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Society for the Medieval Mediterranean 2015 (in Lincoln), parts 2 & 3
[Context: this post was half-written before I ground to a complete halt in hiatus last year. It’s clear that I can’t continue this scale of write-up, but because it was part-done, and because it...
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Scribal individuation around Manresa c. 1002
Some time around the end of December 2015, in the fond expectation of soon having time to advance my old project on scribes and Church structures around the Catalan city of Manresa in the tenth...
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Name in Print XXII
Some months ago now, in trumpeting a recent publication, I mentioned that I already had another one out, and if you noticed that, you may have wondered why I didn’t subsequently go on to trumpet that...
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Will the real Charles the Great please hide a moment?
The Leeds incarnation of the Universities and Colleges Union strike is beginning to look a bit like Occupy – remember that? – on its fourth day, and as I’ve mentioned I’ll be taking part in the UCU...
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Leeds International Medieval Congress 2016, reflected upon from a distance
Somehow Action Short of a Strike still looks a lot like a really hard week—the contract I’m working to doesn’t have fixed hours—so I find myself blogging very late on a Sunday. Both because of that and...
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Name in Print XXIV: women writing in tenth-century Catalonia
I have been waiting to be able to post this for some months, and now thanks to the good offices of Cambridge University Press and the continuing operation of the Royal Mail even in lockdown—about which...
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Name in Print XXVI: in honour of Simon Barton (and Mark Whittow)
We interrupt my usual programme of backlog for a current announcement, though it is one that necessarily has lots of my past in it, which is that I have another new publication out, the first of 2020...
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Reporting on the International Medieval Congress of 2017
I’m sorry for another long absence. Teaching in the time of Covid is just doing me in, and largely for reasons of our beloved government. History at Leeds are currently teaching online, to which we...
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A Defence of Osona at Lleida
So, where are, or rather were, we now? On inspection, actually, almost immediately I had survived the 2017 IMC I was away again on a jet-plane. This time it was to a place I’d never been, the city of...
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Historians to remember
It is a distressing habit that seems to be developing on this blog where it is deaths that bring me out of a hiatus. Of course, there would be no such habit if there were no hiatuses, but the times are...
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Eight-year late news photo update
(Jonathan Jarrett (left) and Allan Scott McKinley (right) celebrating the publication of their edited volume, Problems and Possibilities of Early Medieval Charters, International Medieval Research 19...
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Changing Ways to Read a Graph of Landlordship
A day early and about four years late still, here is this week’s post. While in the very last days of my previous bout of research leave, in late 2017 and early 2018, I was reading my way through the...
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Welcome to Ardèvol, Cardona, pop. [not very many]
Those of you still reading this blog from a long time back will remember, perhaps, that for a good while I was working on an article about a Catalan monastery called Sant Pere de Casserres (in Osona,...
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From the Sources XVI: a document that nearly wrecked some of my work
Since I wrote my last post, about something I found in the last stage of work on an article about Sant Pere de Casserres, that article has come back to me in proof, so even though I laid down that stub...
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What to remember from the 2018 International Medieval Congress?
Although I feel that it probably is a sign that I am catching up on my blogged past, I have to admit that I face the fact that the next thing in my blog pile is the International Medieval Congress of...
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Seminars CCLIII-CCLVI: Friends and the Famous Speaking at Leeds
There is a lot of unpleasantness going on just now, he says in a classic understatement. I had most of a series of angry posts about the state of the English university done when Russia invaded...
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Scribes who knew more
Moving forward definitively at last into 2019 in my backlog, in February of that year I was mainly reading Wendy Davies‘s then relatively new book Windows on Justice in Northern Iberia 800–1000. I got...
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Seminars CCLXVII & CCLXVIII: the Normans return to Leeds
As usual, apologies are owed to you, dear readers, for a long absence; sorry. We stopped working to contract at about the time all my marking came in, and the result of marking arriving was as usual...
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Name in Print XXIX: at long last Casserres
Last post I promised news as well as olds, and here is the first of them. (I’m not saying they’re all publications – but they might be!) You would have to have a really long memory of this blog to...
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Correction: the voice of the king not heard where I said
I think I can furnish you with two short posts this week, which may make up a little for the slow posting of late, the causes of which I hope at some point also to be able to tell you about (except...
View ArticleMaking things official without officials
For my second post for the weekend, I hope you’ll forgive me if I point you at some blogging I already did elsewhere. This, as with so much of my posting, goes back to 2019, when I managed to get a...
View ArticleName in Lights XI
It seems to have been rather a while since I last used a subject header in this series, so it might be worth explaining to those who’ve started reading since 2015 (!) that, by long if not necessarily...
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The conference before the storm: Leeds International Medieval Congress, 2019
Looking back on the last pre-Covid International Medieval Congress seems like a different world by now, even though we’ve but recently had the 2022 one, where, ironically or not, I caught my first dose...
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Vikings in ninth-century Catalonia?
There is a tendency for this blog to become a series of photo posts when my backlog shrinks through each past summer, and I like to break those up with more academic contact even if it means jumping...
View ArticleLinks like it’s 2009
This week has piled up into the weekend rather and I can’t put the time into a blogpost that I managed with the previous two. But the last post arose out of a random thing I found on the Internet, and...
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“He should comment on the fact that their Latin is not very good.”
All power to our negotiators meeting the employers' representatives in Acas-facilitated talks today. @leedsucu members are angry about how we are being treated and are ready to escalate the action if...
View ArticleStock Take VII: research I can’t do
This isn't the kind of international recognition @UniversityLeeds senior management will want. If they want the strikes to stop they need to tell their negotiators to reach an agreement with @ucu...
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From the Sources XVII: more Pavians destroying important people’s houses
Rather than just drown you in pictures of symbol stones for the next few weeks, it seems wise to intersperse some other material, so let’s jump forward a bit to the month after I was back from that...
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From the Sources XVIII: A lost letter from a Caliph
It’s been a while since we had one of my source translations, and there’ve been a lot of photos of Scottish castles in poor weather just lately, so by way of the now-legendary "something completely...
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Seminars CLXXIV-CLXXVI: Crusaders, Cistercians and more at Leeds
Hullo again! Firstly, I should apologise for the unexpected skip week, which I can best explain as backwash from the end of the industrial action at Leeds; everything is now back at full power in our...
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