Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com I’ve got a beard
Books read: 89/100
📚 The Wax Child
📺 Lanterns
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://www.ephemeral.co.uk
Faversham Literary Festival @favlit.org Book talks. In a brewery!
10-days of author talks and book events taking place annually in a Kentish medieval market town
20 Feb – 1 Mar 2026
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Dr Rachel Delman @racheldelman.bsky.social Heritage type and historian. Writes about medieval and Tudor women and their buildings. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Karen Smyth @karensmyth.bsky.social Hon. Professor in Medieval & Early Modern Literature at UEA. Dabbling in literary criticism, critical and applied heritage studies, creative adaptations of the pre-modern, creative-critical writing methods, Creative Health research & autoethnography.
Chloë R McKenzie @chloermckenzie.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Medieval History @northeasternu.bsky.social (NU London) | Visiting Fellow at CMRC @unisouthampton.bsky.social | Book on Ladies of the Garter
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
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 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 :) ♾️
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
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/rebecca-tyson
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.
Insta @katherineweikert
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.
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)
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.
she/her, disabled 🏳️🌈
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.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
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.northsky.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.
She/They
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 //
https://linktr.ee/aspencerhall
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
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
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.
rachelbsinger.com
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.
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).
V.H.T. @v-h-t.bsky.social Historien. Si vous me dites que l'arc long a été décisif à Azincourt, je vous éjecte dans les limbes.
https://u-bordeaux3.academia.edu/VincentHaure
Medieval war in Eng. Gascony & medieval urban⚔️ policies
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
(I can't read private messages here.)
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
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
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.
Bienengeschichte @bienengeschichte.bsky.social Alles über die Geschichte der Imkerei und ihrer Produkte sowie zur Kulturgeschichte der Biene. 🐝
Aufsätze, Vorträge und mehr.
Projektblog unter https://bienen.hypotheses.org
#Imkerei #Beekeeping #Apiculture #Geschichte
Vicki Blud @vickiblud.bsky.social Medievalist / writer / editor
(she/her. KingsManorGhost on the bird app)
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
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised historian, not surprised eels.
Doctor of medieval things. Talkin’ eels, history, and maps. Spaniel mourner. Alt-text artist.
I draw custom maps and artwork on commission:
https://surprisedeelmaps.com/
Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
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)
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/
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.
Derrick Pitard @synderlic.bsky.social Medievalist who writes on Chaucer and religion in later medieval Britain; teaches Latin, Lit, and the History of English; family historian; dad; husband; once and future rower; union member. https://gladlywoldehe.net/
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. 📚🖼️🌊🎼🌸🐈
Arendse @arend.se Author · Stories in Analog, Ellery Queen, The Fabulist & more · Marie Curie Postdoc @ Arnamagnaean Institute · Winner of the 2021 Staunch Prize · PhD medieval law · Contact me through my website www.arend.se
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.
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
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. 
Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Mother. Amazon no. 1: The Process of Poetry. The Making of a Poem. 100 + features and author interviews in The Guardian, The Independent, The Weekend Australian, SMH and Salon.com.
Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social Asst Prof (Old English & Old Norse). Book TRANSLATING HELL (2026). Phil-lol-ogist, word-lover, pun-makar, collector of dictionaries, glamorer of grammar.
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
Richard III Society @richardiiisociety.bsky.social We have been working since 1924 to secure a more balanced assessment of Richard III and to support research into his life and times. We have a broad interest in the late 15th C.
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
Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social Chaotic good w/ redneck roots. Medievalist/teacher/PhD candidate/worker/overexplainer/aspiring pícara.
Personal account; loud opinions (which is all of them) my own.
she/her
📍 North Carolina (in the woods somewhere instead of doing my work)
Carine van Rhijn🟥 @carinevanrhijn.bsky.social Historian of things early medieval at Utrecht University.
Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social Historian (ret’d Univ of Hull, UK) working on late medieval military, maritime, soc & economic; & Napoleonic. MSS, prosopography, networks. Classical music, wildlife, cinema, coins, postal history, Dorset, France, Hungary. 🦋& #Shugborough Staffs pictures.
Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
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
Judith Pollmann @judithpollmann.bsky.social historian at Leiden University, interested in all things #earlymodern
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.
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
Jaco Zuijderduijn @jacozuijderduijn.bsky.social Associate professor │ Economic History Department, Lund University │ Book: Medieval Capital Markets │ Project: Retirees and pensions of the past │ @GiroMedieval
Corien Glaudemans @corienglaudemans.bsky.social Historicus, was archivaris (en is het eigenlijk nog steeds)
Onderzoek naar Joodse ondernemers in Den Haag in de periode 1930-1945
Schreef een proefschrift over veten, bloedwraak en verzoening in laatmiddeleeuws Holland en Zeeland
Klaus Oschema @kpo.bsky.social Medievalist between France and Germany - "Arbeiterkind"... Directeur de l'IHAP / DHI Paris, hier aber rein privat! 
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social Scholar of Fortune @History Department - Ghent University. Everything you wanted to know about The Fall of Rome but were afraid to ask. Gallivanter extraordinaire. Italophile. Homeric Laughter.
Jean-Dominique Delle Luche @jddelleluche.bsky.social Maître de Conférences Sorbonne Université. Histoire du Saint-Empire XVe-XVIe siècle, histoire urbaine, arbalètes, baptêmes, et quelques calembours. Urban History of the Holy Roman Empire: between crossbows, Lutheran godparents and angry pastors
Duncan Hardy @hrehistorian.bsky.social Associate Professor. 🇬🇧🇨🇭 in 🇺🇸. Holy Roman Empire & other medieval/early modern history. utk.academia.edu/DuncanHardy
Views expressed here are my own and do not represent any institution or employer.
Claire Weeda @claireweeda.bsky.social 
Sonja Dünnebeil @sduennebeil.bsky.social Historikerin; derzeit administrative Koordinatorin des SFB Managing Maximilian
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/forschung/editionsunternehmen-quellenforschungmir/managing-maximilian-sfb/managing-maximilian-1493-1519 - G Gero Schreier @gesc.bsky.social librarian, #openscience and #researchdata enthusiast, #medievalstudies enthusiast
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3293-9621
Anna Boeles Rowland @annaboelesrowland.bsky.social Policy advisor in internationalisation at the Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven. Historian of late medieval objects and the early people who owned them. Doctorate University of Oxford. She/her
Nathan van Kleij @nathanvankleij.bsky.social Historian & lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. Late medieval social and urban history
https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/k/l/n.p.d.w.vankleij/n.p.d.w.van-kleij.html