I wrote a book! The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living will be published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social on 1st April- and if you preorder from Waterstones between now and Friday it is 25% off: www.waterstones.com/book/the-med...

Happy VD day! Hot off the press on this lovely Valentine’s Day- THE DREADED POX - a history of having and living with VD (venereal disease) in London hundreds of years ago. www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

The woman who made the Tudors | @katherineharvey.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...

I picked my books of the year for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social

A chance discovery in a Tokyo library uncovered a medieval memoir by Lady Nijō, a glimpse into the tradition of female autobiography in Heian and Kamakura Japan. Confessions of a Japanese noblewoman | @katherineharvey.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/con...

Belief in the living dead arose whenever faith wavered and fear reigned supreme. The curious case of corpse killings | @katherineharvey.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...

Across the medieval world, the Moon induced feelings of fear and fascination. Mystery in the Moon | @katherineharvey.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/myst...

The myth of the solitary genius | @katherineharvey.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...

The idea of privacy is a surprisingly modern notion, but one worth defending. A little history of privacy | @katherineharvey.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/a-li...

The power of pilgrimage | @katherineharvey.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...

Am looking forward to chairing Kate Gibson’s paper on ‘Illegitimacy & Unmarried Parenthood in 18thC England’ on 11th February- why not join us? Online and all welcome, more details and registration here: www.history.ac.uk/events/illeg.... @kategibson.bsky.social

I picked my books of the year for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social : engelsbergideas.com/reviews/book...

Through the religious turbulence of the early modern period, women played an essential role in shaping, challenging, converting, and resisting Christian beliefs across Europe and the imperial world. Ghospelling and ghossiping | @katherineharvey.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/wome...

I'm looking forward to chairing Dyan Elliott's talk tomorrow evening (19/03)- why not join us? Free and online, but registration required:

Delighted to have a paper in this excellent new collection on the medieval archbishops of York and their records: boydellandbrewer.com/978191404915...

Am looking forward to chairing the IHR History of Sexuality online seminar on 19th March, when Dyan Elliott will be talking on 'The Medieval Clergy and Sexual Predation: Chastity as Blind(ness)'. More details (inc. booking) here:

I’m looking for reading on/ examples of blood pollution in non-Christian cultures- especially in relation to sacred spaces/ people, and ideally not menstrual blood. Can be anywhere in the world but needs to be c.1000-1400. Would appreciate any suggestions!

In which I review Carlos Eire's intriguing new book 'They Flew: A History of the Impossible' (out now from @yalebooks.bsky.social), and end up wondering if Joseph of Cupertino really could fly...

I wrote about medieval attempts to live forever for Made by History/ Time:

My thoroughly disgusting article about medieval saints and their parasites is in the November issue of History Today: www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

Never one to pass up the opportunity to write something disgusting, I wrote about how people in the past dealt with bedbugs for History Extra:

Am looking forward to chairing the IHR History of Sexuality seminar on 21st November, when @jeannecorviere.bsky.social will be speaking about 'Sexual Violence during the Lancastrian Occupation of Normandy.' More details (inc. free booking) here:

One for historians of medieval medicine: remnants of the tomb of Mondino de Luzzi (d.1326), set in the wall of the Ch of SS Vitale & Agricola, Bologna. I never knew it was so common for medieval Bolognese tombs to include class scenes! (there are better ones I could post, but hey, it's Mondino)

My new book is now available for pre-order. If it would be useful for your courses, please ask your library to request a copy *(it is very expensive so not sure anyone will be buying a personal copy)* www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Exciting news for fans of medieval bishops: The Church and Northern English Society in the Fourteenth Century (including my paper on 'Blood, Sex and Holy Water: Reconciling Churches and Churchyards in the Medieval Diocese of York') is now available to preorder!