@UoBrisHistory medieval historian, tinned seafood enthusiast. I'm interested in medieval historical traditions, orality, crusades, songs, gender, and pleasure
Leamington Spa, England
Joined November 2013
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🚨Looking for a fantastic book on the medieval epic? Well, we have not one but eight (and one in two volumes!), available direct from the Societe Rencesvals British Branch, from our new website rencesvals.co.uk
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Do you want a student-facing #UCURising strike explainer? Do I have a treat for you! This pamphlet explains what trade unions are, what they do, and why Higher Education staff are striking, while busting some common myths. PDF available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1REz…
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One of the things in visual representations of the past, especially a 'fantastic' past (e.g. fantasy medieval Europe) is the tendency to skip over the period when mail was the dominant heavy armor, from roughly the second century BC to the 13th century AD.
So let's talk mail. 1/
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there’s a lot of ukraine discourse today and i just think the problem with a lot of people’s positions is that they haven’t survived contact with reality but they’re persisting with them regardless (short thread)
Is the Biblioteca Nacional de España manuscript page down for anyone else? (bdh.bne.es/) @BNE_biblioteca – at Leamington Spa, England
Sheltering from the rain in Dorset at the lovely Saint Aldhelm's chapel, with 12th century groin vaults, a dramatic location on a cliff, and some seventeenth century graffiti. Perfectly tailored to make me happy, apparently
Twelfth-century genealogical table giving extremely 'end of the whiteboard after a brainstorming session' vibes
It's here, finally! So glad to have my chapter Women at the Walls included in this fantastic and good-looking tome edited by the esteemed @andrewdbuck and Thomas Smith of @HistoryRugby Much reading of other chapters now to undertake...
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We are hiring for a full-time, open-ended lecturership in any aspect of early modern history.
We are especially keen to hear from researchers whose specialism would broaden the geographical range of the department.
More details/informal contact in ad:
jobs.ac.uk/job/CRT257/lectur…
Crusade scholars: if you had to choose only a handful, who are the most influential scholars, and what are the most influential books/articles/projects on 'the narrative texts of the First Crusade', broadly defined? Please limit yourself to 1611-2022... #twitterstorians #crusade
This is absolutely exceptional writing
what really strikes me about the painting is Saturn's expression of surprise
he is surprised to be eating his child
bewildered, but he doesn't stop devouring his child
and I know a country that lives that way theswordandthesandwich.subst…