Starting Over
Returning to a writing project you’ve had on the back burner for a few years is a frustrating experience. Working on the edition of the …
Returning to a writing project you’ve had on the back burner for a few years is a frustrating experience. Working on the edition of the …
If you’re like me, the winter break is prime historical fiction reading time: there’s nothing better than curling up in front of a roaring fire …
On Friday, October 27, I’ll be giving a public talk: “Spilled Ink, Feuding Monks, and the Field Where Big Steve Died: The Making of a …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …