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Gustav Zamore
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DPhil. (Oxon.) Academy Research Fellow and medieval historian at Uppsala University, working on disruptions of sacred space, ca. 1100-1450. Former Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at University of Cambridge. Associate Research Fellow at Clare Hall Cambridge.
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And the news is... We're recruiting! Applications are now open for our 2026 @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral Scholarships. So, if you want to study at PhD level pre-modern handwritten cultures and the organisation of knowledge and power within them, do investigate our refreshed website.
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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My book is now officially out - a little early!

And what luck, you can now get it for 50% off (Or for 40% off after this sale ends with code E25KTRST)

#ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky #byzantinebluesky
October 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark!

Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️

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3-year postdoc position in medieval studies
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies The Department of Culture and Language invites applications for a 3-year postdoc position in Dominican studies within the CODICUM project. The position is e...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Open Acces: women’s disruptive presence (real and imagined) in #medieval sacred space. Among the cases a mime-prostitute interrupting an episcopal election and women dancing half naked before monks having previously defecated on the monastic grounds.
#skystorians

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Sacred space and disruptive bodies in the high and late Middle Ages
This article examines how women disrupted sacred space and attempts to maintain gendered divisions in areas dedicated to religious use in the high and late Middle Ages. Drawing on examples mainly f...
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October 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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mikaelalm.bsky.social
Välkomna!
September 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky
manuscripta.se – A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden — manuscripta.se A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden
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September 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
gzamore.bsky.social
It was just announced that the culture warrior priest running/ruining my parish (whose masses and homilies I have systematically avoided for over a year) will no longer be serving our community. Mood:

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Esto es bailar no él del expreso maquiatto #Savik6655 #shorts #short
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September 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme are still open to early-career researchers. Award holders will have the opportunity to complete a significant research project and gain valuable experience in a university setting. Apply now: buff.ly/McS8lRk
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August 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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From 1917-2008, Sweden’s state monopoly on alcohol sales also encompassed state ownership of its primary vodka manufacturer

This factor turned Sweden into Europe’s longest-lasting Absolut monarchy
August 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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echamp.bsky.social
I hope Stephen Colbert goes absolutely scorched earth the remaining months of his show.
July 18, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Budapest Pride! Sent from a friend on site. ❤️
Large numbers gathered for Pride in Budapest
June 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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🧬In Neolithic Çatalhöyük, family was built on social relations rather than blood ties.
Genetic analysis shows that over time, co-residents were no longer genetic relatives. Female subadults were buried with 5x more grave goods.
🔍A surprising story of Neolithic social life.
June 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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ctcallisen.bsky.social
Three weeks ago, I was pleased to successfully defend my master's thesis in early modern history at @uu.se. Many thanks to my supervisor @mikaelalm.bsky.social and my examiner @gzamore.bsky.social.

Please check it out!

#EarlyModern #LetterWriting #confessionalisation #17thC #skystorians
"Our wandering letters": Maintaining Connections in the Seventeenth Century
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June 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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ftersmeden.bsky.social
Har inte läst rapporten än, men mitt spontana svar är JA!!!
humtank.bsky.social Humtank @humtank.bsky.social · Jun 9
Ska poliser, läkare och civilingenjörer läsa historia och skönlitteratur som del i sin utbildning? Kan studier inom humaniora till och med behövas för att uppfylla fastslagna lärandemål? Nu släpps Humtanks nya rapport som behandlar ämnet. Ladda ner och läs den nu.

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Ny rapport från Humtank – humaniora i professionsutbildningar
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June 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Compare today’s story @theguardian.com and yesterday’s story in #TheDawnOfEverything
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
June 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Sad news. Also noteworthy that in France the death of a notable historian is still big news in a national newspaper.
June 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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My wonderful wife has written a fantastic article about dreams and the writing of history. Read it now!
May 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration
Slightly amended so I can fit this here: I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame! I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one. I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country. This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong. Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues. I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean? Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens. This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way. You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position. Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces. What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly. The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy. Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed. Tanja Bueltmann
May 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Yesterday at St. Peter’s Square…
April 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."
BREAKING: Pope Francis Dies at 88. Here's How He Should Be Remembered
The late pontiff was a progressive pope who was outspoken on Trump, Gaza, the climate, and more.
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April 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Paschal joy mixed with deep sadness this day. Thank you, Holy Father. Rest well.
April 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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’No, J.D., you can’t do that with couches. It’s a sin.’
April 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Time for John Mulaney and “There’s a horse in the hospital”

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There's a Horse In The Hospital | John Mulaney | Netflix Is A Joke
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April 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Tariffs will be lifted on penguins when they forsake monogamy and when the males abandon the woke practice of caring for the young.

by Pete Hegseth
April 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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We are very sorry to learn of the death of the medieval historian, Bob Moore, who published as R.I. Moore.

Elected a Fellow of the RHS in 1975, Bob Moore taught at Sheffield and Newcastle. He was known for his work on persecution and heresy and as an early proponent of world history bit.ly/4iXCAb2
Bob Moore obituary
Other lives: Medieval historian at Sheffield and Newcastle universities who wrote influential books on heresy and the roots of intolerance
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March 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM