Dr Mary Bateman

Ooh I will have to have a look. The Arthurian corpus is so utterly massive that I still find new things I didn't know about all the time

That's such a relief to hear! I hope you enjoy the book, I think it's out in paperback soon....

Hope you enjoyed the episode!

Thanks so much Janet! I was so worried about how I would sound because I have a new baby and am deep in the sleep deprivation trenches at the moment 🤣 but it was so much fun to have free rein to get really detailed!

King Arthur

I had a great time recording the episode on King Arthur for the Gone Medieval podcast with Matt Lewis, and the episode is out today!

open.spotify.com/episode/3akZ...

he was great!

ahh thats fine! Super excited to meet Matt too!

Looking forward to a recording sesh later for another podcast! This time, it's Gone Medieval with the lovely @goingmedieval.bsky.social and Matt Lewis.
I remember meeting Eleanor YEARS ago when I was a fledgling PhD student at a workshop at Bochum. Eleanor was hilarious and made us feel so welcome

Documentary Research Opportunity | SNODHILL CASTLE Snodhill Castle Preservation Trust now seeks a qualified person to help uncover its history.

Calling all archaeologists/historians/scholars of place!

The Snodhill Castle Preservation Trust are recruiting a documentary researcher for a fascinating short-term research project (Sep/Oct/Nov) uncovering the history of the castle.

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Dr Harriet Soper, The Life Course in Old English Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2024) @hattiesoper.bsky.social

Dr Erin Forbes, Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature 1793-1845 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024) @eeforbes.bsky.social

Dr Mary Bateman, Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and Wales, 1400-1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2023) @mareganlefay.bsky.social

No fewer than three members of Bristol’s English Department have found their monographs shortlisted for the University English Book Prize for Outstanding First Manuscript, across the 2023 and 2024 competitions! universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/

Brilliant opportunity for folks working in neurodiversity studies in the arts and humanities!

Modern or medieval?

I don't think this is right? BBC sounds is free and it's also out free now on all podcast apps (releasing a month after BBC sounds)

It's a good read but long!

How paper caused the renaissance: The English experience☆ A technological revolution that began in Europe during the second half of the thirteenth century caused an intellectual revolution that continues to this day. The manufacture of good quality paper be....

Amid the new baby bliss (newest family member Amos Patrick joined us recently), there are a few interesting new articles out-- including this one on how the technology of paper spurred innovations in intellectual culture, using England as a case study. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Massively looking forward to getting stuck into Hannah Weaver's book this week now I'm on leave! I've been thinking a lot this year about interpolation (being a convenor of an Arthurian Literature unit it's hard not to!).

Latest read. Much like Circe but Arthurian. Just after Arthur’s death, a boy seeks to join the Round Table but discovers Camelot is crumbling. A fun read, great updated backstories of lesser knights, and finally wistful about the transition from legend to history, literalized as the end of magic.

David Lowry's Green Knight.

@fuzzybydesign.bsky.social thanks for the follow, looking forward very much to reading your comic strip!

Oh wow! I hope you enjoy it, always great to hear people are reading it!

It's an amazing spot! If you have time, Looe Pool is also beautiful and was the inspiration behind Tennyson's The Passing of Arthur from his Idylls of the King.

He was amazing!

One of the best things (I think!) about YDTM is that it’s a formalised bridge between academia, comedy, and the public. Not only do we platform fantastically skilled expert academics as guests, we also benefit hugely from a pool of academics in training. The AHRC doctoral training scheme is ace 👍

My episode of #youredeadtome on the Arthurian legends goes live on all major podcast apps today, so you can catch it if you're outside the UK or not on BBC Sounds! Had a lovely time recording with @gregjenner.bsky.social and the lovely Mike Wozniak.

Extremely busy but rewarding week of students presentations (Arthurian Literature) and a poster fair (Chaucer and Chaucerians). Highlight: a poster in which students had produced manicules that were literally photos of their own hands

Absolutely thrilled today to hear that two very bright students I have had the pleasure of teaching at Bristol have secured places on masters courses at Oxford (including a spot on the medieval studies MPhil for a superb medievalist in the making). 🎉