Dr. Kate Falardeau
@katefalardeau.bsky.social
PhD Medieval History, University of Cambridge • liturgy as history • medieval manuscript enjoyer • they/them
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Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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October 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Caterpillar waking up halfway through metamorphosis: I'm goo. Shit. Shit. Calm down. Go back to sleep. I'm really straight-up goo right now. Fuck
August 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Caterpillar waking up halfway through metamorphosis: I'm goo. Shit. Shit. Calm down. Go back to sleep. I'm really straight-up goo right now. Fuck
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Published today! Facsimile: Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts, by Siân Echard.
Siân is not on here to promote it, but I will! #medievalsky #manuscripts #bookhistory
www.pennpress.org/978151282705...
Siân is not on here to promote it, but I will! #medievalsky #manuscripts #bookhistory
www.pennpress.org/978151282705...
Facsimile – Penn Press
An unprecedented cultural history of reproductions of medieval manuscriptsFacsimiles are, or claim to be, exact copies of objects, and medieval manuscripts h...
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October 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Published today! Facsimile: Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts, by Siân Echard.
Siân is not on here to promote it, but I will! #medievalsky #manuscripts #bookhistory
www.pennpress.org/978151282705...
Siân is not on here to promote it, but I will! #medievalsky #manuscripts #bookhistory
www.pennpress.org/978151282705...
I’m a sucker for images of scrolls and codices within MSS! And with what looks to me like notation on the pages displayed by Saint Denis 👀
Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, MS 384 is an 11th-c Gradual of the use of the Abbey of Saint-Denis. The cataloguing tells me that this image on fol. 117v depicts Saint Denis at left, pointing to his own head, which is still (or again) attached.
Here's the MS: portail.biblissima.fr/fr/ark:/4309...
Here's the MS: portail.biblissima.fr/fr/ark:/4309...
October 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I’m a sucker for images of scrolls and codices within MSS! And with what looks to me like notation on the pages displayed by Saint Denis 👀
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*screaming*
(This is US distributor. The Concordia UP pre-order page AND DISCOUNT CODE go live next month, when I'll start up the promo machine. But lookee that covvvver 🤤)
(This is US distributor. The Concordia UP pre-order page AND DISCOUNT CODE go live next month, when I'll start up the promo machine. But lookee that covvvver 🤤)
Illuminating Media
Reveals the hidden power of medieval manuscript decoration and its lasting influence today. The overlooked art of late medieval English manuscript illumination—its initials, borders, and non-figurativ...
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October 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
*screaming*
(This is US distributor. The Concordia UP pre-order page AND DISCOUNT CODE go live next month, when I'll start up the promo machine. But lookee that covvvver 🤤)
(This is US distributor. The Concordia UP pre-order page AND DISCOUNT CODE go live next month, when I'll start up the promo machine. But lookee that covvvver 🤤)
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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...
jobs.kent.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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...
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This is the feast of Rupert of Salzburg, d. 710, missionary to the Bavarians. Here's Big Rupert receiving (and in) a copy of Augustine's De Genesi ad litteram from little Abp. Eberhard I of Salzburg (d. 1164). This MS, BSB Clm 15812, was made in Eberhard's lifetime, so mid-12c. #medievalsky
September 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This is the feast of Rupert of Salzburg, d. 710, missionary to the Bavarians. Here's Big Rupert receiving (and in) a copy of Augustine's De Genesi ad litteram from little Abp. Eberhard I of Salzburg (d. 1164). This MS, BSB Clm 15812, was made in Eberhard's lifetime, so mid-12c. #medievalsky
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Stunning 1st-century monumental gilded bronze letters and punctuation marks that had fallen from a public building in Singilia Barba, Andalusia (Málaga Museum). *First century*!
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Stunning 1st-century monumental gilded bronze letters and punctuation marks that had fallen from a public building in Singilia Barba, Andalusia (Málaga Museum). *First century*!
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Tip for anyone trying to delete their academia account
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree: instead click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
September 18, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Tip for anyone trying to delete their academia account
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shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week
September 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week
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Our book isn't quite out yet, but this blog gives a teaser... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social
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cambridgeblog.org/2025/09/peop...
Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050
On our book’s cover stands a small church. Coloured in a blue that suggests the haze of a summer’s day, it is set against a yellow landscape dotted with vines. We chose this image partly for its aesth...
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September 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Our book isn't quite out yet, but this blog gives a teaser... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social
cambridgeblog.org/2025/09/peop...
cambridgeblog.org/2025/09/peop...
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everyone assumes that doing a phd makes you know lots of things but really what it does is make you terribly aware of how many things you just don’t know and will probably never have enough time to learn
August 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
everyone assumes that doing a phd makes you know lots of things but really what it does is make you terribly aware of how many things you just don’t know and will probably never have enough time to learn
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Update on the great discovery of archived BL manuscript metadata: I started putting together a page at my website to host PDFs of the archived pages I retrieve.
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#medievalsky
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#medievalsky
British Library Manuscripts Metadata
Since the cyberattack of October 2023, the British Library has restored only a fraction of the manuscripts it digitized over the past decade-plus. Even for those MSS now back online, we have only t…
ruffnotes.org
August 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Update on the great discovery of archived BL manuscript metadata: I started putting together a page at my website to host PDFs of the archived pages I retrieve.
ruffnotes.org/british-libr...
