REED: Durham editors John McKinnell and Mark Chambers are pleased to announce the launch of the latest collection of records from Durham: the Durham Priory Feretrars’ Accounts. The ‘Feretrar’ (Medieval Latin feretrarius, from feretrum) was the officer-monk in charge of the shrine of St. Cuthbert and relics related to the saint – for their upkeep and maintenance, […]
REED: Durham editors Mark Chambers and John McKinnell are delighted to make available the latest set of Records of Early English Drama gathered from the documents of Durham’s great medieval monastery: from the accounts of the Almoners of Durham Priory.* The Almoner was the monk in charge of distributing charity and charitable gifts on behalf […]
REED: Durham editors John McKinnell and Mark Chambers are very pleased to announce the launch of the pre-publication records from the Durham Priory locelli. The designation locelli (from Latin locellus, lit. ‘a little place’) originally referred to boxes or chests in which important documents were stored. Now referring to a category of important Priory documents, the Durham locelli contain […]
Ted McGee, co-editor of the Yorkshire, West Riding REED material (with Sylvia Thomas) has made available some new records* for West Yorkshire, relating to performance in the ancient village of Methley and nearby Methley Manor, and in the accounts of Sir Leonard Beckwith of Selby (c.1520-1555). You can access all of the current West Riding […]
The pre-edited Records of Early English Drama drawn from the substantial family accounts of the Percys (the Medieval & Early Modern Earls of Northumberland) may now be viewed and searched on our ‘Percy Papers’ page. Check out the latest batch of Percy records here: The Percy Papers Thanks to REED editor Robert Alexander, assisted by […]
A revised and much more detailed index to York (1979), the first edition published by the Records of Early English Drama series, is now available on the REED Pre-publication Collections website. This index, prepared by York co-editor Magaret Rogerson, will greatly facilitate research on York’s entertainment history, as it corrects errors in the original printed […]
A play festival to accompany the fifteenth triennial colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l’étude du Théâtre Médiéval – jointly sponsored by the North East research team of Records of Early English Drama – will be held in Durham, England on 7-12 July, 2016. If you’re interested in contributing a production to the festival, please […]
The fifteenth triennial colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l’étude du Théâtre Médiéval, jointly sponsored by the North East research team of Records of Early English Drama, will be held in Durham, England on 7-12 July, 2016. You can find the official Call for Papers for the colloquium here: https://reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk/?page_id=650.
On Friday 28th March the only surviving mystery play of the Newcastle Corpus Christi cycle, Noah’s Ark, was performed by Newcastle University students and staff in the great hall of the Newcastle’s twelfth century Castle Keep. This late-medieval biblical play – probably originally and performed each year by the Newcastle Shipwrights’ guild at the Feast […]
Have a look at our new ‘Flower of the Month’ web page where, each month, we will post an amusing, interesting, or noteworthy entry drawn from the growing REED-NE evidence. This month’s flower: the mysterious ‘Modyr Nakett’: https://reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk/?page_id=344