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History and hagiography (short book plaudit)
Cover of Paul Fouracre and Richard A. Gerberding, Late Merovingian France A luxury that we don’t often get with the early Middle Ages is being able to contrast two opposing sources. It is kind of the...
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Exciting things out of the ground!
There’s been quite a lot of heavyweight braining here over the last little while, so I think it’s OK if I slack with a links post this time. Some of the stuff that was done by archæologists in the last...
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Feudal Transformations XIII: storing more and working less
Somehow I am staying ahead this semester. Having known for more than a week that I’d be teaching this time, I had lectures prepared a full fortnight ahead at the time of writing, lectures that are...
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Just one long ordeal?
Very busy here at the moment, and little time to finish blog posts. I did at least write something over on Cliopatria, responding to a recent article in the Boston Globe about the supposed...
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Seminary LVIII: how to get carried away in early Frankish marriage
I’ve been out of action so long that Magistra et Mater‘s backlog of posts has begun to catch up on mine! This is often not a bad thing, especially when, as was the case at the Institute of Historical...
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In praise of the Liber sanctae fidis
I am of course primarily a charter geek, but it’s hard to form much attachment to individual charters. If I had to I’d pick the one that Adam Kosto opens his 2005 Speculum article with, because not...
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And today’s tasteless hagiographical miracle is…
The Porte de Saint-Marcel, Die, Drome, France Burgundian royalty, right, they didn’t worry about the proprieties so much. I have lately met in the Vita of Saint Marcel of Die a story which, because of...
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Book bit bullets III
I expected that the end of teaching would free up some time, but somehow before Kalamazoo I still have to finalise a paper for print, write another one for Kalamazoo itself, fend off my book’s editor...
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Kalamazoo and Back, III: bloggers, bishops, Bavaria and bastions*
Right, here we go again. I still hadn’t really mastered the trick of adequate sleep by Friday morning, but I had realised the previous day that the first thing I had to do that day, which was make it...
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Feudal Transformations XIII: Königsferne
In the aftermath of the great Kalamazoo saga I found there was one particular theme that had threaded through for me, and it seemed to me worth making it explicit, even it’s not very insightful. It was...
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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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Leeds 2010 Report II
So, Tuesday of Leeds then. I am going to try, though we all know how well this usually works, to keep this shorter than the previous one. I seem to remember that I didn’t sleep very well the Monday...
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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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Carnivalesque
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and anyone who prefers not to align themselves with such categories, welcome! Welcome one and all to the August 2010 edition of Carnivalesque, every thinkin’...
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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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Bunch of cross-dressing skinheads the lot of them
Between 1975 and 1978 a chap by the name of Jean Verdon who has subsequently become quite important in the field—Regesta Imperii counts 23 books, produced at a fairly Pratchett-like rate—and who had at...
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Annoying coverage of medieval news, East Africa edition
As with any type of specialised knowledge, I guess, one of the problems with getting information out to the people at large is that the people at large don’t necessarily have the context that allows...
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Thanksgiving for Internet treasures
There is no doubt that this employment thing has cut into my blogging. I am badly behind with what I would like to write here: I have nine post stubs and six seminars I’d like to say something about...
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Seminar LXXVI: let him who is without sin start the Fourth Crusade
Yes, I’m horribly behind, and yes, this is off my normal beat, but the handout for this seminar includes chunks of Geoffroi de Charny and romances, I’m guessing one or two of you may be interested. Dr...
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Seminar LXXXIII: arguing about kinship with anthropologists and families
Sorry, fell off the ‘net to a certain extent again there. Let me return to the fray with a seminar report, from where the amiable and erudite Dr Conrad Leyser (a man whose Oxford web presence is even...
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