David Parnell @byzantineprof.bsky.social Historian of the Romans (including the Byzantine Empire). Author of Belisarius & Antonina. Professor at Indiana University Northwest.
Tony Burke @tonyburke.bsky.social Religious Studies prof., York University, Toronto; writes on Christian apocrypha
Dr Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social Postdoc at the University of Warsaw working on fourth-century Antioch. PhD on the sons of Constantine and church politics from Exeter. 🇦🇺 in 🇵🇱 She/her.
Isabella Lewis @irvlewis.bsky.social AHRC (WRoCAH) Funded PhD Researcher on Sexual Violence in Byzantine Hagiography with the IMS at the University of Leeds
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/pgr/6375/isabella-lewis 
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.
Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social William R Kenan Jr Professor of Sociology @ Davidson College | Race, Religion, Power, Social Change | Past Roles: Journal Editor Sociology of Religion, President SSSR & ASR, Chair ASA Religion, AAR Religion & Social Science Unit | cv https://bit.ly/40mps8D
Tony Beall · Where Sacred Fires Burn @ajbeall.bsky.social Historian of religions, using archival and ethnographic methods. A decade in Namibia on ritual, memory, and the dead who orient the living. I write Where Sacred Fires Burn; subscriptions support the Etanga Development Foundation. ajbeall.substack.com
Dr Anna Kelley @annackelley.bsky.social Historian of late antique Egypt, Africa, and the Byzantine Empire. Lecturer in the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews. Recovering archaeologist and epic procrastinator.
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
James Burns @iames-burns.bsky.social PhD Candidate, University of Leicester
Late antique & early medieval history
https://le.ac.uk/people/james-robert-burns
Catherine-Rose Hailstone @caterose.bsky.social Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of Early Medieval History at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen. Currently writing up her Leverhulme Trust monograph on Emotional Architectures: Atmospheres of Power in the Churches of Late Antique Gaul.- M @magistraetmater.bsky.social @magistraetmater.bsky.social
Alex West @ajw87.bsky.social Cosmopolitan in Portugal. PhD. Middle Ages in Afro-Eurasia; Columbian exchange; manuscripts, Malay, Tupi...
Old site: https://indomedieval.medium.com/
New site: https://medium.com/@WestsWorld he/him/ele
Book: https://brill.com/display/title/68202
Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Viking Studies @uoncsva.bsky.social. Visiting Professor @insuhi.bsky.social, FBA. The Saga of the Earls of Orkney: https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-saga-of-the-earls-of-orkney/ https://uonenglish.substack.com/s/ragnas-islands
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
Christy Cobb @christycobb.bsky.social PhD in New Testament & Early Christianity /
Associate Prof @ Univ. of Denver /
Slavery, Gender, Sexuality /
Single Mom by Choice (SMC) to a 8 yo
St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social School of Classics, University of St Andrews.
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/
Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social Ottoman cultural history - IMS/FORTH, Greece
GHOST-Geographies and histories of the Ottoman supernatural tradition
https://forth.academia.edu/MarinosSariyannis
Said Reza Huseini @bactria.bsky.social Historian of Indo-Persian and Islamic World
Studied at Delhi, Leiden, Cambridge and Princeton
Andrea Aparicio Lozano @andreaaparicio.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at @ehu/upv
Early Middle Ages
Rural history
Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social PhD candidate at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. Writing a dissertation on slavery in early rabbinic literature.
Teaching Fellow at University of Dayton, 2025-2027.
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. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social Advisor and Lecturer @ UVA
Working on early Christianity, slavery, & Roman Palestine
Cat dad | Minnesotan | 🏳️🌈 | http://chancebonar.com
Books: bit.ly/3R8LXbo + bit.ly/4iMBSwy + bit.ly/4dBmCSk
Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social Archaeologist, social value, fieldwork, developer-funded, Roman London. SE London and Dorset. she/her. 🏺🏛️👷♀️My views. Cyclist. Cats and daughters.
SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social Science, Society and Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE - ERC Consolidator Grant (2023-2027) at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia - @helenfoxhallforbes@bsky.social / @dl-arch@bsky.social
https://pric.unive.it/projects/sse1k/home
Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social Classicist and linguist, Durham. Working on multilingualism in ancient Italy, the written landscape and the linguistics of slavery.
Hannah Boston @hannah-boston.bsky.social LRS Nigel Burn Fellow at Divinity Faculty and Clare Hall, Cambridge. Medieval Loyalty Research Network co-organiser (https://medievalloyalty.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk). Charters, property, environment, and regional society. Occasional archaeologist
Monika Amsler @monikaamsler.bsky.social Senior Research Assistant (sic!), University of Bern. Rabbinic lit., ancient education, book production, the concept of the paradox, history of ideas.
Emma Southon @emmasouthon.bsky.social Roman Historian
Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social Medieval historian, Maynooth University; EC member, Young Academy Ireland; PI, Research Ireland Pathway Project, 'Power and Patronage in Medieval Ireland'; Author of The Cult of Relics in Early Medieval Ireland; Host, The Medieval Irish History Podcast
Annie Norman-Schiff @anormanschiff.bsky.social Educator. Talmud, romance novels, the New York Mets
Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social AHRC project: premodern contact btwn England & Islamic Worlds. Led by Lubaaba Al-Azami & Samera Hassan. Book: https://bit.ly/3ZEIy6L OA Journal: https://rb.gy/wlrcie. Website: https://memorients.com/
Krista Dalton @kristadalton.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religion at Denison University
Author of How the Rabbis Became Experts (Princeton, 2025)
Co Editor-in-Chief http://ancientjewreview.com
Series co-editor Theoria with Fordham UP https://fordhampress.com/theoria.
Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social Early medieval archaeologist | Viking trade PhD (Gla) | History MA Oxon. Balliol, Oxford | Author: A Viking Market Kingdom; Treasures of the Vikings | Co-Editor / Co-Author: The Viking Age in Scotland | The Govan Stones
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
lyra tasis🪬🧿✡︎ @tribhuwana.bsky.social Studying medieval history and texts in MENA + Europe. Interested in book history, history of medicine, labor history, gender. Jew for open access ebooks!
(Blocks are not personal)
They/elle/αυτή/היא/هي
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Alison Purnell is chasing that PhD! @14thcdisability.bsky.social Eternal doctoral candidate currently at University of Waterloo. Medieval disability stuff. Modern disability stuff. Occasional humorous history stories. Queer, disabled, joyful. She/They. Always check the alt-text for bonus jokes.
Musheղ Asaտryan @as-mush.bsky.social Historian | Islam, Late Antiquity, Abbasids, sectarianism, heresy and stuff | Assoc. Prof. at UCalgary
https://ucalgary.academia.edu/MusheghAsatryan
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350985858
IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar @earliermiddleages.bsky.social Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, London, focusing on earlier medieval history, c.300-1200. (Usually) Wednesdays at 5.30pm. Est. 1974. https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/earlier-middle-ages
Grant Macaskill @grantmacaskill.bsky.social Lightfoot Professor of Divinity,
Durham University.
Honorary Co-Director, Centre for Autism and Theology, Aberdeen
Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social Website and contact details: https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/classics-ancient-history/
Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social ERC CoG 2025 (claim.univie.ac.at) | FWF START Award 2024 (GenAut.univie.ac.at) | Co-host of @tetraseminar.bsky.social (TeTra.univie.ac.at) | Co-editor RBECS.org | Bits and bobs, manuscript studies, and the reception of EC literature. In Vienna.
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social andrewjacobs.org | Advising Fellow, virginia.edu | ed., Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity (bit.ly/cup-erla) | 👑🐝 = Queen Bee in NYT Spelling Bee
Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez @abeldelorenzo.bsky.social Medievalist - Punishments & Crimes
Post-doc researcher at @usc.gal & @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Associé LaMOP (Paris 1) / FRHistS
See more in: https://usc-es.academia.edu/AbelLorenzoRodriguez
ig abel_de_lorenzo_rodriguez
Author of "La horca y el fuego"
Christina Brauner @chbrauner.bsky.social Historian, working and teaching at University of Tübingen | early modern & beyond | Europe & Africa | history & theory
https://tinyurl.com/5y764mpd
Luise Borek @luiseborek.bsky.social Medievalist & Digital Humanist | University of Freiburg
(she/her)
profile banner: 'Computer im Musenhain' by Ruth Reiche
Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html 
Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social Associate Professor of Medieval History, University of Oxford
Chair, Family Expert Reference Group, National Maternity & Neonatal Taskforce
(I can't read private messages here.)
Rodney Mancuso @amancuso.bsky.social PhD student at SLU studying late 5th/early 6th century Gaul and Italy. Italophile. (Sorry, France.) Purveyor of fluffy pastries. Has a Turkish goat hide in the garage.
Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social Historian living in Rome. 🏳️🌈 Author of "The Families who Made Rome, a history and a guide" (Chatto, 2004). Currently writing a single-volume urban history of Rome for OUP.
Only by knowledge of history can we know our context. Plus, it's fun!
Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social Classicist, archaeologist, sci-fi and horror nerd and, most importantly, ginger. Oh, and... "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn". #EdgyPedlar #AncientStuff
Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social Best-selling author | artist | write and teach #LateAntiquity, #EarlyMedieval, #Hungarians + #Vikings
Views my own. Appears on BBC radio.
NORSE MYTHOLOGY COLOURING BOOK: https://www.amberley-books.com/coming-soon/the-viking-world-a-colouring-book.html
Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social Professor | Historian of law, living standards, & social control in Western Europe, c.900-1300 | Dog lover | Pasta addict.
Background picture is of Nanaimo.
Portrait is from the Luttrell Psalter.
Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social Brown Viking. Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Scandinavia, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.
Thomas Laver @laver-thomas.bsky.social Early Career Research Fellow in History at Cambridge. Late Antiquity, economic & social history, and cricket
Dr Kelsey Shawn Madden @kelseyshawn.bsky.social Roman Archaeologist 🤠
Wartime sexual violence and the traffic of women and children 🔎
ECR Associate @ics.bsky.social 📖
Site Supervisor Falerii Novi for @bsrome.bsky.social ⛏️
Council Member @theromansoc.bsky.social
Secretary @tracconference.bsky.social
Dominik Waßenhoven @domwass.bsky.social Historian (Early Medieval) ❧ Bishops ❧ Church History ❧ Female Power ❧ England ❧ Scandinavia ❧ ‘Germany’ ❧ University of Cologne ❧ @fobim.bsky.social ❧ @hist4dem.bsky.social ❧ Header: Bamberg Msc.Lit.53, fol.2v ❧ opinions my own ❧ he/him
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social Medieval historian and charismatic megafauna enthusiast at the University of Tübingen. Blogs at https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/
Angus Bylsma @angusbylsma.bsky.social Writing about economic history at https://unevenandcombinedthoughts.substack.com
Jennifer Barry @jennisifire.bsky.social Scholar, late antiquity nerd, professor, and author of Gender Violence in Late Antiquity https://www.ucpress.edu/books/gender-violence-in-late-antiquity/hardcover and Bishops in Flight https://www.ucpress.edu/books/bishops-in-flight/paper 
The Oxford Centre for Early Medieval Britain and Ireland @oxembi.bsky.social Interdisciplinary centre for the study of early medieval Britain and Ireland @ox.ac.uk
https://www.youtube.com/@OxfordEarlyMedieval
T. B. Sailors @tbsailors.bsky.social Specialist in the academic study of ancient Christianity and its literature
Bis vor Kurzem: @unituebingen.bsky.social | HMML @visithmml.bsky.social | ARISC (Abteilung Jerewan) | Albright Institute @albrightinstitute.bsky.social
Ich hasse Social Media
Jiayu Dang @jydang.bsky.social Carolingian，Capitularia（条令），law-books （法律书），China, Jinan University， PostDoc
Francisco Cintrón Mattei @franciscocintron.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Medieval Studies at Notre Dame. Historian of Al-Andalus and the Mediterranean. Writing on laws in translation and societies in transition | 🇵🇷
Odeio os Nazistas de Illinois 🍉 @otrao.bsky.social Técnico de Reparos em Representações Modernas de Memória Social Antiga.
Modalidades: Subversiva, Vista de Baixo, Vencidos. Alinhamento:anarco-comunista-ordeiro
Migração (muito) voluntária de Osasco pra Recife
Entusiasta do projeto Too Many Cooks 2
Craig Perry @caperry.bsky.social Teacher-scholar at the intersection of World History, Jewish Studies, and Islamic Civilizations Studies. New book in 2026: https://bit.ly/PerrySlavery. Co-editor: The Cambridge World History of Slavery vol. 2: https://bit.ly/CWHS2
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association @jaema.bsky.social JAEMA is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal specialising in the history of the early medieval period - from late antiquity to the early eleventh century.
https://aema.org.au/journal/
Jake Stattel @jakestattel.bsky.social Medieval Historian, Postdoc Fellow at Cambridge | Vikings, the Danelaw, Legal History | https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-jake-stattel
Henriette Rødland @henriette-rodland.bsky.social Researcher working with Swahili archaeology and the material culture of medieval East Africa. Based in Germany/Switzerland.
