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Julia Walworth @juliawalworth.bsky.social · 19h

A new academic year & the Upper Library is finally re-opened. The exhibition this term features Merton's 'newest' medieval manuscript (MS 329) acquired this year with the generous help of @thefnl.bsky.social. Booklet of 14th-century astronomical tables! Eclipses, conjunctions and more!

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Julia Walworth @juliawalworth.bsky.social · 19h

The couple are debating which route to take?

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Julia Walworth @juliawalworth.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations!!

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Julia Walworth @juliawalworth.bsky.social · 21d

Merton College Chapel putting on a good welcome for today’s wedding! 😍

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Julia Walworth @juliawalworth.bsky.social · 25d

I love the expression ‘pop-up display’, as if the books and captions just appeared like mushrooms in the lawn!😀 Not that I don’t enjoy putting them together.

Julia Walworth @juliawalworth.bsky.social · 25d

The joy of the pop-up display—greatly enhanced by the cup of tea afterwards!

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · Sep 7

It was too cloudy to see the lunar eclipse tonight, so here’s some fun diagrams of eclipses from a 13th century astronomical compilation, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Arch. Selden. B. 34, f. 47v 🌘

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The Medieval Academy of America @medievalacademy.bsky.social · Sep 8

Call for Papers - The Sale of Governance in Pre-Modern Europe and the Mediterranean (1100-1600)

Call for Papers
The Sale of Governance in Pre-Modern Europe and the Mediterranean (1100-1600)
Workshop
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-pap...

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Julia Walworth @juliawalworth.bsky.social · Aug 29

Kloster Andechs in Bavaria August 1985 and August 2025! We’ve changed, but the church is still stunning.

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The Medieval Academy of America @medievalacademy.bsky.social · Aug 27

Apply now! John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Application Deadline: November 3, 2025

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is pleased to announce a John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellowship for a recent Ph.D.
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/apply-now-jo...

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Julia Walworth @juliawalworth.bsky.social · Aug 22

Zwetschgenkuchen 2023 and 2025– thank goodness some good things don’t change. #vacation #Allgäu

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Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures @mediumaevum.bsky.social · Aug 22

The Society was kindly gifted a replica model of 'The Monk Astride a Wyvern' from The Met Museum by Prof. Mary Carruthers. The original dates from the mid c.12th, and was made in Magdeburg, Germany.

We need your help naming our new wyvern-riding wordsmith mascot! Comment your suggestions below 👇

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Julia Walworth @juliawalworth.bsky.social · Aug 15

Astrolabes and quadrants return to display in the Upper Library at Merton College with special thanks to Nikki Tomkins, Oxford Conservation Consortium, Khris Watts, Harriet Campbell Longley, and @stephenaj.bsky.social It took many hands! #astronomy #astrolabes

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Julia Walworth @juliawalworth.bsky.social · Aug 14

My kind of news!!

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Seb Falk @sebfalk.com · Jul 16

I'm so thrilled to have this published! Starting from a chat over lunch at @girtoncollege.bsky.social, James Wade & I chipped away at this & have made some fascinating discoveries.

The actual article should be published later today. In the meantime, more here: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/song...

Girton Fellows solve a 130-year-old Chaucerian literary mystery

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Julia Walworth @juliawalworth.bsky.social · Jul 16

@sebfalk.com Who do I hear on the radio this morning?? 👏👏

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · Jul 4

Books, Beer, and Murder! Excited to give this upcoming talk on scribal shenanigans in Medieval Oxford on 14 August in the incredible @oxfordprestrust.bsky.social Painted Room, check out the OPT’s event page to join the fun!
📜🍺🗡️🎉

www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk/event/books-...

Books, Beer, and Murder: The Medieval Scribes of Oxford

www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk

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Julia Walworth @juliawalworth.bsky.social · Jul 2

In 17c Netherlands you could enjoy drinking your cool beer from a ‘book’. Very nice blindstamped boards, raised bands, fore-edge ties. #Rijksmuseum #Bookart

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Julia Walworth @juliawalworth.bsky.social · Jun 30

A 17c ‘hidden’ church in Amsterdam made a memorable venue for a conference dinner. #CIHEC2025

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London Medieval Society @londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social · Jun 1

There's still plenty of times to get tickets for our 80th anniversary event on 'Memory and Commemoration' on Saturday 18th June:
www.eventbrite.com/e/memory-and...

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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · May 28

Join us this Friday in Lincoln college, Oxford

Oxford Medieval Studies @oxmedstud.bsky.social · May 28

🗓️ Friday 30 May 🗓️

Join us at Lincoln College this Friday for 'Fragments of Lives', a day of discoveries about medieval lives in the muniments of @magdalenoxford.bsky.social , @lincoln.ox.ac.uk and beyond!

Poster for Fragments of Lives. Friday 30 May. Lincoln College, Oakeshott Room. No registration is required. For all enquiries, please email laure.miolo@history.ox.ac.uk

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · May 28

Art conservation requires specialized materials. What happens when one vital material is threatened? gty.art/4kEb6Yg

Reinventing a vital art conservation material

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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · May 19

The Bibliographical Society and CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group and have joined together for an event (4 June) on acquisitions, aimed at librarians, archivists and curators although all are welcome! bibsoc.org.uk/introduction...

Introduction to Special Collections Acquisitions - Bibliographical Society

The Bibliographical Society and CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group and have joined together for an event on acquisitions, aimed at librarians, archivists and curators although all are welc...

bibsoc.org.uk

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Mark Thakkar @brunellus.com · May 6

Registration DEADLINE Friday 16th for online summer school Advanced Readings in Medieval Latin, May 27–July 3. Two 1½-hour classes per week for 6 weeks, $500 (£375ish). We've not had many takers, so at just over £20 per hour this is pretty cheap for small-group tuition. marco.utk.edu/summerlangua...

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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · May 2

CfP ‘Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library’
Submit by 16th May
This 2-day symposium (9-10 Sept at UCL) will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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