The Cambridge Medieval History Graduate Workshop welcomes papers of 20 minutes, to be submitted by 17th April 2026.
Month: March 2026
Medieval Matters – Vac
The OMS emails will be put on brief pause over the vac, although the blog will be continually updated with new events. Please see below a number of important opportunities and reminders before term starts. Of particular note to those interested in early medieval England (and who amongst us doesnt fall into that category) is the British Library’s upcoming PhD placement on the Norman Conquest. Applications are open for three PhD placements which will support the development of our upcoming major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, marking the 1,000th anniversary of the birth of William the Conqueror. Apply by Monday 6 April 2026. Apply by Monday 6 April 2026.
- The online Old Frisian Reading Group welcomes new members who have at least some reading knowledge of any of the Old Germanic languages or those who have previously done an Old Frisian Summer School. Next meeting Friday 27th March, 3-4pm on Teams. Please contact Johanneke Sytsema.
- The ‘New Directions in Old English Prose‘ conference takes place on the 30th March in the Schwarzman Centre.
- Texts in Translation – A Workshop on Editing Texts from Medieval Britain for Graduate Students and Early Career Scholars. 18th April, St Hilda’s College, 11:00-17:00. For registration or membership of the EETS, contact Dr Daniel Orton at eets@ell.ox.ac.uk
- Booking is now open for the BL’s ‘A Conference at the British Library: Multispectral Gaze: New Approaches to the Cotton Genesis’. More information here.
- Register for the Reading Graduate conference ‘Locational Lives: Medieval Experience in Town and Country’. More information
- CfP: Borders, Boundaries and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages. More information here.
- Registration is still open for the Medieval Insular Romance Conference, ‘Moving Medieval Romance’. 8–10 April 2026, St Hugh’s College, Oxford.
- Submission welcome to the journal Manuscript and Text Cultures.
- Doctoral studentship on Carolingian Latin poetry (Toronto-Melbourne).
- CfP: Crossing Intellectual Boundaries in English Legal History. Proposals for papers should be no more than 400 words and should be sent to Ciara Kennefick and Ian Williams by 5pm on 23 March 2026.
- CfP: Gender and Medieval Studies conference 2026: Gender and Creativity. The conference will take place at University College, Oxford, 8-10 September. Deadline 13 April.
- CfP: Summer Conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society on the theme “The Church and Race. Deadline 15 April.
- Call for submissions for a special issue of Public Humanities journal on the topic ‘Creating the Medieval Now.’ Edited by Laura Varnam and Eleanor Barraclough. Short essays of 2,000-3,000 words, due 1 May 2026, by medievalists who are also creative practitioners.
- CfP: The Body in History. Deadline 6th July.
- Save the date – 500 Years of Yiddish Printing: Symposium: 4–6 October 2026 | University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
British Library PhD placement: the Norman Conquest
Application are open for three PhD placements which will support the development of our upcoming major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, marking the 1,000th anniversary of the birth of William the Conqueror. Apply by Monday 6 April 2026.
This placement will be hosted by the Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts team at the Library. This team curates the extensive national collection of British and European manuscripts dating from Antiquity to 1600, actively making these collections accessible through cataloguing, digitisation and exhibitions. Curators in the section have led major Library exhibitions including Medieval Women: In Their Own Words (2024–25); Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens (2021–22); Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War (2018–19); Harry Potter: A History of Magic (2017–18) and Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy (2015).
The Library is currently developing a major exhibition on the Norman Conquest which will run from 1 October 2027 to 27 February 2028, to mark the 1,000th anniversary of the birth of William the Conqueror in 1027. The exhibition will span two generations either side of the Conqueror to explore the history, art and culture of England from the early 11th century to the middle of the 12th century. It will draw on our extremely strong collection of historical and illuminated manuscripts from this period, together with a large number of manuscripts and museum objects on loan from collections in Britain and Europe.
The placement student will be supervised primarily by the co-curator of the exhibition and will assist with key tasks in the development of the exhibition.
The students will assist with the varied tasks involved in developing the exhibition, including but not limited to:
- Helping to liaise with other teams at the Library such as Exhibitions, Conservation and Marketing.
