There’s been much recent scholarly interest in queenship, and this inevitably leads to the recurring historical question: what changed in medieval queenship and when? To answer this. it’s often use…| Magistra et Mater
Generic picture of speaker at IMC I had to cancel going to the International Medieval Congress 2025 in person at the last minute because of health problems, but I did at least get to attend virtual…| Magistra et Mater
My PhD supervisor and friend Janet (Jinty) Nelson died in October last year. There have been a lot of events to commemorate her, many of which I’ve taken part in. I’ve also written a ob…| Magistra et Mater
Note: this blog post was originally written for the Turbulent Priests project blog (https://turbulentpriests.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog/csi-carantania) in 2020. The translations have been slightly updated from that version. At some point in the mid-ninth century an auxiliary bishop called Osbald had a serious problem with a turbulent priest in Carantania (later the duchy of Carinthia in southern Austria […]| Magistra et Mater