Mathilda Osborne
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Mathilda Osborne
@bookmatty.bsky.social
Durham 2023, York 2024
Medievalist with too many hyperfixations🏰
Main research interests include medieval animals, Old French and Middle English romance, and manuscript studies🐇

Banner: Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark
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Look out behind you! A dog shoots an arrow at another drollery (an owl?) in the bottom margin of f. 310r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag

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August 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg
Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible
Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...
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July 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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I wrote about one instance of this phenomenon here! (With help from the lovely community of online medievalists!) A case that arose from an article that's useful for teaching, so I tried to write a response that's also useful in teaching...
July 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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📖 We can't wait to read this new, cross-cutting look at such an important part of the Middle Ages!

⬇️ You can click below to find out more about the book:

global.oup.com/academic/pro...
July 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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So I wrote a book about Twitter. Medieval Twitter to be exact---the interconnections between Twitter's textual modes & medieval literary culture(s), plus medievalists' use of Twitter and the #MedievalTwitter hashtag

www.arc-humanities.org/978194240195...

@archumanities.bsky.social #MedievalSky 🗃️
November 18, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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🚨 Celtica is now available open-access! This is the result of painstaking work going on behind the scenes since 2022. Issues 33 to 36 (2021–24) are now online, and future issues will appear online & in print. We will also digitize the back issues of the journal.
🔗 journals.dias.ie/index.php/ce...
June 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
This past weekend I presented my paper on silencing grief, as part of the Medievalism Transformed Conference at Bangor University.
I really enjoyed listening to everyone’s papers- thank you to the organisers at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social for putting together such a great conference!
#medievalsky
May 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Those working on medieval Scotland/Ireland/Scandinavia will be familiar with hospitality as an important theme in literature & where dinner invites could be a ruse to kill off guests, so this new open access books looks particularly interesting! #medievalsky www.brepolsonline.net/doi/book/10....
Guests, Strangers, Aliens, Enemies | Cursor Mundi
www.brepolsonline.net
May 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM