Elaine Treharne

@etreharne.bsky.social

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Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever. .. more

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Elaine M. Treharne FSA FRHistS FEA FLSW was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, in 1964. She is a Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and the Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English, Courtesy Professor of German Studies and of Comparative Literature, and a Bass Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. She was at the University of Leicester for eighteen years as a lecturer, then professor, head of department, and dean, before emigrating to the USA. She is a Welsh medievalist, focusing on Manuscript Studies, Early English literature, and the History of Text Technologies, particularly of the handmade book. She led Stanford University's online courses on manuscript study entitled Digging Deeper. She is a qualified archivist, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and an Honorary Fellow of the English Association, for whom she was also the first woman chair and President from 2000 to 2005. Treharne was made a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in April 2020. She is the President of the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (2022–2025). .. more

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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 6d

Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands).

Please share widely!

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Global PhD on Middle English Arthurian romance

The University of Groningen and Macquarie are offering a co-funded scholarship to support a student undertaking doctoral research in medieval literature.

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Richard III Society of Canada @richardiiisocca.bsky.social · 7d

It's time! Behold the Christmas hedgehog! From Verdun, Bibl. mun., ms. 0107, f. 008. Our thanks as always to @etreharne.bsky.social who found her.

A small hedgehog has green and red circles on her spikes and a gold one. On the branch in front of and behind her are 2 more gold balls. The branch has a few green leaves. It all looks very festive although the balls on her spikes are probably grapes.

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Cecelia Cancellaro @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social · 7d

Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org

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Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr

Amplifying voices

New Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish

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Michelle Dalmau @mdalmau.bsky.social · 8d

Metadata is hard especially for Medieval Manuscripts ... check out our latest blog post about the @peripheralmss.bsky.social project: peripheralmss.org/metadata-for.... #midwestmss #medievalmss

Metadata for Discovery of Medieval Manuscripts Materials – The Peripheral Manuscripts Project

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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 8d

📢 #CfP #medievalsky #TOEBI
📜Theme: All Kinds of People
📅Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026
🏫Host: University of Nottingham
⏰Submission deadline: 30 March 2026
📚TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level.

Reposted by Elaine Treharne, Keith Lilley, Claire Connolly

Anthony Bale FBA @realmandeville.bsky.social · 8d

'Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow', forthcoming symposium at Cambridge. A two-day symposium for writer-researchers working on medieval materials to reflect on craft, research processes, and work in progress.
Booking essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-m...

Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow

A two-day symposium on creative writing, the creative-critical seam, and the Middle Ages

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Reposted by Juan Cole, Elaine Treharne, Caroline T. Schroeder

Calum Cockburn @ccockburn.bsky.social · 10d

An interim version of the Explore Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue is now available through the BL website: searcharchives.bl.uk

It contains all the catalogue data from the eve of the 2023 cyberattack, and features embedded links to all currently available digitised content within the records.

A screenshot of a search input in the British Library's interim Explore Archives and Manuscripts catalogue.

Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 12d

Paris??

Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 12d

It’s an early musical note, basically 🎵

Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 12d

Probably owned by the famous Parisian numismatist, Claude Bouterouë.

Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 12d

Truly lovely tiny 1632 version of Berthault’s Florus Galilicus, with spine strengthening fragments, c. 1200, from a liturgical book, complete with neumes! Just a delight.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13d

"This document outlines the reasons why we don’t currently use AI in archival processes – including archival appraisal, acquisition, arrangement and description (processing), digital preservation, and access – as well as how we support our user communities who want to employ AI..." (via Nate Hill)

AI Use in Our Archival Processes

Statement on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in archival processes at the Rockefeller Archive Center.

docs.rockarch.org

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 14d

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Calibri: is this really the world’s wokest font?

It was the Windows typeface for 17 years – and adopted by the Biden administration for its readability for those with visual impairments. But Marco Rubio has ruled that Calibri lacks ‘decorum’

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 15d

A bus in Palo Alto. Wtf advert?

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 16d

I'm looking forward to speaking at this symposium at the University of Cambridge in January on creative writing and the Middle Ages. Booking is now open. #MedievalSky

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-m...

Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow

A two-day symposium on creative writing, the creative-critical seam, and the Middle Ages

www.eventbrite.co.uk

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16d

Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 16d

Some great projects here erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

The ERC selects 349 mid-career researchers for €728 million in Consolidator Grants

The European Research Council (ERC) has selected 349 mid-career researchers to receive this year's Consolidator Grants. With funding from the EU’s Horizon Europe programme, these grants will support c...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · 17d

{New Podcast} Hear about our latest book on New Books Ne Books Network: newbooksnetwork.com/trans-histor...

Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 20d

If you teach the History of the Book, or Information Technologies, or the long history of Text and materiality, this might be the coursebook for you—Treharne and Willan—now with StanfordUP’s 40% off. Bargain!

www.sup.org/books/litera...

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 21d

Absolutely cracking blog post from @simonxix.com calling for collective investment in staff and community-owned, open-source infrastructures in place of costly proprietary systems, based on the BL incident. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Don’t rely on government to save the British Library - Impact of Social Sciences

Following a catastrophic hack British Library remains in crisis. Can it recover by refocusing on the people, skills and systems that enable it to function?

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social · 25d

If anyone is looking for a present for a book lover who has an interest in the Anglo-Welsh border, its landscape, heritage and folklore I can highly recommend Sarah Siân Chave’s Hafren

Book cover of Hafren by Sarah Siân Chave

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29d

For what is worth my first book is going into paperback now, so you can actually have it for less than 40 euros. (Or even better: recommend it to your librarian!)

www.routledge.com/Roman-Infras...

Roman Infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain: The Adaptations of the Past in Text and Stone

Early Medieval Britain was more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources on the island. These resources lay buried not only in dirt and soil, but also in texts, laws, ...

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · Nov 22

Three cats in the autumn light #caturday

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · Nov 22

Medieval Ghost Stories: The Chilling Haunts of Byland Abbey www.medievalists.net/2024/11/medi... #ghoststories

Medieval Ghost Stories: The Chilling Haunts of Byland Abbey - Medievalists.net

What would you do if a ghost blocked your path, or if a spirit appeared at your door, desperate for absolution? For the people of medieval England, these weren’t mere tales to spook children—they…

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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · Nov 21

📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish
📜Beowulf & Circulations Conference
📲Details: cemasorbonne.org
🏫Centre d’Études Médiévales Anglaises (Sorbonne Université)
🗣️Keynotes: Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn) & Francis Leneghan (Oxford University).
📅March 13-14, 2026
⏰Submission deadline: 10 January, 2026‼️

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CEMA

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Beth 💜 @picklebee.bsky.social · Nov 21

It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❄️🧊

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A map with gritters on it called William Wall-ice, grit tok, Gritney Spears and The Grittist Snowman

A map with gritters on it called I've grit a crush on you, grit a bit, polar patroller, I want to break freeze

A map with gritters on it called bear chills, thistle do icely

A map with gritters on it called Gritallica, Olaf snow free roads, salt shaker and sled zepplin

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · Nov 20

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

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Michael Donnay @mjdonnay.bsky.social · Nov 20

📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly

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Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship - University of London Press

Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...

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laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · Nov 19

Want to start the new year by learning new things? In January 2026 Anna Somfai will teach an online course on medieval philosophical and scientific manuscripts. More information here 👇 @warburginstitute.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social #MedievalSky please reskeet!

ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

IES: LIPS & LRBS Winter School | 2026

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Nov 18

Jean Armour Polly, aka Net-mom, celebrates the Internet Archive’s 1 trillionth webpage, highlighting the ephemerality of websites, the need to preserve digital culture, & the librarians & archivists who make that possible.

More ⬇️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/v...

#Wayback1T @netmom.bsky.social

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