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FMRSI

@FMRSI

Forum for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Ireland

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Joined December 2011
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#Competition time! Win a copy of Recipes and Book Culture in England, 1350-1600, edited by @CarrieGrif & @hannaballoo and published by @LivUniPress! Just follow us @FMRSI and retweet to enter! Winner announced on Friday 8th November. #medievaltwitter
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We're hiring! Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscr… The deadline for applications is 9 February
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Women held a number of different medical roles in the medieval period, serving as healers and caregivers, wet nurses, hospital staff, midwives and paid professionals. blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscr…
A historiated initial showing a midwife handing a newborn baby to its mother, who lies in a bed.

ALT A historiated initial showing a midwife handing a newborn baby to its mother, who lies in a bed.

A historiated initial showing a female medical practitioner performing cupping on a patient.

ALT A historiated initial showing a female medical practitioner performing cupping on a patient.

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My book on Julian of Norwich and well-being is now available to preorder with a discount from @ColumbiaUP! Code: CUP20 I'm hugely grateful for very generous endorsements from Rowan Williams, Liz Herbert McAvoy, @julieorlemanski, and Nicholas Watson. cup.columbia.edu/book/imposs…
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Call for Papers! Please spread the word. The next #englishsharedfutures will be in York, from July 3rd-5th. We've got lots of great events and special sessions planned, and warmly welcome submissions. englishsharedfutures.org/cfp #cfp
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Congratulations to @Shaz_arch, winner of this fantastic book! We'll DM you, Sharon! Thanks to everyone who entered the competition!
FMRSI (@FMRSI) profile pictureFMRSI@FMRSI4 Nov 2024
#Competition time! Win a copy of Recipes and Book Culture in England, 1350-1600, edited by @CarrieGrif & @hannaballoo and published by @LivUniPress! Just follow us @FMRSI and retweet to enter! Winner announced on Friday 8th November. #medievaltwitter
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We're extending the deadline for this comp to Monday! Do RT and give us a follow to enter!
FMRSI (@FMRSI) profile pictureFMRSI@FMRSI4 Nov 2024
#Competition time! Win a copy of Recipes and Book Culture in England, 1350-1600, edited by @CarrieGrif & @hannaballoo and published by @LivUniPress! Just follow us @FMRSI and retweet to enter! Winner announced on Friday 8th November. #medievaltwitter
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This week's Ó Cléirigh seminar in @ucddublin at 4pm on 8 Nov is: Courtney Selvage (UCD), ‘Mícheál Ó Cléirigh and the Composition of Betha Farannáin’ Fáilte roimh chách /all welcome.
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'The Material Culture of Wills' - Call for volunteer transcribers! This University of Exeter and National Archive research project is looking for a large number of volunteers to check early modern handwritten documents. Check it out! - zooniverse.org/projects/hjsm…
The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790 | Zooniverse - People-powered research

The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790 | Zooniverse - People-powered research

Help us transcribe wills from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and reveal how ownership of, and attitudes towards, objects changed in a period of economic transformation

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There's been such a lot of buzz around the @britishlibrary's wonderful new exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, which runs until 2 March. Have you been already, or are you planning on going? Make sure to book your ticket here: tinyurl.com/yck27773
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🥳 I'm organising a conference! 🚨 #CfP (Re)Creating Stories, a conference on rewritings & adaptations of Old/Middle Irish narratives in Early Modern/ Modern Irish/Gaelic, up to & including 18th cy. More details 🔗dias.ie/2024/11/05/call-for-… Feel free to email me with any questions!
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In today's blogpost, we're exploring the margins of a truly monumental manuscript, a copy of the works of Birgitta of Sweden made for Syon Abbey and currently on display in our #MedievalWomen exhibition! blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscr…
An opening from a monumental copy of the works of Birgitta of Sweden, showing marginal illustrations alongside the text.

ALT An opening from a monumental copy of the works of Birgitta of Sweden, showing marginal illustrations alongside the text.

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The call is open! Submissions for the REFORC Book Award 2025 are welcome before March 1, 2025. reforc.com/news/reforc-book-…
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Would love to see this done in the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey
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The ruins of Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire, England, completed by drone lighting.
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It's #Halloween and our fabulous new exhibition on #MedievalWomen has just opened! So of course we had to do a blogpost on MEDIEVAL WITCHES 🧙‍♀️😈🔥 Read it here🔗blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscr…
Medieval woodcut of two witches adding a cockerel and a snake to a fiery cauldron

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The 25th annual Irish Texts Society Seminar @UCC is coming up this Saturday, 9th November, and will consider Sgéalta Thomáis Uí Chathasaigh: Mayo Stories Told By Thomas Casey. You can register online at uccshop.ie/shop/the-twenty-f…
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Our bursary scheme is now open for applications! £750 available to early career researchers, independent scholars, or PhD students working on women's studies in our period (1558-1837). Deadline: 15 Dec 2024. Please spread the word! #funding #ECR #PhD womensstudiesgroup.org/bursa…
WSG Bursary Scheme

WSG Bursary Scheme

*Applications for 2026-27 will open at 0900 (GMT), Sunday 1 November* WSG is offering a bursary of £750 to an early career researcher*, independent scholar or PhD student who is a member of the WSG…

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The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is delighted to announce this year's Call for Papers! We look forward to receiving submissions for 20 minute papers from graduate students on ‘Rituals and Ceremonies’. Details below: #OMGC2025 #cfp #medieval #medhist
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'While these essays will not answer all our questions about medieval scribal cultures, ... they provide new areas of investigation, new insights, and new questions about what & how we should study medieval English book.' 1/3
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Margaret Connolly, Holly James-Maddocks, and Derek Pearsall (eds), Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Linne R. Mooney. York: York Medieval Press, 2022. Reviewed by J. R. Mattison Óenach Reviews 12 (2023) 2/3
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