#medievalsky
ruffnotes.org/british-libr...
#medievalsky
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Call for papers: New Directions in Old English Prose, Oxford, 30-31 March 2026 @oxembi.bsky.social roep.web.ox.ac.uk/event/confer...
Conference: New Directions in Old English Prose
roep.web.ox.ac.uk
July 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Call for papers: New Directions in Old English Prose, Oxford, 30-31 March 2026 @oxembi.bsky.social roep.web.ox.ac.uk/event/confer...
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CFP: Kalamazoo ICMS, 14–16 May 2026
Ælfric and His Copyists
Ælfric of Eynsham's copyists both ensured his works' survival of his works and complicated text histories. Proposals invited from scholars at any stage of their career by 15 Sept 2025 to the portal: icms.confex.com/icms/2026/pr....
Ælfric and His Copyists
Ælfric of Eynsham's copyists both ensured his works' survival of his works and complicated text histories. Proposals invited from scholars at any stage of their career by 15 Sept 2025 to the portal: icms.confex.com/icms/2026/pr....
Ælfric and His Copyists
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July 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
CFP: Kalamazoo ICMS, 14–16 May 2026
Ælfric and His Copyists
Ælfric of Eynsham's copyists both ensured his works' survival of his works and complicated text histories. Proposals invited from scholars at any stage of their career by 15 Sept 2025 to the portal: icms.confex.com/icms/2026/pr....
Ælfric and His Copyists
Ælfric of Eynsham's copyists both ensured his works' survival of his works and complicated text histories. Proposals invited from scholars at any stage of their career by 15 Sept 2025 to the portal: icms.confex.com/icms/2026/pr....
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Our new article is out in Speculum! @robin-f.bsky.social called it “ #isotopes for poets” it’s a fab ongoing interdisciplinary project on a late #Roman & #EarlyMedieval cemetery in Hampshire read more 🔗 https//doi.org/10.... @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social #archsci
Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3
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July 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Our new article is out in Speculum! @robin-f.bsky.social called it “ #isotopes for poets” it’s a fab ongoing interdisciplinary project on a late #Roman & #EarlyMedieval cemetery in Hampshire read more 🔗 https//doi.org/10.... @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social #archsci
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🚨 Making History with Manuscripts in Medieval and Early Modern Europe is now out🚨
I thoroughly enjoyed working with Johannes and the contributors, and writing about how medieval people built their own forms of history through their engagement with MSS of Bede’s Martyrology as material objects
I thoroughly enjoyed working with Johannes and the contributors, and writing about how medieval people built their own forms of history through their engagement with MSS of Bede’s Martyrology as material objects
June 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🚨 Making History with Manuscripts in Medieval and Early Modern Europe is now out🚨
I thoroughly enjoyed working with Johannes and the contributors, and writing about how medieval people built their own forms of history through their engagement with MSS of Bede’s Martyrology as material objects
I thoroughly enjoyed working with Johannes and the contributors, and writing about how medieval people built their own forms of history through their engagement with MSS of Bede’s Martyrology as material objects
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Are Early Medieval Books your thing? We have a summer school course for you!👇 #Skystorians #MedievalSky
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Introduction to Insular Script and the Palaeography of the Old English Period
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May 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Are Early Medieval Books your thing? We have a summer school course for you!👇 #Skystorians #MedievalSky
ies.sas.ac.uk/london-inter...
ies.sas.ac.uk/london-inter...
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First (pieces of a) breviary from medieval Bristol discovered, and she's a beaut! (Kath Thompson with the find, I'm just the identifier heh)
Reused as the wrapper for mid-16thc accounts.
Reused as the wrapper for mid-16thc accounts.
May 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
First (pieces of a) breviary from medieval Bristol discovered, and she's a beaut! (Kath Thompson with the find, I'm just the identifier heh)
Reused as the wrapper for mid-16thc accounts.
Reused as the wrapper for mid-16thc accounts.
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An excellent thread on the Cistercian ms covers, by one of the paper's authors.
🧵 Is this a Dire wolf... 🤔?
No...
Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ...
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Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ...
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April 9, 2025 at 6:31 AM
An excellent thread on the Cistercian ms covers, by one of the paper's authors.
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🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨
Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!).
academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...
Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!).
academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...
The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections
Abstract. It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others
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April 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨
Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!).
academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...
Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!).
academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...
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Now available for pre-order: Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue by @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş. The latest amazing title in our Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures series @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social! Get yours: boydellandbrewer.com/978184384747...
Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections - Boydell and Brewer
The first complete descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts in Bristol area collections.Bristol has a rich but unsung body of manuscripts dating fro...
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March 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Now available for pre-order: Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue by @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş. The latest amazing title in our Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures series @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social! Get yours: boydellandbrewer.com/978184384747...
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important conservation-based counterpoint to arguments for academic sustainability
I'm very concerned that some rare skills will become even rarer. I appreciate that people think that there might be more important things to do than study rare topics, but once the knowledge goes, it goes. /6
March 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
important conservation-based counterpoint to arguments for academic sustainability