Medieval Letters
Essays
Belief, Symbolism & The Body
Looking at the dead: The ethics of curiosity, consent, and what it means to witness the past
Why Crosses Don’t Equal Christian: Power, prestige, and the politics of symbolism in the early medieval world
Culture & Modernity
Why Translation Isn’t Neutral: Language, Power, and the Ethics of Reading the Past
Why Wales is Hard to Study: Between history, myth, and the language of conquest.
Horny for History: Watching Vikings
Who Gets to Learn the Past in Britain?
Feminism & Identity
Why Wales is Hard to Study: Between history, myth, and the language of conquest.
Feminism and Fuckability: Beauty Politics from Courtly Love to Instagram
Men Who Cry: Masculinity before Stoicism
History & Archaeology
Looking at the dead: The ethics of curiosity, consent, and what it means to witness the past
“Help! Help! I’m Being Repressed!”: Medieval Monarchy, Political Knowledge, and the Visibility of Rule
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How-to Humanities
Writing
How to Write a Close-Reading Paragraph That Actually Says Something
How to Use Secondary Scholarship Without Sounding Like You’re Summarising It
How to Structure a Long Essay (Without Killing the Argument)
Reading
How to Read a Medieval Text in Translation (And What Gets Lost)
How to Identify an Argument
Thinking
How to Develop a Research Question You Can Actually Answer
How to Connect Micro-History to Larger Intellectual Questions
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