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Dr. Brittany Orton
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PhD in early medieval elite women and pre-Conquest England from the University of York. Assistant Teaching Professor at CU Colorado Springs. Outdoors and gym enthusiast.
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bhoneybadger.bsky.social
This looks fantastic for those working on later medieval gender and politics.
aliceraw.bsky.social Alice Raw @aliceraw.bsky.social · 9d
Call for Papers! Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis #medievalsky #Fissures2026
Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis 17-18 September 2026 Pembroke College, University of Cambridge Gendered work on medieval popular politics has tended to revolve around the exceptional. This workshop explores how studies of gender can reconfigure discourses of medieval political community. We ask how attending to gendered bodies and identities might help us better understand the fissures in political culture in medieval Europe. Marking, for example, women’s participation as either absent or rare confines their involvement to the historical margins. How did literary as well as non-literary texts from various genres, ranging from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, engage with gendered political action? How did ideas of gender stabilise or destabilise political performances? We invite abstracts for 25-minute papers, as well as expressions of interest for participation. We welcome papers with a historical, literary, or interdisciplinary focus. Potential topics could include but are not limited to: • Frameworks for understanding non-normative gender expressions in political spaces. • Studies of politics at the intersection of gendered, queer, or trans methodologies. • Histories of masculinities in political community. • Emotion and/or Affect • Weaponized/defensive gender • Manoeuvring bodies through political crisis • Inclusion and exclusion • Different sites of political discourse, such as domestic and non-violent conflict. Collectively, the papers will interrogate the role of gender in political discourse. Selected papers may be considered for inclusion in an edited volume. Means-based bursaries for speakers may be available by further application. Please submit a title and abstract of no more than 200 words to Alice Raw (ar889@cam.ac.uk) and Abbie Fray (abigail.fray@unibe.ch) by 16 January 2026.
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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hjparmstrong.bsky.social
Finally caught up with the BBC's King and Conqueror series 👑🗡️. If you were interested in why shows and films set in the Middle Ages are so often filmed in Iceland, you might consider reading my chapter which touches on this in International Medievalisms (2023): www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
‘The Northland of Old’: The Use and ‘Misuse’ of (Medieval) Iceland (Chapter 6) - International Medievalisms
International Medievalisms - February 2023
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September 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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willwyeth.bsky.social
Call for Papers for an excellent series. The editors are great and the journal open access. #CfP

“The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past”

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Second Call for Articles: The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past
The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past Special Collection explores how the medieval past is ‘curated’, that is, collected, interpreted, and communicated, across both professional and popular soci...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Suitably spooky for our online Oct talk. Sign up now, it's free!

#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #Execution #Death #Crime
The Executed Body in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century London
In this lecture we hear Dr Anna Cusack, a social historian of early modern England, present her research into executed bodies.
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October 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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emgallimore.bsky.social
CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social for July 2026: "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century". Please share widely! Deadline for abstracts 1 September 2025. #IMC2026
Call for papers for the 2026 Leeds IMC for "Old English in the Long 19th Century". Deadline 1 Sept. 2025. Description reads: Throughout the long 19th c., various advances were made in the study of Old English, ranging from the 1st edition of Beowulf (1815) the outlining of OE metre by Eduard Sievers, as well as discoveries of such OE texts as the Vercelli Book, the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary and the Brussels Cross. When approaching OE in the 21st c., it is impossible to deny the impact of 19th-c. scholarship. When we refer to titles of such OE poems as The Wanderer, The Seafarer and The Wife’s Lament, we are using titles bestowed on these texts by 19th-c. scholars. Several standard editions of OE texts were made in the 19th c. or heavily rely on earlier, 19th-c. editions. Lexicographical tools with a relevance for OE, including Bosworth and Toller’s An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, A Thesaurus of Old English and the Oxford English Dictionary, also have their roots firmly in 19th-c. philological practices and how OE is taught still relies on paradigms and set texts from the 19th c. Thus, when studying OE, we often have to engage with material on multiple temporal levels, considering not just our own concepts of the early medieval period but also how that period was understood by 19th-c. scholars. Paper proposals are welcome from scholars from all academic backgrounds. Possible topics include but are not limited to: - Discoveries of OE texts - Disputes about linguistic or literary interpretations of OE - Disciplinary developments in the field of OE studies - Personal, religious, political and ideological motivations for the study of OE - Biographical contributions about scholars of OE - Scholarly correspondence on OE matters - Editing and printing of OE texts - Teaching of OE Please send an abstract (300 words) to Rachel A. Fletcher (r.a.fletcher@hum.leidenuniv.nl), Ellen Gallimore (ellen.gallimore@york.ac.uk) and Thijs Porck (m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl).
July 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
bhoneybadger.bsky.social
Officially got my silly little hat!
July 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
bhoneybadger.bsky.social
Went to York Minster today and spent quite a bit of time in the chapter house.
July 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
bhoneybadger.bsky.social
I'm back in York for my graduation, and it feels like coming home.
July 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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oxmedstud.bsky.social
POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY!

@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social are advertising a full-time 6-month postdoc position to work with Andrew Dunning on redeveloping the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project as a sustainable, open-access digital resource for manuscript studies.

🖊️ Apply by 14 July
Home page of the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project beta website.
July 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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manchesterup.bsky.social
Any Medievalists want a copy of the newest edition of Debating #Medieval Europe - The central and later Middle Ages - for... free?

