Publication Round-Up VIII
Edition The Cartulary of Prémontré. Co-edited with Heather Wacha. Medieval Academy Books Series 118. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. The Cartulary of Prémontré offers …
“Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker” at National Gallery of Ireland
Partway through my visit to the “Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker” exhibition, I realised that I couldn’t remember ever having walked through room after room …
The Notebooks of Charles-Louis Hugo
Charles-Louis Hugo is one of the most important figures in the early modern historiography of the Premonstratensian Order. His Annales—about which I’ve written before on …
“Expéditions d’Égypte” at Royal Museums of Art & History, Brussels
There’s another universe out there where instead of becoming a medieval historian, I pursued my childhood fascination with ancient Egypt instead—I was that kid who …
The Cartulary of Prémontré
I’m so thrilled to be able to say that the edition of the thirteenth-century cartulary of the abbey of Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Prémontré, which Heather Wacha …
“Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt” at MAG
Why do people feel moved to damage a piece of art? This is one of the main questions which the exhibition “Striking Power: Iconoclasm in …
Marie Was Never a Nuisance
This post was originally a thread which I posted on Twitter in March 2019, in response to a meme which was being widely linked to …
No, That’s Not The Sweat of Count Dracula
There are lots of attention-grabbing items on the news these days, but few have me double-take as effectively as a throwaway bit on one of …
The Myth of Marguerite de Bressieux
This post was originally a thread which I posted on Twitter in October 2017, in response to this post on the Rejected Princesses site which …
Entering the Matrix
Novelists have no particular obligation to the past—or at least, no requirement to recreate it with any kind of fidelity. Just as the makers of …