Our Medieval Month | February 2025
What’s on at Medieval Musings
What’s on this month at Medieval Musings?
A roundup of what’s to come in February PLUS all the posts shared in January, in case you are one of the 1,400 new subscribers who have joined us in the last month!
📖 Saturday 1st February: instalment 5 of Hild’s Tale, the historical fiction novel I’m serialising exclusively on Substack.
You can find all previous instalments at the link below.
Hild’s Tale is a historical fiction novel based on (though not tied to) real events that took place in the kingdom of the Northumbrians during the late seventh and early eighth centuries. Abbess Hild, or Saint Hild as she later became known, was a woman who defied social and political expectations to become one of the most powerful people - yes, people, not women - in seventh-century England. Despite this, she was sidelined in the major contemporary histories; this story aims to give back the spotlight she so rightly deserves.
🖋️ Wednesday 5th February: a micro-post on Antiquarian archaeologist mishaps.
🖋 Saturday 8th February: an exploration of a problem I’ve come across in early medieval gender studies.
📖 Friday 14th February: A short story in honour of Valentine’s Day, based on a recent archaeological discovery.
📖 Saturday 15th February: Instalment 6 of Hild’s Tale.
🖋 Wednesday 19th February: a micro-post exploring clues in the archaeological record that the early medieval weak were beautifully cared for.
📚 Saturday 21st February: a review of a soon-to-be-released historical fiction novel set in the early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) kingdom of the West Saxons.
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