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Jodie Mann
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Scholar of Old English and Medieval Women - in particular: miracles and visions, the abbeys where they occurred, and the saints who performed them. (She/her)
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Jodie Mann @wordwif.bsky.social · Jun 29
Hello Bluesky #medievalists 🤗 Looking forward to meeting and engaging with other scholars of #OldEnglish and women in early Medieval Britain.
Saint Æthelthryth of Ely from the Benedictional of St. Æthelwold, illuminated manuscript in the British Library
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machete.gay
"things get bad when people are hungry" has been the #1 rule of societies since the literal beginning of civilization as a concept to the point saying hunger causes unrest isn't a prediction so much as it is an observation
October 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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archumanities.bsky.social
The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body by Minji Lee www.arc-humanities.org/978180270039...
September 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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hwaetspur.bsky.social
Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Are you passionate about early medieval Britain?  Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing?  If yes, then you may be interested in this f...
jobs.kent.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social
🚨THIS BOOK IS ALMOST REAL!!!🚨

@manchesterup.bsky.social out here making dreams come true!
Book cover preview of "Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha in the medieval North Sea" by yours truly. Cover image of a hell mouth from the Utrecht Psalter (ca. 9th c)
September 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
Absolute legends: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps
Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita needed a locksmith to get back into their convent, defying Church leaders.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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queermedieval.bsky.social
unicorn tapestry cardigan complete!!!!!
September 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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enortonhistory.bsky.social
It’s publication day! 🥳 🎈 🍾

Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy published by @wearefootnote and available in all good booksellers.

#womenwhoruledtheworld #reigningqueen #femaleking #mybook #newbook #newhistory
September 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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dianewatt.bsky.social
Margaret Paston’s will at the British Library’s Medieval Women Exhibition. You’re welcome.
November 27, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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etreharne.bsky.social
Medieval Treasury and Muniments Room in the Vicars Close at Wells. Spectacular!
August 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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dianewatt.bsky.social
What a lovely location for the launch of my paperback yesterday—The Holloway in Norwich. Support your local independent bookshop.
August 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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robertpaulett.bsky.social
80% of your favorite historical fun facts started this way.
historyned.bsky.social Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · Jul 30
From my own academic research, even pre LLMs there was a huge danger of zombie factoids that begin in a respectable publication by mistake and then get reprinted for decades because no one is backtracing to the original source. Once bad info gets into the system it can take years to clear it out.
beijingpalmer.bsky.social BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Jul 29
I've seen numerous examples of this in recent days - we're at a point where some reporters are using LLMs as a source and not even remotely properly factchecking, but also where LLM generated material is making its way into other material and being unknowingly reproduced by others.
July 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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etreharne.bsky.social
Here comes William and Harry! But who will win? C’est un mystère

dramaquarterly.com/bbc-confirms...
BBC confirms launch for historical King & Conqueror
TRAILER: James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau clash in historical drama King & Conqueror, the story of Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy in the build-up to the 1066 Battle of Hastings, which ...
dramaquarterly.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
190 mss, over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes, 42000 new images, 7700+ texts, new cataloguing, imaging and conservation treatments - oh my!

We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures
Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible
Over the course of the last three years, and thanks to the generous support of the Wellcome Trust, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval m...
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
July 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
Completely exhausted by her own feast day: Mary Magdalene, by Artemisia Gentileschi.
July 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
Publishing this month, Storytelling in Gaelic from AD 700 to the Present, edited by Alice R Taylor-Griffiths and Seosamh Mac Cárthaigh, examines common themes and connections in #Gaelic storytelling from the #MiddleAges to present day. Learn more: buff.ly/o4MbAC8 #medievalsky
July 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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lynneahardy.bsky.social
If you have the chance to visit the Folklore Centre in Todmorden: go, and do it sooner rather than later. A wonderful, charming community space, run by lovely people. Support it if you can
July 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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anniehistory.bsky.social
#OTD 20 July the Church remembers Ealhswith, Mercian wife of Alfred the Great & mother of Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians.
She features in my novel about her daughter & in my history of Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England
mybook.to/To-Be-A-Queen
mybook.to/WomeninPower
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July 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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anniehistory.bsky.social
Lots and lots of articles about Anglo-Saxon England on my blog: anniewhitehead2.blogspot.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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carinr.bsky.social
🚨 CATS IN MANUSCRIPTS, repeat CATS IN MANUSCRIPTS 🚨 exhibit opening at the Walters in August!
thewalters.org/exhibitions/... #medievalsky #baltimore
Paws on Parchment
This paws-itively adorable exhibition explores how medieval people thought about, engaged with, and admired cats in books from the period.
thewalters.org
July 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
wordwif.bsky.social
46 turns around the sun today. Celebrating with sunflowers and Skeat's translation of Aelfric's lives of Saints.
An ipad showing the front matter of Rev Skeat's translation of Aelfric's lives of Saints nestled next to a bright yellow sunflower on a wooden desk.
July 14, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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romanpalace.bsky.social
Stolen from the internet and we don't care.
Quite simply a cat has taken up residence in a Lego colosseum.
July 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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oewordhord.bsky.social
nōn, n.n: the ninth hour of the day, reckoned from sunrise, or about three o’clock in the afternoon. (NOAN / ˈnoːn)
#OldEnglish #WOTD
July 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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campfireharve.st
I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!" This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows: Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity. When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers. Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="
July 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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sophiebwaterman.bsky.social
Over 60 medieval manuscript fragments from St John's Library's collection have been uploaded to Digital Bodleian 🥳 These medieval fragments were removed from college library books and are now known collectively as MS 235. You can view them here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/partners/st-... (a 🧵)
Image of St John's College MS 235 Fragment 109 2r. A vellum fragment with dark blue historiated initials depicting small dragons and decorations, backed by gold leaf. St John's College MS 235 Fragment 109 2v. A vellum fragment with some red text, and the historiated initials on the other side visibly bleeding through the vellum.
July 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM