James T Palmer
@jtpmedieval.bsky.social
Restless medievalist • Professor at St Andrews, Scotland • Apocalypse/ Nature/ Science/ Medicine c. 500-c. 1000
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Author copies of Merovingian Worlds have arrived!
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Come hang out next year! #medievalsky
The Department of Medieval History at the University of St Andrews invites applications for the Donald Bullough Fellowship to be taken up during either semester of the academic year 2026-2027.
The closing date for applications is Monday 1 December 2025.
The closing date for applications is Monday 1 December 2025.
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Come hang out next year! #medievalsky
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Dioskurides-Fragment aus dem 9. Jahrhundert entdeckt.
Wenn's um Feigen geht, dann ist es das Ende des 1. Buches der "Materia medica".
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#histmed #medievalsky #bookhistory
Wenn's um Feigen geht, dann ist es das Ende des 1. Buches der "Materia medica".
www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/un...
#histmed #medievalsky #bookhistory
Unibibliothek entdeckt Pergamentfragment aus dem 9. Jahrhundert
In der Bibliothek in Halle ist beim Digitalisieren eine Handschrift gefunden worden. Sie hatte als Einband reformatorischer Schriften gedient.
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November 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Dioskurides-Fragment aus dem 9. Jahrhundert entdeckt.
Wenn's um Feigen geht, dann ist es das Ende des 1. Buches der "Materia medica".
www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/un...
#histmed #medievalsky #bookhistory
Wenn's um Feigen geht, dann ist es das Ende des 1. Buches der "Materia medica".
www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/un...
#histmed #medievalsky #bookhistory
New in open access #medievalsky: Bede's Medical Books!
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Keepin' it Old School this time
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Keepin' it Old School this time
October 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
New in open access #medievalsky: Bede's Medical Books!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Keepin' it Old School this time
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Keepin' it Old School this time
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Call for applications! 📣
The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝
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The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝
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September 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Call for applications! 📣
The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝
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The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝
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Big workshop coming up in Southampton on #apocalyptic literature in Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the early Middle Ages - all welcome, in person or online! Any queries do get in touch.
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Apocalypticism
The conference marks the final event of a project examining apocalyptic literature of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the 7th-9th centuries
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August 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Big workshop coming up in Southampton on #apocalyptic literature in Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the early Middle Ages - all welcome, in person or online! Any queries do get in touch.
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
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Fresh on early view: @eddiemeehan99.bsky.social on how Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) balanced kingship "as an office and as a dynastic status".
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August 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Fresh on early view: @eddiemeehan99.bsky.social on how Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) balanced kingship "as an office and as a dynastic status".
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Vol 12.2 is OUT! This time we have a special issue for you: "Contours of Spiritual Formation from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century", with essays by Jean-Claude Schmitt, Leandro Alves Teodoro and Pablo Martin Prieto
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July 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Vol 12.2 is OUT! This time we have a special issue for you: "Contours of Spiritual Formation from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century", with essays by Jean-Claude Schmitt, Leandro Alves Teodoro and Pablo Martin Prieto
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
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Brilliant, sweeping, magnificent and highly recommended!
Glad @thetudortimes.bsky.social enjoyed House of Lilies
Glad @thetudortimes.bsky.social enjoyed House of Lilies
Check out our new book review. We have strayed from Tudor territory into medieval France with a review of #HouseofLilies by @medievalrevolt.bsky.social Find out if it was worth the journey. bit.ly/40ITaEe
July 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Brilliant, sweeping, magnificent and highly recommended!
Glad @thetudortimes.bsky.social enjoyed House of Lilies
Glad @thetudortimes.bsky.social enjoyed House of Lilies
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Are you a doctoral student working on medieval history who'd benefit from a stay in Paris?
Pour des doctorants / docteurs en histoire médiévale ne préparant pas leur thèse en France, vous pouvez candidater à une bourse Robert de Sorbon du
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À faire circuler ! Cc @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
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À faire circuler ! Cc @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Are you a doctoral student working on medieval history who'd benefit from a stay in Paris?
