malcolmsfjohnston.bsky.social
Author and editor of late-medieval literary artefacts - which you can find at ceramicon.co.uk - I hope 1399: The Lancastrian Conquest will open new perspectives on this ever-fascinating period.
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@damianemail.bsky.social@damianemail.bsky.social → @malcolmsfjohnston.bsky.socialA rare look at the underside of the embroidery, revealing the toil - and lives - of the anonymous stitchers.
Show PostThis lighthearted overview of Thomas Arundel's central role in the events of 1399 doesn't do justice to the breadth and depth of the evidence in 1399: The Lancastrian Conquest longer.blue/posts/H6AhUY.... Maybe it should have been 1399: Arundel's Conquest?
Show PostI’ve just realized where Greengrass got his ideas abt medieval farming in *The Uprising*: just as the Ploughman, covered in mud, fruitlessly ploughs an assart in a salt marsh, so Dennis & his mother harvest “lovely filth” from their field. Equally accurate depictions of medieval English peasants.
Show PostPicks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been Lives in a dream Waits at the window Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door Who is it for? [Eleanor's ancestor, Elena Rigby, widow, appears in London record 1520, Letter Book N fol. 173r]
Show PostHere is '1399: The Lancastrian Conquest's synopsis and chapter summary. A full examination of current thinking on topics raised set against new findings based on original research. longer.blue/posts/hlBe5t....
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