The Guild of Medievalist Makers

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Grendel’s Mother Bites Back, 2024
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Don't forget that our next Making Space Session is this evening!

Join us to work on your creative-critical medievalist project, or respond to our optional theme: regrowth 🌱

Thank you very much for tagging us Francesca, we have shared this to our followers!

The deadline for this has been extended to 27th April. Although it's not exclusively a creative medieval CFP, some creative medievalists might be interested in its framing via Jarrow, the Codex Amiatinus, and site-writing! @guildmedmak.bsky.social

A white woman wearing a brightly patterned dress stands next to a large quilted piece of textile art, which is black handwritten scrawl on cream calico, increased in size.

Today I saw the Cromwell Textile Cloth - a representation of a list of textiles in Thomas Cromwell’s hand - hanging properly for the first time. In 22 years of quilting, I have made precisely two pieces I am completely happy with. This is one of them.

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Join us next week for another Making Space Session and work on your own creative-critical project or respond to the optional theme: regrowth 🌿

🌼Thursday 5th of March
🌸5:30pm-7:00pm (GMT)
🥬Online

Our friends at @thesowhat.bsky.social have released a new issue that includes articles by Guild members on their creative-critical practice! See their thread for more details on the fascinating articles included👇

Today! 🎉

Please note that this event is only open to Guild members, so make sure that you have joined up before you sign up!

I’m so excited (and a bit nervous!!) to be running this little jokewriting workshop for @guildmedmak.bsky.social on 12 March—tell your favourite medievalists to sign up and join us! 🤪

Jokewriting for Medievalists with Mary C. Flannery — The Guild of Medievalist Makers This is a workshop for any medievalist who wants to learn a fun new way to share their expertise. In his book The Comic Toolbox , writer John Vorhaus argues that ‘the difference between a class clown...

Sign up for 'Jokewriting for Medievalists with Mary Flannery' by following this link: www.guildmedmak.com/events-1-1/j...

A graphic featuring a medieval illustration of a smiling jester from Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, MS Francais 2643 (f. 60r). The text reads 'This is a workshop for any medievalist who wants to learn a fun new way to share their expertise. In his book The Comic Toolbox, writer John Vorhaus argues that ‘the difference between a class clown and a class nerd is that the class clown tells jokes everyone gets while the class nerd tells jokes that only he gets'. The basic premise of this workshop is: why can't we do both?'

🎺Herkens nu mi freindes🎺

The Guild are delighted to host @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social for her workshop 'Jokewriting for Medievalists'!

⌚5:30pm-7:00pm (GMT)
📆Thursday 12 March
📍Online

Spaces for this special event are limited, so make sure that you sign up using the link in the next post👇

Copy of medieval miniature of dragon with tongue sticking out and wings raised on a brown rock. Original from Getty Museum, MS. Ludwig XV 3, fol. 89

Same image showing all the medieval pigments applied

Here's a cute little dragon I painted on calfskin (copied from a 13th century bestiary) using traditional medieval techniques and pigments (labelled in second image) #medievalmanuscripts #medievalscriptorium #bookhistory

I'll be talking about the messy and difficult (but fun!) processes for making medieval manuscripts on Wednesday. There will also be guest appearances from cats in my presentation 😺 #bookhistory #medievalsky @ihr.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social

Was such a pleasure to work with Susie on this post- she’s a brilliant poet and her process is utterly fascinating! Excited to try out the prompt too!

Meet a Medievalist Maker: Susie Campbell — The Guild of Medievalist Makers “ Meet a Medievalist Maker ” is an ongoing series of blog posts introducing our members and the work they are doing. Each post is organized around our Four P’s: a project they are working on...

'I am interested in how spaces are processual, constantly changing, and in the challenge of how to stage in poetry the co-existence of different and varying pasts of a site.'

Meet poet @susiecampbell.bsky.social in our latest Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost👇

Our Guild members might be interested in these two grant schemes👇

A copy of The Translations of Seamus Heaney on a wooden surface.

New post!

I take an in-depth look at Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, alongside forays into Victorian translations by William Morris and the brilliantly named Athanasius Diedrich Wackerbarth.

This is based on an undergraduate lecture I gave at Oxford in 2020.

nikolasgunn.co.uk/2026/02/09/o...

Looking forward to this! 🌿 🔥

A medieval style painting of a young woman dressed in a red robe and a purple mantle, carrying a cross and a bell.

Current state of the painting I started at the @guildmedmak.bsky.social call yesterday:

Our next Making Space session is taking place this Thursday, 5:30pm-7:00pm (GMT) on Zoom!

Join us to work on your own creative-critical project, or let your imagination soar with our optional theme: birds 🦚🦢🦅

For those who enjoy their medievalism audible, 'A Whole Giant's Daughter Quest Thing' by @jolloyds.bsky.social offers a creative reinterpretation of the Welsh romance 'Culhwch and Olwen'.

You can listen now on BBC Sounds here:

Introduction to Making Medieval Manuscripts (Practice Based) This course introduces students to the complicated and messy processes of production through which pre-modern manuscripts were created

Returning to the London International Palaeography Summer School due to popular demand is our hands-on course that explores the materials and processes of manuscript production through experimentation 👇 #MedievalSky

ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

From Parchment to Binding - 29/05/2026 19:00:00 The Practical Processes of Making a Medieval Manuscript with Dr Sara Charles

I'm really looking forward to the wonderful exhibition on the Hereford Gospels later this year. I'll also be giving a talk and hosting an ink making workshop if you are in the area in May! www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/from-p...
www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/making...
@bibliojenni.bsky.social

It’s me! Talking about Stitching Cromwell with friends @guildmedmak.bsky.social!

Meet a Medievalist Maker: Lucie Bea Dutton — The Guild of Medievalist Makers “ Meet a Medievalist Maker ” is an ongoing series of blog posts introducing our members and the work they are doing. Each post is organized around our Four P’s: a project they are working on...

'I’m obsessed with Cromwell’s correspondence – there was just so much of it, and it is incredibly wide ranging.'

We're a broad church here at the Guild and enjoy showcasing creative-critical work from the fringes of the medieval period! Read about textile artist @drelvey.bsky.social's work here:

More Names, book by Stacie Vos

Microfiction by Stacie Vos

Microfiction by Stacie Vos

A pleasure to chair Stacie Vos’s paper at the Medieval English Research Seminar yday and to catch up with her at the Creative Medievalisms symposium last week, where Stacie read from her microfiction book MORE NAMES (The Keys to the Buttery here is inspired by Margery Kempe!)

Thank you very much!