Five months on from our previous post, work has been proceeding apace at the ‘Learning French in Medieval England’ project â or, as literally no-one is calling it, ‘Tretiz Towers’. Our primary focus at the moment remains the work that we’re doing on the project’s central strand: namely, producing a digital edition of the Tretiz‘s 17 extant manuscripts. […]
It’s the start of a new academic year at Exeter and many things are different. We can’t teach, research, or meet together as a community in quite the same way as before. But we’ve adapted and found workarounds – and it’s no different for the Centre’s Medieval Research Seminar! We have a full programme of […]
Just over two months ago, we announced the start of a new project based at the Centre for Medieval Studies here in Exeter: Learning French in Medieval England. Our aim is to produce a digital edition of Walter de Bibbesworthâs Tretiz, a rhymed French vocabulary of the mid-thirteenth century that has attracted significant critical interest […]
Iâm at the beginning of a new project on âPopular Healing: Christian and Islamic Practices and the Roman Inquisition in Early Modern Maltaâ (not medieval, but you canât have everything), funded by a British Academy Small Grant. Itâs a joint project, conducted by me and Dionisius Agius, in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies […]
This term I am based at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, working with the Travelerâs Lab research group. The Travelerâs Lab is a small network of scholars interested in medieval mobility and communication, and in using new digital analytical methods to explore medieval data. It is also distinctive â in the Humanities, at least! â […]
This term I am based at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, working with the Travelerâs Lab research group. The Travelerâs Lab is a small network of scholars interested in medieval mobility and communication, and in using new digital analytical methods to explore medieval data. It is also distinctive â in the Humanities, at least! â […]
The Medieval Research Seminar has been particularly active of late. Hot on the heels of Anne Lawrence-Mathers’ fascinating discussion of medieval magic and Sarah Hamilton’s insight into reading and understanding rites, we were very fortunate to play host, on 10 March, to Miriam CabrĂ©. Miriam works at the Universitat de Girona, Catalonia, and has published widely on courtly […]
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