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Dr Michele Seah
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I’ve researched fifteenth-century English queens and their landholdings and affinities. Also interested in women’s histories, royal studies, and way too many other things to list here. Passionate about lifelong learning, by the way. Oh, and Buffy rules!
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Dr Michele Seah @mlcseah.bsky.social · Apr 21
My author copies arrived in the mail last week! Thank you once again, @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and @canarycaroline.bsky.social for all your help and support!
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Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands).

Please share widely!

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Global PhD on Middle English Arthurian romance
The University of Groningen and Macquarie are offering a co-funded scholarship to support a student undertaking doctoral research in medieval literature.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Royal Studies Journal 12.2 is now published, featuring the RSJ Article Prize Winner 2025, a global diplomacy cluster, five research articles and seven book reviews.

📖 Read the issue here: rsj.winchester.ac.uk/31/volume/12...
🎧Listen to the prize winner podcast here: bit.ly/4s5g7xI
December 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Applications Open: The Maimonides Scholarship #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/applica...
Maimonides Scholarship Flyer
December 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Our publishing manager Guy Carney is currently attending the @anzamems.bsky.social 15th Biennial Conference in Melbourne, Australia!
Be sure to stop by the Brepols booth to say hi and learn more about publishing with us.

More info: brepols.net/Authors

#Medieval #EarlyModern #Renaissance #History
December 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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New issue of @parergon.bsky.social edited by @mattfirth.bsky.social, Dr Cassandra Schilling and me!
December 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Monday 15 December is the closing date for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, for 2026.

Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

#Skystorians
Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS
The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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If you are into sagas and poetry our next seminar is for you. Sign up to attend online: forms.office.com/e/ngg1zukWH3 More details at ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/eve... #medievalsky #poetry #sagas #orkney #shetland #icelandic #northernisles #vikings @judithjesch.bsky.social @ragnasislands.bsky.social
Poster for a talk called Twisted Ribbons of Song: The Saga of the Earls of Orkney and poetry from or inspired by northern Scotland. Date: Tuesday 9 December, 5.30 pm, Baines Wing G36 (and online) Speakers Judith Jesch and Charlotte Eichler. Text: The medieval Icelandic Saga of the Earls of Orkney contains 82 stanzas composed from the tenth to the twelfth century by residents of and visitors to Orkney and Shetland. At this event, Judith Jesch, Professor of Viking Studies at Nottingham, will introduce the saga and its poetry and read selected examples in both Old Norse and her English versions. Award-winning Leeds-based poet Charlotte Eichler will read some of her published and unpublished poems inspired by the Saga and by visits to Orkney and Shetland as part of Judith’s Ragna’s Islands project. Photos of book cover of Judith's translation of the saga (which includes four Lewis chessmen) and picture of Charlotte on Fair Isle writing amidst stones and grass
December 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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We're now welcoming abstracts for our 2026 conference, on the theme of 'Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North'! The deadline is 15 January.
December 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Conference cfp: Beyond Exceptionalism III (17-19 June 2026), Spain

Send your proposals by 31st Jan 2026 to beyondexceptionalism@gmail.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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We now welcome submissions for the 2026 Magnus Magnusson Essay Prize, awarded to PG/EC/returning scholars for the best essay on a topic within the Society's remit.

As well as being awarded £500, winners will have their essay published in our journal, Northern Studies.

Deadline: 1 April 2026
Magnusson Prize - Scottish Society for Northern Studies
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December 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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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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The @anzamems.bsky.social conference is officially open! #anza25
Photo of A/Prof Matthew Champion welcoming delegates to the ANZAMEMS conference Photo of Associate Dean of Research, Prof Sally Young adr welcoming delegates to the ANZAMEMS conference Photo of ANZAMEMS President Prof Andrew Brown welcoming delegates to the ANZAMEMS conference
December 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Very excited to announce this CfP! Please share widely with anyone who might be interested! #medievalsky #skystorians #cfp #histmed #Fissures2026
aliceraw.bsky.social Alice Raw @aliceraw.bsky.social · Nov 11
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 3:06 PM
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Academic friends, DeGruyter Brill is offering a 40% discount on their books untill 11 December! Code is DGBHOLIDAY40

