Dr Róisín Donohoe
@roisindonohoe.bsky.social
medievalist & leisure witch / special collections & archives / medicine & ritual & devotion / she.her.sí.í
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PhDone! Was great to see all the pals at Cambridge last month 🎓
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Come and work with us! @theul.bsky.social 📚
#CULconservation #BookConservation @conservators.bsky.social
#CULconservation #BookConservation @conservators.bsky.social
Applications are open for the post of Conservator (Book and Paper) at Cambridge University Library!
For full details and to apply, click here: https://loom.ly/VUgy3Uo
The closing date for applications is Sunday 7 September 2025.
For full details and to apply, click here: https://loom.ly/VUgy3Uo
The closing date for applications is Sunday 7 September 2025.
August 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Come and work with us! @theul.bsky.social 📚
#CULconservation #BookConservation @conservators.bsky.social
#CULconservation #BookConservation @conservators.bsky.social
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Fellowship Opportunity!
Research Fellowship
University of Cambridge - Newnham College
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK466/r...
Research Fellowship
University of Cambridge - Newnham College
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK466/r...
Research Fellowship at University of Cambridge
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Research Fellowship at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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August 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Fellowship Opportunity!
Research Fellowship
University of Cambridge - Newnham College
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK466/r...
Research Fellowship
University of Cambridge - Newnham College
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK466/r...
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Job offer for medievalists at the University of Warsaw: historia.uw.edu.pl/en/job-offer....
My dear friend & colleague Grzegorz Pac is looking for a postdoc to join his project Recognising Saints in the High Middle Ages.
My dear friend & colleague Grzegorz Pac is looking for a postdoc to join his project Recognising Saints in the High Middle Ages.
Job offer for postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Medieval History – Faculty of History
historia.uw.edu.pl
August 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Job offer for medievalists at the University of Warsaw: historia.uw.edu.pl/en/job-offer....
My dear friend & colleague Grzegorz Pac is looking for a postdoc to join his project Recognising Saints in the High Middle Ages.
My dear friend & colleague Grzegorz Pac is looking for a postdoc to join his project Recognising Saints in the High Middle Ages.
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Late-medieval Books of Hours were tools for navigating both earthly & spiritual challenges. Elizabeth Burrell's article in @parergon.bsky.social 42.1 explores English & French examples held in A/NZ libraries, providing transcriptions & translations of some apotropaic texts.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...
August 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Late-medieval Books of Hours were tools for navigating both earthly & spiritual challenges. Elizabeth Burrell's article in @parergon.bsky.social 42.1 explores English & French examples held in A/NZ libraries, providing transcriptions & translations of some apotropaic texts.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...
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new piece on the newsletter! me & @lollardfish.bsky.social talk with the wonderful @larisag.bsky.social about a new "Travel in the Middle Ages" - a new exhibition opening soon at the Getty
#medievalsky
free to read and SUBSCRIBE! -->
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#medievalsky
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Travel in the Middle Ages
A Conversation with Larisa Grollemond about a New Exhibition at the Getty Museum (LA)
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August 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
new piece on the newsletter! me & @lollardfish.bsky.social talk with the wonderful @larisag.bsky.social about a new "Travel in the Middle Ages" - a new exhibition opening soon at the Getty
#medievalsky
free to read and SUBSCRIBE! -->
buttondown.com/ModernMediev...
#medievalsky
free to read and SUBSCRIBE! -->
buttondown.com/ModernMediev...
