Chris Wickham and the dialogue of the deaf

Last Wednesday, I escaped to London to hear Chris Wickham give the first Sir David Wilson lecture in medieval archaeology on ‘The problem of the dialogues between medieval history and medieval archaeology’. Given I have been wrestling with this very question in my own research and teaching of late, I was looking forward to hear Prof. Wickham’s thoughts on the matter; also it gave me the chance to catch up with some fellow bloggers, Jonathan Jarrett and Magistra et Mater. If what follows is slightly disjointed, then I apologise as I’ve written this post over several days.

Stuff I am thinking about

Neither Reivers nor I have blogged for a while. The start of term has been more than usually chaotic, leaving little brain space for blogging, but thankfully just enough for shooting. In lieu of a proper post (which will be remedied after Chris Wickham’s lecture on Wednesday I hope), here is a list of things I am currently thinking about that will generate posts sometime in the future.