December 15, 2022
There can’t be many books that contain characters as varied as King Arthur and the Black Prince, pirates and lawless judges, knights and London aldermen, bishops and disaffected rebels. Neither… READ MORE
December 8, 2022
The history of monasteries doesn’t end at the Dissolution; instead, the Dissolution is the beginning of an interesting period of social change. Social relations are an aspect of history that… READ MORE
November 24, 2022
When researching my book Performance in Beowulf and Other Old English Poems, an issue developed in my thinking that I partially tested, and it’s something that has become more pertinent… READ MORE
November 8, 2022
Reading is again in crisis. The 1990s digital revolution was thought to generate the unqualified good of more readers with access to vastly wider ranges of reading material. Yet thirty… READ MORE
October 24, 2022
We all know that medieval chivalry was not about holding doors open for ladies, and standing up when they enter the room. We also know that a ‘code of chivalry’,… READ MORE
October 20, 2022
I said, ‘I think you have a book here!’ I certainly wasn’t prepared to be involved in said book, or for the dominant part it would play in my life… READ MORE
October 18, 2022
Recycling. Did anyone in late medieval England know the word? No. But in this period, in most people’s everyday lives, there was widespread understanding of the spirit of recycling and… READ MORE
October 17, 2022
It is York Medieval Press’s 100th – no, NOT its 100th birthday, its 100th book! This was Hannah Ryley’s Re-using Manuscripts in Late Medieval England, published over the summer. But… READ MORE
August 8, 2022
This is the second blog from Dr Roberts where she discusses her book The Growth of Law in Medieval Wales, c.1100-c.1500, published this month. In this blog Dr Roberts explores… READ MORE
July 27, 2022
Claude Lévi-Strauss famously stated that ‘animals are good to think with’, capturing the cultural significance of other creatures in the conceptualisation of human concerns. But not all animals are created… READ MORE
A Finzi Celebration