Prof Ben Pohl
@benpohl.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval History, University of Bristol 📚 w/ Oxford Univ Press, Cambridge Univ Press, Boydell & Brewer, Schnell & Steiner, ARC Humanities Press; now writing ‘The Medieval Library: Using and Abusing Books in the Middle Ages’ for Reaktion Books
But then again: don’t underestimate the wetness of a wet flannel.
January 20, 2026 at 6:48 PM
But then again: don’t underestimate the wetness of a wet flannel.
Meanwhile I’ll be watching, in true Germanic fashion, the classic 1981 film Das Boot starring Jürgen Blochnow
January 15, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Meanwhile I’ll be watching, in true Germanic fashion, the classic 1981 film Das Boot starring Jürgen Blochnow
CBeebies NumberBlochs
January 15, 2026 at 8:02 PM
CBeebies NumberBlochs
Please don’t Bloch me!
January 15, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Please don’t Bloch me!
New Kids on the Bloch
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
New Kids on the Bloch
That’d be great. I don’t use the messaging function on here but am on my institutional email, if that’s okay?
January 14, 2026 at 12:50 PM
That’d be great. I don’t use the messaging function on here but am on my institutional email, if that’s okay?
I’m so sorry to hear this, Clare. Do you have a list of the palaeography/history titles?
January 14, 2026 at 12:35 PM
I’m so sorry to hear this, Clare. Do you have a list of the palaeography/history titles?
The most important decisions are rarely the easy ones.
January 12, 2026 at 5:34 PM
The most important decisions are rarely the easy ones.
Cue the line of apologists expressing every intention to leave were it not for the fact that they’ve ‘spent soooo long building these irreplaceable networks’ and are ‘only on it to read but not to tweet’… There simply is—and has been for some time—no good excuse to be on that awful platform anymore.
January 12, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Cue the line of apologists expressing every intention to leave were it not for the fact that they’ve ‘spent soooo long building these irreplaceable networks’ and are ‘only on it to read but not to tweet’… There simply is—and has been for some time—no good excuse to be on that awful platform anymore.
Ha! I studied under Enzensberger and actively used this website throughout my degree at Bamberg. What an unexpected—but much appreciated—trip down memory lane! 😊
January 10, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Ha! I studied under Enzensberger and actively used this website throughout my degree at Bamberg. What an unexpected—but much appreciated—trip down memory lane! 😊
Excellent niche joke! 🤘
January 9, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Excellent niche joke! 🤘
Thanks! I hope you’ll enjoy it! The roots of this idea developed during a seminar session with my undergraduates, so hopefully it should be accessible for your students, too 🙂
January 6, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Thanks! I hope you’ll enjoy it! The roots of this idea developed during a seminar session with my undergraduates, so hopefully it should be accessible for your students, too 🙂
With apologies in advance for the self-promotion, this is hot off the press: doi.org/10.1093/hisr...
Chewing over the Norman Conquest: the Bayeux Tapestry as monastic mealtime reading*
Abstract. This article offers a new contextualization of the Bayeux Tapestry by exploring its use as mealtime reading in a monastic refectory. This concept
doi.org
January 6, 2026 at 6:21 AM
With apologies in advance for the self-promotion, this is hot off the press: doi.org/10.1093/hisr...
