While I sadly couldn’t make Trinity Hall’s 675th Birthday celebrations at the Barbican last night due to teaching commitments, it was lovely to be asked to create a poster to explain a bit of my doctoral research to alumni, staff and students!

As someone who works on medieval Icelandic liturgy, and who sings Evensong regularly in my colleges chapel choir, I was very excited to see some familiar texts in BL Add. 4895 today!

I had the best time examining some liturgical fragments in Kansalliskirjasto on Wednesday, ahead of the colloquium ‘Books, Music and the Liturgical Life of the Medieval Church’. After a fascinating day of papers yesterday, I’m excited to give my own today.

I'm looking forward to returning to Reykjavík to present my paper at the 31st Congress of Nordic Historians on Wednesday. I am very grateful to the AHRC’s Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership for funding my attendance!

#CFP for #IMC2026 'New Approaches to Medieval Office Liturgy'. @imc-leeds.bsky.social

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Really enjoyed presenting my paper at @imc-leeds.bsky.social this morning in Session 1121: ‘Medieval Fragments II: Theological/ Liturgical Manuscripts + Incunabula’. Thank you @manuelmunoz.bsky.social for organising such an exciting and insightful set of four sessions! So many ideas to think about…

Quick update: I passed my registration viva last Thursday, and am now officially a PhD Candidate!

There’s a lot more work to do over the next few years but I’m excited to have reached this milestone in my research career.

I'm looking forward to presenting my research on the máldagabækur and the use of the breviary in the medieval Icelandic parish church at the 16th Bergen International Symposium in Old Norse Studies this coming week! This paper is based on a chapter of my PhD thesis.

Looking forward to presenting a paper on the máldagar (Icelandic church inventory charters). I will be exploring what they can tell us about liturgical books and devotional practices in the parish church at the 31st Congress of Nordic Historians in Reykjavík this August!

Even more excited for IMC Leeds this July now that the program has been published!

And here are the other two projects I completed in 2024 - the (rather well-endowed) tree is from a kit by the wonderful opus anglicanum embroidery!

I (finally) finished my first large tapestry project! Now time to block it and acquire a cushion the right size to sew it on to…

Today is the feast of the translation of St Þorlákr, bishop of Skálholt 1178-1193.

AM 241 a II fol contains the rhymed office Þorlákstíðir (fol. 1v-2r pictured). The entire manuscript is digitised online: handrit.is/manuscript/vie…

I am delighted to be attending #IMC2025! I'll be moderating the panel I organised on Christian Practices in the Medieval North and presenting a paper on Árni Magnússon's fragmentation of Latin Liturgical Manuscripts.

I identified this fragment (AM 241 III α fol) the other day! The ‘In Natalicio Sancti Olaui Regis et Martyris’ beginning with the (partial) response for the seventh lesson at first vespers. Best feeling ever!

A little life update: I’m delighted to have received a distinction in my MPhil and am very excited to be starting my PhD in ASNC in October, funded by the AHRC OOC-DTP and Trinity Hall!

I’ll be researching Latin Liturgical Manuscript Fragments in the collection of Árni Magnússon!