A heartfelt thank-you to Yolanda Plumley from her friends and colleagues in the Centre for Medieval Studies.
We are very happy to announce the publication of an edition and translation of The History of Alfred of Beverley by one of our former PhD students, Dr John Slevin, in collaboration with Lynda Lockyer. Alfred of Beverley was the subject of both Johnās Masterās dissertation at Birkbeck and his doctoral thesis at Exeter, which […]
In medieval England Queen Consorts were not the only women whose status and style of life were changed forever at the coronation of a king. Crowning conferred on the monarch many prerogative rights; Richard II (1377-1399) – after defeating the challenge of the Lords Appellant in 1387 ā saw them codified in law. The focus […]
Have you ever come across mysterious references to medieval heretics and their violent repression and wished to know more?Ā Have you ever wondered about those signs welcoming you to the pays cathare as you travel through the south of France? If so, you may be interested in my recent conversation with Dr Sophie Ambler of […]
David Bates, who received his PhD from the University of Exeter in 1970, has been awarded the prestigious Prix Syndicat national des Antiquaires du Livre dāArt 2020Ā for the book La Tapisserie de Bayeux published in 2019 and co-authored with the art historian Xavier Barral i Altet. The book gained the prize against competition from twenty-three […]
VestezĀ vosĀ dras,Ā biauĀ douzĀ enfaunz, ChaucezĀ vosĀ brais,Ā soulers, etĀ gaunz. […] DeĀ uneĀ corroieĀ vousĀ ceintezĀ ā Ne di pas ‘vousĀ enceintez‘, Car femmeĀ estĀ par home enceinte Et deĀ uneĀ ceintureĀ estĀ eleĀ ceinte. Put on your clothes, my sweet child: don your breeches, shoes, and gloves. Lock up your belt-buckle — but do not say ‘knock up’, for a woman is knocked up by a man, but is locked up within a belt. […]
As my colleagues at Exeter know, I have spent the past few years looking at the concept of news in the Middle Ages. Iāve been considering what the idea of ānewsā meant in the medieval world, what sources remain for news, and what studies of news in the Middle Ages might tell us about news […]
University of Exeter, 30 April-1 May 2019 The traditionalāand still popularāimage of the āfeudalā political order of the Middle Ages is one of anarchic knights and overmighty barons pursuing selfish ends to the detriment of peace and justice. Our teleological narrative thus explains the emergence of the modern state by the rise of centralised monarchies […]
This week marks the 750th anniversary of the last translation of the relics of Edward the Confessor at Westminster Abbey, in 1269, to the new shrine created at the direction of Henry III. The new shrine was the centrepiece of the scheme for the elaboration and beautification of the abbey church in which King Henry […]
Alun Williams reports on the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean conference, held in the Institut dāEstudis Catalans (IEC), Barcelona. The 2019 Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean took place in the historic centre of Barcelona between 8 and 11 July in the beautiful and (mostly) neo-classical surroundings of the Casa de ConvalescĆØncia, a […]