KAS 21/09/2023 KAS 21/09/2023

Changing Queenships in 10th Century England: Rhetoric and (Self) Representation in the Case of Eadgifu at Kent in Cooling

Jonathan Tickle, 2023, Early Medieval Europe, 31: 598–628. [Research supported by the Allen Grove Local History Fund of the Kent Archaeological Society].

KAS 03/08/2023 KAS 03/08/2023

The Danelaw, 9th-11th century

Dr Alexander Thomas introduces the Danelaw; an 11th-century name for the areas of Northern and Eastern England in which the laws of the Danish Viking empire from the late 9th century until the early 11th century.

Dr Christopher Monk 11/07/2023 Dr Christopher Monk 11/07/2023

Animals and food at Rochester Priory, c.1235

Dr Christopher Monk explores details about animals and animal products consumed at Rochester Priory emerging from a section in Custumale Roffense concerning the monastery’s lay servants (folios 53r-60v).

Dr Christopher Monk 01/07/2023 Dr Christopher Monk 01/07/2023

The Rochester Bible, c.1125-1140

Dr Christopher Monk explores The Rochester Bible; a richly decorated manuscript produced by the monks of St Andrew’s Priory, Rochester.

Dr Christopher Monk 08/06/2023 Dr Christopher Monk 08/06/2023

Food rents paid to Rochester Priory, c. 1235

Dr Christopher Monk explores the role of animals and animal products at the Priory of Saint Andrew at Rochester, for everything from manuscripts to candles and transport to food.

Jacob Scott 01/06/2023 Jacob Scott 01/06/2023

Bede, Opera (volume 2), with manuscript leaves, 1521

Dr Christopher Monk leaves through a volume of Bede’s second opera in the Chapter Library collection featuring two medieval manuscript paste-downs.

Jacob Scott 07/12/2022 Jacob Scott 07/12/2022

Rochester Castle watergate, c.1380

The north-west curtain wall of Rochester Castle forms a bastion, or projection, at the point where the medieval Rochester Bridge crossed the Medway. An excavation in 2017 revealed the watergate in the west face of the bastion for the first time in decades.

Jacob Scott 29/11/2022 Jacob Scott 29/11/2022

Rochester Castle in the time of Odo and Gundulf, 1067-1088

Archaeologist Alan Ward discusses what we know - or what little we know - about Rochester Castle in the time of Odo and Gundulf (1067-1088).

Jacob Scott 25/09/2022 Jacob Scott 25/09/2022

Bishop Hamo of Hythe (c.1275-1352)

Perhaps second only to Gundulf in shaping the medieval Rochester Cathedral and St Andrew’s Priory, there is some evidence to suggest it may be down to Hamo and the turbulent times in which he lived that resulted in the two halves of Textus being bound together in the mid-fourteenth century.

Jacob Scott 07/10/2021 Jacob Scott 07/10/2021

Textus Roffensis origins

Dr Christopher Monk explores the origins of Ethelbert’s law-code, foundational document of the Early English Laws portion of the ‘Rochester Book’.

Jacob Scott 09/06/2021 Jacob Scott 09/06/2021

Rochester Cathedral Lapidarium and Spolia

Jacob Harry Scott, B.A., ACIfA, 2021, Submitted for the degree of Master of Arts in Archaeology & Heritage School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester.

KAS 04/08/2020 KAS 04/08/2020

Clandestine Marriage in the Diocese of Rochester during the Mid-fourteenth Century

Dr. Andrew J. Finch History B.A. (Hons); M.A. (Study of Contemporary Japan); D.Phil., 2020, Kent Archaeological Society Paper No. 22. Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.