I am an accidental medievalist—snared by the Early Medieval through story not scholarship. Now I’m using fiction informed by scholarship to try change public notions of the Early Medieval. Here’s an interesting open-access journal article assessing one aspect of my impact.
Read more "Arthuriana and the Queer Medieval"I love the cross Hild wears on the cover of HILD and MENEWOOD—but it’s probably not what she would have worn
Read more "Hild’s cross"A project to create black and white zoomorphic images based on insular art
Read more "Zoomorphic art"Round and round we go—circular reasoning and its role in historical bias
Read more "Back to those women warriors, again"Was Francis of Assisi to blame for all those interminable nativity plays school children and their cruel teachers use to both amuse and horrify their parents? And would there have been nativity plays in 7th-C Britain?
Read more "Nativity scenes"Rudolph is a girl with a baby and a girlfriend. My kind of family tale.
Read more "Rudolph, her baby, and her girlfriend"Part One of my two-part examination of the major battles that bookend Menewood.
Read more "Two Battles — the Battle of Hatfield"MENEWOOD is out in the UK in paperback. As any writer will tell you: the hardest part of being an author isn’t writing the book, it’s selling it to readers who are inundated with choice. I’m guessing even Bede sometimes shouted desperately: Buy My Book!
Read more "Buy My Book!"Today is the Feast Day of James the Deacon, one of the original Roman mission to Britain, and a huge influence on Hild.
Read more "Feast Day of James the Deacon"I’ve been busy with many things—personal, professional, parental—that last few months and forgot to post about an event I did during Pride month here in Seattle. The whole event was huge—the doors were open from a little after 6:00 pm and I was signing books until after 10:00 pm. Before the main event we had […]
Read more "The Queer Medieval"It’s Yorkshire Day! But, er, what is Yorkshire?
Read more "Yorkshire Day!"The second novel about Hild, Menewood, is out now in North America in hardcover, audiobook, and ebook, and in the UK in audiobook and ebook, with the hardcover available in late November. It has a gorgeous cover by Anna and Elena Balbusso—the same artists who painted the Hild cover. And, as with Hild, I forgive […]
Read more "Menewood is out now!"In HILD, Hild acquires four bynames or epithets. In MENEWOOD she acquires more, the first of which is Cath Llew, or lynx. Here’s a post—maps! drawings!—about how and when that happened.
Read more "Hild’s bynames #5: Cath Llew"I loved the Leeds International Medieval Congress: warm, collegial, confusing, busy, exciting, tedious, tiring, and delightful, with all the best conversations happening in the bar.. Here’s my report.
Read more "International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2023"I’ll be doing an event at the Leeds International Medieval Congress on Wednesday 5th July at 7pm, with Elaine Treharne, Megan Cavell, Jennifer Neville, Joshua Davies, and Matt Hussey. Please come!
Read more "Hild and Menewood at the Leeds International Medieval Congress"
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