Wednesday 29th March saw medievalists from across the University and the city gather for the climax of the Medieval Studies calendar in Exeter. This annual day of events, generously sponsored by Prof. Nicholas Orme, has long included both a postgraduate seminar in the afternoon and, in the evening, the public Orme Lecture. This year, however, […]
The Medieval Research Seminar has been particularly active of late. Hot on the heels of Anne Lawrence-Mathers’ fascinating discussion of medieval magicĀ and Sarah Hamilton’s insight into reading andĀ understanding rites, we were very fortunate to play host, on 10 March, toĀ Miriam CabrĆ©. Miriam works at the Universitat de Girona, Catalonia, and has published widely on courtly […]
As any veteran of the funding process knows, the next best thing to the elusive gold dust of ‘reveIance’ is the calendar-bound quality of ‘timeliness’. And nothing demonstrates timeliness or engages the public more effectively than a significant anniversary. Anniversaries are potent application fodder for a variety of topics, but have been particularly important for […]
By Guest-Blogger David Bates When, at the start of the presentation of my new William the Conqueror, in the Yale University Press English Monarchs series, to the University of Exeter on Wednesday 16 November, Levi Roach asked how long I had been writing the book, I was tempted to answer that it has taken both […]
Having recently passed the viva for my thesis āPainful Transformations: A Medical Approach to Experience, Life Cycle and Text in British Library, Additional MS 61823, The Book of Margery Kempeā, it seems like a timely moment to reflect on the past few months and years of my postgraduate study at Exeter. I am grateful to […]
Of the many celebratedĀ names connected with medieval Exeter,Ā Bracton is one of only a handful to claim global recognition. Bracton is known to students and practitioners of law throughout the Anglophone world as a founding father of English Common Law and the assumed author ofĀ an invaluableĀ compendiumĀ ‘On the Laws and Customs of England’. While he is widely […]