Lisa Fagin Davis
@lisafdavis.bsky.social
Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
I love this! Here I am, hanging out at the intersection of Archaeology, Classical Studies, Academia, and Library Science. Zoom in, and there are my people! Interesting to see who lands near me whom I wasn't already following (but now am!) bluesky-map.theo.io
February 9, 2026 at 7:10 PM
I love this! Here I am, hanging out at the intersection of Archaeology, Classical Studies, Academia, and Library Science. Zoom in, and there are my people! Interesting to see who lands near me whom I wasn't already following (but now am!) bluesky-map.theo.io
Happening tomorrow night at the Boston Public Library! Join @associatesbpl.bsky.social in person or online and vote for your favorite. The event will be MC'd by the dazzling Kennedy Elsey from Mix 104.1. Don't miss it! Get your free tickets here: www.associatesbpl.org/events-and-p...
A century later, three literary classics go head-to-head - The Boston Globe
This year's Hundred-Year Book Debate pits Winnie-the-Pooh against Hughes and Hemingway.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Happening tomorrow night at the Boston Public Library! Join @associatesbpl.bsky.social in person or online and vote for your favorite. The event will be MC'd by the dazzling Kennedy Elsey from Mix 104.1. Don't miss it! Get your free tickets here: www.associatesbpl.org/events-and-p...
This is the way.
Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
February 9, 2026 at 3:43 AM
This is the way.
So...how soon until pitchers and catchers report?
February 9, 2026 at 3:38 AM
So...how soon until pitchers and catchers report?
In more #SuperbOwl medieval content, here's a very #BadBunny:
(for more, see www.bl.uk/stories/blog...)
(for more, see www.bl.uk/stories/blog...)
February 8, 2026 at 7:42 PM
In more #SuperbOwl medieval content, here's a very #BadBunny:
(for more, see www.bl.uk/stories/blog...)
(for more, see www.bl.uk/stories/blog...)
It's that time again...Happy #SuperbOwl Sunday! LET'S GO PATS!
I love #SuperbOwl Sunday. Here's a wise little guy from a leaf of the Beauvais Missal (Cleveland Museum of Art Acc. 1982.141) www.clevelandart.org/art/1982.141
February 8, 2026 at 6:43 PM
It's that time again...Happy #SuperbOwl Sunday! LET'S GO PATS!
Here are a few medieval quotes that exemplify the narratives of Hebrew, Latin, and Arabic paleography: 🧵
February 6, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Here are a few medieval quotes that exemplify the narratives of Hebrew, Latin, and Arabic paleography: 🧵
Writing a book chapter comparing the narratives of medieval Hebrew, Latin, and Arabic script. Just wrote the following:
The Hebrew and Arabic character sets are scriptural alphabets and so developed a sacrality that the Latin alphabet never achieved. 🧵
The Hebrew and Arabic character sets are scriptural alphabets and so developed a sacrality that the Latin alphabet never achieved. 🧵
February 6, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Writing a book chapter comparing the narratives of medieval Hebrew, Latin, and Arabic script. Just wrote the following:
The Hebrew and Arabic character sets are scriptural alphabets and so developed a sacrality that the Latin alphabet never achieved. 🧵
The Hebrew and Arabic character sets are scriptural alphabets and so developed a sacrality that the Latin alphabet never achieved. 🧵
Reposted by Lisa Fagin Davis
MAA 2026 Publication Prizes
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Medieval Academy of America Publication Prizes:
The Haskins Medal: Travis Zadeh, Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-2026-pub...
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Medieval Academy of America Publication Prizes:
The Haskins Medal: Travis Zadeh, Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-2026-pub...
February 4, 2026 at 6:08 PM
MAA 2026 Publication Prizes
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Medieval Academy of America Publication Prizes:
The Haskins Medal: Travis Zadeh, Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-2026-pub...
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Medieval Academy of America Publication Prizes:
The Haskins Medal: Travis Zadeh, Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-2026-pub...
This is heartbreaking, especially when combined with the Kennedy Center closure and all of the other terrible news. www.bostonartreview.com/read/mfa-bos...
MFA Boston Layoffs Thrust the Museum into a Credibility Crisis
As names and positions of eliminated staff at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston begin to roll in, here’s what we know so far.
www.bostonartreview.com
February 2, 2026 at 6:00 PM
This is heartbreaking, especially when combined with the Kennedy Center closure and all of the other terrible news. www.bostonartreview.com/read/mfa-bos...
Thanks alot, Punxsutawney Phil! Six more weeks of winter. So it goes. I had the absolute joy of being at Groundhog Day in Punxy with my family last year, and I highly recommend you add it to your bucket list. It's a blast!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVKo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVKo...
Happy Groundhog Day: Punxsutawney Phil Delivers 2026 Winter Forecast
YouTube video by FOX Weather
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February 2, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Thanks alot, Punxsutawney Phil! Six more weeks of winter. So it goes. I had the absolute joy of being at Groundhog Day in Punxy with my family last year, and I highly recommend you add it to your bucket list. It's a blast!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVKo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVKo...
Here it is! @cjg70.bsky.social blows the doors off the question of why papyrus went out of vogue in the early Middle Ages. Follow the money! An instant classic that belongs on every manuscript studies syllabus.
"The problem of the lack of papyrus [after c.1000] forced a receptiveness to new forms of papal government which the high medieval 'reformers' were able to move into and exploit from about 1050"... Absolutely enthralling new article by @cjg70.bsky.social and Ben Savill (Open Access). #medievalsky
Papyrus Economies and the Experience of Early Medieval Papal Documents*
Abstract. The medium of papyrus, a ubiquitous, state-sponsored product in the Roman world, was turned by the empire’s loss of Egypt in the 630s–640s into a
academic.oup.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Here it is! @cjg70.bsky.social blows the doors off the question of why papyrus went out of vogue in the early Middle Ages. Follow the money! An instant classic that belongs on every manuscript studies syllabus.
Oh, wow. Thank you @brucespringsteen.net www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Oh, wow. Thank you @brucespringsteen.net www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...
Reposted by Lisa Fagin Davis
JOB! Lecturer in early medieval history at my lovely once and future department! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...
Lecturer in Early Medieval History | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk
January 28, 2026 at 5:40 PM
JOB! Lecturer in early medieval history at my lovely once and future department! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...
This sounds amazing!
March 6 is the deadline to apply for Introduction to #Arabic #Manuscript Studies—a virtual, one-week intensive course held from June 22 to 26, 2026.
Apply today: hmml.org/programs/arabic-mss-studies
Apply today: hmml.org/programs/arabic-mss-studies
January 28, 2026 at 3:44 PM
This sounds amazing!
So excited about @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Find me at the @medievalacademy.bsky.social plenary (Fiona Griffiths!) Tues. evening (free wine after!); chairing the awesome @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social #DH panel Wed.; & presenting NEW #Voynich research, also on Wed. (data + codicology + paleography)!
January 28, 2026 at 2:03 PM
So excited about @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Find me at the @medievalacademy.bsky.social plenary (Fiona Griffiths!) Tues. evening (free wine after!); chairing the awesome @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social #DH panel Wed.; & presenting NEW #Voynich research, also on Wed. (data + codicology + paleography)!
❤️
A little stop motion video I made of an almanac in the University of Rochester collection to try and give viewers an idea of how it functions 😊
(Video of RCL cod. a.1, a late 14th century folding almanac from England, likely Oxford)
(Video of RCL cod. a.1, a late 14th century folding almanac from England, likely Oxford)
January 27, 2026 at 7:40 PM
❤️
Had a blast talking with Jared Bowen today about the upcoming @associatesbpl.bsky.social Hundred-Year Book Debate! Join us @bpl.boston.gov on Feb. 10. More information here: www.associatesbpl.org/events-and-p...
