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On reading more Richard Hodges
Cover of Richard Hodges's Goodbye to the Vikings? Lately, or at least, as I first wrote this post it was lately, I have been chomping through Richard Hodges’s Goodbye to the Vikings?, which is a...
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Leeds 2011 report 1, with bonus apology
I have to start by saying sorry for the long silence here. It’s no shortage of stuff to say, but shortage of time to write. The end of term has been more punishing than it should be, as we gear up for...
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Leeds 2011 report two at last
Sorry! Publication deadlines, as you saw, then admissions interviews (about which I have seriously mixed feelings and may eventually write), then the wedding of a good friend and erstwhile medievalist,...
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Conferring in Naples I: the gratuitous picture post
Having finally finished reporting on July’s Leeds conference (and not even being the last to do so) leaves me now free to leap forward two months in a single bound, leaving me only four behind from...
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Conferring in Naples, II: papers in the p. m.
Sala Conferenze in the Palazzo degli Uffici, Università degli Studi Federico II, Naples The reason I had all the time I had to go sight-seeing in Naples was that the conference I was at didn’t start...
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Seminars CXXII-CXXIV: British heresy, pagan burial and Norman profanity
It’s time for another of the catch-up seminar jam posts in which I try to clear the ridiculous backlog that leads me still to be writing about things that happened seven months ago! British heresy A...
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Seminars CXXXV & CXXXVI: characterising some medieval disputants
The need to catch up on the seminar reports is still fairly urgent, so I must do my now-usual filtering of what is in the pile. Out, with reluctance because it was good but with reassurance because as...
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Seminars CXXXVIII-CXLI: busy in Oxford
The title is true of the present and the past, for I continue very busy even now that term has stopped. We will not speak of job applications, but even without that and purely domestic affairs, over...
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Leeds 2012 Report 2
My notes from last year’s International Medieval Congress seem to be pretty good, but I’m disturbed by how little of what I apparently attended I recall in any detail without them. I suppose this is...
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Leeds 2012 Report 4 and Final
This last post on the International Medieval Congress of 2012 is a bit more ‘last post’ than usual, because it also involves saying goodbye to the place where all the previous instances of ‘Leeds’ had...
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Name in Print XIII & XIV and Lights VIII & IX: the problems are also...
Even though this too is after the fact, it definitely deserves to be announced before I crunch through the relevant backlog. You first heard about it in September 2011, writing it in time for the...
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Picture of a Lombard legislator
I suppose the time comes in most early medievalist’s lives, periodically, when they find that they must deal with the ghost of Patrick Wormald. For me this presents comparatively little threat: I’m not...
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Carolingian things afoot in Cambridge
Reverse of a silver denier of Charlemagne struck at Dorestad now on display in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge May I just break the backlog-filling for a second to bring your attention to two things...
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Name in Print XI
This is stuff you’ve already seen, cobbled down from one of the sticky posts above now that its due place in sequence has been reached. But perhaps you wanted to see it again! In April 2013 I achieved...
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Seminar CLXXX: hiding English coins in tenth-century Rome
One good paper about travel to Rome deserves another, or something; five days after hearing Lizzie Boyle tell us about Irish clerics whose journies to Rome went awry, on 27th May 2013 I was listening...
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How to protect yourself from feudal violence, and other links
Today there is only time for a links post, I’m sorry about that. But happily I had most of one ready in the backlog drawer, and they’re all of reasonable moment. The refuge site at Bléré Val-de-Cher,...
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Leeds 2013 report part 4 and final
I probably stayed at the dance of the International-Medieval-Congress-before-last longer than I should have done given that I was presenting the next day, but nonetheless I was on time, just, to my own...
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Seminar CLXXXV: checking what the genes mean
The week after the seminar just reported, I was back down at the Institute of Historical Research’s Earlier Middle Ages Seminar to hear no less a notable than Professor Patrick Geary of UCLA address us...
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Working for San Salvatore I: making a polyptych
I seem to have taken the chance of the latter part of the Birmingham job to indulge in reading large amounts of primary material. First there was the cartulary of St-Pierre de Beaulieu, about which...
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Working for San Salvatore II: specialists and individuals
As I said in the first post about the polyptych of Santa Giulia di Brescia, one of the things about its information that can’t fail to strike one is the variation within the standard form of record the...
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