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As we celebrate the close of another year, you can enjoy an exclusive 40% discount. Now’s the perfect time to pause and recharge, with 40% off all books and eBooks from De Gruyter Brill until 11 December 2025.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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We have extended our call for new committee members to November 10th! This time around, we are especially looking for postgraduate students and ECRs with experience to fill our editor roles, as well as a social media manager. #medievalsky #academicsky

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Call for New Committee Members
Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an open-access, award-winning, peer-reviewed journal directed by a committee of international graduate students and early caree…
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November 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Registration deadline is 9 November - it's all coming up fast now!
anzamems.bsky.social ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social · Oct 29
ANZAMEMS Conference – Registration and Program Updates #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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New book series, “Court Cultures, 1000-1900”, launched
by @historyboy30.bsky.social & @patrikpastrnak.bsky.social w/ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Series feat. books that explore any & all
aspects of global courts.

More info & CfP at: www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/cocu-...
October 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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ceraejournal.bsky.social
Happy Monday! A reminder that we're seeking new committee members for Ceræ's 13th volume, including editors, a social media manager, and a fundraising officer. Postgraduate students welcome! See link below for details:

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#medievalsky #academicsky #earlymodernsky
Call for New Committee Members
Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an open-access, award-winning, peer-reviewed journal directed by a committee of international graduate students and early caree…
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October 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Call for New Committee Members

Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an open-access, award-winning, peer-reviewed journal directed by a committee of international graduate students and early career researchers. We are united in our commitment to open access…
Call for New Committee Members
Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an open-access, award-winning, peer-reviewed journal directed by a committee of international graduate students and early career researchers. We are united in our commitment to open access publishing, the innovative possibilities of the digital humanities, and to forging a strong community of medieval and early modern scholars. Volunteering for Ceræ
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October 2, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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ICYMI: Ceræ is recruiting new committee members! We encourage postgraduate students with an interest in medieval and early modern studies to reach out before October 31. See link for details! #medievalsky #earlymodernsky #academicsky

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Call for New Committee Members
Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an open-access, award-winning, peer-reviewed journal directed by a committee of international graduate students and early caree…
ceraejournal.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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I'll be on ABC Nightlife's 'This Week in History' at 11.00pm (AEDT) on Sunday - 30 minutes on the life of Edgar Ætheling and the political landscape of 1066.

You could make a drinking game out it: a beverage whenever I muddle my Edwards, Edgars, Harolds, and Williams. But it might get dangerous!
History with Philip Clark and Suzanne Hill | Nightlife with Philip Clark and Suzanne Hill - ABC listen
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October 10, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Oct 2-4 hybrid from Melbourne (Australian Catholic University) - #AEMA Australian Early Medieval Association conference -- Tempestuous Times: Crisis, Change, and Allegory. Registration: aema.org.au/conference-r... Abstracts: aema.org.au/conference-a...
2025 Conference Registration
Visit the post for more.
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September 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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There is no link between Tylenol use in pregnancy and autism.

This lie is leading women to feel unnecessary guilt. Pregnant people deserve to have their pain recognized and treated.

Fever in pregnancy is dangerous and Tylenol is the safest fever medication

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doctorsmanitoba.ca on Instagram: "The best research to date found no link between using Tylenol (acetaminophen) during pregnancy and autism. We know this because the…"
The best research to date found no link between using Tylenol (acetaminophen) during pregnancy and autism. We know this because the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, as well as their U.S. counterparts, have stated it. What is risky is untreated fevers during pregnancy, which can cause miscarriage, organ malformations, cardiovascular complications, and even autism. If you are pregnant, talk to your doctor about using medications safely, and check out our Guide at GettingHealthy.ca for healthy pregnancy tips.View all comments
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September 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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My friend wrote an Element! and a *really* cool one: it's a guide to the Arabic and Persian sources on Rūs death rituals, including new translations of them*.

It's still free to download until 2nd October 2025 so get it now (and try not to forget about it...)

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Death Rituals
Cambridge Core - Global History - Death Rituals
www.cambridge.org
September 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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ANU Fellowship Opportunities: 'Why Monarchy Endures: Answers from the Ancient Mediterranean World'

Get your abstracts in by TOMORROW
September 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM