What's On In May
Medieval Musings
What’s on this month at Medieval Musings?
Here you’ll find a roundup of what’s to come in May PLUS all the posts shared in April, in case you are one of the 400 new subscribers who have joined us in the last month!
THE place on Substack to indulge in our shared love of medieval history!
🖋️ Saturday 3rd May: Photo diary of a recent trip to the British Museum, sharing particularly their sparkly early medieval exhibition. It’s the home of the Sutton Hoo treasure PLUS a stunning array of artefacts excavated from the famously richly furnished graves of the early Anglo-Saxon period. For all those who live far from London but long to see its medieval collection - this one’s for you!
📹 Tuesday 6th May, 8pm GMT / 4pm EST / 1pm PT: Substack Live Video, a Q&A on Viking history with the wonderful
of . It will last about 1 hour, with a formal start to the session at 8:05pm GMT. I’ll start by asking Irina some questions before opening the floor to subscribers. You can guarantee the inclusion of your question by filling in this form here (click the link and scroll to the bottom).
🖋️ Saturday 10th May: biography of a holy woman featured in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica, with a discussion about how her life fits into our broader understanding of 7th-century womanhood and what we can learn from her life.
🖋️ Saturday 17th May: written interview with the fantastic
, a researcher of Merovingian Francia who writes on Substack as . Take a peek at one of her recent posts below to whet your appetite!📚 Saturday 24th May: a review of my current nonfiction read, Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been by Emily Murdoch-Perkins (2024).
🖋️ Saturday 31st May: a case study in using archaeological sources to reconstruct the lives of real historical individuals.
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