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Ferdinand Gregorovius: the man on the spot, still?
A conversation with its originator revealed that I had at least slightly misunderstood the intended slant of the lecture for which I was running through stuff on the early medieval papacy a little...
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Nelson & Nicholas I
There is no time for detail right now; I wrote this while trying to catch up after illness and having discovered, only just in time, that I never originally wrote the lecture I was planning to recycle...
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From Roman to Romanesque, or from Catalonia to Austria by obscure processes
Sant Julià de Sassorba in the early morning, being overflown by a hot air-balloon I mentioned that I’d been reading a very clever article by Jerrilyn Dodds that I wanted to respond to. If what follows...
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Seminary LX: sneaking in to hear Richard Hodges
I need to write something substantive, but I have very very little time at the moment; three papers need finishing before Kalamazoo, and all need reading (which is the hardest thing to find time for,...
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Seminary LXIV: when in Ravenna do as the Romans do
The last of last term’s seminar reports, and probably the last substantive post before I try and fly the Atlantic with only a commercial airliner to help me, ‘is presented herewith, I mean thusly‘. The...
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Occasionally I work with manuscripts
I realise that all the cool kids are writing their Kalamazoo reports, and I will also get on to that some day soon. I wouldn’t be writing at all if I hadn’t put six hours in today, on jetlag amounts of...
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Leeds 2010 report I
Since I’ve already been to one other conference that I’m already opining about on other people’s blogs, and since I there plugged all heck out of this blog (not that this seems to have brought any...
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Cambridge to Siena and back, part one
There was also that other conference I wanted to report on… I plan to mainly do this as photoblogging and travelogue, since I made it to so little of the actual conference; that will get a post in the...
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Cambridge to Siena and back part three: really gratuitous photo post
We left this story at the point when, by the kindness of Eileen Joy, I was able to put my bags down and walk around the town for the first time since my arrival. My camera was depressingly low on...
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Talking about bishops in Oxford
Statue of Bishop Oliba of Vic in the Plaça de la Catedral de Vic There is a story, which somehow no-one told on the day I’m writing about, about Professor Richard Southern. Trying to get a colleague...
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Seminary LXVII: don’t call it corruption, call it a cash-rich political system
I am falling behind with blogging generally and with seminars particularly, though I’ve also started falling behind with going to the things so this may yet balance out. I am also in two minds about...
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There then followed a period of seminar fail: notes of what might have been
As the second week of term dawned here I organisationally ploughed into the dirt somewhat, and started missing things I’d wanted to go to. The first lecture was probably an active factor here, but I...
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Seminar LXXI: Villa Magna revisited
Paired burial inside the old portico (I think) at Villamagna. Always start posts like this with skeletons! A while back now I blogged a paper that Caroline Goodson had given at the Institute of...
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Seminars LXXXVI-LXXXIX: four for the price of one
(Written offline between approximately Andorra and the Isle of Wight, courtesy of British Airways, 12/04/11) Front Court, All Soul's College (the Medieval History Seminar is up the last staircase on...
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Seminar XC: Normans? in Africa?
Still another Oxford seminar here, and one that I could maybe skip over because it has already been blogged by the estimable Gesta, but which I don’t want to let slip by because it was really cool....
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Big books, high praise and tiny queries
(Written substantially offline on the East Coast main line between Edinburgh and Newcastle, 23rd May 2011.) My current job is quite luxurious, there’s no point in denying it (and you know, I don’t...
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Finally, Kalamazoo 2011 can be told, Part I
Yes, I know, it’s September and I’m dealing with things that happened in May, it bodes badly, but I’m doing the best I can and since there were complaints from venerable parts of the blogosphere that...
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At last, Kalamazoo 2011… Part II
Recent events are of course discouraging, but if I could take another lesson from Mark Blackburn it could easily be not to abandon a project just because it is hideously, hideously backlogged, and so...
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At last, Kalamazoo 2011… Part III
On the third day of the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, I appear to have followed almost exactly the same trajectory through sessions as the Medieval History Geek,1 and of course he...
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Seminars XCVI, XCVII & XCVIII: lectures and learning in Oxford
Returning the story of my academic life to these shores, there is a triennial lecture series here in Oxford established in the name of Elias Avery Lowe, the man behind Codices Latini Antiquiores, which...
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