William Marshal: ‘The Greatest Knight of all the World’ A landless knight, William Marshal rose through the ranks of English society to become regent of England. This course charts the life and career of the ‘greatest knight’ and examines what his life…

Meet the man called “the best knight that ever lived” ⚔️🏰 Dive into the life and legend of William Marshal. medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/mars... #MedievalKnights #MedievalStudies

#medieval #digitalmedieval #medievalsky #AI #LLM #DH #DigitalHumanities #medievalStudies #MachineLearning #conference #CFP

Crown and Consort: Music from England’s Plantagenet and Tudo Discover the music of England’s royal courts from the reign of Edward III to the end of the Tudor dynasty and explore how kings, queens, chapels, and composers shaped ceremony, devotion, and courtly…

From Edward III to Elizabeth I 👑📜 Follow the evolution of music across England’s royal courts and changing world. medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/crown #MedievalMusic #EnglishMusic #MedievalStudies

Check out Online Medieval Studies Courses - both live and self-paced - at medievalstudies.thinkific.com #medievalstudies

Entangled Christianities 2 — Networks, Monuments, and Materialities Entangled Christianities 2: Networks, Monuments, and Materialities of Byzantine Christianity. 16–18 November 2026, Orthodox Academy of Crete, Chania, Greece.

Call for Papers: Entangled Christianities 2 - this conference in Crete is back this November. We are helping out in organizing it, and the venue is great. Get the details at entangled-networks-hub.lovable.app #medievalstudies #historians #Christianity

Title: Seven Times a Day: Prayer as Humane Practice; image: a grotty 16th century prayerbook, an image of the photographer's finger in the margin and a couple of tabs showing along the edge of the prayerbook

A prayer said once is an event. Repeated across the day, it becomes a practice that holds.

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#medievalstudies #religion #nuntastic #blog #research #repetition #prayer #Catholic #16thc

Don’t miss next week’s exciting session in our “Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements” seminar series!
Participate online: t1p.de/entanglement...

@maxweberstiftung.de @dhi-paris.fr

#medievalsky #medievalstudies #adriatic #skytorians
#entanglements #mediterranean

Now available in paperback! Fairy Encounters in Medieval England by Jeremy Harte 🧚

Learn more and order your copy ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/3b9k8nsw

#folkore #fairies #medievalstudies #religiousstudies #demons #ghosts #supernatural

Tolkien and his Medieval Sources Study a selection of Tolkien’s works in concert with his earlier medieval sources, trace the transformation of medieval texts in the popular modern imagination, and emphasize their relevance to…

Discover the medieval inspirations behind Tolkien’s world—enroll in our Tolkien and Medieval Studies course today! medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/tolk... #Tolkien #MedievalStudies

We’re exhibiting at the Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting (Amherst, MA, March 19–21)!

Visit the book exhibition Fri–Sat at UMass (Campus Center Auditorium) to explore new scholarship from @brepols.net, Viella, Exeter, @mip-medpub.bsky.social, Archetype & more.

#MedievalStudies #MAA2026

Discover our newest titles in #MedievalStudies during the 2026 meeting of the @medievalacademy.bsky.social, at the booth of @isdistribution.bsky.social !

Discover our new & forthcoming titles: bit.ly/40JBuIf

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Religion and Faith in the European Middle Ages The development and challenges of the Christian faith and other religious discourses in medieval Europe over 700 years. Explore cults and beliefs, including heretical movements, persecutions and the…

Explore how belief shaped the medieval world 📜⛪ Dive into religion, faith, and devotion in the Middle Ages. medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/reli... #MedievalStudies

If you are unfamiliar with their work, they are responsible for one of the most exciting papers in #medievalstudies and #bookhistory I've read in the last decade. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Religion and Faith in the European Middle Ages The development and challenges of the Christian faith and other religious discourses in medieval Europe over 700 years. Explore cults and beliefs, including heretical movements, persecutions and the…

From monasteries to mysticism 🕯️📖 Discover the role of religion and faith in medieval life through this in-depth course. medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/reli... #MedievalStudies

Fate or Fortune? #Cfp extended! Themed submissions for our 2026 online Conference: Fame and Fortune have been extended until 16 March.

Please share widely! #medievalsky #earlymodern #medievalstudies

New Online Course: En Garde! Fencing in Late Medieval and Early Modern England - Medievalists.net This six-week course begins Friday, March 6th, with live sessions from 2:00 to 3:30 pm EST.

New Online Course: En Garde! Fencing in Late Medieval and Early Modern England www.medievalists.net/2026/03/new-... #medievalstudies

Enchantment and Hidden Forces: Music in Medieval Europe Step into medieval Europe, where music was believed to hold real power over the body, soul, and cosmos. From soaring sacred chants to lively dances, explore the hidden forces behind sound, its…

Chants, melodies, and medieval magic 🕯️🎵 Discover how music was used to shape devotion, emotion, and wonder. medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/ench... #music #medievalstudies

#Cfp extended!!!

Please share widely with anyone who might be interested! #medievalsky #earlymodern #medievalstudies

En Garde! Fencing in Late Medieval and Early Modern England From apprentices in the street to princes at court, fencing was widespread in late medieval and early modern England. This course explores the fascinating careers and martial arts of those who…

🏰 Uncover the secrets of medieval fencing—no sword required. Just log in and learn! medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/fenc... #MedievalStudies #HEMA

Place-Names and Landholding in Early Medieval England

What if "tūn" meant more that "settlement"?

Sarah J. Wager argues it was a land unit with rights – central to medieval power.

Out now!

#MedievalStudies

www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book...

William Marshal: ‘The Greatest Knight of all the World’ A landless knight, William Marshal rose through the ranks of English society to become regent of England. This course charts the life and career of the ‘greatest knight’ and examines what his life…

Meet the man called “the best knight that ever lived” ⚔️🏰 Dive into the life and legend of William Marshal. medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/mars... #WilliamMarshal #MedievalStudies

New Encyclopedia Highlights Medieval Women’s Writing Around the World - Medievalists.net A major new reference work is aiming to reshape how medieval literature is taught and studied, by putting women’s writing—across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia—at the centre of the story

New Encyclopedia Highlights Medieval Women’s Writing Around the World www.medievalists.net/2026/02/new-... #medievalwomen #medievalstudies

The Viking Age An introduction to Viking History. Each week historian Terri Barnes takes you through a different aspect of the lives of Norse peoples who lived during the Viking Age from c. AD 750 to 1100.

Dive into the legendary world of the Vikings—explore their culture, conquests, and legacy with our Viking Age course! ⚔️🌊 medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/the-... #VikingHistory #MedievalStudies

Marginal illustration of a bear being taught to sing by a master, with a banderole showing chant neumes, in a manuscript of Thomasin von Zerklaere’s Welscher Gast (ca. 1256). Source: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg / Cpg 389 / fol. 6v

What does a singing bear have to do with Chaucer?

A lot, it turns out.

We trace how the Marian chant Alma redemptoris mater shaped medieval ideas about learning — from schoolrooms to miracles to manuscript images.
Open access:
academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...
#MedievalStudies #Chaucer #Musicology

🖼 Image credit: 13th-century miniature of Queen Urraca presiding at Court, from the Tumbo A codex, Santiago de Compostela Cathedral.

#MedievalStudies #QueenUrraca #MedievalHistory #ArtHistory #MadridEvents
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New Medieval Books: Father Chaucer and the Apologists - Medievalists.net One of the most hotly debated issues in medieval literary studies in recent years concerns Cecily Chaumpaigne, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the contested meaning of the phrase de raptu meo. This book traces…

New Medieval Books: Father Chaucer and the Apologists www.medievalists.net/2026/02/new-... #chaucer #medievalliterature #medievalstudies

Post title: "Sooner or Later it All Gets Done: How History Emerges from Small Details"; image of a 16th c prayerbook manuscript page with a tab in the margin, VLB HS 17 fol. 216

History is sometimes an act of accumulation: 397 folios. Hundreds of candles. Countless tiny details.

Today’s blog post discusses reading for details that earlier editors thought didn’t matter.

#AcademicLife #MedievalStudies #nuntastic #SlowScholarship #blog

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portrait of a man + quote "Late-medieval thinkers demonstrated a capacity for theorizing comparable to that of modern authors." Fabrizio Amerini, author of 'Thomas Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis on Concepts and Intentional Objects'

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📙 'Thomas Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis on Concepts and Intentional Objects', by Fabrizio Amerini

🗨️ "Late-medieval thinkers demonstrated a capacity for theorizing comparable to that of modern authors." - Fabrizio Amerini
🔗 bit.ly/4rsHbGp

#medievalphilosophy #medievalstudies #ThomasAquinas

En Garde! Fencing in Late Medieval and Early Modern England From apprentices in the street to princes at court, fencing was widespread in late medieval and early modern England. This course explores the fascinating careers and martial arts of those who…

⚔️ Explore historical martial arts through manuscripts and expert insight—all from your laptop. medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/fenc... #MedievalMartialArts #MedievalStudies

Frozen Trakai (-14°C) forces a rethink of leisure at the Gediminid court. 🏰❄️
From grand hunts to sleigh rides across Lake Galvė - winter was a season of power display.
I'm exploring this topic in my upcoming Medium article.
Stay tuned! ✍️

#MedievalStudies #Trakai #History #HistoriansSky