Cover of Michel Zimmermann's Écrire et lire en Catalogne (IXe-XIIe siècle) That title sounds more negative than I really want. You will have observed by now that I have what might ...
So, term started, and there was a short hiatus, for most of which this post was in draft. But, it’s actually a little hard to work out how to address the papers given at the Digital Diplomatics...
To stay with charters for a moment, which I’m sure surprises you hardly at all, at Oxford the biggest survey courses are arranged so that British stuff is done in the winter term (‘Michae...
Sala Conferenze in the Palazzo degli Uffici, Università degli Studi Federico II, Naples The reason I had all the time I had to go sight-seeing in Naples was that the conference I was at didn&#...
Edit: two minor errors fixed, indicated with strikethrough Let me ask you something that may reveal my ignorance. Or, it might reveal someone else’s, we’ll see. A while ago I saw the imag...
Having finally finished reporting on July’s Leeds conference (and not even being the last to do so) leaves me now free to leap forward two months in a single bound, leaving me only four behind ...
Because of the various things to do with the production of charters that are currently on my plate to do, it has become necessary to finish getting to grips with Michel Zimmermann’s immense th&...
A friend of mine runs a pub in Rye in Sussex, which gives me occasional cause to be there. (I recommend it, but of course I may be biased, and anyway that’s not what this blog is for.) Although...
This last week has seen me substantially occupied with two things, other than the Internet: buying presents, and reading charters. But of course charters are themselves a form of gifting! So, this ye...
[Written offline on the same trip to Birmingham as previous.] The last day of Leeds was made extra-special for me, as had the last day of Kalamazoo been both this year and the last—it’s s...
[Written offline on the way to an editorial meeting in Birmingham, 19/12/11] Sant Pere de Casserres, from above Sorry again for delay: for various reasons it has been what I believe is known as ̶...
[Edit: hideously mixed-up footnotes now all match up and exist and so on.] Looking back at it, it does seem rather as if the 2011 International Medieval Congress was fairly intense for your humble bl...
Here is something a bit lighter-weight before we get back to Leeds: about 0.9 g, in fact, I’m told. But first some background. Some of you don’t need introducing to King Henry IV of ...
Sorry! Publication deadlines, as you saw, then admissions interviews (about which I have seriously mixed feelings and may eventually write), then the wedding of a good friend and erstwhile medievalis...
(This is probably gesta’s fault. Or archy’s. My apologies to those who versify better or have it worse…) If I’d had two days I would not be writing Because I’d be sleepi...
I have to start by saying sorry for the long silence here. It’s no shortage of stuff to say, but shortage of time to write. The end of term has been more punishing than it should be, as we gear...
Having confused matters by likening a shrine of one of the earliest English saints to a Catalan church, now I’m going to deepen the confusion with a post about an actual Catalan church. And, fu...
[Written offline on a train between Oxford and London 17/11/2011] The excursion with which I preceded Leeds didn’t just go to Whitby, but called at Lastingham on the way back, which has a lesse...
Cover of Richard Hodges's Goodbye to the Vikings? Lately, or at least, as I first wrote this post it was lately, I have been chomping through Richard Hodges’s Goodbye to the Vikings?, whic...
Skyline showing the ruins of Whitby Abbey from the carpark Has everyone else finished their Leeds reports yet? Must be time for me to start then! Leeds, in this instance, being for those new to the b...
Is it? That’s the question. I’ve been bothered by this question for a long time, as you know if you’ve been reading a while. We talk of the Picts as a people but much suggests that ...
Still months and months behind but by now more amused than regretful at my own dislocation from the present, I now bring you a report on a thing that happened in Oxford on 17th June this year, which ...
I expect that you all thought this thread was finished, but no: I have just been waiting, for some time, for the materials for this post to reach me. There will be one more, too, but it’s in th...
Sorry about the gap; this term is burying me somewhat. Matters should improve in a fortnight. Meanwhile, I am so behind with seminar write-ups that I must reluctantly skip those about which I am qual...
[This was mostly drafted offline on a train from London to Leeds on the 10th of July.] Modern-day Ullà, Empúries, Catalunya The Bishop of Girona doesn’t always win. I know that by...
This is a very contrived title intended to cover the facts that the next two seminars I have to report on were both given by people from Oxford, but whereas the theme of diaspora with the first one, ...
While I was working up the Leeds paper I had to spend some quality time with the documents of Carolingian-era Girona for the first time. I’ve avoided Girona for two reasons: firstly, and most i...
This view of Potes in Liébana, Cantábria, seems weirdly familiar The big one hundred goes, by more or less complete coincidence, to a fellow Hispanist, Rob Portass, who lately finished ...
Well, I am back in Oxford and so are the students, and even here term is at last starting, my reading lists are not quite ready and my time is limited. I hope therefore that you’ll forgive me i...
(Written mostly offline on a plane between London Gatwick and Naples, 28/09/2011, which may also explain the recent quiet patch, sorry.) The new term looms and I haven’t even reached the summer...
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