The Medieval Scholar
@medievalscholar · The Medieval Scholar · Substack profile · History
The Medieval Scholar has 27,372 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. 47 publications recommend them, 5 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 1.
Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.
- Followers
- 27,372
- read Oct 31
- Last 7 days
- first number on Nov 7
- Last 30 days
- first number on Nov 30
- Subscribers
- 13K+
- rounded by Substack
- Paid subscribers
- none shown
- Recommended by
- 47
- +5 in 30 days
- Recommends
- 1
- Bestsellers rank
- not on a board
Followers by day
Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.
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| Date | Followers | Change | Subscribers | Paid band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 2026 | 27,372 | 13K+ |
Leaderboard positions
Not on a category leaderboard right now
Substack's boards list the top 100 per category, by paid subscribers (Bestsellers) and by recent paid growth (Rising). I read all 66 of them once a day, so a new entry shows up within a day.
Recommendations
47 publications recommend The Medieval Scholar; 5 started in the last 30 days. The Medieval Scholar recommends 1. Lists read Oct 31.
When the recommendations started
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| Month | Started |
|---|---|
| 2023-12 | 1 |
| 2024-04 | 1 |
| 2024-10 | 1 |
| 2025-02 | 1 |
| 2025-03 | 1 |
| 2025-04 | 1 |
| 2025-06 | 1 |
| 2025-07 | 1 |
| 2025-08 | 1 |
| 2025-09 | 4 |
| 2025-10 | 3 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 3 |
| 2026-01 | 3 |
| 2026-02 | 4 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 2 |
| 2026-05 | 2 |
| 2026-06 | 2 |
| 2026-07 | 3 |
| 2026-08 | 3 |
| 2026-09 | 2 |
| 2026-10 | 5 |
Recommended by
Ashley Rigden19 followers · started Apr 14, 2026- Living Classicsstarted Oct 30, 2026new
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- Elliestarted Oct 19, 2026new
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- A Study in 221Bstarted Sep 10, 2026
- The Intellectual Investorstarted Aug 24, 2026
- Istorie și Cultură started Aug 23, 2026
- Tales from Logresstarted Aug 8, 2026
- Czech History Podcaststarted Jul 27, 2026
- Avni A. Kakrastarted Jul 21, 2026
- Maico's Substackstarted Jul 15, 2026
- Sagaferðirstarted Jun 29, 2026
- The Lamp on the Deskstarted Jun 9, 2026
- hush now creaturestarted May 12, 2026
- The Ordo Lettersstarted May 9, 2026
- Digital Imaginationstarted Apr 19, 2026
- The Time Travellersstarted Mar 30, 2026
- Historygonebananasstarted Feb 15, 2026
- David Diazstarted Feb 12, 2026
- Library Wraithstarted Feb 8, 2026
- The Field Archivestarted Feb 7, 2026
All 47
- Moff On The Railsstarted Jan 28, 2026
- Ramblingsstarted Jan 13, 2026
- Cyla Mariestarted Jan 6, 2026
- Evie’s Diaries started Dec 29, 2025
- Daley's Cometstarted Dec 29, 2025
- The New England Scholar's Studystarted Dec 24, 2025
- The Radical Monarchiststarted Nov 28, 2025
- N.S.'s Substackstarted Oct 2025
- The Templar Knightstarted Oct 2025
- The Hard Fork by Marvin Liaostarted Oct 2025
- jeffreystarted Sep 2025
- Lamentations’s Substackstarted Sep 2025
- ChiaKen’s Substackstarted Sep 2025
- Jasper Rantsstarted Sep 2025
- Athenaeum’s Substackstarted Aug 2025
- Origen Adamantius's Essaysstarted Jul 2025
- Colin’s Substackstarted Jun 2025
- Bros Krynn’s Newsletterstarted Apr 2025
- King Edward Istarted Mar 2025
- The Ink Pavilion: Stories & Myth from Chinastarted Feb 2025
- Althea’s Substackstarted Oct 2024
- The Lantern Of Lore & Logic - Personal Growth Through Quotesstarted Apr 2024
- Medieval Realmsstarted Dec 2023
Recommends
- Arthur W. Westbridgestarted Oct 19, 2026new
Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.
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