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.

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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!