Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖
@booksoflaw.bsky.social
Early #medieval -ist, focusing on the #history of #law and #lawbooks from the 6th-13th centuries.
Postdoc historian on the #PresentDead project
#ludonarratologist studying medieval-set TTRPGs & creating one based on the #Lombard laws: #LangobardRPG
he/him
Postdoc historian on the #PresentDead project
#ludonarratologist studying medieval-set TTRPGs & creating one based on the #Lombard laws: #LangobardRPG
he/him
Pinned
Happy to say, yesterday I sent off for peer review my edited collection on "Tabletop Gaming the Middle Ages", comprising eleven chapters addressing various aspects of the medieval and medievalism in board and miniature wargames, LARPs and TTRPGs
Let's hope the reviewers love it as much as I do!
🎲✨
Let's hope the reviewers love it as much as I do!
🎲✨
Dear diary, this evening i am being rick rolled. How nostalgic 😉
December 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Dear diary, this evening i am being rick rolled. How nostalgic 😉
I realise my 'to do' list has many things on it...
but all that seems pressing are #TTRPG related:
1. Get Vampire: Dark Ages group to finish character creation, so we can start the story, &
2. Convince Graz team they want to play (2 other GMs on the project, the issue is time, not interest 😉)
🎲📜✨
but all that seems pressing are #TTRPG related:
1. Get Vampire: Dark Ages group to finish character creation, so we can start the story, &
2. Convince Graz team they want to play (2 other GMs on the project, the issue is time, not interest 😉)
🎲📜✨
December 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I realise my 'to do' list has many things on it...
but all that seems pressing are #TTRPG related:
1. Get Vampire: Dark Ages group to finish character creation, so we can start the story, &
2. Convince Graz team they want to play (2 other GMs on the project, the issue is time, not interest 😉)
🎲📜✨
but all that seems pressing are #TTRPG related:
1. Get Vampire: Dark Ages group to finish character creation, so we can start the story, &
2. Convince Graz team they want to play (2 other GMs on the project, the issue is time, not interest 😉)
🎲📜✨
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And here is the table of contents: our topics range from multilingualism in chancery documents to medieval work and Syriac historiography (doi.org/10.1553/medi...)
December 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
And here is the table of contents: our topics range from multilingualism in chancery documents to medieval work and Syriac historiography (doi.org/10.1553/medi...)
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Looking forward to rocking up at #imc2026 to talk about all the fun (and surprising!) things you can find in the wills of single men across early modern England, alongside other fascinating talks on fatherhood, masculinity, and emotions on the Constructing Masculinities Panel.
December 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Looking forward to rocking up at #imc2026 to talk about all the fun (and surprising!) things you can find in the wills of single men across early modern England, alongside other fascinating talks on fatherhood, masculinity, and emotions on the Constructing Masculinities Panel.
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It was so amazing to hear a preview of the papers just before this exciting news came out! Yay for PresentDead and yay for getting a Tuesday!
Anyone interested in interactions with the dead, come to our session at the next @imc-leeds.bsky.social !!
Anyone interested in interactions with the dead, come to our session at the next @imc-leeds.bsky.social !!
👋🏼 @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social
Our last minute efforts worked out nicely!!!
And it was great seeing you (virtually) and hearing you talk on Wednesday - many thanks again for the excellent paper! 😁
Our last minute efforts worked out nicely!!!
And it was great seeing you (virtually) and hearing you talk on Wednesday - many thanks again for the excellent paper! 😁
Looking forward to #IMC2026, where I'll be talking on a theme at the heart of the #PresentDead project, by poking at early #medieval laws on grave re-opening
☠️✨
(And very happy to note that it is session 643 - the same year that the Edictus Rothari was issued!)
☠️✨
(And very happy to note that it is session 643 - the same year that the Edictus Rothari was issued!)
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
It was so amazing to hear a preview of the papers just before this exciting news came out! Yay for PresentDead and yay for getting a Tuesday!
Anyone interested in interactions with the dead, come to our session at the next @imc-leeds.bsky.social !!
Anyone interested in interactions with the dead, come to our session at the next @imc-leeds.bsky.social !!
