And I'm just now onto revising my final chapter MODERN GUTHLAC, taking us from 1848 to the present, ft. Charles Kingsley, David Jones and Graham Swift ✨
wish me luck as the deadline looms 🤞
Riding on Fortuna's wheel this summer hasn't been great, but I am (after a few early-modern curve balls) a good way thru the 4th ch. of my book, looking at Guthlac between the Reformation and his mid-Victorian publishing boom: his edifice lies in ruins, both decrepit & sublime✨
Yesterday I got to graduate
@yorkmedieval
🎉
Feeling v honoured & seems like a good time to announce that next year I'll be crossing over to the 🌹🌹🌹at Lancaster as a Lecturer in Medieval & Early Modern Lit ✨📚
Thanks for all the support! I'll be sure to lift as I climb 💪
📢 Yesterday, I passed my viva on FENLAND PILGRIMAGE with minor corrections
@yorkmedieval
🥳
Thank you to everyone who supported this medieval-to-modern literary history of ST GUTHLAC ✨
🙃 it's been a wild ride, from a pandemic to ill health and back again 😊🙏
#PhDone
Look what I discovered has been hibernating in my shed.
A colony of PEACOCK BUTTERFLIES (or AGLAIS IO)
German: TAGPFAUENAUGE (peacock-eyes)
Their 'eyes' function as defence mechanism, confusing air-borne predators (1/2)
#lepidopterilogy
@ukbutterflies
@savebutterflies
Good news! I've just got the news that I've been offered a contract for my book-of-the-thesis with
@boydellbrewer
😊
Watch this space for 👀
✨WRITING ST GUTHLAC OF CROWLAND, MEDIEVAL TO MODERN ✨
#Medieval
#Saints
#Fens
#LitHist
Today I got to see the early medieval carvings at
#Halton
nr Lancaster 👀
Known as 'SIGURD'S CROSS' it it shows the cultural exchange between the Anglian and Norse worlds
#Medieval
#Viking
#Lancashire
📢 some good news 🥳
I've been awarded a Laura Bassi Scholarship from the Editing Press to help turn my thesis into a monograph 📝📚
Pretty chuffed to be associated with this feminist trailblazer 🔥
More details here: ✨
Some good news! 🎩😃
@UniOfYork
has decided to go with our suggestion of ANNE LISTER college - the first York college named after an LGBT person!
Representation matters & I'm so pleased thst Yorkshire's LGBT hertiage is being highlighted in this way
💫
@YorkLGBT
Pretty cool indeed to see this 12th manuscript with Early Middle English on display
@bodleianlibs
as part of its Write/Cut/Rewrite exhibit
What a treat! ☺️
Today I received my proofs of my latest article 'MONASTIC ECOPOETICS IN THE 13TH C. FENS' 👀
Ft. dried-up marshes, miraculous peat & sunken psalters 🌊
Looking forward to getting it out in the world 🌎🥳
#ecocrit
#medieval
#fens
Well a rather big rejection on the job market this morning!
But just to highlight what an asset I am to departments who are hiring, I also got this email ⬇️
This is the sort of unsolicited feedback I get from UG students on my outstanding teaching practice 👀
Thanks to
@lancaster_words
for nominating me for 'ECR Teacher of the Year' award from the wider faculty 😃
I've broadened the chronological reach of the syllabus by centuries w/ OE lit & introduced language support for students reading
early ME texts & alliterative
verse ✨🎉
TODAY snow in York🌨️
& some dramatic plates of ice, covering FULFORD INGS, on the banks of the Ouse
<INGS> is an OE version of the Norse <ENG> meaning a meadow, near water & boggy (under the frost)
There are many INGS in Yorks & Lincs, verbal relics of Viking pasts 🍃
Given the sight that greeted me on my walk down to the Knavesmire today, I thought I'd share one of my favourite Old English poetic compounds:
<MIST-HELM>
a veil of mist, clouding the eyes ☁️
Also braved calving cows to get to this this 14th c preceptory near Cresswell Beach
probably a stopping place for pilgrims en route to Holy Island
#Northumberland
Just look at this beautiful primary source relating to my new article on queer medievalisms in historical pageants and the 'Well of Loneliness' 👀🐎⚔️🌈
Forthcoming in SiM ✨
This term around teaching and marking I'm editing the MONASTIC GUTHLAC chapter of
#WritingStGuthlac
, looking at material from the 11th to the 13th centuries produced at Crowland
Roberts et al have been indispensable!
