@gzornetta.eurosky.socialNext week, as part of my course "Italy in the Middle Ages", we'll host Nicola Luciani (DiSSGeA, University of #Padova):
🏛️ "Reconfiguring Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages"
📅 Mon 19 Oct 2026, 2.30 PM
📍 Aula 6, Complesso Beato Pellegrino
Open to all interested! #medievalsky
@downham.bsky.socialReally important statement on the future of Humanities by the Scottish Society for Northern Studies #highered #academia #medievalsky #skystorians #education #scotland please circulate to raise profile
@vch-home.bsky.social#ICYMI - Anyone interested in the history of medieval #Devon, or monasticism and other medieval religious foundations should take a look.
We value and appreciate any feedback - and please watch this space for further draft material. #Skystorians #MedievalSky
@thecelticist.bsky.socialI have some issues with the way the Dream of Macsen Wledig is exploited to frame these finds - the finds are exciting enough without the typically unnuanced "could prove a myth is true!" story that the media love so such. But still: yay! Interesting finds!
@leedsims.bsky.socialTomorrow! #medievalsky
@pieterbeullens.bsky.socialDo philosophers care about fragments? They should!
These unassuming leaves were recycled from a commentary on Aristotle's Physics written by an Oxford scholar in the third quarter of the 13th century.
(Reims, Bibliothèque Carnegie, 627) #medievalsky #philsky
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@lorraineelizab6.bsky.social12 Oct: Feast Ss Breccán becc/the little, Baíthéne, "most modest" Fáelán, Díarmait a bishop "of the tribe", "holy" Silnatán mac Cruimet & "virginal-strong" Áedán. Little-known saints in medieval Irish martyrologies. Not known when & where they lived. Quotes from Martyrology of Gorman. #medievalsky
@lorraineelizab6.bsky.social12 Oct: Feast of St Bec mac Dé (d. c. 553–7). Best Prophet of his day; spoke with 9 men at once & answered all their Q's in 1 reply! Predicted High King Diarmait mac Cerbaill's death with 3 details (drowned, burned, & have his head crushed by a roofbeam)! Poems also attributed to him. #medievalsky
@lorraineelizab6.bsky.social12 Oct: Feast Day of St Nainnid of Inis Cais/ #Inishcash, Co. #Galway, an island on Lough Corrib, not far from Oughterard (Prof Elva Johnston). Lough Corrib reputed to have 365 islands, but actually has 1,327! Lots of isolation for monks wanting solitude! 📷©Guide to Connemara #Ireland #medievalsky
@aaronm.bsky.socialOnly 18 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Includes a Digesta Vetus, a book on Papal coinags, more Avvisi, some letters, History by Æ. S. Piccolomini, conclave notes and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
@profgabriele.comso #medievalsky there's this
@americanmedieval.bsky.socialviolent lima beans! they're the worst... hear more from @metmuseum.org curators about the CREATURES OF MYTH exhibition... #medievalsky
@yankotsvetkov.comA priest’s refusal to grant a dignified burial to a beloved village idiot triggers a religious war whose only survivors are timid conformists.
Read on Patreon (subscribers only): yankotsvetkov.com/posts/ebook-...
@sims-mss.bsky.socialFor #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm ET, on Zoom) on October 15, Louis Meiselman will show us an early manuscript of Aṿat nefesh, a supercommentary to Abraham ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch #medievalsky
Register here: https://bit.ly/4yp3LTB
@lizamezzo.bsky.social#MedievalSky, I have a music question:
The Angel in the Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play is specifically directed to sing "Gloria in excelsis".
In Northern England in the mid-1400s, what setting of the Gloria would they likely be using?
Bonus if it's in triple time ("three breves to a long").
@goldenageofpiracy.bsky.socialArchaic word of the day:
man-at-arms - a soldier; heavily armed soldier on horseback, especially in medieval times (First recorded in 1325)
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