I am thrilled to announce that a new edition of my MEDIEVAL ANGLO-JEWISH WOMEN project has just been released! Work will continue for the next 5 years, expanding and employing ever more precision, but it is already an excellent resource. Please do check it out: majw.uvic.ca/index.html. Pass it on.

Coming to this conversation late and puzzled that the dispute is bear vs. badger and not Benny Goodman vs. Artie Shaw. Begin the Beguine has always struck me as implicitly medieval. ;-)

Had a great time discussing @jctate1215.bsky.social's new book on litigation over advowsons at the ASLH conference. The scholarship on the early common law focuses on litigation over land, but Josh argues we should see advowson litigation as a central part of Henry II's reforms