Just did an interview for Polish television, in my Queen’s University of Belfast capacity, on today’s EU summit and the challenges of the constitution. (Something I do muse about in public, but not as part of my day job.)
This evening I am off for a mad 24 hour trip to Thessalonica in another of my roles. This was a little number I picked up as a result of two evenings in the pub with the American academic who set up this research center; in gratitude for the leads I gave him, they put me on the Advisory Board, whose duties appear to consist entirely of attending the (theoretically) annual meeting in Thessalonica. This happens tomorrow, so I will be off late tonight and arrive back home very early Saturday morning.
The in-laws were supposed to be arriving today, but may be delayed…
I am aware of Jones’ book, though I haven’t read it. (Incidentally I was alarmed to find myself footnoted in one of Jones’ more recent works – Medieval Lives, I think.) But I think Chaucer’s dislike tof the Knight is fairly palpable.