- Researching themes, exhibits or historical figures within the exhibition to support the curators in finalising the object list and storyline
- Editorial assistance for the exhibition book such as assembling images, bibliography and proof-reading
- Producing promotional materials such as preparing social media threads and writing blog posts based on exhibits and themes in the exhibition
A Conference at the British Library: Multispectral Gaze: New Approaches to the Cotton Genesis
Friday 9th June, at 10:00
The British Library recently undertook a new multispectral digitisation campaign of the Cotton Genesis (British Library, Cotton MS Otho B VI), one of the greatest works of manuscript art to survive from late Antiquity and one of the most tragic casualties of the Cotton Library fire of 1731. The new imagery made visible parts of the manuscript unseen since the fire. Pages that look black to the naked eye now reveal portions of readable texts; illuminations that look like blocks of colour now show layers of paint, brush strokes, and fold outlines. This opens exciting opportunities for new research on this manuscript, which is a significant witness both of an influential late-antique visual tradition and of the text of the Septuagint. The British Library will celebrate the launch of the multispectral images of the Cotton Genesis on its website with an interdisciplinary conference fully dedicated to the manuscript: Multispectral Gaze: New Approaches to the Cotton Genesis.
View the full programme and register here.
Supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections (AMARC).
Thank to support from AMARC, five free student tickets are available. To apply, please contact elena.lichmanova@bl.uk and e.zingg@hist.uzh.ch.
Texts in transition
A workshop on editing texts from medieval Britain
The Early English Text Society for graduate students and early career scholars.
Featuring: Richard Dance, Ralph Hanna, Kathryn Lowe, William Marx, Ad Putter, and Susan Irvine.
St Hilda’s College, Oxford
11.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m.
Saturday 18 April 2026.
£20 for members of the EETS,
£34 for non-members.
Lunch and refreshments will be provided free
For registration or membership of the EETS, contact Dr Daniel Orton at eets@ell.ox.ac.uk
It is possible to obtain the members’ discount by joining at the time of registration. Website EETS
Conference: New Directions in Old English Prose
University of Oxford – 30 March 2026
L1 Lecture Theatre 10.300 Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG, Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
Registration is now closed for this event, which is sold out.
Day 1: 30th March 2026
08.30–9.00: Welcome and Registration
09.00–10.30: Session 1: Early Prose (chair: Tom Revell)
Samuel Cardwell (University of Nottingham), ‘The Earliest English Sentence? Old Northumbrian psalm glosses in MS Pal. Lat. 68‘
Maura McKeown (University of Oxford), ‘The Four Senses of Scripture and the Vespasian Psalter Glosses‘
Emily Kesling (University of Bergen), ‘The Old English Exhortation to Prayer and the “Mercian Prefacing Tradition”‘
10.30–11.00: Tea and coffee break
11.00–12.00: Session 2: Putting Prose in its Place (chair: Helen Appleton)
Christine Rauer (University of St Andrews), ‘Assigning Mercian Texts to Places and Individuals‘
Tristan Major (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies), ‘Old English Prose at Winchester, c. 940–c. 1100‘
12.00–12.15: Comfort break
12.15–13.00: Keynote 1 (chair: Francis Leneghan):
John Hines (University of Cardiff), ‘Syntax, Style and Semiotics: How Anglo-Saxon Inscriptions help to frame and define Old English Prose‘
13.00–14.00: Lunch break [sandwich lunch provided]
14.00–15.30: Session 3: New Contexts for Alfredian Prose (chair: Amy Faulkner)
Nagore Palomares (University of the Basque Country), ‘Weaving the Vernacular: Tracing Frankish Influences in Old English Texts‘
Alice Jorgensen (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Gesceadwisnes in the Alfredian Prose Translations‘
Eleni Ponirakis (University of Nottingham/UCL/University of Oxford), ‘Swa swa leof on treowum: Eriugena and the Alfredian Solioquies‘
15.30–16.00: Tea and coffee break
16.00–17.30: Session 4: Repurposing Prose (chair: Jasmine Jones)
Courtnay Konshuh (University of Calgary), ‘Missing Ealdormen: Editing Chronicle Prose‘
Claudio Cataldi (University of Palermo), ‘Rewriting Christianisation in King Edgar’s Establishment of the Monasteries‘
