Parergon Journal
@parergon.bsky.social
Peer-reviewed antipodean medieval and early modern studies journal, always open for submissions. Owned by ANZAMEMS.bsky.social, tweeted by mattfirth.bsky.social.
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Issue 42.1 is in press! Cosimo I de' Medici graces the cover in full armour, giving some side eye. This is an open issue so there are great articles on a range of topics. Follow the link for the TOC and book reviews. We'll feature each article over the coming month.
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How have books shaped the way we think? In January Anna Somfai will teach an online short course on books about science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Book now 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...
Medieval Philosophical and Scientific Manuscripts – an online short course taught by Anna Somfai
This course will run online from 14:00-17:00: Monday 26 January – Thursday 29 January 2026. The course explores medieval Western philosophical and scientific manuscripts produced over the spa…
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November 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
How have books shaped the way we think? In January Anna Somfai will teach an online short course on books about science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Book now 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...
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{New book} This invaluable reference work addresses sex, gender, & sexuality in medieval Europe and North Africa, providing an important update previous handbooks from the 1990s. Save 25% with ARC25 www.arc-humanities.org/978164189224...
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
{New book} This invaluable reference work addresses sex, gender, & sexuality in medieval Europe and North Africa, providing an important update previous handbooks from the 1990s. Save 25% with ARC25 www.arc-humanities.org/978164189224...
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📚 New on the blog!
@arezouazad.bsky.social rediscovers Bamiyan’s medieval archives, revealing a diverse, literate and interconnected Islamicate society in Afghanistan.
Have a read:
@arezouazad.bsky.social rediscovers Bamiyan’s medieval archives, revealing a diverse, literate and interconnected Islamicate society in Afghanistan.
Have a read:
The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Q&A with Arezou Azad - Edinburgh University Press Blog
Arezou Azad rediscovers Bamiyan’s medieval archives, revealing a diverse, literate and interconnected Islamicate society in Afghanistan.
edin.ac
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
📚 New on the blog!
@arezouazad.bsky.social rediscovers Bamiyan’s medieval archives, revealing a diverse, literate and interconnected Islamicate society in Afghanistan.
Have a read:
@arezouazad.bsky.social rediscovers Bamiyan’s medieval archives, revealing a diverse, literate and interconnected Islamicate society in Afghanistan.
Have a read:
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Officially out in the Journal of Medieval History vol. 51.5, my article on the intersection of viking activity and the Icelandic conversion (c. 1000AD) and how religious concerns shaped saga conceptions of the viking past.
Víking Across Conversion: Depictions of Víkingar in the Sagas of Icelanders
Vikings commonly feature in the Íslendingasögur (Sagas of Icelanders). The words víking (the act of raiding) or víkingr (a raider) appear over 180 times across the forty-some texts of the corpus. H...
www.tandfonline.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Officially out in the Journal of Medieval History vol. 51.5, my article on the intersection of viking activity and the Icelandic conversion (c. 1000AD) and how religious concerns shaped saga conceptions of the viking past.
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Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity
Carolingian Biodiversity
How Interdisciplinary Can and Should Work
buttondown.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity
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The next issue of @parergon.bsky.social is on its way, guest-edited by me, @erinsebo.bsky.social and Cassandra Schilling. There's a great group of scholars here who collectively consider, from multiple perspectives, questions of how medieval England perceived its place in a wide and complex world.
November 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The next issue of @parergon.bsky.social is on its way, guest-edited by me, @erinsebo.bsky.social and Cassandra Schilling. There's a great group of scholars here who collectively consider, from multiple perspectives, questions of how medieval England perceived its place in a wide and complex world.
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Can't wait for this special issue of @parergon.bsky.social! Always great to work with Dr Cassandra Schiling and @flindersuniversity.bsky.social DECRA Fellow in Medieval History, @mattfirth.bsky.social and of course, ANU's Prof. Rosalind Smith!
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Can't wait for this special issue of @parergon.bsky.social! Always great to work with Dr Cassandra Schiling and @flindersuniversity.bsky.social DECRA Fellow in Medieval History, @mattfirth.bsky.social and of course, ANU's Prof. Rosalind Smith!
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Coming next spring ... yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Offa
An authoritative biography of Offa of Mercia, revealing his importance as the king who stood at the turning point of Anglo-Saxon history Offa ruled the Merci...
yalebooks.yale.edu
September 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Coming next spring ... yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Come and join us for a few days jam-packed with medieval and early modern keynotes, papers, roundtables, and events!
