Abstract. This article seeks to address the underexplored role of language as a marker of identity in the early medieval period by focusing on England in t

Researchers say texts from 12th to 15th centuries ‘hint at a culture which has not even been imagined’

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Abstract. This article explores the practice of ‘reckoning’, a means of reciprocal accounting that becomes prominent in late-medieval England. Despite its

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The Royal Commission of Wales said some of these known sites have not been seen clearly in decades.

This very short document records a gift made by Géraud Rufus of Talmont, who appeared before the chapter of Marmoutier to gave some land at an unidentified place known as ad Saburas to honour Saint…

Medieval historians frequently write about loyalty, usually in the context of lords and kings, but there has been little sustained engagement with the wider role of loyalty in society. This introdu...

Abstract. Bede and other authors describe a destructive wave of plague sweeping across Britain and Ireland in the period 664–87. In the decades around and

An early eleventh-century charter from Provence records a land sale paid for with money and a mysterious cloth called zafalbafal: possibly the ‘wool of the sea’.

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The Conference this year will be hosted by the University of Swansea. You can register via the Swansea shop which also contains the details for discounted train fares with GWR. There is a full brea…

The walls of the medieval chapel in the Agricola Tower at Chester Castle were richly painted around 1240 with scenes including miracles of the Virgin Mary and St Edward the Confessor. From the fragmen...

The School, formerly the Keele Latin and Palaeography Summer School, returns for its 49th year. In 2025 The Ranulf Higden Society took over the organisation of the Latin and Palaeography Summer Sch…

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The Production of Forgery at Westminster Abbey, 1050–c. 1154 - Volume 52

Urban rebels in medieval Connacht: the revolt of Galway, 1388–9

Royal Historical Society Lecture, 6 February 2026

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The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, within the Faculty of English wishes to appoint an Assistant Professor in Celtic from 1 September 2026. We seek applicants who have research and

We welcome Post-Graduate Researchers, Early Career Researchers and those starting out in fields involving the past to join us in considering how the Society of Antiquaries could contribute to early ca...

Earlier Middle Ages Seminar- Session 3

How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us.   While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...