If anyone likes medieval podcasts by the way "All You Ever Wanted to Know about the #Merovingians" came out on History Extra last week with me chatting about my book "Merovingian Worlds" (Cambridge UP 2024)! (This is the Apple link but it's on Spotify and a load of other places...)
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
The Merovingians: everything you wanted to know
Podcast Episode · History Extra podcast · 21/06/2025 · 34m
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June 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
If anyone likes medieval podcasts by the way "All You Ever Wanted to Know about the #Merovingians" came out on History Extra last week with me chatting about my book "Merovingian Worlds" (Cambridge UP 2024)! (This is the Apple link but it's on Spotify and a load of other places...)
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
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"The popularity of seasonal healthcare and dietary regimes to prevent illness discovered has surprising parallels with modern day social media wellness influencers," said @jtpmedieval.bsky.social - nice coverage of a bit of research we have funded
www.thetimes.com/article/4415...
www.thetimes.com/article/4415...
Lizard shampoo, bloodletting and other wellness tips from the Middle Ages
Curiosity about health trends is not a modern-day phenomenon, academics reveal, as they uncover medieval texts sharing dietary regimes and medical advice
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June 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"The popularity of seasonal healthcare and dietary regimes to prevent illness discovered has surprising parallels with modern day social media wellness influencers," said @jtpmedieval.bsky.social - nice coverage of a bit of research we have funded
www.thetimes.com/article/4415...
www.thetimes.com/article/4415...
Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine getting some attention today in the Times!
If you missed it last week our handlist of "new" pre-1000 medical manuscripts can be found here cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/handlist/
#medievalsky
If you missed it last week our handlist of "new" pre-1000 medical manuscripts can be found here cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/handlist/
#medievalsky
June 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine getting some attention today in the Times!
If you missed it last week our handlist of "new" pre-1000 medical manuscripts can be found here cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/handlist/
#medievalsky
If you missed it last week our handlist of "new" pre-1000 medical manuscripts can be found here cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/handlist/
#medievalsky
NEW from the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine... our handlist of the 198(!!!) pre-1000 manuscripts with medical texts not included in the standard catalogues.
It's been a productive first phase for the project... but a lot of work still to do!
#medievalsky
It's been a productive first phase for the project... but a lot of work still to do!
#medievalsky
Handlist – Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine
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June 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
NEW from the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine... our handlist of the 198(!!!) pre-1000 manuscripts with medical texts not included in the standard catalogues.
It's been a productive first phase for the project... but a lot of work still to do!
#medievalsky
It's been a productive first phase for the project... but a lot of work still to do!
#medievalsky
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Please share: we have a Teaching Fellow in Roman History post available! I want to be up front: 0.4 FTE for basically 10 months. We know what that means, but we are supportive, friendly & not cruel taskmasters. Applications close June 30.
Full advert here: jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/11....
Full advert here: jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/11....
Teaching Fellow in Roman History in Leicester | University of Leicester Recruitment Team
View details and apply for this Teaching Fellow in Roman History vacancy in Leicester.
An exciting new post has arisen for a Teaching Fellow in Roman History to join the University of Leicester...
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June 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Please share: we have a Teaching Fellow in Roman History post available! I want to be up front: 0.4 FTE for basically 10 months. We know what that means, but we are supportive, friendly & not cruel taskmasters. Applications close June 30.
Full advert here: jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/11....
Full advert here: jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/11....
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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
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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Giveaway! I have 1 copy of a Lithuanian translation and 1 copy of the Chinese translation of “The Bright Ages.” Respond below for a chance to get one! #medievalsky #booksky
June 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Giveaway! I have 1 copy of a Lithuanian translation and 1 copy of the Chinese translation of “The Bright Ages.” Respond below for a chance to get one! #medievalsky #booksky
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New publication from myself today:
"The fame and significance of Dunkeld in the tenth and eleventh centuries"
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"The fame and significance of Dunkeld in the tenth and eleventh centuries"
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June 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
New publication from myself today:
"The fame and significance of Dunkeld in the tenth and eleventh centuries"
clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...
