A interdisciplinary, two-day conference focuses on the visual, conceptual and haptic qualities of textual and visual material and their importance and use in the medieval world.

Memory, Syntax and Metre in Dante: Verse Composition and Digital Tools

Thursday 9 May 2024

How do poets write by thinking generatively within their formal constraints?

Chivalry and Genocide. The French Conquest of the Canary Islands 1402-1405

Wednesday 8 May 2024

Department of History research seminar

The Englishman Abroad: the Medieval Origins of an Identity

Tuesday 30 April 2024

The 2024 Annual Riddy Lecture will be given by Anthony Bale, Professor of Medieval Studies, Birkbeck, University of London

Fit for the Gods: Chinese Porcelain and Collecting Practices at the Court of Ferrera

Wednesday 24 April 2024

This talk will consider instead how Bellini may have been referencing the large porcelain collection held by the Este, housed in spaces such as the previously unknown Stanza delle Porcellane.

The Drama of Stained Glass: An Examination of the Fifteenth-Century Passion Window at St Kew

Tuesday 16 April 2024

Stained Glass Research Cluster Semester 2 Seminar

Stained Glass Masterclass 2024

Saturday 23 March 2024

The MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management MA course is opening its Spring Masterclass to all. A one day programme of speakers from the professional and academic glass community.

“The 'British Problem' and Late Medieval Urban History”

Wednesday 20 March 2024

Department of History research seminar

‘How I miss the good times we have lost': fourteenth-century longing for the past

Tuesday 19 March 2024

TONIGHT'S LECTURE is NOW ONLINE ONLY. Follow the link to register.

Production, Transmission, Interpretation

Wednesday 13 March 2024

A 3-day interdisciplinary conference on Islamic Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

Ghostly Manslaughter: Scandal in Late Medieval Literature

Monday 4 March 2024

The Ideology, Society and Medieval Religion seminar series is delighted to present Prof. H.M. Cushman (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) as our March speaker. They will will be speaking on "Ghostly Manslaughter: Scandal Late Medieval Literature"

Women in Medievalism

Saturday 24 February 2024

One day conference in the city of York. Keynote address by the distinguished scholar Clare A. Lees (Institute of English Studies, University of London).

Islamic Art History Network event: Medieval Islamic Architecture in Afghanistan

Friday 2 February 2024

Speakers: Dr Mossadeq Khalili and Prof. Alka Patel

The Poiesis of Drapery in Italian Art 1400-1520

Wednesday 31 January 2024

PLEASE NOTE THE DATE AND TIME OF THIS EVENT HAVE CHANGED

Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline?

Tuesday 30 January 2024

The White Rose seminar series is a collaboration between the medievalists at the universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York

Lustful Laundresses and Unsuspecting Scholars: The Employment of Women at Medieval University Colleges

Monday 15 January 2024

The Ideology, Society and Medieval Religion seminar series is delighted to present Elena Rossi (University of Oxford) as our January speaker for our online seminar.

Technical Study and Classification of Iranian Stucco Decoration

Monday 15 January 2024

The first meeting of the Islamic Art Research in Progress Group with Sahar Basiri, Department of Archaeology, University of York

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