Delighted that my article 'Thinking with the Renegade' has been published in JMEMS, tracing the history of the 'renegade' as a figure in English culture. It is part of my @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project on cultural representations of Ottomans and others around the Siege of Rhodes 1480

¡Novedad! "Guía de viajes por la Edad Media", del mayor experto en el viaje y la peregrinación en la Edad Media Anthony Bale, llegará a librerías el 29 de septiembre 📚 Descubre cómo era imaginado, percibido y experimentado el mundo por los viajeros medievales✨ aticodeloslibros.com/inicio/393-g...

Just a reminder that in the midst of waves of anti-migrant, anti-refugee and anti-asylum-seeker rhetoric and activism, there are also many charities working quietly, stoically and hard to fuel a better conversation and a better future. Actively supporting them makes a difference.

The beautiful monastery at Sázava 🇨🇿 where the Charles University Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages is holding its summer school, themed this year around medieval travel. Many layers of history and a great atmosphere

📌 15 de septiembre: "Flashman y señora" de George MacDonald Fraser 📌 15 de septiembre: "Muerte en el Ártico" de Tom Hindle 📌 22 de septiembre: "Guía de viajes por la Edad Media" de Anthony Bale #ÁticodelosLibros #ÁticoHistoria

"The Cat Read the Emails First" (2025) acrylic painting By Ukrainian artist Nataliya Bagatskaya - n.bagatska [IG] #art #painting #illustration #caturday

📢 Funding opportunity for digital artists 🎨: The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab Digital Artists’ Bursaries are transformative grants for digital artists to explore new approaches and ways of engaging with the Middle Ages and medieval collections in Cambridge. More details here:

Got a book on ‘black magic’ from @thelondonlibrary.bsky.social 🧙🏼‍♂️Discovered that John and Cathy had been using it for practical fortune telling. At least they only wrote in pencil

"Wir nehmen uns selbst mit, wohin wir auch gehen, und unsere Werte und Ansprüche erlegen uns Grenzen auf, selbst dann, wenn wir auf der Suche nach Freiheit sind." Anthony Bale über das Reisen (in seinem Buch: "Reisen im Mittelalter")

Thrilled to be hosting this ONLINE, FREE Art Break to talk to Anthony Bale (@[email protected]) about travel in the Middle Ages on Sept. 4th at 12pm PST--sign up here: www.getty.edu/calendar/art...

Os va a en-can-tar esta deliciosa guía del viaje en la época medieval que ha escrito @realmandeville.bsky.social: "Guía de viajes en la Edad Media", con visita de autor y goce garantizado. En librerías el 22/09.

📢 Funding opportunity for digital artists 🎨: The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab Digital Artists’ Bursaries are transformative grants for digital artists to explore new approaches and ways of engaging with the Middle Ages and medieval collections in Cambridge. More details here:

Join me and Larisa Grollemond @gettymuseum.bsky.social talking about medieval travel next month: www.getty.edu/calendar/art...

In her first act as the new President of The British Academy, Professor Susan J Smith FBA has today written to the Prime Minister to warn that cuts and contractions are damaging the UK’s higher education system www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/new-aca...

🎉 We’re thrilled to share that Girton Fellow Professor Anthony Bale has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy, in honour of his outstanding contributions to scholarship. Read more ➡️ https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/news/girton-medievalist-professor-anthony-bale-elected-fellow-british-academy

British Academy elects twelve @cam.ac.uk researchers to Fellowship in 2025 www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in 2025 – a higher number than in previous years due to new Fellowship places for candidates whose research spans more than one discipline www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...

Had a great time running the #thelondon10k and raising money for the amazing underwear charity Smalls for All, to say pants to poverty: gofund.me/46de96dd

Marina Warner’s eloquent and urgent new book, tracing the rich human histories of sanctuary - on what it means to find and to lose a place of shelter.

'The British Library has acquired five medieval manuscripts of outstanding national heritage significance, formerly in the collection of Longleat House' @britishlibrary.bsky.social blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...

The RES annual essay prize for postgraduate students: deadline 30 June academic.oup.com/res/pages/es...

I know this holiday means different things for folks, but 1 thing we all can agree on: my 224th #ScholarSunday thread features a mother lode of public scholarly writing, podcast eps, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Share widely & enjoy, all!🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

Anthony Bale: How the internet is distinctly Chaucerian

@thereisnocat01.bsky.social Chambéry, France.

“A mery May”. The Betley Window, c. 1500, V&A.

Dnes mi v knihovně přistála jednohubka od @realmandeville.bsky.social

The US 🇺🇸 paperback edition of A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: the World through Medieval Eyes is here! 📚🌏🛫 Published by @wwnorton.com. Details: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Middle English nouns for waste/refuse 🗑️🚮♻️: dregges: sediment drifdraf: general waste dross: impure/counterfeit metal garbage: offal, bird entrails jonk: worn-out rope litter: straw for bedding rammel: waste stone-chips/brush robuish: waste building materials trash: brush, kindling, fallen leaves

Lovely to see @girtoncollege.bsky.social’s medieval diptych of the Annunciation & Assumption by Francesco di Vannuccio (c. 1380) in the National Gallery’s super Siena exhibition. In the left panel, 2 supplicants kneel before a miniature version of Simone Martini’s Annunciation altarpiece.

Insightful, sometimes funny, with a dual perspective both practical and spiritual. You can almost smell and touch the medieval lodgings, markets, the incense ... A book that will surely reverberate on my future travels.📚 Also made me want to read 2 other books again. @realmandeville.bsky.social

It’s 1 year since the US audiobook of A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages was published and to celebrate there’s 70% off until May 1st! Details below:

Nearly 50 of my publications & the same number of my late Dad's publications have been used by AI companies without permission. Zero compensation or credit for authors, zero copyrightholder control. I’ve today written to Meta giving notice that they don’t have the right to use my publications.

12. A TRAVEL GUIDE TO THE MIDDLE AGES by Anthony Bale brings together lots of original translation to paint a fascinating picture of Europeans venturing regularly across Eurasia as far as China (and Asians travelling the opposite way). Great pseudo-medieval illustrations by Giles Herman too.

Need a break from current events? Travel through space! Travel through time! I probably won't finish this, knowing me, but it's pretty great so far... @realmandeville.bsky.social A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages tinyurl.com/4kbxfer8

Trump and Vance act as if the problem is that Ukraine is resisting an ongoing Russian invasion. The problem is the ongoing Russian invasion. If they want to use American power to stop the war, apply it to the aggressor. Abusing the victim is not going to end a war of aggression.

The call for papers for the 2026 NCS Congress in Freiburg is out! Submit a paper proposal!

Very much enjoyed the folding calendars in the informative and beautiful new exhibition @lampallib.bsky.social - late medieval saints’ calendars, prognostications, a Hell mouth, zodiac and wound men, in creative formats. Unfolding Time: Medieval Pocket Calendars, until 15th May

Visiting Fellowships in Leuven, if you were looking for one. They basically offer a travel subsidy and accommodation for 4-6 weeks. www.kuleuven.be/lectio/visit...

Who would invent a story about a Pope who was secretly a woman and why was it so widely believed for so long? The legend of Pope Joan, this week: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

It’s time to start a new book. An interesting time, as I have nothing specific in mind to read next. Three of these I received as gifts 💛 and the fourth I bought purely because of the title and cover. 😀 Which way to go… 🤔 #booksky

A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages will be published in Czech translation next week! Středověký turista: Poutníci, učenci a špioni na cestách. Trans. Marek Sečkař (Brno: Nakladatelství Host) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 www.hostbrno.cz/stredoveky-t...

Thank you to @britishlibrary.bsky.social for such a brilliant exhibition - and a shout out to @realmandeville.bsky.social for your bits!

JUST LOOK at these fantastic new contributions to the MAFE Jewish Life in the Middle Ages series. Hot off the presses, a resource by Maya Soifer Irish on "The Vanished Synagogues of Medieval Spain." middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu/vanished-syn...

The frosty ruins yesterday of White Ladies priory, Shropshire, a twelfth-century house of Augustinian canonesses

'Mandragora hath...tweye maner kynde: the femel is yliche in leves to the letuse and bereth apples. That other is male with leves liches to the beete...' Writing about medieval mandrakes, medicine, gender and magic. Here's a female from @labnf.bsky.social & a male from @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Muy entretenido, bien escrito y muy bien documentado. Como una guía de viajes medieval a partir de descripciones y otras fuentes. Muy chulo.

'Dat reizen de geest verruimt, komt wellicht niet doordat het leidt tot grenzeloze ontdekkingen maar doordat het ons helpt onze eigen grenzen en de grenzen van de wereld te begrijpen.' Anthony Bale @realmandeville.bsky.social #uitgelezen www.uitgeverijbalans.nl/boeken/op-re...