With apologies for the pun, this week’s post previews the exciting presentations ahead at this Wednesday’s Orme Day Postgraduate Symposium.
Julia Crick previews her upcoming Orme Lecture, and shares why everyone – not just specialists – should care about the Norman Conquest.
As his edited ‘Cambridge Companion to Matthew Paris’ nears publication, James Clark takes a look at the life and afterlife of the famous medieval polymath.
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.
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