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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 1d

Many congratulations @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social on this superb new book - I look forward very much to reading it!

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IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar @earliermiddleages.bsky.social · 2d

THIS WEEK: Please join us and @uclioabmmedieval.bsky.social for the Sir David Wilson lecture, with @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 'From Mesoamerica to Early Medieval England: Money, Materiality and Society'. Weds 8 Oct, 6.15pm, Archaeology Lecture Theatre G6. All welcome! www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

The Sir David Wilson Lecture in Medieval Studies 2025

The Sir David Wilson Lecture, the first event in the 2025-26 UCL Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar Series, will be given by Rory Naismith (University of Cambridge) on 8 October.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 8d

This year's Brixworth Lecture will be given by Joyce Hill on Pastoral Provision and the Benedictine Reform. Tickets: www.friendsofbrixworthchurch.org.uk/2025/09/03/b...

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 8d

The 2025 Dorothy Whitelock Lecture @engfac.bsky.social will be given by Prof. Jane Roberts. All welcome. In person and online. Registration details below.
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IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar @earliermiddleages.bsky.social · 9d

📣 The Earlier Middle Ages seminar @ihr.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Here's our autumn term schedule. First up is @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 8 October, giving the annual David Wilson Lecture (with @uclarchaeology.bsky.social). All welcome! Please sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Autumn 2025 schedule for the Institute of Historical Research's Earlier Middle Ages seminar. Full information available at https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/earlier-middle-ages

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 14d

A feast for the eyes! 😍 One of the finest Carolingian coins ever seen, à gold solidus of Louis the Pious, minted in the 810s, in an auction with Jean Elsen. 💯% genuine as die-linked with previously known coins.
elsen.bidinside.com/en/cat/156/2...

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 16d

Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply!

networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...

University of Cambridge - UK - Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920 | H-Net

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 22d

For #EpigraphyTuesday an amazing #Roman gold fibula (a decorative pin for fastening garments/a brooch) carrying the Latin inscription VTERE FELIX - use this happily, one of the most common inscriptions on Roman finger rings and fibulae.

From Ostrovany, Slovakia, late 3rd c. AD

📷 KHM Wien

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Roman gold fibula shaped like an ornate crossbow, richly decorated with filigree and granulation, featuring a Latin inscription “VTERE FELIX” on the bow. Photographed on a neutral grey background.

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 26d

Coming next spring ... yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Offa

An authoritative biography of Offa of Mercia, revealing his importance as the king who stood at the turning point of Anglo-Saxon history Offa ruled the Merci...

yalebooks.yale.edu

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Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Univ of Cambridge @department-asnc.bsky.social · 27d

Congratulations to Dr Ben Guy, who has been awarded an AHRC standard grant to fund a major collaborative project on the early Welsh charters and their boundaries!

www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/2025/09...

Congratulations: Dr Ben Guy awarded an AHRC Standard Grant for project on early Welsh charters | Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic

www.asnc.cam.ac.uk

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · Sep 8

I would love to have used Liz Truss as an example of dodgy modern Anglo-Saxonism when writing this: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · Aug 30

A mummy portrait of a soldier from Fayum in Egypt. Dating to around 130 AD, the portrait is part of the collections at the Altes Museum in Berlin. 📷 My own. #Fayum #AltesMuseum

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · Aug 28

Congratulations @ninacnock.bsky.social !

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Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Univ of Cambridge @department-asnc.bsky.social · Aug 28

Many congratulations to @ninacnock.bsky.social , who recently completed a doctorate in ASNC and has now been awarded the 2025 Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß-Prize for the best PhD thesis in Celtic Studies! 🎉🎉🎉

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Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social · Aug 27

Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) wishes to recruit an Associate Professor/Professor in CDH from Jan 2026

Specialisms: Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/associa...

Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities

Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) wishes to recruit an Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. The appointment may be made

www.cam.ac.uk

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Aug 14

#MedievalSky Financial Times has a free behind-the-scenes piece on the diplomatic negotiations btw France & England that brought about the "exchange" of the Bayeux Tapestry, scheduled for 2026: www.ft.com/content/3f1e...

How the Bayeux Tapestry became a tool of soft power

Months of talks were needed to secure an agreement that has been hailed as evidence of improved Anglo-French relations

www.ft.com

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · Aug 14

I’m assuming you mean Danish settlement in the time of King Cnut and a rare pre-Conquest g(u)ild associated with Tola of Tolpuddle and her husband Orc.

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · Aug 8

A very interesting new article out in @enghistrev.bsky.social from Ingrid Rembold on the discourse around orphans, widows and protection in the Carolingian World. academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Widows, Orphans and Churches: Protection and Virtue Signalling in the Carolingian World*

Abstract. This article fundamentally reassesses the interpretation of grants of protection within the Carolingian world. The established view of such grant

academic.oup.com

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David Woodman @davidwoodman45.bsky.social · Aug 5

An exciting day of papers for those interested in early medieval charters (on 9 September). If you’d like to attend, do send me a message!

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · Jul 24

The weights of these coins vary, but typically 1.2-1.4 grams.

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Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · Jul 23

Forgot to mention this yesterday, but this new volume--the Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy, edited by Richard Flower--has now officially been published and should be available through Cambridge Core for those who have access.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

The Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy

Cambridge Core - European Studies - The Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy

www.cambridge.org

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · Jul 20

Thanks Dominik. As I said, the point about the publisher comes from Simon directly - it is not the kind of thing one would say in print!

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · Jul 20

Simon once said that it was the publisher who insisted that Asser’s pagani had to be translated as ‘Vikings’ or ‘Danes’. I think yhe translators do mention this in the notes, but it is a problem.

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · Jul 20

I’ve noticed this too. She also turns peoples into countries - so ‘the Mercians’ become ‘Mercia’. Each individual case is fairly innocuous and often adds clarity, but collectively such changes are distorting.

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · Jul 18

For #FindsFriday the unique and remarkable Khazar coin inscribed "Moses is God's messenger", from the huge Spillings hoard found on Gotland in 1999. The coin (dated c. 837) is the only physical proof that Khazars converted to Judaism. From the Gotlands Museum book "The Spillings Hoard"

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