Good news! I've just got the news that I've been offered a contract for my book-of-the-thesis with
@boydellbrewer
😊
Watch this space for 👀
✨WRITING ST GUTHLAC OF CROWLAND, MEDIEVAL TO MODERN ✨
#Medieval
#Saints
#Fens
#LitHist
Boxing Day visit to the ruins of WHARRAM PERCY , Yorks' famous DMV🍃
16th c depopulation likely caused by a move to sheep farming🐑
It probably seemed bleak here even before desertion: strange burial practices suggest locals feared their dead would rise from their graves 👀
Woo! My writing on Guthlac "conjures up the ghost of Guthlac amongst the Fenland mists" according to one local reviewer ☁️
Who said rigourous academic writing can't also have popular appeal? 😊
Much more of this to come with 'Writing St Guthlac' forthcoming
@boydellbrewer
👀
A pleasure to finish
#imc2024
by chairing the Ecomedievalisms panel with
@HJP_Armstrong
on Sarah Moss's Greenland novel 'Cold Earth's,
@tomepritchard
on Rob MacFarlane's 'Ness' prose-poem and Abi Bleach on Russel Hoban's apocalyptic 'Riddley' ✨🌿☀️
Today our Lausanne/Lancaster group was reading anchoritic & eremitic texts in the Grottes de la Madeleine near Fribourg 📍
Hermitages cut out of sandstone with a resident hermit in living memory 👀👣🙏
Daffodils say 'hello' from the remains of York's lesser known norman castle 🏰🌱
BAILE HILL between Skeltergate Br and Bishy Rd🔎
#York
#Medieval
#spring
😊
Off
@bishyroadnet
lies the ruins of CLEMENTHORPE PRIORY 👀
Home to the
#nuntastic
Joan of Leeds, who faked her own death 'to pursue carnal lust'
@tnorthernway
I take it she didn't *model* herself on Christina of Markyate, who declined requests to join the nuns in the 12th c...
It's my birthday today, 🎈 so as an Aries, I thought I would share some of John Trevisa's
#MiddleEnglish
thoughts on the MIGHTY RAM:
'the ram is a beste þat bereþ wolle, plesynge in herte
and mylde by kynde… And is duk, ledere, and prince of schiepe.’