Our DME books serve as an entry point for understanding the distinctive historiography of their periods.

Hit repost and we'll add you to the giveaway 📗👇 #booksky
June 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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kcross.bsky.social
Join us at York Festival of Ideas for A Day Out With the Vikings on Saturday 7th June. We’ll discuss viking festivals past and present, and have a live stream from a Viking ship on the Mediterranean! #vikingsky #publicvikings

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May 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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keithedwards.bsky.social
HAPPENING NOW: Cory Booker is giving a marathon speech for as long as possible to protest Trump.

Watch live here:
🚨HAPPENING NOW: CORY BOOKER SPEAKING AS LONG AS POSSIBLE TO PROTEST TRUMP
YouTube video by Keith Edwards
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April 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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janebonsall.bsky.social
In case anyone in Edinburgh is free on Tuesday and wants to come listen to me chat about ways of tackling multilingual narratives, the impact of adaptation, and the (surprisingly contemporary) dynamics of medieval gender politics in very strange texts, here's your chance!
cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · Mar 21
📜 In our next session we welcome back former @uoe-llc.bsky.social PhD student @janebonsall.bsky.social, as she discusses her ongoing work within a collaborative research project exploring perhaps the most famous pre-modern text that you’ve never heard of!

#History #Edinburgh #HCA #Seminars
March 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
bhoneybadger.bsky.social
This was an amazing rally to be at! It definitely renewed my hope that the people are ready to stand against what is happening.
aoc.bsky.social Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Mar 21
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
daveweigel.bsky.social Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · Mar 21
Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later
March 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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davidoatkins.bsky.social
These are religious fundamentalists, tech overlords and white supremacists.

They see that education makes people liberal and reject theocracy. Education gives workers power. And education makes people have fewer babies. They want more white babies.

So they want to kill all that.
March 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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tsasson.bsky.social
🚨I'm thrilled to share that @wadhamoxford, in collaboration with @OxfordHistory Faculty, has established the Koch History Centre, an Institute of Advanced Studies for History. The Centre will support 12 junior and senior fellows. This year's theme: "Religion and the State." Please consider applying!
February 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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visithmml.bsky.social
Accepting applications for Introduction to Classical Armenian, a language and paleography course held from July 7 to August 1, 2025, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Application deadline: February 24, 2025
Learn more: hmml.org/programs/int...
December 10, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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barpublishing.bsky.social
We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here!

Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺

#ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky
a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone
Alt: a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone
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February 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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nicomaramckay.com
Trans people have always existed and that there are people who are actively working on recovering and interpreting those histories.

I've just added a couple of folks newer to Bluesky, so check out the starter pack again in case there's anyone you're missing. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈💾 🏳️‍🌈🎓
nicomaramckay.com Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · Oct 25
I've made a starter pack for academics who work in Premodern Trans Studies: go.bsky.app/RihBQMi

There used to be more of us on the old site, but if I'm missing anyone, at any career stage, please let me know and I'll add them. Thanks!

We have always been here.
Starter pack image from Bluesky that says "join the conversation," features six profile pics, and is titled "Premodern Trans Studies"
February 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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aspencerhall.bsky.social
This year's conference is organised by @medievalcanter.bsky.social at Canterbury Christ Church, 2-5 July. Theme is "Gender: Charity and Care". Plenty of time to get your abstract in--they're due March 31

Full info 👉 medievalgender.co.uk/2025-canterb...

#MedievalSky #Skystorians 🗃️ #CfP
Save the Date! Wednesday 2 – Saturday 5 July 2025. Be inspired by love, charity and care to consider gendered literary, political/historical, and theological texts and responses, all forms of religious belief and none, and social/socio-economic, and environmental explorations of the subject from caring to apocalyptic climate emergency. Topics might include: • Religious devotion and almsgiving globally (including generosity in Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism (d̄āna), • Jewish philanthropy (tzedakah) and Islamic charitable giving (sadaqa) • Gift-giving and donations in texts, documents, material culture, drama and depictions from saints to chuggers, lay piety, and non-normative medieval beliefs, including the opposites of charity and care - cupidity and neglect. • Charitable locations: leperhouses, hospices and hospitals, and the care of the sick and dying, childbirth and childcare. • Charity in urban and rural domestic settings and gardens, guilds, church ales and help ales. • Charity and care for bodies, feelings and nature: emotions, senses, sensualities, sex, chastity, and inclusive genderings. • Convenor: Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, Centre for Kent History & Heritage, Canterbury Christ Church University • Kindly email abstracts and questionsto GMS 2025 Liaison Dr Diane Heath, Diane.Heath@ScienceMuseum.ac.uk • AbstractDeadline: Monday 31 March 2025 PLEASE PUT ‘GMS 2025 ABSTRACT’ IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR EMAIL – THANK YOU • Abstracts 200 words max (+ bio) for papers (20 mins); panels, poetry, performance, posters and art also welcome • ECR travel bursary aid available on receipt of tickets (post attendance) via the Kate Westoby Fund. • Location: Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1QU • Conference begins Wednesday 2 July; Conference Dinner on Thursday; Conference ends Saturday am.
January 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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ayanaeliza.bsky.social
As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻
January 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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delfinietois.bsky.social
Interested in women, religion and networks? Don't miss out on this opportunity to meet like-minded people!! The CfP for the #H-WRBI annual conference is out. Deadline: 31 January
December 10, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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patrickleary.bsky.social
Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...
January 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM