James Paz
@jamespaz.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval English Literature at the University of Manchester (https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/james.paz).
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James Paz
@jamespaz.bsky.social
· May 15
Storm-thoughts and ice-songs: A creative-critical response to Old English eco-poetry - postmedieval
This article looks at how ecocritical readings of The Wanderer, The Wife’s Lament, and Exeter Book riddles can inspire an ‘ecocreative’ way of rewriting and reimagining Old English verse. My creative-...
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Delighted to see that my creative-critical Old English eco-poetics article is now out, Open Access, in Postmedieval (thanks to @postmedieval.bsky.social): link.springer.com/article/10.1... #medievalsky #oldenglish
I'm looking forward to speaking about my 'ecocreative' translation of The Phoenix at Cambridge's LEAF seminar later this semester: www.english.cam.ac.uk/seminars/Lit...
January 15, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I'm looking forward to speaking about my 'ecocreative' translation of The Phoenix at Cambridge's LEAF seminar later this semester: www.english.cam.ac.uk/seminars/Lit...
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Our upcoming spring term events are now live on our website and detailed below on our term card!
Join us for more Making Space sessions, and our special 1st Birthday celebrations 👇
Join us for more Making Space sessions, and our special 1st Birthday celebrations 👇
January 11, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Our upcoming spring term events are now live on our website and detailed below on our term card!
Join us for more Making Space sessions, and our special 1st Birthday celebrations 👇
Join us for more Making Space sessions, and our special 1st Birthday celebrations 👇
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The summer seems a long way away now, but very much looking forward to presenting a creative-critical paper titled 'The Phoenix Speaks: An Eco-Creative Response to an Old English Allegory' at the Leeds IMC (@imc-leeds.bsky.social) next year #IMC2026
November 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The summer seems a long way away now, but very much looking forward to presenting a creative-critical paper titled 'The Phoenix Speaks: An Eco-Creative Response to an Old English Allegory' at the Leeds IMC (@imc-leeds.bsky.social) next year #IMC2026
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As we come towards the close of the year we at the Guild of Medievalist Makers wanted to share our 'Year in Review: 2025', written by Guild co-founder @hellomizk.bsky.social.
Thank you to all of the Guild members who have made 2025 an excellent inaugural year🎉
Thank you to all of the Guild members who have made 2025 an excellent inaugural year🎉
Year in Review: 2025 — The Guild of Medievalist Makers
On the 27th of April 2024, Eleanor Baker and I (Kristen) met at Oxford’s Vaults & Garden cafe to start scheming (image above taken from my comic diary). Laura Varnam joined in the scheming not lon...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
As we come towards the close of the year we at the Guild of Medievalist Makers wanted to share our 'Year in Review: 2025', written by Guild co-founder @hellomizk.bsky.social.
Thank you to all of the Guild members who have made 2025 an excellent inaugural year🎉
Thank you to all of the Guild members who have made 2025 an excellent inaugural year🎉
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Interested in connections between #history & #CreativeWriting / #poetry? @ihr.bsky.social is seeking a Creative Practitioner in Residence for 2026. £1000 monthly stipend, opportunities for collaboration & developing projects. Happy to have a chat! Please share:
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
Creative Practitioner in Residence
The Institute of Historical Research hosts a Creative Practitioner in Residence who is interested in working collaboratively with historians.
www.history.ac.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Interested in connections between #history & #CreativeWriting / #poetry? @ihr.bsky.social is seeking a Creative Practitioner in Residence for 2026. £1000 monthly stipend, opportunities for collaboration & developing projects. Happy to have a chat! Please share:
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
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hord-weard, m.n: hoard-guardian, guardian of treasure. (HORD-WEH-ard / ˈhɔrd-ˌwɛard)
Image: Bestiary; France (possibly Thérouanne), 13th century; @gettymuseum.bsky.social Ms. Ludwig XV 3, f. 89r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: Bestiary; France (possibly Thérouanne), 13th century; @gettymuseum.bsky.social Ms. Ludwig XV 3, f. 89r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
December 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
hord-weard, m.n: hoard-guardian, guardian of treasure. (HORD-WEH-ard / ˈhɔrd-ˌwɛard)
Image: Bestiary; France (possibly Thérouanne), 13th century; @gettymuseum.bsky.social Ms. Ludwig XV 3, f. 89r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: Bestiary; France (possibly Thérouanne), 13th century; @gettymuseum.bsky.social Ms. Ludwig XV 3, f. 89r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
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Fascinating Beowulf-objects reading (with particular relevance for first-gen class-steppers)
#medievalsky
“In Old English usage, the term cræft conveys a sense of mental ability as much as physical skill. Definitions also slide between craft as talent, or even virtue, and craft as cunning.”
#medievalsky
“In Old English usage, the term cræft conveys a sense of mental ability as much as physical skill. Definitions also slide between craft as talent, or even virtue, and craft as cunning.”
December 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Fascinating Beowulf-objects reading (with particular relevance for first-gen class-steppers)
#medievalsky
“In Old English usage, the term cræft conveys a sense of mental ability as much as physical skill. Definitions also slide between craft as talent, or even virtue, and craft as cunning.”
#medievalsky
“In Old English usage, the term cræft conveys a sense of mental ability as much as physical skill. Definitions also slide between craft as talent, or even virtue, and craft as cunning.”
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Members of @guildmedmak.bsky.social should check out the cfp for CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW, a special issue of the journal 'Public Humanities', co-edited by yours truly & Eleanor Barraclough (with amazing artwork by our very own @hellomizk.bsky.social)
Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
December 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Members of @guildmedmak.bsky.social should check out the cfp for CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW, a special issue of the journal 'Public Humanities', co-edited by yours truly & Eleanor Barraclough (with amazing artwork by our very own @hellomizk.bsky.social)
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Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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This is going to be a fantastic book, especially for those interested in biblical #apocrypha!
December 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is going to be a fantastic book, especially for those interested in biblical #apocrypha!
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📢 #CfP #medievalsky #TOEBI
📜Theme: All Kinds of People
📅Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026
🏫Host: University of Nottingham
⏰Submission deadline: 30 March 2026
📚TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level.
📜Theme: All Kinds of People
📅Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026
🏫Host: University of Nottingham
⏰Submission deadline: 30 March 2026
📚TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level.
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
📢 #CfP #medievalsky #TOEBI
📜Theme: All Kinds of People
📅Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026
🏫Host: University of Nottingham
⏰Submission deadline: 30 March 2026
📚TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level.
📜Theme: All Kinds of People
📅Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026
🏫Host: University of Nottingham
⏰Submission deadline: 30 March 2026
📚TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level.
Great to see this guild flourishing!
After only eight months of existence, we are delighted to announce that the Guild of Medievalist Makers has gained its ✨100th Guild Member✨!
We have lots of exciting plans for the development of the Guild, but in the meantime, why not join us for tomorrow's Making Space session?🍻
We have lots of exciting plans for the development of the Guild, but in the meantime, why not join us for tomorrow's Making Space session?🍻
In a slight change to advertised programming, our next Making Space (online co-working session) is taking place on Tuesday 2nd December, 5:30pm-7:00pm! Join us to work convivially on your own project, or get inspired and respond to our optional theme: 🎪festivities🍻
December 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Great to see this guild flourishing!
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After only eight months of existence, we are delighted to announce that the Guild of Medievalist Makers has gained its ✨100th Guild Member✨!
We have lots of exciting plans for the development of the Guild, but in the meantime, why not join us for tomorrow's Making Space session?🍻
We have lots of exciting plans for the development of the Guild, but in the meantime, why not join us for tomorrow's Making Space session?🍻
In a slight change to advertised programming, our next Making Space (online co-working session) is taking place on Tuesday 2nd December, 5:30pm-7:00pm! Join us to work convivially on your own project, or get inspired and respond to our optional theme: 🎪festivities🍻
December 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
After only eight months of existence, we are delighted to announce that the Guild of Medievalist Makers has gained its ✨100th Guild Member✨!
