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Lynneth Miller Renberg
@lmillerrenberg.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of History; FRHistS. Recording Officer, @socrefresearch.bsky.social. Dance, religion, gender, emotions 1200-1600. Books: @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and Routledge.
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October looks pretty different than usual this year…. (There’s a lot going on. May the snow picture be a small break from it all).
The letters UiT covered in snow, on a snowy lawn
October 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Sewanee subtheme on movement as resistance and refuge is live! Submit a proposal to think about the potential readings of movement as response to crisis with me: www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com/movement-as-...
Subtheme: Movement as Resistance and Refuge | Medieval Colloquium
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September 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Sewanee subtheme on movement as resistance and refuge is live! Submit a proposal to think about the potential readings of movement as response to crisis with me: www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com/movement-as-...
Subtheme: Movement as Resistance and Refuge | Medieval Colloquium
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September 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Delighted to be getting started on a Fulbright year at Universitetet I Tromsø. With email access and an office sign, it is about as official as it gets!
August 18, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Reposting this iconic “baby with book baby photo” along with the updated version, in honor of my book’s paperback release! (It’s also 50% off with code BB094 right now on @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social’s website, so, in short, a steal).
A baby in a headband holding a book with dancing women on the front A toddler in a blue dress holding a paperback book with dancing women on the front
July 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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"Proofed," the Boydell & Brewer Blog's Series Focus: Gender in the Middle Ages: guest post written by Diane Watt and Jacqueline Murray, editors of the Gender in the Middle Ages series.
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Series Focus: Gender in the Middle Ages
To celebrate the publication of the 25th book in the Gender in the Middle Ages series, we invited the series editors, Diane Watt and Jacqueline Murray, to share their reflections on its significance a...
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June 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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All the news is heavy right now. I wrote about cats and Helena Augusta to cope. www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...
The Cats Of Cyprus (Church History On Vacation)
On a recent trip to Turkey and Greece, where I loved the churches, mosques, and museums we were able to tour, my daughter had a very different highlight
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July 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Forgot to share this when it dropped, but if you’re interested in dancing plagues, give it a listen. open.spotify.com/episode/4X01...
Dancing Plague of 1518
Not Just the Tudors · Episode
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June 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you

Merovingian cursive:
Extremely difficult to read document in cursive script. Actually this is a charter of lady Clotilde, Paris AN/K//2/10, from 673
May 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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The best place to be in early May. 🗃️ #icms2025
A program for the International Congress of Medievalist Studies, held up in front of a building and greenery Shameless self promotion- a picture of a panel in the ICMS program, titled “Dance in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: A Multidisciplinary Panel Honoring Lynneth Renberg’s Women, Dance, and Parish Religion in England”
May 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Okay, why does this book matter? We held a conference in Melbourne in 2023, believing democratic-decay scholarship needs to pay attention to Rome, the only old democracy to fall from internal causes. I don’t need to say why that matters now. We want to bring #ancientbluesky and #polisci together. 🧵
davidrafferty.bsky.social David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · May 6
Our book has now appeared, a bit ahead of schedule. Its in Open Access, meaning the chapters are all free to download either as epub or pdf from this link. I’ll put a thread together on what the individual chapters are about.
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May 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Thinking about popes today on @anxiousbench by looking at one of my favorites, the early medieval pope Gregory I. What makes a pope great? And how do we evaluate papal legacies? www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...
What Makes A Pope Great? On Popes And Pastoral Care
With the recent passing of Pope Francis, there has been a lot of discussion about the pope’s legacy. Described by NPR as “one of the most popular popes in
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May 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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If you are interested in learning more about the theology of the Council of Nicaea for its 1700 year anniversary (or my work!), this podcast episode from the London Lyceum is a good start.

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Nicene Theology and Eusebius of Caesarea with Adam Renberg
The London Lyceum · Episode
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April 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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My monthly post for @anxiousbench.bsky.social, with some thoughts on education (maybe especially for those in Christian education): www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...
In Support Of Expansive Education
Is education meant to protect young people from ideas that might be challenging or upsetting, or meant to expand their perspectives? In short, should education be protective or expansive?
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April 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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This made me cheer. It gets directly at a problem I’ve often noticed: people don’t fundamentally understand what a historian *does*.
Ethical: There is a particular paradox that makes Al essentially useless as a tool for studying history. The entire point of what we do as historians is to look for untold stories...elements of the history of mankind that are novel and unexpected. There is a fundamental epistemological disjuncture between what PhD-holding historians do and what ChatGPT and its ilk do: the former meticulously, purposefully, and rigorously comb through a mountain of human-curated documents looking - Continued to Next Page for revealing details that diverge from the baseline, offer indications of cultural shift, or elements humanity embedded in seemingly mundane activities; the latter processes terabytes of machine-harvested data in order to predict what will be the most likely next token in a string, and when these tokens are words they may or may not result in a grammatically coherent sentence.
March 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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As I continue to reflect on the Council of Nicaea for its 1700th anniversary this year, it seemed appropriate to share about the mother of Nicaea this Women's History Month: Helena Augusta.

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Mothers Of The (Nicene) Church: Helena Augusta
As I stared at the fragments of the cross of Christ on display in the Cathedral of Palma de Mallorca last year, I was struck with the apparent
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March 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Happy Release Day! 🎉

Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry by @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social

We are so excited for this book to finally be hitting bookstore shelves! Get your copy here: bakerbookhouse.com/products/598...
The book is on a white table with a plant and a coffee mug nearby. The book cover is bright pink with the title in bold white letters.
March 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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St Patrick's Day #shelfie from a slightly battered copy of Spicilegium Ossoriense, 1874, by Patrick Francis Moran. Have a good day!
Book spine with St Patrick depicted in gold.
March 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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On calculating the number of female scribes and their manuscript output in medieval Europe.

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That's Numberwang! On Quant Methods and Medieval Manuscripts. — Sonja Drimmer
When I lived in the UK I watched a lot of Mitchell and Webb. A British comedy duo who should be more famous among Americans than they are, they made sketches just the side of absurd where—unlike Monty...
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March 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Call for papers! 🗃️ #earlymodern this year’s focus is the revolutions of 1525…. But all papers related to religion in the early modern era welcome!
March 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Laura L. Gathagan, author of, The Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders c. 1031-1083, shares her insights on the post-Conquest queen in our latest author Q&A blog. ##WomensHistoryMonth buff.ly/xGVhhX6
March 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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In honor of International Women's Day I've started reading this important new work by the redoubtable Merry Wiesner-Hanks. #earlymodern 🗃️
March 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM