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📣 Call for Papers: “Pedagogies of Sound: Medieval Music Education in Slavic and European Contexts”

This hybrid session at #ICMS2027 welcomes papers on chant pedagogy, music theory, performance, devotion, manuscript culture, and the transmission of musical knowledge across Western European and Slavic traditions.

📍 Kalamazoo, May 13–15, 2027
📅 Proposals due September 15
🔎 Confex session #8258

https://icms.confex.com/icms/2027/prelim.cgi/Home/0

#medieval #MedievalStudies #SlavicStudies #musicology #CFP #ICMS2027

📣 Call for Papers: “Pedagogies of Sound: Medieval Music Education in Slavic and European Contexts”

This hybrid session at #ICMS2027 welcomes papers on chant pedagogy, music theory, performance, devotion, manuscript culture, and the transmission of musical knowledge across Western European and Slavic traditions.

📍 Kalamazoo, May 13–15, 2027
📅 Proposals due September 15
🔎 Confex session #8258

https://icms.confex.com/icms/2027/prelim.cgi/Home/0

#medieval #MedievalStudies #SlavicStudies #musicology #CFP #ICMS2027

Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2010 [OC]

@historyruins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holyrood_Abbey
@histodons
@medievodons
#MedievalStudies #medievalists #MiddleAges #Mittelalter #ReligiousStudies #geschichte #histodons #history #histoire
#ArchitecturePhotography #ArchitecturalHistory #ChurchArchitecture #scotland #edinburgh #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday

Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2010 [OC]

@historyruins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holyrood_Abbey
@histodons
@medievodons
#MedievalStudies #medievalists #MiddleAges #Mittelalter #ReligiousStudies #geschichte #histodons #history #histoire
#ArchitecturePhotography #ArchitecturalHistory #ChurchArchitecture #scotland #edinburgh #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday

I guess I should officially announce that my book on the prose hagiography of Venantius Fortunatus (530-609) is coming out this summer:

https://www.routledge.com/The-Prose-Lives-of-Venantius-Fortunatus-Hagiography-and-the-Laity-in-Sixth-Century-Gaul/Navalesi/p/book/9789463725699

So grateful for the mentors and colleagues who gave these chapters a look over the years.

@histodons
@medievodons @writingbooks
@writingcommunity
#bookstodon
#geschichte #histodons #history #histoire #MedievalStudies #medievodons #MiddleAges #Mittelalter #ReligiousStudies #VenantiusFortunatus #Hagiography #religion #christianity

I guess I should officially announce that my book on the prose hagiography of Venantius Fortunatus (530-609) is coming out this summer:

https://www.routledge.com/The-Prose-Lives-of-Venantius-Fortunatus-Hagiography-and-the-Laity-in-Sixth-Century-Gaul/Navalesi/p/book/9789463725699

So grateful for the mentors and colleagues who gave these chapters a look over the years.

@histodons
@medievodons @writingbooks
@writingcommunity
#bookstodon
#geschichte #histodons #history #histoire #MedievalStudies #medievodons #MiddleAges #Mittelalter #ReligiousStudies #VenantiusFortunatus #Hagiography #religion #christianity

Don’t miss next week’s exciting session in our “Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements” seminar series! Participate online: t1p.de/entanglement... @[email protected] @[email protected] #medievalsky #medievalstudies #adriatic #skytorians #entanglements #mediterranean

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:b4mi3e4c2befn4xtxy4kqzgn/post/3mhsfpkst522m

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What does a singing bear have to do with Chaucer?

A lot, it turns out.

Together with Jennifer S. Carnell (HMML), we trace how the Marian chant Alma redemptoris mater shaped medieval ideas about learning — from schoolrooms to miracles to manuscript images.

Open access:
https://academic.oup.com/nq/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/notesj/gjag011/8496039

#MedievalStudies #Chaucer #Musicology #MedievalMusic #Chant #AlmaRedemptoris #AcWri #Research #AcademicChatter

What does a singing bear have to do with Chaucer?

A lot, it turns out.

Together with Jennifer S. Carnell (HMML), we trace how the Marian chant Alma redemptoris mater shaped medieval ideas about learning — from schoolrooms to miracles to manuscript images.

Open access:
https://academic.oup.com/nq/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/notesj/gjag011/8496039

#MedievalStudies #Chaucer #Musicology #MedievalMusic #Chant #AlmaRedemptoris #AcWri #Research #AcademicChatter

What does a singing bear have to do with Chaucer?

A lot, it turns out.

Together with Jennifer S. Carnell (HMML), we trace how the Marian chant Alma redemptoris mater shaped medieval ideas about learning — from schoolrooms to miracles to manuscript images.

Open access:
https://academic.oup.com/nq/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/notesj/gjag011/8496039

#MedievalStudies #Chaucer #Musicology #MedievalMusic #Chant #AlmaRedemptoris #AcWri #Research #AcademicChatter

What does a singing bear have to do with Chaucer?

A lot, it turns out.

Together with Jennifer S. Carnell (HMML), we trace how the Marian chant Alma redemptoris mater shaped medieval ideas about learning — from schoolrooms to miracles to manuscript images.

Open access:
https://academic.oup.com/nq/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/notesj/gjag011/8496039

#MedievalStudies #Chaucer #Musicology #MedievalMusic #Chant #AlmaRedemptoris #AcWri #Research #AcademicChatter

What does a singing bear have to do with Chaucer?

A lot, it turns out.

Together with Jennifer S. Carnell (HMML), we trace how the Marian chant Alma redemptoris mater shaped medieval ideas about learning — from schoolrooms to miracles to manuscript images.

Open access:
https://academic.oup.com/nq/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/notesj/gjag011/8496039

#MedievalStudies #Chaucer #Musicology #MedievalMusic #Chant #AlmaRedemptoris #AcWri #Research #AcademicChatter

Attention Palaeographers! 🖋️✨
I'm happy to share the Corpus Litterarum: a new dataset of annotated Latin manuscript characters from the St. Gall codices CSG 11 & 70 (Winithar).

🔎 2,152 line images
🔠 44,407 annotations across 73 classes
📜 Includes Latin letters
🤖 Semi-automatic labelling with Roboflow

The dataset is freely available on Zenodo:
👉 https://zenodo.org/records/16995048

Use it for palaeography, HTR, character segmentation — or just to explore the manuscripts of St. Gall!

#DigitalHumanities #Palaeography #HTR #MedievalStudies #History #OpenScience

Attention Palaeographers! 🖋️✨
I'm happy to share the Corpus Litterarum: a new dataset of annotated Latin manuscript characters from the St. Gall codices CSG 11 & 70 (Winithar).

🔎 2,152 line images
🔠 44,407 annotations across 73 classes
📜 Includes Latin letters
🤖 Semi-automatic labelling with Roboflow

The dataset is freely available on Zenodo:
👉 https://zenodo.org/records/16995048

Use it for palaeography, HTR, character segmentation — or just to explore the manuscripts of St. Gall!

#DigitalHumanities #Palaeography #HTR #MedievalStudies #History #OpenScience

To see #Kyiv & to die? The final farewell of archbishop Bruno of Querfurt before his #martyrdom : His bitter letter to king Henry II in 1009.

The scholarship report of Oleksandr Fylypchuk: https://dhip.hypotheses.org/4577

#MedievalStudies #MissionaryHistory #LatinLetters #Christianization #Hagiography #Rus

@histodons

To see #Kyiv & to die? The final farewell of archbishop Bruno of Querfurt before his #martyrdom : His bitter letter to king Henry II in 1009.

The scholarship report of Oleksandr Fylypchuk: https://dhip.hypotheses.org/4577

#MedievalStudies #MissionaryHistory #LatinLetters #Christianization #Hagiography #Rus

@histodons

The Chaucerian: How a German school teacher became the world’s most prolific Chaucer scholar, and then was promptly forgotten https://www.medievalists.net/2025/03/the-chaucerian/ #Chaucer #MedievalStudies

The Chaucerian: How a German school teacher became the world’s most prolific Chaucer scholar, and then was promptly forgotten https://www.medievalists.net/2025/03/the-chaucerian/ #Chaucer #MedievalStudies

#Colloque #Templiers et #templarisme : raisons et déraisons d'un mythe
15 au 17 octobre 2025 - #Troyes, Centre de congrès de l'#Aube
#medievalisme #histoiremédiévale #TemplarHistory
#MedievalStudies
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I had the honour of contributing a guest blog for the OG(H)AM Project of the University of Glasgow! In my post, I explore the fascinating intersection of history and mythology by looking at Ogham, the ancient Celtic script, and its surprising role in Alfred the Great fanfiction. 📜✨👑

https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2024/10/21/exploring-ogham-in-alfred-the-great-fanfiction-a-fusion-of-history-and-mythology/

#Ogham #AlfredTheGreat #Celtic #Fanfiction #CelticStudies #DigitalHumanities #ProudMoment #HistoryAndMyth #KingAlfred #MedievalStudies #AncientScripts #OghamProject #guestblog

I had the honour of contributing a guest blog for the OG(H)AM Project of the University of Glasgow! In my post, I explore the fascinating intersection of history and mythology by looking at Ogham, the ancient Celtic script, and its surprising role in Alfred the Great fanfiction. 📜✨👑

https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2024/10/21/exploring-ogham-in-alfred-the-great-fanfiction-a-fusion-of-history-and-mythology/

#Ogham #AlfredTheGreat #Celtic #Fanfiction #CelticStudies #DigitalHumanities #ProudMoment #HistoryAndMyth #KingAlfred #MedievalStudies #AncientScripts #OghamProject #guestblog

#BOTD in #ModernChina: Chen Yinke 陳寅恪 (1890–1969) or Yinque (based on a disputed Fujian-Hakka 福建客家 reading of the character 恪), #Chinese historian, #medievalist, #philologist, and founder of Chinese #MedievalStudies #中古史 #不古不今 #魏晉南北朝隋唐 #獨立之精神自由之思想

This index is my most top-heavy ever:

agent intellect
Albert the Great
Alexander of Aphrodisias
Alfarabi
Algazel
Alkindi
Anaxagoras
Ancient Scholiast
Aquinas, Thomas
Aristotle
Ashʿarites
Augustine
Avempace
Averroes
and let's not forget Avicenna

#AmIndexing #MedievalStudies #Scholastics #Peripatetics #Philosophy

This index is my most top-heavy ever:

agent intellect
Albert the Great
Alexander of Aphrodisias
Alfarabi
Algazel
Alkindi
Anaxagoras
Ancient Scholiast
Aquinas, Thomas
Aristotle
Ashʿarites
Augustine
Avempace
Averroes
and let's not forget Avicenna

#AmIndexing #MedievalStudies #Scholastics #Peripatetics #Philosophy

“[T]his is a little philological gem that certainly deserves to be consulted.”

Albrecht Classen reviews Katja Krause’s Thomas Aquinas on Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in His Commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences IV.49.2, praising its “excellent English translation,” introduction that discusses “truly insightfully, some of the critical issues involved,” “extensive bibliography,” and Latin-English / English-Latin glossary. Open access review in Mediavistik 34.1: DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/med.2021.01.89

@Theologidons #MedievalStudies #Theologidons #AUPresses

Greetings! Marquette University Press is just getting established here. We’re looking forward to connecting with scholars and other readers interested in #philosophy, #theology, #history, #MedievalStudies, and other areas of the #humanities and social sciences, as well as regional studies relating to the city of #Milwaukee and state of #Wisconsin. Aligned with the mission of #Marquette University, we are also interested in interdisciplinary, #ethics-focused scholarship in the humanities, including in the areas of #UrbanStudies, #EnvironmentalHumanities, #DataEthics, #Communication, and #MediaStudies. We’re delighted to be here!
#AUPresses #philosodons #religiodons #histodons #envhum #Jesuit #SocialJustice

Greetings! Marquette University Press is just getting established here. We’re looking forward to connecting with scholars and other readers interested in #philosophy, #theology, #history, #MedievalStudies, and other areas of the #humanities and social sciences, as well as regional studies relating to the city of #Milwaukee and state of #Wisconsin. Aligned with the mission of #Marquette University, we are also interested in interdisciplinary, #ethics-focused scholarship in the humanities, including in the areas of #UrbanStudies, #EnvironmentalHumanities, #DataEthics, #Communication, and #MediaStudies. We’re delighted to be here!
#AUPresses #philosodons #religiodons #histodons #envhum #Jesuit #SocialJustice