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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 6d

At Early Medieval Europe we’re thrilled to team up once again with the BSR to sponsor a fellowship! One doctoral student or ECR will have the chance to carry out a month of research in Rome. More info below

British School at Rome @bsrome.bsky.social · 6d

📣 BSR / Early Medieval Europe Fellowship – Call for Applications!

Are you a PhD student or early career researcher in early medieval European history?
Apply now!

⏳ Deadline: 30 January 2026
More info here: bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 6d

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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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you!

Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 7d

Excited and very grateful to be starting as a Visiting Fellow at
‪@clarehallcambridge.bsky.social ‬today! The photo (from the college website) makes the UL look far off in the distance, but in reality it’s just a short walk away… so really no excuse not to get the work done...

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 8d

Reposting for the early morning crowd: a three-year postdoc opportunity to work on early medieval correspondence

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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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 20d

The @oxembi.bsky.social is hosting a special lecture, Long Distance Travel from Early Medieval Britain by Prof @francescatinti.bsky.social & a workshop on Global Britain with Jörg Drauschke, Maria Duggan, @caitlinrgreen.bsky.social, @jk-viking.bsky.social & others. 14 & 15 October. All welcome.

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 23d

Very excited about this new project on early medieval correspondence starting in January 2026

Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social · 23d

Really grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my upcoming project on letter-writing in early medieval Britain. You can read about it in the current Leverhulme newsletter www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... Info on postdoc positions coming soon 🙂

Leverhulme Trust Newsletter – September 2025

Flipsnack is a digital catalog maker that makes it easy to create, publish and share html5 flipbooks. Upload a PDF or design from scratch flyers, magazines, books and more.

www.flipsnack.com

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · Aug 26

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social has gone through EME’s back catalogue to create this timely virtual special issue on tariffs and tolls in early medieval Europe gathering five contributions originally published between 1992 and 2025. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Tariffs and Tolls in Early Medieval Europe: Early Medieval Europe

Early Medieval Europe is an interdisciplinary medieval studies journal covering European history from the fall of the Roman Empire up until the 11th century.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · Aug 23

Absolutely, but mine was just a silly joke about the Pimm’s punt..

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · Jul 25

A rather unexpected turn of events for Peter's Pence, a tribute that originated from the voluntary donations made to the papacy from AS England: the election of an American pope might render it taxable by the US government- www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025...

Papa, disegno di legge Usa per non fargli pagare le tasse: o dovrà rinunciare alla cittadinanza

Leone avrebbe l’obbligo di fare la dichiarazione dei redditi Oltreatlantico. E nel mirino del fisco americano potrebbero finire i fondi papali, come l’Obolo di…

www.repubblica.it

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · Jul 23

I had some time to kill while in Madrid and entered the Lázaro Galdiano museum expecting to find El Greco and Goya as its major attractions but it seems that this private collector did not disdain some Visigothic bling either

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · Jul 17

End of the day conference excursion and aperitif

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · Jul 16

Clemens has just shown us a recent “photograph” of Anastasius bibliothecarius

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · Jul 16

And Clemens Gantner is now about to start his talk which promises to be very interesting

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · Jul 16

And we now move on to @ecroberts.bsky.social

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · Jul 16

About to start our second day at the Estella conference on Languages and Identities in the Early Middle Ages. Herewith Ramon Martí introducing the brilliant Magali Coumert

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · May 10

Another early medieval winner at Kalamazoo! Congratulations to Graham Barrett for winning La Coronica book award for his recent monograph

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · May 9

Maya Maskarinec has discussed, among other things, documents on stone, like this one inscribed on the floor in front of the altar and on a column of the church of Sant’Antimo in Tuscany

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · May 9

Our third and last session has featured great papers by Marios
Costambeys, Patrick Morgan, Elena Shadrina and our editorial board member Maya Maskarinec

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · May 9

The last paper in this session takes us to early medieval Rome; it is by Eric Ware and discusses Pope Zachary’s triclinium and its mappa mundi

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · May 9

Second paper in this session is by Tom Schweigert and is titled “Pope Pelagius I, Bishop Euphrasius of Parentium, and the Three Chapters Schism (or not?)”

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · May 9

And we are now on to session 2 with a first paper by Deanna Forsman on Sidonius Apollinaris’s Letters

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · May 9

The final paper in this rich session is by Lauren Farnsworth on liminal spaces in early medieval English poetry

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · May 9

And this one, from England, rather than bounding glass or precious materials, contains a walnut shell

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · May 9

She has found over 500 of them as shown in this distribution map

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