2026 events

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

Tuesday 28 April 2026

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

A Medievalist at the Natural History Museum

Thursday 16 April 2026

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

Dante Day - exhibition and poetry reading

Wednesday 25 March 2026

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

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

Monday 23 March 2026

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

Making/Matter: The Aetiology of Miraculous Images in Venice, ca. 1200–1700

Tuesday 17 March 2026

CREMS & CMS Research Seminar with Jessica Richardson

Towards a Literary History of Old English Prose

Tuesday 24 February 2026

Medieval Literatures seminar with Prof Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford)

Mahomet in the Aula Gotica: Secularizing Islam in the Middle Ages

Monday 23 February 2026

Ideology, Society and Medieval Religion seminar series with Hussein Fancy (Yale)

POSTPONED! The Darker Side of the Middle Ages

Tuesday 17 February 2026

York Medieval Lecture with Professor Kathy Lavezzo (The University of Iowa)

Anician Saints and their Domestic Spaces in Medieval and Early Modern Rome

Monday 26 January 2026

Ideology, Society and Medieval Religion seminar series with Maya Maskarinec (USC Dornsife)