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Pia MYrvoLD @piamyrvold.bsky.social Pia Myrvold, a Norwegian-born artist based in Paris, has been a pioneer in the field of digital and interactive art since the 1990s.
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
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 :) ♾️
Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social Hello from Medievalists.net, the leading online resource for the Middle Ages - check out our website at www.medievalists.net
Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social Medieval historian. 'If it works for Marc Morris, it works for me.' (Scarlett Johansson)
Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social PhD, University of Bristol; RHS Marshall Fellow (2024-25), IHR. Research on Norman Invasion in 1066, maritime and riverine environments, 11th-c. maritime connections in the North Sea world
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North Ages @northages.bsky.social Early medieval northern Britain, taking in Picts, Gaels, Britons, Angles and Norse. On this day, feast days, place-names, archaeology news and book releases. Posts by Dundonian bookworm Craig. https://northages.wordpress.com/
Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social Medievalist 900-1200ish England and Normandy most of the time. Immigrant and misplaced Hoosier in the south of England when not in Wales. Usually tired. Trustee @castlestudies.bsky.social. She/her.
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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
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social Edinburgh, dragged along by a spaniel 🐕
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Cullen Chandler @chandlerprof.bsky.social Medievalist, historian, trying to talk about things like normal people talk about normal things.
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
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. 
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
Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social Oxford academic. Medievalist. European. Lover of cats. 3am atheist. Easily amused; loud laugh. Never knowingly underdressed. Newish book Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy (OUP, 2025)
Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
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 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland @womenof1000.bsky.social Art & research project illustrating the lives of women from around the world 1000 years ago: https://womenof1000ad.weebly.com/
PhD student at Edinburgh Uni in Celtic & Scottish Studies, researching herring gutters & their music.
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Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social Author of CULPABILITY, Oprah's Book Club summer 2025 pick, from Spiegel & Grau.
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
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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!'
Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social Itinerant scholar from Chicago (he/him) | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | current Humboldt Fellow at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de | former Leverhulme Fellow at @cam.ac.uk | @biajs.bsky.social award-winning author | publications: nickposegay.com
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.
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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
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social Professor at the Institute of Reformation History in Geneva, Switzerland. Intellectual historian, digital humanist. Bridging the gap between the Late Middle Ages and the Reformation era #earlymodern #reformation @ihr-geneva.bsky.social
Bernhard Huss @bernhardhuss.bsky.social Prof FU Berlin, Director of Center for Italian Studies. Italian literature, early modern, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Quattro and Cinquecento. Socio straniero dell‘Accademia dell‘Arcadia, Accademico corrispondente estero dell‘Accademia della Crusca
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”
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
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)
Roland Allen has a protagonist for Chapter XVII @zibaldoni.bsky.social 山人. Publisher by day, author by night. The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper is out there, and I'm currently writing a book about books. Here for: writers, books, historians, bicycles, notebooks, human intelligence.
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
Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social Writer. Researcher. Editor. Genderqueer femme. Crip. She/they.
// medieval lit / media / gender / disability / pop culture //
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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.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social Professor | Historian of law, living standards, & social control in Western Europe, c.900-1300 | Dog lover | Pasta addict.
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Portrait is from the Luttrell Psalter.
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
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Carol Barbon @childoflions.bsky.social Uvic student majoring in Medieval Studies, future Medievalist, a fan of paleontology, and a mother of three. (she/her).
Pauline Stafford @pstafford.bsky.social Historian of early Middle Ages, Grandmother, Leftwing, Labour, Leeds, British, European. Emerita Prof University of Liverpool
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.
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 مسمن.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
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.
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).
Courtney (Dr. Version) @cakrolik.bsky.social • medieval historian • history of medicine • unapologetic cat gal • quick with a gif • “she probably deserves a raise” - student eval • Tar Heel • feels WAY too much • thoughts are mine and mine alone •
Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social Associate Professor of Medieval History, University of Oxford
Chair, Family Expert Reference Group, National Maternity & Neonatal Taskforce
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Tobias Niedenthal @klostermedizin.de History of Medicine/Pharmacy
● Medicinal plants in Europe
● Herbal anti-infectives
● Coordinating the Forschergruppe Klostermedizin (Research Group Monastic Medicine), Würzburg (Germany)
-> klostermedizin.de
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
Middle East Medievalists @mideastmedieval.bsky.social Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the medieval Middle East, defined expansively to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social pre
Adrienne Williams Boyarin @aboyarin.bsky.social UVic prof, medievalist, Anglo-Jewish women, Early Middle English, etc