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- The Origins of the Templars: sessions at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, July 2019 February 9, 2019I’ve organised four conference sessions on the Origins of the Military-Religious Orders (the Knights Templar, the Knights Hospitaller and the Teutonic Order). These will take place at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, 1-4 July 2019. Click … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- Matilda 900 papers online! March 9, 2018Originally posted on Matilda 900: All of the papers from the Matilda 900 sessions at Kalamazoo and Leeds are now online! The collection also presents the concluding roundtable, recorded by Rob Pryke and transcribed by yours truly, a more informal set…gawainsmum
- Dragon-killer out of the past February 26, 2018Long, long ago — more precisely, in February 2006 — an author named Carole Wilkinson contacted me about one of the translations on my web page on Medieval Women and warfare: https://booksrus.me.uk/hn/HistoricalTexts/Women/wom5.htm#other_sources The translation in question was an episode from the … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- Travel Costs December 31, 2017Originally posted on Official Gawain Blog: An amusing little distraction for Christmas – whether you, dear reader, have spent this year travelling in the most cost-effective manner. Let us imagine that two adults wish to travel from suburban northern Newport…gawainsmum
- Clocks October 25, 2017Tuesday’s lecture to the first year students included a passing reference to the mechanical clock built at St Alban’s Abbey between around 1327 and 1336 by Abbot Richard of Wallingford (c. 1292-1336) (see J. D. North, ‘Wallingford, Richard (c.1292–1336)’, Oxford … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- Women-only carriages August 23, 2017Originally posted on Official Gawain Blog: This came up in 2015, when I wrote a long blogpost trying to delicately dismantle it that, in the end, I didn’t hit “post” on and which you have, therefore, not read. Anyway, it…gawainsmum
- Call for Papers: Kalamazoo 2018 August 17, 2017medieval-congress-call-2018 This is a call for papers for a session at the IMC Kalamazoo 2018 on: Generalship: in the field and from the armchair Although warfare plays a central role in human societies, study of the organisation of war and … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- The book is out August 16, 2017The Everyday Life of the Templars is now out, priced at £20 or $32.95 for the hardback or £8.99 / $11.72 for the Kindle edition (Amazon only). It can be ordered directly from the publisher or from Amazon UK or … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- Hospitallers, for a change July 20, 2017Cardiff PhD candidate Nick McDermott was with the Cardiff contingent at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo in May 2017. Medieval Warfare Magazine liked his paper on Hospitaller slaves: https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/mwblog/hospitallers-used-slaves/gawainsmum
- The Everyday Life of the Templars July 14, 2017F040266 The Everyday Life of the Templars Press Release … is due out on 27 July (less than two weeks from now). Update 20 July: in fact Amazon states that it’s due out on 20 July, but it’s not out … Continue reading →gawainsmum
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