👑🐏🤴♥️
Today at I was at the Cistercian ruins of BYLAND ABBEY
@EnglishHeritage
👣
Home of 15th c. Yorkshire ghost stories, edited by M R James in 1922 😱
#Yorkshire
It's been a while since I posted any of my adventures, so have a 15th c ruined tower
@Arnside_AONB
🍃🏰
Was is the home of a 19th c Scots dialect poet? (Maybe!)👀
#Medieval
#Castle
#Arnside
Today I received my proofs of my latest article 'MONASTIC ECOPOETICS IN THE 13TH C. FENS' 👀
Ft. dried-up marshes, miraculous peat & sunken psalters 🌊
Looking forward to getting it out in the world 🌎🥳
#ecocrit
#medieval
#fens
PhD milestone reached🥺
All Guthlac material (Medieval to Modern) that I wanted to cover since I planned this project in 2017 is now WRITTEN UP
MUCH shaping, selecting and distilling to go but
#ItsAMarathonNotASprint
💪
thanks
@yorkmedieval
for all the support🙌
#phdchat
Woop woop it's me! ✨
📢 Come hear about pilgrims, relics and 'tomb texts' at Crowland, building on work of
@Armentarius
, Rachel Koopmans, Cynthia Hahn & others 🙂
Online, 5th Dec 📝
One more to round off autumn term:
@EKNuding
, "St Guthlac of Crowland’s twelfth-century Translatio cum Miraculis and its Pilgrim Audiences", 18:00 GMT on Mon 5 Dec ()
Happy New Year's to my community on here 🥰
I'm on holiday in North Wales & reading the Mabinogi for the first time 📚
Here's to more words, places, texts (& stability 🤞) in 2024 🥳
Excited that booking for Lancaster's annual castle symposium on MEDIEVAL BUILT ENVIRONMENTS is now open 🥳
Ft. malleable anchorholds, riverine adaptations, travel compendia and early medieval fortifications🛠️🏰
📍 Lancaster Castle
📅 Tuesday 12th March
⬇️ More details
😲just look at one of the group projects for my module REMAKING BEOWULF
@elcw_lancasterwords
a medieval-modern Beowulf-based bestiary w/ original illustrations and bound by hand - such creativity & playful interaction with manuscript contexts ✍️👀📖
Ahead of our
#Imc2024
panel on Medievalism's Marginalized Makers, I'm enjoying this eg of women's contribution to medievalism by Genevieve Pilley, illuminator and 'assistant' at the Ruskin Museum c. 1898, on display at the Millennium Gallery in
#Sheffield
Detail from 8thc. cross at Eyam. Originally stood as wayside preaching cross marking routes and/or outdoor worship spaces in the early medieval peaks.Waymarkers would be useful by Eyam, being a settlement flanked 'by marshes' = OE 'egum')
#etymology
#Derbyshire
#medievaltwitter
Riding on Fortuna's wheel this summer hasn't been great, but I am (after a few early-modern curve balls) a good way thru the 4th ch. of my book, looking at Guthlac between the Reformation and his mid-Victorian publishing boom: his edifice lies in ruins, both decrepit & sublime✨
My
#imc2024
room has such a lovely desk set up, between sessions I've moved onto edits of SECULAR GUTHLAC, my book ch. that looks at St G's middle English corpus & it's lay readers ✨👀
Just back from taking
@UoYEnglish
students out on an ecocrit walk to Heslington Tillmire 🌿
Lots of reflections on medieval remnants & modern remakings of the landscape ✨
Thanks
@Frangipancesca
for facilitating ☺️
Spectacular Romanesque arch at the nave portal of Jervaulx, a few miles from the Dales
Cistercian offshoot of Byland abbey turned romantic ruin & wildflower host 🌼
Rec. by
@RLDrake
&
@shuws
#NorthYorkshire
🌱
Yay! 1K followers🥳
In a pretty isolating year, it's been a pleasure to have all your interactions & responses to my (at times, eclectic) mix of etymology, medieval culture and nature explorations 🔍
& also a pleasure to explore virtually by reading all your tweets😊
#York
's flooding is problematic, but at least this evening the Knavesmire is living up to its name 👏
...
KNAVESMIRE aka KNAR'S MARSH 👣
from the Old Norse <mýrr> or <marsh>
Slow progress health-wise, but today I managed a walk on WALMGATE STRAY aka LOW MOOR 💪
Enclosed & drained in the 18th c., its medieval origins survive in ridge and furrow patterns
It is indeed 'low' & gets delightfully boggy👣
#york
Late to the party but enjoying this post-Christmas read
@Emma_J_Wells
. Good mix of practical maps, site interpretation and hagiographical detail. Time for a little armchair
#pilgrimage
💨
#medievaltwitter
I'm thinking of writing a public facing piece about a pilgrimage I'm planning with
@KirstinBarnard
between Durham and Finchale, reading Godric's journey against our journey, that sort of thing.
