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...
A couple of days ago my wonderful colleagues Penny Bernard and Diane Heath organised a visit to Temple Newsam museum, just outside Leeds, where - amongst other things - we were transfixed by the fasci...