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Anthony Bale FBA
@realmandeville.bsky.social
Medievalist & wanderer. 🏳️‍🌈 Travel, literature, history, cats.
📖’A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages’ - ‘stunning’ (The Times)

University of Cambridge; Girton College Cambridge; London

https://linktr.ee/realmandeville
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Radio 4 is currently repeating this wonderful episode of In Our Time
BBC Radio 4 - Margery Kempe and English Mysticism share.google/9liBWxkcH4pC...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Margery Kempe and English Mysticism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe, the medieval English mystic.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Si siempre has querido saber cómo era hacer un viaje en la Edad Media, este libro de @realmandeville.bsky.social publicado en @aticodeloslibros.com es lo que estabas esperando historiaeweb.com/2025/11/20/g...
"Guía de viajes por la Edad Media", de Anthony Bale
"Guía de viajes por la Edad Media" es el nuevo libro publicado por Anthony Bale en la editorial Ático de los Libros
historiaeweb.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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アンソニー・ベイル/ ダコスタ吉村花子訳『中世トラベルガイド』(河出書房新社) 読了

歴史学者である著者が旅行記などから中世の旅とはどのようなものだったのかを描き出す。とはいえ中世の旅行記には行ったこともないのに想像で書いたものもあるので注意が必要w 旅の目的は巡礼と交易が主だったようで(旅があまりに苦難の連続なので物見遊山の旅人が少ないのは当然だ)、巡礼ならヨーロッパからエルサレム、交易であればもっと東方(インドや中国)までの旅が紹介されている。時折はさまれる旅の注意や、作法などのコラムが楽しい。それにしても、落書きしたり、記念物の石を削り取って持ち帰ったり、人間はあまり変わらないのねw
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 AM
🔔 job opportunity at @cam.ac.uk in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400 in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
www.cam.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The Snorri Sturluson Icelandic Fellowships invite writers, translators, and scholars in the humanities from around the world to spend at least three months in Iceland. Fellows receive support for travel and living expenses during their stay. Apply by 1 December.

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Snorri Sturluson Icelandic Fellowships
Annually The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies invites applications for the Snorri Sturluson Icelandic Fellowships.
arnastofnun.is
October 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Reading rec:
📖🧳 A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes 🧳📖
by Anthony Bale (@realmandeville.bsky.social)
www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

Entertaining exploration of how medieval European travelers made sense of foreign lands and the world.
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Me…
A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieva…
www.goodreads.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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The beloved BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time has been awarded the 2025 British Academy President’s Medal!

Professor Susan J Smith, President of the British Academy, praised the programme for bringing rigorous yet accessible discussion of complex ideas to millions of listeners: buff.ly/1bn63FD
October 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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you should read this book, one of the most interesting things I've read in years
October 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Anthony Bale: "En el siglo XV ya había turismo organizado en Europa"

El medievalista británico publica una guía que transporta al lector a los caminos, hostales y ciudades de la Edad Media.

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#ÁticoHistoria
Anthony Bale: "En el siglo XV ya había turismo organizado en Europa"
El medievalista británico publica una guía que transporta al lector a los caminos, hostales y ciudades de la Edad Media y recuerda que hace siete siglos viajar también era un ejercicio de curiosidad y...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.
October 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Few signed copies at Atticus Books in New Haven, CT if anyone’s interested! (And in good company @realmandeville.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social)

#medievalsky #booksky
October 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Medieval Literature faculty vacancy: Assistant Professor (Medieval British Literature), English Department, School of Arts & Sciences, Hunter College, CUNY

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
Jobs | City University of New York
cuny.jobs
October 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Hoy tengo niña con galipandria de caballo e inminente mañana perdida en el CAP, pero en cuanto tenga un rato os tengo que hablar de este maravilloso libro y su excelente autor. De lo mejor que ha pasado por mis manos en el último año. Ya os di alguna pinceladita, pero luego MÁS
Spanish translation published by @aticodeloslibros.com today! Plus Benny the cat, contemplating his imminent breakfast

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September 29, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Spanish translation published by @aticodeloslibros.com today! Plus Benny the cat, contemplating his imminent breakfast

aticodeloslibros.com/197-anthony-...
September 29, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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¿Turismo en la Edad Media?: Gaza, Jerusalén y Tierra Santa, destinos de los siglos XII, XIII y XIV

Consejos para cruzar el desierto o la tabla de tasas para Tierra Santa en 'Guía de viajes por la Edad Media'

elconfidencial.com/cultura/2025... @elconfidencial.bsky.social @realmandeville.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Delighted that my article 'Thinking with the Renegade' has been published in JMEMS, tracing the history of the 'renegade' as a figure in English culture. It is part of my @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project on cultural representations of Ottomans and others around the Siege of Rhodes 1480
Thinking with the Renegade: Politics of Conversion and Ambiguity of Identity in the Later Middle Ages
The figure of the renegade has often been considered an early modern invention, but the noun renegade and associated verbs entered the English language in the fourteenth century to describe figures wh...
doi.org
September 19, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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¡Novedad!

"Guía de viajes por la Edad Media", del mayor experto en el viaje y la peregrinación en la Edad Media Anthony Bale, llegará a librerías el 29 de septiembre 📚

Descubre cómo era imaginado, percibido y experimentado el mundo por los viajeros medievales✨

aticodeloslibros.com/inicio/393-g...
September 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Just a reminder that in the midst of waves of anti-migrant, anti-refugee and anti-asylum-seeker rhetoric and activism, there are also many charities working quietly, stoically and hard to fuel a better conversation and a better future. Actively supporting them makes a difference.
Join the Migration Museum team for a walking tour exploring the incredible stories of the generations of migrants who’ve lived, worked, and shaped the City of London.

🗓️ Sat 13 Sept 2025
🕜 1.30–3pm
📍 Starts behind the Royal Exchange, London EC3V 3LL
🔗 Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migration-...
Migration Museum Walking Tour
Discover 2000 years of migration history, following the stories of generations of migrants that have shaped the City of London.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The beautiful monastery at Sázava 🇨🇿 where the Charles University Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages is holding its summer school, themed this year around medieval travel. Many layers of history and a great atmosphere
September 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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📌 15 de septiembre: "Flashman y señora" de George MacDonald Fraser

📌 15 de septiembre: "Muerte en el Ártico" de Tom Hindle

📌 22 de septiembre: "Guía de viajes por la Edad Media" de Anthony Bale

#ÁticodelosLibros #ÁticoHistoria
August 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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"The Cat Read the Emails First" (2025)
acrylic painting

By Ukrainian artist Nataliya Bagatskaya - n.bagatska [IG]

#art #painting #illustration #caturday
August 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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📢 Funding opportunity for digital artists 🎨: The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab Digital Artists’ Bursaries are transformative grants for digital artists to explore new approaches and ways of engaging with the Middle Ages and medieval collections in Cambridge. More details here:
Medieval Ideas Creative Lab Digital Artists’ Bursaries | Medieval Ideas Creative LabFaculty of English
www.english.cam.ac.uk
August 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Got a book on ‘black magic’ from @thelondonlibrary.bsky.social 🧙🏼‍♂️Discovered that John and Cathy had been using it for practical fortune telling. At least they only wrote in pencil
August 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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"Wir nehmen uns selbst mit, wohin wir auch gehen, und unsere Werte und Ansprüche erlegen uns Grenzen auf, selbst dann, wenn wir auf der Suche nach Freiheit sind."

Anthony Bale über das Reisen (in seinem Buch: "Reisen im Mittelalter")
August 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM