At this point I'm genuinely tired 😫

Home away from home.

UK vs NL. Drastic changes, just a water apart 😂😂

100% back to work as if I didn't work during the break as well, but who am I to complain 😆🤎

The perks of a winter retreat in a small mountain city: lots of snow, lots of snow, and lots of snow.

P.S. finding a path to walk on gets increasingly harder as snow almost reaches the knees 🙈🤣

A prosperous 2026 to everyone! We ran into the olympic flame for the winter games during our new year's in Italy. I'll take that as a good sign!!!

Happy holidays!

Milestone, check ✅

Festive times

Exciting year ahead in Kent!
From the Canterbury Medieval Weekend to Dover at Night, MEMS Fest, the Cinque Ports Conference & more! 2026 is packed with history, research, and community events.
See the full lineup ➜ kchh.org/lots-of-exciting-kent-mems-events-in-2026/

Absolutely amazing day yesterday at @britishlibrary.bsky.social with Knowledge Orders!

Three-year postdoc on the TGL-ReACH project emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

And the news is... We're recruiting! Applications are now open for our 2026 @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral Scholarships. So, if you want to study at PhD level pre-modern handwritten cultures and the organisation of knowledge and power within them, do investigate our refreshed website.

Find yourself someone who looks at you the same way I look at my paper on Servetus. Thank you, UEA and @memrn.bsky.social for having me again this year!
#phd #conference #servetus

Thrilled to be interviewed by the Timpul newspaper, one of the oldest running newspapers in Romania. Attached, a 19th c edition of it.

I'll be speaking about my academic journey thus far and the key to success as a foreigner in various environments.
#newspaper #research #phd

You’re almost out of time to sign up for virtual attendance at our Winter Conference… because it’s almost here!

Get yourself over to our website to check out the full schedule, or sign up using the Eventbrite registration link found below. You won’t want to miss these three days of exciting panels!

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone next week! I'll talk about Servetus' Christianismi Restitutio and the possibility of a Transylvanian copy surviving the 16th century via Giorgio Biandrata ⚔️📚

Another sealskin book cover @mearcsteppende.bsky.social, this time from Norway 🦭

A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

Hever Castle and surroundings.

You're gonna be popular!
I'll teach you the proper ploys when you talk to the Deans,
I'll show you what methods to use, how to frame your views,
Everything that really counts to be popular! I'll help you be popular!
You'll hang with the right cohorts, you'll be good at grant reports #halloween

I just watched Dracula A Love Tale and I am deeply obsessed.
This was a gorgeous film with an intoxicating story. I may never recover 🖤

⤷ Dracula: A Love Tale (2025)

a man wearing a top hat and tie looks at the camera ALT: a man wearing a top hat and tie looks at the camera

Whoops #1 - Dracula A Love Tale.

Whoops #2- Balling like a baby. Loved it.

Dracula: A Love Tale is cinematically beautiful. I’m only 25 minutes in and I’m in love 🥰

A manuscript charter, with faded lines of text, stains and a signature of Anne of Kiev. Image from Wikimedia

It's just two words, but a personal favourite find in a medieval manuscript is this signature of Anne, a princess of Kievan Rus and Queen (Regent) of France.

Written on a 1063 charter, it reads "АНА РЪИНА" ('ana rъina' ~ 'Anne Queen'). The language is Old French, but the script is Cyrillic!

Is there some sort of thing going around those who teach Latin in universities? I keep on hearing bizarre things about them as opposed to the praises I always hear about those teaching ancient Greek... #eveningmeditations

Majestic Cluj.

Picture of the audience for the book launch. Prof. Welch is pictured at the front.

Picture of the front cover of Renaissance Skin book.

From sausage makers to cheese rinds to wrinkles... a delightful evening in a packed room to celebrate Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin.

@kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsenglish.bsky.social

So excited with the Renaissance Skin book launch! Are you getting the book? I sure am!

Grab your Transylvanian medieval fashion right here! Bonus: weapons may be included if you're an early bird 😜

St Michael parish church, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Currently writing about its Unitarian phase trying to reconstruct the interior...

#cluj #stmichael #medieval #gothic