Bayeux Tapestry on Radio 4: Gesta rants again June 24, 2008
Posted by gesta in Debate, Medieval.Tags: 1066, Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Saxon, Bayeux Tapestry, Carola Hicks, David Musgrove, Ed Sturton, Radio 4, rants
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The Bayeux Tapestry made a star appearance on the Today programme this morning as the editor of BBC History Magazine has mooted that the artefact should be brought back to England for an exhibition. The disputants in this debate were David Musgrove (BBC History), Carola Hicks and Ed Sturton, one of the normal presenters. This item irritated me beyond belief, as the odd bit on history on the Today programme (and they usually are odd) tends to for a variety of reasons. (more…)
Looking forward to … IMC 2008 June 22, 2008
Posted by gesta in Academia, Boundaries, Medieval.Tags: Anglo-Norman, Battle conference, Chris Lewis, David Bates, Heloise and Abelard, IMC, Jonathan Jarrett, Judith Green, Kathleen Thompson, landscape, Michael Clancy, monasticism, Oliver Rackham, Orderic Vitalis, wills
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The teaching, marking and exams boards are all done for the year and it is time for me to switch my brain back to research mode for the next three months. Helping me to do this in the coming weeks is a couple of conferences: the International Medieval Congress held, as always at Leeds, and the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies held, unsurprisingly at Battle in East Sussex. More of that one later, but here’s what I’m looking forward to at Leeds. (more…)
