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Richard C. Schlag
@richardcschlag.bsky.social
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PhD candidate researching politics, government, conflict, and authority in the 15 C Holy Roman Empire @ox.ac.uk, he/him
https://oxford.academia.edu/RichardSchlag
https://academic.oup.com/gh/article/42/1/1/7485842
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drdavidrundle.bsky.social
Are you a scholar of the fifteenth century and have an interest in the British Isles and its wider connections? If so, then you will want to know that @memsunikent.bsky.social will be hosting the 2026 Fifteenth Century Conference in Canterbury and the CfP is now open: www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
MEMS to Host the Fifteenth Century Conference 2026
www.kent.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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hltn.bsky.social
✍ Introducing ✍

Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography

gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/

AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.

#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.

Love g 🗃️
Sharpie
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for apprentice Early Modern palaeographers
gjhilton.github.io
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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medartres.bsky.social
The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture, Courtauld, statement of intent deadline 17 November 2025
The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
medievalartresearch.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 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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taliabhatt.itch.io
They invented robopedos
kateross.bsky.social Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 20d
Grok asks a 12 year old for nudes after asking Grok its favorite soccer player.

When CBC requested comment, xAIs said “Legacy Media Lies.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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drdragases.bsky.social
As someone who did his PhD at UCC, I can only recommend applying for this.
norseincork.bsky.social NorseInCork @norseincork.bsky.social · 23d
A reminder that there are still a few days left to apply for this funded PhD, working on literary and cultural reception of the Vikings. University fees and a budget for conference attendance included in addition to the stipend: it's a great opportunity for someone! www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...
Research Vacancies | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
www.ucc.ie
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21d
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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romanpalace.bsky.social
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓

itiner-e.org

We might have to have a lie-down.
A map of part of Britiain and northern europe showing loads and loads of roman roads, picked out in red.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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ianfraser.bsky.social
City of London lawyer Andrew Milne bought up hundreds of freeholds on homes across Sheffield before advising leaseholders that, if they didn’t pay him exorbitant sums (upwards of £25,000), he’d see them in court. Well done @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social @joshiherrmann.bsky.social for exposing this.
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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kpo.bsky.social
Dominican studies, anyone? 😎 Here's a job offer for a postdoc-position at Odense (for period c. 1250-c. 1450): fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #medievalsky
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...
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21d
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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netzpolitik.bsky.social
X verstärkt rechtsradikale Inhalte. Neue Recherchen aus UK belegen das mal wieder.

Ich kann nicht mehr nachvollziehen, warum die EU-Kommission nicht konsequent mit dem DSA gegen Elon Musk vorgeht.

Und warum noch demokratische Akteure auf X aktiv sind.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
royalpratt.bsky.social Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 23d
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social
What is Critical Realism (CR)? How does this approach help us understanding and even transforming the world? Why do we need a reconstruction of world politics? All these questions are coming to mind after reading CR.

Looking for new ideas, papers, authors and possible Interview partners!
What is Critical Realism (CR)? How does this approach help us understanding and even transforming the world? Why do we need a reconstruction of world politics? All these questions are coming to mind after reading CR. I am fascinated by the deepth of this theory, that is a method at the same time! Totally recommend the book "After International Relations" by Heikki Patomäki Looking for new ideas, papers, authors and possible Interview partners! If you have any suggestions, write me a DM or in the comment section. #philosophy #socialscience #InternationalRelations #PoliticalPhilosophy #politics #phd What is Critical Realism (CR)? How does this approach help us understanding and even transforming the world? Why do we need a reconstruction of world politics? All these questions are coming to mind after reading CR. I am fascinated by the deepth of this theory, that is a method at the same time! Totally recommend the book "After International Relations" by Heikki Patomäki Looking for new ideas, papers, authors and possible Interview partners! If you have any suggestions, write me a DM or in the comment section. #philosophy #socialscience #InternationalRelations #PoliticalPhilosophy #politics #phd
November 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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ollibackstrom.bsky.social
US soldiers begging for food for themselves and their families on the streets of Bavaria is a Thirty Years War throwback I didn't see coming.
Next fire-ransoms and the bubonic plague?
404media.co 404 Media @404media.co · 22d
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.

