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Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social · 9d

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Are you passionate about early medieval Britain? Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing? If yes, then you may be interested in this f...

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Daniel Sawyer @danielsawyer.bsky.social · 9d

Not one of those, but one of the solid wooden ones that used to line the tables by the windows on the western side of the upper floor.

Daniel Sawyer @danielsawyer.bsky.social · 9d

Happy to see one of the old wooden chairs from the English Faculty Library quietly occupying a corner in Oxford's new Humanities Library.

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ayoushlazikani.bsky.social @ayoushlazikani.bsky.social · Aug 30

This came out earlier this week! Thank you so much to Yale University Press for all their efforts getting it to publication.

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Marie Jaros @mariejaros.bsky.social · Aug 17

🚨🐳We’re putting together a panel on #whales in medieval #literature for #IMC2026! Two papers are already confirmed: Icelandic sagas and English poetry. We’re looking for one more speaker to join us. If your research touches literary traditions too, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please DM.

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Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · Aug 17

Really enjoying @danielsawyer.bsky.social’s How To Read Middle English Poetry! I bought a copy to supplement my knowledge of ME (working on only limited romances, I don’t come across lots of the potential forms) and it is doing an amazing job of recolouring poems familiar and new!

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Daniel Sawyer @danielsawyer.bsky.social · Aug 18

That's very kind of you to say, thank you! I'm delighted to hear that the book's proving useful.

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · Aug 14

A Midnight Treasury of Macabre & Weird Poems, ed Ana Sampson, featuring the poems of (amongst others) Percy Bysshe Shelley and yours truly (!), out in Sept! (Pictured here with the Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford) 🥀🪾👻🖤

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · Aug 13

Mary has kindly shared a 20% discount code for her @reaktionbooks.bsky.social biography of Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard, when purchasing direct from the Reaktion Books website! You can find the discount code at the bottom of the blogpost.

Geoffrey Chaucer | Reaktion Books

This is a new account of the life and accomplishments of medieval England’s most famous poet, Geoffrey Chaucer. For over six centuries, Chaucer has epitomized poetic greatness, though in more recent y...

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Daniel Sawyer @danielsawyer.bsky.social · Aug 13

Congratulations!

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · Aug 13

My book is out! Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile, with Cambridge UP @universitypress.cambridge.org.

I am so grateful to the friends, family, colleagues, librarians and archivists who helped along the way. Nervous and excited to see it in the world!

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Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile

Cambridge Core - Classical Literature - Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile

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Daniel Sawyer @danielsawyer.bsky.social · Aug 9

I wonder if Garner bothers to give the editor for PP but not for Beowulf because he's aware how much more widely witnessed and variable Piers's text is (even just within the-grouping-we-have-called-the-C-version).

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Daniel Sawyer @danielsawyer.bsky.social · Aug 6

Glad to see another generous review of the book, this time in SELIM's journal:
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View of Sawyer, Daniel. 2024. How to Read Middle English Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780198895237. | SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English La...

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · Aug 4

Can attest that this is an excellent teaching book (and useful for those teaching, too!)

Daniel Sawyer @danielsawyer.bsky.social · Aug 4

If you're someone planning to teach Middle English next year please consider my book, which might be helpful for your students!

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Daniel Sawyer @danielsawyer.bsky.social · Aug 4

If you're someone NOT planning to teach Middle English next year, have you considered buying my book—

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Daniel Sawyer @danielsawyer.bsky.social · Aug 4

If you're someone planning to teach Middle English next year please consider my book, which might be helpful for your students!

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Daniel Sawyer @danielsawyer.bsky.social · Jul 29

Part of clawing my way back towards research: putting in a little bit of work helping the Index of Middle English Prose.

Given the prevalence of recipes, this's expanding my ME vocabulary. Macis! Langdebef! Stale ale, but the 'stale' part is good!

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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · Jul 29

Absolutely delighted that my article on the textual transmission of Aldhelm's Carmen de virginitate is now out in the most recent volume of Mittellateinische Jahrbuch!

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Daniel Sawyer @danielsawyer.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thank you!

Daniel Sawyer @danielsawyer.bsky.social · Jul 16

After six months ill and writing slowly at best, I'm trying to get back into the saddle with my third book. (I'm not recovered, just starting to learn to live with it.)

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · Jul 4

An exhibition of medieval manuscripts at Cambridge's @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social! Curated by Timothy Glover (Richard Rolle specialist and current Parker Library Early-Career Research Fellow).
Do pop in/book a tour if you are in Cambridge - July only!

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · Jun 26

A fantastic 2nd day at @themamoconf.bsky.social 🎉 Gorgeous performance of Yde & Olive by @daisyeblack.bsky.social. I really enjoyed @danielsawyer.bsky.social paper- buy his excellent book! Fantastic energising workshop wi @menysnoweballes.bsky.social & I enjoyed repping @guildmedmak.bsky.social

Me with a Guild of Medievalist Makers postcard

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Daniel Sawyer @danielsawyer.bsky.social · Jun 24

Come to my paper tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon to find out why it has such a curiously uninformative title. I promise a unique answer.

Daniel Sawyer @danielsawyer.bsky.social · Jun 23

Looking forward to @themamoconf.bsky.social tomorrow.

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · Jun 24

Come and say hi in the Council Room during the breaks! We have examples of our work and also merch! (Postcards & pins!) @guildmedmak.bsky.social

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Anglo-Norman Dictionary @a-ndictionary.bsky.social · Jun 23

The AND's own transcriptions of 13 unpublished Anglo-Norman texts (including religious narratives, a legal treatise and language manuals) are now also accessible through the Oxford Text Archive. hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106...

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