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A map for Monday, 13th century copy of Image du monde (Image of the world) by Gautier of Metz. Delightful red and blue initials, a drawing of a king in the margin, and diagrams including a T-O map (Asia on top, Europe left, Africa right). (UPenn LJS 55) #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/4hfCMAZ
🔗: https://bit.ly/4hfCMAZ
August 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A map for Monday, 13th century copy of Image du monde (Image of the world) by Gautier of Metz. Delightful red and blue initials, a drawing of a king in the margin, and diagrams including a T-O map (Asia on top, Europe left, Africa right). (UPenn LJS 55) #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/4hfCMAZ
🔗: https://bit.ly/4hfCMAZ
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August's 'Will of the Month' post is live over on the @materialwills.bsky.social blog 📜
We've been thinking about community & craftsmanship in the will of a French Protestant refugee, and the 'Huguenot' trades of silk-weaving, silversmithing, and watchmaking ⌚
#history #earlymodern #skystorians 👇
We've been thinking about community & craftsmanship in the will of a French Protestant refugee, and the 'Huguenot' trades of silk-weaving, silversmithing, and watchmaking ⌚
#history #earlymodern #skystorians 👇
📢 NEW Will of the Month post! 📢
It explores the will of a Huguenot refugee & 'Master Weaver of Stepney' whose will is a insight into community & craftsmanship 📜
He leaves money to the French church & mentions the Huguenot trades of silversmithing & watchmaking ⌚
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It explores the will of a Huguenot refugee & 'Master Weaver of Stepney' whose will is a insight into community & craftsmanship 📜
He leaves money to the French church & mentions the Huguenot trades of silversmithing & watchmaking ⌚
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
August 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
August's 'Will of the Month' post is live over on the @materialwills.bsky.social blog 📜
We've been thinking about community & craftsmanship in the will of a French Protestant refugee, and the 'Huguenot' trades of silk-weaving, silversmithing, and watchmaking ⌚
#history #earlymodern #skystorians 👇
We've been thinking about community & craftsmanship in the will of a French Protestant refugee, and the 'Huguenot' trades of silk-weaving, silversmithing, and watchmaking ⌚
#history #earlymodern #skystorians 👇
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Still looking for suggestions of digital editions of #EarlyModern life-writing, diaries, memoirs etc. Is there anything comparable to Alice Thornton's books out there?
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/
The Four Books By Alice Thornton
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
August 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Still looking for suggestions of digital editions of #EarlyModern life-writing, diaries, memoirs etc. Is there anything comparable to Alice Thornton's books out there?
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/
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Do any #HistMed #HistSci #Museums people know how large #EarlyModern apothecary storage boxes might have been? @rouge1767.bsky.social and I are wondering...
August 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Do any #HistMed #HistSci #Museums people know how large #EarlyModern apothecary storage boxes might have been? @rouge1767.bsky.social and I are wondering...
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"Now that most mental effort tied to writing is optional, we need new ways to require the work necessary for learning. That means moving .. toward in-class blue book essays ... and other assessments that call on students to demonstrate knowledge in real time." #Gift www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
Opinion | The University’s Best Weapon Against A.I.: The 14th Century
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August 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"Now that most mental effort tied to writing is optional, we need new ways to require the work necessary for learning. That means moving .. toward in-class blue book essays ... and other assessments that call on students to demonstrate knowledge in real time." #Gift www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
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📣Are you a #histmed scholar whose book proposal belongs in our Social Histories of Medicine series?
The @sshmedicine.bsky.social Annual Book Development Prize Competition is open for submissions!🥳
Secure £2,000 in funding to help turn your idea into a published monograph or collection! Details👇
The @sshmedicine.bsky.social Annual Book Development Prize Competition is open for submissions!🥳
Secure £2,000 in funding to help turn your idea into a published monograph or collection! Details👇
📣Annual Book Development Prize Competition 📣
Submissions are now invited for the 2026 Award, which funds authors to turn a proposal into a book in the Social Histories of Medicine series, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until 16 Jan 2026.
#histmed
Submissions are now invited for the 2026 Award, which funds authors to turn a proposal into a book in the Social Histories of Medicine series, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until 16 Jan 2026.
#histmed
Annual Book Development Prize Competition
Rules and Entry Form The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) invites submissions to its Annual Book Development Award Competition. The Award Two awards of £2000.00 each will be given …
sshm.org
August 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
📣Are you a #histmed scholar whose book proposal belongs in our Social Histories of Medicine series?
The @sshmedicine.bsky.social Annual Book Development Prize Competition is open for submissions!🥳
Secure £2,000 in funding to help turn your idea into a published monograph or collection! Details👇
The @sshmedicine.bsky.social Annual Book Development Prize Competition is open for submissions!🥳
Secure £2,000 in funding to help turn your idea into a published monograph or collection! Details👇
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Occasionally, I’m reminded that as a woman and a historian I’m not to be taken seriously. Recently, someone mansplained to me that women were called a variety of rude things in the past.
Me: yes, I know, I’ve literally written books about this.
Man: anyway, did you know women were called harlots?
Me: yes, I know, I’ve literally written books about this.
Man: anyway, did you know women were called harlots?
August 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Occasionally, I’m reminded that as a woman and a historian I’m not to be taken seriously. Recently, someone mansplained to me that women were called a variety of rude things in the past.
Me: yes, I know, I’ve literally written books about this.
Man: anyway, did you know women were called harlots?
