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The University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies hosts one of the largest interdisciplinary medieval studies programs in the world. https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/
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Are you a medieval maker? Or know someone who is? Email hello@medievalmarginalia.com for a chance to be featured in my holiday gift guide!
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Are you a medieval maker? Or know someone who is? Email hello@medievalmarginalia.com for a chance to be featured in my holiday gift guide!
🎙️ Listen to Jon McGinnis (Philosophy / CMS) discuss Ibn Sina’s views of divine and human freedom on The Free Will Show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO4L...
Episode 107: Ibn Sina with Jon McGinnis
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November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🎙️ Listen to Jon McGinnis (Philosophy / CMS) discuss Ibn Sina’s views of divine and human freedom on The Free Will Show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO4L...
Save the Date: November 18 - "From Photographing Life to Saving Souls After Death": A Workshop with Nicole Liao and Ariana Sider Mésenge at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
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From Photographing Life to Saving Souls After Death: A Workshop with Nicole Liao and Ariana Sider Mésenge | The Munk School
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November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Save the Date: November 18 - "From Photographing Life to Saving Souls After Death": A Workshop with Nicole Liao and Ariana Sider Mésenge at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
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C. P. Lesley's 3 favourite reads in 2025 include Lucy Pick's "The Queen's Companion"
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Want to know C. P. Lesley's Top 3 Books of 2025?
C. P.'s top 3 reads of 2025 include Maya & Natasha and two other amazing books. Discover what makes these books unmissable!
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November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
C. P. Lesley's 3 favourite reads in 2025 include Lucy Pick's "The Queen's Companion"
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Jack McCart awarded Dean’s Doctoral Excellence Scholarship on SGS News 🎉
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November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Jack McCart awarded Dean’s Doctoral Excellence Scholarship on SGS News 🎉
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"How frogs were used as medicine in the medieval age" - Greti Dinkova-Bruun speaks to Emile Donovan for Radio New Zealand.
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How frogs were used as medicine in the medieval age
Greti Dinkova-Bruun is a Fellow and Library Director at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, and has been looking into medieval texts to find how frogs were depicted and used for ...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"How frogs were used as medicine in the medieval age" - Greti Dinkova-Bruun speaks to Emile Donovan for Radio New Zealand.
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@utoronto.ca Celebrates: @uoftcms.bsky.social PhD Candidate Jack McCart's academic achievement.
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Jack McCart awarded Dean's Doctoral Excellence Scholarship
Jack McCart, a PhD candidate at the Centre for Medieval Studies in the Faculty of Arts & Science, has been awarded the faculty's Dean’s Doctoral Excellence Scholarship. The scholarship recognizes stud...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
@utoronto.ca Celebrates: @uoftcms.bsky.social PhD Candidate Jack McCart's academic achievement.
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The full-time tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity closes this Thursday, November 6!
We're Hiring! The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The full-time tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity closes this Thursday, November 6!
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There's still time to register to hear Laura Moncion talk about medieval recluses!
Wednesday at 11 EST on Zoom, 👇
Wednesday at 11 EST on Zoom, 👇
The CSM Online: Tune in Wednesday 5 Nov. 2025, at 11am EST to hear 2025 Boyle Prize Winner Laura Moncion talk about her dissertation, "Being a Recluse is No Small Thing: Late Medieval Women’s Reclusion in Theory and Practice."
Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/n6LJh7JYKvRD...
Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/n6LJh7JYKvRD...
Laura Moncion – Boyle Prize Presentation / Colloque du prix Boyle - REGISTRATION / INSCRIPTION
On 5 Nov. 2025 at 11h00 (EST), the Canadian Society of Medievalists will hold its second annual Boyle Prize Online Presentation, when Laura Moncion, the winner of the Society's Leonard E. Boyle Prize ...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
There's still time to register to hear Laura Moncion talk about medieval recluses!
