Manuscripts and Book History
People that work and talk about manuscripts and book history from antiquity to the present with a strong footing in the Middle Ages!
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@calthalas.bsky.social
@tainonen.bsky.social
Medieval and early modern manuscripts and libraries Sub-Librarian / Special Collections Librarian at The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social My posts, my views and interests - not my employer's
@cartaeeuropae.bsky.social
Official account of the Cartae Europae Medii Aevi corpus - CEMA, dir. @nicolasperreaux.bsky.social. A unified corpus of charters for the analysis of medieval European society: https://cema.lamop.fr/
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/charles-west
@homophonous.bsky.social
Andalusi lit and cultural history at NYU. Medieval, but not like that. Trying to strike a balance between critical and creative writing. Chaos muppet, always. Still perfecting my gazpacho.
@guidobaldine.bsky.social
Archivarin im Haus-, Hof- & Staatsarchiv in Wien. Mag Urkunden und alles andere Handschriftliche. Unterrichtet gerne. Lernt gerne.
@ainoacastro.bsky.social
| :: Visigothic script :: | Mss Studies PI ERC funded project #PeopleAndWriting Universidad de Salamanca
@kakapitan.bsky.social
Manuscripts & other old things in the digital age (www.kakapitan.com) Junior Professor in #digitalhumanities at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social, @psl-univ.bsky.social & Visting scholar at @voltaire.ox.ac.uk, @ox.ac.uk
@stewartbrookes.bsky.social
Cataloguing medieval manuscripts @bodleianlibs| Co-director of Models of Authority: http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk | F-shaped "y" is where it's at!
@chancebonar.bsky.social
Researching early Christianity, slavery, authorship, antisemitism, violence, and more Cat dad | 🏳️🌈 http://chancebonar.com Books: https://bit.ly/3R8LXbo & https://bit.ly/4iMBSwy
@annetteyreed.bsky.social
Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
@nconstantinidou.bsky.social
Historian of early modern European ideas and culture, researching (Greek) early printed books; co-ordinator of #HorizonEurope #GrECI project http://greci-twinning.org #bookhistory #classicalreception #skystorians
@jessehurlbut.bsky.social
Medievalist. Manuscript studies, 15th-century Burgundy, French literature, art, culture, Digital Humanities. Retired. https://jessehurlbut.net
@jalollar.bsky.social
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2024) British Academy International Fellow (2024-2027)
@medievalireland.bsky.social
Medievalist | Celticist | Research Asst Prof @TCDHistory. PI of Early Irish Hands @Research Ireland, CLÓSCAPE @TLRH, and Wandering Books. Passionate about all things medieval Irish, manuscripts, palaeography, and early Christianity in the insular world.
@bibsoc.bsky.social
The Bibliographical Society exists to promote the study of the history of the book, for librarians, collectors, historians and book lovers everywhere.
@copticscript.bsky.social
Open access digital humanities project https://copticscriptorium.org. Posts usually by @ctschroeder.bsky.social
@ctschroeder.bsky.social
Solo mom, teacher, writer, friend, Chloe's person. Author/ed Children & Family in Egyptian Monasticism http://tiny.cc/umx8lz, Monastic Bodies, Melania. carrieschroeder.com. Co-founder copticscriptorium.org. Prof @ OU. Opinions mine not my employer's
@timlubin.bsky.social
Historian of religion and law in premodern S&SE Asia, Sanskrit & Old Javanese philologist, interdisciplinarian, art spouse. Head of Law, Justice & Society program at WLU. VP of American Society for Premodern Asia. https://timothylubin.net/
@kuroshmeshkat.bsky.social
Anglo-Persian Relations, Political Thought and the Perso-Arabian Gulf, 1500-1800. Formerly @UiS, @UiO, @QMUL and @UkNatArchives, now @BLQatar @britishlibrary.bsky.social
@katherineschof8.bsky.social
Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofie
@mmargolis.bsky.social
N.E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia. Lover of old and worn early printed books/manuscripts and the stories they tell in the margins. Co-director of Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place. #dhjewish
@dburgersdijk.bsky.social
Classical Scholar | Late Antiquity | Reception Studies | Valerius Maximus | Hugo Grotius | Classical Education | Romanticism | Suriname @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
@jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social
Gospels, material texts, philology, Late Antiquity | Assistant Professor of New Testament
@illdottore.bsky.social
I’m an Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. I teach and study Latin, Roman stuff, book history stuff, and I’m involved in our gen-ed literature course, Literature Humanities. Be cool
@erikkwakkel.bsky.social
Professor of Book History at UBC School of Information, Vancouver. Into medieval manuscripts. He/his. Blog: https://medievalbooks.nl. Writing a book on ads by medieval scribes. “There is more to life than medieval books, but it's a good place to start.”
@rafletcher.bsky.social
Leiden University. Working on the reception of Old English in 19th-century Europe. Dictionary enthusiast.
@jbophoff.bsky.social
Studies #lateantiquity #earlychristianity and #earlymedieval stuff. Small town America pastor with the UCC. Also into fantasy, sci-fi, role play, and the wilderness. he/him/his
@dekayra.bsky.social
Art historian, PhD candidate @VU Amsterdam Medieval Syriac manuscripts, inscriptions, materiality, digital projects Editor, Middle East @TheDigitalOrientalist
@nposegay.bsky.social
Itinerant scholar, ex- @theul.bsky.social | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | Medieval history, Cairo Genizah, Semitic languages | he/him | Publications: linktr.ee/NPosegay 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah' available now: linktr.ee/CambridgeGRU
@jacculturelmu.bsky.social
The Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures brings together projects of junior and senior researchers relating to Jewish-Arabic cultures. www.lmu.de/jewisharabiccultures
@kelsbot.bsky.social
pseudepigraphy, manuscripts, canon with scare quotes | Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen | PhD, University of Durham
@sarageorgini.bsky.social
Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. President, @susih.bsky.social. Views mine, history for all.
@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social
natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | EXORCISM (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
@barrytorch.bsky.social
He/Him. Medieval and Renaissance Historian, Skeptical Optimist, Purveyor of Puns, and lover of Books, Fountain Pens, and Dogs. Settler on Treaty 13 Territory. Jewish. Queer.
@helengittos.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Medieval History; parent involved in the Independent Inquiry into Maternity Services at East Kent
@florencehrscott.bsky.social
Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK. Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
@parchmentwizard.bsky.social
Professor | PhD, Yale History | Specialist in the Middle Ages + World History | Manuscript collector | Taking each day 24 hours at a time.
@ies-sas.bsky.social
Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
@callumhendleman.bsky.social
Edinburgh PhD candidate | The Role of Women in Late Byzantine Literary Culture Enjoyer of Medieval Greek verse and boulders of varying gradients
@guysechrist.bsky.social
Early-modern history of science | Commerce and Science -Practical Maths -Natural History Uni. of Tennessee | PhD Cambridge HPS
@florencebourgne.bsky.social
Professor of English Medieval Studies & head of @cema-su.bsky.social, the Centre for Medieval English Studies at @sorbonne-universite.fr VP of the AMAES (French Society for the Study of Medieval England) Singing/Cotentin/Medieval Inscribed Objects
@oxmedstud.bsky.social
OMS is the interdisciplinary platform for medieval studies across Oxford supported by TORCH. Posts by Henrike Lähnemann and Ashley Castelino
@katefalardeau.bsky.social
PhD Medieval History, University of Cambridge • liturgy as history • medieval manuscript enjoyer • they/them
@arthurwestwell.bsky.social
Medieval historian. Liturgical manuscripts. Romanesque churches. Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Universität Regensburg. Picture: Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cod.lat.958 and Tours, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 184
@octavejulien.bsky.social
Enseignant et chercheur à Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (@Pireh, Lamop). Médiéviste (Fr, Ang) - Codicologie quanti - Histoire & informatique
@hlaehnemann.bsky.social
Eclectic mix of German Studies; medieval miscellany; Oxford news; manuscript studies. Blowing my own French horn & that of German and Medieval Studies at Oxford https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/laehnemann
@magiclantern.bsky.social
Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
@siegeweather.bsky.social
I work on medieval Chinese literature, calligraphy, book history, and material culture. PhD in Chinese, UC Berkeley. Professor. Translator. Teacher of Mandarin and Classical Chinese. Go/围棋/바둑 try-hard.
@juliaboechat.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @historicalstudies.bsky.social researching #BookHistory in the Soviet Union | VP and Editor-in-Chief @isha-international.bsky.social | from 🇧🇷, studied in 🇮🇹🇧🇾🇦🇹| Passionate about literature, traveling and swing dancing (she / her)
@henninghansen.bsky.social
Book historian & research librarian at the Swedish National Heritage Board & UiT The Arctic University of Norway. History of reading, Provenance, Cartography & Library history. @sharpweb.org aficionado.
@arashzeini.com
Bahari Research Fellow @ AMES, @ox.ac.uk; FRHistS; Iranian Studies, history, philology, late antique Zoroastrianism; Founder of @biblioIranica.info; AIS inaugural Book Prize for Ancient Iranian Studies 2022. My views. https://linktr.ee/arashzeini
@laurenrndll.bsky.social
PhD Theology student at Durham University researching the paratext of Codex Amiatinus, exploring palaeography, philology and manuscript cultures.
@markalanmattes.bsky.social
U of Louisville English - Book & Media History - Early American Studies - Native American and Indigenous Studies - Manuscript Studies - Hot Brown Press (hotbrownpress.com) - Editor of Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)
@larisag.bsky.social
Associate Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Getty Museum, UPenn art history PhD; major nerd. Opinions, especially the spicy ones, my own.
@majnouna.bsky.social
Artist-scholar, specialised in early Arabic (Kufi) scripts & historical/natural materials. Beirut émigré in Oxford. Earth lover, plastic-free. Contemplative. Whovian/Gallifrey… All the links: https://linktr.ee/Majnouna
@halleoneal.bsky.social
Japanese art history, Co-Director of Edinburgh Buddhist Studies. Reuse/recycling, paper, palimpsests, fragments. Book: Word Embodied (Harvard 2018) Edited vol: Reuse, Recycle, and Repurpose: The Afterlives of Japanese Material Culture (Ars Orientalis 2023)
@petertarras.bsky.social
Postdoc @jacculturelmu.bsky.social | Blog: http://medisi.hypotheses.org | Book History | Manuscript Studies | Provenance | Oriens Christianus | Intellectual History | SciCom | #FirstGen https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/PeterTarras
@ahokas.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher (History, Uni. Helsinki): medieval book history, manuscript studies, DH. Views own. He/him. Väitöskirjatutkija (historia, Helsingin yliopisto): keskiajan kirjahistoria, käsikirjoitustutkimus, digitaaliset ihmistieteet. Näkemykset omia.
@michaeljsullivan.bsky.social
Literary critic at University of Oxford, St Catherine's College | Poetics | Transnational drift of verse forms | Digital Humanities & Digital Editing | General Editor, OUP Complete Works of Tennyson. Views are my own. www.michaeljsullivan.net
@oishani.bsky.social
asst prof @ UT El Paso race, print culture, pictures into funny/uncanny things
@trude-dijkstra.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in the History of the Book | University of Amsterdam | Early Modernist | The Role of Print in Intercultural Encounters between Europe and Asia| current project: Hand-Colouring the World Outside Europe
@drkerithomas.bsky.social
Manuscript theorist & wannabe booklicker. Valleys Girl. Medieval + digital + materiality + resurrection. Joyful spite. ‘Memory & the Digital Manuscript: Resurrection, Divinity & New Materiality’ Routledge (2025 maybe) https://kerilthomas.wordpress.com
@benpohl.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval History, University of Bristol | Books with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Boydell & Brewer (×2), Schnell & Steiner, ARC Humanities Press | Manuscript Detective™ 🕵️♂️ 📜 📖
@vancutseml.bsky.social
BOF Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent Univ., currently visiting scholar at Zhejiang Univ. | Premodern Chan/Zen Buddhism (ca. 750-1000), Dunhuang manuscripts, DH (TEI editions and HSNA). http://laurentvancutsem.com | Tea, Nature, and Landscape Photography.
@yaelrice.bsky.social
Associate professor of the History of Art and Asian Languages and Civilization & chair of Architectural Studies at Amherst College.
@judithflanders.co.uk
Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon. She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
@phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social
Asst Prof (Old English & Old Norse). Book on hell & apocrypha. Phil-lol-ogist, word-lover, pun-makar, collector of dictionaries, glamorer of grammar. He/his
@lizhebbard.bsky.social
Medieval Occitan & French; vernacular lyric; music & text; history of the book; medieval book arts; binding fragmentology. PI of the Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social 📜
@julemeyer.bsky.social
📖 PhD researcher @Uni Heidelberg: Development of Carolingian script in 9th century Mainz. | Medieval manuscripts | palaeography | digital humanities | archives & libraries | epigraphy |
@monikaamsler.bsky.social
Senior Research Assistant (sic!), University of Bern. Rabbinic lit., ancient education, book production, the concept of the paradox, history of ideas.
@campsgalway.bsky.social
Centre for Antique, Medieval, and Pre-Modern Studies, University of Galway. Posts by @cgschweizer.bsky.social https://www.universityofgalway.ie/camps/
@cgschweizer.bsky.social
@ResearchIreland.bsky.social GOI Postdoctoral Fellow @galwayclassics.bsky.social: 'Dicuil – an Irish and Carolingian Universalist and his Intellectual Legacy (DICUIL)'; Communications Officer @campsgalway.bsky.social
@klostermedizin.de
History of Medicine/Pharmacy ● Medicinal plants in Europe ● Herbal anti-infectives ● Coordinating the Forschergruppe Klostermedizin (Research Group Monastic Medicine), Würzburg (Germany) -> klostermedizin.de
@sarahloleet.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of English & Coordinator of the Digital and Public Humanities program at Saint Mary's College. Co-PI of the Peripheral MSS Project (peripheralmss.org). Interests: Medieval Lit, Book History, MSS Studies, and DH (she/her)
@biblioraphic.bsky.social
Assistant Librarian in Cambridge, AHRC-funded PhD student at UEA and the British Library, book hoarder at home
@chantalkobel.bsky.social
Assistant lecturer in Old Irish, Dept. of Early Irish, Maynooth University. Early Irish language, literature, palaeography & Irish manuscript tradition. https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/chantal-kobel
@cmbnugent.bsky.social
Scholar of medieval Chinese literary and manuscript culture (mostly Dunhuang), occasional potter, avid bad tennis player.
@cemhend.bsky.social
PhD@UToronto CMS. Palaeography, codicology, forensics skeptic. Also Chaucer and video games. Wikipedia editor (AMA). AuDHD. 🏴🏳️⚧️ Also @cemhend@scholar.social and cemhend on birdsite
@thecelticist.bsky.social
Historian/writer • Maynooth University • Fierce Appetites (Penguin, 2022) • History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland (Routledge, 2021) • rep'd by Robert Caskie • extreme metal fan • she/her.
@sbschliep.bsky.social
Archivist and manuscript cataloger. Interested in medieval and early modern literature and history, book history, and transcription.
@bryonycoombs.bsky.social
Art Historian I Medieval and Early Modern, PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS Renaissance Teaching Fellow, Edinburgh Uni Franco-Scottish cultural connections: art, architecture and material culture. https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs https://bryonycoombs.com
@jennyrichards.bsky.social
Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
@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.
@aghowes.bsky.social
Peripatetic postdoctoral scholar, researching the medieval Armenian Alexander Romance and 19th-century Caucasus cosmopolitanism. Films, trains, British. They/them.
@ellisnilsson.bsky.social
Canadian Medievalist Senior Lecturer/Associate Prof @Linnaeus Uni. Docent @Lund Uni. PI @MappingSaints. WebEditor @info_Scandia. Saints & society; Digital History; Medieval book fragments; Mediating the past via reconstructions/re-creations, (re)enactment
@gzornetta.bsky.social
lecturer in Medieval History at DiSSGeA - University of Padova / editor at Reti Medievali and I Quaderni del Maes
@catrinh.bsky.social
Medievalist and B2B copywriter | PhD candidate @Stanford | Old English, manuscript studies, DH, and UX approaches to textual cultures of the Insular world (they/she)
@book-historia.bsky.social
Book historian, medieval manuscript liker, Curator of Special Collections at the Winterthur Library. She/they. Biblioshitposter.
@fragmentarium.bsky.social
Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments: https://fragmentarium.ms posts currently by William Duba.
@15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social
Explorer of books, lover of words. Substacking at Page by Page.
@parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
Special collections library at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-library Parker Library On the Web - our medieval and early modern MSS digitised https://parker.stanford.edu/parker
@admclaughlin.bsky.social
Librarian, art historian, medievalist, and generally interested in most things, digitisation services manager @TrinCollLibCam.bsky.social (All opinions my own) | formerly @anmcl001 on Twitter…
@ccurran.bsky.social
Sermone nitidus. Hybrid Scripts and Early Insular Palaeography & Manuscripts. MSCA Postdoctoral Researcher @GalwayClassics on early medieval Brittany/Breizh. I love the letter g.
@alisonibeach.bsky.social
Medieval Historian at the University of St Andrews. Leader of #TeamNun and the Word of Mouth AHRC-funded project. Works at the intersection of history and archaeology. Humanist with a trowel and a microscope!
@leoba.bsky.social
Medievalist, digital humanist, and wannabe booklicker. I'm here to post memes and yell about manuscripts.
@svanimpe.bsky.social
Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
@sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social
Mom of 4 University of Haifa, Israel: PI of the ISF Project Josephus Christianus https://sinowloc.wixsite.com/josephus-christianus Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (ERC ROMANA) Late antiquity, books, Jews, Christians, etc. 🪔📚📜🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️💔💔💔
@sebfalk.com
Historian of science || Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge || Singer, sailor, runner, father || "Always generous" – The New Yorker