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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 14h

It's Wednesday. You need some eels in your life, right? And some otters?

Here you go!

A scene of otters & eels, from an early 15th C. copy of Gaston Phoebus's Livre de la chasse. Eel blood is toxic to mammals, but otters don't care. They love them some eels.

Can you blame them?

A medieval painting of otters playing in a pool, chasing and catching eels and other fish. There are 10 adult otters, and what look to be 2 younger otters in a den at the base of a tree. They are all doing serious otter things: playing, eating, cavorting, eating, gamboling, eating, swimming, and eating. They are having a good time. For now.

It can't last, though. This pond seems way too small to support all of these otters, and the painting has a border around it. They can't leave, and soon they will turn on each other in a bloodbath that will make the Donner Party look like a tea time at the Rotary Club. If you check back with these otters in two weeks, I suspect you'll find only carnage.

That, though, is a problem for Future Otters. Today's otters are carefree, with spotless souls.

Source:
Morgan (MS M.1044 fol. 28r)

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 16h

#histmed #MedievalSky Minji Lee's book, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body, has just been released #OpenAccess: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Cover image of Minji Lee, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body. On the complex imagery reproduced on the cover, read the book!

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 2d

Wondering how this turns into an entirely new narrative of the Black Death, still considered the worst pandemic in human history? It's all here: “The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta,” doi.org/10.17613/qez.... A bigger map, a longer chronology, a new story.

The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta

The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic Through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta is a module in the History for the 21st Century project (H/21), a collaborative open-access curriculum designed for studen...

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 1d

Assistant Professorship in Early Medieval Literatures and Cultures, Fordham University:
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Assistant Professorship in Early Medieval Literatures and Cultures, Fordham University | MEMOs

Early Modern Literatures and Culture, Fordham University (NYC)

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Charlotte Gauthier @faraiunvers.bsky.social · 1d

Join me next year at the #SSCLE conference in Porto, from 29 June-3 July 2025. Do please share this #CFP with anyone who studies the Later Crusades (post-1291) and would like to share their research with an enthusiastic and perceptive audience. #skystorians #medievalsky #earlymodernsky

Recent decades have seen significant advances in our understanding of the later crusades (post-1291). This session aims to showcase the latest research on this fascinating topic.
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers exploring new perspectives on the later crusades. Topics are not limited to, but might include:
Diplomacy and statecraft Crusading and Reformation Logistics, financing, recruitment, and volunteerism
Crusading in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic, and Iberia Crusades against ‘heretics’ Intellectual history of crusading
Submit your paper title, abstract
(250 words) and a brief biography to charlotte.gauthier.2017@live.rhul.ac.uk by 25 October 2025.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Find out more about feeding the crew of the Mary Rose - maryrose.org/meet-the-cre...

The Cook - The Mary Rose

Who was the Mary Rose's cook, and what food and drink did the crew of the Mary Rose have?

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 3d

Oh boy, on Oct 16, @leoba.bsky.social is showing Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 1004/29, a mid-14thC physician's belt w/ calendar, tables of solar & lunar eclipses, anatomical phlebotomy diagram, & urine wheel. A 🦇 book, b/c it unfolds like a pair of 🦇 wings. libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/14872116

Coffee with a Codex On The Road: Bat Book at the Rosenbach

An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 4d

#MedievalSky #EarlyModernists you may not be aware that I offer several services: transcription (no hand too tricky), archival visits and more. I’m happiest in the period 1200-1700 but will consider anything. Get in touch via my website!

joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

Freelance Work

Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…

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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 4d

There's a couple of open access articles in here

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 5d

In sincerity I did log on for a reason. A new issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is out, edited by colleague/friend Marcel Elias. It's about how to do postcolonial medieval studies bigger and better. You'll like it. (I'm in there). Go read.
read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/issue/...

Volume 55 Issue 3 | Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies | Duke University Press

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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 7d

For details of our first research seminar of the year on Italian families in Greece in the Late Middle Ages, including how to register to attend online, go to this site: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/eve... #medievalsky #Latineast #medievalgreece #medievalitaly #medievalhybridity #medievalcolonialism

Research seminar: Hybrids on the Frontier: Power and identity of Italian families in Latin Greece (13th–15th century)

Dr Nada Zečević presents a paper for the Institute for Medieval Studies seminar series

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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 5d

Registration for online attendance is open for our first two research seminars this semester. Check out events at ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval. To listen to @rhigarthjones.bsky.social on 28 October at 17.30 BST go to ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/eve... #medievalsky #globalmiddleages #abbasidhistory

Research seminar: Builder kings: Reception of Solomon in the Early ʿAbbāsid Palaces

Dr Rhiannon Garth Jones presents a paper for the Institute for Medieval Studies seminar series

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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · 5d

Heritage Show + Tell - speakers announced!

