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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 20h

✨Book Curses✨ is included in the list of Bewitching Bodleian Bestsellers, so you should buy Book Curses and the 1000 piece puzzle of The World of Frankenstein. Or Book Curses and a Cthulhu pin badge. Or Book Curses and the Edgar Allen Toe socks.

Bewitching Bodleian Bestsellers

Celebrate the spooky season in style - from gothic literature to ghoulish accessories, the Booleian has you sorted!

bodleianshop.co.uk

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Miles!

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 1d

Scrappy test printing for visual legibility - completed. My next step is chatter elimination and adding just a bit more hairy detail.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 1d

Alex I keep liking all your posts - I hope it doesn't look like I am haunting you. Its because I think all your courses look great and I am trying to find ones that fit in with my term!

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 1d

Online Lecture Fri. Oct. 17, 12:00pm EDT @sims-mss.bsky.social J. D. Sargan on Trans Studies as Book Historical Method @jdsargan.bsky.social

Trans Studies as Book Historical Method

J. D. Sargan considers generative modes of reading through the premodern archive to seek out trans lives beyond the ephemeral glimpses that have gone unnoticed in the historical record.

www.library.upenn.edu

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 1d

Hi Megan, you might find some useful suggestions in the @guildmedmak.bsky.social suggested reading page (which we hope to continue to populate!)
www.guildmedmak.com/suggested-re...

www.guildmedmak.com

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 1d

Dr Miranda Melcher's @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast has reached its 1,000th episode, and she very kindly selected her interview with me about my @bodleian.ox.ac.uk✨Book Curses✨ as one of her 28 recommendations!

Miranda Melcher's Recommendations

open.spotify.com

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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 3d

I turned up in an Oxford reel again.
Potentially threatening caption.

Screenshot from an Instagram reel.
I'm stood behind ornate gates wearing a suit, bowler hat and resting on an umbrella, my moustache is visible.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! Decorating my twigs is one of my favourite activities.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! Alas this was a lunch time break and I would have gotten sleepy if I had actually had Ovaltine, but that sounds like an excellent idea for tonight...

Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 4d

Today is the day I decorated my Halloween twigs (freshly snapped from the storm)! I also made a banana malt loaf - banana bread with half a cup of Ovaltine in the mix. The cosiest of cakes.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 4d

This is fantastic! I have a couple of Merchant & Mills pattern books, this may have inspired me to get cracking

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 4d

I like your focus on the cheeky birds!

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 5d

I am very much looking forward to giving a paper at the @tetraseminar.bsky.social on Middle English book curses and perceptions of the material text! Book-historical horror suitable for the season🕯️🔔📖

TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 5d

Next Thursday 9 October, Eleanor Baker (@eleanormaybaker.bsky.social) will explore the world of Middle English book curses. All welcome!

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 5d

Those who teach and research Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be interested in this fantastic research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem. They're also looking for contributors, so do get in contact with @michaeledenart.bsky.social! 👇

Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (circa 1370). Illu...

www.representing-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight.com

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 6d

A new @guildmedmak.bsky.social blog post is out, just in time for reading over your mid-afternoon tea break. This blog post is written by the inimitable @saracharles.bsky.social ('Sara of the Scriptorium').

The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 6d

Its the start of autumn and what better way to usher in the season than with a new Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost! We are delighted to introduce @saracharles.bsky.social, author of The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages. Read all about Sara's 'historical remaking' below👇

Meet a Medievalist Maker: Sara Charles — The Guild of Medievalist Makers

www.guildmedmak.com

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Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures @mediumaevum.bsky.social · 7d

SSMLL are delighted to announce the opening of our Call for Papers for the 2026 Day Conference, Medieval Wales, which will be held at Cardiff University 25-26 April, 2026.

Proposals should be submitted to Dr David Callander ([email protected]) by 30 November.

Cardiff University and the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature are pleased to announce a multi-disciplinary conference on medieval Wales, to be held at Cardiff University on the 25th and 26th of April 2026. The conference will provide a space for discussion and collaboration between scholars of all disciplinary backgrounds interested in medieval Wales. The conference programme will include the Medium Ævum annual lecture, which will be delivered by Professor Helen Fulton (University of Bristol). The Henry Loyn Memorial Lecture will be held on the evening of the 24th of April, and will be delivered by Professor John Hines (Cardiff University).

We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations representing any specialization that sheds light on medieval Wales. We shall particularly welcome papers that discuss encounters between different languages and traditions and their consequences. Proposals are welcome from speakers at all career stages and papers can be delivered in English or Welsh. Proposals should include a title and an abstract (100–200 words) and should be submitted to Dr David Callander (callanderd@cardiff.ac.uk) by 30 November.

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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...

jobs.kent.ac.uk

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · Aug 28

Call for Applications: SHARP News Bibliographers

As @bibliowingate.bsky.social's term comes to an end, we're looking to shake things up & establish a bibliography team of 2+ people.

Applications due October 1 2025.

The full call for applications and how to apply:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

Call for Applicants: SHARP News Bibliographers – SHARP NEWS

sharpweb.org

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 11d

I am never more ready for a fight than when I'm on the golf course footpath. Sometimes I imagine me and the badgers, whose digging the golfers HATE, joining forces.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 11d

I was so sorry to miss this Richard, I've been up in St Andrews giving a paper - but HUGE congratulations and I hope to catch the film soon!

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 11d

Frank I do exactly the same thing on the golf course near me, why are golf courses so good for amanitas!

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 11d

You are very welcome, have some more!

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 11d

I had the most fantastic time presenting my paper ''Wykud spyritus þat wonon in þat wylde place': Folk Horror in Middle English Sermon Exempla' at @standrewsenglish.bsky.social. I couldn't have asked for a warmer audience with more interesting questions, what a wonderful place!

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Lieke Smits @elckerlieke.bsky.social · Sep 1

One month left to submit an abstract for our conference 'Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800', 1-3 July 2026 in Leiden:
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
#medieval #earlymodern #bookhistory

Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800

Prayer was central to religious life in the late medieval and early modern period. Despite growing scholarly interest in religious texts, devotional practices, and spirituality, prayer and prayer book...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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