@anzamems.bsky.social Conference 2025 at the University of Melbourne, 3–5 December
@anzamems.bsky.social Conference 2025 at the University of Melbourne, 3–5 December
September 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Come and join us for a few days jam-packed with medieval and early modern keynotes, papers, roundtables, and events!
@anzamems.bsky.social Conference 2025 at the University of Melbourne, 3–5 December
@anzamems.bsky.social Conference 2025 at the University of Melbourne, 3–5 December
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🚨Job Klaxon🚨
Open rank Professorship in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods
📍Institute of History, University of Bern (🇨🇭)
📆Deadline: 19 October 2025
▶️ Information: tinyurl.com/56ywncuj
#Medievalsky #DigitalHumaniities
Open rank Professorship in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods
📍Institute of History, University of Bern (🇨🇭)
📆Deadline: 19 October 2025
▶️ Information: tinyurl.com/56ywncuj
#Medievalsky #DigitalHumaniities
Uni Bern: Open rank Professorship in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods
The Institute of History of the University of Bern is seeking to fill a full time professor position (open rank) in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods, beginning 1 Februa...
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September 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🚨Job Klaxon🚨
Open rank Professorship in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods
📍Institute of History, University of Bern (🇨🇭)
📆Deadline: 19 October 2025
▶️ Information: tinyurl.com/56ywncuj
#Medievalsky #DigitalHumaniities
Open rank Professorship in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods
📍Institute of History, University of Bern (🇨🇭)
📆Deadline: 19 October 2025
▶️ Information: tinyurl.com/56ywncuj
#Medievalsky #DigitalHumaniities
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Late-medieval Books of Hours were tools for navigating both earthly & spiritual challenges. Elizabeth Burrell's article in @parergon.bsky.social 42.1 explores English & French examples held in A/NZ libraries, providing transcriptions & translations of some apotropaic texts.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...
August 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Late-medieval Books of Hours were tools for navigating both earthly & spiritual challenges. Elizabeth Burrell's article in @parergon.bsky.social 42.1 explores English & French examples held in A/NZ libraries, providing transcriptions & translations of some apotropaic texts.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...
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Early English Queens, 850-1000 has just been reviewed in @jaema.bsky.social 20.2. McLeod states that it 'finds an ingenious structure to tell a difficult and timely story' & 'is highly recommended'.
Links to the review & the book (all formats):
Review → search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...
Book ↓
Links to the review & the book (all formats):
Review → search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...
Book ↓
Early English Queens, 850–1000: Potestas Reginae
This book offers a comprehensive, biography-led examination of queenship in England between 850 and 1000, tracing the development of the queen’s role from bed companion to institutional office.
The pe...
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September 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Early English Queens, 850-1000 has just been reviewed in @jaema.bsky.social 20.2. McLeod states that it 'finds an ingenious structure to tell a difficult and timely story' & 'is highly recommended'.
Links to the review & the book (all formats):
Review → search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...
Book ↓
Links to the review & the book (all formats):
Review → search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...
Book ↓
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Henry VIII loved to receive cryptic gifts, but the so-called horned helmet given by the Emperor Maximilian I is perhaps the most bizarre! In @parergon.bsky.social 42.1, Grace Waye-Harris analyses its long-disputed iconographical significance.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...
August 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Henry VIII loved to receive cryptic gifts, but the so-called horned helmet given by the Emperor Maximilian I is perhaps the most bizarre! In @parergon.bsky.social 42.1, Grace Waye-Harris analyses its long-disputed iconographical significance.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...
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Issue 42.1 of @parergon.bsky.social is out, follow the link to take a look! This open issue contains articles on a range of topics, as well as a cluster on the reception of Aristotle in early modern China. Look out for our feature posts for each article over the next week.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
August 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Issue 42.1 of @parergon.bsky.social is out, follow the link to take a look! This open issue contains articles on a range of topics, as well as a cluster on the reception of Aristotle in early modern China. Look out for our feature posts for each article over the next week.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
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Supernatural women in medieval literature seem to inhabit opposite ends of a moral spectrum: saints good, sorceresses bad. Kathryn Walton’s article in @parergon.bsky.social 42.1, though, shows that medieval images of female power were much more kaleidoscopic than we assume.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...
August 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Supernatural women in medieval literature seem to inhabit opposite ends of a moral spectrum: saints good, sorceresses bad. Kathryn Walton’s article in @parergon.bsky.social 42.1, though, shows that medieval images of female power were much more kaleidoscopic than we assume.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...
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Apply for @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 #fellowships!
