In category: Discussion

Laura Bennett shares her recent work on horse heraldry, and its surprising modern resonances.

What links Thomas More, a monkey, and Italian geography? Elliot Kendall takes on a trip down a research rabbit-hole.

As the Centre joins Instagram, Edward Mills looks back on the rise and fall of Twitter for medievalists, and asks what might come next.

Why were King Æthelberht of Wessex’s bones worth ‘rediscovering’ at Sherborne Abbey in June 1925? Francis Brown looks into early 20th-century medievalism.

Ahead of the summer conference season, Levi Roach offers his top tips to get the most out of medievalist mega-gatherings.

With the conclusion of the ‘Warhorse’ project, regular contributor Oliver Creighton looks back on its findings – and forward, to a forthcoming book launch.

Camille Vo Van Qui, a recent PhD graduate from the Centre, shares her experience of producing an altogether-less-common research output.

Medieval music doesn’t typically occupy a prominent place on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show. Nevertheless, a couple of weeks ago saw an unexpected collision of the two, as a discussion of new acoustic music by Sam Fender (55:10 in the link) veered sideways into questions about what the artist’s ‘medieval’ name would be. During this […]

This week’s post is comes from Dr. Catherine Rider, a longstanding member of the Centre (and one of the forces behind the inception of this very blog). Catherine is well-known in the Centre for her public engagement work, but what does this sort of work actually involve (besides purchasing Post-It notes)? She offered to help […]

Vikings: Valhalla is a spin-off series from the phenomenally successful Vikings, which ran for six series (largely on History in Canada and Ireland, where it was co-produced) between 2013 and 2018. As its name suggests, the original series followed the exploits of a number of (semi-historical) Viking figures from the first raids on the monastery […]