Ahead of the publication of an ambitious new co-authored volume, Naomi Howell shares her experience of bringing a unique late-medieval tradition back to life.
This week sees the return of our ‘Just Visiting’ series, where Centre members explore medieval sites of interest from around the South West. After Anne Gwatkin’s tour of Milton Abbey a few weeks ago, our post this week takes us to Dorset, where Edward Mills (and his son) went castle-hunting earlier this year. As any […]
This Sunday, the University’s Chapel Choir will be performing at Buckfast Abbey, reviving early-16th-century plainchant. James Clark previews the concert, and reflects on recovering the music of centuries past.
Lucas McMahon returns to the 9th-century Byzantine beacon system, asking why it might have been built in the first place.
In the first of two posts, Lucas McMahon explores the legendary Byzantine optical telegraph, and asks a simple question: could it have worked?
In the first of our occasional summertime series, we share the news of an upcoming event at St. Nicholas’ Priory featuring a friend of the Centre.
As the Centre joins Instagram, Edward Mills looks back on the rise and fall of Twitter for medievalists, and asks what might come next.
We’re delighted to bring you one more post before the Christmas break, courtesy of returning writer for the blog, Shagnick Bhattacharya: a historical mystery from the collections of the Devon Heritage Centre. The blog will return in January; on behalf of all of us here at the Centre for Medieval Studies, we wish you a […]
Last week, we uncovered entries ten to six on our not-at-all-arbitrary ‘top ten’ list, celebrating ten years of posts on the Centre for Medieval Studies blog. This week’s post rounds out our selection, as we look at the top five most interesting, pertinent, or otherwise relevant posts that have stood the test of time. 5. […]
Last week marked an impressive anniversary for the Exeter Medieval Studies blog: its tenth birthday! Our very first post — by James Clark, announcing a new research cluster — went live 23rd September 2014. Since then, we’ve published over 130 posts, on topics from across the range of medieval teaching and research that takes place […]
One response to “Ten Gems from the Past Decade: Part 1”
[…] Last week, we uncovered entries ten to six on our not-at-all-arbitrary ‘top ten’ list, celebrating ten years of posts on the Centre for Medieval Studies blog. This week’s post rounds out our selection, as we look at the top five most interesting, pertinent, or otherwise relevant posts that have stood the test of time. […]