Learn more & submit a proposal by Nov. 3: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/
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August 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Do you:
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Apply for @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 #fellowships!
Learn more & submit a proposal by Nov. 3: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/
#Humanities #Research #CFP #CFA 🗃️📜
-Love #literature? 📚
-Adore #art? 🎨
-Fancy #film or #photography? 📽️📸
-Thrill to the #theater? 🎭
-Relish #RareBooks? 📖
Apply for @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 #fellowships!
Learn more & submit a proposal by Nov. 3: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/
#Humanities #Research #CFP #CFA 🗃️📜
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My latest article is out in the a Journal of Medieval History (open access). It examines depictions of viking activity in the Sagas of Icelanders and the perceived moral implications of raiding in pre-/post-conversion settings. Quickest proofs turnaround ever...
Víking Across Conversion: Depictions of Víkingar in the Sagas of Icelanders
Vikings commonly feature in the Íslendingasögur (Sagas of Icelanders). The words víking (the act of raiding) or víkingr (a raider) appear over 180 times across the forty-some texts of the corpus. H...
www.tandfonline.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
My latest article is out in the a Journal of Medieval History (open access). It examines depictions of viking activity in the Sagas of Icelanders and the perceived moral implications of raiding in pre-/post-conversion settings. Quickest proofs turnaround ever...
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Hardcopies of @parergon.bsky.social 42.1 (2025) have finally arrived. They'll be arriving in your mailboxes over the next couple of months!
August 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Hardcopies of @parergon.bsky.social 42.1 (2025) have finally arrived. They'll be arriving in your mailboxes over the next couple of months!
Speaking of our latest issue - this review of @mattfirth.bsky.social's book is in it, along with 19 others! Follow the link to read them all...
August 5, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Speaking of our latest issue - this review of @mattfirth.bsky.social's book is in it, along with 19 others! Follow the link to read them all...
Issue 42.1 is in press! Cosimo I de' Medici graces the cover in full armour, giving some side eye. This is an open issue so there are great articles on a range of topics. Follow the link for the TOC and book reviews. We'll feature each article over the coming month.
www.parergon.org/index.php/pa...
www.parergon.org/index.php/pa...
August 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Issue 42.1 is in press! Cosimo I de' Medici graces the cover in full armour, giving some side eye. This is an open issue so there are great articles on a range of topics. Follow the link for the TOC and book reviews. We'll feature each article over the coming month.
www.parergon.org/index.php/pa...
www.parergon.org/index.php/pa...
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Here are @parergon.bsky.social we are seeking proposals for our 2027 special issue: see www.anzamems.org?page_id=741
Newsletter | ANZAMEMS Inc | Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Incorporated)
www.anzamems.org
July 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here are @parergon.bsky.social we are seeking proposals for our 2027 special issue: see www.anzamems.org?page_id=741
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And while we're on @parergon.bsky.social, we're just sending to print issue 42.1 (2025) - and loving Agnolo Bronzino's Cosimo I de' Medici in Armour on our cover, courtesy of the Art Gallery of New South Wales
July 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
And while we're on @parergon.bsky.social, we're just sending to print issue 42.1 (2025) - and loving Agnolo Bronzino's Cosimo I de' Medici in Armour on our cover, courtesy of the Art Gallery of New South Wales
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MORE Mysterious German Books?
We've got another copy of the 1614 Bible found at Boerne High School at #NewberryLibrary!
Or DO We?
1/?
radio.kttz.org/2025-07-02/t...
We've got another copy of the 1614 Bible found at Boerne High School at #NewberryLibrary!
Or DO We?
1/?
radio.kttz.org/2025-07-02/t...
The mystery of Boerne's ancient Bible: Who brought it there?
A high school librarian found an old Bible at Boerne High School dating back to 1614. No one knows who brought it to Boerne from Germany.
radio.kttz.org
July 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
MORE Mysterious German Books?
We've got another copy of the 1614 Bible found at Boerne High School at #NewberryLibrary!
Or DO We?
1/?
radio.kttz.org/2025-07-02/t...
We've got another copy of the 1614 Bible found at Boerne High School at #NewberryLibrary!
Or DO We?
1/?
radio.kttz.org/2025-07-02/t...
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How it all started!
(and it's coming closer to home very soon!) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
(and it's coming closer to home very soon!) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bayeux Tapestry to return to British Museum on loan after 900 years
Bayeux Tapestry will be shown at the British Museum, which will lend treasures to Normandy museums.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
How it all started!
(and it's coming closer to home very soon!) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
(and it's coming closer to home very soon!) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...