Question for medievalists: can anyone give examples of ‘punishment miracles’ where a medieval saint has intervened to punish female protagonists? Reading the twelfth-century ‘misogynistic’ miracles of St Cuthbert and wondering if there are any parallels? #medievaltwitter

This is your one week reminder for #IMC2025 Bursary applications! The deadline is 13 October 2024 so make sure you get your application to us in good time 😁 Click here to start an application: imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2025/propo…

A very big ask, but I'm looking for anyone with experience with Wellcome funding or who works in medical history to talk through my new research project with me and help develop my ideas! The topic is related to my current postdoc on cancer and the senses. Please share!

👉For this year’s Ripon Cathedral Bible Exhibition & Wilfrid Lectures, our Brotherton Fellow Dr Christopher Tinmouth will be reading between the lines of the fascinating Ripon Cartulary (c.1325), held here in Special Collections. 15 Oct, all welcome! 👇 riponcathedral.org.uk/events/ripon-b…

Do nay of you good people have a copy of Sigurður Nordal's 1941 article ‘Gunnhildur konungamóðir’ that you'd be willing to email me? Struggling to find a copy.

Send us your proposals for the 9th Annual Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar by end of 1 November! Institute for Medieval Studies History at Leeds #medievalFrance #medievalBurgundy #CfP #medievalstudies More info and link to proposal form: tinyurl.com/leeds-2024-9-l…

For something supernatural. The next Leeds research seminar (hybrid) on 5 November by Stephen Gordon ahc.leeds.ac.uk/history/events…

🏆Prize announcement! #CFP #History We're excited to announce that submissions are open for our Olivette Otele Prize for Black, UK-based PhD students. This is an opportunity for academic excellence to be recognised and showcased! Please keep reading... #OlivetteOtelePrize (1)

We are looking for an RA to join our vibrant research Institute. An early career researcher with an interest in local procurement driven by institutions such as universities, hospitals & local government & the role played in co-creating economic resilience bit.ly/40zz93Y

🚨Seal bag article now out in Burlington Magazine!!! 🥳 'Veiled in precious cloth: a seal bag from Westminster Abbey and its connections with Charlemagne’s shrine in Aachen' burlington.org.uk/current-issue Westminster Abbey Universität Bern National Museums Scotland Aberystwyth University

#IMC2025 Late Call for Papers has gone live on the IMC website! 🎉 If you don't want to miss out on being an IMC 2025 Delegate, then here is your chance to get involved and submit a late paper. ✍ View the Late Call here: imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2025/late-…

A brief thread of medieval fish, being held by St Simon on Norfolk rood screens. This one is at Fritton St Catherine. Someone will know what it is. Presumably, if they were familiar fish to the artist, they were culinary? Fritton: norfolkchurches.co.uk/fritton/fritto… Brigitte Webster

Are you a PhD student? Do you use our collections? Join us for our 2025 Doctoral Open Days and: - Learn how to access our collections - Speak to curators and reference specialists - Build your academic network Find out more: bit.ly/BL-PhDOpenDays…

I've set up an account on the blue butterfly site if anyone wants to follow me - I'm easy to find

If any medievalists are still here: anyone attending the Leeds IMC, I will be driving from East Anglia via Cambridge on the Sunday. I have two PhD students in the car so far, but if anyone else would like to join us for a very cheap ride to Leeds, then get in touch!