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9 October 2023

Congratulations to History/CMS staff member Dr Tess Wingard, on the publication of her recent essay "Monstrous Hybrids, Maternal Sin, and the Concept of Species in Nicole Oresme's De causis mirabilium."

12 December 2022

On 5 December the CMS Medieval Bake-off returned to the King’s Manor

14 November 2022

Dr Kate Giles has just published a new book on the medieval wall paintings of Pickering Church.

9 October 2022

Dr Tim Wingard, Department of History and Centre for Medieval Studies, recently appeared on the BBC podcast 'You're Dead to Me'

7 October 2022

We are very sorry to announce the death, at the age of 75, of Professor David Smith, former Director of the Borthwick Institute at the University of York.

4 October 2022

Harriet Evans Tang, CMS alumni and research associate, has just published a new book from Boydell & Brewer on Animal-Human Relationships in Iceland.

20 July 2022

Many congratulations to Jessica RIchardson on her new co-edited volume, Fashioned from Holy Matter (a special issue of the journal Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics) which has just been published!

24 January 2022

Lydia Zeldenrust, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, contributed to an episode on Mélusine for ‘Free Thinking’ on BBC Radio 3, presented by Shahidha Bari.

13 January 2022

Warm congratulations to Michele Campopiano, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature, who has been awarded the 2021 San Francesco Prize for his recent monograph, Writing the Holy Land: the Franciscans of Mount Zion and the Construction of a Cultural Memory, 1300-1550.

11 August 2021

Book proposals are invited for the series Health and Healing in the Middle Ages

13 July 2021

Congratulations to the editorial team at the journal 'postmedieval' on the launch of their new website.

7 July 2021

Congratulations to CMS Professors Sarah Brown, Tim Ayers and Sarah Rees Jones on the publication of their new edited book: York: Art, Architecture and Archaeology. Out 20 July!