@realmandeville.bsky.social
Medievalist & wanderer. 🏳️🌈 Travel, literature, history, cats. 📖’A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages’ - ‘stunning’ (The Times) University of Cambridge; Girton College Cambridge; London https://linktr.ee/realmandeville
This is what Grammarly looks like when it is impersonating you, in a fraudulent way, in order to generate revenue for its product.
I have contacted a law firm asking for an opinion on a lawsuit. However, in the UK personality rights are not well protected, so a US case would be preferable.
An opportunity for a medievalist to join the team at Cambridge: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ346/a...
My substack newsletter on Brexit, political folly and the yawning horror of a Reform government.
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Free, onlyne, searchable Middel Englisshe Dictionarye. "The world's largest searchable database of Middle English lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500."
quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-eng...
The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab at Cambridge now has a mailing list: you can sign up at lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/e... to hear about creative interactions with medieval sources
🎿👢🥾A 6th-century CE boot with flowers and lozenges, Northern dynasties of China. Embroidery, polychrome silk threads on silk tabby and damask; hemp threads, at the Hong Kong Palace Museum
Wonderful news from Birkbeck's School of Historical Studies. We're hiring not one but TWO open-ended, full-time roles: Medieval Studies, and History of Art! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/home.html#fi...
Distinguished Lecture Series, 2025-26 Sem 2
Anthony Bale, Professor of Medieval & Renaissance English, University of Cambridge
Conflict, Novelty and Print: The Birth of News Writing in the West
Feb 5, 2026, 4PM (Thu)
HKU Black Box, Room 54, LG/F, Centennial Campus, HKU
The CFP for the Gender & Medieval Studies conference 2026 is now LIVE! The theme is Gender & Creativity. The conf will be held in Oxford, 8-10 Sept, abstracts due to me by 13 April. Full details on the GMS website (artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social) medievalgender.co.uk/2026-oxford/
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
-W. H. Auden
How did a Yorkshire hermit become more widely read than Geoffrey Chaucer?
Today, @churchofengland.org commemorates 14th-century writer Richard Rolle.
And thanks to an amazing discovery by Dr Timothy Glover, we now know much more about Rolle's life and work.
Find out more 👇
https://bit.ly/4sMcsoL
Lent 2026 Term Card for the Cambridge Medieval History Research Seminar. All sessions take place at 4pm in Sidgwick Lecture Block Room 5!
Had same problem last week and had to disregard a load of donations because past me hadn’t set up a notes thing on my phone, which present me has now done 😑
TOMORROW! @cam.ac.uk
⚡️ Russia welcomes Trump's tariffs on NATO allies over Greenland as 'collapse' of alliance.
"The transatlantic alliance is over," Kremlin economic negotiator Kirill Dmitriev said.
Creative Medievalism folks should check out the cfp below- short essays due 1 May. And keep your eyes peeled for the Gender & Medieval Studies conf cfp soon- this year’s topic is Gender & Creativity! (Conf will be in Oxford, in Sept).
The Creative Medievalisms symposium organised by @realmandeville.bsky.social was an absolute BLAST ✨ @hellomizk.bsky.social & I had an amazing time, repping @guildmedmak.bsky.social and presenting on our creative-critical work 🎊 Thank you for inviting us, Anthony!
Just had the most inspiring & invigorating couple of days @ Creative Medievalisms Now workshop @ Cambridge. Fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, print-makers, comic-makers, film-makers, visual artists & more, all drawing on medieval sources. I spoke about my work & received so much in return ❤️
🔔 Lecture next week @girtoncollege.bsky.social: all welcome. Susan Maddock (@uniofeastanglia.bsky.social; Ex-Principal Archivist @norfolkro.bsky.social): '“Free from their husbands”: #MargeryKempe & other wives & widows in fifteenth-century Lynn.' Stanley Library, Girton College, 20th Jan, 5:30pm.
A compelling, heartfelt and urgent piece about venesection, blood, and the NHS by Clair Wills in @nybooks.com
Saw this in the wild at my local library @realmandeville.bsky.social
Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended.
They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision.
Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
'Despite all their difficulties, universities remain an enormous and irreplaceable national asset. As well as educating millions of people, they generate about £24bn in export earnings, which is about 1% of GDP – more than aircraft manufacturing and legal services combined'. 1/2
Amazing collections, lovely people. Come and spend a year doing research @theul.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
There's room for another historian (or anthropologist) at @girtoncollege.bsky.social !
3-year postdoc research fellowship, apply by 12 January!
www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
goodbye old year, hello new books
Some of the faces of @chestercathedral.bsky.social
Chester Cathedral in Lego, in Chester Cathedral @chestercathedral.bsky.social
Recorrer Europa como un caballero medieval 🧭
"Guía de viajes por la Edad Media" de Anthony Bale entre los mejores ensayos para regalar estas Navidades recomendados en el especial del ABC ✍️
www.abc.es/cultura/cult...
#ÁticoHistoria
'Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow', forthcoming symposium at Cambridge. A two-day symposium for writer-researchers working on medieval materials to reflect on craft, research processes, and work in progress.
Booking essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-m...