Dr Cassandra Harrington

Recapturing England's Monastic Heritage: Canterbury Cathedral Infirmary Explore the history and architecture of Canterbury Cathedral's infirmary, and immerse yourself in England's rich monastic heritage!

Upcoming colloquium!

📍 Clagett Auditorium, Canterbury Cathedral Lodge
🗓 Tue 30 Sept 2025 · 3 PM
💫 FREE & open to all

Talks • Q&A • Tea/Coffee • Guided Tour of the Medieval Infirmary

RSVP to help plan refreshments 🫖👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recapturin...

A rectangular clay relief with detailed carving shows a dramatic accident at a chariot race: a two-horse chariot crashes as the horses rear and fall, while the driver struggles with the reins. Ornamental columns and a decorated border frame the scene. On the right, two male figures stand near a building; one appears distressed, witnessing the incident. The top edge features a floral motif.

Like a scene from "Ben Hur": For #ReliefWednesday a terracotta relief depicting an accident at a chariot-race at the Circus Maximus.
The famous circus in #Rome can be recognised due to the seven movable dolphins on the central dividing barrier, the... 🧵1/2

🏺 #archaeology

Find out more via @camems.bsky.social and @visitdover.bsky.social:

📚 CAMEMS (Canterbury Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies): www.camems.org.uk/community/ca...

🏛️ White Cliffs Country – Visit Dover: www.whitecliffscountry.org.uk/whats-on/san...

Excited to share some research from my forthcoming book.

🌿Who was the 'Green Man'?
Not a pagan relic, but a window into medieval humanism.

Join me for a lecture next month to find out more!
📍Guildhall, Sandwich
🗓 22 Oct, 7–8PM
🎟 Tickets £5 👇
www.sandwichlocalhistorysociety.org.uk/community/sa...

15th-Century Print Reunited With Gutenberg Bible It Once Accompanied The Huntington has acquired a print of Jesus in the Mount of Olives that had been pasted inside its Gutenberg Bible for 400 years.

📚 Reunited! A 15th-century print is back with the Gutenberg Bible it once accompanied.

🔗 news.artnet.com/art-world/hu...

UNIVERSITY OF KENT CLASSICS DAY 2025

🏛️ Weds 26th March, 1.00pm-6.30pm GMT 🏛️

Lectures will be held in Woolf Lecture Theatre (Canterbury Campus) and via Zoom.

All welcome. Do join us if you can!

"Fuit itaque in diebus aethelredi inlustris anglorum regis"

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 389; Jerome's Life of St Paul, and Felix of Crowland's the Life of St Guthlac; 10th century CE; St Augustine's, Canterbury; f.22v @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social

A Roman milestone in Lancaster City Museum inscribed with Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) Tr(aiano) Hadriano Aug(usto) p(ontifici) m(aximo) t(ribuniciae) p(otestatis) co(n)s(uli) III p(atri) p(atriae) L(...) m(ilia) p(assuum) IIII Which may be translated as For the Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, pontifex maximus, with tribunician power, thrice consul, father of his country, from L(…) 4 miles

A stone (standing) for #StandingStoneSunday

Recording a distance of 4 miles (M[ilia] P[assuum] IIII) to 'L' (presumably Roman #Lancaster) this #Roman milestone was dedicated to the emperor #Hadrian

Found in the Artle Beck in 1803 it can be seen in the excellent (and free) Lancaster City Museum

Would you like to present some work-in-progress research at an online MEMRN meeting this year? We have slots available in April, June and July!

Come and share your ideas with our friendly and supportive group - open to all PGRs in Medieval and Early Modern studies. DM or email us to get started!

Scalia has done a beautiful job on my Canterbury Cathedral book- published in hardback in May. scalapublishers.com/architecture...

Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Latin and in the History of the British Isles, c.1100-1500 – AO1974DD at University of St Andrews An opportunity for an academic position as a Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Latin and in the History of the British Isles, c.1100-1500 – AO1974DD is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. ...

Hey #MedievalSky! If you or someone you know wants a lectureship @uniofstandrews.bsky.social in Latin & the history of the British Isles, now's your chance
We're hiring for a permanent post: 50% Latin for postgraduates; 50% history of later medieval Britain & Ireland
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD844/a...

Archaeologists Uncover Rare Late Medieval Pottery Kiln in England - Medievalists.net A well-preserved pottery kiln dating to the late medieval period has been unearthed at a school in Sutton, England, offering new insights into…

Archaeologists Uncover Rare Late Medieval Pottery Kiln in England https://www.medievalists.net/2025/02/archaeologists-uncover-rare-late-medieval-pottery-kiln-in-england/ #archaeology #England #potterykiln

And to you, Carol! 🎄✨️

Wishing a very Merry Christmas to all #medievalsky! ✨️

YouTube video by Amélie Guiboux Wham! - Last Christmas (Harp Cover)

It is the final window of your Margaret Paston Advent Calendar! In her letter of Christmas Eve 1459, Margaret also mentions listening to music, specifically the lute and the harp. I wonder if she would have enjoyed this? Sound on please. youtu.be/JuJIdL8yvKY?...

The nave of Canterbury Cathedral, looking merry and bright... ✨️

Icelandic manuscript featuring an illuminated initial S and a ship on a turbulent sea.

📢Job alert! Postdoc (History) on Norse links with North America at the Arctic Centre of @unigroningen.bsky.social - part of the CONTACT ERC project (1.0 FTE, 12 months with expected 1.5 year extension, deadline 31 December)

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Herbarium image pink flowers

Lindley herbarium specimen

Darwin herbarium specimen

Censor herbarium specimen

We are advertising two fabulous jobs at the Cambridge University Herbarium.

Collection Manager: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49404/

Collections & Digitisation Assistant: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49378/

Incredible collection of 1.1 million specimens including most of Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle material.

Rachel Ruysch: Nature Into Art | Apollo Magazine The Dutch artist populated her floral still lifes with beetles, butterflies, classical sculptures and other unexpected details

Rachel Ruysch: Nature Into Art at Die Pinakotheken
A "Pick of the Week" in Apollo – The International Art Magazine's Art Diary
www.apollo-magazine.com/rachel-ruysc...

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

Sharing this glorious leafy face for #MosaicMonday!

Part of a Byzantine mosaic frieze from a peristyle court at the Great Palace of Constantinople.

📸 Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul

News - Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies - Research at Kent

Exciting PhD Opportunity! Come join @memsunikent.bsky.social for a CHASE-funded collaborative doctoral award with Westminster Abbey to investigate the manuscript fragments held in the Abbey’s Archives. Learn more at the link below, deadline to apply 17 Feb 2025 📜🎉
research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...

Gorgeous blanket of snow at Christ Church Oxford this morning! ❄️