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Here begin Medieval Mondays
Prompted by a weekend spent reading about medieval space and exchanging tweets with Rob Miller on the subject of handbags and his fantastic guest post for the British Library Medieval Manuscripts blog,...
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The (not really) little Red House of happenstance
I began the Victorian Vendredi series last week with a teaser for this week’s post. That teaser was the painting you see now to the right William Morris’s only completed painting, the model being Jane...
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Medieval plans for the next few months
It’s the night before going back to school (ok, work) for me, after a week off mightily conferencing and a week’s holiday back at home. I’ve used some of my holiday time to make plans. The most...
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: reading for eternity
Tonight I watched the first episode of She-Wolves: England’s Early Queens, an excellent documentary series written and presented by historian Dr Helen Castor, currently being repeated on BBC4. The...
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Mystics and mechanicals
You may have noticed that Monday came and went without its/my habitual medieval commentary. If you look to the picture on the left, you will see why; I’m still not sure if it was good to have the...
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The Scottish adventures of former Pope Serf
While returning from an overnight camping trip with my siblings in Perth yesterday, we noticed a sign for St Serf’s Church in Dunning. None of us knew who this was, so as family librarian I set myself...
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The fierce warriors of Lochlann
Thus are the Vikings described by an Irish monk in the 800s, in a short marginal poem in the St Gall Priscian, where he expresses his relief at the stormy seas keeping the long ships at home in...
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A mysterious tableau at the Centre de l’imaginaire Arthurian
This week’s Mid-week Museum post, as with Monday’s Medieval Monday post on the Bayeux Tapestry, is of necessity brief, as much remains to be done before leaving on holiday this weekend. I found the...
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Not quite Victorian Vendredi
Ordinarily, as I get back on a regular blogging schedule, today would be Victorian Vendredi day, but as I’m getting ready to go on holiday in two days, time for blogging be limited. Depending on...
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Some holiday snaps – Normandy and Brittany
I started this post during the second week of a tour round Normandy and Brittany, hence the lack of regular blogging. But I never got round to finishing it – evenings have been taken up with, in this...
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