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Dog lover | Pasta addict | Professor | Historian of crime, living standards, law and social control in Western Europe, 7th–13th centuries I post images of medieval legal records, marginalia, dogs and (sometimes) from the Canadian Letters & Images Project
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Orange sky over a cloud-covered Mount Benson on Vancouver Island.

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Next week I get to talk about coins and counterfeiting in my medieval history course. I’ve got a bunch of medieval coins (pennies and half pennies) for my students to examine. It’s gonna be loads of fun!

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A new episode of The Medieval Podcast: Henry III with David Carpenter with @5minmedievalist.bsky.social https://www.medievalists.net/2025/02/henry-iii-with-david-carpenter/ #EnglishHistory #history

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I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said "Two tiny & childlike hands of stone Stand in the desert ... Near them, on the sand, Half sunk an orange & clown-like visage lies, whose frown and pursed lips, & creepy combed over hair, Tell that its sculptor well that racist idiot's details read."

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The moon rising up over the mountains in British Columbia (taken from across the Salish Sea on Vancouver Island, looking east).

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Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

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Not many people know this, but the Western Schism (1378–1417) was masterminded by the medieval candle industry. Chandlers looked through their old financial records & realised how much money they’d made from the sale of candles for excommunications since the Gregorian Reform in the 11th century. 1/2

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This is an outstanding review. I will be assigning it to my first-year's reading list. Well done @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social !

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Look what arrived in the post just in time for reading week:

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Timeline cleanse.

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Fantastic piece of scholarship by Dean Irwin in February’s issue of History Today. @historytoday.com

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Want to read about the summary trial and execution of thieves caught red-handed in medieval England? Check out my new article in the Journal of Legal History. If you don't have access to it, contact me through Bluesky chat & I'll send you a link with free access. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

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Timeline cleanse: Otto having a nap.

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Currently (re)reading Felicity Hill’s excellent book on Excommunication in 13th-Century England.

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My article "Jurisdiction over Infangthief in England: The Case of John Milksop" has just been published. Here's a link to it: www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.viu.ca/doi/full/10.... If you'd like a copy and don't have access through the link, send me a message through Bluesky.

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Two roosters from the late-thirteenth-century Percy Psalter.

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Adorable dogs at a kennel with a mouse hole in the door from the Book of the Chase (15th century).

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Medieval Hunting Deaths: A Thread Hunting could be very dangerous (not just for animals) in the Middle Ages. Accidents happened and everyone from kings and earls to lowly peasants could be killed by a stray arrow, a hanging branch or a wild animal defending itself. 🧵7

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Timeline cleanse. Also, please post more dog photos. They make me smile.

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Correcting errors in legal records: Tom Stronden killed a man with a hatchet at Blandford Bridge in Bryanston Tithing (Pimperne Hundred, Dorset) c.1268. The clerk recorded that Tom had no chattels but later scraped away “Nulla habuit” and added superscript that he had chattels valued at 4 pence.

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Footnotes. Never endnotes. If you disagree see my citations, which I could’ve put here but instead put at the bottom of my Bluesky account.

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