Jonathan Tickle

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The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is 30 year old today. with an inception date of 26th January 1996.

It turns out that although not in any sense breaking new scholarship, it remains my most longstanding contribution to the republic of letters.

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HMU: What's the best article or chapter you've read in the last five years that involves women and charters in pre-Conquest England? #medievalsky

I particularly enjoyed two recent pieces from Andrew Rabin, one on legal networks in Gathagan/Insley, Gender, Memory, and Documentary Cultures, and another about Æthelflæd in the edited volume on Æthelflæd by Rebecca Hardie

Schrödinger's Royal Heir: Succession and Medieval Political Crisis It was a November day when the unified Carolingian empire came to a final end. The last emperor to rule the entire realm, Charles the Fat, found himself on the wrong side of a political coup led by hi...

This week I wrote about the paradoxical nature of royal heirs: both dangerous but not guaranteed to actually become king. Why are moments of succession so politically dangerous? #medievalsky

I’ve got a piece coming out at some point on Æthelstan’s accession which could be useful? Very much dealing with the same problem of successions being an expected crisis, and how they are smoothed out after the fact

Before Eadgifu and Ælfthryth, ninth- and early tenth-century West Saxon royal consorts were relatively obscure figures. With the support of @hisjournalha.bsky.social, I recently revisited the charters featuring these otherwise elusive women. For a few initial thoughts see my blog-post:

Issue 42.2 is upon us! As some of you have noted, our book reviews are already available. Alongside the contents page for our special issue on England and the external world, and our frankly fabulous cover. Check out our website, articles available on Project Muse soon.

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How an ancient document secured the power of the ‘first King of England’ An expert from The University of Manchester has revealed how a single sheet of 1,100-year-old parchment may have been used to heal a dangerous royal rift in Ancient England.King Æthelstan, who is gene...

👑📜 Did you know England’s first king secured his throne with… a piece of parchment?

Dr Jonathan Tickle (@ticklejonathan.bsky.social) from @uomsalc.bsky.social tells the story of how a farmland lease became a masterclass in political strategy 1,100 years ago. 👇

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How a document secured the power of the first King of England A carefully documented farmland lease from the time of the first King of England, Æthelstan, tells us much about the power play in those days

A carefully documented farmland lease from the time of the first King of England, Æthelstan, tells us much about the power play in those days
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If early medieval Aquitaine or Carolingian political culture is your jam, please do give this a read (also on Open Access thanks to @livunihss.bsky.social @livunilibrary.bsky.social)!

Fresh on early view: @eddiemeehan99.bsky.social on how Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) balanced kingship "as an office and as a dynastic status".
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And when I recognise the Sawyer number

Haven't gotten enough charters at this year's Leeds? Well you still have time, come to our series of three panels on charters this Thursday, covering a variety of places and times!

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For those interested in Æthelstan, charters, or early medieval succession, look out for my new article in the Journal of Medieval History - available on early view online now - doi.org/10.1080/0304... #medievalsky

By Divine Grace We Were Placed in Front of Others On the anniversary of Arnulf becoming king

Today is the 1,137th anniversary of Arnulf's first charter, so naturally I took the opportunity to write a post about it and how we interpret this moment where the political order seemed to collapse into something new. #medievalsky

Second BSR/Early Medieval Europe Fellowship - bsr.ac.uk In partnership with the journal Early Medieval Europe, the British School at Rome is pleased to announce the second BSR/EME Fellowship.    Aimed at early career researchers (defined as current PhD stu...

Delighted to announce the 2nd British School at Rome/Early Medieval Europe visiting fellowship, offering early career scholars a month in Rome: bsr.ac.uk/second-bsr-e...

Changing queenships in tenth‐century England: rhetoric and (self‐)representation in the case of Eadgifu of Kent at Cooling The charter now known as Sawyer 1211 contains a detailed account of an intergenerational property dispute between Queen Eadgifu and her rival Goda, concerning the possession of two Kentish estates. T...

I’m pleased to be able to share that my article ‘Changing Queenships in Tenth-Century England’ has been jointly awarded both Early Medieval Europe’s First Publication Prize and the Royal Historical Society’s Alexander Prize: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If sub-rulers and succession or crisis and co-rulership are your thing, come along to these two panels organised by myself and Eddie Meehan at Leeds this year

Pretty sure I have them in my office, but I won’t be able to get to them until either late afternoon today or tomorrow…

Also, Suttonian

Thank you Levi, hope you enjoyed reading it