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
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
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