Ryan Kemp

Reminder: the deadline for proposals for the panels @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social and I are running on high medieval political culture is next Tuesday! Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions

This is basically the range of the emotions that you experience if you catch a train from Cologne to Berlin. You will live all of this in the space of four hours.

Delighted to announce that Krisztina Ilko and I are organising a set of panels for next year's IMC as a continuation of the some of the themes of the Bonn workshop back in January, this time focusing on chronological shifts in high medieval political culture. Details below and do feel free to share!

This looks fantastic - immediate Heimweh attack

Shall be celebrating the news at Leeds next week (hopefully this time without breaking a foot...)

Been meaning to post this for a while but, as some of you already know, I heard in May that I was successful in applying for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. After what had been a very difficult year, I am enormously grateful to the Stiftung for their support

I’m not saying this is a cover up for Otto I coming back from the dead. I’m just saying that if the Holy Lance in Vienna goes missing we’ll know why.

In the run up to Leeds, I am indeed feeling quite chicken-like today

(from Carlo Ginzburg's 'Our Words, and Theirs A Reflection on the Historian’s Craft, Today')

From Björn Weiler's cousin Jens. Do feel free to share the photos with those who will wish to see them.

The phrase we used was a favourite one of Matthew Paris as Björn had examined in some detail. We hope he would have found it fitting.

Stolen!

Does anyone happen to have a pdf. of Nigel L. Ramsay and Margaret Sparks' 'The cult of St. Dunstan at Christ Church, Canterbury' in St. Dunstan. His Life, Times and Cult pp. 311-323? Would be very grateful for a copy!

Very excited to be involved with this alongside my Exeter colleagues!

YouTube video by olgeorti every episode of doctor who described by the thick of it

Absolute genius www.youtube.com/watch?v=28vZ...

Your 'pro-growth' government deliberately designing policy to put off international students from studying in the UK.

As usual these days when Labour announces a new white paper, I am reminded of that Malcolm Tucker line.

'Think the unthinkable?! You can't even cope with thinking the thinkable!'

There is something bordering on abusive in the way ministers today are talking about public services – Jacqui Smith on universities, and Yvette Cooper on care homes.

They are blaming institutions for decisions forced on them by government, without admitting they or changing anything.

There are plenty of proposals out there for a system which could secure broad consent, based on the country's needs and vulnerabilities on the one hand and the dignity of immigrants on the other. A government with a big majority, four years out from an election, could pursue that kind of plan.

Would any colleagues happen to have access to 2022 issue of the Zeitschrift für bayerische Landesgeschichte, specifically 'Der deutsche Episkopat im Alexandrinischen Schisma'
Boshof, Egon. (2022), pp. 159-196. The online availability (and Bonn's physical copies) don't include the last five years...

typical sort of thing she says:

YouTube video by Qtips videos Keeping Up Appearances - Singing for Emmet - S02 E07

From a show called Keeping Up Appearances www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LwX... basically a sitcom after the Thatcher years about a 'social climber' called Hyacinth Bucket ( who always insists her surname is pronounced Bouquet). Brilliant satire about middle-class snobbishness. Really recommend

And down the rabbithole

A quote direct from Thomas Becket if ever I've seen one

Permit me Lord to read about this cardinal at least once without immediately thinking of...

Admonitio

Fantastic news.

Today marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe. Earlier this year at the GHIL, Lucy Noakes (@universityofessex.bsky.social / @royalhistsoc.org) and Frank Trentmann (@bbkhistorical.bsky.social) reflected on how the war has fundamentally shaped Germany and Britain after 1945.
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I don't suppose any kind colleagues happen to have access to a pdf of Mainzer Urkundenbuch. Bd. 2: Die Urkunden seit dem Tode Erzbischof Adalberts I. (1137) bis zum Tode Erzbischof Konrads (1200)? The first volume is online but alas not the second (as far as I can tell)

Watching Conclave and can't help but be reminded of Leeds

While not by a medievalist persay Tom Holland's Millennium might be good at that level: unusually grand and extravagant prose to get them hooked in and familiarised with the period and the big players and provide an interpretation they can knock down and nuance later on

Thanks! Corpus Corporum is very useful, but I think there are quite a lot of gaps in MGH coverage sadly

A photo of the new 'Rebellion in Medieval Europe' edited volume.

A photo of the end of the acknowledgements, dedicating the volume to Björn Weiler's memory.

A lovely a worthy tribute to a fine scholar and dear friend.