The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social After surviving exposure at birth, these unconventional academics realised they were destined to found the greatest Ancient Roman History podcast! 🏛📯⚔️
📘‘Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire’ is out now! https://linktr.ee/ThePartialHistorians
ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social The working group for Religion, Medicine, Disability, and Health in Late Antiquity! Also for ancientists, medievalists interested in medical history in the greater Mediterranean premodern. Follow along for news, events, and calls for papers.
NorseMap @norsemap.bsky.social Project based @UCC & funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant. Aiming to map the Viking legacy in Europe with the help of the public & to understand the evolution of the perception of the Vikings over the past 200 years.
The New Chaucer Society @newchaucersociety.bsky.social The NCS is a scholarly community committed to fostering research and interest in the age of Chaucer broadly speaking. We welcome any and all members to join our community! https://newchaucersociety.org/
Cecilia Barnard @ceciliajb.bsky.social There is a nonzero chance I am thinking about nuns right now. Digital Historian. PhD student. Cursed by woho and the city of Philadelphia. Bama Alum.
Ulrike Graßnick @ulrikegrassnick.bsky.social #TeamSchwimmen
#medievalsky
Kanzlerin der Universität Trier | hier privat unterwegs.
Chancellor of Trier University | views are my own.
Nathan Melson @nsmelson.bsky.social Historian of late medieval Marseille, Provence, saints, relics, and religious economy; adjunct
Institut für Mittelalterforschung @imafo-oeaw.bsky.social Forschungseinrichtung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW) | www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo
Impressum: www.oeaw.ac.at/oeaw/impressum
Dr Tiggy McLaughlin @amalasuentha.bsky.social late antique historian, theology teacher, writer; still writing about Jesus's flesh in Merovingian Gaul
Caroline Womack @womackcaroline.bsky.social IBDP English Language & Literature Instructor and Medievalist, MA English Literature from University of Leeds 日本語もを教えてた。
beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social PREORDER MY DEBUT BOOK OF COMICS: https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/beetle-moses-a-comics-menagerie/
Signed comic prints: beetlemoses.bigcartel.com
Graham Scheper @grahamscheper.bsky.social Medievalist studying Old English (BA: @univofmaryland.bsky.social) and Latin literature
youtube.com/@grahamamscheper
Jordibus @jcuerre.bsky.social Historian, medievalist, economist. PhD candidate at Universitat de València.
Currently researching medieval mints and money plus labour markets. I like rocksteady music and olives, but loathe grapefruits and solemnity.
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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social author/Ripples of the Universe (Chicago, 2021) and A Perturbed System (Chicago, 2026) | environmental and medical anthropology with a side of religion | university lecturer | curmudgeon | views my own
Clint Morrison @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social PhD | Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin - Whitewater | writing about video games, play, dance, and John Lydgate
Anna Kijas @akijas.bsky.social Music librarian, historian, digital humanist. SUCHO co-founder. First-gen Polish-American immigrant. Pronouns: she series
Online: annakijas.com / sucho.org
Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts.
Find us at: https://www.openculture.com/
Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social I teach religion & ethics @ UVa
I'm mostly here to find books & articles I don't yet know about
Sometimes also interested in opinions, but not as often as many of you seem to believe
If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social fragments from Anne Carson’s translation.
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Dr. Hussein Naji @husseinnaji.bsky.social ✍️🏾 Health Writer | 40k on Threads
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Damian @byrhtferth.bsky.social 
Jonas ZA @jonasza4.bsky.social PhD candidate in Medieval Scandinavian studies at the universities of Bonn & Bergen | Marvels in the Old Norwegian King's Mirror | Medieval learning, Norway, religious literature | also video games | he/him
linktr.ee/jonasza
Sarah Burke Cahalan @sarahbc.bsky.social caregiver
header: tiny mushrooms under a car
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Maya Soifer Irish @msoiferirish.bsky.social History professor at Rice University. Russian-Jewish American, "rootless cosmopolitan." I study medieval Iberia and its history of religious coexistence and confrontation. I love cats, nature, art, historical fiction, travel, and classical music. 📚🖼️🌊🎼🌸🐈
Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social Icelandic writer.
The Night Guest // Dead Weight // Down Where Monsters Dwell coming in March 2027!
Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social Latin philology. Latin teaching/learning. Book history. Latin in the early modern era (and other eras).
Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.
pilgrimchick.bsky.social @pilgrimchick.bsky.social Former professional pilgrim, medievalist, museum administrator, cat servant.
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.
Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social Former Postdoc at UniGenova | alumnus UToronto | First Gen+ASD | studies Mediterranean socioeconomic history 1200–1700, focusing on Genoa, slavery, commerce, networks, notarial contracts, and law | also digital humanities, semantic data and environment.
Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social Research Fellow for the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry @AustralianCatholicUniversity | Ph.D. in Religion, Duke University | Cohost of @NTReviewPod | New Testament and the History of Christianity- E Eli Magnanti @elimagnanti.bsky.social
Richard Cassidy @rjcassidy.bsky.social Potters around with pipe rolls, and sometimes memoranda rolls or even receipt and issue rolls. 13th century English government finance, in other words. Also does crosswords and dotes on grandchildren. 
Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social Documenting White Nationalist Appropriation of Greco-Roman Antiquity at pharosclassics.vassar.edu
Dr Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir @vanlinduist.bsky.social Adjunct prof in Medieval Icelandic Studies | Project manager at the Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts @mshl-cdha.bsky.social | Researcher @antidote-network.bsky.social |📍 🇮🇸 & 🇨🇿 | Historical Linguist | Víglundur 🐈
Patrick’s Rare Books @patricksrarebooks.bsky.social Forensic Pathologist buying & selling antiquarian medical books, theology, & Bibles.
patricksrarebooks.com
Author of The Grave Below.
Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller) @armchairclassicist.bsky.social Ancient history and lit, photos of my cats. Writer, reader, fantasy, sci-fi, 🏳️🌈Ally, No🚫GenAI content. Lawyer by day.
Probably followed you for mentioning reading, history, or writing in your profile.
"Armchair Classicist: The Page" on FB
Mark Coeckelbergh @coeckelbergh.bsky.social Philosopher of technology | Professor at Philosophy Department University of Vienna | Author of AI Ethics, Why AI Undermines Democracy, and Artificial Religion | member UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI | https://coeckelbergh.net
Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉 @erinvachon.bsky.social Senior Reviews Editor @smokelong.bsky.social | Multigenre & Chapbook Editor @splitlippress.com | Providence menace | I write weird shit. | Fuck ICE. | More of us than there are of them.
Helen King @helenking.bsky.social Sort of retired (not), Professor Emerita, The Open University. Classics, history of medicine/the body/gynaecology. Writer, blogger, C of E lay preacher, chair of Together on General Synod (formerly Gender & Sexuality Group). She/her. Likes flowers.
Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social Museums, galleries, medieval and Irish literature, folklore, poetry, botany, Cumbrian walks, Oxfam bookstores. Remainer trying to do the right thing in a world that's going/gone off balance. All 📸 mine, unless stated
Lee Vinsel @leev.bsky.social I do technology studies, make the Peoples & Things podcast, co-founded The Maintainers, and profess Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.
Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social Medieval and early modern English literature at Queen’s College, Oxford. Mostly old books. All opinions my own. She/her
SukajiSplats🔆🌠 @sukajisplats.bsky.social genderfluid/pan || 30 || Creator of fancomic "Scourge Eternal Blackout".
I also draw Sonic, Splatoon, and Pokemon (and stream on my twitch channel!)
Socials: https://sukajisplats.carrd.co/
Art Tag: #sukajisart
⚠️🚫AI Is NOT permitted on ANY of my work🚫⚠️
Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts.
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs
Eric Klug @klugalters.bsky.social Freelance artist who paints on everything including trading cards. Closed for alter commissions. For other inquiries: eaklug@gmail.com
Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social Official BlueSky account of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Fostering interest in all things #churchhistory.
Connor Burbridge for U.S. Senate @burbridge-for-ri.bsky.social ⚓️ Eldercare worker, canoe enthusiast, and candidate for U.S. Senate in Rhode Island.
⚓️ Neighbors, not b*llionaires.
https://www.burbridgeforri.com
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social Medievalist formerly @kieluni, now @uni_tue | Byzantium and trauma studies | maps and visions | gender equality | she/her | views my own | and I like dachshunds.
Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social Historical and applied linguist by training, but I have a soft spot for letters, queens, and Tudor history. Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics and AI@NTU.
Website: https://helennewsomechandler.wordpress.com
NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/tvnt9fyr
Prof Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social Feminist, musicologist, musician, extreme knitter, gardener. Not necessarily in that order. Girl groups from Ferrara to Motown; all the nuns, all the time; disability studies
Prof Emerita of Music, Uni of Southampton, FRHistS; @musicasecreta.bsky.social
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social Professor, linguist, knitter, curmudgeon: teach and study the History of the English language, British Literature before 1700, and many adjacent things. All opinions my own.
Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). Photos by Sukant Deepak (in Jaipur, 2024) and Carlotta Cardana (at St John's College, Cambridge, 2025).
Scott Manning @scottmanning.com Author of Joan of Arc: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works (2023). Co-editor Cinema Medievalia (2024).
Medievalism 🏰, film 🎥, astronomy 🪐, comics, Transformers 🤖, books 📚, antiquing, 🖊️, Star Wars 🚀. he/him
https://linktr.ee/scottmanning
Chronology Of the Norse TransAtlantic Colonies and Territories @contactproject.bsky.social a 5‑year ERC‑funded project @rug.nl
📜 Re‑examining the earliest Europe ↔ North America connections
🔬 Radiocarbon spike dating | Isotope & DNA analysis | Bayesian modelling | Historical & saga research
🌍 Mapping Norse expansion across the North Atlantic
Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social Journalist.
Cat dad.
Rhode Islander.
Author of "Prescription for Pain: How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the 'Pill Mill Killer.'"
https://philipeil.com/
Rhode Island Current @rhodeislandcurrent.com The Rhode Island Current is an independent, nonprofit news outlet covering state government and the impact of public policy decisions in the Ocean State.
Dr Kate Farrant Shaw @katefarrantshaw.bsky.social Legal academic, PhD - researching EU Rule of law, the CJEU, EAW and judicial independence deficiencies, medieval, legal and Celtic history. Latest book https://brill.com/display/title/61820.
Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social Historian/art historian (12C & 18C esp), lover of Old Roses, literature, art, music, pigeons & other cute creatures! Trans-inclusive egalitarian #FBPE #UKEUFriend #Aspie
GilchristHeritage at the Other Place. Posts in personal capacity.
She/They
Bastiaan Waagmeester @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social Medieval historian | postdoc @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social | Early medieval manuscripts and religious education
Personal website: libripendis.eu
Maria Farinelli @maria-farinelli.bsky.social Specialista dell’Antichità tarda
Dottoressa in storia romana
Di Milano
Franco-italiana
International Boccaccio Edition @intbocced.bsky.social Complete new edition of Boccaccio’s works with English translation and commentary + philological notes in Italian.
editors@boccaccioedition.org
boccaccioedition.org
Endorsed by: American Boccaccio Association and Ente Nazionale GB
Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social A Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme, a partnership between King's College London and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent. Directors: Prof. Julia Crick and Dr David Rundle.
Website: https://www.komldsp.org.uk/
Matthijs den Dulk @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social NT & Early Christianity at Radboud | PhD, UChicago | 2025-32: PI NWO Vidi Project on Ethnicity and In/Equality in Early Christianity | Academic Director, Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion (NOSTER)
Dr Shauna Roach @shaunaroach.bsky.social Medievalist. Chaucerian. Lover of pigeons. Researching ideas of Virtue in Chaucer’s Literature @ University of Bristol
Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social Librarian at Hereford Cathedral. Librarian cliche & loving it. Expect books, tea, crafts & cats. All views my own, in case it needs to be said.
"She's the most librarian librarian I have ever seen."
American Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social American Medieval is a podcast about the Middle Ages, but with an American twist. If America has never been modern, it’s because we’ve always been slightly medieval.
Host @profgabriele.com, part of @multitude.productions
linktr.ee/americanmedievalshow
Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com I write novels, games and stories. Coming in 2026: MERCUTIO and THE SWORDMASTER. Writer at CHEO Foundation (my views are my own). Former journalist. From Manitoba, now in Ottawa. She/her. Trans rights are human rights 🏳️🌈
https://kateheartfield.com
Kristel Zilmer @kristelzilmer.bsky.social Professor of runology (= runes & runic inscriptions, not urology), working with all things runic and more. Own views and random thoughts.
Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East at the University of Leicester. Researching ancient Mesopotamia. Playwright, poet, and Babylonian liver diviner.
https://www.selenawisnom.com
https://leicester.academia.edu/SelenaWisnom
Justine Breton @bretonjustine.bsky.social Lecturer in Medievalism, University of Lorraine (SAMA)
📚Translating The Witcher (2026)
Terry Pratchett et la Mort (2025)
Les Simpson et les autres (2025)
Robin des Bois (2024)
The Witcher, un monde de légendes (2023)
Kaamelott, un livre d'histoire (2018)
Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General Editor, Literature & Theology
📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025)
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
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.
Xosé M. Sánchez @xosschz.bsky.social Hª Medieval en UniversidadeUSC || “Noche de la Edad Media, de acuerdo. Pero noche llena de estrellas”
Jackson Crawford @norsebysw.bsky.social Former instructor (UCLA/UCB/CU), Ph.D., on youtube ( www.youtube.com/jacksoncrawford ). Imperfectly trying to teach Old Norse things and linguistics. 2nd Ed. of my translation of the Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes now out. Colorado.
Medieval Studies @uvic-medi.bsky.social Salvete! We are the Medieval Studies program at the University of Victoria. Exploring the Middle Ages requires learning science, art, literature, community and religion. The richness and diversity calls for interdisciplinary research and teaching.
Biblical Archaeology Review @biblicalarchaeology.org The magazine making the archaeology of the Bible accessible: discoveries, analysis, and more. Explore our extensive website (www.biblicalarchaeology.org), sign up for Bible History Daily emails, subscribe to BAR, or become an All-Access member!.
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social Writer, occasional talking head, Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Chichester. Autistic. Views own, etc. She/her.
Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social Gorgeous redhead with peculiar ideas
Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections.
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/
https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social Celticist and erstwhile cake baker
God @thegodshow.com Creator of the Universe.
thegodshow.com
https://youtube.com/@thegodshowlive
Providence College Jewish-Catholic Theological Exchange @jewscatholicspc.bsky.social Est. 2007 | Dedicated to meaningful and honest interreligious learning, dialogue, and encounter | Events, News, Information, & Commentary | RT =/= endorsement
jewish-catholic.providence.edu
Stephen Johnston @stephenaj.bsky.social Curator Emeritus at Oxford's History of Science Museum, with interests in instruments and material culture. Current research focus on armillary spheres and astrolabes in medieval Europe. (Disclaimer: focus known to wander.)
The Map Center @mapcenter.com Andrew Middleton
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
A 'Peddler of Wheres' and owner of the oldest map store on the East Coast, The Map Center in Pawtucket RI. It's like a hip record store but for maps.
www.mapcenter.com
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc
Sidra Collaborative @sidracollaborative.bsky.social Sidra Collaborative partners with arts, culture, and humanities organizations and funders to build sustainable programs and reimagine a funding landscape that centers transparency, equity, and community.
www.sidracollaborative.com
Maddie Collins @collins1129.bsky.social Lukewarm takes on medieval/public history, museums, books & indie bookstores • they/them • Views my own.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴🌹
EDHRECast @edhrecast.bsky.social The official podcast of @edhrec, breaking down the stats and data to help all deckbuilders.
Cast:
@JosephMSchultz
@danaroach
@mathimus55
edhrecast@gmail.com
Dr Alison Killilea @grendelsmam.bsky.social PhD in reception history of Beowulf; production editor for Lonely Planet; friend to rats #freepalestine
Dave D’Alessio @dalessio-dave.bsky.social Full-time writer nowadays. Speculative fiction and fantasy, and don't ask about magical girls!
Okay, ask about Magical Girls:
https://www.amazon.com/Gold-Dragongirl-Pizza-Boy-Dell-ebook/dp/B0H1NZ76JZ
A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social Associate Professor, History of Religion. Migrant. Bad at gender, worse at writing bios. I do stuff involving religion and literature and genocide, usually all at once. Posts mostly in English, ibland på svenska, ובעברית רק כדי לספר בדיחות
Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck.
Writing a book on Judas for Cornell UP.
Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025)
Towards An Accessible Academy ed. Lee, Champion, Doherty-H (MIP, 2025)
She/her
Jackie Goldman (they/them)🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🌹 @jackiegoldman.bsky.social Harm reduction researcher with the People, Place and Health Collective at Brown University, loud-mouth leftist, Rhode Island lover, fighting for a better future
The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social A public-facing, digital publication focusing on the ‘whys’ and ‘so whats’ of medieval studies and pedagogy. Affiliated with Arthuriana.
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@lhowes.bsky.social @lhowes.bsky.social