The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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chillrike.bsky.social
🌿 Really looking forward talking about all things NATURE &ceTERRA at @unituebingen.bsky.social - we would be more than happy if you join us and/or forward this! 🌿
Plakat mit anthropomorpher Terra und Tagungsinformationen: 20.-22.11.2025, im Bibliothekssaal im Pfleghof Tübingen (Schulberg 2)
November 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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richardasquith.bsky.social
As a previous prize winner, I can hardly recommend this enough: it’s a force for good in the study of #London history, and publishing with @thelondonjournal.bsky.social (with the gentle support/encouragement of @aidannorrie.bsky.social!) was a delight. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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erikagaffney.bsky.social
PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-posi...
PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
careers.universiteitleiden.nl
November 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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jeanneologist.bsky.social
Manuscript folks: what, if any, are the conventions for citing folio numbers when they repeat within a given manuscript? That is, if I have a chunk foliated 1–100, then the next chunk restarts the foliation at 1, how do I distinguish the first f. 35v (for instance) from the second f. 35v?
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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adapalmer.bsky.social
Great example. I’ve often heard people say they believe medieval people discouraged or punished female literacy, whereas Mary is usually shown reading during the Annunciation, so every medieval person constantly saw images of the #1 female role model reading. The anti-learning Middle Ages is a myth.
jdmccafferty.bsky.social John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 24d
St Anne teaching the Virgin to read, carved stone, France, Troyes, ca. 1500-1530

(V&A Museum, London)
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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nguthrie.bsky.social
Harlequin costume (German, #c18th #c18 #18thc), Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
Wool jacket and trousers with inlaid patchwork in yellow, white green and red with animals embroidered in wool and silk
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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srsrensoc.bsky.social
CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns

Confirmed keynote speaker: @jddavies66.bsky.social

Deadline: 20 December 2025
Conference: 22 May 2026, European University Institute, Florence
all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/gender... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns European University Institute, Florence, May 22, 2026 - May 22, 2026 Deadline for submission/application: December 20, 2025 Call for Papers Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Violence puts the gender roles in a society firmly on records. Although we can never fully grasp the motives behind past acts of violence, through them we can gauge what was tolerated or sanctioned in any given society. Historical violence can suggest which meaning early modern people had of assault and abuse, whether physical, verbal or psychological. This brings us to the fundamental methodological question of how modern categories can capture past social realities. In this regard, the aim of the workshop is to offer a more precise picture of gender violence, with a quantitative study on survivors, their witnesses, and the negotiating process. This gathering aims to promote a discussion on how to defy certain stereotypes around gender-based violence by investigating how women and men in the past viewed and talked about their roles within the abusive act. While some treated the violence suffered as an intimate matter, charged with shame and danger and therefore difficult to articulate, others saw it as a matter to be publicly outed and put into words. This workshop invites proposals for short papers (4,000-5,000 words) on any aspect of gender and violence in early modernity. Papers that investigate the possibility to offer significant input for the study of what we would regard as psychological/physical trauma; dynamics of power; for understanding responses to assault; to investigate the status and forms of victims and perpetrators. The past can share its feelings as violent acts are always initially expressed through language and shaped by specific social and cultural norms.
November 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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mjhorswell.bsky.social
A few days left to respond to my call for papers for the @latineast.bsky.social conference in Porto next year - expressions of interest for papers on modern uses of the crusades welcome by 4 Nov.
Call for papers for the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East's conference in Porto in June 2026. Papers sought on modern uses of the crusades to engagingthecrusades@gmail.com by Tuesday 4th November 2025.
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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titachico.bsky.social
CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026

How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?

#earlymodern #C18L

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October 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM