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Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association
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JAEMA is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal specialising in the history of the early medieval period - from late antiquity to the early eleventh century.

https://aema.org.au/journal/
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Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association @jaema.bsky.social · Aug 23
While the Call for Papers for our annual conference may be closed, we are still open to submissions for our Journal!

JAEMA publishes scholarly articles on the Late Antique and Early Medieval world, see our website for details: aema.org.au/journal/
This call for submissions states that the Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association seeks submissions of scholarly articles on the early medieval period and late antiquity, from anywhere around the globe, between the fall of the Roman Empire and the end of the eleventh century. The Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association publishes articles that appeal to those interested in our period, whether these are focused on the historical, political, social, literary, cultural, religious, ethnic, geographic, and interpretive crossovers between.
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leedsims.bsky.social
Interested in learning more about the oldest museum in the UK and its research? Sign up to attend our next seminar online or come along on 27 November at 5.30 pm GMT: forms.office.com/e/L834SBHzKX. More info at link in bio (scroll down to events) #medievalsky #royalarmouries
A detail of a piece of metal armour (a cuisse) in the Gothic style, about 1490, showing a beveled edge, two rivets, and the general silvery patina of something very old. From Austria (III.2562) © Royal Armouries.
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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leedsims.bsky.social
Next Thursday! 5.30 pm. Hybrid. Please join us. #medievalsky #medievalwarfare #museums
leedsims.bsky.social Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 12d
Come along to hear specialists in pre-modern Asian & African arms, edged weapons, and combat techniques discuss their research. Hybrid #medievalsky @royalarmouries.bsky.social
leedsims.bsky.social Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 16d
Interested in learning more about the oldest museum in the UK and its research? Sign up to attend our next seminar online or come along on 27 November at 5.30 pm GMT: forms.office.com/e/L834SBHzKX. More info at link in bio (scroll down to events) #medievalsky #royalarmouries
November 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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anyone #medievalsky work on music?
splendorr.bsky.social nina splendorr ✨🏳️‍⚧️ @splendorr.bsky.social · 4d
Who knows about medieval / early modern music? Jongleur, polyphony, bard type stuff. My partner is writing a dissertation involving this era and would love to talk to a fellow academic / enthusiast to lecture them about liturgical music!

Maybe you can point me to someone, @profgabriele.com? Thanks!
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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judeseal.bsky.social
My latest post for the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on #deafness, #communication, and sign language in the Middle Ages
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#medievalsky #skystorians
Medieval deaf communication
Communicating with hand signs has a long history. Researcher Jude Seal examines the evidence for signing in Medieval Europe among both deaf and hearing communities.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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helontheweb.bsky.social
Dorothy Whitelock Lecture 2025: Guthlac: what the early medieval records tell us
3 December 17:15
St Peter’s College chapel, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford
@ox.ac.uk

Join the event in person or online.
www.english.ox.ac.uk/event/doroth...
Dorothy Whitelock Lecture 2025: Guthlac: what the early medieval records tell us
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November 16, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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You Are On Native Land: Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/13/you-are-on-native-land-understanding-medieval-studies-in-turtle-island #acrel #aarsbl #sblaar
November 16, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Medieval Engagements with Disability https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/13/medieval-engagements-with-disability #acrel #aarsbl #sblaar
November 16, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Understanding Medieval Race-Making https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/13/understanding-medieval-race-making #acrel #aarsbl #sblaar
November 16, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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karanthir.bsky.social
Looking for scholarship on the sixth-century Western Roman senate/aristocracy. I have Barnish's article on the senate c.400-700, but ideally wanting something a bit more beginner level that doesn't take so much knowledge for granted!
#MedievalSky #LateAntiquity
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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histudentcon.bsky.social
Hey #Medievalsky ! There is still time to submit your articles for our #CFP ! @mediumaevum.bsky.social @leedsims.bsky.social @anzamems.bsky.social Please pass this along to anyone who may be interested. We hope to hear from you soon! #Medieval
November 14, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social
I've just been told that my article, 'The circle of the world: the global diplomacy of Caliph al-Manṣūr' is now out Open Access with the BSOAS. I had thought that it was already published but it gives me a chance to re-share it, now with the real page numbers! #medievalsky

doi.org/10.1017/S004...
The circle of the world: the global diplomacy of Caliph al-Manṣūr | Bulletin of SOAS | Cambridge Core
The circle of the world: the global diplomacy of Caliph al-Manṣūr - Volume 88 Issue 3
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November 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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nrhopwood.bsky.social
Only two weeks left to submit your abstracts!
#medievalsky #medieval #earlymodern #lateantique
nrhopwood.bsky.social Natalie Hopwood @nrhopwood.bsky.social · 26d
Spread the word! A new postgraduate and early career researcher seminar series at @universityofleeds.bsky.social! For those studying the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern periods. We look forward to reading your proposals! #medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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toebi.bsky.social
📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish
⏰Submission deadline approaching: 15 November 2025‼️
📜The Old English Translation of the "Historia Apollonii regis Tyri": Reframing a Latin Romance in Pre-Conquest England
📲Details: roep.web.ox.ac.uk/event/apollo...
🏫University of Bergamo
📅13–14 April 2026
(no title)
CEMA
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November 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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downham.bsky.social
New article by Liverpool PhD Dr Eddie Meehan "Identity, exemplarity and the ideal king in early medieval Ireland" open access academic.oup.com/histres/adva... #history #leadership #ireland #medievalsky
Identity, exemplarity and the ideal king in early medieval Ireland*
Abstract. This article examines some early medieval Insular texts on the ideal king: three examples of Old Irish tecosca (wisdom) texts and the ninth secti
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November 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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aliceraw.bsky.social
Call for Papers! Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis #medievalsky #Fissures2026
Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis 17-18 September 2026 Pembroke College, University of Cambridge Gendered work on medieval popular politics has tended to revolve around the exceptional. This workshop explores how studies of gender can reconfigure discourses of medieval political community. We ask how attending to gendered bodies and identities might help us better understand the fissures in political culture in medieval Europe. Marking, for example, women’s participation as either absent or rare confines their involvement to the historical margins. How did literary as well as non-literary texts from various genres, ranging from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, engage with gendered political action? How did ideas of gender stabilise or destabilise political performances? We invite abstracts for 25-minute papers, as well as expressions of interest for participation. We welcome papers with a historical, literary, or interdisciplinary focus. Potential topics could include but are not limited to: • Frameworks for understanding non-normative gender expressions in political spaces. • Studies of politics at the intersection of gendered, queer, or trans methodologies. • Histories of masculinities in political community. • Emotion and/or Affect • Weaponized/defensive gender • Manoeuvring bodies through political crisis • Inclusion and exclusion • Different sites of political discourse, such as domestic and non-violent conflict. Collectively, the papers will interrogate the role of gender in political discourse. Selected papers may be considered for inclusion in an edited volume. Means-based bursaries for speakers may be available by further application. Please submit a title and abstract of no more than 200 words to Alice Raw (ar889@cam.ac.uk) and Abbie Fray (abigail.fray@unibe.ch) by 16 January 2026.
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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cema-su.bsky.social
#medievalsky
Learn to read Old English from scratch! Join our online and in person monthly manuscript reading sessions at any time in the year.
Next session this Saturday, 10-12 CET, at the Sorbonne and on Zoom.
Ping us if you want to partake 🎉🎉🎉
Illustration = the Old English Hexateuch, w. an image of the creation of Eve. Text = Everything you always wanted to know about medieval manuscripts — but were too afraid to ask Attend the 2025-2026 CÉMA/AMAES Saturday morning sessions and learn to read medieval English manuscripts from scratch! When — Saturday 10 am-12 noon — October 11, November 15, December 13, January 24, February 21, March 21, April 11, May 30, June 13 Where — Sorbonne & Zoom To join at any point in the year, just e-mail us: florence.bourgne [at] sorbonne-universite.fr
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
jaema.bsky.social
"All parents have favourites, but you can't just say that"

