Mastodawn

What does a singing bear have to do with Chaucer?

A lot, it turns out.

Together with Jennifer S. Carnell (HMML), we trace how the Marian chant Alma redemptoris mater shaped medieval ideas about learning — from schoolrooms to miracles to manuscript images.

Open access:
https://academic.oup.com/nq/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/notesj/gjag011/8496039

#MedievalStudies #Chaucer #Musicology #MedievalMusic #Chant #AlmaRedemptoris #AcWri #Research #AcademicChatter

scholar_farmer Feb 21

History is sometimes an act of accumulation: 397 folios. Hundreds of candles. Countless tiny details.

Today’s blog post discusses reading for details that earlier editors thought didn’t matter.

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

#AcademicLife #MedievalStudies #nuntastic #SlowScholarship #blog

Dr Robert N. Winter Jan 30

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/115983651663698761

This is more than scale for scale’s sake. Projects like CoMMA show how AI can shift historiography itself: not by “interpreting” the past, but by restoring access to it. By transcribing manuscripts without normalising spelling or silently resolving abbreviations, AI allows historians to study scribal practice, layout, and linguistic variation at a scale previously impossible.

#Historiography #MedievalStudies #Manuscripts #HistoryOfTheBook

scholar_farmer Jan 25

Before we see them, we hear them. Cowbells. Clappers. Warning before encounter. "The real challenge is stigma."

On #WorldLeprosyDay, I explore the uneasy balance of care and exclusion through Cadfael S1E3.

#Leprosy #Cadfael #MedievalStudies #Stigma #Care #blog #PandemicMusic #sound #History

Atlas Games Jan 15

Scholarship Inspires Adventure: I admit, I’m a
sucker for medieval scholarship. When a post on BlueSky alerted me to
an article by Mohamed Qassiti
about the Liber pantegni, a medieval Latin translation of a
seminal Arabic work about medicine, I immediately started thinking
about how to use this for our family Ars Magica saga. An
article by Monica Green about this work and its translator, Constantinus Africanus, gave me
more ideas.
The Liber… http://atlas-games.com/news/post?s=2026-01-15-scholarship-inspires-adventure&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Scholarship #MedievalStudies

Istituto Storico Germanico | German Historical Institute Rome Jan 15

A remarkable yet little-studied twelfth-century #manuscript preserved in the #VaticanLibrary reveals unexpected connections... #medievalstudies #medievalitaly #skytorians #entanglements

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:b4mi3e4c2befn4xtxy4kqzgn/post/3mceysi2ur22k

Istituto Storico Germanico | German Historical Institute Rome Jan 12

#CfA Our institute journal #QFIAB covers a wide range of historical periods, from #medievalstudies to #ContemporaryHistory. #ItalianHistory, #MusicHistory Deadline for the next volume 106 (2026), is 31 January 2026 - more information: dhi-roma.it/index.php?id.... #skytorians @rmidura.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Mittelalterblog Jan 1

Willkommen im Jahr 2026! Wir starten den Monat und in diesem Fall auch das Jahr wie üblich mit einem nagelneuen #Rezensionsüberblick https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/38321

Im vergangenen Dezember wurden auf den einschlägigen Portalen wieder Dutzende mediävistisch relevanter Publikationen rezensiert, wir haben sie in einer handlichen Übersicht zusammengetragen!

#RezÜ #histodons #medievodons
#mediaevistik #medievalstudies #medieval

Rezensionsüberblick Dezember 2025

Willkommen zu unserem monatlichen Rezensionsüberblick. Wie immer stellen wir einen Überblick über die im letzten Monat erschienenen Online-Rezensionen mit mediävistischem Bezug zur Verfügung. Integriert sind die unten genannten Portale. Wer weitere aus allen mediävistischen Disziplinen kennt, hilft uns sehr durch...

Mittelalter

Kent Navalesi ☕️Dec 17

For #TombTuesday, the foot reliquary of St. Adalhard (14th C.)
Musée de Cluny, #Paris #France 🇫🇷

If the cult of relics, #MedievalHistory, or #ReligiousStudies interest you, consider taking my online course, "Relics in Antiquity and the Middle Ages"!

Jan. 22-Feb. 26

https://kentnavalesi.neocities.org/RelicsHome

@histodons @medievodons
#history #histoire #MedievalStudies #medievalists #MiddleAges #Mittelalter #religion #catholicism #medievodons #education #Geschichte #glam #MuseumArchive #smallbusiness #antike