Alice Taylor @ajt55.bsky.social · 22/07/2025It is a difficult time for a&h in general atm. But genuinely proud of king’s for investing in the future of arts and humanities research and seeing its importance in a changing world 4374
Reposted by Alice TaylorOxford Medieval Studies @oxmedstud.bsky.social · 01/07/2025POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY! @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social are advertising a full-time 6-month postdoc position to work with Andrew Dunning on redeveloping the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project as a sustainable, open-access digital resource for manuscript studies. 🖊️ Apply by 14 July 15544
Reposted by Alice TaylorCEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Not one, but two keynote lectures! Join CEMS and MMoR next week. 25.06, 17:00 - @profjennyshaw.bsky.social on "The Women of Rendezvous" 26.06, 17:00 - @sdamussen.bsky.social on "Seeing Racial Patriarchy" Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/carib...kingsearlymodern.co.ukCaribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Britain — CEMS KCL BlogJoin King's Medicine and the Making of Race for two keynote lectures by Dr. Jenny Shaw (University of Alabama) and Prof. Susan D. Amussen (University of California Merced). Each keynote will think thr... 22212
Reposted by Alice TaylorMarie Tranchant @marie-trcht.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Delighted that some of my recent PhD research has just been published in Historical Research! It explores connections between the chronicle written at Burton Abbey in the mid-C13 and the royal chancery More here: academic.oup.com/histres/adva...academic.oup.comDocuments of revolution and reform: Henry of Marchington, the king’s chancery and the chronicle of Burton*Abstract. This article aims to demonstrate that much of the information found in the chronicle of Burton for the 1250s was obtained through Henry of Marchi 2154
Reposted by Alice TaylorKnowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · 17/04/2025PhD alert! ECOMEDS examines the interrelationships between economy, environment and culture in the Mediterranean, c.1250-1550. DL: 23rd of May 2025 www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy... #PhD #cfa #callforapplication #ecomeds #kingscollegekcl.ac.ukPhD studentship (ECOMEDS: Economic and cultural connections within Mediterranean ecosystems, c.1250-1550)Funded PhD studentship in medieval history on the project ECOMEDS (UKRI Frontier Research Grant, formerly ERC) 054
Reposted by Alice TaylorKing's College London, History Department @kingshistory.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Meet our #PhD students: @marie-trcht.bsky.social currently studies 13th century manuscript production at Burton Abbey, and argues that the case of Burton may help redefine the way historians understand the boundaries between medieval administrative and narrative texts. #medievalhistory 0144
Alice Taylor @ajt55.bsky.social · 24/03/2025And link to my own article: Politics from Law or Law as Politics? Hugh of Poitiers’s Chronica and the Politics of ius in the Mid-twelfth Century www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comPolitics from Law or Law as Politics? Hugh of Poitiers’s Chronica and the Politics of ius in the Mid-twelfth CenturyThis paper considers the relationship between the modern concepts of law and politics and the twelfth-century concept of ius (‘law, right’) in a chronicle written by a monk, Hugh of Poitiers, betwe... 041
Alice Taylor @ajt55.bsky.social · 24/03/2025And with other contributors: @mcsweeney1693.bsky.social, Atria A. Larson, @kfduggan.bsky.social, Arnaud Fossier, Helle Vogt, Miriam Tveit, Rodrigo García-Velasco, Danica Summerlin, Lidia Luisa Zanetti Domingues, Ada Kuskowski and me! 120
Alice Taylor @ajt55.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Introduction: Full article: Law Beyond the Legal Renaissance: Rethinking Jurisdiction in the European central Middle Ages www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comLaw Beyond the Legal Renaissance: Rethinking Jurisdiction in the European central Middle AgesThe introduction to this special issue lays out its approach to the phenomenon of jurisdiction during the European central Middle Ages. Rethinking jurisdiction, we argue, is key to understanding th... 110
Alice Taylor @ajt55.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Extremely pleased to announce (and first ever post here) that Danica Summerlin and my special issue on 'law beyond the legal renaissance', funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social, is now out, with open access introduction www.tandfonline.com/toc/flgh20/4... .tandfonline.comThe Journal of Legal HistoryVolume 46, Issue 1 of The Journal of Legal History 32713
![[BL, Cotton MS Vespasian E III, f. 39r]. In this letter from 1251, the Patriarch of Jerusalem informs the queen of France of the latest developments of the Seventh Crusade (1248–1254). But this letter is found in an English chronicle, from Burton Abbey (Staffordshire).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ppgrfng2i6ggbrl7ljhtvojg/bafkreicwdybtuwvw24zwnmieujuqubznrc3ptwvf3kvcgc4lojicttobyq)
