A small collection of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century faces from the MS I'm working on (Cartulary of Torre Abbey, Devon, TCD MS 524)

Reading 14thC Anglo-Norman out loud is like French in a southern American accent: 'le venderdi procheyn a pres'

Also give it up for Roy Dengletere in the line above, we should bring that back as the thing everyone calls the King.

Can anyone help with the text highlighted here? The rest of it is a total of the valuation of abbey properties excepting vicarages, then a breakdown of whatever this part of it is by archdeaconry. It's something like ... 'quibus de qualibet [marcato? ?liolum,] est summa...'

TCD MS 524 fo. 5r

855 years ago Monday, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket was hacked to death inside his own cathedral.

If you want to mark the anniversary, you can always listen to my 2-part podcast with Dr. John Jenkins (U of York) on the life, death and cult of Thomas.
carleton.ca/aah/2021/hta...

My new book on Medieval Pilgrimage is out on New Years' Eve! A short, scholarly introduction to the history and theory of pilgrimage in the medieval West from c.300 to c.1500, available for pre-order at Blackwells or Barnes and Noble at the moment www.arc-humanities.org/978180270224...

My punchy little book about pilgrimage in medieval Western Christendom has a cover, should be out soon. I've tried to make it accessible and thought-provoking, reviews would be appreciated once it comes out.

I predict the new pope Leo XIV will follow in the footsteps of Leo XIII and publicly declare his love for Bovril

I wonder if this somehow derives from an article I co-wrote on Westminster Cathedral arguing that in the 1900s it was intended as a very 'English' national chuch at a time when the Catholics seriously believed they might convert the country. TLDR: it didn't work. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This lovely book plopped through my door, with a chapter by me and the brilliant @ebenbow.bsky.social on so-called 'pilgrim souvenirs', medieval staff toppers, mould-making, trade in trinkets, and why we should embrace ambiguity in studying these objects.

It's Thomas Becket (or Beket), not Thomas a Becket olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/9...

My talk on medieval pilgrimage in Yorkshire for the Yorkshire Historic Churches Trust is on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lmN...

Some recent work of mine has been mapping the pre-Norman Conquest churches of the north of England. Each church has either links to its pre-Conquest stonework, a brief description of why it is included, or a fuller description for the more significant ones.

faithinthenorth.org/resource-hub...

Thanks @liber-ray.bsky.social for an extremely thorough (and gratifyingly positive!) review of my 'Customary of the Shrine of St Thomas Becket' in the latest issue of Medium Aevum!