John Bannerman Lecture 2026 - Professor Fiona Edmonds | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology 'Dál Riata and Northumbria, c. 700‒1000: Connections and comparisons'. Hybrid.

Hybrid lecture by Prof Edmonds hca.ed.ac.uk/john-bannerm...

An article by Ilaria Briata, on Late Antique Rabbinic and Monastic Literature, using the same Dune quote as its title.

Me: "Ok, so I'm writing something about how monastics sought the 'desert' and how that sense of isolation was contrasted to their earlier lives...a Dune quote would make for an interesting title!"

An article published less than two months ago:

Black text on a white background, reading: Today, the best-known example of human animal transformation is the werewolf. The symbolic meaning of the werewolf in modern Western culture can vary - but they are primary used to summon three emotional reactions, all beginning with F: fright, as in horror movies; fun, as in Teen Wolf(1985); or reproduction| as is the trend in contemporary "romantasy" novels.

Excerpt from a paper in currently finishing up:

There are still so many interesting sessions at @imc-leeds.bsky.social looking for papers!

This one might be of interest to our members, but also to readers of journals like @postmedieval.bsky.social or @arthurianajrnl.bsky.social.

What other Leeds IMC Calls for Papers are still open?

The ghosts of our ancestors: Reading religious anxieties in the ghost stories of Thietmar of Merseburg

My latest paper has been published, in @jaema.bsky.social!

"The ghosts of our ancestors: Reading religious anxieties in the ghost stories of Thietmar of Merseburg"

Examining 11th century ghost stories and worries about saintly relics and ancestral disbelief.

search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...

The 28 Days Later franchise redefined zombie films. But the undead have an old, rich and varied history Long before zombies were stars on the big screen, they roamed medieval Europe.

And I wrote a short piece about medieval revenants and 28 Years Later for @aunz.theconversation.com, which has just gone up: theconversation.com/the-28-days-...

I was invited to a preview screening of @28yearslater.bsky.social last night, and now that the review embargo has lifted I can say that the film leans heavily on the medieval period, from scenes of children training with bows to ossuaries, momento mori, churches as sites of sanctuary, wild men...

A poster advertising my talk on Ethiopian demons, "Black Skin, Black Sin"

I will be speaking (online) at @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social, on the 5th/6th of June, talking about two "Ethiopian" demons in Orderic Vitalis's Historia ecclesiastica:

The submissions deadline for the first issue of the Australian Early Medieval Association is rapidly approaching - papers need to be submitted by April 30 to be considered for the first issue!

See our website for more details: aema.org.au/journal/

No massacres, as far as I'm aware.

I wrote about this a bit in my thesis (and in an article I'm currently in the weeds of revision on) and there are actually quite a few condemnations of cats! Documents like Vox in Rama or Hildegard of Bingen's de animalibus, amongst others.

They could be both good and bad, symbolically.

Don't forget to get your abstracts in for our ghost conference! We will have two keynotes: Prof. Sasha Handley (Manchester) and Dr. Shane McCorristine (Newcastle). It's going to be spooktacular!

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It's so great when they remember what you tell them!

A screenshot of anonymised student feedback, which reads "He studies werewolves and is cool"

Time to pack up and quit offering student surveys everyone, I win:

I should be looking for ECR work. Instead I have written half an article about the Ossorian werewolves, and half a sample chapter for my monograph pitch.

A version of our logo, which features a stylised medieval bird looking back over itself, in white rather than our usual green, on a background of a blue sky with whispy clouds

So, #medievalsky, what medieval history journals are already over here?

We've got us, obviously. And I know that @parergon.bsky.social and @postmedieval.bsky.social are here.

Who else? Let's get a list together!

#AcademicSky, #medievalsky let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.

1) Looking for ECR work/an article identifying Herlechin of the mesne Herlechin

2)early medieval identities

Good news, bluskies! We’ve extended the deadline for chapter proposals for the medieval volume of the Cultural History of Trans Lives! You have until Nov 20th to submit something. Take a look!

You are not, in fact, the granddaughter of the witches they couldn’t burn Say you are me (sorry about that) and you are minding your own business online, just trying to survive in a world of unrelenting horror when suddenly you are served an ad.  Because of the dark magic ...

Hey I wrote something on the blog about that twee witch merch, historical inaccuracy, and the horrors of capitalist profiting off forgotten victims. You know, a little Friday treat!
going-medieval.com/2023/10/20/y...

Can any medieval emotions historians (or any other medievalists) point me in the direction of scholarship on emotional connections between clerical and lay brothers in the 10th-11th century Latin West? I know there was encouragement to seperate from one's family, but also know that was an ideal

Have booked flights to head down to Melbourne for a medieval manuscripts masterclass, run by @megancw.bsky.social - in a little under two weeks! Very much looking forward to it.

I've always like the idea of some Norman bloke saying "Oh, I was with Henno - come on, you know Henno...with the teeth!"

Did Henno have weird teeth, or really nice ones?

More tree snakes yesterday, they give me the willies but they are beautiful creatures. Both much bigger than this little one

Save the date for the 2024 Gender and Medieval Studies conference: 26-28 June 2024 (note the new summer date). C4P and more info to come soon!

medievalgender.co.uk/conferences/

#MedievalSky #AcademicSky 🗃️

Visualise Your Thesis 2023 - Chris White - Normalising the Non-Mundane: Didactic Messages in ... Entry in the 2023 Visualise Your Thesis competition at The University of Queensland - "Normalising the Non-Mundane: Didactic Messages in Medieval Latin Wonde...

Realised I hadn't posted my Fresh Prince of Bel-Air medieval cover here, telling the story of "The French Ghost of Beaucaire", a ghost story from the Otia Imperialism: youtu.be/icyFDmhSQSU?...

MEMS at ACU is still providing wonderful opportunities, this time in partnership with Monash, UWA, ANU & Sydney! Two day Masterclass on medieval/early modern sources for HDR/ECRs. Apps due Oct 15 - info below 👇

#medievaltwitter #twitterstorians blanked on my Leeds RT proposal — forgot that we needed participants lined up 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️
I’m proposing a RT on teaching medieval history post-COVID. Is anyone interested? Esp looking for faculty outside US, UK, EU. Please circulate, DM w/ interest!

Call for papers on minorities (broadly conceived) in medieval & early modern sciences. Conference is in Warsaw, 25-26 January 2024, proposal deadline October 15; travel & hotel expenses covered for accepted presenters. #histsci #medievalsky #earlymodern www.rsa.org/news/news.as...