Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social Runologist-for-hire, librarian, PhD in Scandinavian languages. Translator into Old Norse for Civ VI, God of War (but only the good runes), AC Valhalla. I infrequently make text games.
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.
James T Palmer @jtpmedieval.bsky.social Restless medievalist • Professor at St Andrews, Scotland • Apocalypse/ Nature/ Science/ Medicine c. 500-c. 1000
Cullen Chandler @chandlerprof.bsky.social Medievalist, historian, trying to talk about things like normal people talk about normal things.
Dr Carly McNamara @medievalcarly.bsky.social PhD in Celtic, focusing on early medieval Irish and Scottish history. Saints, monasteries, monastic networks, and water-based travel. Founder and Managing Director of My Academic Family, a non-profit supporting student success in university. 
MedievalWomenSpeak @medievalwomenspeak.bsky.social Medievalist, PhD'ing at Cambridge. Chaucer, gender, trauma. Bringing the voices of medieval women forward.
Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social Teaching medieval & ancient history at a SLAC in Michigan. Researches nostalgia. Lots of nerdy things. A greyhound named Malibu. Still misses old Twitter. he/him 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social Author of CULPABILITY, Oprah's Book Club summer 2025 pick, from Spiegel & Grau.
Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social 'The biggest fool that's ever hit the big time'. Onomaphile and award-losing historian: 'Enough of all this academic chatter, Back again to devilry!'
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
L Berrini @lpberrini.bsky.social Sleep deprived librarian,archivist and historian. I study culture and literature of the Middle Ages. Alfonso X is my dude. I like music, books, beekeeping and good food. He/him.
“Librarians aren’t the enemy. Nazis are”
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.”
Sarah Noonan @sarahloleet.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English & Coordinator of the Digital and Public Humanities program at Saint Mary's College. Co-PI of the Peripheral MSS Project (peripheralmss.org). Interests: Medieval Lit, Book History, MSS Studies, and DH (she/her)
Grant Jones @grantosjones.bsky.social Medieval Historian interested in the relationships between the Church and chivalric culture c.1100-1250.
'Parfois au loin se laissait voir / Un feu qui se balance'
Pursue happiness with diligence.
Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social researcher @dhiroma.bsky.social | early medieval southern Italy | Christian-Muslim relations | Mediterranean
Harriet Soper @hattiesoper.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval Literature @bristolunienglish.bsky.social. Interested in OE, ME & ON, currently working on play 🧸 The Life Course in Old English Poetry (CUP, 2024). She/ her. Views own.
JRad @radinje.bsky.social PhD Rel Studies - Jewish + Islamic philosophy, pol thought, history. Arabic is better than my hebrew. Tldr: Leo Strauss radically pro-democracy, Judaism & Islam closer than Christianity, 2 states, manuscripts rock, I have kids, nationalism 👎#canada - usa
J.J. North Wannabe @phillyadam.bsky.social Collector & researcher of English, Irish & Scottish hammered coins minted in the 13th-14th centuries. Member BNS, RNS, ANS & ANA. Cambridge United supporter
Jennifer Lorden @jenlorden.bsky.social Writing about old things at W&M, PhD UC Berkeley. Author FORMS OF DEVOTION IN EARLY ENGLISH POETRY (Cambridge UP 2023) and LITERARY FORM IN EARLY MEDIEVAL ENGLAND (Cambridge UP 2025) she/her 🏳️🌈 Opinions my own.
www.jenniferlorden.com
Carol Barbon @childoflions.bsky.social Uvic student majoring in Medieval Studies, future Medievalist, a fan of paleontology, and a mother of three. (she/her).
Rachel Singer @rachelbsinger.bsky.social Environmental historian of first-millennium Britain/Ireland and Merovingian Gaul.
PhD Candidate at Georgetown researching infectious disease, rebel nuns, and disaster.
Philly sports fan and weird rescue animal enthusiast by night.
rachelbsinger.com
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. 
Melissa Ryckman @missoularedhead.bsky.social Historian, medievalist, geek, feminist, mom, crocheter, potter. Order changes depending on day. Associate professor. All my own thoughts (most of which lately are 'wtf'). Desperately trying to do research.
