Anthony Bale FBA

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The Snorri Sturluson Icelandic Fellowships invite writers, translators, and scholars in the humanities from around the world to spend at least three months in Iceland. Fellows receive support for travel and living expenses during their stay. Apply by 1 December.

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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Me… A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieva…

Reading rec:
📖🧳 A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes 🧳📖
by Anthony Bale (@realmandeville.bsky.social)
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Entertaining exploration of how medieval European travelers made sense of foreign lands and the world.

The beloved BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time has been awarded the 2025 British Academy President’s Medal!

Professor Susan J Smith, President of the British Academy, praised the programme for bringing rigorous yet accessible discussion of complex ideas to millions of listeners: buff.ly/1bn63FD

A Travel Guide To The Middle Ages by Anthony Bale

you should read this book, one of the most interesting things I've read in years

Anthony Bale: "En el siglo XV ya había turismo organizado en Europa" El medievalista británico publica una guía que transporta al lector a los caminos, hostales y ciudades de la Edad Media y recuerda que hace siete siglos viajar también era un ejercicio de curiosidad y...

Anthony Bale: "En el siglo XV ya había turismo organizado en Europa"

El medievalista británico publica una guía que transporta al lector a los caminos, hostales y ciudades de la Edad Media.

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#ÁticoHistoria

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

Few signed copies at Atticus Books in New Haven, CT if anyone’s interested! (And in good company @realmandeville.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social)

#medievalsky #booksky

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Medieval Literature faculty vacancy: Assistant Professor (Medieval British Literature), English Department, School of Arts & Sciences, Hunter College, CUNY

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Hoy tengo niña con galipandria de caballo e inminente mañana perdida en el CAP, pero en cuanto tenga un rato os tengo que hablar de este maravilloso libro y su excelente autor. De lo mejor que ha pasado por mis manos en el último año. Ya os di alguna pinceladita, pero luego MÁS

Spanish translation published by @aticodeloslibros.com today! Plus Benny the cat, contemplating his imminent breakfast

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¿Turismo en la Edad Media?: Gaza, Jerusalén y Tierra Santa, destinos de los siglos XII, XIII y XIV

Consejos para cruzar el desierto o la tabla de tasas para Tierra Santa en 'Guía de viajes por la Edad Media'

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Thinking with the Renegade: Politics of Conversion and Ambiguity of Identity in the Later Middle Ages The figure of the renegade has often been considered an early modern invention, but the noun renegade and associated verbs entered the English language in the fourteenth century to describe figures wh...

Delighted that my article 'Thinking with the Renegade' has been published in JMEMS, tracing the history of the 'renegade' as a figure in English culture. It is part of my @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project on cultural representations of Ottomans and others around the Siege of Rhodes 1480

¡Novedad!

"Guía de viajes por la Edad Media", del mayor experto en el viaje y la peregrinación en la Edad Media Anthony Bale, llegará a librerías el 29 de septiembre 📚

Descubre cómo era imaginado, percibido y experimentado el mundo por los viajeros medievales✨

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Just a reminder that in the midst of waves of anti-migrant, anti-refugee and anti-asylum-seeker rhetoric and activism, there are also many charities working quietly, stoically and hard to fuel a better conversation and a better future. Actively supporting them makes a difference.

Unfinished c14 nave

Baroque corridor with frescoes and figures

Fourteenth-century chapel with frescoes

Baroque refectory

The beautiful monastery at Sázava 🇨🇿 where the Charles University Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages is holding its summer school, themed this year around medieval travel. Many layers of history and a great atmosphere

📌 15 de septiembre: "Flashman y señora" de George MacDonald Fraser

📌 15 de septiembre: "Muerte en el Ártico" de Tom Hindle

📌 22 de septiembre: "Guía de viajes por la Edad Media" de Anthony Bale

#ÁticodelosLibros #ÁticoHistoria

"The Cat Read the Emails First" (2025)
acrylic painting

By Ukrainian artist Nataliya Bagatskaya - n.bagatska [IG]

#art #painting #illustration #caturday

📢 Funding opportunity for digital artists 🎨: The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab Digital Artists’ Bursaries are transformative grants for digital artists to explore new approaches and ways of engaging with the Middle Ages and medieval collections in Cambridge. More details here:

The Black Arts by Richard Cavendish, a book

Fortune telling by numbers, with pencil annotations by John and Cathy, telling their fortunes

Got a book on ‘black magic’ from @thelondonlibrary.bsky.social 🧙🏼‍♂️Discovered that John and Cathy had been using it for practical fortune telling. At least they only wrote in pencil

"Wir nehmen uns selbst mit, wohin wir auch gehen, und unsere Werte und Ansprüche erlegen uns Grenzen auf, selbst dann, wenn wir auf der Suche nach Freiheit sind."

Anthony Bale über das Reisen (in seinem Buch: "Reisen im Mittelalter")

Art Break: Travel in the Middle Ages | Getty Event Why did people travel in the Middle Ages? In this conversation, discover the compelling and often unexpected voyages of medieval people.

Thrilled to be hosting this ONLINE, FREE Art Break to talk to Anthony Bale (@realmandeville@bsky.social) about travel in the Middle Ages on Sept. 4th at 12pm PST--sign up here:
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Os va a en-can-tar esta deliciosa guía del viaje en la época medieval que ha escrito @realmandeville.bsky.social: "Guía de viajes en la Edad Media", con visita de autor y goce garantizado. En librerías el 22/09.

📢 Funding opportunity for digital artists 🎨: The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab Digital Artists’ Bursaries are transformative grants for digital artists to explore new approaches and ways of engaging with the Middle Ages and medieval collections in Cambridge. More details here:

Art Break: Travel in the Middle Ages | Getty Event Why did people travel in the Middle Ages? In this conversation, discover the compelling and often unexpected voyages of medieval people.

Join me and Larisa Grollemond @gettymuseum.bsky.social talking about medieval travel next month: www.getty.edu/calendar/art...

John/Eleanor Rykener - Wikipedia

We know of male & female prostitutes, prostitutes who specialised in specific roles (eg “boys”), transvestite prostitutes who sometimes lived as well as worked between/across genders. On a comparable case from c14 London I recommend that of John/Eleanor Rykener - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John/El...

New Academy President urges Prime Minister to strengthen and champion UK’s world-leading universities as higher education crisis deepens In her first act as the new President of The British Academy, Professor Susan J Smith FBA has written to the Prime Minister to warn that cuts and contractions are damaging the UK’s higher education sy...

In her first act as the new President of The British Academy, Professor Susan J Smith FBA has today written to the Prime Minister to warn that cuts and contractions are damaging the UK’s higher education system www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/new-aca...

Girton medievalist Professor Anthony Bale elected as Fellow of the British Academy

🎉 We’re thrilled to share that Girton Fellow Professor Anthony Bale has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy, in honour of his outstanding contributions to scholarship.

Read more ➡️ https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/news/girton-medievalist-professor-anthony-bale-elected-fellow-british-academy

British Academy elects twelve Cambridge researchers to Fellowship in 2025 Twelve academics from the University of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social science

British Academy elects twelve @cam.ac.uk researchers to Fellowship in 2025 www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

The British Academy welcomes 92 new Fellows in 2025 92 distinguished scholars have today been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.

The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in 2025 – a higher number than in previous years due to new Fellowship places for candidates whose research spans more than one discipline www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...