Events

The CMS hosts a lively schedule of events which runs throughout the year, bringing together medieval researchers from across the country and the world.

These include national and international conferences and workshops, as well as a busy programme of lectures and seminars, listed in our regular bulletin (semester-time only).

Upcoming events

Mon

Mar

Control Issues: Music and Sexuality in thirteenth-century Legal, Doctrinal, and Literary Discourses

Ideology, Society, and Medieval Religion seminar series with Professor Matthew Thomson (University College Dublin)

Wed

Mar

Dante Day - exhibition and poetry reading

This year Dante Day (25 March) will be marked by an exhibition of facsimiles of manuscripts of the Divine Comedy.

Thu

Apr

A Medievalist at the Natural History Museum

Medieval Literatures Research Seminar with Dr Isabel Davis (Natural History Museum, London)

Tue

Apr

The Boundaries of Love: Romance as a Method of Joining and Parting (in) the Global Middle Ages

Annual Riddy Lecture with Professor Cameron Cross (University of Michigan)

Sat

Sep

Society for Medieval Archaeology Annual Symposium

Jointly hosted by the University of York’s Department of Archaeology and Centre for Medieval Studies.

You can also view some previous Centre for Medieval Studies lectures on our YouTube Channel.
The Centre for Medieval Literature Media Archive has additional lecture recordings.

Events archive

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