A V Hudson

Early medieval historian. Was once project curator of early medieval English manuscripts at the @BritishLibrary. Currently working @UCF. One of the Alisons.

[Ennius @red_loeb]

St Swithun's Day and it's raining!

BL Add 49598; Benedictional of Æthelwold; 963-984 CE; England S; f.97v @BLMedieval

[Dr Elizabeth Biggs @ElizabethCBiggs]

I promised @RebeccaMenmuir and @onslies that I'd write about 13th century women working in the exchequer- here you go! All that we know about Rachel Reeves' medieval predecessors at the treasury:
https://t.co/XW2n04qXxF

[peter toth @petetoth]

What kind of creature could this be in this 800-year old Coptic psalter ⁦@bodleianlibs⁩

Share your thoughts for a late #Thursday motivation

[Stephanie J. Lahey, PhD 🇨🇦 @SJLahey]

A stripy, #rainbow ‘S’ from @theULSpecColl. 🌈 #MedievalManuscripts

[Dr Matt Firth @_MattFirth_]

Very pleased to share my latest article (OA) - 3 years in the making! I trace several strands of cultural memory of Alfred the Great over the length of the Middle Ages, making the case for a widespread tradition of his sobriquet from at least the 13th c.

https://t.co/1s0lPS49eR

[Lottie Wells @Lotties_Letters]

Do any liturgists, musicologists or medievalists know why this passage of the Book of Acts, beginning with the last word of 27:18 and ending on the second word of 27:19, the phrase ‘fecerunt et tertia’, might have been notated?

[A V Hudson @wyrdwritere]

@tinti_francesca Cambridge UP's Open Access agreements with institutions are already fantastic: they are the reason I and my colleagues deliberately look for CUP venues for our articles. Making this available to everyone, regardless of affiliation, is a true game-changer!

[peter toth @petetoth]

Tonight: Kassia - a great female poet and composer of Byzantium - is remembered again by her famous composition

Here is an early copy from 1200 @bodleianlibs

For more - see https://t.co/2hcJMbqNhJ

[Rory MacLellan @RFMacLellan]

Seal of Joan de Stuteville, c.1265-75, Cotton Ch XXIX 63. Haven't seen many equestrian seals for women before. #medievaltwitter #hiddencollections

[Stephen Hopkins @phil_lol_ogist]

If you're not ready for marriage, then you shouldn't even be thinking about dating Beowulf

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

Preparations are moving fast for our major exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, opening 25 Oct

Learn about their daily lives, achievements and challenges, drawing on their own books and documents

We'll let you know here when tickets go on sale
https://t.co/5m6fB7XrCs

[A V Hudson @wyrdwritere]

@BristolBoy99 @petetoth @BLAsia_Africa For paper in England, specifically, Orietta da Rold's book *Paper in Medieval England* is essential (in addition to having one of the greatest subtitles): https://t.co/5Z3v3TWLZg

[A V Hudson @wyrdwritere]

@BristolBoy99 Thanks for the question. How are you defining paper? If papyrus counts, @petetoth may have some leads! @BLAsia_Africa looks after some very old paper items (such as https://t.co/uRNoYaCqvH) and has some great blog posts on different papers: https://t.co/11TZid35Ez

[Dr Matt Firth @_MattFirth_]

Only two weeks until 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴, 850-1000 appears in print (the ebook is already available). It's currently 20% off for anyone interested in tenth-century English queens and the development of queenly office.

https://t.co/kpyqWeUWWe

[Stephen Hopkins @phil_lol_ogist]

Happy Harrowing Saturday to all who observe!!

Enjoy this jumbo Jesus yoinking Adam, Eve, the patriarchs and prophets out of hell almost 2,000 Easter weekends ago! The Gospel of Nicodemus reports that these are the few delivered from hell before Easter.

[peter toth @petetoth]

Here we go again: the memory of the revelation of a heavenly recipe #OTD

For details, see: https://t.co/k93dn27wTQ

[peter toth @petetoth]

We all love lists - look at this from 1800 years ago @bodleianlibs

-statue of emperor
-of empress no dedication, object too old
-of Demeter, Parian marble
-golden lamps with stones
-child armlets + child ring

Objects at a Temple on Broad street, no not in Oxford, Oxyrhynchos

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

Our medieval woman to celebrate today, in the run up to #InternationalWomensDay2024, is Empress Matilda (d. 1167), the daughter of King Henry I.

Here is her charter re-founding Bordesley Abbey in 1141-42, affixed with Matilda's seal enclosed in its own silk seal bag.