Shahrouz, PhD @parchmentwizard.bsky.social Professor | PhD, Yale History | Specialist in the Middle Ages + World History | Manuscript collector | Taking each day 24 hours at a time.
Dr Micah Mackay @micahmackay.bsky.social Writer and Historian ✍️
Dr of Carols (yes, really) 🎓
Arts Development & Cultural Advocate🎭
Currently writing about how we can transform arts funding ✨
Corinne Wieben @medievalpast.bsky.social Professor of medieval history, podcaster, writer, & bibliophile. MA/PhD from UCSB. Working on masculinity, marriage, & law in late medieval Italy. D&D & TTRPG enthusiast. Dabbler in history of magic & witchcraft.
@enchantedpodcast.net
enchantedpodcast.net
Robert Kurelic, PhD @raesene.bsky.social Dad, Husband, Assistant Professor of Medieval History (University of Pula)
Co-editor "History in Flux" (https://ffpu.unipu.hr/history-in-Flux) Research interests: Rituals, Nobility, Frontiers. RPG enthusiast. Personal account (All opinions my own)
Jessica M. Elliott @jmelliott.bsky.social Associate professor of medieval history. Working on Jewish-Christian interaction, religious conversion, and attitudes toward converts in medieval France and Italy. She/her.
Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social Medieval manuscripts, SFF, cats, quilts.
Trying my best in Kalamazoo.
Black lives still matter.
Trans rights are still human rights.
Craig M Nakashian @themedievalprof.bsky.social A Baystate medievalist in the Lone Star State.
Clare Lees @clarelees.bsky.social Director of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Medievalist. Feminist. Poetry now and in the last 1000 or so years. Arts. Practice. All kinds of books and their histories. 
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
Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social A/Prof Medieval Literature, Flinders | Visiting Fellow, St Cross College, Oxford | Lead CI ARC DP23: First English Speakers | DP23: Finding Friendship in Old English Literature | PhD TCD | FSA | IAUPE | Beowulf monograph ManchesterUP '26
Seb Falk @sebfalk.com Historian of science ||
Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge ||
Singer, sailor, runner, father ||
"Always generous" – The New Yorker
Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social Universitair docent 1 at Leiden University (🇳🇱); olim University of Ottawa (🇨🇦). Author of books on manuscript history📝 (Oxford UP, 2025), medieval England's lit 🏰 (Boydell, 2021) and medieval guide dogs 🦮(forthcoming 2025). She/her.
Russell Ó Ríagáin @rusticulus-reguli.bsky.social Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, History, University of St Andrews
Own lefty views
Iron Age, late antique, medieval, early-modern archaeologist ⁊ historian; toponomist, sociologist, cartographer, copy-editor; ❤ cats ⁊ books
sé/he/il/er/han
Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺 @braciatrix.bsky.social Award-winning Beer Historian & Author | PhD | Writing About Beer, Folklore, History, & Power| Author: FILTHY QUEENS & THE DEVIL'S IN THE DRAUGHT LINES Order Filthy Queens: https://tinyurl.com/Ninebeanrowsbooks
Helen Carr @helencarr.bsky.social Times and Sunday Times best-selling author
Medieval Historian
Mother of Doggos
SCEPTRED ISLE: A NEW HISTORY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY OUT MAY 2025 (Hutchinson Heinemann, Penguin Random House)
Cat Spencer @catjarman.bsky.social 
John Cotts @johncotts.bsky.social Medieval historian, humanist. Working on the crusades, violence, and the twelfth century. Pursuing new interests in environmental and climate history.
rowan @whittypear.bsky.social medievalist and union man for a free palestine / cemetery frequenter / blot on the landscape / they/he
Kathleen Walker-Meikle @medievalbadger.bsky.social Historian. Writes on medieval and early modern animals & medicine. Books: Medieval Pets, Cats in Medieval Manuscripts, Dogs in Medieval Manuscripts & many more!
Mad Maenad @madmaenad.bsky.social Medievalist and Photographer, livin' the dream.
Che vive sperando, muore cantando.
Visit my blog site: www.pilgrimtothepast.com
My photography site: https://www.madmaenad.com/
Sebastian Kleinschmidt @skleinschmidt.bsky.social Middle school teacher (English and Biology) and PhD student (medievalist) working on Middle English visions of the afterlife and their narration techniques. Formerly part of the GRK 1767 Factual and Fictional Narration (University of Freiburg, Germany).
Dr Abby Armstrong @medievalabby.bsky.social Medieval Historian.
She/her.
Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social #Earlymedieval -ist, focusing on the #history of #law and #lawbooks from the 6th-13th centuries.
Postdoc historian on the #PresentDead project
Also #lawplay and #medieval set #TTRPG, and idly creating the #LangobardRPG.
he/him
Dr Lily Hawker-Yates @gwenofmonmouth.bsky.social archaeology & heritage outreach/public engagement ⚬ embroidery inspired by archaeology & medieval manuscripts
Anne Payne @anne-payne.bsky.social Administrator, medievalist, crafter, mum. Not necessarily in that order. 
Lauren Cole @medievallauren.bsky.social Medievalist: Hildegard of Bingen, medicine, religious lit, medievalism, public scholarship. PhD History student at Northwestern, visiting @unimainz.bsky.social 24-25.
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)
Mary Witchman 🧙🏻♀️ @maryhitchman.bsky.social PhD-ing on late antique women’s writing • she/her 
orsi 🕯️ @aylosro.bsky.social phd in medieval history | political culture, social dynamics in 10th—11th-c. france & provence | they/them
Dr Andrew D. Buck @andrewdbuck.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Cardiff University. Beer enthusiast. The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret.
Fraser McNair @ralphtorta.bsky.social Medievalist, blogger, charter enthusiast. Currently working as a research fellow on the Music In The Shadows project at the University of Nottingham. Read my blog at:
https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/
Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social Medievalist. First Gen. Associate Professor of English, LSU. Disability advocacy, medieval stuff, and food/drinks. And cats. Opinions my own. he/him
J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social Medievalist, book historian, professional tran.
(He/Him) All views mine only. 
WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social underemployed musicologist, sometime professor
research: music, political culture, history, and identity in medieval England, Scotland, and beyond
currently writing: musicispolitics.beehiiv.com
British-American, based in LA for my sins
J L Laynesmith @jllaynesmith.bsky.social Medievalist in Reading researching queenship, Wars of the Roses, royal adultery, and medieval noblewomen (Cecily Duchess of York appears frequently) | Editor of The Ricardian | May also mention Environment, Eco Church, Trade Justice . . .(all views my own)
Jesse Hurlbut @jessehurlbut.bsky.social Medievalist. Manuscript studies, 15th-century Burgundy, French literature, art, culture, Digital Humanities. Retired. https://jessehurlbut.net
James Morton @jamesmorton.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Researches law, religion, and manuscripts in the medieval Byzantine Empire. Author, Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy (http://bit.ly/3h3Huph) #ByzantineLaw
🏴🇭🇰🇬🇷🇮🇹
Maroula Perisanidi @maroulix.bsky.social Medieval and Byzantine History
Wellcome Trust Research Fellow She/her
Jerome Ros @jerome-ros.bsky.social 🔍CNRS researcher
🫒Archaeobotanist at @isemevol.bsky.social
🔬Medievalist, working on agriculture and forests in medieval France, Spain and Morocco (@Isemaproject)
https://cv.hal.science/jerome-ros
Cloud Things @cloudthings.bsky.social I look at clouds,
I make Cloud Things!.
☁️🌈🦄✨️💙
#art
#poetry
#whynot
I have been making Cloudthings since June 2018. 😺☁️
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics @perimeterinstitute.bsky.social We are an independent centre for research, training, and outreach in theoretical physics in Waterloo.
https://perimeterinstitute.ca/link-in-bio
Kitchener-Waterloo Little Theatre @kwlt.org 
Yvette Foster @yvettefoster.bsky.social 
Lauren Byl @laurenbyl.bsky.social Copyright librarian, lover of ducks and moss and baked goods. 
@jenminnesota.bsky.social @jenminnesota.bsky.social Proud Left from MA, mom to 3, friend to every cat I meet. I like books, food, history, carnivorous plants, and musicals. I hate Trump and his cronies with a passion. Author of "A Taste of Broadway: Food in Musical Theater"
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com Professional letter nerd since 2009. Buy the books (https://books.lettersofnote.com), read the newsletter (https://news.lettersofnote.com/), come to the live shows (https://www.youtube.com/@LettersLive). Or don't. It's your choice. 
Dr Ian Mortimer @ianmortimer.bsky.social English historian. Author of the Time Traveller's Guides. Lives on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon, with 6,000 books, 2,500 records, 8 guitars, 3 cats and one wife. 
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.
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.
James Alan Gardner @jagardner.bsky.social Writer: mostly fantasy and science fiction. Currently working on a Big Fat Fantasy, tentatively titled SIX GODDESSES AND A CAT. Also learning Japanese.
Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social No NFTs, No A.I.
linktr.ee/sarahcandersen
@katebrooker.bsky.social @katebrooker.bsky.social 
David Worsley @dworsl.bsky.social 
Chaos House Art @chaoshouse.bsky.social She/Her-PCGamer-Minipainter-3D printer-warhammer-GenerationX- Online Roleplayer-Armchair Archaeologist-Avid Reader of Fantasy and Sci Fi-Knowledge Hound-NY Capital District-Retired into second childhood- GNU Pratchett-Embroider-coilspring
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.
KJ McLean 🇨🇦 @kj-mclean.bsky.social Storyteller/educator/booksniffer/artdabbler. GenX Maritimer. Thoreauvian. Spacetweep. CBC Forever. Dynamic disability. Tree-talker. Quietly witchy. Kindness matters.
Grateful for the support of The Canada Council for the Arts.
⚡️Solvitur ambulando. 🇨🇦
🇨🇦 Kari Raymer Bishop @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social Mom of fierce preemie, wife of kind professor, teller of stories, keeper of bees, and lover of cheese. (Paris ON) (she/her)
As an educator and advocate, I love to talk about building community and making things better.
🇨🇦 Vive le Canada 🇨🇦
Anna (Rusalka) @eldergamergrl.bsky.social 
PostSecret @postsecret.com PostSecret is a global collection of secrets mailed anonymously on postcards to:
PostSecret
28241 Crown Valley Parkway
F-224
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social Fantasy webcomics. NSFW
The Other Penn @theotherpenn.bsky.social Tabletop gamer, SCA member, old nerd.
Sincere Comic Panels @sincerecomicpanels.bsky.social Sincere comic book moments, of every variety. Feel free to suggest submissions!
Dean Willetts @deanscomics.bsky.social Bloke from England who loves Comic Books !! Think that covers it…
Bernadette Banner @bernadettebanner.bsky.social I drink and I sew things.
YouTube.com/@bernadettebanner
Iain Montgomery @iainmonty.bsky.social Innovation, Urbanism, Public Transportation & Design type stuff.
Maybe a bit of Burnley FC, Edmonton Oilers, Minnesota Vikings too.
Wilfrid Laurier University Press @wlupress.bsky.social WLU Press publishes books in the humanities and social sciences in Waterloo, Ontario. Member of the Association of University Presses. www.wlupress.wlu.ca
CityNews Kitchener @citynewskit.bsky.social Waterloo Region's source for news, talk, and sports 24 hours a day.
Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social Fancy words, witty descriptions, and vintage illustrations to educate and entertain.
My Book!
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781682687994
Calendars!
https://grandiloquent-word-of-the-day-2026-calendars.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social Wildlife rehabilitators often wrap owls so they can be weighed and fed. If not, the owls get in a flap.
The result? Loads of pictures of #owlsintowels
https://owlsintowels.org
Patrick DeWind @dewind.bsky.social Nothing exciting, really. TTRPGs, medieval reenactment, woodworking, programming, philosophy, and a whole lot of reading.
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social Comics and things