Wednesday at 11 EST on Zoom, 👇
Wednesday at 11 EST on Zoom, 👇
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Il est encore temps de vous inscrire pour écouter Laura Moncion parler des reclus médiévaux !
Mercredi à 11 h EST sur Zoom, 👇
Mercredi à 11 h EST sur Zoom, 👇
La SCM en ligne : le mercredi 5 novembre 2025 à 11 h (heure de l'Est) on écoute Laura Moncion, lauréate du prix Boyle 2025, parler de sa thèse intitulée « Being a Recluse is No Small Thing: Late Medieval Women’s Reclusion in Theory and Practice ».
Inscription : forms.gle/n6LJh7JYKvRD...
Inscription : forms.gle/n6LJh7JYKvRD...
Laura Moncion – Boyle Prize Presentation / Colloque du prix Boyle - REGISTRATION / INSCRIPTION
On 5 Nov. 2025 at 11h00 (EST), the Canadian Society of Medievalists will hold its second annual Boyle Prize Online Presentation, when Laura Moncion, the winner of the Society's Leonard E. Boyle Prize ...
forms.gle
November 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Il est encore temps de vous inscrire pour écouter Laura Moncion parler des reclus médiévaux !
Mercredi à 11 h EST sur Zoom, 👇
Mercredi à 11 h EST sur Zoom, 👇
A reminder that next week, CMS will hold two Open Houses - one in person, one virtual - for prospective students wishing to learn more about our MA and PhD Programming. Register your spot for November 4 or November 6! uoft.me/bWp
October 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
A reminder that next week, CMS will hold two Open Houses - one in person, one virtual - for prospective students wishing to learn more about our MA and PhD Programming. Register your spot for November 4 or November 6! uoft.me/bWp
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I've written some of my very favourite essays for @longreads.com (and worked with some great editors). You can read the rest here:
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October 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I've written some of my very favourite essays for @longreads.com (and worked with some great editors). You can read the rest here:
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Halloween is the perfect time to learn more about Canada's first documented 'demon possession' case.
Check out this interview with Mairi Cowan about her book The Possession of Barbe Hallay.
Check out this interview with Mairi Cowan about her book The Possession of Barbe Hallay.
Historian discovers new details in Canada's first documented 'demon possession' case | CBC Radio
A demonic possession, a do-it-yourself exorcism, and the execution of an accused witch — welcome to daily life in Quebec City, circa 1660. Historian Mairi Cowan shares the story of Canada’s earliest...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Halloween is the perfect time to learn more about Canada's first documented 'demon possession' case.
Check out this interview with Mairi Cowan about her book The Possession of Barbe Hallay.
Check out this interview with Mairi Cowan about her book The Possession of Barbe Hallay.
Latin America History Month Open House
Woodblock from "The Puerto Rican War Collection"
Tomorrow, October 31, Maclean Hunter Room, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto; 12pm-5pm
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Woodblock from "The Puerto Rican War Collection"
Tomorrow, October 31, Maclean Hunter Room, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto; 12pm-5pm
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October 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Latin America History Month Open House
Woodblock from "The Puerto Rican War Collection"
Tomorrow, October 31, Maclean Hunter Room, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto; 12pm-5pm
fisher.library.utoronto.ca/fisher-event...
Woodblock from "The Puerto Rican War Collection"
Tomorrow, October 31, Maclean Hunter Room, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto; 12pm-5pm
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The latest issue of "Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies" includes contributions by two CMS Students!
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October 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The latest issue of "Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies" includes contributions by two CMS Students!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55786
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55786
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Publication – « The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing », éd. Sebastian Sobecki
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Publication – « The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing », éd. Sebastian Sobecki
The Middle Ages laid the foundations for the long European and Middle Eastern history of voyaging, colonialism, and expansion: the Papal embassies that took over a year of overland travel to reach …
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October 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Publication – « The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing », éd. Sebastian Sobecki
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Check out my new single “Interesting Times” on your platform of choice!
