A few shots from our recent LA trip. We got to interview some amazing people.
Huge thanks to all the folks that donated to the GoFundMe.
Our Joe Alves documentary has really levelled up!
It depends on the kind of holiday you're planning. I'd recommend going in June or September, as it gets too very over the summer. Alghero is, in my view, the nicest place, but people may challenge this. From there you can take a boat to Asinara, which is really worth it.
This volume may also be of general interest, as we have the Greek model and Apuleius' adaptation. Not a medieval translation, but a fairly important text in the Middle Ages: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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
Fancy knowing more about the Bayeux Tapestry? At a free public lecture and reception?? Look no further! 👁️ 👁️
Such a wonderful initiative! Please, support it if you can.
It was a pleasure to chat with @ecrpodcasters.bsky.social about visiting fellowships and how/why to apply for them. Hopefully folks will find it useful!
@bristolcms.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @bristolcmspgr.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social
The Downfall
Want to impress someone special this Valentines Day? 'Medieval Love Letters' by Myra Stokes and our own Ad Putter has some helpful medieval love letter templates, including 'How to dissuade women from taking the veil' and 'Persuading someone to marry for money'! #medievalsky #skystorians
Episode 144 is up! This time I chat with Director of Sound at Skywalker Sound - Randy Thom!
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The inflation since 2020 here has been 28.7%. If you also factor in the current USD to GBP exchange, it's easy to see why it's getting unsustainable.
Zürich, Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, LM 26117, f. 123r – Gradual from St. Katharinental (Thurgau) (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/snm/LM026117). Lower half of a leaf from a spectacular gradual from the early fourteenth century, with the text and music framed by alternating red and blue triple-cadelles with interhomeochromatic-cadelle nodules (hey, I'm no art historian, and it shows), and medallions featuring grotesques at the corners. Pen flourishes are present, but discreet. Visible are five lines of verse and four lines of text. Dominating the image in the top left is a 6-sline historiated initial S for the mass of Pentecost. Under the top bow of the S is a halo-wearing pigeon, presumably representing the Holy Spirit, sending rays of illumination below - 6 to each side and one in the middle. In the lower compartment of the S are arrayed figures in worship. To count by the halos, seven are on the left and five (plus one standing to the right whose halo is not in view) to the right; one on each side has a beard, and the bearded person on the right also seems to have a tonsure. The rest have long wavy hair. In the middle is a female figure. Underneath the bottom frame, a monk and two simply-cloaked (one green, one pinkish) female figures are praying. The text is, obviously, the introit for Pentecost: Spiritus domini replevit orbem terrarum alleluya et hoc quod con-. Hey, I needed something expressing the immaterial in the human world, while implying inclusivity, and these Dominican nuns delivered. Quod nobis concedat...
Mise au concours/Ausschreibung/call for applications
Doctoral School
Manuscripts and the Challenge of Immateriality
Fribourg, IEM, 7-9 September 2026
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German: www.unifr.ch/mediaevum/de...
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Our latest quarterly round up: a busy three months in the life of the Hong Kong History Centre here at the University of Bristol @hongkonghistory.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
Leaves from an early gradual, with traces of textual criticism (populis => famulis). Look at the music, too! (Beaune, Bibliothèque Gaspard-Monge, 36 [35])
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FitMA has its own webpage! If you want to know more about Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle, have a look! Exciting events coming up (remote attendance is possible)!
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This is TODAY! Not too late to register. Hope to see you later.
Wonderful fragments!
Nice and early fragments from a MS of Jerome's commentary on Isaiah. The switch between Latin and Greek gives a fitting teaser for the announcements we have in store for you this week @ FitMA! (Colmar, Bibliothèque des Dominicains, 29 [40])
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The big story right now is not gold, but silver.
As a teenager, I was obsessed by the potential of CGI and digital art, and I spent so much time doing silly little projects with 3ds Max. I somehow found some renderings from 2005-2008 and they don't look too terrible. I preferred drawing portraits, but I hope I never find any of those.
Bristol CMS PGR Conference 2026 "Power and Performance" keynote speaker Dr Cathy Hume
We are really excited to announce the second of our fantastic keynote speakers: author, literary historian, Middle English and Biblical poetry expert... our very own Dr Cathy Hume (@cathyhume.bluesky.social)! 🎉🎊🎉
Fragmentological curiosity made me discover these leaves from a manual on housekeeping. How was a medieval steward expected to keep the kitchen clean and the master's horse healthy? #medievalsky
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My article in the latest issue of Fragmentology:
doi.org/10.24446/dpf5
Great review! One thing that is quite noticeable in the Blu-ray version is the lack of ADR or a poor audio mix.
AND HERE IT IS, as reproduced by Kehr in 1953 (plate XII)! I give you...the latest known surviving papal bull on papyrus!
Great to see my new study of the Bayeux Tapestry getting some traction across the Channel! If you’re interested in my argument—namely that the embroidery was designed as mealtime reading in a monastic refectory—you can read the article for free here: academic.oup.com/histres/arti...
