Happy #Easter Bluesky! Please enjoy this delightful bunny rabbit (or maybe a hare?) depicted on this early 14th century floor tile from Greyfriars Church in #Reading
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Hello again, BlueSky! I had let this little app go quiet for a bit, not realizing how many wonderful people have now joined it. Hello!
Thought I’d share a snippet from the latest Medieval Podcast episode - all about pubs! Enjoy 🙂
This letter, addressed to a spice merchant in Montpellier, is dated to the 1250s and written mostly in medieval Occitan. The most compelling part to me is that it's written on paper rather than parchment. Remarkably early example of paper in this region, especially among merchants! #medievalsky
It's from Thomas Wright’s 'Political Songs of England' (1996 edition, ed. by Peter Coss), pp 46-51. This song is in Latin, but there are other v interesting sirventes in the edition. You can read them online in the original 1839 publication here:
archive.org/details/poli...
It would have been a tense #Easter week in #Northampton in 1264, when Henry III rocked up to seize the town from its rebel garrison.
I wrote about this ‘other’ battle of Northampton in Medieval World Issue 5
You can grab it here:
www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-gb/produc...
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‘The state of the world is at the present day constantly changing’
I feel like this could have been written this morning, but it’s a ‘Song on the Times’ of thirteenth-century England, during the reign of Henry III
Perhaps some things just really don’t change….
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I’ll be talking about my recent research on the Bayeux Tapestry in a public lecture here in Bristol on Thursday 30 April. Attendance is FREE and includes a drinks reception 🍷 Everybody welcome! Please join us if you can and help spread the word! #medievalsky #skystorians
