Hello new followers! If you're interested in medieval history, you might like the blog I run with @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social#middleages. Here are five of my best blog posts from this year:

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Tenth-century France meets global history, as pre-crusade travel to Jerusalem ramps up in the _Life_ of a millennial traveler to the Holy Land, Archdeacon Adrald of Troyes (the only Latin account of the Holy Land for many decades either side): salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2024/07/02/s...

Source Translation: A Tenth-Century Voyager to Jerusalem: the Life of St Adrald

It’s fair to call the Vita Aderaldi an obscure text. It’s not unknown – I dream of finding a completely unknown text, with the closest I’ve come so far my redating of the Vita Amabilis – but it rarely...