How sad! :(
One of the best books I've read in recent years
#medievalsky

How sad! :(
One of the best books I've read in recent years
#medievalsky
A peacock in a Viking ship? Oh yes! youtu.be/KmVQRmky0V8 #vikingsky #medievalsky
Blois c'est quand même un événement incroyable. C'est dans doute la seule ville de France où t'as des panneaux publicitaires géants avec la tête de Patrick Boucheron et où tu peux le croiser dans la rue en même temps. #medievalsky
"St Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women - An inspiring book for young readers featuring Irish female saints who have been forgotten. A must-have book for history fans."
23 stories, 23 tasks, lots myths/folklore, fun poetry, interesting facts, saint name checklist, quiz & more! #medievalsky #books
5-6th C Irish princess St Buriana went to St Buryan, Cornwall. Prayed & paralysed son of local king healed! Desired for her beauty, he kidnapped her until he heard the impossible; a #cuckoo in snow in October! She & Irishman St Piran prayed & a miracle happened! #medievalsky #WorldMigratoryBirdDay ❄️
10 Oct: Feast Day of St Fintan of Druim Ing/Ingaird. #Sutton / #Howth, #Dublin. Name still survives as Dromin (Prof Elva Johnston). Described as "modest" in Martyrology of Gorman. 📷St Fintan's Shrine Church #Ireland #saints #medievalsky irelandsholywells.blogspot.com/2012/05/sain...
10 Oct: Feast Day of Ss Sillán, an abbot & Senán, a bishop. Little-known saints in medieval Irish martyrologies. Unknown when & where they lived. Very popular names; St Sillán name of an Aer Lingus airbus 📷Frenchpainter, & bus 📷MidlandDeltic! #Ireland #saints #medievalsky
Power Play - The Pope, the King and the Templars 1305-1307
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#templar #templier #tempelier #KnightsTemplar #Templars #MedievalHistory #MiddleAges #MoyenAge #Crusades #Medieval #ClementV #PhilippeLeBel #BonifaceVIII #JacquesDeMolay #TemplarsNow #13October1307 #medievalsky
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Check out our G. Geltner’s new chapter, “L’igiene pubblica,” in Comuniter et concorditer: Lo Statuto di Todi del 1275, ed. Enrico Menetò (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, 2026), 159-72.
I just discovered the *NOTES* column option in Canvas's gradebook. WHY did I not know about this feature sooner!?
#medievalsky a curated booklist with some bangers on here if you want to know more about the actual Middle Ages
An amazing and recent trip to one of the oldest libraries in Europe - the Bodleian library in Oxford.
#medievalsky
This notice doesn't say where the job is. It's UC-Berkeley. "off-scale salary and other components of pay, which would yield compensation that is higher than this range, are offered to meet competitive conditions." #MedievalSky
This looks like a promising seminar. I've been using transcription tools on 15th century Genoese financial records and I'm interested to compare with the results of @lauramorreale.bsky.social . #medievalsky #earlymodern
That’s the kind of afterlife of the Viking past we’re mapping at NorseMap.
If you spot Leif in the wild – a statue, monument, street name, business or anything else – take a pic and add it to iViking:
Friend got us tickets to the Bayeux Tapestry. It felt harder to get into than a sold out rock concert! If everyone who goes to see it takes one action help save Humanities in Higher Ed (letter/petition etc) I feel we would be okay for the next while #medievalsky
Archaic word of the day:
malison - a curse (First recorded in 1200; Latin 'maledictiōn-',stem of 'maledictiō')
Announcing the Michaelmas Term Card for the Cambridge Medieval History Graduate Workshop!
All workshops begin at 4.00pm in Room GR05 in the Faculty of English. #Medievalsky #Medievalists #Cambridge