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Amid the lords and levellers, kings and regicides, Minoo Dinshaw tells a tale of two moderates in the Civil War, the prickly Ned Hyde and the affable Bulstrode Whitelocke. “Friends in Youth rewards the diligence it demands” -  Felicity Brown   thetablet.co.uk/books/a-most-c…

St. Hedwig calls out a nun who has a hedgehog "up her sleeve..." 🦔🥰 Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig XI 7

My book now has a cover and its own webpage! Forthcoming with Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press - Classics, 'Classics After Antiquity' series: Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile. cambridge.org/core/books/med…

I'm a John Audelay apologist. 'Rede thys offt, butt rede hit sofft,/ And whatt thou redust, forgeete hit noght,/ For here the soth thou maght se/ What fruyte cometh of thy body.'

Little church beyond Port Meadow in Binsey, Oxford at the end of our Thames Path journey:

Went to a farm last weekend and took some polaroids. If I were a pig, I would put these pig family photos up in my pig ark.

This video features the excellent Stewart J. Brookes (I'm envious of his ability to always speak fluently when recorded). Watch for lots of glossy, slo-mo zooming in on both manuscripts AND Stewart.

The book reviewer @whatchrissiereadnext on Instagram created this stunning and suitably spooky display for her copy of ✨Book Curses✨. I like that it looks as if the tendrils of roots from the cover's tree are growing from the book...

A strong book curse from ca. 600 years ago in a Greek manuscript Bodleian Libraries "...if anyone dares to steal this book... let him have the curse of all 7 ecumenical councils and of myself the sinful monk Gerasimos of Cyprus" #TuesdayFeeling #tuesdayvibe

Yesterday I taught a class on the poetry of the 1984-5 miners' strike (Tony Harrison's 'v'; Ted Hughes' 'On the Reservations'; Jean A Gittins. Rob kindly lent me his collection of lamp checks, which I made the students check in and out of the classroom with.

Anyone left here who's interested in fantasy. A free-to-attend summer school on fantasy in Oxford in September, with publishers, writers and experts, generously sponsored by Bloomsbury: fantasyliteratureschool.web.ox.ac.uk/home Please share!

My new profile picture is by the inimitable kristen haas curtis.bsky.social and I'm in love with it!

Today was a good day: I ate cinnamon bun the size of my face, and came away with second-hand bookshop haul. Look at this nice wood engraving of badgers by Zelma Blakely from 'The Book of the Countryside'.

I took my first-year undergrads to see some manuscripts in the Bodleian Libraries this week. We looked at a Latin bestiary, Jesus College MS 29 (featuring 'The Owl and the Nightingale', which they're studying) and a roll of devotional poems. Thank you Andrew Dunning !

I've a friend's advice and afforded myself space to noodle around with my art stuff. I'm part way through some little illustrations of the Owl and the Nightingale (...from 'The Owl and the Nightingale', shockingly)

Today was an excellent day. I walked a 10 mile British Pilgrimage Trust route from Islip to Oxford with my fantastic Balliol College English students. We stopped at three churches, ate our packed lunches in the sun, and built an impromptu log bridge to cross a flooded footpath.

Leaving Twitter with a bang! Very excited to announce that my article about a new manuscript copy of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 I have identified has been published online open access: academic.oup.com/res/advance-ar… Oxford Academic

Yesterday the Lincoln medieval mystery players processed through Oxford with our crucifixion cross (made by Lincoln’s multi-talented chaplain!) from its workshop to the archives. Come see the cross and players in action on Sat 26th April at Teddy Hall! Oxford Medieval Studies University of Oxford

Applications are coming in fast for this event University of Oxford so please get your proposal in asap! 3 days at Oxford discussing fantasy literature and all free courtesy of Bloomsbury Publishing English Faculty Outreach Exeter College, Oxford

In this week's ~pedagogical experiment~ my first years, who are studying the Ancrene Wisse, enclosed one of their number in a tape-marked anchorhold that matched the dimensions of the stone cell at Leatherhead. Others were cast as windows (posting permission was granted)