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Ruth Karras
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Lecky Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin. She/her. Medievalist, grandparent, knitter, immigrant. Arsenal. 🐕
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Publication – Alice Hicklin, Steffen Patzold, Bastiaan Waagmeester, Charles West, « Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050 »

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Publication – Alice Hicklin, Steffen Patzold, Bastiaan Waagmeester, Charles West, « Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050 »
The local priest was the most ubiquitous embodiment of the Church for many people in medieval Christian Europe. By centring this key figure in post-Carolingian Europe, this book provides a fresh pe…
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November 27, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Publication – « Les lois barbares. Dire le droit et le pouvoir en Occident après la disparition de l’Empire romain », éd. Sylvie Joye

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Publication – « Les lois barbares. Dire le droit et le pouvoir en Occident après la disparition de l’Empire romain », éd. Sylvie Joye
Enfants de Rome, les royaumes dits barbares ou post-romains le sont assurément, tout comme leurs lois. Cependant, en ce qui concerne le droit comme le reste, on sut élaborer des structures et des i…
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November 27, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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New publishing opportunity!

The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.

Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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If you are in Paris, come and listen to me lecture about Gratian! Tuesday 2 December at 18.00 in the College de Ste Barbe, close to the Panthéon.
November 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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🚨Job Alert🚨

@hhu.de is offering a permanent 80% position as a member of the academic staff in architectural history. Come work with us in our Medieval art history team! #academia #architecturalhistory #arthistory #kunstgeschichte #earlymodern #medievalsky
Link to ad: karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac...
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d)
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November 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Another successful seminar!
Thank you to Prof. Ruth Karras (@rmkarras.bsky.social) and Aisling Walsh for speaking, and to all the attendees for the great discussions and thought provoking questions

Stay tuned for our next event!
November 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Senior Librarian role in Oxford👇 www.asc.ox.ac.uk/fellow-libra...
Fellow Librarian | All Souls College
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November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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#jobfairy - if the US is still a safe place for you to work this is a fascinatingly specific #histSTM job
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Assistant Prof job in history of science (related to water?) at Madison. Strong program, nice town (aside from winter)

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Professor of History | H-Net Job Guide
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November 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Trick or treating with grandkid, at one house they were offering the grownups plastic cups of wine.
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Some shameless self promotion if anyone happens to be in Chicago and wants a beer and a talk on medieval manuscripts.
October 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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We're hiring an Interactive Visitor Operations Host at JORVIK Viking Centre!

The key purpose of the role is to act as a costumed Viking to engage and inspire visitors in Viking Life and Archaeology.

More information via the link in our bio 🔗

#Hiring #History #Jobs #JORVIK #Vacancies
October 31, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!!
I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨

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William S. Dietrich II Professor of Premodern Arts and/or Architecture
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Peat on air! I got to talk with Sean and Rusana from the @euraknot.bsky.social about my book 🔥 Burning Swamps 🔥. Thanks for having me! #envhist
This week we, alongside @kbruisch.bsky.social, deep-dive into Russia's crucial fuel, imperative both in industrialization and Lenin’s Electrification campaign. As the old man put it, “Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.”
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October 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
October 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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📣Seminar Announcement!📣
Join us on 4 Nov at 4 PM in room K114 at UCD for a seminar on medieval gender
Papers will be delivered by Prof. Ruth Karras @rmkarras.bsky.social speaking about The Invention of Gomorrah, and Aisling Walsh on the expectations of women as crusaders
Hope to see you there!
October 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
New in Journal of Medieval History: Glenn Cahilly-Bretzin, ‘“Ibi Solenniter est Recondita”: Saint Wærburh, Relic Theft, and the Appropriation of Translation Narratives in Medieval Britain’ 🗃️ #medievalsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Ibique Solenniter est Recondita’: Saint Wærburh, Relic Theft, and the Appropriation of Translation Narratives in Medieval Britain
This article examines the posthumous travels and textual traditions surrounding the seventh-century Mercian saint Wærburh. Through close reading of sources such as the Kentish Royal Legend, Gosceli...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Job! Judaic Studies & the Medieval/Renaissance Center at Binghamton are looking for a Talmud/Medieval Rabbinics specialist! I have long been part of the Med/Ren group myself and I can vouch it is very active, supportive, and functional. Good people!

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October 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Historical Journal Call for Special Issues
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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September 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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🤩 Check out the shiny new website of Bristol's world-class Centre for Medieval Studies (@bristolcms.bsky.social), home to over 35 full-time medievalists and over 160 research students and research associates: medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🤩 @uobartsmatter.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians
CMS; Bristol; University of Bristol; Medieval Studies; MA degree;
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September 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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£77,816 er annum. What an exciting post.
Vacancy for Head of Research, Archives and Libraries - British Museum. Deadline 29 September 2025. bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C... #MuseumJobs
September 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A couple of new articles in JMH! Nicholas Amor on labor litigation after the Black Death #medievalsky 🗃️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Labour Litigation in the Court of Common Pleas in the Fourteenth Century
In the second half of the fourteenth century, English labour legislation gave rise to a mass of litigation in the court of Common Pleas. This paper draws on a database of nearly 2000 pleas enrolled...
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September 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Hardcopy is here!
September 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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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
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