Entertaining the animals 🎶

BL Add MS 19352; Theodore Psalter; 1066 CE; Eastern Mediterranean (Constantinople); f.189v

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TONIGHT join us for the final @ihr.bsky.social LSMS seminar of the year:

Rewriting the Middle Ages: Medieval Tropes and Postmodern Aesthetics in Iberian Fiction with Ana Rita G. Soares

💻 Online
📆 Tues 17 June
⏰ 17.30 - 19
✍️ www.history.ac.uk/events/rewri...

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One more week to apply! This is a friendly, low-commitment group and a great opportunity to meet new early career scholars.
Do consider applying even if you are not in London full-time but not too far (we currently have a Cambridge member, for instance!)

Many thanks to the reviewers, numerous proofreaders, my wonderful team of supervisors @ajt55.bsky.social Julia Crick and David Carpenter, and to my test audiences at @ihr.bsky.social and @kingshistory.bsky.social

Delighted that some of my recent PhD research has just been published in Historical Research! It explores connections between the chronicle written at Burton Abbey in the mid-C13 and the royal chancery
More here: academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

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The London Society for Medieval Studies is recruiting for its 2025/26 committee!

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The law determines what is legal. It does not determine what is true; what is just; what is morally and ethically sound and defensible. The history of law is the history of the legal system being wrong on these grounds.

Trans women are women.

The lovely image is from BL, Cotton MS Vespasian E iii, f. 39r (Burton chronicle). The letter, from the patriarch of Jerusalem to the queen of France (1251), is one of the numerous inserted documents (about 130!)

Abbot: you are writing down what I am telling you, right?
Scribe: yes of course
Also scribe:

Hello everyone! I'm a 2nd-year PhD student working on 13th-century documentary culture. I have an interest in documents throughout the medieval period, and in how modern categories of understanding these documents (cartularies, chronicles, acta) can sometimes fail to fully describe them.