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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · Jan 4

these thoughts have been rattling around in my brain for about a year and i finally had some time to scribble them down. some thoughts on how games might emulate the act of 'doing' history

jenyth.com/2025/01/03/h...

Historical interpretation as non-linear narrative

How games can reflect history as a discipline, not just historical facts.

jenyth.com

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Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · 6h

I remember being at a conference in 2009 or 2010, and the American speaker paused to ask the audience how to pronounce Launceston - only to be met by a chorus of English medievalists all pronouncing it wrong... 🤣

Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · 9h

Fowey

But the nearby hamlet of Penventinue will probably get even more people, and a bit further off Launceston for sure 😉

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Fowey

But the nearby hamlet of Penventinue will probably get even more people, and a bit further off Launceston for sure 😉

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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James T Palmer @jtpmedieval.bsky.social · 2d

New in open access #medievalsky: Bede's Medical Books!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Keepin' it Old School this time

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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · 2d

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.

www.eventbrite.ca

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 9d

Fantastic piece on a fascinating aspect of early Irish law, by my former PhD student and @ceilteachomn.bsky.social graduate, Dr Viktoriia Krivoshchekova, who is now a postdoc at @scs-dias.bsky.social

#MedievalSky

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

How to get away with murder in medieval Ireland

Duinetháide murders, where the killer didn't leave a trace or a body, carry all the intrigue of a classic murder mystery

www.rte.ie

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Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · 11d

Happy Birthday 🥳

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Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 16d

I'll be giving the talk "Roll for Reminiscence: Procedural Keepsake Games" at Roguelike Celebration! Super excited to share work I've been doing on this topic!

Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 16d

omg the talk/speaker lineup for Roguelike Celebration (@roguelike.club) 2025 looks sooo good:
www.roguelike.club/event2025.html

So obviously one of the most vital events in videogames right now, I really hope I can make the time to attend this year.

Roguelike Celebration - Event 2025

www.roguelike.club

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 16d

I wonder whether this is the time to mention that there's a revised edition on the way …

Alessandro Rosa, PhD @alessandrorosaphd.bsky.social · 16d

@themonstersknow.com This New York Magazine article recommends The Monsters Know What They're Doing as a great resource for new DMs.
nymag.com/strategist/a...

The Essentials You Need to Start Playing Dungeons & Dragons

According to the Dungeon Masters, game-store owners, and many other obsessives I interviewed.

nymag.com

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TTRPGkids ➡️ GameHole Con! @ttrpgkids.com · 18d

Whether you're doing research, trying to show that EDU x TTRPGs work, or you're just interested in learning more, I have a list of scholarly papers on the TTRPGkids site that can help with that!

Find a whole bunch of articles from across the interwebs on one spot here:

https://loom.ly/XJUUqcM

Back-to-School
TTRPG features!

60+ scholarly articles

listed all in one place
AND with links!

helps with research papers and proposing classroom TTRPG use

To find the list: visit TTRPGkids.com
search ➨ “scholarly articles”

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Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks so much - happy to say that it looks like we have made a panel all of our own now, and will be uploading it very soon!

💀 Dead Reckoning: Interactions with the Dead in the Early Middle Ages

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 21d

Hi Thom! We’ve collated a bunch of #IMC2026 CfPs into Padlet page that might be of interest to you: universityofleeds.padlet.org/imc13/imc-20...

Wishing you the best of luck with making a proposal! If you have any questions, please email [email protected]

IMC 2026 Call for Papers

Proposals on any topic related to the Middle Ages are welcome, while every year the IMC also chooses a special thematic focus. In 2026 this is ‘Temporalities’.

universityofleeds.padlet.org

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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · 24d

After two years of research and over 100 manuscripts consulted, I think I can confidently say that I have no idea what a Breton manuscript is. Not in a bad way! This is one of the most gob-smackingly (borderline infuriatingly) varied corpora.
(Columbia, University of Missouri Library, MS F.M. 1)

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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · 24d

So, anyway, here's to BretPal, and here's to (hopefully) BretPal 2.0, in which I hope to explore further scribal connections between Brittany, Cornwall, Wales, and Ireland. If someone would like to fund me, that would be great.
(New York, Public Library, MS De Ricci 115)

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Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · 25d

Nephilim!

That used to be one of my favourites, and I've not played it in years ...maybe even a couple of decades? Must fix that!

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Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · 25d

Hi #Medievalsky,

Michaela and I have decided to put together a last minute #IMC2026 session proposal: *Dead Reckoning in the early medieval [?world]"

If you've anything on interactions with the dead (literary, historical, legal, etc.) and are looking for an (unfunded) session to join, let us know!

michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · 25d

Hey! Are you still looking for someone? I hadn't got around to organizing a panel cos I've been so busy so if you wanted to put together a last minute one I'd be keen 🙂

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Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · 25d

Hi #Medievalsky,

Michaela and I have decided to put together a last minute #IMC2026 session proposal: *Dead Reckoning in the early medieval [?world]"

If you've anything on interactions with the dead (literary, historical, legal, etc.) and are looking for an (unfunded) session to join, let us know!

michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · 25d

Hey! Are you still looking for someone? I hadn't got around to organizing a panel cos I've been so busy so if you wanted to put together a last minute one I'd be keen 🙂

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Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · 25d

Yes, i am and this is a brilliant plan!

Any ideas what you might want to talk about? Then we can try and find a third

Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks! We're definitely having a lot of fun on the #PresentDead project, as the scope of interactions with the dead is fantastic 💀

... and hopefully i shall go to Leeds 🪄

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Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · 26d

Hi #MedievalSky! My proposed paper for the Leeds #IMC2026 didn't get into the session i was hoping for.

Does anybody need a paper on (social) transition of dead bodies from death to burial and re-opening in early medieval law?

(Focusing particularly on the Salic laws)

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Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · 27d

Conversation earlier about kestrels,¹ led me to needing to re-check @katemond.bsky.social origins of the word fuck, which means she's got a notification that someone searched "fuck kate wiles"... which *at best* sounds antagonistic. Sorry! 😉

¹ windfucker, first attested 1599, place names from 1287

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Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · Sep 4

Had a lovely couple of conference days; presented yesterday on grave reopening in Gregory of Tours (with the #PresentDead), and then today on Lombardist legal scholia to Rothari's law on killing with poison in the #LiberPapiensis

Lovely questions at both, and wonderful people 😁

#Medievalsky

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · Aug 29

"This book is a must-read for both medievalists and gamers." - @medievalists.bsky.social The Middle Ages in Computer Games by @robehoughton.bsky.social offers the most comprehensive analysis and discussion of medievalist computer games to date. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/XnzZx0z #medievalsky

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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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Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · Aug 26

And session 2 has just gone through. Things seemingly went a bit creepy/supernatural (probably fumes from burning plants...), but turns out our enslaved graverobber, Turo, only did it because he was forced to by his lord.

Nearly all resolved, but some unanswered questions. Plus comeuppances!
#TTRPG

Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · Jul 22

Had a great session today with my #TTRPG and #medieval studies discussion group. "Ergodic research" being a fancy way of saying we ran a game session 😉

We took #LangobardRPG into mid-770s Italy, and set some post-conquest Lombard legal officials to investigating a reopened and robbed grave!

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