Hugh Willmott @hugh-willmott.co.uk Medieval archaeologist at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. Often found excavating monasteries and thinking about material culture; currently directing work at #CerneAbbey. Cats may make occasional appearances 🐈⬛
https://www.hugh-willmott.co.uk/
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!
Robert Friedrich @rofrie11.bsky.social Medieval Historian @lmumuenchen.bsky.social. Crown of Aragon, Mendicant orders, medieval travels and languages.
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ¶ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
¶ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
¶ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
¶ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
Dr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social Lecturer in Biomolecular & Medieval Archaeology at Edinburgh Uni - data viz & R enthusiast (she/her)
Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social Palaeoproteomics Researcher at CENIEH
🧪👩🔬🦴🦷🌏
Building a brand new #palaeoproteomics laboratory here in Burgos, Spain. Exciting new things on the horizon!
#archaeology #evolution #palaeolithic #ZooMS #proteins
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
Zandra Fagernäs @zandraselina.bsky.social Lab manager of the CODICUM.eu project and generally having fun with ancient proteins at the University of Copenhagen!- M @magistraetmater.bsky.social @magistraetmater.bsky.social
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social Digital humanists, loves python, making data, talking to data, reusing data.
Researcher @ ALMAnaCh, Inria Paris.
Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social Premier research library @ria.ie. Manuscript, book, pamphlet & drawings collections, outreach programmes, master classes & visits, exhibitions & lectures.
James Cummings @jamescummings.bsky.social Reader in Digital Textual Studies and Late Medieval Literature at @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Expertise in: Text Encoding Initiative (Chair of #TEI Board of Directors), digital #editions, #medieval #drama, #REED, #DigitalHumanities #DH #DHAwards, #HTR, #AI
Patrik Granholm @patrikgranholm.bsky.social Curator of medieval and early modern manuscripts at the National Library of Sweden. Creator and developer of manuscripta.se. Opinions are my own.
Adam @eblueaxe.bsky.social Archaeologist working in Northern England; specialist in the early medieval. Interested early medieval archaeology, board and PC gaming, miniature modelling, WW2, and most nerdy stuff
#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social Recovering the stories of medieval and early modern religious women using all available methods from science and the humanities. #TeamNun projects integrate research from library to lab.
Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social All photos are my own and not AI.
I am a filmmaker and photographer based in Olympia, WA, and Bijagua, Costa Rica @casabentbill.bsky.social but I spend as much time as I can in hot, humid, tropical forests. Because that's where the birds are!
he/him
Alexandre Tur @tur-alexandre.bsky.social Conservateur de manuscrits et numérique à la BnF. Science des astres médiévale, entre autres choses.
Lena Strid @lenamstrid.bsky.social Zooarchaeologist, medievalist, re-enactor. PhD on the use of parchment in medieval Scandinavia (2026).
@jldeuffic.bsky.social @jldeuffic.bsky.social La recherche ma passion
Le Moyen Âge mon domaine
Les manuscrits mon quotidien
La Bretagne au coeur !
https://pecia.blog.tudchentil.org/
The Haskins Society @haskinssociety.bsky.social International scholarly society studying the peoples of early & high medieval Europe & their encounters in the Mediterranean, Baltic & larger medieval world.
https://thehaskinssociety.wildapricot.org/
Ray Clemens @rayclemens.bsky.social Medievalist: retired curator of early books and manuscripts (Beinecke Library, Yale University), Latin Paleography, Middle English Paleography, Book History, Hagiography.
@gvogeler@hcommons.social @gvogeler.bsky.social more on me on https://bsky.app/profile/gvogeler.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy and https://hcommons.social/@gvogeler
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.
REEVALUATE EU Project @reevaluate-project.bsky.social An EU funded project that provides tools for prioritization, contextualization, 3D modeling and reuse of cultural heritage to empower museums and the public to collaborate in making heritage accessible, inclusive and secure. Visit us at "reevaluate.eu".
Videntes: A Multispectral Imaging Collective. @videntesmsi.bsky.social Videntes (Latin, plural for the act of seeing) is committed to seeing together; to looking across disciplinary boundaries and historical chronologies, and to bringing attention to medieval texts and the modern technologies that can be applied to those text
Sven Meeder @svenmeeder.bsky.social Historian / early medieval canon law / Radboud University / Utrecht
Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
Patricia Lovett MBE @patricialovett.bsky.social Professional scribe and illuminator. Written 14 books and made a DVD on the subjects. Co-Director and Chief Judge of the Stanford Calligraphy Collection.
Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social
Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani @nruffini.bsky.social Chercheur aux Archives de l'État et à l'Université de Namur | Gestionnaire de l'Agenda des médiévistes | Secrétaire de rédaction pour la revue "Le Moyen Âge".
@acampagnolo.bsky.social @acampagnolo.bsky.social
Richard Palmer @rd-palmer.bsky.social Tech Lead in Digital Media at the V&A, but not speaking for them. Waiting for the return of Usenet but until then testing out all the social media platforms to find the least worst.
Ed Roberts @ecroberts.bsky.social Early medieval historian at King's College London | Reviews editor, Early Medieval Europe | Convenor @earliermiddleages.bsky.social
Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Extinction; animal history.
Books: The Medieval Pig (2024) & Ghosts Behind Glass (2025)
https://dolly.jorgensenweb.net/
Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social Classicist / early medieval research fellow at Oxford. Female patronage in the late antique west; Roman + Visigothic Iberia; religion and ‘magic’; epigraphy; mosaics; Classical reception in film / video games. Sometimes I make Roman recipes :) ♾️
Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social Professor. PI of the ERC-funded @stemma.bsky.social project. Basketball superfan/player/coach and sometime softball shortshop. "Mad for the books."
Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social | :: Visigothic script :: | Mss Studies
PI ERC funded project #PeopleAndWriting
Universidad de Salamanca
Lauren Randall @laurenrndll.bsky.social PhD Theology candidate at Durham University researching the paratext of Codex Amiatinus, exploring palaeography, philology and manuscript cultures.
Anne Greule @annegreule.bsky.social Juniorprofessorin - Geschichte des Frühen & Hohen Mittelalters @ Uni Göttingen.
Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social Historian of Roman and early medieval Britain @ Boston College. Writes history from archaeology/material culture. Recently finished a book on Roman dogs. Distracting myself from thinking about the US political Hellscape by thinking about 5th c Britain.
Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston College dissertating on the environment, community, and landscape on the 4th-8th century Forth, Clyde, and Tay in Scotland. Originally from Appalachia.
Florence Bourgne @florencebourgne.bsky.social Professor of English Medieval Studies & head of @cema-su.bsky.social, the Centre for Medieval English Studies at @sorbonne-universite.fr
VP of the AMAES (French Society for the Study of Medieval England)
Singing/Cotentin/Medieval Inscribed Objects
Catrin Haberfield @catrinh.bsky.social Medievalist and B2B copywriter | PhD candidate @Stanford | Old English, manuscript studies, DH, and UX approaches to textual cultures of the Insular world (they/she)
Stephenie McGucken @stephenieeloise.bsky.social Professor in Atlanta. PhD. FSA Scot. Medievalist working on gender in Early Medieval art. Photographer. Unabashed Fangirl.
Grant Simpson @grantls.bsky.social
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social Historian of Late Antiquity. British Academy Postdoc at University of Liverpool. Hispanophile, Leodensian.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/david-addison
Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social Researcher at Oxford, lecturer at Exeter…never a dull moment!
Visual&Intellectual culture|Manuscripts& Monasticism| Early Medieval Iberian & Continental History |
PDRA Crafting Documents project & William Golding Junior Research Fellow, Brasenose College.
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.”
Dr Nicole Volmering @medievalireland.bsky.social Medievalist | Celticist | Research Asst Prof @TCDHistory. PI of Early Irish Hands @Research Ireland, CLÓSCAPE @TLRH, and Wandering Books. Passionate about all things medieval Irish, manuscripts, palaeography, and early Christianity in the insular world.
Fran Álvarez @o-xico.bsky.social Former Senior Researcher at ERC project #PeopleandWriting
Universidad de Salamanca.
The Exeter Fragments Project.
Palaeography. Diplomatics. Fragmentology.
Galego. De Alveos.
Dr Marie Frey Rébeillé-Borgella @scripturarum.bsky.social Travaille sur les Bibles latines, les sources juives de Jérôme de Stridon, la linguistique biblique, les traditions textuelles bibliques, et autres sujets apparentés.
En recherche de poste adapté à un handicap chronique.
scripturarum.hypotheses.org
Sébastien Barret @mellifluus.bsky.social Au service de l'Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes
Benjamin Albritton @blalbritton.bsky.social Rare books and manuscripts. Measurer of shelves.
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
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
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/
Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social Ikerbasque Research Professor of Medieval History at University of Basque Country
Thomas Schmid @thschmid.bsky.social archivar/archivist, historiker/historian, latinist #archivCH #fridaynightatthearchives #viedarchiviste #AarbergBisZweisimmen
Mastodon @th_schmid@openbiblio.social
Instagram @th_schmid
Josh O’Driscoll @jodriscoll.bsky.social Manuscript curator at the Morgan Library, among other things.
Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social Keeper of rare books and early MSS at the UL Cambridge | Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social Àrd-òraidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts and literature | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean | Maigh Eoch #siaradcymraeg
DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social ERC-funded project on the sexual exploitation of people enslaved within the households of the greater Mediterranean world, AD 300-900. Hosted by
@uniofleicester
https://www.dosseproject.com
BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social ‘Polyphonic Singing and Communities of Music Writing in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c. 1150 to c. 1350’, an ERC Consolidator Grant project @MaynoothUni (PI: Prof. Karen Desmond) https://ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/brokensong/
Dr Sarah Corrigan @corrigans.bsky.social She/Her. Latin Language & Literature @ UniMelb. Into Ancient & Medieval, Philology, Manuscripts, Transmission & Compilation, Medieval Oceans, et cetera.
Teach Latin and Underworld & Afterlife inter alia.
Work and live on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country.
Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady.
www.teachingmanuscripts.com
PhD in medieval martyrologies. Editor of Historical Research journal.
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social Archaeology, University of Cambridge | The Globe, University of Copenhagen
Ancient Proteins | Medieval Manuscripts | Proteomics and AI | 🇺🇦
Lexicon Leponticum @lexiconleponticum.bsky.social Weekly threads about Iron Age Celtic inscriptions in and south of the Alps. Visit the digital edition Lexicon Leponticum (http://lexlep.univie.ac.at) for more info on the Cisalpine Celts.
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social Edinburgh, dragged along by a spaniel 🐕
Latest book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/europe-in-the-eleventh-century-9780198860235?cc=gb&lang=en&
Univ. website: https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/charles-west
Bastiaan Waagmeester @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social Medieval historian | postdoc @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social | Early medieval manuscripts and religious education
Personal website: libripendis.eu
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
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social Historian of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages at the University of Warsaw, chair of the Centre for Research on Ancient Civilizations. Interested in relics, clerics, saints, demons, thieves, and divination.
Dr. Verena Krebs @krebsverena.bsky.social Medieval Historian. North-East Africa & Ethiopia. German. Professor. GIF lover, Sci-fi fan. Getting better at remembering this app exists. More info: VerenaKrebs.com.
Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social Early medievalist at University of Kent, he/him
Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social Asst. Prof. History, Oklahoma State U.
Vice-Chair, OK State Faculty Council
PhD, Princeton University
Middle Ages & Late Antiquity | Pandemics & Plague | Environmental
Podcast: infectioushistorians.com
Also: Arsenal | UConnWBB | Mets | Vikings
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
Alison Beach @alisonibeach.bsky.social Medieval Historian at the University of St Andrews. Leader of #TeamNun and the Word of Mouth AHRC-funded project. Works at the intersection of history and archaeology. Humanist with a trowel and a microscope!- Z Thomas Kohl @zezzo796.bsky.social Medieval Historian, University of Passau
Jan van Doren 🟥 @janvandoren.bsky.social Early Medievalist | Senior Researcher | SOLEMNE | Radboud Universiteit | he/him
Arthur Westwell @arthurwestwell.bsky.social Medieval historian. Liturgical manuscripts. Romanesque churches.
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Universität Regensburg.
Picture: Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cod.lat.958 and Tours, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 184
J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social Medievalist, book historian, professional tran.
(He/Him) All views mine only.
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 |
Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social Medievalist and librarian, interested in all aspects of manuscript culture.
Nora White @ndefaoite.bsky.social Researching early Irish epigraphy at Maynooth University funded by Research Ireland. EMISoS (Early Medieval Irish Scripts on Stone) and OG(H)AM projects
David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social Ollamh Sinsearach le Léann Ceilteach, BARE / Senior Professor in Celtic Studies, MRIA
Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath / Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 🇮🇪
ᚑᚌ(ᚆ)ᚐᚋ OG(H)AM, DiAgnostic, Ancient Celtic ⁊rl.
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https://www.dias.ie/
CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social Centre for Antique, Medieval, and Pre-Modern Studies, University of Galway.
https://www.universityofgalway.ie/camps/
Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social Mark Andrews Fellow in #BookScience, Old Books New Science Lab, University of Toronto · #MedievalManuscripts cataloguer & researcher · #Parchment #QuantitativeHumanities 📜 🔬 📚 📊 🇨🇦
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
Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social Welsh 🏴 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever.
James T Palmer @jtpmedieval.bsky.social Restless medievalist • Professor at St Andrews, Scotland • Apocalypse/ Nature/ Science/ Medicine c. 500-c. 1000
Ruth Karras @rmkarras.bsky.social Lecky Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin. She/her. Medievalist, grandparent, knitter, immigrant. Arsenal. 🐕