Peter Kidd @mssprovenance.bsky.social Oxford-based researcher of medieval manuscripts; formerly of the Bodleian and the BL; especially interested in provenance and illumination; currently preparing a catalogue of the medieval and renaissance manuscripts of University College, Oxford.
The Continent @thecontinent.org The Continent is Africa's most widely read newspaper. Get the most recent edition delivered for free on:
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Albert Lloret @albertlloret.bsky.social Associate Professor of Spanish & Catalan, UMass Amherst || https://websites.umass.edu/lloret/
Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social Medievalist, geek, Associate Professor of English at UCLA. Editor, Viator.
@copticscript.bsky.social @copticscript.bsky.social Open access digital humanities project https://copticscriptorium.org. Posts usually by @ctschroeder.bsky.social
Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️ @ellisnilsson.bsky.social Canadian Medievalist
Senior Lecturer/Associate Prof @Linnaeus Uni.
Docent @Lund Uni.
PI @MappingSaints.
WebEditor @info_Scandia.
Saints & society; Digital History; Medieval book fragments; Mediating the past via reconstructions/re-creations, (re)enactment
Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social Book cataloguer and peripatetic scholar, researching the medieval Armenian Alexander Romance and 19th-century Caucasus cosmopolitanism. Films, trains, British. They/them.
Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History and Diplomatic. Deputy Head of Arch & Hist @exeter.ac.uk. Editor of charters @monumenta.bsky.social. Monographs with CUP, Yale UP and @princetonupress.bsky.social. Medievalist + Germanophile.
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France @labnf.bsky.social L'actualité de la Bibliothèque nationale de France : salles de lecture, collections, agenda culturel, expos et musée sur le site Richelieu.
www.bnf.fr
Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social Medievalist and librarian, interested in all aspects of manuscript culture.
Adam Shear @adamshear.bsky.social early modern Jewish history and history of the book at University of Pittsburgh (speaks for himself of course); chair of https://www.religiousstudies.pitt.edu/; co-director of https://footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/
Sarah Fry @drsfry.bsky.social Medieval historian: a focus on charters, the 11th century, and Normandy. Working to reveal unseen histories. May also be found writing about giants. IHR Fellow @ihr.bsky.social. Book on Norman charters: routledge.com; Cerne giant writing: oxbow.com.
@cathedrallibrarian.bsky.social @cathedrallibrarian.bsky.social Worcester Cathedral library has many interesting books and documents.
Prussian-Stepping Goose @pauldlockhart.bsky.social History prof. War & religion in early mod Europe; Denmark/Norway/Iceland. DENMARK, 1513-1660 (OUP 2007); FIREPOWER (Basic 2021). Current project: Days of Wrath: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Søren Jensen Quist.
Dad and cat dad.
Doer of several things.
Bloom County Outland @bloomcountyoutland.bsky.social Fan page of Berkeley Breathed’s strips. Posts once a day like newspapers.
Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social Music historian at UMass Amherst | bit.ly/evanmaccarthy
Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association @rmmra.bsky.social The Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association is a nonprofit academic society dedicated to the advancement of learning in global Medieval and Renaissance studies.
https://rmmra.org/
Mike Kestemont @mikekestemont.bsky.social Professor of Computational Humanities at the University of Antwerp. I work on cultural ecology and medieval literature. I love cooking outdoors. Brussels based. Python.
maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social Maimonides, as in the 12th Century Jewish philosopher - and Nutz as in “Deez Nutz.” (I’m not Maimonides but I’m definitely Nutz) she/her
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
Tomas Kosegi @tomaskosegi.bsky.social Travel, medieval Latin & Byzantine art, old books & manuscripts, foreign policy, hiking...
Barbarian Librarian @johndewees.com Librarian working in digital preservation in Rochester, New York
Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social Historian of art & women, Faculty of Theology @UiO.no.
Author of Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages (Routledge 2026).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-4321
www.SJMoranEditing.com
EthiopicManuscriptArt @artethiopic.bsky.social Lover of birds and beards || መፍቀሬ፡ ሥዕላት፡ || Ground Hornbill Artist fan || descriptions are sometimes silly || no politics, just love
"ሠዐሉ፡ ለነ፡ ቅዱሳን፡"
Jonathan Groß @jonathangross.bsky.social Classicist · Musician · Open Knowledge Enthusiast · 🎶🏳️🌈🕊️
https://linktr.ee/jonagr
Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally.
getty.edu
De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Medieval and Early Modern Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Harvard Medieval Studies @harvardmedieval.bsky.social For in this regioun, certein,
Dwelleth many a citezein,
Of which that speketh dan Plato.
These ben the eyrish bestes, lo!
Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
Niko Kontovas @nikokontovas.bsky.social Linguist | Digital Humanist | Subject Librarian and Curator for the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Turkey/Türkiye @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social | Lecturer in Uzbek and Chaghatay | http://www.turkolog.ist
Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a consortium of North American institutions with collections of global premodern manuscripts, building an online national union catalog developed on Linked Open Data technologies and practices. https://digital-scriptorium.org
Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social Rare books at @theulspeccoll.bsky.social, frogs in my garden, medieval nuns. These are a few of my favourite things. Went viral with a biscuit found in a copy of Augustine.
Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social Sermone nitidus. Early Insular, Irish, British, Breton, Cornish, Welsh and wider Palaeography & Manuscripts. I love the letter g.
London Medieval Society @londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social The LMS is a forum for cross disciplinary and interdisciplinary discussions about the Middle Ages. The LMS has been hosting colloquia since 1945; it hosts three colloquia each year.
Website: https://londonmedievalsociety.com/
Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com Artist-scholar, specialised in early Arabic (Kufi) scripts & historical/natural materials. Interest in material culture & things real. Beirut émigré in Oxford. Earth lover, plastic-free. Contemplative. Whovian/Gallifrey…
Links: https://linktr.ee/Majnouna
Benjamin Ringot @benjaminringot.bsky.social 🏰 Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, chef du service de la Recherche, Colloques et Enseignements / Head of Research, Conferences and Teaching
Also teach digital culture and heritage (Université Paris Cité)
Julia Walworth @juliawalworth.bsky.social Medievalist, book and library historian, lover of all libraries, Fellow Librarian at Merton College Oxford- D DACT Fragments @dact-fragments.bsky.social
Katarzyna Anna Kapitan @kakapitan.bsky.social Books & texts in the digital age (www.kakapitan.com)
#JuniorProfInParis in #digitalhumanities at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social, @psl-univ.bsky.social. Past @ox.ac.uk, @haskoliislands.bsky.social, @ucph.bsky.social
Repost≠endorsement
my opinions≠employer's
Chester Beatty @chesterbeatty.bsky.social World-renowned museum of European, East Asian and Islamic art, books and manuscripts in Dublin. Building closed until January 2027.
Check us out events and digital collections here: www.chesterbeatty.ie
KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social We take care of KU Leuven Libraries' heritage collections housed in the University Library: rare books, lecture notes and other manuscripts, graphics... We also have a reference collection of more than 65.000 titles on book history.
Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social 
Stewart J. Brookes @stewartbrookes.bsky.social Cataloguing medieval manuscripts @bodleianlibs| Co-director of Models of Authority: http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk | working on Archetype 3.0 | F-shaped "y" is where it's at!
@cartafranca.bsky.social @cartafranca.bsky.social Illuminierte Urkunden des Mittelalters
Buchmalerei
https://cartafranca.hypotheses.org/
https://www.monasterium.net/mom/IlluminierteUrkundenFrankreich/collection
McGowin Library @pembrokelibraryoxf.bsky.social The library of Pembroke College, Oxford.
William J.B. Mattingly @wjbmattingly.bsky.social Digital Nomad · Historian · Data Scientist · NLP · Machine Learning
Cultural Heritage Data Scientist at Yale
Former Postdoc in the Smithsonian
Maintainer of Python Tutorials for Digital Humanities
https://linktr.ee/wjbmattingly
Miss Mina Murray @missminamurray.com Boston-based burlesque performer and culinary historian.
The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social https://digitalorientalist.com
Dedicated to discovering and sharing insights on digital humanities in an inclusive environment! Join us・انضم إلينا・参加しませんか・bize katıl・kasance tare damu. 🗃️ 🌐
Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.
Matthieu Cassin @mcassin.bsky.social Researcher, Greek texts and manuscripts, History of books and libraries, Patristics
#manuscripts #Byzantium #Patristics
Handschriftenportal @hsprtl.bsky.social Wir entwickeln ein Portal für #Handschriften in deutschen Sammlungen | We’re creating a portal for #manuscripts in German collections | www.handschriftenportal.de
Cambridge UL Special Collections @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Cambridge University Library Special Collections, featuring our manuscripts, archives, maps, music, rare books, photographs, objects and more. https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/special-collections
Volker Schröder @marphurius.bsky.social Associate prof of French (emeritus) at Princeton. Working mostly on 17th-cy literature and culture, with a focus on bibliography, including manuscripts and prints. Research blog: anecdota.princeton.edu. Also on Mastodon: @Marphurius@hcommons.social
Hidden in Plain Sight @hips-project.bsky.social Hidden in Plain Sight is a collaboration between @qmul.ac.uk, @QMUL_HSS, @theul.bsky.social, @MAACambridge, @NLWales, and other leading libraries.
Website: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/inplainsight/- F FabianH @fabih.bsky.social Jewish books, history and libraries && all of it digital. Heidelberg, TIB Hannover - and Lake of Constance
Andrea W. @handle.invalid Medievalist @Mercer University; Dominican Order & exempla, medieval race, medievalism. Part time copper/silversmith, intown hiker. Owned by two cats & a foster Pyrenees. Likes critical thinking, actual facts, ideas, puns, generalist studies.
plyp666 @plyp666.bsky.social 
Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem.bsky.social Assoc prof of Islamic art at UT Austin, 24-25 NEH Fellow, Syria, archaeology, heritage. Formerly world-renowned author of "The Citizen Kane of Islam-centric cat-themed Twitter threads", now making an Arabic/English digital game set in 8th c. Syria
Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social Professor. Writer. Columnist. Erratic historian. Typo Queen.
Jule Meyer @julemeyer.bsky.social 📖 PhD researcher in Medieval Latin @Uni Heidelberg: Development of Carolingian script in 9th century Mainz.
| Medieval manuscripts | palaeography | medieval latin | digital humanities | archives & libraries | epigraphy |
Fragmentarium @fragmentarium.bsky.social Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments: https://fragmentarium.ms
posts currently by William Duba.
The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social Special collections library at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-library
Parker Library On the Web - our medieval and early modern MSS digitised
https://parker.stanford.edu/parker
Seb Falk @sebfalk.com Historian of science ||
Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge ||
Singer, sailor, runner, father ||
"Always generous" – The New Yorker
The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social Digitizing medieval manuscript collections in the Midwest. PIs @lizhebbard.bsky.social and @sarahloleet.bsky.social 📜
https://peripheralmss.org
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social We post about manuscripts, mostly from UPenn. SIMS brings manuscript culture, modern technology and people together.
https://schoenberginstitute.org/
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well.
Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne • Advisory Board @ H-Judaic & EMoDiR • alumna HebrewU, Harvard, Penn, Oxford, Göttingen
#earlymodern and #modern Jewish history and #BookHistory
📍 Paris
Jesse Hurlbut @jessehurlbut.bsky.social Medievalist. Manuscript studies, 15th-century Burgundy, French literature, art, culture, Digital Humanities. Retired. https://jessehurlbut.net
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Erica Steiner @ericasteiner.bsky.social Celtic Studies PhD in progress @ Sydney Uni: ancient/medieval tattooing.
Finds rabbit holes & side quests irresistible!
Environmental humanities • Geomythology • Historical body modifications • Medieval mistranslations, misnomers & mysteries.
Fania Oz-Salzberger @faniaoz-salzberger.bsky.social Historian of ideas, Enlightenment scholar.
Israeli Jew. Doing my best to be liberal, humanist, zionist (two states 🇮🇱🇵🇸), peace seeker.
MistressDreda @mistressdreda.bsky.social Librarian on the inside, muddy femme on the outside. Page of Pentacles/Queen of Swords.
Megan Lewis @digital-hammurabi.bsky.social Assyriologist, YouTuber and Podcaster, currently fixated on fishtanks.
The Mediaeval Journal @themediaevalj.bsky.social TMJ is a friendly international interdisciplinary medieval studies journal founded by @SAIMS. Website: https://tmj.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Posts mostly by editor @jtpmedieval
Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social | :: Visigothic script :: | Mss Studies
PI ERC funded project #PeopleAndWriting
Universidad de Salamanca
Derrick Pitard @synderlic.bsky.social Medievalist who writes on Chaucer and religion in later medieval Britain; teaches Latin, Lit, and the History of English; family historian; dad; husband; once and future rower; union member. https://gladlywoldehe.net/
Matthew Monger @biblemonger.bsky.social Scholar of the languages and literature of the Ancient Near East. Focusing on reception history, manuscripts, and material philology.
MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society, Oslo.
On YouTube as Biblemonger
The National Manuscripts Conservation Trust, aka NMCT @thenmct.bsky.social We give grants for manuscript conservation projects and are the the only UK charity focusing solely on supporting manuscript conservation in non-national GLAMs
Erik Kwakkel @erikkwakkel.bsky.social Professor of Book History at UBC School of Information, Vancouver. Into medieval manuscripts. He/his. Blog: https://medievalbooks.nl. Writing a book on ads by medieval scribes.
“There is more to life than medieval books, but it's a good place to start.”
Nicolas Perreaux @nicolasperreaux.bsky.social Medieval history & Data mining (CNRS LaMOP - Paris 1 Sorbonne). Medieval Europe, historical semantics, charters, Patrologia, AI, machine learning, text mining. Dir. CEMA (Cartae Europae Medii Aevi) and CARo (Corpus des actes royaux de la France médiévale).
Marie Jaros @mariejaros.bsky.social Medievalist, PostDoc, curiously looking towards the early modern period, currently working on historical whales, but also Kingdom of Sicily, Italy and charters
@humboldtuni.bsky.social
Peter @pemorel.bsky.social Bibliothécaire @labnf.bsky.social • Médiéviste & moderniste • Condottières, Colleoni, Italie(s) & Renaissance(s) 🇮🇹⚔ • Secrétaire @assomnemosyne.bsky.social • Parfois au micro de @cc2s.bsky.social 🎙️ • il/lui • 🏳️🌈 • 🌻🦊
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr
Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social PI of FitMA (Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle) @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social and funded by @erc.europa.eu.
Author of The Friar and the Philosopher.
Medieval Greek-Latin translations of philosophy and science.
Michael Witmore @michaelwitmore.bsky.social Digital preservationist, Shakespeare scholar, humanities advocate, consultant for cultural institutions, Director Emeritus of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
DH Awards @dhawards.bsky.social #DH Awards are a set of annual awards with no prizes where the general public is able to nominate and vote on #DigitalHumanities resources for awareness of resources in the digital humanities community.
See http://dhawards.org/ for more.
HMML @visithmml.bsky.social The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org
Blair Apgar @blairapgar.bsky.social Asst. Prof @ Kutztown, Art History | Mixed bag Medievalist obsessed w/Matilda of Canossa, video games, virtual reality & 3D models. PhD @ UofYork 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (They/Them)
Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social Associate Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Getty Museum, UPenn art history PhD; major nerd. Opinions, especially the spicy ones, my own. 
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
(Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!):
New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social Archives, life writing, history. Research focus: slavery & dependency; record-keeping & archives; Caribbean Jewish history; digital humanities. https://hcommons.org/members/amaliasl/ and https://heritedge.org/
The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions @wisdompedlars.bsky.social Weekly Rare & Antiquarian Book Auctions Since 2003
BOOK AUCTIONS END EVERY SUNDAY 8pm (UK Time)
#rarebooks #books #antiquarian #earlymodern
#bibliophile #bookhistory #bookauctions
stores.ebay.co.uk/wisdompedlars
Will Beharrell @willbeharrell.bsky.social 📚 Librarian at the Linnean Society, the world’s oldest learned society devoted to natural history.
🌿 Secretary of the Society for the History of Natural History (SHNH).
🏳️🌈 Proud Trustee of Newbury Pride.
Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Religious Studies at Brown Univeristy; Chinese Buddhist stuff
Erik Geleijns @erikgeleijns.bsky.social Curator of material collections @kb.nl. Was cataloguer @allardpierson.bsky.social and Curator of Early Collections @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social. Double espresso. Archives. Long distance walking. Proud keeper of the STCN cheese slicer.
Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me Multilingual digital humanities, founder of the Textile Makerspace at Stanford & the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles, helped start #DHmakes. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social DH Prof @URichmond. Exploring computer vision and visual culture. Ideas for Computational Humanities Research Journal? Please share!