What it says on the label. Interested in late 15th C with a focus on the Wars of the Roses but promotes anything medieval of interest. All photos are our own unless otherwise listed.
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Second day for the Barnet Medieval Festival. If you visit, post a picture! Here are two of our volunteers at our stall.
It's June and one of the Labours of the Month was no doubt a happier one - picking fruit! Image: The Hague, KB, 76 G 21
Congratulations to Emma Gabe, who received a rare Leonard Boyle Prize honourable mention, for her dissertation, "Sorores in coquina: Laysisters in German Monasteries, c.1300–1550" from the Canadian Society of Medievalists!
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/emma-ga...
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This is a big deal for a scientist. @mjflepage.bsky.social of @newscientist.com has given a lovely review of my new book.
Dr Clément Guézais discussing and analysing the medieval Franco-Scottish treaties and how these represented an ideal of friendship in diplomacy: a partnership of equals, separate entities but united by a common purpose. 🏴🇫🇷
For more insight on the Auld Alliance, listen to Episode 7 (link in bio).
🧵 3 posts. In the late 11th century a chapel was built, within the bailey at Pontefract Castle, dedicated to St Clement. It possibly replaced an earlier Saxon chapel or church. Extensive archaeological excavations in the inner bailey revealed a well-organised Christian cemetery that
Founded in 1970/1, the London Society for Medieval Studies seeks to foster knowledge of, and dialogue about, the Middle Ages (c.500–c.1500 CE).
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“What has always hooked me about DNA has been the stories," says @turiking.bsky.social in The Secrets of Our DNA 🧪
And that's the appeal of her book, which is full of them. My review:
www.newscientist.com/article/mg27...
Join us for another amazing seminar!
On 2 June, Saaleha Iqbal from @lcsleeds.bsky.social is presenting 'Reimagining the Status of Muslims and Muslim Women in Medieval French Culture'. More info linked⬇️
🗓️ 2 June
⏰ 17:30 GMT
🏛️In person @ihr.bsky.social & 💻 Online
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Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
From clearing people convicted of murder to identifying a monarch's remains, Michael Le Page is fascinated by The Secrets of Our DNA, an insider's must-read book