Me: yes, I know, I’ve literally written books about this.
Man: anyway, did you know women were called harlots?
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Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), Durham (UK):
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Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), Durham (UK) | MEMOs
Durham University, Assistant Professor
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August 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), Durham (UK):
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memorients.com/news/assista...
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Look what came today! Honored to be in this volume. Thx @nursingclio.bsky.social !
August 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Look what came today! Honored to be in this volume. Thx @nursingclio.bsky.social !
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Sound advice from an early 16thC French Speculum Principis: "Speak Not Against the Sun" and "Do Not Make Water Facing the Sun" [fol. 39 recto], c. 1512/1515. (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
August 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Sound advice from an early 16thC French Speculum Principis: "Speak Not Against the Sun" and "Do Not Make Water Facing the Sun" [fol. 39 recto], c. 1512/1515. (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
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#MythologyMonday A hellhound haunts the Hanging Hills in Meriden, Connecticut, and is said to be a death omen: "If you meet the Black Dog once, it shall be for joy; if twice, it shall be for sorrow; and the third time shall bring death."
🎨 John R. McDermott from Saturday Home, July 1947
🎨 John R. McDermott from Saturday Home, July 1947
August 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
#MythologyMonday A hellhound haunts the Hanging Hills in Meriden, Connecticut, and is said to be a death omen: "If you meet the Black Dog once, it shall be for joy; if twice, it shall be for sorrow; and the third time shall bring death."
🎨 John R. McDermott from Saturday Home, July 1947
🎨 John R. McDermott from Saturday Home, July 1947
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Someone has stolen the key to the Aumbry at church. Until the locksmith breaks into it we don't know if they also stole the reserved sacrament or not. Which means that currently we have Schroedinger's Reserved Sacrament. Until we can confirm it either way, Jesus both IS and IS NOT in there.
August 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Someone has stolen the key to the Aumbry at church. Until the locksmith breaks into it we don't know if they also stole the reserved sacrament or not. Which means that currently we have Schroedinger's Reserved Sacrament. Until we can confirm it either way, Jesus both IS and IS NOT in there.
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LJS 419 is our favorite herbal! It includes paintings of plants, some realistic and some… not so realistic. It was written on paper in Italy, over the course of the 15th century. Watch to the end and you may see someone you know! #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/45i7N40
🔗: https://bit.ly/45i7N40
August 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
LJS 419 is our favorite herbal! It includes paintings of plants, some realistic and some… not so realistic. It was written on paper in Italy, over the course of the 15th century. Watch to the end and you may see someone you know! #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/45i7N40
🔗: https://bit.ly/45i7N40
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CFP REMINDER!
Just a reminder that there is one week left until our deadline for Volume 4 of Apardjón - 1 September 2025. We are especially interested in interdisciplinary approaches within the field of Viking and medieval Scandinavia. Full details are in our CFP. #MedievalSky
Just a reminder that there is one week left until our deadline for Volume 4 of Apardjón - 1 September 2025. We are especially interested in interdisciplinary approaches within the field of Viking and medieval Scandinavia. Full details are in our CFP. #MedievalSky
August 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
CFP REMINDER!
Just a reminder that there is one week left until our deadline for Volume 4 of Apardjón - 1 September 2025. We are especially interested in interdisciplinary approaches within the field of Viking and medieval Scandinavia. Full details are in our CFP. #MedievalSky
Just a reminder that there is one week left until our deadline for Volume 4 of Apardjón - 1 September 2025. We are especially interested in interdisciplinary approaches within the field of Viking and medieval Scandinavia. Full details are in our CFP. #MedievalSky
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🎺 Job alert! 🎺
Durham University is advertising for an Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), permanent and full-time!
Great department, lovely colleagues, beautiful historic city! Deadline for applications is 28/09/25!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ050/a...
Durham University is advertising for an Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), permanent and full-time!
Great department, lovely colleagues, beautiful historic city! Deadline for applications is 28/09/25!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ050/a...
Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern) at Durham University
Discover Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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August 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
🎺 Job alert! 🎺
Durham University is advertising for an Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), permanent and full-time!
Great department, lovely colleagues, beautiful historic city! Deadline for applications is 28/09/25!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ050/a...
Durham University is advertising for an Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), permanent and full-time!
Great department, lovely colleagues, beautiful historic city! Deadline for applications is 28/09/25!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ050/a...
PhDone! Was great to see all the pals at Cambridge last month 🎓
August 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
PhDone! Was great to see all the pals at Cambridge last month 🎓