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grantosjones.bsky.social
May have already bought six books at the second-hand book fair... Or to put a more positive spin on it, restricted myself to just six books at the second-hand book fair! #IMC2026
July 6, 2026 at 2:08 PM
josserme.bsky.social
If anyone is interested in #animalhistory - or just animals in general - come check out #IMC2026 panel 1505 : imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/mee...

The theme is 'protecting animals' which includes in my case maternity leave for horses, sabbaticals for work animals and more!
#medievalsky #envhist
The image shows info about the panel and is framed by several animal pictures At the top: A very dramatic black sheep in a winter landscape: MS M.399, fol. 14r Bottom left: A curious goat: ms m.64 Fol.12v Bottom right: A smiling cow (only head & neck can be seen): Mural 8th /9th cent., church of St. Prokulus, Naturns Infos in the middle: 1505 - Protecting Animals Thursday, 9 July 2026 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM BST Parkinson Building: B.08 Join Virtual Event on 9 July, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Description From the very earliest days of domestic animal-human interactions, people have protected and been protected by animals. In paleolithic times dog domestication took form over millennia through the attraction of greater accessibility of food for local wolf populations around human settlements while, at the same time, less aggressive animals could get closer to the humans around them to develop into hunting partners and guard animals. The very early use of animal body parts, representing the actual and ascribed characteristics of both wild and domestic animals, shows how complex these notions of mutual protection must have been. By medieval times, many of these mutual protective functions became codified in texts, images and long-held visual and written tropes. In this session the speakers will explore explore the complexities and medieval manifestations of these protective human-animal relationships. Presentations 1505-a - Alpine Animal Welfare: Perception and Treatment of Animals in Villages from Valais to Tyrol Joschka Meier, Universität Bern Parkinson Building: B.08 1505-b - From Allegory to Amulets: The Aid of Medieval Bestiaries and Their Animals Victoria Burns-Price, University of Oxford Parkinson Building: B.08 1505-c - Sanctuary for Animals in Early Medieval Vitae Philip Line, Independent Scholar Parkinson Building: B.08
July 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM
cathamclarke.bsky.social
#IMC2026, Weds, 8 July, 7pm! Four medievalists who've published 'trade' books will discuss the process - from finding an agent to working with publishers & beyond. Sponsored by @ihr.bsky.social. @realmandeville.bsky.social @saracharles.bsky.social @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social
Sara J Charles, The Medieval Scriptorium Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages Catherine Clarke, A History of England in 25 Poems Eleanor Baker, Book Curses
November 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
aspencerhall.bsky.social
You too can have an accessible conference! Accessibility makes things better for everyone!

Open access guidelines, compiled by Alexandra R. A. Lee & me, here
👉 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

#MedievalSky #IMC2026 🗃️
Alexandra R.A. Lee and Alicia Spencer-Hall Making Conferences More Accessible Introduction Many who work in academic settings live with impairments and/or chronic con-ditions, which mean that attending conferences can be a difficult issue. This can be the case for students, early-career researchers, independent scholars, tenured academics, and support staff. All require their needs to be taken into account so that their conference experience is as good as it possibly can be. After the first meetup of Medievalists with Disabilities in 2017, we crowdsourced ideas of how to make conferences more accessible. The ideas presented here came from this meetup, Twitter discussions with the community, and from the Medievalists with Disabilities Slack channel, an online communication platform. This document is the result of that collaborative work, which we have edited together into a more cohesive format. We have revisited and updated the original document, particu-larly bearing in mind the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nature of con-ference attendance. These guidelines aim to make conference attendance easier and indeed just simply possible for disabled people and people with chronic conditions by imple-menting certain strategies. If these guidelines are followed, it should mean less work for disabled and chronically ill people. Also, if they became standard, it would significantly improve accessibility. Many of the suggestions do not require many changes or much effort or expense but would make a huge difference to those they would support. You will notice that we have taken guidance from around the world, and a multitude of different contexts: while we are medieval-ists, after the first section, the guidance we offer is not disciplinary-specific and is universally applicable for academic events.2
July 6, 2026 at 7:39 AM
pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
The end of a tremendous day at #imc2026 : a collective, international demonstration of the enduring intellectual and cultural value, even urgency, of the study of medieval history in the modern world.
July 8, 2026 at 8:41 PM
pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
With impeccable timing, on the first day of #IMC2026, the latest issue of Early Medieval Europe is out! Featuring articles by, amongst others, @katefalardeau.bsky.social and @medievaljon.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254...
Early Medieval Europe: Vol 34, No 3
Early Medieval Europe is an interdisciplinary medieval studies journal covering European history from the fall of the Roman Empire up until the 11th century.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 6, 2026 at 7:45 AM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
Flagging to make sure that folks attending #IMC2026 know about this. These humane accommodations are always what you want to look for in a well-run conference. #MedievalSky
imc-leeds.bsky.social International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · Jul 4
Lactation Room: University House: Woodsley Room
Open: Monday-Wednesday 09.00-20.00, Thursday 9.00-17.00

This room is a private space, close to a sink and accessible bathroom, for those who are breastfeeding/ need to express milk. A fridge, labels, paper towels, and wet wipes will be provided.
A room in University House which is kitted out with chairs and sofas. There is a table on the left hand side with blankets and eye masks.
July 4, 2026 at 8:17 PM
aspencerhall.bsky.social
It's worth knowing that Medievalists with Disabilities were instrumental in getting these spaces established. We lobbied & advised @imc-leeds.bsky.social on the need for them. Original quiet room supplies were donated by yours truly, from my postdoc

#IMC2026 #MedievalSky 🗃️
monicamedhist.bsky.social Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Jul 4
Flagging to make sure that folks attending #IMC2026 know about this. These humane accommodations are always what you want to look for in a well-run conference. #MedievalSky
imc-leeds.bsky.social International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · Jul 4
Lactation Room: University House: Woodsley Room
Open: Monday-Wednesday 09.00-20.00, Thursday 9.00-17.00

This room is a private space, close to a sink and accessible bathroom, for those who are breastfeeding/ need to express milk. A fridge, labels, paper towels, and wet wipes will be provided.
July 6, 2026 at 7:39 AM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
Just attended the #IMC2026 roundtable on Rats & Mice. Of obvious interest to me as a plague historian. But also an amazing example of how new topics can flourish when disciplines are brought together around a common topic. In this case, archaeology, archival studies, art history, & more! Bravo!
A detail of an illustrated manuscript, showing a scribe, Hildebertus, at his desk, while a mouse eats his food on his dining table. From Jacqueline Leclercq-Marx, Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences sociales, Université Libre de Bruxelles, "The common perception of mice in the Middle Ages. Some textual and iconographic evidence," International medieval Congress Leeds 2026.
July 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Really looking forward to this lecture by Jo Story on the @insularmss.bsky.social project, on insular manuscripts and cross-European connections. #IMC2026
Image of early medieval manuscript on PowerPoint slide
July 6, 2026 at 6:12 PM
bodiesandbeing.bsky.social
#CFP for ##IMCLEEDS 2026. Looking for scholars who are interested in the relationship between bodies and time.

#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
#IMC2026 #IMC2025
July 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
calthalas.bsky.social
Have you organized a smashing session at #IMC2026 that fits somewhere in the first millennium and you are thinking about publishing it? Essays in Long Late Antiquity accept proposals for special issues and special sections, just get in touch!

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/ella/cur...
Contents | Essays in Long Late Antiquity 1, 1
This editorial introduction explains the rationale for this journal and its place in the current research landscape of late antique studies. While this field has “exploded”, different specialisms and disciplines continue to approach the period through ...
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
July 9, 2026 at 10:54 AM
areforbes.bsky.social
I have a lovely helper for this year's #IMC2026! Say hello to Orderic Vitalis - here enjoying a day at Durham Cathedral

As my paper is about his Ecclesiastical History, he wanted to come along and enjoy the conference too. I will be sure to document his adventures over the course of the week. ⛪ 📜
A knitted monk pictured in front of Durham Cathedral in the sunshine.
July 5, 2026 at 7:03 PM
calthalas.bsky.social
It is this time of the year again! We are organising @imc-leeds.bsky.social sessions on orthodoxy and economy in late antiquity for the #IMC2026! Have a look at our CfP and come and join us next year!

Do get in touch and please share widely!
We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in how actors like bishops, clerics, monks and nuns, local administrators, state officials and landowners navigated the project to establish Christian orthodoxy on the ground. We propose a broad approach which encourages contributions that analyse administrative documents, ‘canon’, imperial or other legal and normative literature and juristic papyri, hagiographies, epistolography, narrative sources and epigraphic and archaeological evidence. How were doctrinal conflicts enmeshed within larger socioeconomic dynamics, i.e. of consumption, production and labour? How were economic or financial concerns deployed rhetorically in narratives attempting to establish or defend ‘orthodoxy’? How did the emergence, use and/or development of the concept of heresy affect relationships around ‘public’ or ‘private’ property, or vice versa? How did ecclesiastical and lay authorities approach questions regarding the administration of property in situations of doctrinal strife, to what ends and with what consequences? How did specific properties gain religious significance in these contexts, and how might this have affected economic relationships? How did the issues of property influence and were influenced by the questions of gender? We also welcome methodological or theoretical reflections on approaching the complex relationship between orthodoxy and economy in the late antique era. The resulting sessions will offer a space for discussion about the manifold unexplored economic dimensions of doctrinal conflict, orthodoxy and heresy in the late antique world. The sessions will have pre-circulated papers and we are aiming at publishing an open access special issue with the resulting articles. Please contact Dr Cinnamon Ducasse (cinnamon.ducasse@uni-erfurt.de) and Dr Mateusz Fafinski (mateusz.fafinski@uni-erfurt.de) with your proposed title and a short abstract (no more than 300 words) by 1st of September 2025.
July 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
jakestattel.bsky.social
Call for Papers from @em-ehx.bsky.social and I for IMC Leeds 2026: 'New Perspectives on the Viking Diaspora'. Send us a title and abstract by 18 August! @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2026 #Medievalists #Medievalsky #EarlyMedieval #VikingStudies
July 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
saracharles.bsky.social
I’ll be doing my thing again at @imc-leeds.bsky.social on Thursday in the Foyer. Drop by to see lots of manuscript materials - and have a go of writing with a quill and iron gall ink, applying gold leaf to gesso and painting with pigments #bookhistory #medievalsky #IMC2026
Table set out with materials used in making medieval manuscripts. Brightly coloured pigments in shells are in the foreground
July 5, 2026 at 11:49 AM
chakarchinggis.eurosky.social
I'll have the pleasure of presenting my paper tomorrow, July 7th, as part of the 'Chinggisid Temporalities' session at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Time to go back to the origins, and to look at how medieval steppe communities envisioned the shaping of their own political structure!

#IMC2026
Title page of my ppt. Title: "It is Always the Hero and His Friends: Envisionning the Origins through Qazaqlïq in the Steppes". Othe mentions: "Chinggisid Temporalities Tuesday 7th July 2026", "Simon Berger". Logos of INaLCO, CeRMI and IMC. On a dark background, a noble seated in front of some tents, surronded by seven other men, mainly taken from ms. BNF Supplément Persan 1113.
July 6, 2026 at 11:16 AM
cathamclarke.bsky.social
Join us @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Very excited for this session with the brilliant @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social, @realmandeville.bsky.social and @saracharles.bsky.social on writing trade non-fiction - from finding an agent to working with trade publishers, the media and beyond. #medieval #imc2026
Session 1440 Taking Medieval Studies to a Wider Audience: Writing Trade Non-Fiction - A Round Table Discussion Wednesday 8 July, 7-8pm Medieval history, literature, and culture have played a starring role in many books for general readers in recent years, capturing the public imagination. In this round table discussion, four medievalists who have published successful 'trade' books for wider audiences will discuss their experiences of bringing their academic research to a new readership. Working in varied contexts and at different career stages, the speakers cover a range of specialisms: Eleanor Baker (Book Curses), Anthony Bale (A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World through Medieval Eyes), Sara Charles (The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages), and Catherine Clarke (A History of England in 25 Poems). They will reflect on the processes of shaping a topic, writing in different formats and registers, and engaging a non-specialist audience, as well as the journey to publication - from finding an agent to working with trade publishers, the media, and beyond.
June 13, 2026 at 3:27 PM
anotheraspirin.bsky.social
Gonna finish my #IMC2026 paper the way the Babby Jesus intended.

On the train to the #IMC2026
July 4, 2026 at 4:31 PM
drcharlottepickard.bsky.social
CfP: The Noblewomen Network @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026. If you're working on medieval noblewomen, we'd love to hear from you! Please share widely.

Deadline for abstracts: 5 September.

#IMC2026
Noblewomen played a central role in medieval society. They cultivated important networks both within their families and wider society, acting as rulers and politicians, as well as cultural and religious patrons and intermediaries. This is an ever-expanding field of research, with scholars exploring the plethora of roles that noblewomen could play in medieval life, and the ways in which they were viewed and represented by wider society. This strand of sessions will bring together scholars who work on medieval noblewomen – to build on and develop the discourse that has developed over the past few decades, with the continued aim of building a global network of scholars working in this vibrant area of research. We welcome papers spanning from across the medieval world, as well as across disciplines. Topics could include, but are not limited to: Noblewomen in time; Noblewomen’s involvement in education and learning; Noblewomen’s roles in politics and political life; Noblewomen and society; Noblewomen and the family; Noblewomen and the law; Noblewomen and patronage; Noblewomen and material culture; Noblewomen and literature; Ecclesiastical women and interactions with religious communities; Historiographical approaches to noblewomen. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on all aspects of research relating to noblewomen. Expressions of interest and/or queries should be directed to NoblewomenIMC2020@gmail.com by 7pm on Friday 5 September 2025, with an abstract of no more than 250 words and a short biography.
August 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
eleanormaybaker.bsky.social
I am very excited to speak alongside the alarmingly fantastic @cathamclarke.bsky.social, @realmandeville.bsky.social and @saracharles.bsky.social about the experience of writing a trade press book at #IMC2026, which is something I did not necessarily envisage myself doing!
cathamclarke.bsky.social Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · Nov 29
#IMC2026, Weds, 8 July, 7pm! Four medievalists who've published 'trade' books will discuss the process - from finding an agent to working with publishers & beyond. Sponsored by @ihr.bsky.social. @realmandeville.bsky.social @saracharles.bsky.social @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social
Sara J Charles, The Medieval Scriptorium Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages Catherine Clarke, A History of England in 25 Poems Eleanor Baker, Book Curses
November 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
aspencerhall.bsky.social
Can't wait for Tuesday's back-to-back trans goodness at @imc-leeds.bsky.social, courtesy of #s524 #s624 #s724 & #s824, all organised by @basilaprice.bsky.social & Daniel Reeve, finishing up with #s924 roundtable organised by Dena Arguelles

📍 Esther Simpson Building: 3.02

#IMC2026 #MedievalSky 🗃️
Tuesday, 7 July 2026 9:00 AM 10:30 AM GMT+1 524 - Beyond Touch: New Queer and Trans Temporalities, I Esther Simpson Building: 3.02 Join Virtual Event on 7 July 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM GMT+1 624 - Beyond Touch: New Queer and Trans Temporalities, II Esther Simpson Building: 3.02 Join Virtual Event on 7 July 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM GMT+1 724 - Beyond Touch: New Queer and Trans Temporalities, III Esther Simpson Building: 3.02 Join Virtual Event on 7 July 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM 4:30 PM - 6:00PM GMT+1 824 - Beyond Touch: New Queer and Trans Temporalities, IV Esther Simpson Building: 3.02 Join Virtual Event on 7 July 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM GMT+1 924 - Trans... Matters 2: Transformations, Transgressions, Trans-Gender Roles, Transgender - A Round Table Discussion Esther Simpson Building: 3.02 Join Virtual Event on 7 July 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM ROUND TABLE
July 5, 2026 at 11:56 AM
kateweikert.bsky.social
When is a landscape? Join The Landscape Consortium @imc-leeds.bsky.social with this #imc2026 #cfp exploring multi-scalar research and interpretations of medieval landscapes. Full cfp in alt-text. TLC is Karl Alvestad, Daniel Brown, @jwfr.bsky.social and Stefanie Schild. Please share far and wide!
Leeds IMC 2026 Call for Papers: When is a Landscape? The Landscape Consortium invites papers exploring medieval landscapes in and beyond time, their multiscalar and multitemporal constructions and interpretations, and their meanings within medieval or modern worlds. When is a landscape? Following the lead of Yannis Hamilakis’ work (2013) demonstrating that object and place are witnesses to coexistences of times, this session seeks to explore medieval landscapes as carriers of concurrent past, present and future places and meanings, and as bridges between multiple scales of studies and multiple times. We are particularly interested in creative, theoretic and interpretive research to understand how landscape can – and do – transcend temporal boundaries. Topics may include, but are certainly not limited to: • Multiscalar explorations of place and landscapes • Dynamic theories and interpretations • Multiple, concurrent times understood in landscapes and places • Microhistories or biographies of landscapes Papers are welcome from any area of the world and ‘medieval’ broadly conceived. Please send a 250-word abstract (plus key terms), short CV, and contact information to landscapeconsortium@gmail.com by 15 September. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the organizers at the same email. The Landscape Consortium is dedicated to promotion of multidisciplinary research into the landscapes of the medieval world. The organizing directors are Drs Karl Christian Alvestad, Daniel Brown, Stefanie Schild, Johannes Waldschütz and Katherine Weikert.
August 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
aspencerhall.bsky.social
Cat's officially out of the bag
#IMC2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #MedievalSky 🗃️
Leeds International Medieval Congress 2026 Alicia Spencer-Hall will be giving a keynote (paper 1199): 'Timely Images': Medieval Trans Saints, Historiographical Dysphoria and/as Trans-Temporal Methodology (Language: English) Description In Transgender Warriors, Leslie Feinberg writes: 'I couldn't find myself in history. No-one like me seemed to have ever existed'. Such a feeling - what I call 'historiographical dysphoria' - is familiar to marginalised subjects, those of us who have been written out of cis-hetero-normative history. Gender dysphoria refers to the distress and dis-ease caused by a mismatch between one's assigned gender and one's identified gender. Historiographical dysphoria is an artefact of gender dysphoria, and, more generally, the multifarious dysphorias that come from an authentic existence that does not, cannot, and will not fall in line with the dominant norms of cis-hetero-normative society. This is the distress and dis-ease caused by the wilful cleaving of an individual from the past, from the collective past of their community. Transphobic rhetoric insists upon the newness of transness, and indeed trans people. We are a symptom of modernity's degradation, a disease in urgent need of cure. There we no trans people in the Middle Ages, no queer people, no crips either. We have no past, and, as such, we will not be allowed a future. This is the story that traditionalist historiography so often tells. In recent years, things have begun to change. Trans saints have become ever more visible in scholarship, a vital resource for trans and genderqueer people at a time of ever-rising transphobia. We turn to the past to survive the present and to scope out new ways of being in the future. This paper articulates the possibilities and pleasures of trans-medievalist work, focussing on trans saints. This is scholarship that attends to trans lives, experiences, and traces in the medieval past and operates 'trans' time itself. It rejects normative linear chronology in favour of the fierce embrace of trans-queer-crip time(s), of the blurry temporalities of transition itself. In this way, trans-medievalist work offers a powerful methodology for the entire medievalist field.
January 28, 2026 at 3:07 PM
leoba.bsky.social
Attended a workshop at @imc-leeds.bsky.social , made a fun thing! (inspired by the woad guy in UPenn LJS 419 and an historiated initial in Ms. Codex 724) #imc2026
July 7, 2026 at 3:56 PM