Dr Bryony Coombs
Art Historian I Medieval and Early Modern, PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
Renaissance Teaching Fellow, Edinburgh Uni
Franco-Scottish cultural connections: art, architecture and material culture.
edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
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- Reposted by Dr Bryony CoombsWhen people talk about the idea that some universities must go under, there’s a certain tendency to behave as if these smaller local campuses are negligible- regrettable casualties perhaps but not ‘real’ universities. This report does a great job of illustrating why that’s wrong.
- So delighted to receive copies of our new book! Coming in at almost 380 pages, it has ten super chapters, contains transcriptions & translations of key 15th C documents & has some v. useful maps courtesy of my co-editor, Giovanna Guidicini. Thank you @jillharrison1.bsky.social & all involved! ✨📖
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- Our Adornes book is listed (coming soon):
- Discover our newest titles in #Medieval Studies with this newsletter. Go to: bit.ly/3NFLizM #Medievalsky #MiddleAges #Medievalists #History #Religion #Theology #Literature
- I am spending an awful lot of time currently following up leads like this that lead me to the awful words: 'current location unknown.' Whatever happened to those 14th C breviary fragments used to hold fish-hooks for an old man in Carnwath I wonder? ....
- Flashback to a key Auld Alliance moment for me - making haggis from scratch for my in-laws in France - a mildly traumatic experience! Also an early recipe for haggis, Sloane BL MS 1986, f. 55r. Happy Burns night! #BurnsNight
- Sometimes the internet just does not work. I'm having one of those days. I seem unable to access the KB manuscript catalogue, which is soul destroying & the volume I need of the 'Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum' (years 1916-20) is one of the few undigitised arghhh!
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- Reposted by Dr Bryony CoombsSome breaking art historical news for you - a lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn was unveiled today at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s been missing for more than 200 years. 1/3
- Reposted by Dr Bryony CoombsClosing date 31 January: applications are now invited for the Society's new Applied History Fellowships with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson: bit.ly/4ijiuII Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months #Skystorians
- Reposted by Dr Bryony CoombsThe best testament to Agnes’ cult in the Nordic sphere is the Icelandic manuscript Kirkjubæjarbók (AM 429), which is a collection of material on women saints. The book contains a translation of her passio, attributed to Ambrose (ff.61r-69r). (5/n)
- Reposted by Dr Bryony CoombsPlease help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
- Reposted by Dr Bryony CoombsAHA members: The AHA is accepting applications for the 2026-27 research grants until February 15, 2026. Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars and to those with specific research needs. 🗃️
- Reposted by Dr Bryony Coombs📢 ✌️ We're kicking off our event programme for this semester off with two CMRS sessions! 🎨 📜 First join us tomorrow as our own @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social discusses depictions of Judas in medieval art and literature. 📅 ➡️ Then later this week ...
- Reposted by Dr Bryony CoombsRemember, ‘everyone has a part to play in making the university more financially resilient’ www.heraldscotland.com/news/2577015...
- Just added 'the Scottish Medievalists' to: go.bsky.app/43xNSFhat://did:plc:wzwmaxsmnnbsm7wke3ujhdyv/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lamh4witnl2l
- This 👀: I run a class on late-medieval political satire and this ⬇️ is going straight in there. Visual literacy has always been important and using animals in images to underscore the abuses of the world is perennial...
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- Every time I think I have a handle on the corpus of 'Scottish' manuscripts for my book, a new one pops up. The latest is as perplexing as it is delightful. In a private collection, so perhaps this is why it had escaped my notice, but there are so many more questions to answer....
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- Peeking through a parchment tear...
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- Just written a thing and I now have to edit out 700 words - why is my life always this????😢 (BnF, Français 875 f.10v)
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- Incidentally, this fascinating manuscript was commissioned by a Scottish princess in 1464: Isabella duchess of Brittany,daughter of James I of Scotland. The scribe (according to a colophon) was Jehan Hubert:
- I was here last December and it is the most beautiful and fascinating library - do apply:
- Our good friends at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris are advertising a short-term research fellowship in their old library and historical archives. Check it out at portail.centreculturelirlandais.com/index.php?lv...
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- A very chilly walk to Dunbar.... ❄️🌊
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- Research goals✨2026 (🤞✍️📚🙏): 1. Anselm Adornes book: Publication March! 2. Scotland on Parchment book: Writing! Book deadline 12/26. 3. New Directions/Art Worlds-Chapter 4. Embodied Knowledge-Chapter 5. Auld Alliance-Chapter 6. Proposal for new series on Scot Art Hist 7. Experiential learning project
- Have a wonderful Christmas Bluesky people!✨ With some lovely details from the wonderful Coupar Angus Psalter.
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- Slightly dystopian views up Arthur's Seat after the fire in August...
- I have been puzzling over this for a while & thought that it might be worth opening out to the floor to hear some opinions.🙏 What is this medieval marginal figure doing? They are clearly working with some kind of tool on fabric, cloth or skin... any thoughts on what the tool or process might be?🔎
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- Final proofs off for Anselm Adornes: Travel, Trade, Cultural Exchange, and Intellectual Networks in Scotland, Bruges, and Jerusalem. It is so beautiful! Such a rewarding project. With enormous thanks to my co-editors @jillharrison1.bsky.social and Giovanna Guidicini www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
- Trying to fit in all the research trips before the break so that 2026 is clearer for writing. Today a very misty and chilly Glasgow U.L. and such treasures....
- Reposted by Dr Bryony CoombsHooray! The British Library has just released a beta version of its rebuilt Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk 2,619 hits for 'petition' in Western Manuscripts, texts in English, in case you're curious. 🗃️
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