Dorothea Preis
@doropreis.bsky.social
Interested in history, particularly medieval history, and baking bread. Have lived in Germany, the UK, and now in Australia. MA University of Bonn.
In 1423, Abbot Wheathampstead of St Albans and his fellow travellers stayed for 7 weeks in Cologne. They arrived in late November, and left again mid-January. A speculative post about their adventures in “holy Cologne”.
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Abbot John of Wheathampstead visits Cologne
As we have seen in my last post, John of Wheathampstead, abbot of St Albans, travelled in 1423/24 to Italy to attend the Council of Pavia/Siena and to visit the Pope. Both on his way to Italy and …
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November 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
In 1423, Abbot Wheathampstead of St Albans and his fellow travellers stayed for 7 weeks in Cologne. They arrived in late November, and left again mid-January. A speculative post about their adventures in “holy Cologne”.
dottietales.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/a...
dottietales.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/a...
After a short excursion into ebooks, I am very much back to printed ones. It's so much easier to page back to something you read earlier and didn't pay much attention to.
Should we ‘get over’ print books in the digital age – or are they more precious than ever?
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Should we ‘get over’ print books in the digital age – or are they more precious than ever?
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Should we ‘get over’ print books in the digital age – or are they more precious than ever?
Print books embody culture. We see it in social media trends for annotating books, community publishing and wartime destruction of books spanning the Nazis to Gaza.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
After a short excursion into ebooks, I am very much back to printed ones. It's so much easier to page back to something you read earlier and didn't pay much attention to.
Should we ‘get over’ print books in the digital age – or are they more precious than ever?
theconversation.com/should-we-ge...
Should we ‘get over’ print books in the digital age – or are they more precious than ever?
theconversation.com/should-we-ge...
An oak mantelpiece, which had once stood in More Hall, Brookmans Park, was found again in November 2019. Find out more about its former home and its history in a post from the archives. dottietales.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/m...
More on More Hall, Brookmans Park, Herts
A short post on More Hall, which once belonged to the family of Sir Thomas More.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
An oak mantelpiece, which had once stood in More Hall, Brookmans Park, was found again in November 2019. Find out more about its former home and its history in a post from the archives. dottietales.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/m...
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The Times is at it again this week, insisting we disturb historical graves 'because DNA'. Here's me complaining back in 2015 about the same issue #richardiii
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The Princes in the Urn: Why it’s Time to Let Go of the Westminster Abbey Myth
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November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
The Times is at it again this week, insisting we disturb historical graves 'because DNA'. Here's me complaining back in 2015 about the same issue #richardiii
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A few photos from Godstow Abbey yesterday! Now in ruin, Godstow Abbey was founded in around 1115 by Ediva of Winchester. Rosamund Clifford is buried nearby, though the exact location of her grave is unknown.
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
A few photos from Godstow Abbey yesterday! Now in ruin, Godstow Abbey was founded in around 1115 by Ediva of Winchester. Rosamund Clifford is buried nearby, though the exact location of her grave is unknown.
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Are you interested in the roads and bridges of #medieval England and Wales? In our latest #blogpost, Dr David Harrison discusses his fascinating new map that provides crucial insights into the road network as it existed in the 15th century yorkisthistorytrust.org/2025/11/10/a... #Skystorians
A Road Map of the Yorkist Age
The Trust On…A Road Map of the Yorkist Age In a slight departure from our normal blogposts, here we present a guest post: Dr David Harrison discussing his fascinating new publication, Histori…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Are you interested in the roads and bridges of #medieval England and Wales? In our latest #blogpost, Dr David Harrison discusses his fascinating new map that provides crucial insights into the road network as it existed in the 15th century yorkisthistorytrust.org/2025/11/10/a... #Skystorians
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Members of the Richard III Society will be pleased to know that there are places available for the talk by @richardasquith.bsky.social on 'Death of a Yorkist Mayor: Executing the Will of Sir Ralph Verney (d. 1478)' This zoom meeting is on 22 November. Check your email for details on how to register.
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Members of the Richard III Society will be pleased to know that there are places available for the talk by @richardasquith.bsky.social on 'Death of a Yorkist Mayor: Executing the Will of Sir Ralph Verney (d. 1478)' This zoom meeting is on 22 November. Check your email for details on how to register.
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Just added an article I wrote back in 2022 after watching Netflix's new adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion. With Netflix's new 'progressive' Pride and Prejudice coming up, I am still asking the same questions (and of course Shakespeare gets a mention)
From ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to ‘Persuasion’: Can Jane Austen Survive the Millennium?
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November 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Just added an article I wrote back in 2022 after watching Netflix's new adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion. With Netflix's new 'progressive' Pride and Prejudice coming up, I am still asking the same questions (and of course Shakespeare gets a mention)
Today we remember William Bingham, the founder of God’s House in Cambridge, who died on 17 November 1451. The college is regarded as “the first secondary school training college in England. dottietales.wordpress.com/2015/12/01/w...
William Bingham
William Bingham – the founder of God’s House, “the first secondary school training college in England” While researching something completely different, I made the acquaintance of…
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November 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Today we remember William Bingham, the founder of God’s House in Cambridge, who died on 17 November 1451. The college is regarded as “the first secondary school training college in England. dottietales.wordpress.com/2015/12/01/w...
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"Why are we all so pleased about digging up a king? Perhaps because the present is paying some of the debt it owes to the past, and science has come to the aid of history."
Hilary Mantel on the finding of Richard III
Here's Hilary Mantel , writing in the London Review of Books, 21 February 2013: Royal bodies do change after death, and not just as a conseq...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"Why are we all so pleased about digging up a king? Perhaps because the present is paying some of the debt it owes to the past, and science has come to the aid of history."
On 12 November 1949, the Kennedy Bridge in Bonn was officially opened. It replaced a 19th-century bridge, which had been destroyed during WWII. dottietales.wordpress.com/2016/12/16/b...
Bonn’s bridges across the Rhine
Bonn’s bridges across the Rhine – Connecting Bonn to its eastern neighbours Bonn is situated on the western side of the river Rhine. Understandably, a way to cross the river has been importa…
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November 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
On 12 November 1949, the Kennedy Bridge in Bonn was officially opened. It replaced a 19th-century bridge, which had been destroyed during WWII. dottietales.wordpress.com/2016/12/16/b...
11 November is St Martin’s Day. In Bonn, you can find a series of 4 bronze reliefs by artist Ernemann Sander telling the saint’s story. dottietales.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/s...
St Martin in Bonn
St Martin in Bonn – Ernemann Sander tells the story of the saint in reliefs at the Bonn Minster This time of the year brings a lot of memories of my childhood. 11 November is St Martin’s Da…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
11 November is St Martin’s Day. In Bonn, you can find a series of 4 bronze reliefs by artist Ernemann Sander telling the saint’s story. dottietales.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/s...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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New open access (free to download) monograph published in New Historical Perspectives series. #Skystorians
Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society - University of London Press
Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society is an ambitious and innovative study of the social, political and religious histories of medieval England and Wales. Using the Palmers’ Guild of Ludlow as a...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
New open access (free to download) monograph published in New Historical Perspectives series. #Skystorians
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In this week’s Miscellanies: how #medieval scribes balanced the books.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
In this week’s Miscellanies: how #medieval scribes balanced the books.
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Tonight's supermoon. As luck would have it, the whole day, the sky was completely clear, and then in the evening, some clouds came up.
November 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Tonight's supermoon. As luck would have it, the whole day, the sky was completely clear, and then in the evening, some clouds came up.
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I am delighted to announce that my co-authored article on Mamluk maqamas on #BlackDeath has just been published in a lovely special issue of JAIS. journals.uio.no/JAIS/article...
#plague #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory #histmed 1/2
#plague #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory #histmed 1/2
Mamluk Maqāmas on the Black Death
| Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
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November 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I am delighted to announce that my co-authored article on Mamluk maqamas on #BlackDeath has just been published in a lovely special issue of JAIS. journals.uio.no/JAIS/article...
#plague #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory #histmed 1/2
#plague #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory #histmed 1/2
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No hurry.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
November 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
No hurry.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
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📬 In our November blog post, Jamie Wood, former BCDSS Guest Researcher and Prof. of History and Education at Lincoln University (UK), shares insights into the research he conducted during his stay in Bonn: buff.ly/XBlQiLo
#Intermediaries #Christianity #Visigoths
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#Intermediaries #Christianity #Visigoths
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November 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
📬 In our November blog post, Jamie Wood, former BCDSS Guest Researcher and Prof. of History and Education at Lincoln University (UK), shares insights into the research he conducted during his stay in Bonn: buff.ly/XBlQiLo
#Intermediaries #Christianity #Visigoths
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de
#Intermediaries #Christianity #Visigoths
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de
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Five years, four authors, one book. Out now (fully open access), our new book on local priests in the tenth century 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social
Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050
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November 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Five years, four authors, one book. Out now (fully open access), our new book on local priests in the tenth century 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social
Today is not only Halloween, but also Reformation Day. This is the door, where Martin Luther is said to have posted the 95 Theses on 31 October 1517.
October 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Today is not only Halloween, but also Reformation Day. This is the door, where Martin Luther is said to have posted the 95 Theses on 31 October 1517.
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Our latest #blog post provides an update from Dr Philip Muijtjens on his research in the #archives of the Venerable English College in Rome, which will eventually be published by the Trust. Read here: yorkisthistorytrust.org/2025/10/30/t... #Medieval #Skystorians #MedievalSky
The Late Medieval Archives of the Venerable English College, Rome
The Trust On…The Late Medieval Archives of the Venerable English College, Rome Philip Muijtjens, a postdoctoral researcher at the Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium),…
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October 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Our latest #blog post provides an update from Dr Philip Muijtjens on his research in the #archives of the Venerable English College in Rome, which will eventually be published by the Trust. Read here: yorkisthistorytrust.org/2025/10/30/t... #Medieval #Skystorians #MedievalSky
Don't we all feel like this?
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Don't we all feel like this?
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A very special evening celebrating @yorkisthistory.bsky.social!
At the beginning of the month, the Trust celebrated its 40th #anniversary with an event at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, the spiritual home of the Yorkist dynasty! 🥳 🥂 You can read all about this very special evening in a blogpost by Dr Joshua Ravenhill: yorkisthistorytrust.org/2025/10/17/r...
Ruby Anniversary Celebration at St George’s Chapel, Windsor
The Trust On…Ruby Anniversary Celebration at St George’s Chapel, Windsor For the final event of the Trust’s Ruby Anniversary celebrations, we invited friends and supporters of the…
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October 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
A very special evening celebrating @yorkisthistory.bsky.social!
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Käthe Kollwitz, Mother with a Child in her Arms, (Mutter mit Kind auf dem Arm), 1916 #WomensArt
October 14, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Käthe Kollwitz, Mother with a Child in her Arms, (Mutter mit Kind auf dem Arm), 1916 #WomensArt