"The fame and significance of Dunkeld in the tenth and eleventh centuries"
clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...
Free to download for the next two weeks: Rick Sowerby's excellent new book Natural and Supernatural in Early #Medieval England!
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#medievalsky
Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England
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May 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Free to download for the next two weeks: Rick Sowerby's excellent new book Natural and Supernatural in Early #Medieval England!
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
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Congratulations to Jacopo Bisagni and Paula Harrison on the release of their new monograph on Laon, B.M., MS 422 written in collaboration with Isabelle Draelants @cnrs.fr. This comprehensive study focusses on the scientific, cosmological, and computational content of this manuscript from ca 815.
May 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Congratulations to Jacopo Bisagni and Paula Harrison on the release of their new monograph on Laon, B.M., MS 422 written in collaboration with Isabelle Draelants @cnrs.fr. This comprehensive study focusses on the scientific, cosmological, and computational content of this manuscript from ca 815.
Hot of the press: new blog by Jeff Doolittle on a tenth-century manuscript on medical recipes, veterinary science and cosmetics
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16: Drugs, Veterinary Medicine… & Cosmetics (Einsiedeln 29) – Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine
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May 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Hot of the press: new blog by Jeff Doolittle on a tenth-century manuscript on medical recipes, veterinary science and cosmetics
cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/05/15/m...
#medievalsky
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These are great books. Medieval medicine is cooking at the moment. (Opinion not at all skewed by being at a conference this week with Debby Banham, Deborah Hayden, and also the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine gang...)
I'm very pleased to be able to browse through both of these books. I'm also humbled to have work published alongside such excellent international scholars. #histmed #medievalsky
May 15, 2025 at 5:32 AM
These are great books. Medieval medicine is cooking at the moment. (Opinion not at all skewed by being at a conference this week with Debby Banham, Deborah Hayden, and also the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine gang...)
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Discover all our #journals in #MedievalStudies via bit.ly/4klLvmW
#MedievalSky #Medieval #AcademicJournal #Kzoo2025 #IMC2025
#MedievalSky #Medieval #AcademicJournal #Kzoo2025 #IMC2025
May 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Discover all our #journals in #MedievalStudies via bit.ly/4klLvmW
#MedievalSky #Medieval #AcademicJournal #Kzoo2025 #IMC2025
#MedievalSky #Medieval #AcademicJournal #Kzoo2025 #IMC2025
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Registration DEADLINE Friday 16th for online summer school Advanced Readings in Medieval Latin, May 27–July 3. Two 1½-hour classes per week for 6 weeks, $500 (£375ish). We've not had many takers, so at just over £20 per hour this is pretty cheap for small-group tuition. marco.utk.edu/summerlangua...
May 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Registration DEADLINE Friday 16th for online summer school Advanced Readings in Medieval Latin, May 27–July 3. Two 1½-hour classes per week for 6 weeks, $500 (£375ish). We've not had many takers, so at just over £20 per hour this is pretty cheap for small-group tuition. marco.utk.edu/summerlangua...
Historians being cautiously curious about how things work in other times and places is a good thing
Never good at staying in my lane, this week on the blog, I annoy two sets of historians for the price of one by comparing early medieval Japan with the Carolingians.
#medievalsky #GlobalMiddleAges #Japan
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#medievalsky #GlobalMiddleAges #Japan
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Carolingian Japan
Long before the phrase ‘Global Middle Ages’ had appeared on anyone’s horizon, historians of medieval Europe were fascinated by Japan. The world of feuding daimyos plotting in castles supported by h…
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May 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Historians being cautiously curious about how things work in other times and places is a good thing
Hey gang! For your entertainment I've got a new piece on the Merovings in this month's History Today magazine - enjoy!
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April 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Hey gang! For your entertainment I've got a new piece on the Merovings in this month's History Today magazine - enjoy!
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#medievalsky