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Rumours of my return to the IMC are true.
November 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Rumours of my return to the IMC are true.
👋🏼 @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social
Our last minute efforts worked out nicely!!!
And it was great seeing you (virtually) and hearing you talk on Wednesday - many thanks again for the excellent paper! 😁
Our last minute efforts worked out nicely!!!
And it was great seeing you (virtually) and hearing you talk on Wednesday - many thanks again for the excellent paper! 😁
Looking forward to #IMC2026, where I'll be talking on a theme at the heart of the #PresentDead project, by poking at early #medieval laws on grave re-opening
☠️✨
(And very happy to note that it is session 643 - the same year that the Edictus Rothari was issued!)
☠️✨
(And very happy to note that it is session 643 - the same year that the Edictus Rothari was issued!)
November 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
👋🏼 @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social
Our last minute efforts worked out nicely!!!
And it was great seeing you (virtually) and hearing you talk on Wednesday - many thanks again for the excellent paper! 😁
Our last minute efforts worked out nicely!!!
And it was great seeing you (virtually) and hearing you talk on Wednesday - many thanks again for the excellent paper! 😁
Looking forward to #IMC2026, where I'll be talking on a theme at the heart of the #PresentDead project, by poking at early #medieval laws on grave re-opening
☠️✨
(And very happy to note that it is session 643 - the same year that the Edictus Rothari was issued!)
☠️✨
(And very happy to note that it is session 643 - the same year that the Edictus Rothari was issued!)
November 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Looking forward to #IMC2026, where I'll be talking on a theme at the heart of the #PresentDead project, by poking at early #medieval laws on grave re-opening
☠️✨
(And very happy to note that it is session 643 - the same year that the Edictus Rothari was issued!)
☠️✨
(And very happy to note that it is session 643 - the same year that the Edictus Rothari was issued!)
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We are excited to welcome @wedgie-bce.bsky.social on November 30th for our online speaker series!
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #witchcraft
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #witchcraft
Which ‘Witch’ is Which?, by Kelsie Ehalt
Eventbrite - Bodies and Being: The Pre-modern Body Project presents Which ‘Witch’ is Which?, by Kelsie Ehalt - Sunday, November 30, 2025 - Find event and ticket information.
www.eventbrite.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
We are excited to welcome @wedgie-bce.bsky.social on November 30th for our online speaker series!
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #witchcraft
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #witchcraft
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My thesis is now available in Open Access!
repositorio.ulisboa.pt/handle/10400...
#queenship #medieval
repositorio.ulisboa.pt/handle/10400...
#queenship #medieval
“Pela Graça de Deus Rainha de Portugal” : funções e práticas da reginalidade no Portugal medieval
repositorio.ulisboa.pt
August 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
My thesis is now available in Open Access!
repositorio.ulisboa.pt/handle/10400...
#queenship #medieval
repositorio.ulisboa.pt/handle/10400...
#queenship #medieval
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CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns
🗓️ 22 May 2026
📍 European University Institute, Florence
👩🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni
🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick)
Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉
socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/ge...
🗓️ 22 May 2026
📍 European University Institute, Florence
👩🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni
🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick)
Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉
socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/ge...
Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns
Call for Papers Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns European University Institute, Florence 22 May 2026 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Violence puts th…
socialhistory.org.uk
October 9, 2025 at 6:49 AM
CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns
🗓️ 22 May 2026
📍 European University Institute, Florence
👩🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni
🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick)
Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉
socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/ge...
🗓️ 22 May 2026
📍 European University Institute, Florence
👩🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni
🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick)
Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉
socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/ge...
See @katexe.bsky.social, I don't _only_ talk about:
🌿 poisoning and
💀 grave robbing - I talk about
🔥 arson too.
...perfectly normal range of interests 😉
🌿 poisoning and
💀 grave robbing - I talk about
🔥 arson too.
