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Dr. Chris White Writes @chriswhitewrites.bsky.social · 20d

Excerpt from a paper in currently finishing up:

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Today, the best-known example of human animal transformation is the werewolf. The symbolic meaning of the werewolf in modern Western culture can vary - but they are primary used to summon three emotional reactions, all beginning with F: fright, as in horror movies; fun, as in Teen Wolf(1985); or reproduction| as is the trend in contemporary "romantasy" novels.

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Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association @jaema.bsky.social · 21d

There are still so many interesting sessions at @imc-leeds.bsky.social looking for papers!

This one might be of interest to our members, but also to readers of journals like @postmedieval.bsky.social or @arthurianajrnl.bsky.social.

What other Leeds IMC Calls for Papers are still open?

Matthew C @revkilljoy.bsky.social · 21d

Session Proposal, International Medieval Congress (Leeds, 2026)

Stories as Pilgrims: Transformation and Travel
How stories move across borders & time, medieval to modern.

Adaptation, history, pedagogy, and literary views welcome.

👉 Reach out by Sept. 25.
#IMC2026 #MedievalStudies #Adaptation

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Dr. Chris White Writes @chriswhitewrites.bsky.social · 27d

My latest paper has been published, in @jaema.bsky.social!

"The ghosts of our ancestors: Reading religious anxieties in the ghost stories of Thietmar of Merseburg"

Examining 11th century ghost stories and worries about saintly relics and ancestral disbelief.

search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...

The ghosts of our ancestors: Reading religious anxieties in the ghost stories of Thietmar of Merseburg

search.informit.org

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Dr. Chris White Writes @chriswhitewrites.bsky.social · Jun 19

And I wrote a short piece about medieval revenants and 28 Years Later for @aunz.theconversation.com, which has just gone up: theconversation.com/the-28-days-...

The 28 Days Later franchise redefined zombie films. But the undead have an old, rich and varied history

Long before zombies were stars on the big screen, they roamed medieval Europe.

theconversation.com

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Dr. Chris White Writes @chriswhitewrites.bsky.social · Jun 18

I was invited to a preview screening of @28yearslater.bsky.social last night, and now that the review embargo has lifted I can say that the film leans heavily on the medieval period, from scenes of children training with bows to ossuaries, momento mori, churches as sites of sanctuary, wild men...

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Dr. Chris White Writes @chriswhitewrites.bsky.social · May 21

I will be speaking (online) at @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social, on the 5th/6th of June, talking about two "Ethiopian" demons in Orderic Vitalis's Historia ecclesiastica:

A poster advertising my talk on Ethiopian demons, "Black Skin, Black Sin"

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Dr. Chris White Writes @chriswhitewrites.bsky.social · Apr 4

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Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association @jaema.bsky.social · Mar 15

The submissions deadline for the first issue of the Australian Early Medieval Association is rapidly approaching - papers need to be submitted by April 30 to be considered for the first issue!

See our website for more details: aema.org.au/journal/

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Dr. Chris White Writes @chriswhitewrites.bsky.social · Mar 20

No massacres, as far as I'm aware.

Dr. Chris White Writes @chriswhitewrites.bsky.social · Mar 20

I wrote about this a bit in my thesis (and in an article I'm currently in the weeds of revision on) and there are actually quite a few condemnations of cats! Documents like Vox in Rama or Hildegard of Bingen's de animalibus, amongst others.

They could be both good and bad, symbolically.

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Charlotte-Rose Millar @charlotte-millar.bsky.social · Dec 2

Don't forget to get your abstracts in for our ghost conference! We will have two keynotes: Prof. Sasha Handley (Manchester) and Dr. Shane McCorristine (Newcastle). It's going to be spooktacular!

Charlotte-Rose Millar @charlotte-millar.bsky.social · Oct 16

Ghost Conference Alert!! 👻

We are organising a conference on historical representations of ghosts at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick in June 2025. CFP attached! Please share! #earlymodern #twitterstorians #emotions #emostorians

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Dr. Chris White Writes @chriswhitewrites.bsky.social · Dec 3

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It's so great when they remember what you tell them!

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Dr. Chris White Writes @chriswhitewrites.bsky.social · Dec 3

Time to pack up and quit offering student surveys everyone, I win:

A screenshot of anonymised student feedback, which reads "He studies werewolves and is cool"

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Dr. Chris White Writes @chriswhitewrites.bsky.social · Nov 22

I should be looking for ECR work. Instead I have written half an article about the Ossorian werewolves, and half a sample chapter for my monograph pitch.

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Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association @jaema.bsky.social · Nov 17

So, #medievalsky, what medieval history journals are already over here?

We've got us, obviously. And I know that @parergon.bsky.social and @postmedieval.bsky.social are here.

Who else? Let's get a list together!

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Dr. Chris White Writes @chriswhitewrites.bsky.social · Nov 16

#AcademicSky, #medievalsky let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.

1) Looking for ECR work/an article identifying Herlechin of the mesne Herlechin

2)early medieval identities

Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social · Nov 16

#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.

1) community landscapes on estuaries in early medieval/post-Roman middle Britain

2) rethinking Northumbrian conquest narratives

Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · Nov 13

#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.

1) New book on robots, labor, and gender

2) Alien Santa erotica

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · Oct 23

Good news, bluskies! We’ve extended the deadline for chapter proposals for the medieval volume of the Cultural History of Trans Lives! You have until Nov 20th to submit something. Take a look!

J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · Sep 27

Medieval! Trans! Now! Micah Goodrich and I are soliciting abstracts and answering questions about the (long) medieval volume of the Cultural History of Trans Lives until the end of the month. Cfp here for more details: bit.ly/CHTLvol2

CFP: A Cultural History of Trans Lives in the Middle Ages (300-1450)

CFP: A Cultural History of Trans Lives in the Middle Ages (300-1450) We warmly invite submissions to contribute to A Cultural History of Trans Lives in the Middle Ages (300-1450), edited by J. D. Sa...

bit.ly

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · Oct 20

Hey I wrote something on the blog about that twee witch merch, historical inaccuracy, and the horrors of capitalist profiting off forgotten victims. You know, a little Friday treat!
going-medieval.com/2023/10/20/y...

You are not, in fact, the granddaughter of the witches they couldn’t burn

Say you are me (sorry about that) and you are minding your own business online, just trying to survive in a world of unrelenting horror when suddenly you are served an ad. Because of the dark magic ...

going-medieval.com

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Dr. Chris White Writes @chriswhitewrites.bsky.social · Oct 20

Can any medieval emotions historians (or any other medievalists) point me in the direction of scholarship on emotional connections between clerical and lay brothers in the 10th-11th century Latin West? I know there was encouragement to seperate from one's family, but also know that was an ideal

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Dr. Chris White Writes @chriswhitewrites.bsky.social · Oct 20

Have booked flights to head down to Melbourne for a medieval manuscripts masterclass, run by @megancw.bsky.social - in a little under two weeks! Very much looking forward to it.

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Dr. Chris White Writes @chriswhitewrites.bsky.social · Oct 5

I've always like the idea of some Norman bloke saying "Oh, I was with Henno - come on, you know Henno...with the teeth!"

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Dr. Chris White Writes @chriswhitewrites.bsky.social · Oct 5

Did Henno have weird teeth, or really nice ones?

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Dr. Chris White Writes @chriswhitewrites.bsky.social · Oct 5

More tree snakes yesterday, they give me the willies but they are beautiful creatures. Both much bigger than this little one

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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · Oct 5

Save the date for the 2024 Gender and Medieval Studies conference: 26-28 June 2024 (note the new summer date). C4P and more info to come soon!

medievalgender.co.uk/conferences/

#MedievalSky #AcademicSky 🗃️

Conferences – Gender and Medieval Studies

medievalgender.co.uk

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Dr. Chris White Writes @chriswhitewrites.bsky.social · Oct 3

Realised I hadn't posted my Fresh Prince of Bel-Air medieval cover here, telling the story of "The French Ghost of Beaucaire", a ghost story from the Otia Imperialism: youtu.be/icyFDmhSQSU?...

Visualise Your Thesis 2023 - Chris White - Normalising the Non-Mundane: Didactic Messages in ...

Entry in the 2023 Visualise Your Thesis competition at The University of Queensland - "Normalising the Non-Mundane: Didactic Messages in Medieval Latin Wonde...

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