Harriet Soper
@hattiesoper.bsky.social
Lecturer in Medieval Literature @bristolunienglish.bsky.social. Interested in OE, ME & ON, currently working on play 🧸 The Life Course in Old English Poetry (CUP, 2024). She/ her. Views own.
how your email finds me
July 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
how your email finds me
this was probably Bad Luck
March 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
this was probably Bad Luck
Today! Speaking on 'Oaths on the Edge in The Battle of Maldon and Völundarkviða' for York Medieval Literature Seminar
March 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Today! Speaking on 'Oaths on the Edge in The Battle of Maldon and Völundarkviða' for York Medieval Literature Seminar
Rembrandt, 'Pannkaks-kvinnan' (1630 - 1669)
March 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Rembrandt, 'Pannkaks-kvinnan' (1630 - 1669)
spread the horror this Valentine's Day
February 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
spread the horror this Valentine's Day
OBSESSED with the Greedy Peasant's St Valentine's Day Cards for Medieval Peasants, available on Patreon
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www.instagram.com/greedy.peasant
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February 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
OBSESSED with the Greedy Peasant's St Valentine's Day Cards for Medieval Peasants, available on Patreon
www.patreon.com/c/greedypeas...
www.instagram.com/greedy.peasant
www.patreon.com/c/greedypeas...
www.instagram.com/greedy.peasant
tune in or drop by at 5.30pm for: a partially successful replica of a medieval buzz-bone; noble early medieval toddlers riding sticks as if on horseback; a feathered girl making out with a mermaid! 🧜♀️
January 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
tune in or drop by at 5.30pm for: a partially successful replica of a medieval buzz-bone; noble early medieval toddlers riding sticks as if on horseback; a feathered girl making out with a mermaid! 🧜♀️
tag yourself, i’m the shark unable to hide doubts about the conference paper
January 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
tag yourself, i’m the shark unable to hide doubts about the conference paper
all from Bristol Cathedral
January 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
all from Bristol Cathedral
unfortunately crazy patchwork-style stained glass is the best kind
January 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
unfortunately crazy patchwork-style stained glass is the best kind
… not the explanation of albatross height I was expecting but thank you for your efforts Google Images
January 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
… not the explanation of albatross height I was expecting but thank you for your efforts Google Images
Gotta be the random duck that accompanies the three wise men on the eighth-century Franks Casket. Evidently a really important duck.
January 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Gotta be the random duck that accompanies the three wise men on the eighth-century Franks Casket. Evidently a really important duck.
back in the office to tackle a series of start-of-term clusterpickles
January 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
back in the office to tackle a series of start-of-term clusterpickles
really looking forward to the Cross Country service from Bristol to York on December 23rd
December 8, 2024 at 3:01 PM
really looking forward to the Cross Country service from Bristol to York on December 23rd
most disconcerting pie of all time just dropped at Old English Reading Group: Holofernes’ head
November 27, 2024 at 7:46 PM
most disconcerting pie of all time just dropped at Old English Reading Group: Holofernes’ head
Imminent marking deadline and all I want to do is re-make this meme so that Derrida is copying his concept of pharmakon from Pink's 'Just Like a Pill' but I literally can't work out how and oops it's 10pm
November 19, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Imminent marking deadline and all I want to do is re-make this meme so that Derrida is copying his concept of pharmakon from Pink's 'Just Like a Pill' but I literally can't work out how and oops it's 10pm
Many thanks to Sarah at the Churches Conservation Trust for showing us around St John on the Wall! An incredible fourteenth-century church built directly into the city wall.
November 19, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Many thanks to Sarah at the Churches Conservation Trust for showing us around St John on the Wall! An incredible fourteenth-century church built directly into the city wall.
Have been trying to stick it out on X but giving up like everyone else. Here’s a pic of winter light in my new-ish shared office, looking forward to getting settled into bsky too:
November 16, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Have been trying to stick it out on X but giving up like everyone else. Here’s a pic of winter light in my new-ish shared office, looking forward to getting settled into bsky too:
deeply pleasant journey
October 25, 2023 at 12:10 AM
deeply pleasant journey
have arrived in new haven to cultivate the boorish manners of a yalie!
October 25, 2023 at 12:10 AM
have arrived in new haven to cultivate the boorish manners of a yalie!