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

I promised @RebeccaMenmuir and @onslies 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: @elizabethcbiggs/first-female-chancellor-of-the-exchequer-in-eight-hundred-years-ec86ffad0b44" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@elizabethcbig…

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

A stripy, #rainbow ‘S’ from @theULSpecColl. 🌈 #MedievalManuscripts

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…

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?

@tinti_francesca Cambridge UP's Open Access agreements with institutions are already fantastic: they are the reason I and my colleagues deliberately look for CUP venues for our articles. Making this available to everyone, regardless of affiliation, is a true game-changer!

Perhaps worth reposting to underline something that seems to have escaped people's attention. There is so much more than a new name to this journal relaunch: all authors will be able to publish open-access articles, irrespective of their affiliation (or lack thereof)

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

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

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

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…

@BristolBoy99 @petetoth @BLAsia_Africa For paper in England, specifically, Orietta da Rold's book *Paper in Medieval England* is essential (in addition to having one of the greatest subtitles): cambridge.org/core/books/pap…

@BristolBoy99 Thanks for the question. How are you defining paper? If papyrus counts, @petetoth may have some leads! @BLAsia_Africa looks after some very old paper items (such as idp.bl.uk/collection/51F…) and has some great blog posts on different papers: blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-afri…

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-…

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.

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

We all love lists - look at this from 1800 years ago @bodleianlibs -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