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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison
@hdohertyharrison.bsky.social
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Leverhulme ECF, Edinburgh Uni, writing The Living Judas in Medieval Text and Image for Cornell UP. Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025); Co-ed, Towards An Accessible Academy (MIP, 2025). Volunteer, MCR Pathways. She/her
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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · Aug 26
Delighted to share that my second monograph, The Living Judas in Medieval Text and Image (working title), is now under contract with Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social! I am so grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk & @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social for the time & support to work on this.
A medieval illustration of a queen in bed cradling an infant child, with an attendant sat next to the bed - Judas as a baby with his adoptive mother (queen of the island Scarioth), from Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek / Gen. 8, f. 223v.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 2d
#histmed #MedievalSky Minji Lee's book, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body, has just been released #OpenAccess: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
Cover image of Minji Lee, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body. On the complex imagery reproduced on the cover, read the book!
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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 4d
Probably the most personal thing I've ever written, about living in crip time, about precarity, and how crip scholars grinding in precarity are further marginalized by academia's timezones (and rhetoric of timeliness)

#MedievalSky #CripSky #DisabilitySky

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Alicia Spencer-Hall Chapter 5 Stopping the Clock(s): Precarious Times in the AcademyKeywords: bereavement, crip time, Douceline of Digne, precarity, medieval hagi-ography, temporalityI don’t remember what time it was when I got the news. It was a bad time, though, I remember that sure enough. I was elbow-deep in writing a chapter for an edited collection, steeling myself for one final push to bring my scholarly baby into the world.1The deadline was tight—it’s always tight—but I could make it, if I could just keep going. I was tired and I hurt; I had slogged away for long hours this past week or so of writing. I had shifted time usually reserved for self- care—for having breaks, eating lunch, taking exercise—into the work column of my schedule. The irony of the situation was not lost on me. I was writing a chap-ter on chronic pain and illness in the Middle Ages, underscoring the political ur-gency of recognizing ourselves, as members of the crip community, in historical
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 5d
Writing a first book feels like screaming into the void. Beginning to write a second book feels a lot like trying to have a more reasonable conversation with the old self that was doing the screaming.
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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 7d
Those who teach and research Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be interested in this fantastic research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem. They're also looking for contributors, so do get in contact with @michaeledenart.bsky.social! 👇
Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (circa 1370). Illu...
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Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · 25d
Snarking at Greenblatt's Marlowe. But also, Cynthia Harnett doing (so I am assured) an extremely accurate, lovely depiction of a fifteenth-century boy enjoying writing in Latin. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/breaking-b...
'Breaking Bread with the Dead': Marlowe, Greenblatt, and Living Latin
‘Breaking bread with the dead, sir, it’s what we do.’ The speaker in Alan Bennett’s History Boys (the 2006 film of the 2004 play) is 18-year-old Akhtar, en route to Oxbridge, entirely convinced of his...
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Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · Sep 8
Do any lovely medievalists know of good medieval descriptions of hangovers? Thank you!
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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 7d
A great question & quite fortuitously I saw one today! Doing a big Piers Plowman re-read and in B.5, line 177, Wrath has 'flux of a foul mouth' for a few days after drinking too much.
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 7d
In sincerity I did log on for a reason. A new issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is out, edited by colleague/friend Marcel Elias. It's about how to do postcolonial medieval studies bigger and better. You'll like it. (I'm in there). Go read.
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Volume 55 Issue 3 | Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies | Duke University Press
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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 10d
Out now! Our latest book, "Women Who Dared", is released today from Edinburgh University Press. You can purchase direct from @edinburghup.bsky.social via their website or at all good bookshops: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w...
Women Who Dared
Women Who Dared
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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 14d
every good scholar needs: a desk; some ink; a demon monkey hovering menacingly above, clutching his own book; and a quill
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Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 17d
Delighted and slightly emotional about this unexpected turn of events...😭

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2025 Berger Prize Shortlist announced
The Walpole Society is delighted to present the shortlist for the 2025 Berger Prize.The leading book prize for art history, the Berger Prize celebrates excellence in writing and scholarship on the arts and architecture of Britain. The prize is offered by the Walpole Society through the generosity of the Berger Collection Educational Trust. We are pleased to announce the following shortlisted titles:Esther ChadwickThe Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century BritainYale Universi
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 20d
‘No amount of knowledge about medieval literary culture can make the Pearl Manuscript tell us what it means. Everyone has to speculate at some point.’