We have lots of exciting plans for the development of the Guild, but in the meantime, why not join us for tomorrow's Making Space session?🍻
We have lots of exciting plans for the development of the Guild, but in the meantime, why not join us for tomorrow's Making Space session?🍻
The summer seems a long way away now, but very much looking forward to presenting a creative-critical paper titled 'The Phoenix Speaks: An Eco-Creative Response to an Old English Allegory' at the Leeds IMC (@imc-leeds.bsky.social) next year #IMC2026
November 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The summer seems a long way away now, but very much looking forward to presenting a creative-critical paper titled 'The Phoenix Speaks: An Eco-Creative Response to an Old English Allegory' at the Leeds IMC (@imc-leeds.bsky.social) next year #IMC2026
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📣 #medievalsky #openaccess #article #OldEnglish
📜Storm-thoughts and ice-songs: A creative-critical response to Old English eco-poetry
✍️ @jamespaz.bsky.social
💻Postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies @postmedieval.bsky.social
📲 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📜Storm-thoughts and ice-songs: A creative-critical response to Old English eco-poetry
✍️ @jamespaz.bsky.social
💻Postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies @postmedieval.bsky.social
📲 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
📣 #medievalsky #openaccess #article #OldEnglish
📜Storm-thoughts and ice-songs: A creative-critical response to Old English eco-poetry
✍️ @jamespaz.bsky.social
💻Postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies @postmedieval.bsky.social
📲 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📜Storm-thoughts and ice-songs: A creative-critical response to Old English eco-poetry
✍️ @jamespaz.bsky.social
💻Postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies @postmedieval.bsky.social
📲 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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on-āl, n.n: a burning, kindling; also what is burnt. (ON-all / ˈɔn-aːl)
Image: New College Psalter, William de Brailes; England, early 13th century; Oxford, New College Library, MS 322, f. 118v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: New College Psalter, William de Brailes; England, early 13th century; Oxford, New College Library, MS 322, f. 118v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
on-āl, n.n: a burning, kindling; also what is burnt. (ON-all / ˈɔn-aːl)
Image: New College Psalter, William de Brailes; England, early 13th century; Oxford, New College Library, MS 322, f. 118v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: New College Psalter, William de Brailes; England, early 13th century; Oxford, New College Library, MS 322, f. 118v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
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Not sure what to do on a particularly rainy Friday in Bristol? ☔️ We’ve got you covered! Old English Reading Group runs at 3pm in Hattie’s office, no experience or prep required! Email harriet.soper@bristol.ac.uk for more info! ☺️
*Old Norse isn't running today but will be back next week!*
*Old Norse isn't running today but will be back next week!*
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Not sure what to do on a particularly rainy Friday in Bristol? ☔️ We’ve got you covered! Old English Reading Group runs at 3pm in Hattie’s office, no experience or prep required! Email harriet.soper@bristol.ac.uk for more info! ☺️
*Old Norse isn't running today but will be back next week!*
*Old Norse isn't running today but will be back next week!*
Teaching Simon Armitage's translation of Gawain today (having done five weeks on Heaney's Beowulf) and very much looking forward to Simon himself speaking about said translation at UoM next week. What a rare treat for a medievalist: a real, living poet whose work you've been studying and teaching!
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Teaching Simon Armitage's translation of Gawain today (having done five weeks on Heaney's Beowulf) and very much looking forward to Simon himself speaking about said translation at UoM next week. What a rare treat for a medievalist: a real, living poet whose work you've been studying and teaching!
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#medievalsky
@cema-su.bsky.social is organizing a 'Beowulf & circulations' conference in Paris on March 13-14, 2026.
Come enjoy a public reading of the poem, and two great keynotes!
CFP & free (but compulsory) registration via the CEMA's new website:
cemasorbonne.org
@cema-su.bsky.social is organizing a 'Beowulf & circulations' conference in Paris on March 13-14, 2026.
Come enjoy a public reading of the poem, and two great keynotes!
CFP & free (but compulsory) registration via the CEMA's new website:
cemasorbonne.org
Beowulf & Circulations
A website for Sorbonne Université's Beowulf & Circulations conference, featuring a home page with Sorbonne and Beowulf manuscript images, and easy navigation to the call for papers, progra…
cemasorbonne.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
#medievalsky
@cema-su.bsky.social is organizing a 'Beowulf & circulations' conference in Paris on March 13-14, 2026.
