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Clatterbridge, Wirral - silver dirham. Issued by Abbasid caliph al-Mahdi dating to 159 AH (=AD 775-776), minted in Baghdad. A wide range of #coins and finds have been recovered by metal detectors from this area dating from Roman to Modern times suggesting an important routeway #medievalsky #cheshire

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Proofs!! 😀🎉 @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social

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This week we bring you our very own @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social! On ‘soft power’, what is patronage, the #nuntastic Agnes, ‘An Caillech Mór’ (d.1196), St Mary’s monastery, Clonard, & the study of medieval Ireland. Tiago's work is funded by @researchireland.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1eEq...

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Please spread the word @orkneylibrary.bsky.social @theorkneynews.bsky.social @orkneycom.bsky.social Thanks!

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Thrilled to see our forthcoming book now has a website! www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

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Really excited to see this out in the world, open-access ✨ I argue that coloured/enlarged letters (litterae notabiliores) and paragraphs are used in the manuscripts to mark dialogue and the textual structure of Acallam na Senórach. MS pictures and direct links to @dias-isos.bsky.social are provided!

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Let there be light. Let there be hope. #AGrandStretch #Speirgorm

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”Vikings in the Mediterranean” , a great collection of papers on… Vikings in the Mediterranean! Download it as a free PDF here 👇 bora.uib.no/bora-xmlui/h...

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From póg to obair, Irish freely adopted Latin vocabulary during the Christianisation of the country, especially to describe religion, education and daily life. By Pádraic Moran @uniofgalway.bsky.social @researchireland.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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Recent lecture to Loyola Institute TCD on St Brigit’s early female followers -now on Loyola Institute YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=44eyeQGHUBU. Argument is that abbess fostered young girls and had lord/client relations with many of their mothers & other female Christians outside Kildare

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I will be giving a talk in Cork @ucc.ie on bilingual Greek–Latin Irish manuscripts this Wed 19 Feb 5.15 ORB 2.02. Many thanks to the Seminar for Ancient and Medieval Studies for the Invitation. This will be an expanded version of a paper I gave at the @scs-dias.bsky.social Tionól last November.

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Since childhood, one of my very favourite places on earth. Byland Abbey. Founded as a Savigniac abbey in 1135 before being absorbed by the Cistercian order in 1147. The community were nomadic for a while moving five times before settling at Byland around 1177.

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I was delighted to record this with Niamh and Tiago, hope you all enjoy!

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A Date for the Diary!📆 Hugely looking forward to hosting this workshop in Cambridge next June in collaboration with the excellent eDIL project (www.dil.ie). Bringing together research on medical terminology in medieval Irish, Welsh, English, French, German & more. All welcome! Details to follow...

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#Ingleton #Ribblehead remains of 3 farm buildings around a courtyard. Only the foundations survive today. Finds include 4 ninth century coins, spearhead & knives, suggested early site of #Viking settlement, or just economic links with York #medievalsky (coin image not from site but of type found)

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A great resource :) “Epistolæ: Medieval Women's Letters… a collection of medieval Latin letters to and from women. The letters collected here date from the 4th to the 13th centuries, and they are presented in their original Latin as well as in English translation...” (epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu)

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Want to do a fully funded PhD on medieval English historiography? Well do I have an opportunity for you! See the attached ad and get in touch ASAP if you're interested (and please share widely).

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A hoard of British and Roman coins found in Bunnik, near Utrecht thought to be the spoils of war of a Roman soldier from the conquest of Britain. The 44 gold coins, staters, bearing the inscription of King Cunobelin were discovered with 360 Roman coins. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Jan 28: Feast of Cainir of Bantry, a 6thc female saint who argued that Jesus died for women too; I revisited Cainir for the Bantry Historical & Archaeological Journal (link in thread); the editor told me that Cainir's feastday was locally reinstated as a result 😊 ©National Folklore Collection, UCD

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Mouse find castle chapels fascinating. Some are lost or hard to find (detective work required) but this is almost intact. As with #ChepstowCastle it is to the left of the gatehouse (as facing). It is close to east-west aligned. West elevation and entrance #InTheCastleChapel (1/6)

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#Chester was a booming port for Irish Sea trade in the tenth century. Pictured a hoard deposited c. AD970 near Chester Castle. In 1950 workmen discovered the pot with c. 500 silver pennies; silver ingots and pieces of chopped up jewellery, reflecting Viking Age trade networks #medievalsky #vikings

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Lecture in TCD 6th Feb at 7:30 on Brigit’s early female followers and how they may have reconciled their Christian ideals with the prevailing norms of Irish society (and what that says about adoption and adaption of wider European ideas).

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Certainly exciting stuff. It's weird when the article (BBC is famous for this) details the big names but then says 'worked with a metalworker' or another one last month 'found by a ploughman' with no mention of their names. Feels elitist

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Jan 15: Feast of Íte / Ita († 570/77) of Killeedy, Co. Limerick; had an important regional cult; celebrated as a fostermother (including of Jesus), confidante (St Brendan) & a 'second Brigit'; her day still celebrated locally St Ita & St Brendan, Michael Healy @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social 📸by me

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Some of the amazing early medieval gold thread recovered by our Durham University/ DigVentures excavations at Lindisfarne (Holy Island)

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Prof Jo Brück will deliver an invited public keynote “The social worlds of Bronze Age animals” at the symposium in memory of David Fontijn, “The Bronze Age-setting the agenda”, Faculty of Archaeology Universiteit Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, 27-28 January www.rmo.nl/en/the-bronz...

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Recent article on Open Access: Colin Veach 'From Kingdom to Colony: Framing the English Conquest of Ireland' @colinveach.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

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This is a great little book. A very useful introduction to the pipe rolls for students, and an essential aid for those of us who sometimes need a quick reminder.

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Have you browsed through our newest gold seam yet? The Fiants of Tudor Monarchs are all here, organised by reign: virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/f...

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Blpg summary of an article originally in German, now republished in English in Nicolay Arkeologisk Tidsskrift. While Pete Hesgeth’s comments have reignited debates, #history shows women’s capability in a variety of military roles incl. leadership #medievalsky www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studie...

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I literally had a career commissioning films and reconstructions and visuals to show the past at heritage sites, each one informed by months of careful research and discussions with the creators. I didn't always get things right, but to replace that process with AI? Unfathomable.

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'Story of human origin is still not figured out or over' ->Down To Earth | More info from EcoSearch

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Just in time for Christmas, the proceedings of The Fifth Middle Ages in Modern Games are out now! They includes a vast range of short articles dealing with a plethora of subjects relating to the medieval world and medievalism in games of all sorts. issuu.com/theuniversit...

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Who wants an #OpenAccess volume on early #medieval saints, relics and communities? This fantastic tribute to the much-missed Janneke Raaijmakers is out now to start your year trivent-publishing.eu/home/197-369... #medievalsky

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Just published: "Viking Dynasties: The royal families of Lejre and Uppsala", 620 pages by archaeologists and historians from Sweden and Denmark, Aarhus University Press: en.unipress.dk/udgivelser/v...

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Even when the Bayeux Museum closes for renovations in September, you can access the Tapestry online here. A treat for #Skystorians

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Important thread on a major trail camera project in Wicklow, with many very valuable findings. For example: invasive sika deer constituted over 80% of the images, showing the huge scale of this problem (feral goats too) - especially for natural ecosystems, but also for human society.

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Last night in Maynooth Dr @colinveach.bsky.social gave the 2024 Paul Walsh Memorial Lecture. His paper, entitled "Remembering the English Invasion" was an insightful & entertaining analysis of ways in which the English invasion of Ireland has been framed over centuries. Much merriment afterwards!

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A #Viking hacksilver ingot fragment from Dunblane. I've highlighted one of the test marks made to check for silver purity (the purer the silver, the softer it feels) and to guard against plating. At 18.9g, the fragment is approximately ¾ of an average eyrir/ounce (c. 25.3g). 🏛 Dunblane Museum

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It’s the time of year for mentioning one of my favourite ‘untranslatables’. ‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.

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