Any ideas about online venues who would be interested? 👀
#MedievalTwitter
Spectacular yomp today around
@northyorkmoors
' 'Hole of Horcum' 🍃
The first element of 'Horcum' comes from the
#OldEnglish
word for filth, slime or phlegm, but all we found at the bottom was a carpet of springy moss 🤗🔎
#Yorkshire
A Christmas Eve-Day walk around Aughris Head 👣
A 13th c monastery once stood here, until it toppled & became one with the waves 🌊🙏
#Sligo
#Ireland
#Medieval
#Pilgrimage
A first for
@LancasterUni
&
@lancaster_words
-
#OldEnglish
literature is back on the research menu 😀
Want to know more? Come hear me &
@egan_cl
talk about LOCATION, MOBILITY and the ENVIRONMENT in medieval lit
📅7.2.24
📍Bailrigg, Lancaster
➡️
Greetings from the Fossdyke canal,
@LincsCathedral
visible over two miles away on the horizon.
Fossdyke may have been built by the Romans to link Lindum with the Trent, but the earliest texts referencing it are much later, dating from the 12th c.
@visitlincoln
#Lincolnshire
You know, I first started thinking about place-based education while doing my PGCE over a decade ago - and now it feels *really* satisfying to have connected it w/ my current role in HE & medieval studies 🥳🌿👣
I'm in the new TOEBI newsletter 🤠
Read about how we might pair place writing (medieval & modern) with place-based education in a university setting ⬇️
🍃👣
My
#imc2024
room has such a lovely desk set up, between sessions I've moved onto edits of SECULAR GUTHLAC, my book ch. that looks at St G's middle English corpus & it's lay readers ✨👀
This term around teaching and marking I'm editing the MONASTIC GUTHLAC chapter of
#WritingStGuthlac
, looking at material from the 11th to the 13th centuries produced at Crowland
Roberts et al have been indispensable!
All
#York
's residents know of Bishy Rd, but where does it lead?
To the Archbishop ofc! 😀
@skimblejones
put me onto this cheeky Ouse-side spot, which gives the best medieval views of the Archbishop's Palace 🎩🔎
Perks of the job: today l found myself in the Victorian attic of what a medieval manor house 👀
in a top-secret Lancashire location 🤫
Thanks to
@RG1253
for the invite!
Tendrils and curling vines greet the eye on this early medieval carving🌿
tucked away in the Lady Chapel of Kendal Parish Church ✨
--
#ChurchCrawl
#Medieval
#Carving
80 people at a saints panel for my first paper at an international conference! 👀👍
And thanks
@Armentarius
and
@ConnollyGiles
for excellent Beckett-through-time content 😊
#imc2020
@DannyBate4
Ah! I see you are a NGDAAb person. I am more of a NAGDAb myself.
Is it just what we learnt first or is there a reason to prefer one over the other? 😎
I'll be sharing my a snippet of my thesis material on
#JohnClare
& fenland saints at this year's
#IMC2022
Looking forward to the medieval / modern dialogues that ensue... 👀👀👀
Really looking forward to
#IMC2022
& the Beyond Medievalism sessions organised with
@carl_kears
&
@EKNuding
. 3 sessions incoming, the 1st with papers from
@rowanpevans
on radical translation, Cary S. Howie on contemplative medievalism, and
@EKNuding
on Guthlac's Reliques. 1/3
📸 It may be a medievalist folly built for the 1887 jubilee, but this crenalleted tower builds on medieval precedent by marking this point of high elevation in the landscape, looking out onto Morecambe Bay ⬇️ 👀 1/
Got all my Gawains out yday for
@egan_cl
& my's MAs taking 'Medieval Lit & Environments'
@lancaster_words
🍃
We're in the classroom rn, but soon we will be 'on location' in various wildernesses, managed landscapes & built environments near
#Lancaster
📍
Watch this space 👀