discuss Women and Knowledge. We cannot wait to listen to and engage with all presentations 😁

This event is free to attend, but prior registration is required through this link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Thank you! We look forward to seeing you there!
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM