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Karen Louise Jolly

Revealing Words

Revealing Words is about Northumbria in the Tenth Century

Revealing Words follows the research trails of Karen Louise Jolly exploring the community of St. Cuthbert at Chester-le-Street, Northumbria, in the second half of the tenth century. Her starting point is the manuscript Durham Cathedral Library A.IV.19 and the additions made by Aldred and a group of scribes at Chester-le-Street circa 970

Karen Louise Jolly  is associate professor in the department of history at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

viqueen aka Judith Jesch

Norse and Viking Ramblings

Norse and Viking Ramblings is a gentle wander through the Viking world undertaken by Viqueen aka Judith Jesch, who is professor at  in Nottingham.

During the day (and sometimes the night) she teaches and does research into Old Norse language and literature and the Viking Age. The purpose of her blog is to record experiences and observations from her encounters with Vikings in the media, in popular culture, and on her travels in the Viking world. She records these for herself. “But it might be that you, too, dear reader, are interested. If so, please feel free to comment”, she writes.

 

The Grumpy Professor

Historian on the Edge

 is written by Professor Grumpy, the Historian on the Edge. He served 11 years at the University of London but now works in the north of England at Poppleton University. Sometimes he goes under the pseudonym of Guy Halsall, and teaches at the University of York. He doesn’t make much of a secret of his identity but doesn’t use it as such on his blog to reduce Google hits and because his kindly employers wouldn’t necessarily agree with everything he writes.

He is best known for writing various works about the history and archaeology of the late antique and early medieval periods in western Europe, covering such themes as barbarian migrations, death, burial, the life-cycle, gender, warfare, violence and humour. He is also well-known as a controversialist, for a somewhat (by academic standards) off-beat sense of humour. The Historian on the Edge sees himself simultaneously as the clown prince and enfant terrible of medieval history … though he admits that he is really too old to occupy either position.

Michelle Ziegler

Heavenfield

Heavenfield is a blog written by Michelle Ziegler.

Michelle Ziegler likes to be called Michelle of Heavenfield. It has a nice medieval ring, she claims. She writes about herself that she: “I am just a Gen-Xer trying to find my way through a very busy life, juggling jobs, church, and graduate school again, in pursuit of a diversion here, on a perpetual pilgrimage to Heavenfield.”

She also maintains other blogs: Contagions on historic infectious diseases, and Selah on Bede’s abbreviated psalter.

Kathleen Neal

In Thirteenth Century England

In Thirteenth Century England is a blog about thinking, writing, and teaching high medieval history. It is written by Kathleen Neal, who study and teach at the Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies in the School of Philosophical, Historial and International Studies, Monash University (Australia).

Views expressed in her blog are her own and not representative of the CMRS, SOPHIS or Monash.

Medieval History Geek

Curt Emanuel has no formal history training.
 o Latin.
 Not a SCAdian. 

But he is interested in Medieval History, particularly from the 4th through 9th centuries and he reads about it – a lot.

 He thinks that makes him a geek.

“So why this blog? The short and probably essential reason is because I want to. Also because I’m pretentious enough to think I might have something of value to offer. Ultimately though I hope I can help other amateurs who may be a bit earlier in their exploration of the Middle Ages with some advice on what to read, aspects of historical study which may not be obvious, and pitfalls to avoid. I’m frequently involved in online discussions about the Medieval Period and there are a lot of misconceptions out there. I’m an educator in “not history” and I love it – being able to perform some sort of educational role for a hobby that fascinates me is very enjoyable – I just wish I had more time for it.”

The Medieval History Geek

Magistra et Mater

Magistra et Mater is a blog where history, religion and motherhood meet and have a long intellectual conversation…

The blog is written by  Rachel Stone, who completed a PhD on Carolingian masculinity and morality in 2005 and currently divides her time between a postdoctoral position at King’s College London working on early medieval charters and domestic responsibilities.

 

 

The future tomb of Richard III

The Row Continues…

Modern design won the day and the Richard III Society have withdrawn their promised funding

Shadowed by legal wrangling, the Cathedral of Leicester is moving forward with their plans for the future re-interment of Richard III. Last week the design for the future tomb was unveiled – a modern tomb made of white fossil limestone from Swaledale in Northern Yorkshire.  (Perhaps a slight nod towards the growing enmity between York and Leicester over his bodily remains). It will be placed on an inlaid floor with a rose carved in limestone and surrounded by a band of dark Kilkenny limestone.

The tomb itself is nearly undecorated except from a cross deeply slashed through the cover-stone. The name of the King, the dates of his birth and death (1452-1485) his personal motto, ‘Loyaulte me Lie (Loyalty binds Me)’ and his ‘boar’ badge will be carved into the dark circular band on the floor around the tomb. The area will be defined by wooden screens. The site of the tomb is in what is now the Chancel of the Cathedral, a traditional place of honour. This is equivalent to the position of the King’s original grave in the Grey Friars Priory.

Already – in what is busily turning into a lurid farce – the Richard III Society claims they will no longer contribute to the funding since (as quoted by BBC) Philippa Langley, the instigator of the excavations of the King in the Carpark, said “it was unfit for a medieval warrior king”. It is believed the Society was deeply hurt that their suggestion – a neo-gothic design – had been turned down in the final process; her comment, however, is in opposition to the first comment voiced by Dr. Phil Stone, who is Chair of the Society. According to the press release from the Cathedral of Leicester, he considers the design “utterly inspired”.

So far the Cathedral, which of course has the final say together with the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England, has not issued a formal statement concerning the withdrawal of the support of the Richard III society. However to BBC, the Canon Peter Hobson has said that the Cathedral would wish for the support of the Society, but that money was not the issue.  There is no formal statement to be found at the website of the Richard III Society (24.09.2013)

The tomb and interior designs were created by the firm of van Heyningen and Haward, Architects. The designs were presented to interested groups earlier in the week, including local MPs and Peers, the Richard III Society and the wider Cathedral community. The cost of the re-interment and the reordering of the Cathedral in connection with it will be around £1.3m. The tomb and vault will cost in the region of £96,000. The Society had promised £40.000.

See a video presentation of the future tomb of Richard III 

Read about the design of the Richard III Society, which was commissioned even before his remains had been excavated

Read about the design of the future tomb of Queen Margaret II of Denmark 

Middle-Class Ideology in the Urban Literature of the Late Medieval Low Countries

‘Let Each Man Carry on with His Trade and Remain Silent’: Middle-Class Ideology in the Urban Literature of the Late Medieval Low Countries

ABSTRACT:
The vernacular literary output of the ‘chambers of rhetoric’ in the Low Countries provides us with some insight into the ideology of the urban medieval middling classes. This literature included criticisms of social order, and it is argued here that whilst these come from an inherited religious discourse of reform, they can nonetheless be read as speaking to a political ideology particular to the urban context of the late Middle Ages. This article seeks to bring these ideological expressions into view, to contribute to our understanding of the political practices and popular uprisings of this time and place.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Jan Dumolyn, Department of History, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium;, Email:
Jelle Haemers, Department of History, University of Leuven, Blijde Inkomststraat 21, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium;, Email: jelle.haemers@arts.kuleuven.be

SOURCE:
‘Let Each Man Carry on with His Trade and Remain Silent’: Middle-Class Ideology in the Urban Literature of the Late Medieval Low Countries
By Jan Dumolyn and Jelle Haemers
In: Cultural and Social History, Volume 10, Number 2, June 2013 , pp. 169-189 (21). Publication date: 2013-06-01
Publisher: Bloomsbury Journals (formerly Berg Journals)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org.ep.fjernadgang.kb.dk/10.2752/147800413X13591373275169