I'm trying to be kind to the auto-caption, which is mostly doing a great job when faced with the C12th papacy, but 'pet trying Commission' is just brilliant.

Was Sejanus a villain or not? Join us this Wednesday for John Drinkwater's reassessment (sign up sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.u…)

🚨🚨🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨🚨🚨 The CLCLCL team has just posted a sample of an experimental project mapping ten twelfth-century legal texts across Europe using their places of origin, custodial history, and current location. #medievaltwitter #H2020 google.com/maps/d/viewer?…

A common refrain atm, but it becomes clearer every day just how incredible (my) students are, and that this year will only work because of them and their good humour.

Bede says that Bamburgh was the home of Oswald’s incorrupt right arm, A fact that caused William of Malmesbury no little alarm, For the monks of Peterborough claimed it as their own, And when the bishop visited showed him the flesh still on the bone! #OswaldsRaven #BeingHuman2020

Making my day today: students' accounts of their first trip to Sheffield as a fresher, in the style of a medieval pilgrimage narrative. V much looking forward to talking about them in class later.

For those interested, libraries are explicitly permitted to stay open for Click & Collect/delivery in the new English lockdown regs. Not much, but something, tho' guess there'll be local circs to take into account too.

Week 10: long but, now, over. And, next week's shaping up to be filled with canon law (yay!), including a chance to catch up with a super-fun project I've consistently managed to miss hearing about in the last few years...

Maps, databases, manuscripts, and canon law? What more could you want on a cold Wednesday evening...

A fabulous paper talking about a fascinating database: a real treat! A definite upside of online seminars is being able to hear about research from such a long way away.

Debating whether there's time before my next meeting to get to the post office. Probably, but 'sorry I'm late, I had to post some reindeer crumpets to my parents' is not the most compelling excuse if not.

There's something exciting about starting a semester in snow and knowing that it should, with any luck, end in sunshine.

This cat may be in a medieval law manuscript, but this cat is not a lawyer. 🐱📜 📷 MS C.I.3, folio 53r. #MedievalTwitter #LibraryTwitter #CatsOfTwitter

Debuting in my online seminars this week: one Thomas Becket mug; or, as @SXMedievalist put it, probably the only one I'll ever justify buying because it mentions medieval canon law. (Penguin not for purchase.)

Our co-sponsored #IMC2021 strand on 'Articulating legal and political boundaries' is on TODAY (s526, 626, 726, 826, 926). Come and here such wonders as Danica Summerlin @S_B_White @ifagersen, @KB_Neal and those (I think) not on twitter ....

A blog post I wrote for 'Historical Transactions' is now out, thinking about how we might like to reframe our understanding of Anglo-papal relations. Thanks again to the Royal Historical Society & Institute of Historical Research for supporting me during the final 6 months of my thesis!

I am very much looking forward to this seminar series, which takes place online and in Paris at the Sorbonne and IEA de Paris .