Dr Christopher Monk

I'd not come across Brocciu cheese. Less lactose than Ricotta, evidently.😋

Just reposting...

Project Curator: Hidden Stories of Childhood Greece and Rome; Egypt and Sudan Full-time: 41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break) Fixed term for 12 months £36,396 per annum Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 17 October 2025

Come work with us!🏺
Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇

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This is coming up soon! Free lecture and reception, on Friday 10th October. There are still places left - please come along and/or pass onto your networks

Hope you enjoy making and, of course, eating it. 😋 Many thanks.

Recipe, Tart of Applis (apple tart), c.1381 (gluten-free) A wonderful apple, pear, fig and raisin pastry, spiced with cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg. Perfect for a winter's day when all you want to do is snuggle up in front of the fire.The original 14th-century

It's been horrible, stormy weather here in Manchester UK, so I need a delicious #medieval treat:

The original apple pie; well, apple, pear & fig tart, 14th-cent style but with #glutenfree pastry.

Free recipe during October. Tip if you wish.

#LoveMedievalFood

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Shining a light on… great raisins Who would have thought that the subject of medieval raisins would be so complex? In this post, I explore the use of ‘great raisins’ in Richard II’s cookery book, and ask if we can…

Raisins in medieval England. Big ones, sultanas & currants.

This is for those who like a bit of nerdy research.

+ my translation of 2 recipes that use 'grete raysouns', from Richard II's cookery book: a big sausage with sauce & sweet n sour fish.

modernmedievalcuisine.com/2025/09/14/s...

Tales From Antiquaria Home page of Tales From Antiquaria. Official website of Tales From Antiquaria, the podcast dedicated to the legacy of work published on antiquarian folklore and local history in the nineteenth century...

Tales From Antiquaria, a podcast dedicated to exploring the legacy of antiquarian folklore writing in the 1800s - is set to start this October. This is a world of witchcraft, superstition, history and lost traditions presented in the exact way they were recorded in the 1800s. Be great to conect!

Melechesh - Emissaries

Assyriologists etc: can you help me identify the artifact used in on the left in this album cover? Thanks!

Shining a light on… great raisins Who would have thought that the subject of medieval raisins would be so complex? In this post, I explore the use of ‘great raisins’ in Richard II’s cookery book, and ask if we can…

Raisins in medieval England. Big ones, sultanas & currants.

This is for those who like a bit of nerdy research.

+ my translation of 2 recipes that use 'grete raysouns', from Richard II's cookery book: a big sausage with sauce & sweet n sour fish.

modernmedievalcuisine.com/2025/09/14/s...

Sea holly, woodcut illustration from a herbal, Giorgio Libérale, 1572.

'The Seaholme roote preserved eyther in sirrup or by cauding is accepted for a great restorative' Richard Carew.

Sea Holly root is considered medicinal in several countries. A caudle was a warm sweetened drink with ale or wine + spices given to sick people.

#wildflowerhour

Beignets and coffee. Wikimedia.

In question pour les francophones :

Comment traduiriez-vous " c'est une sorte de beignet, qu'on met dans le bec " ?

Contexte : une érudite (Marianne Mulon) interprète une recette médiévale, appelée Mistembec.

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*Une question 😫

Wonderful!

My photo shows a set of Late Iron Age glass gaming pieces displayed on a sandy surface in a dislay case at the British Museum. The set is made up of 24 coloured glass domes; six each of white, yellow, blue, and translucent green glass. One of the yellow pieces is out of shot in my photo. Each game piece is decorated with five inset spiral motifs in a contrasting colour. Nearly all pieces are uniform in shape; domed, with a slightly pointed apex, and a flattened base. Dimensions approximately 2.57 cm diameter and 2.2 cm height. The gaming pieces were recovered from a richly-furnished Late Iron Age cremation burial in Welwyn Garden City, when it was disturbed during the construction of two gas-pipe trenches during the building of the Panshangar Estate in 1965.

Gorgeous glass gaming pieces from the Late British Iron Age.

This unique set of 24 coloured glass domes with a flattened base and spiral decoration may have been used for a game similar to ludo some 2,000 years ago.

British Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Anglo-Scandinavian sword

⚔️ A really rather splendid Anglo-Scandinavian sword dating to c. AD 900-1000, found at Battersea, London.

A true Viking-Age status symbol in a hyper-violent era.

LI1089.1 (1884.121.21)

On loan from @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social

My 📷 | Ref. @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social

Page from a notebook of Rainer Maria Rilke, DLA, A:Rilke-Archiv Gernsbach.

Another page from a notebook with writing in different colours and directions, and a drawing.

Using digital tools to bring order to the creative chaos in Rilke's notebooks: Our Visual Manuscript Analysis Lab collaborated with @dlamarbach.bsky.social to investigate 56 notebooks of one of the greatest German-language poets:
uhh.de/csmc-rilke

Calling the #arthistory hive mind ☎️I’m supervising a UG dissertation on late 19th-c French art this year, especially images of public spaces.

It’s a while since I worked on this material; I’d love to hear recommendations of fab recentish studies.

Link me your book/article! Brag for your friends!

