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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 6d

*Call for Contributors* The Medieval in Museums
@archumanities.bsky.social

Check out the full CfP via link ➡️ bit.ly/CfPMiM

Welcoming chapters/dialogues/critical-creative texts from scholars, museum professionals, creative practitioners

deadline: Mon 3 Nov (5pm GMT)

#MedievalSky #MuseumSky #CfP

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · 8d

The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body by Minji Lee www.arc-humanities.org/978180270039...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · 8d

Public Engagement in the European Middle Ages: Medieval Solutions for a Modern Crisis by Christopher D. Fletcher www.arc-humanities.org/978180270096...

Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · 12d

{New book} Freedom, Slavery, and England’s Medieval Past: Anglo-Saxonist Entanglements by Joshua Davies www.arc-humanities.org/978180270051...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · 14d

{New book} The Documentary Politics of Conquered England's Queens: New Translations of the "Encomium of Queen Emma" and the "Life of King Edward" Edited and translated by Jacob Bell www.arc-humanities.org/978180270310...

Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · 15d

Upcoming event: Trans Studies as Book Historical Method by J. D. Sargan, who has an upcoming book with us on this topic.
Friday, October 17, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Virtual
Open to the Public
www.library.upenn.edu/events/schoe...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · 16d

{New blogpost} Bar Kribus on Jewish Autonomy in Conflict with Christians in Northern Ethiopia www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2025/09...

Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · 17d

{New Blogpost} Introducing Material Encounters between Jews and Christians: From the Silk and Spice Routes to the Highlands of Ethiopia www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2025/09...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · 23d

We’re proud to announce that @aspencerhall.bsky.social ’s Medieval Twitter: Modern Media, Literary Criticism, and Medievalism has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2025 Lone Medievalist Prize for Scholarship: lonemedievalist.hcommons.org/lone-medieva...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · 24d

{New blogpost} On Medievalism in Canada by M. J. Toswell - "Canada's foundations are profoundly European, in medieval France for Québec and medieval England for the rest of the country." www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2025/09...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · 27d

{Coming soon} A Venetian Spy’s Account of the War of Candia: Emmanuel Mormori’s Italian Text with English Translation and Dossier of Sources edited and translated by Kiril Petkov www.arc-humanities.org/978180270210...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · Sep 8

{Coming soon} The Battle of Visby 1361 and Its Contemporary Heritage by Thomas Neijman www.arc-humanities.org/978164189063...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · Sep 7

{Coming very soon} Public Engagement in the European Middle Ages: Medieval Solutions for a Modern Crisis by Christopher D. Fletcher -This manual uses the medieval past to teach modern scholars how to succeed in public engagement. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270096...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · Sep 6

{New Book} The Documentary Politics of Conquered England's Queens: New Translations of the "Encomium of Queen Emma" and the "Life of King Edward" edited and translated by Jacob Bell www.arc-humanities.org/978180270310...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · Aug 30

{New book} Social Network Analysis and Medieval History Ed by Matthew Hammond - With leading researchers from across Europe, this book announces the arrival of an exciting new subdiscipline in Medieval Studies. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270128...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · Aug 29

{New book} The Social Lives of Medieval Rings Ed by Jitske Jasperse - Together their essays cover material roughly ranging from 1100 to 1500 in Iberia, France, England, Germany, Rus, and Byzantium. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270094...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · Aug 28

Yesterday was the anniversary of the Battle of Manzikert on the 26 August 1071. Read more about the battle in Georgios Theotokis' book: The Campaign and Battle of Manzikert, 1071 www.arc-humanities.org/978164189435...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · Aug 24

{New Book} This book distinguishes between Canadian medievalism & its closest neighbours, British and American medievalism, and argues that the ignored or unnoticed medievalism of English Canada derives from... www.arc-humanities.org/978180270267...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · Aug 21

{New book} This book examines the messy legacies of Jeanne de Penthièvre and Charles de Blois, duchess and duke of Brittany, and their fight to claim the ducal title at the start of the Hundred Years’ War. www.arc-humanities.org/978164189408...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · Aug 20

{New book} Jewish Autonomy in Conflict with Christians in Northern Ethiopia: The Gideonite Dynasty and the Solomonic Kingdom by Bar Kribus www.arc-humanities.org/978180270186...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · Aug 19

{New book} Medievalism in English Canadian Identity and Literature by M. J. Toswell www.arc-humanities.org/978180270267...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · Aug 18

{New book} Freedom, Slavery, and England’s Medieval Past: Anglo-Saxonist Entanglements by Joshua Davies www.arc-humanities.org/978180270051...

Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · Aug 15

{New book} Gendered Reputations and Aristocratic Partnership: Re-Presenting the Breton Civil War from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries by Erika Graham-Goering www.arc-humanities.org/978164189408...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · Aug 14

{New book} The Insular Worlds of Byzantium, ca. 550–ca. 900 by Luca Zavagno www.arc-humanities.org/978164189048...

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · Aug 13

{New book} The Documentary Politics of Conquered England's Queens: New Translations of the "Encomium of Queen Emma" and the "Life of King Edward" edited and translated by Jacob Bell www.arc-humanities.org/978180270310...

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