James Worth
@worthjrw.bsky.social
Doctoral Candidate at UCL. Investigating Langobard Ethnic Identity, Language, and Onomastic Practice in the Medieval Charters, 568-774 CE. I have bones to pick with Philology. He/Him.
Finally recovered my copies of the English Historical Documents from home. An older purchase (thanks to those who sold them for cheap!) but I've never been happier to own something so wonderfully resourceful and infinitely useful (even, dare I say, aesthetic?).
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Finally recovered my copies of the English Historical Documents from home. An older purchase (thanks to those who sold them for cheap!) but I've never been happier to own something so wonderfully resourceful and infinitely useful (even, dare I say, aesthetic?).
Thoroughly enjoy the fact that this year has been (almost) topped and bottomed by Gothic Horrors: Nosferatu in January with Frankenstein in November? A phenomenal year for cinema (for me).
November 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Thoroughly enjoy the fact that this year has been (almost) topped and bottomed by Gothic Horrors: Nosferatu in January with Frankenstein in November? A phenomenal year for cinema (for me).
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Ms. 4, Leges Langobardorum (11th century): Lombard / Latin legal vocaboulary 💙
Biblioteca statale del monumento nazionale della Badia di Cava dei Tirreni
#medievalsky
Biblioteca statale del monumento nazionale della Badia di Cava dei Tirreni
#medievalsky
October 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Ms. 4, Leges Langobardorum (11th century): Lombard / Latin legal vocaboulary 💙
Biblioteca statale del monumento nazionale della Badia di Cava dei Tirreni
#medievalsky
Biblioteca statale del monumento nazionale della Badia di Cava dei Tirreni
#medievalsky
Only 10 days left! If you know of anyone who might be interested in joining us to this coming IMC ("long beard" not a requirement), then please forward this over!
The Lombards - not to be confused with the Lumbar - form the backbone of this panel. Whether you specialise in Late Antiquity or the Renaissance, we'd love to hear from you! After all, who *are* the Lombards to you? #IMC2026 #MedievalSky
September 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Only 10 days left! If you know of anyone who might be interested in joining us to this coming IMC ("long beard" not a requirement), then please forward this over!
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if you know anyone who might be interested, please circulate this Call for Papers:
"Rethinking Popular Religion from Late Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period"
📍Venezia / Università Ca' Foscari / 12-13th March 2026
💣 deadline: 30th September 2025
#medievalsky #cfp #Venice @rmblf.bsky.social
"Rethinking Popular Religion from Late Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period"
📍Venezia / Università Ca' Foscari / 12-13th March 2026
💣 deadline: 30th September 2025
#medievalsky #cfp #Venice @rmblf.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
if you know anyone who might be interested, please circulate this Call for Papers:
"Rethinking Popular Religion from Late Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period"
📍Venezia / Università Ca' Foscari / 12-13th March 2026
💣 deadline: 30th September 2025
#medievalsky #cfp #Venice @rmblf.bsky.social
"Rethinking Popular Religion from Late Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period"
📍Venezia / Università Ca' Foscari / 12-13th March 2026
💣 deadline: 30th September 2025
#medievalsky #cfp #Venice @rmblf.bsky.social
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Circulating this CfP for Leeds #IMC2026 on the evolution of the Lombards and Lombard identities through time. #MedievalSky #skystorians
August 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Circulating this CfP for Leeds #IMC2026 on the evolution of the Lombards and Lombard identities through time. #MedievalSky #skystorians
The Lombards - not to be confused with the Lumbar - form the backbone of this panel. Whether you specialise in Late Antiquity or the Renaissance, we'd love to hear from you! After all, who *are* the Lombards to you? #IMC2026 #MedievalSky
August 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The Lombards - not to be confused with the Lumbar - form the backbone of this panel. Whether you specialise in Late Antiquity or the Renaissance, we'd love to hear from you! After all, who *are* the Lombards to you? #IMC2026 #MedievalSky
Something odd in older philological texts are the wild presumptions being made. Gamillscheg (1935, p. 62), for instance, simply throws out that the Lombards entered Italy 'fast ohne Kenntnis des Lateinischen' (barely knowing Latin), and bases it on Germanic toponyms.
July 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Something odd in older philological texts are the wild presumptions being made. Gamillscheg (1935, p. 62), for instance, simply throws out that the Lombards entered Italy 'fast ohne Kenntnis des Lateinischen' (barely knowing Latin), and bases it on Germanic toponyms.
Thanks to @seaxeducation.bsky.social for the opportunity to speak at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social #onomastics panel. It was wonderful to participate in such a vibrant field, and hear so many fascinating papers!
July 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Thanks to @seaxeducation.bsky.social for the opportunity to speak at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social #onomastics panel. It was wonderful to participate in such a vibrant field, and hear so many fascinating papers!
Excited to talk on the Associative Naming practices of Names as "Lombard Histories Beyond Paul the Deacon" at Tuesday's 14:15 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #onomastics panel as chaired by @seaxeducation.bsky.social.
July 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Excited to talk on the Associative Naming practices of Names as "Lombard Histories Beyond Paul the Deacon" at Tuesday's 14:15 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #onomastics panel as chaired by @seaxeducation.bsky.social.
When you graduate from your degree just to end up working in a completely unrelated field.
woody and buzz lightyear from toy story giving each other high fives
ALT: woody and buzz lightyear from toy story giving each other high fives
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July 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
When you graduate from your degree just to end up working in a completely unrelated field.
It was a pleasure chairing and speaking today at @themamoconf.bsky.social as part of the panel at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Strand Campus.
Thanks to all the organisers for making this happen!
Thanks to all the organisers for making this happen!
June 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It was a pleasure chairing and speaking today at @themamoconf.bsky.social as part of the panel at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Strand Campus.
Thanks to all the organisers for making this happen!
Thanks to all the organisers for making this happen!
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Our final panel in the Middle Ages in Modern Games thread at MAMO is Wednesday's 'Education and Exploration'!
Feat. Josip Mihaljević (Old Church Slavonic Institute), James Worth (@worthjrw.bsky.social, UCL), and Thom Gobbit (@booksoflaw.bsky.social, Graz). 👇 #MAMOmonth
Feat. Josip Mihaljević (Old Church Slavonic Institute), James Worth (@worthjrw.bsky.social, UCL), and Thom Gobbit (@booksoflaw.bsky.social, Graz). 👇 #MAMOmonth
![Session 2B: The Middle Ages in Modern Games (IV): Education and Exploration [Room K018]
Josip Mihaljević (Old Church Slavonic Institute): Web Games for Learning and Promoting the Glagolitic Script
James Worth (University College London): Creating the Age of Apocalypse: Game Mechanics as Pedagogical Tools for imparting a Historiographical Periodisation of West Roman Collapse in Total War: Attila
Thom Gobbitt (Karl Franzens Universitat, Graz): Rules Lawyers’ Time: Early Medieval Laws, Plot, and Gamification](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3xv3r2tyxi54yayomcjzybtt/bafkreicqvpioliwmfb5q27jjcgt3x7f6tb3diuyeaoxxag2qwxszykoycy@jpeg)
June 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Our final panel in the Middle Ages in Modern Games thread at MAMO is Wednesday's 'Education and Exploration'!
Feat. Josip Mihaljević (Old Church Slavonic Institute), James Worth (@worthjrw.bsky.social, UCL), and Thom Gobbit (@booksoflaw.bsky.social, Graz). 👇 #MAMOmonth
Feat. Josip Mihaljević (Old Church Slavonic Institute), James Worth (@worthjrw.bsky.social, UCL), and Thom Gobbit (@booksoflaw.bsky.social, Graz). 👇 #MAMOmonth
One of my favourite cinematic scenes will always be Théoden's crisis just before the climax of The Two Towers.
His struggle with personal insecurity and the weight of responsibility for the lives of those he lead to this point, all whilst facing an inevitability, is powerful and moving.
His struggle with personal insecurity and the weight of responsibility for the lives of those he lead to this point, all whilst facing an inevitability, is powerful and moving.
May 31, 2025 at 10:47 AM
One of my favourite cinematic scenes will always be Théoden's crisis just before the climax of The Two Towers.
His struggle with personal insecurity and the weight of responsibility for the lives of those he lead to this point, all whilst facing an inevitability, is powerful and moving.
His struggle with personal insecurity and the weight of responsibility for the lives of those he lead to this point, all whilst facing an inevitability, is powerful and moving.
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If you’ve registered for #IMC2025, you can securely check the details of your booking via the confirmation email sent to you from our registration site or by emailing imc@leeds.ac.uk.
We released a statement on our website regarding the phishing attempts: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
We released a statement on our website regarding the phishing attempts: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
International Medieval Congress
www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
May 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
If you’ve registered for #IMC2025, you can securely check the details of your booking via the confirmation email sent to you from our registration site or by emailing imc@leeds.ac.uk.
We released a statement on our website regarding the phishing attempts: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
We released a statement on our website regarding the phishing attempts: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
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Any #medievalsky members heading to the Leeds International Medieval Congress take care about emails from Global Travel Experts (ops@gtravelhost.com) asking you to 'confirm your booking.' Seems to be an elaborate scam & has targeted other international conferences: www.faops2024.org/gnuboard/bbs...
May 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Any #medievalsky members heading to the Leeds International Medieval Congress take care about emails from Global Travel Experts (ops@gtravelhost.com) asking you to 'confirm your booking.' Seems to be an elaborate scam & has targeted other international conferences: www.faops2024.org/gnuboard/bbs...
One of my favourite Latin misunderstandings comes from Paul the Deacon's story about the Lombards leaving Pannonia for Italy and taking with them 'all their household possessions'.
Cue the mental image of a group of Lombards bearing their beloved Aloe Veras, Sea Monkeys, and Lava Lamps into Italy.
Cue the mental image of a group of Lombards bearing their beloved Aloe Veras, Sea Monkeys, and Lava Lamps into Italy.
May 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
One of my favourite Latin misunderstandings comes from Paul the Deacon's story about the Lombards leaving Pannonia for Italy and taking with them 'all their household possessions'.
Cue the mental image of a group of Lombards bearing their beloved Aloe Veras, Sea Monkeys, and Lava Lamps into Italy.
Cue the mental image of a group of Lombards bearing their beloved Aloe Veras, Sea Monkeys, and Lava Lamps into Italy.
Sent over a chapter, and the relief is overwhelming. Unpicking ~150 years worth of philological assumptions (no guys, not all anthroponyms confer equal linguistic data) and their critics (yes, some are influenced by pronunciation) through Derridean Écriture and Différance was not a picnic.
April 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Sent over a chapter, and the relief is overwhelming. Unpicking ~150 years worth of philological assumptions (no guys, not all anthroponyms confer equal linguistic data) and their critics (yes, some are influenced by pronunciation) through Derridean Écriture and Différance was not a picnic.
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Interested in working with us on The Place-Names of #Herefordshire? We're recruiting a Research Assistant!
Fixed term, full- or part-time. Closing date 14 March. Please share widely.
#academicsky #medievalsky
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Fixed term, full- or part-time. Closing date 14 March. Please share widely.
#academicsky #medievalsky
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Assistant (Part time, fixed-term)
Do you have experience in producing high quality, accurate text? Do you have a keen eye for technical detail? Do you have particular interest and some experience in the history of English, Welsh or th...
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk
March 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Interested in working with us on The Place-Names of #Herefordshire? We're recruiting a Research Assistant!
Fixed term, full- or part-time. Closing date 14 March. Please share widely.
#academicsky #medievalsky
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Fixed term, full- or part-time. Closing date 14 March. Please share widely.
#academicsky #medievalsky
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Finally getting around to seeing the Medieval Women Exhibition! Although, par for the course, I seem to have chosen the literal last moment to do it...
February 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Finally getting around to seeing the Medieval Women Exhibition! Although, par for the course, I seem to have chosen the literal last moment to do it...
Rereading a section of my thesis, just to find out I've used the same phrase ("in a similar fashion") five times in the same paragraph really has me wondering if my brain actually functions or if it's just one big sentence regurgitation machine.
January 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Rereading a section of my thesis, just to find out I've used the same phrase ("in a similar fashion") five times in the same paragraph really has me wondering if my brain actually functions or if it's just one big sentence regurgitation machine.
I might love Le Creuset pots far too much for my own good. Stews have, so far, never been easier*.
*previous attempts courtesy of my long-suffering "sauce"pan.
*previous attempts courtesy of my long-suffering "sauce"pan.
January 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I might love Le Creuset pots far too much for my own good. Stews have, so far, never been easier*.
*previous attempts courtesy of my long-suffering "sauce"pan.
*previous attempts courtesy of my long-suffering "sauce"pan.
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Spread the word!
December 4, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Spread the word!