Medievalism Seminar
We are a seminar group on medievalism based at the Institute for Historical Research, Univ of London. Our sessions address the imaginings, re-imaginings and evocation of the Middle Ages in all reaches of post-medieval culture.
@markusmindrebo.bsky.social
Medieval historian | Associate professor, @unistavanger.bsky.social | Gender/politics in Norse kings' sagas | Network scholar | Game thinker | Storyteller
@judithjesch.bsky.social
Professor of Viking Studies, @UoNEnglish.bsky.social, @UniofNottingham.bsky.social, FBA. See also @RagnasIslands.bsky.social ORCID: 0000-0002-6020-0683
@cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social
CMRS brings together medievalists from schools and colleges across the University of Edinburgh. Website: https://hca.ed.ac.uk/centre-medieval-renaissance
@maggiepavleszek.bsky.social
PhD-ing @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social | Medieval(ism)ist | Archaeology, Viking Death and the Victorian Literary Imagination
@helenbrookman.bsky.social
Professor in Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Education @kingsartshums
@themamoconf.bsky.social
The 5th Middle Ages in the Modern World conference (MAMO). King's College London, 24-26 June 2025. themamo.org
@craighambling.bsky.social
Historian of medieval education, physical training, gender, and authority. BADC fight director/stage combat teacher and very occasional combat performer.
@ihr.bsky.social
The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
@downham.bsky.social
Medievalist, Liverpool. She/Her. Author of ‘Medieval Ireland’ (Cambridge University Press) ‘Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland’ (Liverpool University Press) currently commissioned for a Penguin Classics volume on the Viking Age
@necron-network.bsky.social
NECRON is an interdisciplinary network of Early Career Researchers and PhD students working on the Medieval North https://necronnetwork.wordpress.com/home/
@meganlcook.bsky.social
Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. Currently co-chairing an English dept at a SLAC in Maine. Also in progress: Dirtbag Medievalism.
@richardiiisocca.bsky.social
What it says on the label. Interested in late 15th C with a focus on the Wars of the Roses but promotes anything medieval of interest.
@maryrboyle.bsky.social
Outreach Coordinator for German at Cambridge. Fellow and Tutor, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. Postgraduate Admissions Tutor, Homerton College, Cambridge. Medievalist. Pilgrimage book: bit.ly/MedPilg 🇪🇺 Migrant justice. Own views.
@keithruiter.bsky.social
Medievalist | likes law, normativity, transgression, & other Viking Age oddities (also has a life outside work) | Senior Lecturer at University of Suffolk | Hon. Assistant Prof at Centre for the Study of the Viking Age | PhD | he/they
@lisafdavis.bsky.social
Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
@drlauravarnam.bsky.social
Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers Volume Seven: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024). Writing a book on Du Maurier.
@jamespaz.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval English Literature at the University of Manchester (https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/james.paz).
@olegb.bsky.social
Historian of East Asia at the University of York in the UK. Recently working on samurai, castles, masculinity, drugs, sport, emotions, comics, medievalism, and public history. Needs fewer hobbies. www.olegbenesch.com
@heather1576.bsky.social
Archaeologist with a penchant for 16th and 17th century playhouses of all shapes and sizes, FSA. 🎭🏺
@collins1129.bsky.social
Lukewarm takes on medieval/public history, museums, books & indie bookstores • they/them • Views my own. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴🌹
@drbeldavis.bsky.social
Historian @ Natural History Museum, research on repro history, nat history, collections. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/people/isabel-davis.html Book: Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past & Present MIT Press. 🐁 lover (someone's got to be).
@rousemedieval.bsky.social
Medievalist, medieval romance, medievalisms, left coast professor@UBC, @Oecologies OG, environmental and spatial approaches, game development consulting (AoE4), dad, nostalgic Man Utd fan. Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 (never the 51st State; fuck that noise).
@simonjptrafford.bsky.social
Early medievalist at IHR, Univ. of London, with a current research focus on water and human immersions. Also ethnicity, identity, migration and modern medievalisms. Regrettably likely to propose a lovely long walk given half a chance.
@metalclassicist.bsky.social
VAP in Classics at Grand Valley State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in Metal. he/him “Julian Augustus” out 26 September with Oxford University Press. Preorder here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
@neilstewart.bsky.social
Head of Library & Digital @ihrlibrary.bsky.social at the Institute of Historical Research, London, UK @ihr.bsky.social. Libraries, history, books, music, film, current affairs, the odd bit of politics- you know, the good stuff.
@lvhicks.bsky.social
Professor of medieval studies. Leverhulme major research fellow. Norman history and landscapes. Occasional gardening, knitting, cricket and Anglicanism https://normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/ 🗃⚱️📜
@vchlondon.bsky.social
Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people. https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
@etreharne.bsky.social
Welsh 🏴 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever.
@lostinhistory.bsky.social
Archaeologist turned museum worker turned library techician. Just a dusty bitch with a cat according to that one guy on twitter.
@cooksterkc.bsky.social
Musician, Medievalist, Gamer, Historian, Skeptic, Lover of Pop Cultures Past & Present. Stayin' alive. She/Her. [All views my own; RT/♥ ≠ agreement.]
@jjstoessel.bsky.social
Tenacious music historian, coder/geek, lapsed violinist-wannabe viola da gamba player
@cbmedieval.bsky.social
📚 PhD researcher at #CKHH @canterburyccuni.bsky.social looking at disputes, peace-making and social negotiation in late medieval urban society. Also work in Education
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