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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project
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The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · Apr 12
We are always interested in hearing from scholars of all levels of experience. Want to deliver a talk for our online speaker series? Or maybe just write a blog post? Hit us up!

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#AcademicSky #HistorySky #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #EarlyModernHistory
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Join our community We welcome scholars of all disciplines and interests to join our global community in discussing the pre-modern body. Bodies and Being Colloquium A monthly online gathering open t…
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1d
📢NEW MANY HEADED MONSTER POST📢

A series of posts to celebrate the publication of a really important new study of work in #EarlyModern England, by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, Taylor Aucoin.

Just off to fetch a 'burden of wood'. 🪵🪵🪵🪵🪵 🗃️
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Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 1d
As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?'

Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England)

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England I: Winter is Coming
This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…
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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · 1d
I love the literal depiction of a loose tongue!
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d
Gossiping is both an art and an annoying practice. In #earlymodern Europe, a gossipmonger would often be depicted as a person with three mouths. Like these three fellas that made it on a title page of a pamphlet in 1605, a Turk, a Hungarian, and a German. #skystorians #gossip
A detail from a German pamphlet showing three male human heads: a Turk, A Hungarian, and a German. All heads have three mouths and you can see the tongues. The pamphlet was printed in 1605 and will be highlighted in more detail in my upcoming book about early modern news.
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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · 1d
Our October hangout is coming up! Join us for some informal chat this Saturday.

#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
Bodies and Being Colloquium
A monthly online gathering open to scholars of all disciplines and career stages who are interested in the pre-modern body.
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Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 6d
From 1550–1650, death was a carefully crafted ritual — faith, culture, and memory woven together. ⚰️✨

Discover how early modern society understood dying.

#History #EarlyModern #Brewminate
The Ritual of Death in the Early Modern Period, 1550-1650
Discover how rituals of death between 1550 and 1650 reflected religion, culture, and society in the early modern world.
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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 23d
A fabulous looking new book from Tonicha Upham exploring all the Arabic and Persian evidence on Rus burials and sacrifices, complete with translations! #medievalsky #vikings

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Death Rituals
Cambridge Core - Global History - Death Rituals
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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 9d
Call for applications! 📣

The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝
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Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social · 16d
Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

#earlymodern #economic #history
The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
Cambridge Core - Economic History - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16d
History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.

Starting this week:
Events
Stay up to date with the upcoming events organised or hosted by the Institute of Historical Research
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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · 26d
Don't miss a chance to sit around and gab with fellow historians and/or others interested in body studies. #Cats always welcome, too.

#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · Sep 8
Our September colloqium is nigh! Join us this Saturday for informal chat and sharing. Everyone is welcome to participate or lurk.

#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
Bodies and Being Colloquium
A monthly online gathering open to scholars of all disciplines and career stages who are interested in the pre-modern body.
www.eventbrite.com
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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · Sep 8
Our September colloqium is nigh! Join us this Saturday for informal chat and sharing. Everyone is welcome to participate or lurk.

#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
Bodies and Being Colloquium
A monthly online gathering open to scholars of all disciplines and career stages who are interested in the pre-modern body.
www.eventbrite.com
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · Aug 28
Just over two weeks left to send us your abstracts! #CfP #IMC2026 #medievalsky
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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · Aug 6
Call for Papers @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026 ‼️ The 'Loyalty in the Medieval World' network welcomes papers which explore the intersections between the concept of ‘loyalty’ and the conference theme of ‘temporalities’, c.500-1500! Get in touch by 15 September
The ‘Loyalty in the Medieval World’ network welcomes proposals which explore the intersections between the concept of ‘loyalty’ and the IMC 2026 theme of ‘temporalities’. Was there a shift in how the concept of loyalty was used and perceived by people across the Middle Ages? To what extent, if at all, were bonds of loyalty an archaic predecessor to the coercive potential of a centralising medieval ‘state’? How did the language (e.g. treue, fides, leal), theories, and practices of loyalty change or stay the same in the medieval period? What can the study of loyalty do for the historian of medieval political society? Submissions could reflect on: • Emotional frameworks of loyalty • Political frameworks of loyalty • Ethical and legal frameworks of loyalty • The theory and practice of loyal behaviour • Loyalty and identity • Loyalty and power • Horizontal loyalties and solidarities • The material culture of loyalty • Contested and/or multiple loyalties • Disloyalty , such as women, children, exiles, and migrants. Please send a paper title, affiliation, and abstract of up to 150 words to Eleanor Bailey ejbailey98@outlook.com, Katy Bennett katy.bennett@york.ac.uk, AND Jenny McHugh j.mchugh@lancaster.ac.uk. Deadline 15th September.
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Naomi @naominar.bsky.social · Aug 28
Just over 2 weeks left to apply to the Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers conference! It will take place in Oxford on April 20-21, 2026. We hope to provide bursaries to help with attendance. Email your abstracts to bordersboundariesbarriers[at]gmail[dot]com
#medievalsky #skystorians
Full plain text available at: https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/24/cfp-borders-boundaries-and-barriers-real-and-imagined-in-the-middle-ages/
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The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast @mmapod.bsky.social · Aug 26
Apply to be on season 5! Details available on our website. 🩷
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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · Aug 26
Mmmm... crunchy parchment...
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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · Aug 24
For #CoffeeWithACodex on September 4, @leoba.bsky.social‬ will bring out a favorite, first introduced to CWAC in 2022: LJS 419, a 15th century Italian herbal containing a variety of illustrations, accompanied by notes on medicinal properties of the plants.

Register here:
Coffee with a Codex: Italian Herbal
An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...
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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · Aug 16
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
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Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson @earlymodernaf.bsky.social · Aug 16
10 year old daughter: "If you study #gesture, do you study the #earlymodern middle finger?"

Me: *Makes mental note to check out potential funding sources
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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · Aug 11
That would be so rad.
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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · Aug 11
We turned one! What an amazing year.

#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
The First Anniversary of Bodies and Being, by Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson
July was a joyous month for us at Bodies and Being because it meant celebrating our first anniversary together at the International Medieval Congress. Well, sort of. Francesca and I, and a virtual …
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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · Aug 11
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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · Aug 11
Ooh, yes, that would be wonderful!
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Aug 5
A new #OpenAccess resource for teaching world/global history is almost ready. The module "The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta," is in final editing & should be "live" by the beginning of September. A preview here: www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2025/07...
The opening of a blogpost announcing the imminent release of an open-access teaching module, "The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta."
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · Nov 13
Shameless self promotion! If you like off-color medieval images and you cross stitch, I have the perfect patterns for you! I also have more traditional patterns, but sometimes you just want to be silly. I am just finishing up a fourth that will be posted soon.
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Stitched image of a medieval nun picking penises off a tree Stitched medieval image of a naked man playing a horn with his mouth and butt on a swirly floral vine thing Stitched medieval image of a cat licking its butt on a swirly floral vine thing with some bugs
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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · Aug 10
Funny enough, here at Bodies and Being we are all obsessive needleworkers. I think we are definitely going to have to purchase for our informal stitching hangout at #IMC2026.
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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · Aug 10
October is coming up and we would very much love to find an online speaker who works in premodern #death or the #supernatural.

#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
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