The medieval ape:
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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toebi.bsky.social
📢 #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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November 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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saracharles.bsky.social
Still time to register for this free online talk tomorrow on making medieval manuscripts #bookhistory #medievalsky
saracharles.bsky.social Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · Oct 24
I'll be talking to the Caxton Club next month on The Medieval Scriptorium - going through all the stages of making manuscripts, including demonstration videos. There may be cats in the background. Fri 14 Nov 12:00PM CT (5.00PM GMT) #medievalsky #bookhistory
www.caxtonclub.org/event-6296386
Medieval manuscript miniature of a seated scribe holding a quill and knife over ruled parchment inside a decorated initial (GKS 4 folio III, fol. 165r)
November 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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history-w-hilbert.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to present at the Australian Early Medieval Conference hosted by @jaema.bsky.social on the subject of Vikings in Old Frisian texts yesterday. I presented via Zoom, but at least there was one individual who heard it live… #Vikings #Medieval #Frisia
October 5, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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laurenrndll.bsky.social
CFP: “Shaping the Word: the Form and Use of Biblical Manuscripts in the Early Medieval West” at Durham University in July 2026. We are interested in a wide range of papers exploring ways in which scriptural texts (produced roughly c. 500-1000) were presented and used.
Durham Uni, 2–5 July 2026 From c. 500-1000, Christian scriptures were produced and used in a diverse range of forms and contexts. A manuscript may include a single biblical text (the psalter, a gospel), a collection of texts (the Hexateuch, the gospels), or, rarely, a complete “New Testament” or “Bible” in the modern sense. The distinctiveness of a manuscript is shown by content and textual affiliation, its palaeographical and codicological characteristics, and its paratextual features – from illustrations of biblical narratives, author portraits, and illuminated lettering to canon tables, capitula, prefatory materials, and glosses. Once in circulation, a manuscript’s contexts of use may also vary. Different uses correspond to different users with distinct and perhaps conflicting priorities/goals. Production and use(s) may occur at the same site or at far distant times and places. This conference aims to explore topics related to both the physical presentation and the use of scriptural manuscripts produced in the Early Medieval period (c. 500–1000 CE). We welcome paper proposals from scholars working in all areas of this field, including PhD students. Whatever the specific topic, priority may be given to papers that also relate it to the wider focus of the conference on both “form” (or “production”) and “use”. We hope to be able to cover presenters’ full conference costs with the exception of travel. Titles and Abstracts of proposed papers should be submitted to Lauren Randall (lauren.m.randall@durham.ac.uk), copied to Francis Watson (francis.watson@durham.ac.uk), by Monday 17 November. Abstracts should not exceed 150 words. Papers should be 25 minutes, allowing 20 minute discussion. There will be keynote papers/presentations. Please contact us if you have any questions! This event forms part of our sub-project “Text, Format, and Reader”, focused on Codex Amiatinus and funded by the Glasgow-based “Paratexts Seeking Understanding” project (Templeton Religion Trust)
October 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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carinr.bsky.social
Happy discovery while searching for teaching materials for early medieval Bible week: the Stockholm Codex Aureus is online and freely downloadable as a very high-res PDF from the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/urn-...

#medievalsky #paleography #bookhistory
Codex Aureus : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
MS. A 135, Royal Library, Stockholm, Sweden
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October 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
jaema.bsky.social
We had an absolute blast at the AEMA Conference! Three days of conversation, questions, and investigations, joined by colleagues from across the globe.

This year saw papers on vikingr, slave revolts, Islamic poets, weather-witches, and much, much more!
October 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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laurysarti.bsky.social
Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...
Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen)
Tenure-track assistant professor in early medieval history at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) invites ap...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM