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Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association
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JAEMA is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal specialising in the history of the early medieval period - from late antiquity to the early eleventh century.

https://aema.org.au/journal/
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Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association @jaema.bsky.social · Aug 23
While the Call for Papers for our annual conference may be closed, we are still open to submissions for our Journal!

JAEMA publishes scholarly articles on the Late Antique and Early Medieval world, see our website for details: aema.org.au/journal/
This call for submissions states that the Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association seeks submissions of scholarly articles on the early medieval period and late antiquity, from anywhere around the globe, between the fall of the Roman Empire and the end of the eleventh century. The Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association publishes articles that appeal to those interested in our period, whether these are focused on the historical, political, social, literary, cultural, religious, ethnic, geographic, and interpretive crossovers between.
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histudentcon.bsky.social
#Medievalsky Want to present your work in Reykjavík where the sagas take place? There is still time to submit! #CFP
@mediumaevum.bsky.social @jaema.bsky.social We hope to read tour submissions soon! Deadline is December 8th!
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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ceraejournal.bsky.social
The semesters are rattling to a close, the winter is bearing down, and we at Ceræ are still accepting non-themed articles by postgraduate students and early career researchers! #medievalsky #earlymodernsky ceraejournal.com/submissions/
Submissions
Author Guidelines Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies invites submissions for original and engaging articles of approximately 5000–8000 words, varia of up to 3000 wor…
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December 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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toebi.bsky.social
📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖The Old English Martyrology: An Annotated Bibliography
📲 www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cr30/martyr...
✍️Christine Rauer
💻Tony Brett
©️University of St Andrews
December 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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histudentcon.bsky.social
#medievalsky, don't forget to submit your papers!
#CFP !!! We want to hear all about your favorite antagonists, outlaws and troublemakers! @leedsims.bsky.social

Last day for sending them in is Dec 8th!
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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parkerchronicle.bsky.social
You can read my book #OpenAccess but if you want your very own hard copy, check out the UMP winter sale! Half the price, but 100% of the puns so subtle you wonder if I even did them on purpose. #MedievalSky

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December 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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davidstifter.bsky.social
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Medieval Irish charms

When asked for an inaugural lecture as Professor of Old and Middle Irish at @maynoothuniversity.ie (2012), I was desperately looking for a suitable topic. But after some deliberation, I chose one that I had already worked on before, namely Old Irish healing charms.
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The 3rd Stowe Missal Charm © David Stifter 2012, image © Royal Irish Academy and Irish Script on Screen
December 1, 2025 at 5:25 AM
jaema.bsky.social
The Centre for Early Modern Studies at @anupress.bsky.social has issued a Call for Papers investigating Cross-Disciplinary Approaches in Early Modern and Medieval Studies at the National Library of Australia in February of next year.

Check their site for details: cems.anu.edu.au/2025/11/call...
Call for Papers: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches in Early Modern and Medieval Studies | CEMS
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December 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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mattfirth.bsky.social
Just in: the first review of my edited collection, Pre-Conquest History and its Medieval Reception: Writing England's Past. The reviewer states 'the variety of approaches and diverse materials discussed in this collection spark exciting possibilities and avenues for future research'. Perfect! (1/2)
The cover of Pre-Conquest History and its Medieval Reception: Writing England's Past with a depiction of the 7th c. Mercian king, Offa, by Matthew Paris in the 13th c.
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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leedsims.bsky.social
Interested in learning more about the oldest museum in the UK and its research? Sign up to attend our next seminar online or come along on 27 November at 5.30 pm GMT: forms.office.com/e/L834SBHzKX. More info at link in bio (scroll down to events) #medievalsky #royalarmouries
A detail of a piece of metal armour (a cuisse) in the Gothic style, about 1490, showing a beveled edge, two rivets, and the general silvery patina of something very old. From Austria (III.2562) © Royal Armouries.
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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leedsims.bsky.social
Next Thursday! 5.30 pm. Hybrid. Please join us. #medievalsky #medievalwarfare #museums
leedsims.bsky.social Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 21d
Come along to hear specialists in pre-modern Asian & African arms, edged weapons, and combat techniques discuss their research. Hybrid #medievalsky @royalarmouries.bsky.social
leedsims.bsky.social Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 26d
Interested in learning more about the oldest museum in the UK and its research? Sign up to attend our next seminar online or come along on 27 November at 5.30 pm GMT: forms.office.com/e/L834SBHzKX. More info at link in bio (scroll down to events) #medievalsky #royalarmouries
November 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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profgabriele.com
anyone #medievalsky work on music?
splendorr.bsky.social nina splendorr ✨🏳️‍⚧️ @splendorr.bsky.social · 14d
Who knows about medieval / early modern music? Jongleur, polyphony, bard type stuff. My partner is writing a dissertation involving this era and would love to talk to a fellow academic / enthusiast to lecture them about liturgical music!

