CFP: A Hild Companion
This is a call for contributors, and ideas, to a companion volume to Hild: an accessible guide to the book and its Early Medieval context.
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Hild’s feast day
Today is the anniversary of Hild’s death in 680. I mark it because Hild—and Whitby, and ammonites—have marked my life.
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Last week I spent five days at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, to attend IONA: Early medieval studies on the islands of the North Atlantic—transformative networks, skills, theories, and methods for the future of the field. If you are an early medievalist, you should go the next one at King’s College London, November 2021.
Read more "IONA Vancouver"Cait Sith in the Eildon Hills
Two maps of Gododdin territory—where Hild becomes Cait Sith…
Read more "Cait Sith in the Eildon Hills"Paperback of Hild just out in the UK
Hild is “A magnificent and convincing portrayal of a strange, wild, beautiful world.” — Guardian
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Hild is heading north to talk (unofficially, of course) with Coledauc of the Gododdin. I had to draw maps to work out where she might go, and how, and why.
Read more "Gododdin"Breguswith’s eye salve kills MRSA
Breguswith knew all about the miracle eye salve that fights MRSA…
Read more "Breguswith’s eye salve kills MRSA"Hæðfeld: Where Edwin lost his head?
Where, exactly, was the battle of Hæðfeld? I have a theory, based on research I’ve done on water courses and roads of 632.
Read more "Hæðfeld: Where Edwin lost his head?"Working Roman baths in 7th C Northumbria?
Were there any working baths in seventh-century Northumbria? I’m guessing not, but perhaps some of those wall forts were in reasonable shape. Birdoswald? How about Arbeia? We know that Osric was born there…
Read more "Working Roman baths in 7th C Northumbria?"East Anglian accession dates
According to Bede, when Hild is recruited to the church in 647 CE she is in East Anglia, and has been for a year. I’m trying to work out why.
Read more "East Anglian accession dates"Latin for fourteen hundredth anniversary?
This year is the 1400th anniversary of Hild’s birth. According to Bede.* Given that her feast day is mid-November, and in my novel her birthday is mid-October, I’ve decided autumn would be a splendid time to celebrate.
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Two pieces of news. On Wednesday, the twentieth anniversary of our first (not legal) wedding, Kelley and I got married in the eyes of the US government. Some more nifty blurbs for Hild:
Read more "Some news"Shoutout to favourite bloggers in an interview about writing Hild
Here’s a long and meaty conversation between me and my editor Sean McDonald (VP and Executive Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux) about the making of Hild. I talk about going to Whitby for the first time, years ago, and having the fundamental realisation that shaped my writing career and made Hild inevitable:
Read more "Shoutout to favourite bloggers in an interview about writing Hild"The cover of HILD
Coming 11.12.13 This is the cover of my novel, Hild (available for pre-order) which will be published in the US on 12 November 2013 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (When I know UK and other publication dates I’ll post them.) I love it. It’s not perfect. First, what I love. As this is a JPEG, […]
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detail from the cover of Hild * This blog began in 2008 with a medievalist blogger’s meme game about favourite historical characters. (I was tagged by Michelle of Heavenfield.) I desperately wanted to talk about Hild, the main character of the novel I was working on at the time. But I had no blog. I built one. So […]
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