January 22, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Had a blast talking with Jared Bowen today about the upcoming @associatesbpl.bsky.social Hundred-Year Book Debate! Join us @bpl.boston.gov on Feb. 10. More information here: www.associatesbpl.org/events-and-p...
Are you in the @wgbh.org listening area? Tune in at 2:40 today to hear me talk with Jared Bowen about the upcoming Hundred-Year Book Debate, sponsored by the Associates of the Boston Public Library! www.associatesbpl.org/events-and-p...
Hundred-Year Book Debate - Associates of the Boston Public Library
www.associatesbpl.org
January 21, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Are you in the @wgbh.org listening area? Tune in at 2:40 today to hear me talk with Jared Bowen about the upcoming Hundred-Year Book Debate, sponsored by the Associates of the Boston Public Library! www.associatesbpl.org/events-and-p...
Roger Bacon would like a word.
Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold
Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold
Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold
www.independent.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Roger Bacon would like a word.
Call for Papers for an online #Voynich conference with an A-list Programme Committee! Follow @voynich2026.bsky.social for updates. More info at:
www.um.edu.mt/events/voyni...
www.um.edu.mt/events/voyni...
January 19, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Call for Papers for an online #Voynich conference with an A-list Programme Committee! Follow @voynich2026.bsky.social for updates. More info at:
www.um.edu.mt/events/voyni...
www.um.edu.mt/events/voyni...
This is splendid work! Using sophisticated raking-light imaging to see drypoint inscriptions in an 8th-c. uncial manuscript. Really cool stuff.
The inkless doodles of Eadburg, an 8th-c. nun, discovered by new technology: now published by Jessica Hendy-Hodgkinson in EME doi.org/10.1111/emed... (Open access)
January 19, 2026 at 2:23 PM
This is splendid work! Using sophisticated raking-light imaging to see drypoint inscriptions in an 8th-c. uncial manuscript. Really cool stuff.
Reposted by Lisa Fagin Davis
University of Arizona Libraries is hiring for a RARE BOOK LIBRARIAN! 1st review of applications February 9, 2026.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
We have great collections and great people here. Not on the committee, happy to chat.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
We have great collections and great people here. Not on the committee, happy to chat.
Librarian, Rare Books (Assistant or Associate)
CHARACTERISTIC DUTIESAcquire, appraise, and
preserve collections of primary and significant research value, especially rare
books.In partnership
with ...
arizona.csod.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:14 PM
University of Arizona Libraries is hiring for a RARE BOOK LIBRARIAN! 1st review of applications February 9, 2026.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
We have great collections and great people here. Not on the committee, happy to chat.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
We have great collections and great people here. Not on the committee, happy to chat.
#OttoEge alert! So excited to learn that @rarebookschool.bsky.social has acquired Ege's "Fifty Original Leaves" box no. 33 (RBS 9542), never before studied! If you aren't versed in Ege lore, learn about everyone's favorite biblioclast here: manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/m...
Manuscript Road Trip: In Otto Ege’s Footsteps
Ohio is one of the areas of the country richest in medieval manuscripts, with more than 2200 codices and 2400 leaves in at least thirty-three collections. In fact, once you leave the East coast, Oh…
manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:50 PM
#OttoEge alert! So excited to learn that @rarebookschool.bsky.social has acquired Ege's "Fifty Original Leaves" box no. 33 (RBS 9542), never before studied! If you aren't versed in Ege lore, learn about everyone's favorite biblioclast here: manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/m...
Just finished drafting an 11,000-word chapter on "Crafting the Codex." Wondering what my editor will think about my asking for fifty-seven illustrations in this one chapter.
nvm I think I just answered my own question.
nvm I think I just answered my own question.
January 13, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Just finished drafting an 11,000-word chapter on "Crafting the Codex." Wondering what my editor will think about my asking for fifty-seven illustrations in this one chapter.
nvm I think I just answered my own question.
nvm I think I just answered my own question.