What did it mean for monks to ‘forage’ for food? Andrew Jotischky offers a preview of the upcoming Simon Barton lecture.
This week sees the return of our ‘research postcards’ series, as Sean Doherty and Clem Pursey, armed only with an eraser, enter the hallowed halls of Eton College in search of the Apocalypse — and some medieval French.
In anticipation of his forthcoming volume from the Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Des Atkinson offers an insight into ‘extents’ – how medieval nunneries kept track of their manorial holdings.
Katie Brown takes us behind the scenes of a collaborative digital project as it explores a unique 13th-century history of the world.
Sometimes, as Tom Hinton recounts in this week’s post, archive visits don’t quite deliver what we were expecting.
New arrival at the Centre, Ana de Oliveira Dias, shares her work on tenth-century sources, from the modest to the magnificent.
Can – and should – we talk about ‘medieval autism’? Edward Mills (with help from Lancelot) asks whether concepts such as neurodivergence have a place in medievalists’ work.
Laura Burnett shares her recent work on horse heraldry, and its surprising modern resonances.
We look back at the last term’s posts, and share our thanks for readers’ support over the past year.
Ahead of her upcoming lectures and workshops, Monica Green, the renowned historian of medicine and plague, took the time to answer a few questions about her work.
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