7 three-minute talks have been confirmed so far for the return edition of Heritage Show + Tell on 9 October at Leeds Central Library.

Full details including how to book your place 👇

ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...

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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 5d

In the next in our series of interviews with alumni find out what happened next for Lucy Moore after her Leeds MA in Medieval Studies #medievalsky #numismatics #medievalcoins #museums ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/new...

An Interview with Lucy Moore: A Career in Medieval Coins, Community, and Museum Curation

Leeds Alum on early medieval coinage, interdisciplinary study, and making material culture accessible to all.

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 5d

Did you know we offer a limited number of bursaries, available to students, independent scholars, pensioners, unwaged scholars, and delegates from outside Western Europe?

You can find out more and apply here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/about/bursary/

Application deadline: 15 October 2025 ⏰

#IMC2026

Bursaries and Awards | International Medieval Congress

Bursary Applications for IMC 2026 are now open! Read below to apply.

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 5d

Are you interested in the history of rivers? Do you wonder how historians and environmental scientists can work together? Join the EDHS seminar to hear from the ARTEMIS team about their amazing project exploring the histories and ecologies of the Scheldt. #envhist #histsci #skystorians #dh

Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 7d

The Environmental #DH Seminar (EDHS) is back!

Co-organised by Lancaster & Manchester w/support from @n8cir.bsky.social, our first event features the ARTEMIS project.

Join us ONLINE at 12pm (UK) on Oct 15 to hear about this digital historical investigation of the Scheldt River Valley.

RSVP 👇

Artemis Project: A Digital Bridge to Historical Landscapes and Maps

Join us for a discussion with Iason Jongepier (University of Antwerp) & Vincent Ducatteeuw (Ghent University)

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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 5d

Interview written by our community building student assistant Emily Caffery, currently on our MA in Medieval Studies (part-time)

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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 5d

In the next in our series of interviews with alumni find out what happened next for Lucy Moore after her Leeds MA in Medieval Studies #medievalsky #numismatics #medievalcoins #museums ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/new...

An Interview with Lucy Moore: A Career in Medieval Coins, Community, and Museum Curation

Leeds Alum on early medieval coinage, interdisciplinary study, and making material culture accessible to all.

ahc.leeds.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 5d

🖥 We have a number of online research training courses starting in October.

Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 5d

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians.

Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd

Please let us know if there are gaps.
#Skystorians 1/2

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 5d

We have two further Starter Packs, also updated for the new academic year, covering:

> Societies & groups for historians, international go.bsky.app/9T5F1Qc

> UK institutes and research centres for historians go.bsky.app/RbfRrhm

Again, recommendations for additional contacts are welcome 2/2

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 5d

The largest island in #Orkney, Mainland, is called Hrossey in two sagas. Such names with animal specifics are commonly of quite small islands. Gammeltoft suggested that 'an original Pictish element, e.g. *ros „moor, plain‟ might hide itself behind the specific', reinterpreted by Norse speakers.

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose @onp.ku.dk · 6d

Yesterday’s #Wordle: hross (sb. n.): 83 cits, e.g. (horse as working animal/item of value/trade commodity) horse, riding horse, draught horse // (hest som brugsdyr/værdigenstand/handelsvare) hest, ridehest, transporthest ‘ha̋lft fimmta hundrad j hrossum’ (DI in AM 263 fol) onp.ku.dk/o37049

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 5d

Some images from yesterday's @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social event in London. It included some fascinating panels of speakers, my all-time favourite pilgrim speaker (Satish Kumar), and an improvised ritual at Little Wormwood Scrubs!
The natural environment, ritual, and inclusivity were recurring themes.

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PD Dr. Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 6d

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen)

Tenure-track assistant professor in early medieval history at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) invites ap...

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 6d

The ruins of St. Anne’s Chapel are the last fragment of Ripon’s medieval Maison Dieu, founded to house eight poor widows. Its origins are obscure, though the street name “Annesgate,” recorded in 1228, suggests the hospital was already standing by then, perhaps

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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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