@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the manuscript that contains the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom Johnson · Supereffable: Mysteries of the Pearl Manuscript
Any book made by hand is unique, but the Pearl Manuscript’s claim to uniqueness is unparalleled: the manuscript...
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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 20d
Happening in 3 days! ✨
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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 29d
Our book launch for Towards an Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists, will take place on Tuesday 23 September, NYU London & online - please do join us for an evening of discussion & celebration #medievalsky

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Towards an Accessible Academy Book Launch
Join Medievalists with Disabilities for the launch of the book "Towards an Accessible Academy" at NYU London
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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 21d
Thank you!! I have now found a 2003 translation so luckily I'm not having to sit translating it all slowly by myself at least! But that still seems relatively recent & can hardly find any citations of that passage in existing pubs, but may be looking in the wrong places/not looking well enough!
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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 22d
Friends, looking for advice about how to look up/search for citations. Found a section of Augustine's Enarrationes in the PL & CSEL ed that is omitted from 19th cent English translation & want to know if this has affected how often it's been cited... I have Googled but there must be another way?
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 23d
If you're interested in my new project on medievalism & the extreme right, you can read the first update on our blog here: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... As the project progresses, @siobhanhyland.bsky.social and I will write updates to share info & upcoming events. @errnetwork.bsky.social 🗃️
Getting Medieval? The Extreme Right and the Distant Past | UON
A few years ago, my colleague (and Searchlight archivist) Dr Dan Jones sent me some scans of items I might find interesting. One of them was a scan...
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St Catharine's College @stcatharines.bsky.social · 27d
Catz academics in print: 'The Mechanics of Biological Materials' co-ed by Prof. John Morton (1968, Engrng), 'Love & anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social (2014, English) & a chapter in 'Public Law & the UK Supreme Court' by @profmarkelliott.bsky.social (1999)
Cover designs for 'The Mechanics of Biological Materials, ' Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' and 'Public Law and the UK Supreme Court'
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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 29d
Our book launch for Towards an Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists, will take place on Tuesday 23 September, NYU London & online - please do join us for an evening of discussion & celebration #medievalsky

Sign up here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/towards-an...
Towards an Accessible Academy Book Launch
Join Medievalists with Disabilities for the launch of the book "Towards an Accessible Academy" at NYU London
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29d
We're starting day 4 of the strike with Jack the cat's full support. He also says that this is a manufactured crisis because there is no deficit at the University of Edinburgh. Clever cat.
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · Sep 10
On #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, here's a post for those of us who have lost someone to suicide or who fear losing someone that way: rachelemoss.com/2025/09/10/o...
On World Suicide Prevention Day 2025
53 months ago today my husband of seven years (and partner of 14) stepped out into an early spring morning, walked into our garage, and sometime thereafter took his own life. Every September therea…
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ayoushlazikani.bsky.social @ayoushlazikani.bsky.social · Aug 30
This came out earlier this week! Thank you so much to Yale University Press for all their efforts getting it to publication.
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · Sep 10
lot of people out here laboring under the misapprehension that uni is just further high school and there is some higher authority on content than the professor who is a live, working researcher in the field
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Sep 7
Delighted to learn that this book by Siân Echard, which I had the pleasure of reading & blurbing, is now out in the world. One of those books that takes a scholar w a hyper particular blend of skills, knowledge of different fields, & intellectual flair to write. www.pennpress.org/978151282705...
Facsimile – Penn Press
An unprecedented cultural history of reproductions of medieval manuscriptsFacsimiles are, or claim to be, exact copies of objects, and medieval manuscripts h...
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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · Sep 5
This is fascinating, "performing" is exactly it... wish I'd written more about teaching as performance & how it feels as an autistic person in my essay for our Accessible Academy vol but I wrote that at the start of my teaching fellowship & I think it was too close/scary to formulate anything then.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · Sep 5
- he also is backtracking on how he used to be jealous about how faculty members weren’t on campus all the time. He said I only taught two classes and now I’m exhausted. It’s like “performing.” Not to mention all of the prep time before and the grading after that happens off campus sometimes.
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Kate Ash-Irisarri @kateai.bsky.social · Sep 5
Congratulations to @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social on the publication of her book. This launch at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social looks fabulous. It’s running as a hybrid event on 7 October. Remember to book your place!
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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social · Sep 3
Join the free launch event for this brilliant book on Tuesday 7 October: register to hear from Hope and other discussants and enjoy a drinks reception at IASH!

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