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Maria Zygogianni
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Audience Editor at OUP | PhD on enclosed gardens in medieval literature
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"Fragments of Devotion" is live!

Discover a sensory history of illuminated manuscript cuttings in this online exhibition curated by MA students at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

#OMMG #medievalsky
July 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Excited to see my chapter on consent and the garden in The Knight’s Tale & The Isle of Ladies is out in Reconsidering Consent & Coercion by (@brepols.net, OA)!

Huge thanks to editors @janebonsall.bsky.social & Hannah Piercy!

www.brepols.net/products/978...

#MedievalStudies #OpenAccess #IMC2025
Book cover: Reconsidering consent and coercion: Power, vulnerability, and sexual violence in medieval literature, ed. by Jane Bonsall and Hannah Piercy
July 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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I wrote a blog post about my book!

Want some ramblings about fairy ladies, magical princesses, and serpent women (and how we should feel about them)? Or just curious about how reading medieval romance is like watching Star Wars??

It's all here, folks (and also a 35% discount 👀)!
boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · Apr 29
From exotic princesses to wicked witches, Jane Bonsall explores how magical femininity was imagined by romance readers in late #medieval England in our latest blog post: buff.ly/edWgwaj @janebonsall.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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If your research is about food, drink and the environment, consider writing for Oxford Intersections: Environmental Chang and Human Experience.
gpetrick.bsky.social Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · Jun 11
I'm editing the Food (& Drink) Section for Environmental Change and Human Experience for OUP Intersections. Looking for new work on food, drink and the environment. Contact me if you want to learn more. It is peer-reviewed.
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Content, Overview, and Scope of Food Section for Environmental Change and Human Experience. Section name: Food Section Editor(s): Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. Content overview and scope : The Food section of Environmental Change and Human Experience will focus on the tension between the need for humans to sustain themselves while simultaneously exploiting the natural resources and environments surrounding them. Humans and their agricultural practices have long redesigned the environment in both helpful and problematic ways for animals, insects, and societies. Articles in the series will explore the diversity of foods and beverages across space and time and illustrate how food production has reshaped communities, cultures, and the landscape. These essays and topics use new research to build on older literature and will provide new insights on historical themes such as globalization, power, and industrialization. They also highlight new areas of research such as the consequences of technologies on the environment, animal studies and how of more-than-human actors shaped the past, water studies, and indigenous approaches to historical and contemporary foods and food systems. The essays will fall under the topics of “Food Flows: The Circulation of Food across the World”; “Indigenous Knowledge: Sustaining and Exploiting Food Environments”; “Animals: More than Just Meat”; “Quenching a Thirst: Water and Other Drinks”; “Food and Power”; “Building Fields of Dreams: Agriculture and the Reshaping of Landscapes”, and “Industrial Food”.
June 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Hurray for launch day!

It's been a joy to work on Oxford Law Pro with colleagues across OUP. Special shout for Expert Essentials 🍾🎉
academic.oup.com Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · May 14
Today we launch our new product for legal professionals! 🎉

Oxford Law Pro combines 9,000 articles & 600 books with a conversational AI Research Assistant & Expert Essentials: short articles on topics impacting legal practice.

See why you need Oxford Law Pro: oxford.ly/4iWipJv #lawsky
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May 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Are you an #ECR or #postdoc looking to publish your first academic book? Join our digital workshop for personalised feedback on your book proposal from experienced OUP Editors and ECR peers. 📖

Reserve your spot: oxford.ly/ECR-Proposal...

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ECR Book proposal workshop. Perfect your book proposal with OUP editors. When? 23-26 June 2025, Multiple sessions, Digital workshops. Reserve your spot now.
May 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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So excited to be in (Zoom) conversation with Beth Morrison on June 13, talking about - what else? - the #Voynich Manuscript, in the context of the @gettymuseum.bsky.social exhibit on medieval codes! Register here: www.getty.edu/calendar/art...
Art Break: Cracking a Medieval Code | Getty Events
Attempt to decode the unknown alphabet and mysterious drawings of this centuries-old enigmatic manuscript with our experts.
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May 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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I wrote about the widespread adoption of AI in education, and why there needs to be more resistance to it

open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...
What makes me mad about AI in education
How to crush a generation and tell them they're winning
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May 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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OUP is on Bluesky!

Follow for Oxford Academic updates 👇

#MedievalSky #AcademicSky #Skystorians
academic.oup.com Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · Apr 28
Hi Bluesky! 👋

We're the Academic division of Oxford University Press and we're excited to join this vibrant community, full of academics, thinkers, and those that are curious about the world around them.
Oxford Academic is on Bluesky!
May 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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The old stuff keeps on giving @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk (& it’s a lot more than just a x-ray - it’s a combination of the particle accelerator, AI technology & skilled Greek palaeographers!) www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
X-ray reveals ancient Greek author of charred first century BC Vesuvius scroll
Ink traces show text is part of work by Epicurean philosopher Philodemus, burned during AD79 volcano eruption
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Cannot wait for this to be out in the world, current ETA for hardcopy is late spring

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

@amsterdamupress.bsky.social @parkerchronicle.bsky.social

#CripSky #DisabilitySky #MedievalSky #Skystorians 🗃️
Front cover of Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages. On a pale grey background, a medieval wooden crucifix casts a shadow to its right. Christ is missing his arms and part of his left lower leg. The Crucific is worn, in the process of disintegration. This volume significantly expands current understandings of both disability and sanctity in the Middle Ages. Across the collection, heterogeneous constructions, and experiences, of disability and holiness are excavated. Analyses span the tenth to the fourteenth century, with discussion of holy men and holy women, Western Christian and Buddhist traditions, hagiographic texts, images, and artefacts. Each chapter underscores that disability and sanctity co-exist with a vast array of connotations, not just fully positive or fully negative, but also every inflection in between. The collection is a powerful rebuttal to the notion of the integral relationship of disability—medieval and otherwise—with sin, stigma, and shame. So doing, it recentres medieval disability history as a lived history that merits exploration and celebration. In this way, the volume serves to reclaim sanctity in disability histories as a means to affirm the possibility of radical disability futures.
February 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Real-Life Fabliaux: #RunawayNuns

In the 1300s, three nuns from St. Clement’s by York had better things to do.

✨ Cecily saw a group of horsemen, threw off her habit and went with them. She lived in Darlington with a man I hope was part of the troupe for the next three years.
#TheCourtJesterPodcast
February 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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ECR grant opportunity from SMFS👇
February 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Come and join me for a free webinar where I'll be discussing the incredible archaeology of the Dublin Mountains.

Prehistoric landscapes, megalithic tombs, medieval castles, 18th century debauchery, grave robbers & more!

Few tickets left:
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#IrishBlueSky #SpéirGhorm
Dublin Mountains Archaeology Webinar
Discover more about the archaeology and stories of the Dublin Mountains.
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February 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Accidental commentary on the impermanence of academic jobs #academicsky
An ad for apartments. The options are: long term, short term, academic term and summer rentals.
February 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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CFP is live until May 3rd for the 'Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference' 👇
marianajlopez.bsky.social Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social · Feb 9
Call for Papers for the 6th 'Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference' on 3-6 June is now available. The central themes this year are ‘Globalities’ and ‘Regionalities’. A great opportunity to share work in the field @midagesmodgames.bsky.social middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...
a man with long hair is making a funny face and saying hmm
Alt: Geralt from Netflix's The Witcher nodding unimpressed and saying 'Hmmm'
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February 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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This fine book, in which I have an essay, is on sale: www.bloomsbury.com/u...
Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy
Focusing on representations of Celtic motifs and traditions in post-1980s adult fantasy literature, this book illuminates how the historical, the mythological a…
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February 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes?! 🤯

Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke...

A thread. 🧵
February 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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It's that time of the year again. The asynchronous MAMG is returning!

Have any paper pitches about premodern games and/or medievalism?

Are you developing a medievalist game and want feedback from historians and colleagues?

We'd love to hear from you!
#gtp #historygames #medievalsky
midagesmodgames.bsky.social The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · Feb 3
We're delighted to open the Call for Papers for the sixth Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference: Globalities and Regionalities (3-6 June 2025). The themes are 'Globalities' and 'Regionalities' with deadline 3 May. Details below and here: middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...
A Call for Papers poster for the Middle Ages in Modern Games conference 2025. The banner image is a medieval map of Afro-eurasia.
February 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Dream job for someone: assistant director of research at the Huntington Library (paradise!) huntingtonlibrary.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Huntin...
Assistant Director of Research
About Us At The Huntington, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to support and promote the appreciation of the humanities, the arts, and bot...
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January 10, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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> Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize - for the best doctoral dissertation on a topic in German history written at a North American university

> Deadline for submission: March 1, 2024
> Details: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/fri...

Via openbiblio.social/@JuedStudien...
December 8, 2023 at 9:43 PM
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Aberdeen plans to remove all degrees and research in modern languages. Utterly disgraceful. Please consider signing this petition
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Sign the Petition
On 30 November of this year, all staff in the Modern Languages, Translation and Interpreting section of the University of Aberdeen were told that they are at risk of redundancy, opening a false choice...
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December 4, 2023 at 11:12 AM
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Postgrads and early career Victorianists who work on London may be interested in applying for the recently established Curriers' Company London History Essay Prize. The prize carries an award of £1000. Deadline is January 31, 2024.

Details here: www.history.ac.uk/join-ihr/fel...
December 1, 2023 at 7:51 PM
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Swiss NSF no longer covers #OpenAccess fees for Special Issues: www.snf.ch/en/g2ICvujLD...

"the increase in the number of special issues is going hand-in-hand with shorter processing times and lower rejection rates."

For why, see: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884
#AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing
The SNSF is no longer funding Open Access articles in special issues
Large increase, inconsistent processes: from February 2024, the SNSF will no longer fund Open Access articles in special issues.
www.snf.ch
November 30, 2023 at 7:38 PM
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Frankly, I find these takes obnoxious. Sure, it’s not wrong, but the whole “we can’t project modern labels onto the past” is ✨only✨ ever used for marginalized identities.

If you don’t write about not assuming people in the past are cis/straight, then don’t write this.
Article in The Conversation titled “Museum classifies Roman emperor as trans – but modern labels oversimplify ancient gender identities”
November 29, 2023 at 12:20 AM