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Call for Papers! The 24th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies co-hosted by Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will take place at Duke University in Durham, NC from April 3-5, 2025. More info below, or at vagantesconference.org/call-for-paper….

@TSWingard Walks on Howth are great! Also will you be working at all with Dr. Mazo Karras? She is such a delight!

#medievaltwitter: Submit to our @KzooICMS panel! The deadline for submissions is September 15. Please share the word!

The Reunion of Body and Soul. William Blake, 1813.

#medievaltwitter: Consider submitting to our panel on Aristotelian ideas of animal movement and desire in the Middle Ages! Submissions are due Sept. 15. Email myself or Alex with any questions. We look forward to hearing from you!

brat summer is over. now it's time for pannage autumn, the ancient medieval custom of releasing your pigs in the woods so they can eat the chestnuts and acorns that fall to the forest floor.

Does your institution want to host Vagantes 2026? Apply by September 16th! See vagantesconference.org/hosting-vagant… for more details, or get in touch with us at vagantesboard@gmail.com

Christ as the Man of Sorrows, by The Master of Sankt Kathrein, 1475, 📸 by Boris Streubel

Full funded PhD opportunity: Listening to Language: Philology, supervised by Dr. Mark Faulkner. Application deadline July 9th. More information below!

Check out four fully funded PhDs on better localising early medieval manuscripts at TCD, starting September 2024. Further details at: tcd.ie/thebook/news/l… Preliminary application materials due by Tuesday 9 July.

@Emily_S_Cooper No! You’re kidding me!

@RyanC_Carroll Dreamy

@RyanC_Carroll What? I can't hear you over Piers Plowman and I bonding over our shared transmasculinity as we gaze into the mirror of middle earth

Reposting this in case I need to reference it in my work. Trans Piers Plowman anyone?

Shoutout to @dieworkwear and Anna’s tailoring of Carrboro NC for providing me with an opera fit

@EsmePatterson Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, revisited A Streetcar Named Desire, Annie Dillard's essays

Y’all read any good books lately?

Hi #kzoo2024 : come chat with @VagantesMed attendees past, present, and future at 5pm during the social hour. Look for me holding a paper that says “Vagantes”. We’ll be standing outside the doors of the student center!

@bhfindley Poetry! Let's chat :)

Earth, Sun, and Moon, diagrammed in a 13th-century Franco-Flemish manuscript. Collection: The Getty.

Wild-haired, surprised and waving from the margins - Another doodle from an early 12th century manuscript, Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Ms. 95, f. 3v