MedievalCanter
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Hi I'm Diane Heath, a medievalist at Canterbury Christ Church University and a researcher at Dana Centre Science Museum. Joint editor with Dr V. Blud for University of Wales Medieval Animal series
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My book, Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance: Typologies of violence and desire, with @manchesterup.bsky.social, is coming out next month! I would be delighted if you might consider ordering a copy for your libraries 💚
August 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
My book, Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance: Typologies of violence and desire, with @manchesterup.bsky.social, is coming out next month! I would be delighted if you might consider ordering a copy for your libraries 💚
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July 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Well I certainly won't ever use them again
Yes, it was a tender reading
I did the full Margery (if you know, you know ...) in response to Laura's beautiful poem at GMS last week. So this is such a lovely piece of encouragement for me.
Such beautiful, moving, & nuanced writing. I was lucky enough to hear Lucy's paper about this moment in the King of Tars at the @medievalgender.bsky.social conf last wk- I'll be using this post when I teach the poem again in Oct as this has made me reframe how I approach the child in that poem.
July 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Yes, it was a tender reading
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This might also be a good opportunity to share my poem 'Medieval Mystic Margery Kempe in Tesco', published last year in The London Magazine (thank you!). It has a flavour of the medieval/modern mash-up that I enjoy! #gms2025 #teammargery thelondonmagazine.org/poetry-medie...
July 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
This might also be a good opportunity to share my poem 'Medieval Mystic Margery Kempe in Tesco', published last year in The London Magazine (thank you!). It has a flavour of the medieval/modern mash-up that I enjoy! #gms2025 #teammargery thelondonmagazine.org/poetry-medie...
Georgia is fab, great to see everyone at UWP reception last night. Thank you to all our guests
Our fabulous collaborator Georgia from @uniwalespress.bsky.social, showing off the newest additions to the Medieval Animals series at #IMC2025: Vered Tohar’s translation of the Hebrew Physiologus, and _Introducing Medieval Animal Names_ by Ben Parsons.
July 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Georgia is fab, great to see everyone at UWP reception last night. Thank you to all our guests
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Popping this out there for the evening crowd. It's part of a new writing project - I'm excited and nervous, so any support would be welcome! Here, I'm writing about how a long-ago writer captured grief for a wanted baby that didn't come to be.
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July 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Popping this out there for the evening crowd. It's part of a new writing project - I'm excited and nervous, so any support would be welcome! Here, I'm writing about how a long-ago writer captured grief for a wanted baby that didn't come to be.
lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/grief-care...
lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/grief-care...
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#GMS2025 was fantastic-inspiring, encouraging, and also exhausting. I thought I might have a wander around London tonight, but after 3 days of conferencing and 1 of walking the entirety of Canterbury I ordered food in and am going to watch some fluff.
July 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
#GMS2025 was fantastic-inspiring, encouraging, and also exhausting. I thought I might have a wander around London tonight, but after 3 days of conferencing and 1 of walking the entirety of Canterbury I ordered food in and am going to watch some fluff.
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This will be amazing!
Pleased to say @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social have commissioned a new live online course from me for summer 2026 onward! Medieval Chivalry for 10 weeks! Chat with me weekly! lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/medi... Please share.
Medieval Chivalry
Chivalry was more than medieval knights in shining armour jousting for the love of fair ladies. This course explores how chivalric values profoundly shaped political, literary and artistic cultures fr...
lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk
July 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This will be amazing!
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If you read nothing else today, read this.
To help understand why the vital work of @refugeetales.bsky.social is more important than ever please read the words of Pious Keku
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#RefugeesWelcome
#EndIndefiniteDetention
Please will you read Pious’s words and share them.
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#RefugeesWelcome
#EndIndefiniteDetention
Please will you read Pious’s words and share them.
The long walk to freedom | The Observer
Pious Keku escaped forced labour in Ghana and human traffickers in the UK only to be placed in detention
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July 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
If you read nothing else today, read this.
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I appreciate all the shares I’ve had on this! It will be a really fun course & it also gives me some welcome additional income after the cuts that were made to my main post, which kick in from August… The realities of HE life these days.
Pleased to say @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social have commissioned a new live online course from me for summer 2026 onward! Medieval Chivalry for 10 weeks! Chat with me weekly! lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/medi... Please share.
Medieval Chivalry
Chivalry was more than medieval knights in shining armour jousting for the love of fair ladies. This course explores how chivalric values profoundly shaped political, literary and artistic cultures fr...
lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk
July 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I appreciate all the shares I’ve had on this! It will be a really fun course & it also gives me some welcome additional income after the cuts that were made to my main post, which kick in from August… The realities of HE life these days.
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This comment absolutely made my day. I've been working really hard with my writing, and it is so lovely to feel as if we're starting to build a real community here on bluesky.
You write so beautifully! I’m long-term housebound and the appreciation of small natural wonders is totally my thing these days: soothing, gently stimulating, healing. Do you/do you plan to publish these pieces elsewhere?
July 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This comment absolutely made my day. I've been working really hard with my writing, and it is so lovely to feel as if we're starting to build a real community here on bluesky.
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#PrideMonth might be drawing to a close, but we’re just getting started:
Only two days until this year's Gender & Medieval Studies conference on charity and care in the global Middle Ages!
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Only two days until this year's Gender & Medieval Studies conference on charity and care in the global Middle Ages!
medievalgender.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/GMS-2025-Conference-Programme.pdf
@medievalcanter.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM
#PrideMonth might be drawing to a close, but we’re just getting started:
Only two days until this year's Gender & Medieval Studies conference on charity and care in the global Middle Ages!
medievalgender.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/GMS-2025-Conference-Programme.pdf
@medievalcanter.bsky.social
Only two days until this year's Gender & Medieval Studies conference on charity and care in the global Middle Ages!
medievalgender.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/GMS-2025-Conference-Programme.pdf
@medievalcanter.bsky.social
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Possibly the best backdrop for a Medieval Studies conference (and the prettiest name tags). A great day at #GMS2025, thank you @medievalcanter.bsky.social!
July 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Possibly the best backdrop for a Medieval Studies conference (and the prettiest name tags). A great day at #GMS2025, thank you @medievalcanter.bsky.social!
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Will you be attending @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week? Join us in celebrating our brilliant Medieval Animals series on Tuesday 8th July at 5:30pm in the Parkinson Building🥂
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July 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Will you be attending @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week? Join us in celebrating our brilliant Medieval Animals series on Tuesday 8th July at 5:30pm in the Parkinson Building🥂
@medievalcanter.bsky.social @vickiblud.bsky.social
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So many highlights of #gms2025! @menysnoweballes.bsky.social plenary, the Unruly Wombs roundtable, all the care that @medievalcanter.bsky.social showed us (cake & more!), and spending time with the most wonderful people ❤️ Thank you!
July 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
So many highlights of #gms2025! @menysnoweballes.bsky.social plenary, the Unruly Wombs roundtable, all the care that @medievalcanter.bsky.social showed us (cake & more!), and spending time with the most wonderful people ❤️ Thank you!
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Great first day of the Gender & Medieval Studies 2025 Conference. Thanks to Dr Diane Heath @medievalcanter.bsky.social and #CKHH Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh for organising! Looking forward to tomorrow! #GMS2025
July 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Great first day of the Gender & Medieval Studies 2025 Conference. Thanks to Dr Diane Heath @medievalcanter.bsky.social and #CKHH Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh for organising! Looking forward to tomorrow! #GMS2025
The final bkog from Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh as she is leaving CCCU. An appalling decision by the University blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...
The Nightingale, the Chough and the Phoenix – flying together in Canterbury and Kent | Centre for Kent History and Heritage
From my perspective, this is the last CKHH blog. Consequently, I would just like to say that when Matthew Crockatt said back in 2014 the best way to build an audience was to post regularly and often, ...
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July 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The final bkog from Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh as she is leaving CCCU. An appalling decision by the University blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...
So much going on, MEMSFEST report, Faversham Magna Carta talk Cathedral document workshop - and tea! blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...
From Medway to Dover – exploring history and heritage in Kent | Centre for Kent History and Heritage
Firstly, congratulations to Dr Kaye Sowden who has received confirmation that her doctoral thesis on the history of early modern Pluckley has been signed off by her examiners and is therefore now comp...
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June 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
So much going on, MEMSFEST report, Faversham Magna Carta talk Cathedral document workshop - and tea! blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...
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At the University of Bologna today for a meeting of the Coimbra group of European Universities. Great talks and a sharing of challenges and perspectives. But best of all...the Rector has a 16thc portrait of Gaspare Tagliacozzi in his office, which features his treatise on rhinoplasty. #earlymodern
June 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
At the University of Bologna today for a meeting of the Coimbra group of European Universities. Great talks and a sharing of challenges and perspectives. But best of all...the Rector has a 16thc portrait of Gaspare Tagliacozzi in his office, which features his treatise on rhinoplasty. #earlymodern
Lots to enjoy in Sheila's latest blog, MEMSFEST GMS and oodles of greatvthings about Christ Church Gate and Becket miracle windows - what a great week! blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...
Working together in Canterbury – shared ideas through people, places and buildings | Centre for Kent History and Heritage
A final notice for the University of Kent’s MEMS Fest where Peter Joyce, Kieron Hoyle and Jason Mazzocchi will be presenting their session on ‘Challenging Perceptions: Identity and Representation in S...
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June 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Lots to enjoy in Sheila's latest blog, MEMSFEST GMS and oodles of greatvthings about Christ Church Gate and Becket miracle windows - what a great week! blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...
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I managed to see the Worth exhibition in Paris & it’s drool worthy!
June 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I managed to see the Worth exhibition in Paris & it’s drool worthy!
Faversham talks, MEMS Fest at UoK and all sorts of great research - please read Sheila's blog here blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...
Kent History Postgraduates – from oysters to gold rings | Centre for Kent History and Heritage
Now that we are in June, I thought I would highlight some of the forthcoming events involving Kent History Postgraduates and others associated with the CKHH before I report on Jason Mazzocchi’s presen...
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June 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Faversham talks, MEMS Fest at UoK and all sorts of great research - please read Sheila's blog here blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...
Great week for the Centre for Kent History and Heritage - a brilliant Becket Lecture from Professor Rachel Koopmans and a Cathedral workshop too. blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...
Rachel Koopmans and Becket and Benedict | Centre for Kent History and Heritage
Before I report on the events involving the CKHH this week, that is the Becket Lecture and the Becket and Benedict workshop in the chapter house and cathedral, I thought I would bring a few notices to...
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May 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Great week for the Centre for Kent History and Heritage - a brilliant Becket Lecture from Professor Rachel Koopmans and a Cathedral workshop too. blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/...