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Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social · 5d

And finally, some speculative history from David Robinson about Mongol expansion! #PMRG2025

Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social · 5d

Hilal Nur Kuyruk on women and power in Nizam-al-Mulk's Siyasatnama, looking at the wider Muslin intellectual context #PMRG2025

Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social · 5d

Frances Muecke @sydney.edu.au gives a really intricate account of how ideas of tyrany and dictatorship change over the 15th century #PMRG2025

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Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social · 5d

Now @rankinmccabe.bsky.social on the heretical cartography of Marlowe's Tamburlaine. I love the mappae mundi, so this one is great fun.

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Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social · 7d

🎤 Looking forward to an early start this Saturday at Perth's Tyrants and Dictators online conference. Here's the link if anyone fancies joining: www.trybooking.com/events/landi...
I'll be chatting about Marlowe's Tamburlaine 🍴👑🍴

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Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social · 5d

The third in the triptych of papers: the Heart of Legitimate Authority by Tyler Horton of the University of Queensland #PMRG2025

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Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social · 5d

More body parts. Embodied ideas of justice in the second Tetralogy by Steve Rohan-Jones of the University of Queensland #PMRG2025

Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social · 5d

So much blood... Mackenzie McCown @sydney.edu.au on the *body* politic in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ##PMRG2025

Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social · 5d

The American alt right draws on "medievalism, not medieval history in which the king is not above the law"

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Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social · 5d

Long history of medieval imagery in American racism

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Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social · 5d

Andrew Broertjes on the use of medievalism in Trump's iconography ##PMRG2025

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Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social · 5d

Glen McKnight on Sui Yangdi at #PMRG2025

Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social · 5d

"Tyrant" comes into English through Greek but it is probably from the Lydian according to Glen McKnight. Welcome to #PMRG2025!

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 6d

A warmly evocative tribute to Jinty Nelson by Alice Rio:
'Her openness about her family & how much it meant to her turned her into an inspiring role model to generations of younger women...she somehow made you feel that you could be yourself, & that this would not be counted against you.'

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 7d

Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)

by Alice Rio (All Souls College, University of Oxford)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)*

Jinty Nelson left a strong mark of her presence in every institution that she was ever a part of, and there is none which does not regard its association w

doi.org

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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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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · 9d

Dáibhí *and* an artefacts session?! Sign me up!

National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 10d

Families Join us for an Open Day: Words on the Wave – Ireland & St. Gallen exhibition
🗓️ Sat 4 Oct | 11.00–16.00
📍 NMI, Kildare St
Talks: Maeve Sikora (11:30), Dr Ó Riain (12:30), Prof Ó Cróinín (14:30)
Take part in free Workshops & handle replica artefacts
🎟️ Free admission
museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

An Incipit (opening letter) with two birds from the St. Gallen manuscript Priscian Institutiones Grammaticae, Cod. Sang 904, p. 25. © Stiftsbibliothek St Gallen.

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 10d

Families Join us for an Open Day: Words on the Wave – Ireland & St. Gallen exhibition
🗓️ Sat 4 Oct | 11.00–16.00
📍 NMI, Kildare St
Talks: Maeve Sikora (11:30), Dr Ó Riain (12:30), Prof Ó Cróinín (14:30)
Take part in free Workshops & handle replica artefacts
🎟️ Free admission
museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 16d

If you write professionally in the UK, make sure to sign up to ALCS for your fair share of royalties

ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 16d

🥳 This week, we will pay 31,487 members their share of £11,588,572!

Find out more:
www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-di...

Your distribution questions answered

This week, we will pay 31,487 members their share of £11,588,572. Get answers to your most pressing questions about our latest distribution.

www.alcs.co.uk

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Prof. Amanda Wise @amandawise.bsky.social · 19d

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

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Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social · 18d

Academia tries to address many inequalities in research but speaking English is one of the big ones and it's hardly ever acknowledged - in the English speaking world

The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 19d

Everyone, no matter their background, should have an equal chance to work in science – but there are huge systemic barriers.

Who gets to do science? A demand for English is hurting marginalised researchers

theconversation.com

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Dr Angharad Elias @angharadelias.bsky.social · Nov 11

Medieval Welsh divorce: 'Should her husband be leprous, or have fetid breath, or be incapable of marital duties; if on account of one of these three things she leave her husband, she is to have the whole of her property' from Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
#CyfraithHywel #MedievalWelshLaw

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Nathalie Cohen @nathaliecohen.bsky.social · 19d

We are seeking a new Editor for the Archaeological Journal to succeed @nannonstevens.bsky.social.
#archaeology #editor #journal

@royalarchinst.bsky.social

Please share to your networks! ✍️

Marie de France, from an illuminated manuscript now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 22d

Exciting international #runic event in Kirkwall, Monday 20 October 2025. Free, open to all, and with refreshments! #runes #runology #Orkney

Poster for 'Rune Relay', an event with an international group of runologists, 7.30 pm on 20 October in St Magnus Centre Kirkwall. For info contact lorainejc@earthlink.net

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 22d

Most Jewish Americans oppose Trump's university funding cuts over antisemitism, poll shows

The Ipsos survey found that a majority of American Jews are "somewhat or very concerned" by campus antisemitism but dislike Trump's approach to combating it.

www.latimes.com

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laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 24d

The unexpected exit of Judith of Flanders is going to cause problems for later European history, but we’ve given up any interest in historical facts. #KingAndConqueror

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