Shii Studies Network @shiistudiesnet.bsky.social A space for graduate students researching Shiism in all its diversity to build professional and personal relationships, share their work, and learn from those further along in the field.
https://shiistudies.net
Peter J Brown @peterjbrown.bsky.social Honorary Fellow @arcdurham.bsky.social | Landscape archaeology of medieval Eurasia | Water Management | Islamic Archaeology | Environmental History
https://p-j-brown.github.io
Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
Grupo de Estudios de Historia de la Prisión @historiaprision.bsky.social Grupo de Estudios sobre Historia de la Prisión y las Instituciones Punitivas (GEHPIP). Grupo interuniversitario de historia, sociología, antropología y derecho de lo punitivo. #Metropolice en @elsaltodiario.com: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/metropolice
Grace O'Duffy @graceo.bsky.social PhD student @University of Oxford, working on sexual violence in Old Norse. Otherwise weaver, drawer, painter, embroiderer.... 
De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Religion, Bible, and Theology department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social Late Antique & Medieval Postgraduate Society | Community promoting interdisciplinarity & fellowship among students | Run by University of Edinburgh students
Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social Ikerbasque Research Professor of Medieval History at University of Basque Country
PJ Wilson @pjwils.bsky.social PhD candidate in NT & Christian Origins (migration & Acts) at the University of Edinburgh § coordinating refugee and asylum seeker support projects with the Naz § usual caveats: views are my own, etc.
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social Loves: Hiking/gym/baseball cards/Stout/ Research Fellow https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/16690
Author-The Soldier's Life; AUP book on Procopius. Routledge books on Generalship in the Age of Justinian/ Identity in Byzantium/Marriage & Alliance
Jamie Wood @woodjamie.bsky.social Historian, educator and Director of Online Short Courses at Oxford Lifelong Learning. Ed tech, digital reading, active learning. Slavery, religion and education in late antiquity and early middle ages, esp. Iberian Peninsula.
Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
Rev Dr John Plus Dr Mary @revdrjohn.bsky.social PhDs in history and theology of Jihad in Islam/Xnty in Syriac and Arabic and other topic, ex-academics, historical wargame designer and retiree. Our identities concealed due to threats and doxxing.
Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social PhD student working on early medieval Lombard Italy at Padua, Venice and Salamanca.
Annemarieke Willemsen @amwillemsen.bsky.social A medieval art historian & archaeologist @ Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, Dr, FSA, loves Rome & Roma, birds & books, proprietor of the Rose & Parrot 🐺📚🦤
"History is an illusion caused by the passing of time" (Douglas AdAms)
Ian Bonze @ianbonze.bsky.social PhD Student at the University of St Andrews
MPhil in Comparative History at UFRJ/Brasil
Historian⚱️
Interested in Late Antiquity, Economic Anthropology, and Roman Law 🎓
Ainur Elmgren @aelmgren.bsky.social Docent in Nordic history, university lecturer in history and social studies (University of Oulu). Draws comics. Interests: History education, 1910s/1920s politics & culture, Tatars, Avars, Late Antiquity-Early Middle Ages.
Suomi/Svenska/English/Deutsch
Young Richard Kim @youngrichardkim.bsky.social @UICLAS professor of the ancient Mediterranean world. @UCLA, @UMich alum. Korean American, son of immigrants, striving anti-racist, not very good follower of Jesus
Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social An archaeologist who loves Eurovision and popular tv. Sharing content on heritage, politics and entertainment.
She/her
My opinions are my own.
Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social Historian: medieval warfare and literature. PhD. FSA. FRHS. Rejoin EU.
Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social Historian of Late Antiquity, interested mainly in Prosopography, Late Latin Historiography, Ethnic Identity and Systems of Dependencies.
Caroline Goodson @cjg70.bsky.social Early Medievalist working on Italy, Europe, Maghrib, Mediterranean and economies; at Uni Cambridge; currently at American Academy in Rome. In to: urban gardening; city cycling; swimming in the sea.
Most recent book: https://tinyurl.com/mr75n
Mohamed Elnakep @mohamedelnakep.bsky.social
lecture of Islamic history, Mansoura University. PhD in Imāmī Shīʿīs at Universität (Göttingen, Hamburg). Member of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO).
Philip Forness @philipforness.bsky.social Associate Professor of Eastern Christianity at KU Leuven.