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
July 18, 2022
How on earth does someone become interested in medieval Welsh law? Dead law doesn’t sound like the kind of subject that would excite a young child, and even scholarly adults… READ MORE
July 12, 2022
‘Kinship is fascinating. While not all sociologists will agree with that claim, it is nevertheless a sociological observation and not an expression of personal predilection’.[1] So Jennifer Mason asserts in… READ MORE
June 13, 2022
When returning the proofs of Bishop Æthelwold, His Followers and Saints’ Cults in Early Medieval England to the magnificent Caroline Palmer, I joked that we could try advertising the book… READ MORE
May 17, 2022
It has long been recognised that Worcester was a major centre of historiographical research and writing in the period covered by our book. Under the guidance of Bishop Wulfstan II… READ MORE
April 21, 2022
This popular series has already published five volumes with two more to come this summer. To mark five successful years, we are offering a special 40% anniversary discount on the… READ MORE
April 19, 2022
The first time I viewed the miniatures of the Ashburnham Pentateuch, it was quite by accident. I was visiting the Bibliothèque nationale during the very early stages of a research… READ MORE
April 5, 2022
Karen Louise Jolly’s new edited volume, with Britton Elliott Brooks, interrogates materiality and geography, narrative framework and boundaries, and the ways these scholarly pursuits ripple out into the wider cultural… READ MORE
April 4, 2022
We are delighted that Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance, featuring selected proceedings of the Romance in Medieval Britain conference held at Cardiff University in 2018, has been published in time… READ MORE
March 10, 2022
To say it was strange to find myself carefully picking my way over a forest of sharp spurs gripping a medieval helmet would be somewhat of an understatement. I was… READ MORE
The Great Vogue for the Guitar in Western Europe, 1800-1840