Just out!
As @sarahsemple.bsky.social says, '544 pages and 190 images of pure sculptural joy!'
A fantastic cast list and a tremendous achievement @ascorpus.bsky.social.
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OR you could follow the pattern and stitch on a superscript emendation, blaming scribal error and later correction to anyone who asks. The yarncraft/medievalist crossover contingent would love it.
“Challenging (in a good way)”
Best future epitaph or best future epitaph? Should I put it on a t-shirt?
Immense thanks to @jonathanhsy.bsky.social for a generous and insightful review of my book!
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A magnificent medieval treasure at the Bodleian library exhibition 'Pets and their People' - a Flemish psalter with one of the earliest depictions of an assistance dog for the blind.
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#medievalsky
Please help spread the word #medievalsky!
Funded PhD position on medieval literary and artistic representations of disability as part of a Vidi project I will be leading that is funded by the Dutch Research Council:
www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3592...
He ys ridinge a horse
He ys emerald and svelte
He will get reallye weirde
If you lie about beltes
The Green Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Toun
But was he drunk when he stole the willow tree? How large was the tree? And depending on the size, how did he steal *a tree*? These are Important History Questions.
Meet my new (& newly landed in my postbox) friend, Medieval Twitter in PAPERBACK!!!
Get your own fine flippable friend from @archumanities.bsky.social for the low(ish) price of £29.95
👉www.arc-humanities.org/9781942401957/medieval-t...
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Calendar saying today is 6/7.
I wrote a short article for Wellcome Stories on #deaf communication in the Middle Ages. #DisabilityHistory
#MedievalHistory #medievalsky #skystorians
You can read my book #OpenAccess but if you want your very own hard copy, check out the UMP winter sale! Half the price, but 100% of the puns so subtle you wonder if I even did them on purpose. #MedievalSky
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New Workshop Series: Call for Participants Saints Outside Hagiography We invite expressions of interest to participate in a new series of online workshops examining how saints and holy people are represented outside the classic form of the single-text hagiography, what Thomas J. Heffernan calls the ‘sacred biography’. This group aims to bring together scholars interested in saints and sanctity across global history and culture, to explore how they are constructed in other forms—poetry, visual art, sermons, letters, monuments, drama, chronicles, liturgy, objects, didactic literature, and others—in an informal, work-in-progress format focused on discussion of primary sources from any historical period. We envision each meeting consisting of 1-2 brief presentations, with the text or object and a short description or summary (max 500 words) circulated in advance along with one or two questions for discussion. If you have a historical source or item related to sanctity that you would like to bring to an interdisciplinary forum, please get in touch with Laura Moncion (laura.moncion@philosophie.uni-tuebingen.de) and Alicia Smith (alicia.smith@uib.no) by 15 January 2026 with a brief description, your career stage and institutional affiliation if any. Guidelines: • The chronological and geographical scope is intentionally open. We are happy to receive proposals that argue for definitions of saint / sanctity outside the mainstream. • Speakers are free to contest whether a text is ‘outside hagiography’ or ‘not a classic hagiography’—the goal is to study saints and the construction of saint/sanctity beyond canonical textual forms, including troubling our understanding of those forms. • If your source is not in English, you will need to include an English translation.
Calling anyone interested in saints, sanctity, and the weird and wonderful world of primary sources outside the conventional hagiography form! ❤️🔥
My book is now available open access on project muse, with OAPen launch coming soon. Hard copies should start going out this week (if they have not already): you can get yours for 50% off with code SAR50.
I think the term "college and career readiness" is an incredibly well-intentioned shift in education that has left many, many high school students disengaged + disconnected from their learning.
They deserve to learn things that have value + enrich their lives in the present—not just the future.
Two golden pastries with slashes revealing pizza sauce and toasty cheese.
It’s hand pie season! Thus: pepperoni pizza hand pies.
Looking forward to an exciting conversation with colleagues who study disability in other historical periods AND practitioners in present-day communities. #disability #SkyStorians
'Light of the Everlasting Life' uncovers how Old English literature drew on images of disabled and “aberrant” bodies to envision resurrection, salvation, and the promise of eternal life.
@parkerchronicle.bsky.social
@uofmpress.bsky.social
#DisabilityStudies
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Been dipping into this OPEN ACCESS offering by @parkerchronicle.bsky.social recently and there's lots here that will interest #DisHist folks working on any period, not only those in the #MedievalSky crew.
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The real experiment is how many scientists will keep returning to the site to keep track of what they think is the experiment.
Yf you are walkinge arounde and you see i) a squirrel or ii) a crowe or iii) a catte, you muste saye "hey buddy" these are the rules
ICYMI: CfP for ICMS Kalamazoo 2026
@kzooicms.bsky.social
May 14-16, 2026
Deadline: Sept. 15
#medievalsky #skystorians #disability
The Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages invites proposals for papers by emerging scholars in medieval disability studies. 1/
Poster text is as follows: Call for Papers: ICMS 2026, May 14–16, Western Michigan University. Naturing Bodies, Embodying Nature. This session seeks to explore the intersections of embodiment and environment in the Middle Ages, considering how bodies—organic and inorganic, human and non-human, material and immaterial—constitute, shape, and envelop one another. By “naturing” bodies, we seek to erode neat divisions between humans and the natural world to uncover the earthy entanglements linking humans to the environments they shape and are shaped by. Attuning to John Scotus Eriugena’s claim that nature is the name “for all things, for those that are, and those that are not,” we invite papers that reflect on the fundamentally relational ontology of humans, non-humans, and environments. Abstracts up to 300 words can be submitted to the ICMS proposal portal before September 15.
With the organizers' permission, here's a great #icms2026 CFP on "Naturing Bodies, Embodying Nature." I'm not going this year but would def attend this session!
Apply: wmich.edu/medievalcong...
Contact: Hunter Phillips (hap48[at]cornell.edu), Asher Courtemanche (ac2457[at]cornell.edu)
#MedievalSky
I’m organizing this session, so feel free to DM questions or inquiries.
NB: This is a *hybrid* session, so you do not need to be able to get to Kalamazoo, MI next May to participate!
Guidelines and submission: wmich.edu/medievalcong... /end
Paper proposals on any topic relating to disability, disease, health, and/or medicine and engaging with the methods of disability studies will be welcomed, on any period between c. 500–1500, on any geographical area, and in any scholarly field. 3/
Presenters may be emerging in terms of their career (e.g., graduate students or early-career researchers) or emerging by bringing their research into a new direction (i.e., newly engaging with disability studies). Priority will be given to new scholars and approaches. 2/
ICYMI: CfP for ICMS Kalamazoo 2026
@kzooicms.bsky.social
May 14-16, 2026
Deadline: Sept. 15
#medievalsky #skystorians #disability
The Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages invites proposals for papers by emerging scholars in medieval disability studies. 1/
Fascinated that In Our Time is one of the BBC’s most popular podcasts among under 35s. The young people demand three academics and a peer discussing Demosthenes, apparently. And they’re right to do so.