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Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association
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JAEMA is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal specialising in the history of the early medieval period - from late antiquity to the early eleventh century.

https://aema.org.au/journal/
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Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association @jaema.bsky.social · Aug 23
While the Call for Papers for our annual conference may be closed, we are still open to submissions for our Journal!

JAEMA publishes scholarly articles on the Late Antique and Early Medieval world, see our website for details: aema.org.au/journal/
This call for submissions states that the Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association seeks submissions of scholarly articles on the early medieval period and late antiquity, from anywhere around the globe, between the fall of the Roman Empire and the end of the eleventh century. The Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association publishes articles that appeal to those interested in our period, whether these are focused on the historical, political, social, literary, cultural, religious, ethnic, geographic, and interpretive crossovers between.
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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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cema-su.bsky.social
#medievalsky
Learn to read Old English from scratch! Join our online and in person monthly manuscript reading sessions at any time in the year.
Next session this Saturday, 10-12 CET, at the Sorbonne and on Zoom.
Ping us if you want to partake 🎉🎉🎉
Illustration = the Old English Hexateuch, w. an image of the creation of Eve. Text = Everything you always wanted to know about medieval manuscripts — but were too afraid to ask Attend the 2025-2026 CÉMA/AMAES Saturday morning sessions and learn to read medieval English manuscripts from scratch! When — Saturday 10 am-12 noon — October 11, November 15, December 13, January 24, February 21, March 21, April 11, May 30, June 13 Where — Sorbonne & Zoom To join at any point in the year, just e-mail us: florence.bourgne [at] sorbonne-universite.fr
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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"All parents have favourites, but you can't just say that"

The medieval ape:
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish
📜Beowulf & Circulations Conference
📲Details: cemasorbonne.org
🏫Centre d’Études Médiévales Anglaises (Sorbonne Université)
🗣️Keynotes: Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn) & Francis Leneghan (Oxford University).
📅March 13-14, 2026
⏰Submission deadline: 10 January, 2026‼️
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November 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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saracharles.bsky.social
Still time to register for this free online talk tomorrow on making medieval manuscripts #bookhistory #medievalsky
saracharles.bsky.social Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 20d
I'll be talking to the Caxton Club next month on The Medieval Scriptorium - going through all the stages of making manuscripts, including demonstration videos. There may be cats in the background. Fri 14 Nov 12:00PM CT (5.00PM GMT) #medievalsky #bookhistory
www.caxtonclub.org/event-6296386
Medieval manuscript miniature of a seated scribe holding a quill and knife over ruled parchment inside a decorated initial (GKS 4 folio III, fol. 165r)
November 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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history-w-hilbert.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to present at the Australian Early Medieval Conference hosted by @jaema.bsky.social on the subject of Vikings in Old Frisian texts yesterday. I presented via Zoom, but at least there was one individual who heard it live… #Vikings #Medieval #Frisia
October 5, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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laurenrndll.bsky.social
CFP: “Shaping the Word: the Form and Use of Biblical Manuscripts in the Early Medieval West” at Durham University in July 2026. We are interested in a wide range of papers exploring ways in which scriptural texts (produced roughly c. 500-1000) were presented and used.
Durham Uni, 2–5 July 2026 From c. 500-1000, Christian scriptures were produced and used in a diverse range of forms and contexts. A manuscript may include a single biblical text (the psalter, a gospel), a collection of texts (the Hexateuch, the gospels), or, rarely, a complete “New Testament” or “Bible” in the modern sense. The distinctiveness of a manuscript is shown by content and textual affiliation, its palaeographical and codicological characteristics, and its paratextual features – from illustrations of biblical narratives, author portraits, and illuminated lettering to canon tables, capitula, prefatory materials, and glosses. Once in circulation, a manuscript’s contexts of use may also vary. Different uses correspond to different users with distinct and perhaps conflicting priorities/goals. Production and use(s) may occur at the same site or at far distant times and places. This conference aims to explore topics related to both the physical presentation and the use of scriptural manuscripts produced in the Early Medieval period (c. 500–1000 CE). We welcome paper proposals from scholars working in all areas of this field, including PhD students. Whatever the specific topic, priority may be given to papers that also relate it to the wider focus of the conference on both “form” (or “production”) and “use”. We hope to be able to cover presenters’ full conference costs with the exception of travel. Titles and Abstracts of proposed papers should be submitted to Lauren Randall (lauren.m.randall@durham.ac.uk), copied to Francis Watson (francis.watson@durham.ac.uk), by Monday 17 November. Abstracts should not exceed 150 words. Papers should be 25 minutes, allowing 20 minute discussion. There will be keynote papers/presentations. Please contact us if you have any questions! This event forms part of our sub-project “Text, Format, and Reader”, focused on Codex Amiatinus and funded by the Glasgow-based “Paratexts Seeking Understanding” project (Templeton Religion Trust)
October 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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carinr.bsky.social
Happy discovery while searching for teaching materials for early medieval Bible week: the Stockholm Codex Aureus is online and freely downloadable as a very high-res PDF from the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/urn-...

#medievalsky #paleography #bookhistory
Codex Aureus : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
MS. A 135, Royal Library, Stockholm, Sweden
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October 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
jaema.bsky.social
We had an absolute blast at the AEMA Conference! Three days of conversation, questions, and investigations, joined by colleagues from across the globe.

This year saw papers on vikingr, slave revolts, Islamic poets, weather-witches, and much, much more!
October 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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laurysarti.bsky.social
Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...
Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen)
Tenure-track assistant professor in early medieval history at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) invites ap...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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bsrome.bsky.social
📣 BSR / Early Medieval Europe Fellowship – Call for Applications!

Are you a PhD student or early career researcher in early medieval European history?
Apply now!

⏳ Deadline: 30 January 2026
More info here: bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...
October 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
jaema.bsky.social
Group expedition today to see the Galloway Hoard! Absolutely glorious.
Brooch from the Galloway Hoard, featuring stylised horses(?) and impressive filigree work
October 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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tenuretracker.bsky.social
University of Copenhagen is hiring:
Tenure-track assistant professor in early medieval history at the Faculty of Humanities
September 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
jaema.bsky.social
It's 2:30 am my time, so I won't be able to attend - but if you're somewhere in a friendlier time zone, this looks great!
uoyevents.bsky.social University of York Events @uoyevents.bsky.social · Sep 30
TODAY at 5.30pm! In-person or online - Explore new research on Viking silver, coinage, and power in Northern England (850–950), highlighting York’s regional influence.

Coinage, silver and power in York and the Viking North - with @yorkmedieval.bsky.social
Coinage, silver and power in York and the Viking North
Explore new research on Viking silver, coinage, and power in Northern England (850–950), highlighting York’s regional influence.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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martinpetrjanovsky.bsky.social
Our new article is now published Open Access in CATENA!
We present one of the first micromorphological cases of Dark Earth in Czechia, at the early medieval stronghold of Mikulčice.

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Redirecting
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September 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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hwaetspur.bsky.social
Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Are you passionate about early medieval Britain?  Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing?  If yes, then you may be interested in this f...
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September 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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acrsn.bsky.social
Oct 2-4 hybrid from Melbourne (Australian Catholic University) - #AEMA Australian Early Medieval Association conference -- Tempestuous Times: Crisis, Change, and Allegory. Registration: aema.org.au/conference-r... Abstracts: aema.org.au/conference-a...
2025 Conference Registration
Visit the post for more.
aema.org.au
September 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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downham.bsky.social
Knowledge Commons upload 'A context for the Birka grave Bj581? Women and military leadership in the tenth century' (2024 but previously published in German) #medievalsky #archaeology #history #gender
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September 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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karlgalle.bsky.social
New open-access book from @brepols.net with comparative studies on elites in medieval Poland in Norway, including contributions by @hopesteffen.bsky.social and many others: www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB... #medievalsky
Book cover image for "Legitimation of the Elites in High Medieval Poland and Norway: Comparative Studies," edited by Wojtek Jezierski, Hans Jacob Orning, and Grzegorz Pac.
September 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
jaema.bsky.social
Always wanted my name on a gig poster (even if only in the tiny print)

Registration for AEMA 2025 is now open, with online registration starting from just $10 AUD (that's just £4.88, €5.59, or $6.54 US):

aema.org.au/conference-r...
A gig-style poster for AEMA 2025. It shows a night sky tinted green, with a silhouette of a ruined castle and evergreen forest. The text reads: AEMA 2025 Tempestuous Times ACU Melbourne Oct 2–4 Featuring a keynote from Prof. Michael Champion (ACU) And a performance of Beowulf By Dr Felix Nobis (Monash) And the names of everyone speaking at the conference in the small print.
September 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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norseincork.bsky.social
4-year funded PhD in Old Norse-Viking Studies at UCC, working on the Literature & Art strand of the NorseMap Project. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...
September 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
jaema.bsky.social
Registration for our conference is open!

We offer both in-person and online registration (at very reasonable rates).

Here's the link to register: aema.org.au/conference-r...

And here's the link for the abstracts of this year's papers: aema.org.au/conference-a...
A quote from Burchard of Worms' Corrector, over a picture of dark storm clouds. The quote reads 'Hast thou ever believed...in this perfidy, that enchanters...can let loose tempests...through incantation of demons?'
September 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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anzamems.bsky.social
Registration Open: Conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
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September 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social
An interesting new blog series by @ajaltamimi.bsky.social translating the Roman History of Paul the Deacon. #medievalsky

www.aymennaltamimi.com/p/paul-the-d...
Paul the Deacon's Roman History (Book One)
From Rome's origins to the first sack of Rome
www.aymennaltamimi.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:15 AM