Here's my quick take on the identification of another portrait of Anne Boleyn - and why we are so keen on this particular kind of 'discovery'.
lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/dead-queen...
This might be nice reading for a weekend afternoon just after Easter. It's about Lindisfarne, and mortality, and ordinary remains.
open.substack.com/pub/lucyalle...
🎙️ Nina Doyle (Féileacáin) spoke with Sally-Ann Barrett on Midlands 103 Saturday Focus about the need for statutory paid leave for pregnancy loss <23 weeks & a proposed certificate of pregnancy loss for Ireland (01:17-16:06)
🔗 www.midlands103.com/podcasts/sat...
Ping #PLRG_PLACESproject
It’s so common to come across the assertion that books were luxury objects exclusively for the elite in the Middle Ages that I want to guest curate a massive exhibition called “Meh-nuscripts: Books for the Many,” which features just workaday or unremarkable objects.
Thanks for the repost, @akennedysmith.bsky.social!
New post, with a little new reading of Pearl and temporality, which I am quite excited about TBH. What do you think? Does it hold up? substack.com/home/post/p-...
Medieval medicine, very recent scientific findings, and maybe a snippet of a new reading of six-hundred-year-old poem. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/medieval-m...
Pulling on the Threads of History: Writing 'Good' and 'Bad' Tudors
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I'm writing about pearls and lapidary medicine, and a couple of things that I think are actually, possibly, new news about the medieval poem Pearl and its context. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/medieval-m...
Here's a book review post: substack.com/home/post/p-...
