April 27, 2023
If you return home after a long absence you might, not unreasonably, hope for a warm welcome, perhaps even some cake. Unfortunately for Saint Bartholomew, the reunification with his parents… READ MORE
April 5, 2023
So, who was Anne de Graville? That’s a question that I have been asked a lot when explaining that I’ve been writing a book about her. There are two possible… READ MORE
March 16, 2023
The idea for this book was suggested by the general editors of a self-contained sub-series called ‘Charlemagne: A European Icon’, published under the umbrella of Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures… READ MORE
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
Exploring the Medieval Armoury