Je pense qu'elle dit que c'est une sorte de beignet qu'on met dans la bouche, faisant allusion à l'argot " bec ".

Hélas, elle est décédée, alors je ne peux pas lui poser la question.

Merci beaucoup.

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Beignets and coffee. Wikimedia.

In question pour les francophones :

Comment traduiriez-vous " c'est une sorte de beignet, qu'on met dans le bec " ?

Contexte : une érudite (Marianne Mulon) interprète une recette médiévale, appelée Mistembec.

1/2 ...

Initial E(xpletis)

Bodleian Library, MS Bodleian 717; Commentary on Isaiah, Jerome; 11th century; France (Normandy); fol. vi verso @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Je voulais dire, à Londres et retour.

"Les dégâts seront irréversibles" : pourquoi le débarquement de la tapisserie de Bayeux à Londres fait polémique en France... et pas outre-Manche De l'autre côté du Channel, la communauté scientifique se félicite du retour symbolique d'une œuvre fondatrice dans la culture du Royaume-Uni, même si les réserves techniques demeurent.

Deux salles, deux ambiances. Le prêt de la tapisserie de Bayeux au British Museum suscite une polémique feutrée en France, et un grand enthousiasme outre-Manche. Je vous raconte dans cet article www.franceinfo.fr/culture/patr... #tapisseriedebayeux

J'ai lu votre article et je commence à croire que la Tapisserie de Bayeux devrait rester à Bayeux. Je pense qu'il est raisonnable de ne pas aggraver les dégâts en lui faisant faire deux voyages supplémentaires à Londres, avec toutes les manipulations que cela impliquerait.

"Les dégâts seront irréversibles" : pourquoi le débarquement de la tapisserie de Bayeux à Londres fait polémique en France... et pas outre-Manche De l'autre côté du Channel, la communauté scientifique se félicite du retour symbolique d'une œuvre fondatrice dans la culture du Royaume-Uni, même si les réserves techniques demeurent.

Very interesting to read about the concern in France over the fragility of the Bayeux Tapestry. Is it too fragile to be transported from Bayeux to the British Museum? Was Macron high-handed in promising this cultural exchange with the UK?

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Buttered Wortes from Harleian MS279 c.1430. A mix of greens and herbs; I used kale, spinach, leek, garlic, thyme, rosemary and parsley. Boil in a little water and plenty of butter, then serve on cubes of bread. Really tasty, I'd definitely make this again. 🙌

Le Tôt-Fait No sooner said than done.

“Aussi-tôt dit, aussi-tôt fait.” - No sooner said than done. - Abrégeé du Dictionnaire Universel François & Latin, 1762

An incredibly delicious (addictive) hidden gem of French home cooking… “quickly made” … & a short history of French family style cookbooks.

jamieschler.substack.com/p/le-tot-fait

Tart of Brie in Lent, a fishy alternative? In revisiting an old edited title of a medieval recipe, I end up exploring how a recipe for a fruit and fish pie might actually make good culinary sense.

Does fish and fruit pie make sense to you? Why might it have made very good culinary sense to a 14th-century master cook making a Lenton alternative to Tart de Bry, an egg yolk and cheese tart?

For those who like a little nerdiness served with food history. modernmedievalcuisine.com/2025/08/06/t...

Call for Papers for the International Medieval Congress 2026 6th–9th July 2026, University of Leeds, UK Sponsor: ‘Enabling digital research on manuscript catalogue data,’ a project at the Bodleian Libraries, funded by Digital Scholarship @ Oxford, which seeks to facilitate quantitative analysis of the Bodleian’s western medieval manuscript catalogues. Organisers: Dr Matthew Holford and Dr Sebastian Dows-Miller (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) Computational research into the contents, codicology and history of medieval manuscripts is wellestablished. “Quantitative codicology” has since the 1960s used statistical analysis to explore topics from the dimensions of the manuscript page to overall patterns of book production, but many research questions remain open. This session seeks to bring together scholars from across medieval studies who are engaged in the examination of medieval manuscripts through the lens of ‘Big Data’, to facilitate cross-disciplinary exchange within the still underdeveloped fields of quantitative palaeography and codicology. We welcome proposals from all areas of manuscript studies. Topics may include, but are not limited to: • Networks of texts and people associated with manuscripts. • Quantitative approaches to the palaeographic analysis of scripts and hands. • The application of AI and ML to large corpora of manuscript data. • Issues of data quality and provenance in quantitative manuscript studies. • The use of ‘Big Data’ as a tool for teaching manuscript studies. Potential contributors interested in using the tabular outputs of the sponsoring project can find them at the project’s GitHub repository Please send abstracts of maximum 150 words, along with 5 subject keywords and your contact details, to matthew.holford@bodleian.ox.ac.uk. The deadline for receipt of these details is 23:59 BST on 29th August 2025. If you would like to apply to the IMC separately for financial assistance, see the their advice here.

Call for papers, Leeds IMC 2026 - Big data and medieval manuscripts. Please consider submitting a proposal!

The summer is going by super quickly (nearly August already???)! Make sure that the deadline for “Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined” conference doesn’t sneak up on you. Get them in by 15 September!