Almost ten years ago, during my doctoral research, I was rifling through boxes at the Archives nationales in Paris for the first time. Guided by preliminary references I had found in notes kindly provided by Prof. Nicholas Vincent, I was mining a very rich seam through the Ordre de Malte section of the S series. […]
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 […]
As my colleagues at Exeter know, I have spent the past few years looking at the concept of news in the Middle Ages. Iâve been considering what the idea of ânewsâ meant in the medieval world, what sources remain for news, and what studies of news in the Middle Ages might tell us about news […]
May is an exciting month for Exeterâs Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. As a part of Dr Levi Roachâs AHRC funded grant âForging Memory: Falsified Documents and Institutional History in Europe, c.970-1020â, a series of events will be held across the University, and the Cathedral and its Library & Archives exploring Exeterâs genuine and fake medieval documents. In […]
In June and July 2018, Julia Hopkin, an MA student in experimental archaeology at Exeter, spent some time in Exeter Cathedral Library and Archives, funded by the university as part of the College of Humanities’ student internship scheme. Her job was to create a guide for students (at all levels) who might be interested in using the […]
A couple of weeks ago, on Saturday 17th March, a few staff in the Centre had a stall at the Universityâs Community Day to showcase some of the research we do relating to Exeter Cathedral. We had interest from people of all ages, asking questions about our projects, the pictures and maps we were showing, […]
As an undergraduate, I spent quite a lot of time in and around Emmanuel College, Cambridge. One of my best friends was a student there, and in the spirit of putting inter-collegiate rivalries aside, we visited each other fairly frequently. A not-insignificant portion of my undergraduate dissertation was written, as was his, in the throes […]
In my PhD research, I am looking at the local pasts that were communicated through liturgy in the tenth century in a metropolitan city on the Moselle river: Trier. My main corpus of sources consists of prayers, sermons, hymns and hagiographical texts, all of which can be found in medieval manuscripts from this area. In […]
There has been a huge proliferation of online resources for research and teaching in Medieval Studies in recent years, so much so that itâs hard to keep track of them all. So weâve put our heads together and come up with a list of some of our favourites â though this is by no means […]
There has been a huge proliferation of online resources for research and teaching in Medieval Studies in recent years, so much so that itâs hard to keep track of them all. So weâve put our heads together and come up with a list of some of our favourites â though this is by no means […]
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