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Ana de Oliveira Dias

@ana0dias.bsky.social

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Researcher at Oxford, lecturer at Exeter…never a dull moment! Visual&Intellectual culture|Manuscripts& Monasticism| Early Medieval Iberian & Continental History | PDRA Crafting Documents project & William Golding Junior Research Fellow, Brasenose College.

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Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group @oxfordmedievalmss.bsky.social · 3d

We are very excited to share our new programme for Michaelmas Term 2025, with a variety of events in Oxford and online on the theme of 'Science and Discovery'.

Please note that some venues have yet to be confirmed.

We look forward to seeing you!

#OMMG #medievalsky

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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yesterday, I finally visited the wonderful Pech Merle cave.
A very moving and thrilling experience.
Especially grateful for the patience and bravery of my 2-year old who accompanied me 40 meters underground ☺️

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Dr Manuel Muñoz García @manuelmunoz.bsky.social · Aug 4

Don’t be shy!

Dr Manuel Muñoz García @manuelmunoz.bsky.social · Jul 22

No rest for the wicked! We’re now reciving expressions of interest @imems.bsky.social for our session(s) at @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2026 on MEDIEVAL FRAGMENTS.

Have a look at our CfP, and do get in touch with any proposals or questions. Also, please share if you can!

IMC 2026 CALL FOR PAPERS: MEDIEVAL FRAGMENTS.

Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS), Durham University.

Building on the success of Medieval Fragments at the IMC 2025, we would like to invite expressions of interest for 2026.

Fragments,ever present across a great number of materials, are unique and tantalising windows to the past. Surviving as insertions in later textiles, in later buildings or as parts of bindings in manuscripts, fragments offer us layers of meaning: what were they, originally? What was their original purpose? And their later purpose? How have they survived? We understand fragments as physical pieces of any material. Some suggested topics are:

- Manuscript fragmentology: collections of or
individual fragments; selling and acquiring
fragments; palaeographical and codicological analysis of fragments.

- Any medieval fragments: Including but not
limited to archaeological, architectural,
textile, manuscript and incunabula fragments
from anywhere within the medieval period.

- Meaning, lives and usage: reconstructing the original object; the meaning of the original and of the fragment; original and later life and use of the fragment.

- Methodology: Methods and techniques to
work with fragments, manuscript or
otherwise, including digital methods and
digital projects.

Please send us a short abstract (c. 300 words) and CV to Dr Manuel Muñoz García
(manuel.munoz-garcia@durham.ac.uk) no later than September 15.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Aug 3

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · Jul 25

Right, this gives me a very good reason to attend the IMC next year!
(It was very nice to meet you in person btw)

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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · Jul 25

How do I explain to this gentleman that I don’t have x-ray vision or any other techniques to retrieve text covered by fur, fat and bones?

Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · Jul 22

Absolutely!!!

Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · Jul 22

Couldn’t agree more!

Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · Jul 22

The promises I made to @laurajcleaver.bsky.social have been fulfilled 😄 phew

Out now, in Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social part of my ventures into the trade of medieval mss in the late 19th century

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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thank you for letting me know! 😄

Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · Jul 10

So sad to have missed this! Highly recommend @saracharles.bsky.social book “The Medieval Scriptorium”

Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · Jul 10

Sarah Charles' stall at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social medieval fair was an added bonus today. It was wonderful to see all the materials for making manuscripts. I had never seen oak galls before #IMC2025 #manuscripts

Sarah Charles holding up her book and standing at her stall

Pigments in shells displayed on a table including lapis and vermilion. Lots of bright colours

A glass dish containing round nut-like oak galls

A wax tablet with stylus pen on a string

Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · Jul 8

Mainly about the relic tags that were once attached to relics of several saints that were kept in Chelles in the 8th century

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Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · Jul 8

Learning more about the fascinating world of relic labels at Chelles from the brilliant @ana0dias.bsky.social #IMC2025 #craftingdocuments

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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thanks so much for coming 🩷

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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · Jul 7

Same

Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · Jul 7

Are we in the same Cross country train? It seems like it! 😫

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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · Jun 17

Shameless article promotion in case someone is interested.
An output from the wonderful CULTIVATE MSS project led by @laurajcleaver.bsky.social in @ies-sas.bsky.social published open access in the Journal of the History of Collections.

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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · Jun 12

@brasenoseoxford.bsky.social MS 91 - Genealogy of the kings of England to Henry VI - is on display +
Jim and Dilon presenting the amazing research they have done on it!

#medievalsky

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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · Jun 4

Unfortunately, it won’t be on this occasion.

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Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group @oxfordmedievalmss.bsky.social · Jun 3

Connoisseurship and Medieval Manuscripts: A Roundtable, will take place this Friday, 6 June, at 4 pm. Join us at the Weston Library for a lively discussion with Emily Guerry, Peter Kidd and Michael Michael!

Image: Sydney Cockerell, The Gorleston Psalter (London, 1907), pl. IX.

#OMMG #medievalsky

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · Jun 3

In case of interest, colleagues in the fantastic @ox.ac.uk Dept for Continuing Education are advertising a FT permanent post in the art of the Global South in early modern/modern art and material culture!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI408/d...

Departmental Lecturer at University of Oxford

Apply now for the Departmental Lecturer role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · May 30

Another day in @lincoln.ox.ac.uk but for very different reasons

#medievalsky

Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · May 29

On #ascensionday Brasenose takes over Lincoln college.

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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Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · May 22

We are still recruiting!

Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · May 5

Training in early Frankish palaeography is not just for those working on this period, it will help you understand Late Roman, Carolingian, and Protogothic scripts& to approach cursive writing from later centuries too.
It’s a doorway to many centuries of Latin palaeography!
#medievalsky
#manuscripts

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