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Another phenomenal opportunity taking place on April 21-22 is the first Millennium Epidemics Workshop co-sponsored by @GuMedieval and led by Prof. Timothy Newfield.
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98th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America takes place this week
medievalists.net/2023/02/98t… #MAA2023 #medievaltwitter
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Happy Valentines from /postmedieval/! Check out our new Open-Access publication DEREK JARMAN'S MEDIEVAL BLOOD: QUEER DEVOTION, AFFECTIVE MEDICINE & THE AIDS CRISIS, by Eleanor Myerson, which includes these ❤️❤️ images (from Jarman & Egerton MS 1821) link.springer.com/article/10…
ALT Image of messy red heart painting, by Derek Jarman: "Queer", 1992, oil on canvas, 251.4 x 179 cm. Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester. Courtesy Keith Collins Will Trust
ALT Early-sixteenth-century image of the bleeding heart of Jesus, British Library Board. MS Egerton 1821, fol. 9r.
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The @medievalacademy is pleased to announce a Zoom working group on Race & Gender in the Global Middle Ages: scholarblogs.emory.edu/racea…
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📯📯📯 it's here! The Medieval Booklet collects all medieval related seminars across Cambridge into one useful guide - download to your desktop now!
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2023 MAA Annual Meeting: Discounted Registration Ends Feb. 1! themedievalacademyblog.org/2…
Check it out!
The latest issue of /postmedieval/, ISLAMICATE FICTIONALITIES, brilliantly guest-edited by N. İpek Hüner Cora, Sam Lasman, & Rachel Schine, is finally published in full! link.springer.com/journal/41… #medievaltwitter
ALT Image of the cover, with a seventeenth-century illustration of a monstrous trickster, the Akvān Div, carrying off the hero Rostam. Read more here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41280-022-00237-z
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Happy Lunar New Year and Year of the Rabbit! 🎉 🐇
A new year is like a blank page– the pen is in your hands! An unfinished leaf in a Book of Hours with whimsical critter borders, including rabbits and squirrels. Phot: John Plummer Database of Medieval MSS ima.princeton.edu/digital-im…
ALT Whole page of decorated manuscript with full borders inhabited by crouching or leaping squirrels and rabbits against a gold ground with leaves. The borders surrounding a gold initial P on red ground and space for text unfinished and blank.
Congratulations to Dr. Shirin Fozi, Paul and Jill Ruddock Associate Curator in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters @metmuseum!
Announcing the 2022 ICMA Annual Book Prize Recipient medievalart.org/icma-news/an…
Great onsite opportunity!
Interested in joining us in Mongolia this summer? We are collaborating with Nomad Science to excavate a campsite in Khovsgol province...
This is the view from the campsite!
Mid-June through early July
#Mongolia #archaeology #Mongol #Science
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Famous Brand Logos Are Reimagined as Medieval Art Illustrations mymodernmet.com/ilya-stallon… via @mymodernmet
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Join @utkhistory professor Sara Ritchey via Zoom on Feb. 8 at 7pm ET for a lively discussion of Lauren Groff's novel 'Matrix', which imagines the life of medieval writer Marie de France.
Register at tiny.utk.edu/PBC-Ritchey
@marcoinstitute #MedievalTwitter
The Medieval Scandinavian Art Reader is the first anthology on medieval Scandinavian art and architecture in English, looking beyond national divisions to offer an integrated art history of medieval Scandinavia scandinavianacademicpress.no…
We can't wait to hear you speak about your book @ Georgetown Global Medieval Studies on March 20 at 4:00 pm. Save the date for "On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age!" Details to follow...
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🎉We are pleased to announce that as of 1 July 2023, a subscription will no longer be required to access the Index of Medieval Art database! This transition was made possible with the support of the Kress Foundation and Princeton A&A Dept. ima.princeton.edu/2023/01/12… #medievaltwitter
ALT Manuscript detail depicting two male jongleurs wearing colorful dress, playing music, and dancing. From the Silos Beatus, 1091–1109 (London, British Library, MS Add. 11695), fol. 86r.
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Jill Caskey, Adam S. Cohen and Linda Safran, Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages: Exploring a Connected World (@CornellPress, January 2023)
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Accompanying an ongoing special exhibition at the Louvre
#Histoire #Asie
"Autour de l’#exposition Splendeurs des oasis d’Ouzbékistan : nouveaux terrains, nouvelles perspectives"
📌 Colloque organisé par le Pr Frantz Grenet (Collège de France) et Rocco Rante (Louvre).
⏰ Les 16 et 17 janvier 2023.
👉 college-de-france.fr/agenda/…
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SO YOU WANT TO DO BIOCODICOLOGY? A FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF PARCHMENT.
Fiddyment et al. Heritage Science, 2019.
Good introduction to the burgeoning new field of biocodicology, the study of the biological information stored in manuscripts.
heritagesciencejournal.sprin…
German Researchers Used Neutrons to Peek Inside an 800-Year-Old Amulet—and Discovered Tiny Bones news.artnet.com/art-world/le…
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Our brilliant Managing Editor at /postmedieval/ has a new job, alas — so, we're hiring! Part-time, remote work starting late-March 2023, pay US$17,500 annually or equivalent in other currency. See doc for details; please share widely! #medievaltwitter
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