James T Palmer

@jtpmedieval.bsky.social

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Restless medievalist • Professor at St Andrews, Scotland • Apocalypse/ Nature/ Science/ Medicine c. 500-c. 1000

A photo of the new book Early Medieval Medicine in Context
A photo of the new book Old English in Switzerland edited by Seiler and Studer-Joho
Author copies of my new book Merovingian Worlds
My recently-viva'd PhD student Matt Edholm with a copy of my book
The opening page of Gregory of Tours' Histories in the seventh-century manuscript Paris BnF 17655, complaining about the "decline or rather death" of the cultivation of the liberal arts.
James's kitchen calendar. It misses 11-14 November and after 27 November it goes back to 24 November. This has caused confusion in the house because we didn't notice.
James Palmer, Justine Firnhaber-Baker and Kate Ferris celebrate their inaugural professorial lectures at St Andrews
A photo of Summer's new book on Willibrord
A buffalo playing a banjo with the band name "Dry Island Buffalo Jump" above
Photo of Justine Firnhaber-Baker's new book "House of Lilies"
Ninth-century calendar noting that 13 Feb is the day birds begin to sing and ascend
Lawrence Nees's new book "Illuminating the Word in the Early Middle Ages"
Humpty Dumpty saying "When I use research culture it means just what I choose it to mean - nothing more nor less"
End of a letter in a ninth-century collection, with features possibly indicating how the original eighth-century letter was formatted.
Dog the Cat asleep on a pillow
Charlemagne's monogram in his first official document as king from 769, made out to Saint-Denis
Google kindly gives the distance from Jerusalem to the word 'Mediterranean' on a map rather than from the city to the body of water.
Advert for the Bullough Fellowship in Medieval History at the University of St Andrews. Deadline 1 December.