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October 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Check out my new single “Interesting Times” on your platform of choice!
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BOOK LAUNCH: 📖 Join David Townsend online or in person at CMS for "Historical Fiction and Its Discontents," an introduction to and reading from his new book, "The Ram in the Thicket, A Novel of Medieval Norwich."
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October 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
BOOK LAUNCH: 📖 Join David Townsend online or in person at CMS for "Historical Fiction and Its Discontents," an introduction to and reading from his new book, "The Ram in the Thicket, A Novel of Medieval Norwich."
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/david...
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/david...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Applications are open for:
𝗥𝗕𝗦-𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 (apply by 𝟮 𝗡𝗼𝘃.)
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 (apply by 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃.)
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 (apply by 𝟳 𝗗𝗲𝗰.)
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𝗥𝗕𝗦-𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 (apply by 𝟮 𝗡𝗼𝘃.)
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 (apply by 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃.)
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 (apply by 𝟳 𝗗𝗲𝗰.)
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October 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Applications are open for:
𝗥𝗕𝗦-𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 (apply by 𝟮 𝗡𝗼𝘃.)
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 (apply by 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃.)
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 (apply by 𝟳 𝗗𝗲𝗰.)
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𝗥𝗕𝗦-𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 (apply by 𝟮 𝗡𝗼𝘃.)
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 (apply by 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃.)
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 (apply by 𝟳 𝗗𝗲𝗰.)
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A new episode of The Medieval Podcast with @5minmedievalist.bsky.social : The Two Hundred Years’ War with Michael Livingston www.medievalists.net/2025/10/the-... #medievalsky #podcasts
The Two Hundred Years' War with Michael Livingston - Medievalists.net
This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Michael Livingston about why the Hundred Years’ War should actually be called the Two Hundred Years’ War, what actually touched off the…
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October 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A new episode of The Medieval Podcast with @5minmedievalist.bsky.social : The Two Hundred Years’ War with Michael Livingston www.medievalists.net/2025/10/the-... #medievalsky #podcasts
"Partition Truces in the Crusading Period" - CMS Alum, Bogdan Smarandache joins CrusadingHistory for a deep dive into the fascinating world of partition truces.
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Partition Truces in the Crusading Period
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October 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"Partition Truces in the Crusading Period" - CMS Alum, Bogdan Smarandache joins CrusadingHistory for a deep dive into the fascinating world of partition truces.
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I’ve been reflecting on independent and assertive Catholic religious women. #medievalsky
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Nuns are earning a reputation for being defiant, but obedience has always had its limits
(RNS) — Nuns have long defied assumptions that religious women are fundamentally passive and obedient.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I’ve been reflecting on independent and assertive Catholic religious women. #medievalsky
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The Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto is holding an Open House for prospective Students! Visit us in person on November 4 - or virtually via Zoom on Thursday, November 6 - to learn about MA and PhD programming directly from current students, faculty, and alumni!
uoft.me/bWp
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October 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto is holding an Open House for prospective Students! Visit us in person on November 4 - or virtually via Zoom on Thursday, November 6 - to learn about MA and PhD programming directly from current students, faculty, and alumni!
uoft.me/bWp
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"In a new study published in Mediaeval Studies, Greti Dinkova-Bruun explores how the frog leapt between the worlds of healing and storytelling, showing how this humble amphibian embodied both physical and moral meaning."
The Medieval Frog: From Healing Charm to Cautionary Tale www.medievalists.net/2025/10/medi... #frogs #medieval
The Medieval Frog: From Healing Charm to Cautionary Tale - Medievalists.net
In medieval Europe, frogs were both feared and useful — condemned as unclean yet valued in medical recipes and moral tales. A new study explores how this unlikely creature moved from the healer’s…
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October 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"In a new study published in Mediaeval Studies, Greti Dinkova-Bruun explores how the frog leapt between the worlds of healing and storytelling, showing how this humble amphibian embodied both physical and moral meaning."