...perfectly normal range of interests 😉
On my way to Gent for the "Medieval Texts and their Social Contexts" conference 😊
I'll be talking about the verbal repetition and orality elements in The Lombard Laws on Fire (Arson)
🔥📖⚖️
I'll be talking about the verbal repetition and orality elements in The Lombard Laws on Fire (Arson)
🔥📖⚖️
November 12, 2025 at 7:26 AM
See @katexe.bsky.social, I don't _only_ talk about:
🌿 poisoning and
💀 grave robbing - I talk about
🔥 arson too.
...perfectly normal range of interests 😉
🌿 poisoning and
💀 grave robbing - I talk about
🔥 arson too.
...perfectly normal range of interests 😉
On my way to Gent for the "Medieval Texts and their Social Contexts" conference 😊
I'll be talking about the verbal repetition and orality elements in The Lombard Laws on Fire (Arson)
🔥📖⚖️
I'll be talking about the verbal repetition and orality elements in The Lombard Laws on Fire (Arson)
🔥📖⚖️
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
On my way to Gent for the "Medieval Texts and their Social Contexts" conference 😊
I'll be talking about the verbal repetition and orality elements in The Lombard Laws on Fire (Arson)
🔥📖⚖️
I'll be talking about the verbal repetition and orality elements in The Lombard Laws on Fire (Arson)
🔥📖⚖️
Hi #MedievalSky
Does anybody have a copy to hand of Nicoletta Francovich Onesti's
Vestigia longobarde in Italia (568-774)?
If so, could you check if there is an entry for "asto"? And if there is, could you send me a photo? (I left my copy in the office)
Many thanks in advance 🤗
Does anybody have a copy to hand of Nicoletta Francovich Onesti's
Vestigia longobarde in Italia (568-774)?
If so, could you check if there is an entry for "asto"? And if there is, could you send me a photo? (I left my copy in the office)
Many thanks in advance 🤗
November 12, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Hi #MedievalSky
Does anybody have a copy to hand of Nicoletta Francovich Onesti's
Vestigia longobarde in Italia (568-774)?
If so, could you check if there is an entry for "asto"? And if there is, could you send me a photo? (I left my copy in the office)
Many thanks in advance 🤗
Does anybody have a copy to hand of Nicoletta Francovich Onesti's
Vestigia longobarde in Italia (568-774)?
If so, could you check if there is an entry for "asto"? And if there is, could you send me a photo? (I left my copy in the office)
Many thanks in advance 🤗
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Hi #MedievalSky, does anybody have a copy of Lisi Oliver's 2003 chapter “Who was Æthelberht’s Laet?” from Linda Hall's Confrontation in Late Antiquity?
Many thanks in advance! 😁
Many thanks in advance! 😁
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Hi #MedievalSky, does anybody have a copy of Lisi Oliver's 2003 chapter “Who was Æthelberht’s Laet?” from Linda Hall's Confrontation in Late Antiquity?
Many thanks in advance! 😁
Many thanks in advance! 😁
Hi #MedievalSky, does anybody have a copy of Lisi Oliver's 2003 chapter “Who was Æthelberht’s Laet?” from Linda Hall's Confrontation in Late Antiquity?
Many thanks in advance! 😁
Many thanks in advance! 😁
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Hi #MedievalSky, does anybody have a copy of Lisi Oliver's 2003 chapter “Who was Æthelberht’s Laet?” from Linda Hall's Confrontation in Late Antiquity?
Many thanks in advance! 😁
Many thanks in advance! 😁
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A hidden treasure of Norwegian medieval legal history - a magnificent illuminated legal manuscript from an edition of King Magnus Lagabøte's Landslov (Magnus the Lawmender's National Law) (Photo: The Royal Library, Copenhagen)
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
November 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
A hidden treasure of Norwegian medieval legal history - a magnificent illuminated legal manuscript from an edition of King Magnus Lagabøte's Landslov (Magnus the Lawmender's National Law) (Photo: The Royal Library, Copenhagen)
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
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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.
November 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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.
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Debby Banham, Claire Burridge, Lea Olsan eds. Early Medieval Medicine in Context: Transmission, Translation and Transformation - Boydell & Brewer, November 2025
boydellandbrewer.com/book/early-m...
boydellandbrewer.com/book/early-m...
November 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Debby Banham, Claire Burridge, Lea Olsan eds. Early Medieval Medicine in Context: Transmission, Translation and Transformation - Boydell & Brewer, November 2025
boydellandbrewer.com/book/early-m...
boydellandbrewer.com/book/early-m...
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Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.
Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
October 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.
Just ran masquerade #TTRPG
players made into vampires in an attempt to destabilise Prince Katherine's city, in an attack led by the anarch powerhouse Mary. The 'lush' ancilla Lydia survived through the efforts of her bodyguard-ghoul hubby George 'Wick'.
NPC inspirations not spotted until after😉
🧛🏼♀️🎲
players made into vampires in an attempt to destabilise Prince Katherine's city, in an attack led by the anarch powerhouse Mary. The 'lush' ancilla Lydia survived through the efforts of her bodyguard-ghoul hubby George 'Wick'.
NPC inspirations not spotted until after😉
🧛🏼♀️🎲
October 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Just ran masquerade #TTRPG
players made into vampires in an attempt to destabilise Prince Katherine's city, in an attack led by the anarch powerhouse Mary. The 'lush' ancilla Lydia survived through the efforts of her bodyguard-ghoul hubby George 'Wick'.
NPC inspirations not spotted until after😉
🧛🏼♀️🎲
players made into vampires in an attempt to destabilise Prince Katherine's city, in an attack led by the anarch powerhouse Mary. The 'lush' ancilla Lydia survived through the efforts of her bodyguard-ghoul hubby George 'Wick'.
NPC inspirations not spotted until after😉
🧛🏼♀️🎲
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📗New project publication📗
"Liturgy, Literature & History: Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the Middle Ages" is now available #OpenAccess from @britishacademy.bsky.social & @livunipress.bsky.social
Free download here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
#MedievalSky
"Liturgy, Literature & History: Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the Middle Ages" is now available #OpenAccess from @britishacademy.bsky.social & @livunipress.bsky.social
Free download here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
#MedievalSky
October 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
📗New project publication📗
"Liturgy, Literature & History: Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the Middle Ages" is now available #OpenAccess from @britishacademy.bsky.social & @livunipress.bsky.social
Free download here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
#MedievalSky
"Liturgy, Literature & History: Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the Middle Ages" is now available #OpenAccess from @britishacademy.bsky.social & @livunipress.bsky.social
Free download here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
#MedievalSky
Making my way to Cornwall for my dad's 80th 🥳
Also to do:
📜🔥 Prepare paper on arson and verbal repetition in the Lombard laws #medievalsky
🎲💀 Revise character creation for my Re-Opening #TTRPG (a one shot spin-off from my #LangobardRPG)
🎲🧛🏼♀️ Run Masquerade for Hallowe'en
Also to do:
📜🔥 Prepare paper on arson and verbal repetition in the Lombard laws #medievalsky
🎲💀 Revise character creation for my Re-Opening #TTRPG (a one shot spin-off from my #LangobardRPG)
🎲🧛🏼♀️ Run Masquerade for Hallowe'en
October 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Making my way to Cornwall for my dad's 80th 🥳
Also to do:
📜🔥 Prepare paper on arson and verbal repetition in the Lombard laws #medievalsky
🎲💀 Revise character creation for my Re-Opening #TTRPG (a one shot spin-off from my #LangobardRPG)
🎲🧛🏼♀️ Run Masquerade for Hallowe'en
Also to do:
📜🔥 Prepare paper on arson and verbal repetition in the Lombard laws #medievalsky
🎲💀 Revise character creation for my Re-Opening #TTRPG (a one shot spin-off from my #LangobardRPG)
🎲🧛🏼♀️ Run Masquerade for Hallowe'en
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After 18+ years, A GIRL AND HER FED is done, at least for now. Everyone welcome our new god of joy to the Weirdness Pantheon.
www.agirlandherfed.com
#comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics
www.agirlandherfed.com
#comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
After 18+ years, A GIRL AND HER FED is done, at least for now. Everyone welcome our new god of joy to the Weirdness Pantheon.
www.agirlandherfed.com
#comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics
www.agirlandherfed.com
#comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics