Our medieval woman to celebrate today, in the run up to #InternationalWomensDay2024, is Empress Matilda (d. 1167), the daughter of King Henry I. Here is her charter re-founding Bordesley Abbey in 1141-42, affixed with Matilda's seal enclosed in its own silk seal bag.

We all love lists - look at this from 1800 years ago Bodleian Libraries -statue of emperor -of empress no dedication, object too old -of Demeter, Parian marble -golden lamps with stones -child armlets + child ring Objects at a Temple on Broad street, no not in Oxford, Oxyrhynchos

Here we go again: the memory of the revelation of a heavenly recipe #OTD For details, see: blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

Happy Harrowing Saturday to all who observe!! Enjoy this jumbo Jesus yoinking Adam, Eve, the patriarchs and prophets out of hell almost 2,000 Easter weekends ago! The Gospel of Nicodemus reports that these are the few delivered from hell before Easter.

Only two weeks until 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴, 850-1000 appears in print (the ebook is already available). It's currently 20% off for anyone interested in tenth-century English queens and the development of queenly office. routledge.com/Early-English-…

Preparations are moving fast for our major exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, opening 25 Oct Learn about their daily lives, achievements and challenges, drawing on their own books and documents We'll let you know here when tickets go on sale blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

If you're not ready for marriage, then you shouldn't even be thinking about dating Beowulf

Seal of Joan de Stuteville, c.1265-75, Cotton Ch XXIX 63. Haven't seen many equestrian seals for women before. #medievaltwitter #hiddencollections

Tonight: Kassia - a great female poet and composer of Byzantium - is remembered again by her famous composition Here is an early copy from 1200 Bodleian Libraries For more - see blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

Your advisor watching you work on your dissertation

Do any liturgists, musicologists or medievalists know why this passage of the Book of Acts, beginning with the last word of 27:18 and ending on the second word of 27:19, the phrase ‘fecerunt et tertia’, might have been notated?

Very pleased to share my latest article (OA) - 3 years in the making! I trace several strands of cultural memory of Alfred the Great over the length of the Middle Ages, making the case for a widespread tradition of his sobriquet from at least the 13th c. academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar…

That's Her (Seal) Bag, Baby! Amazing sealed women's documents digitization project British Library #HerSeal

A stripy, #rainbow ‘S’ from Cambridge UL Special Collections. 🌈 #MedievalManuscripts

What kind of creature could this be in this 800-year old Coptic psalter ⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩ Share your thoughts for a late #Thursday motivation

I promised Dr Rebecca Menmuir and Liesbeth Corens that I'd write about 13th century women working in the exchequer- here you go! All that we know about Rachel Reeves' medieval predecessors at the treasury: medium.com/@elizabethcbig…

some MSI images are just pretty

St Swithun's Day and it's raining! BL Add 49598; Benedictional of Æthelwold; 963-984 CE; England S; f.97v Medieval Manuscripts