Come enjoy a public reading of the poem, and two great keynotes!
CFP & free (but compulsory) registration via the CEMA's new website:
cemasorbonne.org
@cema-su.bsky.social is organizing a 'Beowulf & circulations' conference in Paris on March 13-14, 2026.
Come enjoy a public reading of the poem, and two great keynotes!
CFP & free (but compulsory) registration via the CEMA's new website:
cemasorbonne.org
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As the weather gets colder, warm the cockles of your creative-critical heart by reading our new Meet a Medievalist Maker blog post by @jamespaz.bsky.social, which is filled with fiery reflections on his 'ecocreative' process🔥
Read more by following the link below👇
Read more by following the link below👇
Meet a Medievalist Maker: James Paz — The Guild of Medievalist Makers
www.guildmedmak.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
As the weather gets colder, warm the cockles of your creative-critical heart by reading our new Meet a Medievalist Maker blog post by @jamespaz.bsky.social, which is filled with fiery reflections on his 'ecocreative' process🔥
Read more by following the link below👇
Read more by following the link below👇
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Aberystwyth has joined a global network of 350 Creative Cities that have been recognised for their excellence in creative fields across the world by becoming Wales’ first UNESCO City of Literature
Aberystwyth becomes Wales' first UNESCO City of Literature
Aberystwyth has joined a global network of 350 Creative Cities that have been recognised for their excellence in creative fields across the world by becoming Wales’ first UNESCO City of Literature Abe...
nation.cymru
October 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Aberystwyth has joined a global network of 350 Creative Cities that have been recognised for their excellence in creative fields across the world by becoming Wales’ first UNESCO City of Literature
It was great to write this blog post for the @guildmedmak.bsky.social and to give readers a little glimpse into my creative-critical practice, as my 'ecocreative' translations turn from storms 🌧 and ice ❄ to heat and fire 🔥 via the OE poem on The Phoenix #medievalsky.
As the weather gets colder, warm the cockles of your creative-critical heart by reading our new Meet a Medievalist Maker blog post by @jamespaz.bsky.social, which is filled with fiery reflections on his 'ecocreative' process🔥
Read more by following the link below👇
Read more by following the link below👇
Meet a Medievalist Maker: James Paz — The Guild of Medievalist Makers
www.guildmedmak.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It was great to write this blog post for the @guildmedmak.bsky.social and to give readers a little glimpse into my creative-critical practice, as my 'ecocreative' translations turn from storms 🌧 and ice ❄ to heat and fire 🔥 via the OE poem on The Phoenix #medievalsky.
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📣Looking forward to welcoming you to #TEI2025 tomorrow #medievalsky!
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
⏰Registration opens at 9am
📜Theme: Education and Early Medieval England
🏫Room C218 (2nd floor), Newman Arts building (next to the James Joyce Library), University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
⏰Registration opens at 9am
📜Theme: Education and Early Medieval England
🏫Room C218 (2nd floor), Newman Arts building (next to the James Joyce Library), University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
📣Looking forward to welcoming you to #TEI2025 tomorrow #medievalsky!
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
⏰Registration opens at 9am
📜Theme: Education and Early Medieval England
🏫Room C218 (2nd floor), Newman Arts building (next to the James Joyce Library), University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
⏰Registration opens at 9am
📜Theme: Education and Early Medieval England
🏫Room C218 (2nd floor), Newman Arts building (next to the James Joyce Library), University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social
Looking forward to attending TOEBI in Dublin this weekend and speaking about my creative-critical work!
⏰Reminder: Don't forget to register for #TEI2025 #medievalsky!
📜Theme: Education and Early Medieval England
📲Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/toebi-annu...
📨We hope to see you soon at University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
📜Theme: Education and Early Medieval England
📲Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/toebi-annu...
📨We hope to see you soon at University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social
📅 Saturday, 25 October 2025
October 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Looking forward to attending TOEBI in Dublin this weekend and speaking about my creative-critical work!