The Guild of Medievalist Makers

You're very welcome Michael, it is such a fantastic resource!

Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (circa 1370). Illu...

Those who teach and research Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be interested in this fantastic research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem. They're also looking for contributors, so do get in contact with @michaeledenart.bsky.social! 👇

Meet a Medievalist Maker: Sara Charles — The Guild of Medievalist Makers

Its the start of autumn and what better way to usher in the season than with a new Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost! We are delighted to introduce @saracharles.bsky.social, author of The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages. Read all about Sara's 'historical remaking' below👇

Völuspá - a Performance with Clare Mulley — Butser Ancient Farm 2:00pm - 2:45pm Völuspá is one of the oldest and most widely discussed literary texts in the Old Norse canon. Dr. Clare Mulley will now present her own creative rendition of this poem and its female ...

Our followers might be interested in the upcoming 'Butser Bookfest' at @butserancientfarm.co.uk which includes a creative rendition of the Old Norse Völuspá by Dr Clare Mulley, among other fantastic events and talks from medievalists and creative-critical practitioners!

Call for papers for Leeds International Medieval Congress, 'Reading Repetition: Non-Linear Temporalities and Layered Meaning in the Middle Ages and Beyond'

Hello everyone! Sharing a cfp for the International Medieval Congress at Leeds next summer, organised by Gummies Marie Besson and Brooklyn Arnot. Check it out!

I am particularly excited for the next @guildmedmak.bsky.social Making Space Session. The optional theme is 'hauntings' (physical, spiritual, emotional, generic, critical, fear-inspiring, comforting).

Come bearing your favourite spectres.

Looking forward to hosting our October Making Space session! 👻

Here at the Guild we are starting to feel the pull of October's chilly tidings...🕯️🍂

Join us 5:30pm-7:00pm (BST) on October 23rd for our next Making Space Session! The optional theme of this session will be 'hauntings' 👻

Read more on our website here: www.guildmedmak.com/events-1-1

An honour to talk to my creative friends about storytelling and 'behind the scenes' in Yde and Olive. You can read all about it here, see the next performance in Manchester on the 17th September, or catch one of the last venues on my tour: daisyblack.uk/events/

Welcome to the Guild, Reimena!

Meet a Medievalist Maker: Daisy Black — The Guild of Medievalist Makers

'I researched medieval birthing chambers, read combat manuals, tried on replica armour, and befriended a horse and a hawk.'

Meet performance storyteller @daisyeblack.bsky.social in our new Meet A Medievalist Maker blogpost! 👇

Feeling very validated having been accepted into the Guild of Medievalist Makers. @guildmedmak.bsky.social Excited to meet my fellow academic-practitioners and share our niches 👀

Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize Juried mini-grants for emerging comic artists interested in engaging with medieval culture.

SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! Announcing the Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize: two juried mini-grants of $250.00 each to support emerging artists l for the creation of a new minicomic that engages with medieval culture. More details available here:
www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

Thank you to Ian for this remarkable review of my new book - I'm deeply touched and honoured. I think Ian's response really reflects the magic of #poetry and its power to connect across lives and across #history. Thank you.
#AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems

Great to see Meg and her work at the @guildmedmak.bsky.social Making Space session last night!

You can see more of Tim's work on his website: www.siglum-calligraphy.com/portfolio

Guild member @siglum.bsky.social often attends our Making Space Sessions to work on his calligraphy and illustration projects. He also produces fantastic videos on his practice and process which are well worth a watch!

We had another excellent Making Space Session yesterday evening, and our biggest ever - we were joined by 15 creative-critical medievalists! Among our Guild we had album artists, website designers, novelists, poets, zine makers, flax spinners, knitters, embroiderers, cartoonists and illustrators 🎨

One of our fantastic Guild members, Krista Sue-Lo Twu, often joins our sessions to spin flax! Her team at @bookofthenorth.bsky.social recently harvested their flax (very fitting for this evening's Making Space Session, whose optional theme was 'harvest'!)

A digital drawing of an Indiana University landmark, the Sample Gates, in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry

Working on something as part of the Bayeux Tapestry from Scratch Project (booklab.indiana.edu/lab-work/cur...). I’m calling it the B’IU Tapestry 🙃

I’m taking notes—what do you think so far? #medievalsky #bayeuxtapestry #tapisseriedebayeux @guildmedmak.bsky.social

We will send creative-critical wishes your way nonetheless, Elizabeth!

A reminder that our next Making Space Session (a friendly online co-working event) is taking place this Thursday 4th September, 5:30pm-7:00pm BST, hosted by @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social!

You're welcome to work on your own creative-critical project, or respond to our optional theme: harvest 🍂🪓🍏🍄

Still (re)composing my first-person translation of The Phoenix in what little time remains of the summer. Thinking with and about fire as a model for creative-critical practice. What can destructive recreation do? How can we remake old poems by burning and breaking them down?

Want to join our next Making Space Session? Make sure you have joined the Guild to receive the link! You can join the Guild by filling in your details here:
www.guildmedmak.com/join-the-guild

A graphic with a medieval manuscript illustration of a man harvesting grapes. The graphic outlines the optional theme of the session, 'harvest', with definitions of the term: Noun: The third of the four seasons of the year, the autumn; the season for reaping and gathering; (figurative) the product or ‘fruit’ of any action or effort: a supply produced or appearing, a ‘crop’. Verb: To reap and gather in; o gather and lay up in store; to ‘reap’, to husband.

Our next Making Space Session will take place 5:30pm-7:00pm (BST) on Thursday 4th September! While our Medievalist Makers are always welcome to work on their own projects, we'll also be offering an 'optional theme' to encourage ideas and experimentation.

4th Sept optional theme: harvest 🍂🐗🌰🌕🪓

What to do when you’re stuck? Making Space Session 4  — The Guild of Medievalist Makers What do you do when you’re stuck, creatively? When you’re trying to make but the flow isn’t there or you’re feeling too much pressure? When it feels like wading through treacle, you’ve lost the joy, y...

Our last Making Space Session raised a perennial question: what do you do when you get stuck with your creative-critical project?

Our Guild members came up with lots of excellent suggestions which you can find compiled in the blog post below👇

Geoffrey Chaucer | Reaktion Books This is a new account of the life and accomplishments of medieval England’s most famous poet, Geoffrey Chaucer. For over six centuries, Chaucer has epitomized poetic greatness, though in more recent y...

Mary has kindly shared a 20% discount code for her @reaktionbooks.bsky.social biography of Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard, when purchasing direct from the Reaktion Books website! You can find the discount code at the bottom of the blogpost.

Meet a Medievalist Maker: Mary Flannery — The Guild of Medievalist Makers “ Meet a Medievalist Maker ” is an ongoing series of blog posts introducing our members and the work they are doing. Each post is organized around our Four P’s: a project they are working on...

We have a new Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost!🖋️

Meet Mary Flannery (@15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social), the 'accidental medievalist' who writes about the medieval for both scholarly and public audiences:

Welcome to Set Yet Speaking (plus a translation of Beowulf lines 1687-98a) Hello everyone. Welcome back to Set Yet Speaking. It’s been a while. The last time I properly updated this website, I was still lecturing. Things have changed a bit since then. I realised an …

I'm relaunching my website, Set Yet Speaking, which will host my translations of medieval literature.

In this first post, I discuss why I'm giving this another go, why translation matters, and how a short extract from Beowulf inspired the name of the site.

nikolasgunn.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/w...

It was a pleasure to have you with us, and very glad to hear it burst the dam!