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OK, so I missed Andy Murray’s Wimbledon semi-final.  And I missed seeing England hammer the Aussies in Cardiff.  But I didn’t care.  Because I was incredibly excited to be at my first Chaucer conference. The Biennial London Chaucer Conference took place at the Institute of English Studies last Friday and Saturday.  Given that the manuscript I work on has been (wrongly) attributed to Chaucer, and that the theme of this year’s conference was “Science, Magic, and Technology”, th

I recently returned from the International Congress on Medieval Studies.  It’s held every year at the University of Western Michigan in Kalamazoo (USA), and this year was the 50th congress. 3000 medievalists met to discuss everything from Viking archaeology to Middle English poetry – and of course there was a mead and ale tasting.  I’ll put together some tweets from the congress in a future post.  For now, here’s a recording (with PowerPoint slides) of my presentation at the

I wrote this post for the blog of the 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine (iCHSTM), which takes place in Manchester on 21-28 July 2013.  Loyal readers of this blog won’t find much new here, but it’s a fair summary of my research so far. I have modified my views slightly since writing this, mainly about how sophisticated an astronomer the equatorium’s creator was, and how sure we can be about Schöner’s purposes.  I’m looking forward to di