January 28, 2019
Coming from a vast, trader-packed office in Tower Hill to Boydell’s compact space in distant Alderton (not Alderaan as I first misheard) was something of a culture shock. Sure, I… READ MORE
December 20, 2018
Boydell has never been short of books on churches: church buildings and architecture, church records, finances, music and more. How could it be otherwise, since they record so much of… READ MORE
December 12, 2018
How did queen consorts, especially those married to powerful kings of larger than life character, attempt to shape their own image at court? This becomes especially fascinating with foreign queens… READ MORE
October 17, 2018
To mark the publication in paperback of her acclaimed book Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England (York Medieval Press), Dr Merridee Bailey (Associate Member of the Faculty of History,… READ MORE
September 30, 2018
The 30th of September marks the internationally celebrated, Translation Day, aptly settled on the Feast of St Jerome – the patron saint of translators. This annual tribute is paid to… READ MORE
September 25, 2018
The Middle English ‘popular’ romances used to be shunned in academia, but they are so entertaining that they are now back in fashion.
The biennial Medieval Romance in Britain conference, which is dedicated to the study of these romances, began in the UK in 1988 as a very small-scale event, but it has grown and grown and has become global (the 2016 conference was in Vancouver).
September 12, 2018
First published in August 2013, Professor Kirk Ambrose’s book took an unusual approach to the monsters depicted in so much medieval art and architecture. What if these fearsome creatures articulated… READ MORE
September 7, 2018
Among our many new books for the second half of 2018, one of the highlights is English Medieval Church Towers. David Ryan has visited and painted 500 medieval churches of the Northern Province of England to record their towers in watercolour, preserving for posterity a delightful record of one of the greatest groupings of England’s historic buildings.
August 29, 2018
It’s not often that archaeologists have the chance to examine a riverbed, let alone dig 25 meters down to a layer that was formed in the last Ice Age, 10,000… READ MORE
August 10, 2018
Robert Mills, author of the recent book Derek Jarman’s Medieval Modern, discusses this iconic British Filmmaker in an exclusive sneak peek interview with the Medieval Herald. As Derek Jarman makes… READ MORE
On the “superficiality” of eighteenth-century women’s education