Mems seminar poster Navy blue backgroud with very light stained glass window sketches overlaid (barely visible, makes for a nice motif). On the left of the poster is a photo of the 13th century Chertsey tiles representing Richard and Saladin fighting on horses On the right, text reads: Medieval Historical Writing and the third crusade: a question of failure? Dr Katy Mortimer Canterbury Christ Church University Thursday 19th October, 5PM BST Darwin Lecture Theatre 1 And Online All welcome! Join us on Zoom via linktr.ee/MEMS_UniKent

Next week, we’re pleased to welcome Dr Mortimer (@katydotcom.bsky.social) who has just joined CCCU this year. If you’re interested in the #crusades, this #MEMSSeminar is for you!

📜 Medieval historical writing & the 3rd crusade: a question of failure?
📆 Thur 19 Oct, 5pm, DLT1
#skystory #medievalsky

Happy birthday!

Whelp. Diagnosis confirmed for my dad… Not that we didn’t know for a while but now it is on paper. Another thing to add to the list of the many things that are going wrong atm 👍

Invitation to Professor Nandini Chatterjee's Inaugural Lecture “Demanding subjects: women in the Mughal courtrooms of early modern South Asia", University of Exeter, Laver Building LT6, 1st Nov at 17.00.

Come to my wonderful colleague Nandini's inaugral lecture (1 Nov., 5pm)! Online attendance also available.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/invitation...

And strength to you with the new term! Good luck with all the admin and course prep!!

Yeah - I can deal with the ones for work, mine will have to take a seat back, which might not be a bad thing in the long run (*cough* writing the thesis *coughs*)

There is a point where I am starting to think this is too many social media platforms to juggle with 😅

Journal of Medieval History Book Reviews Editor needed for the Journal of Medieval History.

Journal of Medieval History is looking for a Book Reviews Editor starting in January. If you’ve been looking to get more involved in journals, please consider applying.

Of all things, why is it super rainy the one time I can stay in Oxford and “relax”???

Wild times
me: I AM HIRING A POSTDOC
you: proven manuscript chops, some editorial exp
18mos Jan 24-June 25 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/

Currently writing a piece for publication (my very first) and … how the hell? First of all, I can’t believed I am doing my this (me???), and then… gosh I have got to find a way to NOT make it boring.

Cat belongs in a medieval painting of a suffering martyr

Anonymous, German, 16th century | Manuscript album of designs for lace and embroidery | The Metropol... <strong>Inscription:</strong> On verso of last fly leaf, a row of cryptographic symbols and the words 'sans varier' above a couplet in script, reading "Jusques a la mort, vit l'homme e esperance/ Comb...

Just found this incredible manuscript of medieval embroidery designs. I can't get over how beautiful they all are, in like, a modernist logo way? We got a medieval Burton Kramer over here.

The person who invites you to Bluesky is the closest thing we have to vampire sires.

Ooh this looks good!!!

yes......YES.......

*pie

A kitty rolled up, napping on the couch

Photo from a colourful oxford street on a rainy day— the (three-storey) houses have all bow-windows on each floor and on each sides of the door. Some houses painted in pastel blue, others in pink and others in yellow.

I am currently looking after a very lovely cat this week, a real sweetie pir, and my word do I now get the struggle of people trying to use a laptop while the cat is with them at the desk 💀💀😭

Adding myself to this list if thats okay?

(Yes I know this is terrible practice)

Just deleted around 2K-3K of photos of manuscripts off my cloud I had accumulated over the past year (project completed so don’t worry). Whyyyyy. It was taking up so much data 😥 I really need to invest into a harddrive because the day all my clouds accounts go bust I am doomed.

My article ‘A Monastic Antichrist Satire from Medieval Bury St Edmunds’ has just been published online: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…. I’ve summarised it in a new blogpost: drfrancisyoung.com/2023/07/31/article-publi...

So for all the early modernists out there, I *think* I've made an early modern feed that should pick up the #earlymodern #reformazing #nuntastic #monkabulous hashtags from Twitter. Happy to add more. bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gl7l32eh...

So excited to pay a visit to Harvard Library’s Preservation lab today to see their current work on an amazing unfinished Shahnama mss., and an 11th c. Georgian book with original woven binding! Conservators make magic w/tech & know-how & a truly heroic amount of legwork, I am in awe!!

Hello! I am adding myself - I’m a medievalist :)

Literary / cultural studies feed below: please reskeet and mentions accounts to add. We’ll see personalized feeds soon, so this may be temporary. bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m22fqufa...