2021 events

Dante and the Idea of Italy

Tuesday 23 November 2021

The Medieval Literatures Autumn Term Research Seminar with Dr Tristan Kay, University of Bristol

Representing Architecture in early Islam: The San'a' Qur'an Frontispieces

Wednesday 17 November 2021

Department of History of Art Research Seminar with Professor Marcus Milwright, University of Victoria

The Lives of Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean

Wednesday 10 November 2021

A co-sponsored Centre for Medieval Literature lecture, with speaker Professor Karla Mallette (University of Michigan)

Globalising Anglo-Saxon Art

Wednesday 3 November 2021

Department of History of Art Research Seminar with Professor Jane Hawkes, University of York

Gaelic Influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom: A Focus on York

Wednesday 27 October 2021

Autumn term York Medieval Lecture with Dr Fiona Edmonds (Lancaster University)

From Blodeuwedd to The Wife’s Lament: Medieval Remains in Brenda Chamberlain’s Tide-race (1962)

Tuesday 26 October 2021

Medieval Literatures and Languages Seminar with Dr Francesca Brooks (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of York)

Image as Compilation: Jerusalem in the Liber Floridus and Beyond

Thursday 21 October 2021

Keynote lecture as part of the ‘Scales of Knowledge. From Cosmos to Book’ Ghent/Fordham Autumn School for Medieval Languages. Sponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies (Fordham) Henry Pirenne Institute of Medieval Studies (Ghent), Centre for Medieval Literature (Odense and York) and the Centre for Medieval Studies (York)

‘The Northern Way’: The Archbishops of York and the North of England, 1304-1405

Thursday 23 September 2021

Our conference will explore the many different ways in which the administrative records of the Archbishops of York can be used to expand our understanding of the middle ages.

Eco, Bio, Zoo: A Medieval and Early Modern Workshop

Friday 10 September 2021

Call for Participants – PhD and Early Career Researchers

Cistercian Worlds

Thursday 1 July 2021

A conference hosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York

RuneS Project

Friday 25 June 2021

Viking Studies Research Group with Professor Gaby Waxenberger and Dr Livia Kaiser

Aylmer Lecture 2021 - Relocating the Holy Places: Jerusalem in Early Medieval Europe

Thursday 24 June 2021

Discover how small portable objects enabled biblical sites to be relocated in Early Medieval Europe. Historian Julia Smith of the University of Oxford will discuss the various uses mobile objects were put to, as well as the significance attributed to them.

White Rose Medieval Graduate Conference

Thursday 17 June 2021

The Centre for Medieval Studies at York and the Institute for the Medieval Studies at Leeds Conference on the Theme of 'Self and Selves'

The Tacit Knowledge of Medieval Paper

Wednesday 16 June 2021

Annual Riddy Lecture with Dr Orietta Da Rold (University of Cambridge)

"The Dead Grasp the Living": Ghosts of Property in 14th-Century England

Monday 14 June 2021

Idealogy, Society and Medieval Religion Seminar Series with Dr Tom Johnson, University of York

Postgraduate Virtual Open Day

Wednesday 9 June 2021

Join us to find out more about Masters and PhD study at the Centre for Medieval Studies.

Alhazen’s Optics and the European Medieval and Renaissance Perspectiva Traditions in Science and the Architectural Arts

Tuesday 8 June 2021

York Medieval Lecture with Professor Nader El-Bizri, American University of Beirut and Durham Leverhulme Visiting Professor

European Romances Across Languages: Book Celebration & Research Perspectives

Monday 7 June 2021

Celebration and discussion of research on medieval romances across multiple European languages and literary cultures.

'Et stellam matutinam vus dunra to go te bedde': Women and Multilingualism in Late Medieval England

Friday 4 June 2021

Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures Annual Lecture with Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Fordham University

Water and Bodily Fluids in Eddic Poetry

Friday 28 May 2021

Viking Studies Research Group with Dr Mike Bintley, Birkbeck, University of London

From liturgy to streets. Sacred objects, society and signification in the kingdom of Galicia from 13th to 15th centuries

Monday 17 May 2021

Idealogy, Society and Medieval Religion Seminar with Professor Xosé M. Sánchez Sánchez

Archaeology of Dublin

Friday 7 May 2021

Viking Studies Research Group with Dr Ruth Johnson, Dublin City Archaeologist

Archives and Archival Sensibilities in Medieval Arabic Historiography

Tuesday 4 May 2021

CMS & CML seminar with Dr Fozia Bora, University of Leeds

Silence and Consent

Monday 12 April 2021

Professor Fiona Somerset (University of Connecticut)

The social intellectual: experience and thought in the Middle Ages

Thursday 25 March 2021

This international conference explores the organic relationship between lived experience and academic/religious thought, beginning from the position that intellectual activity and social experience were closely intertwined in the medieval period.

Ravenna: Crucible of Europe

Tuesday 16 March 2021

The York Medieval Lecture with Professor Judith Herrin (Professor emerita, King's College London)

Before Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe and its antecedents

Tuesday 9 March 2021

Medieval Literatures Research Seminar with Professor Diane Watt, University of Surrey

Hellish Imaginations in the Middles Ages: Imaginations of Hell, Imaginations in Hell

Tuesday 2 March 2021

Centre for Medieval Literature seminar with Alistair Minnis, Yale

Queer Magic: Sodomy, Sin, and the Supernatural in the Later Middle Ages

Monday 1 March 2021

Kersti Francis (UCLA)

Becoming einherjar and valkyrjur: Religious Group Identity in the Viking Age Hall

Friday 19 February 2021

Viking Studies Research Group with Dr Simon Nygaard, Aarhus University

Reckoning: Historical Practice in the Medieval Irish Classroom

Thursday 18 February 2021

Medieval Literatures Seminar with Dr Elizabeth Boyle (Maynooth University)

The Malicious Barking of Critics: A Literary-Historical Approach to the Topos of Anticipated Criticism

Tuesday 9 February 2021

Centre for Medieval Literature Seminar with Justin Lake, Texas A&M

What Was the Use of Silver in the Viking Age?

Friday 29 January 2021

Viking Studies Research Group with Professor Orri Vésteinsson, University of Iceland

Commemorating Magna Carta at Runnymede, 1915-2015

Thursday 28 January 2021

Institute for Public Understanding of the Past lecture with Dr Steven Franklin, Royal Holloway

Robert de Courson and the Council of Reims (1213): Visions of Hospital Reform in the Build-up to Lateran IV

Monday 18 January 2021

Seminar Series - Ideology, Society, and Medieval Religion: Impositions and Negotiations with Dr. Sethina Watson (University of York)