Maybe you can point me to someone, @profgabriele.com? Thanks!
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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judeseal.bsky.social
My latest post for the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on #deafness, #communication, and sign language in the Middle Ages
wellcomecollection.org/stories/medi...
#medievalsky #skystorians
Medieval deaf communication
Communicating with hand signs has a long history. Researcher Jude Seal examines the evidence for signing in Medieval Europe among both deaf and hearing communities.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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helontheweb.bsky.social
Dorothy Whitelock Lecture 2025: Guthlac: what the early medieval records tell us
3 December 17:15
St Peter’s College chapel, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford
@ox.ac.uk

Join the event in person or online.
www.english.ox.ac.uk/event/doroth...
Dorothy Whitelock Lecture 2025: Guthlac: what the early medieval records tell us
www.english.ox.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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You Are On Native Land: Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/13/you-are-on-native-land-understanding-medieval-studies-in-turtle-island #acrel #aarsbl #sblaar
November 16, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Medieval Engagements with Disability https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/13/medieval-engagements-with-disability #acrel #aarsbl #sblaar
November 16, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Understanding Medieval Race-Making https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/13/understanding-medieval-race-making #acrel #aarsbl #sblaar
November 16, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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karanthir.bsky.social
Looking for scholarship on the sixth-century Western Roman senate/aristocracy. I have Barnish's article on the senate c.400-700, but ideally wanting something a bit more beginner level that doesn't take so much knowledge for granted!
#MedievalSky #LateAntiquity
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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histudentcon.bsky.social
Hey #Medievalsky ! There is still time to submit your articles for our #CFP ! @mediumaevum.bsky.social @leedsims.bsky.social @anzamems.bsky.social Please pass this along to anyone who may be interested. We hope to hear from you soon! #Medieval
November 14, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social
I've just been told that my article, 'The circle of the world: the global diplomacy of Caliph al-Manṣūr' is now out Open Access with the BSOAS. I had thought that it was already published but it gives me a chance to re-share it, now with the real page numbers! #medievalsky

doi.org/10.1017/S004...
The circle of the world: the global diplomacy of Caliph al-Manṣūr | Bulletin of SOAS | Cambridge Core
The circle of the world: the global diplomacy of Caliph al-Manṣūr - Volume 88 Issue 3
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November 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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nrhopwood.bsky.social
Only two weeks left to submit your abstracts!
#medievalsky #medieval #earlymodern #lateantique
nrhopwood.bsky.social Natalie Hopwood @nrhopwood.bsky.social · Oct 30
Spread the word! A new postgraduate and early career researcher seminar series at @universityofleeds.bsky.social! For those studying the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern periods. We look forward to reading your proposals! #medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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toebi.bsky.social
📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish
⏰Submission deadline approaching: 15 November 2025‼️
📜The Old English Translation of the "Historia Apollonii regis Tyri": Reframing a Latin Romance in Pre-Conquest England
📲Details: roep.web.ox.ac.uk/event/apollo...
🏫University of Bergamo
📅13–14 April 2026
(no title)
CEMA
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November 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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downham.bsky.social
New article by Liverpool PhD Dr Eddie Meehan "Identity, exemplarity and the ideal king in early medieval Ireland" open access academic.oup.com/histres/adva... #history #leadership #ireland #medievalsky
Identity, exemplarity and the ideal king in early medieval Ireland*
Abstract. This article examines some early medieval Insular texts on the ideal king: three examples of Old Irish tecosca (wisdom) texts and the ninth secti
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November 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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aliceraw.bsky.social
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 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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cema-su.bsky.social
#medievalsky
Learn to read Old English from scratch! Join our online and in person monthly manuscript reading sessions at any time in the year.
Next session this Saturday, 10-12 CET, at the Sorbonne and on Zoom.
Ping us if you want to partake 🎉🎉🎉
Illustration = the Old English Hexateuch, w. an image of the creation of Eve. Text = Everything you always wanted to know about medieval manuscripts — but were too afraid to ask Attend the 2025-2026 CÉMA/AMAES Saturday morning sessions and learn to read medieval English manuscripts from scratch! When — Saturday 10 am-12 noon — October 11, November 15, December 13, January 24, February 21, March 21, April 11, May 30, June 13 Where — Sorbonne & Zoom To join at any point in the year, just e-mail us: florence.bourgne [at] sorbonne-universite.fr
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
jaema.bsky.social
"All parents have favourites, but you can't just say that"

The medieval ape:
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM