2023 - Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York

Constructing the Archbishop: Registers, Rights, and Relationships in Thirteenth-Century York

Wednesday 13 December 2023

Laura Atkinson reconsiders the administrative lens with which Bishops' registers are typically considered

Wynkyn de Worde and the Marketing of European Romances in England

Monday 11 December 2023

Medieval Literatures and Languages Seminar, Autumn Semester

Thursday 30 November 2023

Join poets Susie Campbell and Ruth Wiggins for an evening of readings and discussion about their recent poetry publications: The Sleeping Place (Susie Campbell, 2023) and The Lost Book of Barkynge (Ruth Wiggins, 2023).

Recentering Medieval Europe: The Periphery Made Central

Thursday 30 November 2023

Co-sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies (York), Centre for Medieval Studies and Orthodox Christian Studies (Fordham), Henri Pirenne Institute (Ghent) and hosted by the Centre for Medieval Literature, University of Southern Denmark, this talk is part of the Interfaces Journal Lectures autumn 2023.

"Bayna al-barabᾱr". A revaluation of the Andalusi Umayyad thughῡr in the 8th through 10th centuries

Monday 27 November 2023

Islamic Art Research In Progress Seminar Series

Islamic Art History Network History Days

Friday 24 November 2023

2-day workshop with international speakers

The Western Indian Ocean in the first Millennium CE: local and long-distance

Thursday 16 November 2023

In this first seminar of our annual White Rose seminar series, Dr Rebecca Darley explores a different way of understanding the Western Indian Ocean in the first millennium

The York-Dublin Axis Reconsidered – 21st-century approaches to Viking Towns

Wednesday 18 October 2023

A discussion of some of the findings from a key ARHC-funded research project, ‘The York-Dublin Axis Revisited’

Maryam Zamani: The Matronage of a Mughal Queen (d. 1623)

Wednesday 11 October 2023

A seminar on the Mughal Queen Maryam Zamani and her mosque in Lahore.

‘Scandal in Late Medieval Literature’

Monday 9 October 2023

Ideology, Society and Medieval Religion seminar series presents ‘Scandal in Late Medieval Literature’ with speaker Harry Cushman from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Fakes and Forgeries in the Islamic Art Market: A Study of Three Problematic Pieces

Wednesday 4 October 2023

Dr Richard McClary, History of Art, University of York

Medieval Women and Gender: perspectives inspired by Jeremy Goldberg

Friday 30 June 2023

The Centre for Medieval Studies and the Department of History will be hosting a workshop in honour of our colleague Jeremy Goldberg, organized by his PhD students.

The Medieval Church: From Margins to Centre

Monday 26 June 2023

This interdisciplinary two-day conference brings together medievalists from across the disciplines of history, archaeology, art history and literary studies in order to explore the relationships between the Church and the marginalised in medieval society.

History's Monsters: Nineteenth Century Medievalists and the Parahuman

Thursday 1 June 2023

Samual Lasman (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)

Dissolvement of Kinship Ties in the Early Middle Ages

Thursday 1 June 2023

Workshop organised by workshop Drs. Alex Traves and Becca Grose (History/CMS, York) with a plenary lecture by Prof Guy Halsall (History, York)

A medieval community at prayer? The stained glass of Holy Trinity, Long Melford

Wednesday 31 May 2023

Anna Eavis, English Heritage

The Other Courtly Figure: Medieval Paradiastole

Wednesday 24 May 2023

Professor Nicolette Zeeman (King's College, Cambridge) Annual Riddy Lecture