Welcome!
This is the homepage for Carnivalesque, an interdisciplinary blog carnival dedicated to pre-modern history (to c. 1800 C.E.).
Carnivalesque is held every six weeks or thereabouts.
Latest 8 June 2013
Cesque 95 hosted by Larry Swain at The Ruminate.
Next 27 July 2013
Cesque 96 to be hosted by B. Ricardo Brown at Until Darwin.
Future Editions
July 2013: Until Darwin
September 2013: The Sloane Letters Blog
October 2013: Medieval Bex
December 2013: The History Tavern
Recent Editions
8 June 2013: Cesque 95 at The Ruminate
27 April 2013: Cesque 94 at the many-headed monster
9 March 2013: Cesque 93 at Renaissance Mathematicus
19 January 2013: Cesque 92 at Early Modern Notes
Hosting a Carnival
Carnivalesque is on the look out for hosts! If you've enjoyed reading the Carnivals, why not take a turn at hosting and help to keep them running?
You must have your own blog. Hosts do not have to be academics, but do need to have some knowledge of the field. (Pseudonymous bloggers are welcome.)
Hosting involves a few hours' work sifting through nominations and compiling the carnival. (Imaginative themes are welcome but not compulsory.)
Carnival Nominations
We welcome perspectives from a variety of fields, especially (but not only) history, literary studies, archaeology, art history, or philosophy. You can nominate your own writing and/or that of other bloggers, but please try not to nominate more than 1-2 posts by any author for any single edition of the carnival.
Nominated blogging may be 'academic' or 'popular', so long as it is based on facts and evidence. Writing that engages with the past to discuss present issues should include significant historical content and analysis, not merely polemic. All nominations are vetted by the host of the edition, whose decision is final.
How to submit nominations
Nominated posts should have been published within the last 2-3 months. The normal channel is to send an email to the host using the nomination form at this site. Individual hosts may provide additional options. Please ensure you include the full URL of the post you are nominating, and ideally the post title and blog name.
The Mistresses of Misrule co-ordinate the carnival, selecting hosts and helping to publicise upcoming editions.
- Sharon Howard lives in Yorkshire, UK; her main research interests are in 17-18th-century crime and women's history.
- Julie Hofmann's research interests are early medieval. She's based in the USA.
- Hannah Priest is a medievalist based in Manchester, UK. Her research interests include late medieval romance and popular literature, especially monsters.
Contact: misrule@carnivalesque.org
Recent Blog Posts
CFP: Carnivalesque
The next Carnivalesque will be at The Ruminate on 8 June.
Send nominations for the best blogging on everything pre-modern in the last couple of months via the form.
CFP: History Carnival
The next History Carnival is on 1 June at Performing Humanity.
Please nominate your favourite history blogging during the last month using the form here.