Gabriele Cocco (University of Bergamo), ‘From Cloak to Allegory: Christian Adaptations in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre‘
17.30–17.45: Comfort break
17.45–18.30: Keynote 2 (chair: Niamh Kehoe):
Luisa Ostacchini (University of Oxford), ‘Thinking Global, Acting Local: The Old English Martyrology’s Worldview and Mercian Prose Composition‘
18.30: Drinks Reception and Book Celebration
20.00: Conference Dinner
Day 2: 31st March
09.00–10.30: Session 5: Prose beyond the Pulpit (chair: Francis Leneghan)
Stefan Jurasinski (SUNY Brockport), ‘Beyond Wulfstan: The Homiletic Element in Old English Legislation‘
Anine Englund (University of Oxford), ‘Revisiting the Old English Soul-and-Body Homilies‘
Elaine Treharne (Stanford University), ‘Women Readers (and Writers?) of Old English Prose‘
10.30–11.00: Tea and coffee break
11.00–12.00: Session 6: Inclusion and Exclusion, Then and Now (chair: Hannah Bailey)
Juliet Mullins (University College Dublin), ‘Ignored and Obscured: “Behind the Scenes” of Ælfric´s Lives of Saints‘
Rebecca Stephenson (University College Dublin), ‘Weeding out the Danes: An examination of gardening metaphors in Latin and Old English prose texts describing Viking attacks and/or religious conversions‘
12.00–12.15: Comfort break
12.15–13.00: Keynote 3 (chair: Amy Faulkner):
Daniel Anlezark (University of Sydney), ‘West Saxon Prose from Alfred to Ælfric‘
13.00–14.00: Lunch break [sandwich lunch provided]
14.00–15.30: Session 7: Wulfstan’s Style (chair: Rachel A. Burns)
Winfried Rudolf (University of Göttingen), ‘Wulfstan’s Autograph Homily on Baptism and Its Echoes‘
James Titterington (University of Oxford), ‘Prose in Progress: Tracing Wulfstan’s Intellectual Development through Autograph Evidence‘
Thomas A. Bredehoft (Chancery Hill Books), ‘Wulfstan’s Prose‘
15.30–16.00: Tea and coffee break
16.00–17.30: Session 8: Saints and Sinners (chair: Niamh Kehoe)
Claudia Di Sciacca (University of Udine), ‘Gūþ-Lāc vs Se Ealda Fēond? New Directions in the Demonology and Angelology of Gulthlac’s Old English Prose Tradition‘
Susan Irvine (University College London), ‘The Bridge as a Penitential Motif in Old English Prose‘
Corinne Clark (University of Oxford), ‘Fashioning fragmentation in the Corpus Christi MS 303 Life of St. Margaret‘
17.30: Close
Organising committee: Helen Appleton (Oxford), Rachel A. Burns (Oxford), Amy Faulkner (UCL), Niamh Kehoe (Oxford), Francis Leneghan (Oxford)
Contact: Francis Leneghan
Header image: Peterborough Chronicle
Medieval Germany Workshop
29 May 2026, German Historical Institute in London
Organised by the German Historical Institute London and the German History Society
Programme
Commentators: Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford) & Christian Jaser (Kassel)
Convenors: Thomas Kaal (GHIL) and Marcus Meer (UCL)
9.30 Session 1 (Chair: Thomas Kaal)
- Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford): The Nuns’ Letters – Work-in-Progress
- Temitope Fagunwa (Lüneburg): From ‘‘Moors Are Not Blacks’’ to Mohr Muss Weg: Identity and Misrepresentation in Europe
- Erik Pauls (Berlin), The Typus of the ‘Heretic’ and its Function in Historical Thinking
11.00 Coffee & Tea
11.30 Session 2 (Chair: Marcus Meer)
- Christian Jaser (Kassel): Digital Edition of Medieval Accounting Records (Examples from Munich and Vienna in the Early 15th Century)
- Thomas Billard (Paris/Konstanz) Accountability: Critical Study of the recording of Accounting Documents in Urban Areas of the Southern Empire (Basel, Nördlingen, Nuremberg, 14th–15th centuries)
- Arik Solomon (Be’er- Sheva): Beyond the City Walls: Persistence and Permeability in the Expulsion of Jews from Merseburg
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Session 3 (Chair: Thomas Kaal)
- Anna Wilmore (Oxford): ‘Ich bin din gespile’: Play as Paradigm in Mechthild of Magdeburg
- Tina Druckmüller (Cologne): From Another Perspective: Hildegard of Bingen on the Origin of the Soul
15.00 Session 4 (Chair: Gabriele Passabi)
- Carolin Victoria König (Oxford): The Interrelation of Image and Text and the Popularity of Sebastian Brant’s ‘The Ship of Fools’
- Hila Manor (Jerusalem): Measured Marvels: Ingenuity and Artistic Exchange in Nuremberg around 1500
16.00 Coffee & Tea
16.30 Session 5 (Chair: Marcus Meer)
- Ole Bunte (Bielefeld): Narrating War: A Cultural History of War in 15th Century East Central Europe
- Laura Potzuweit (Kiel), The Baltic Sea as a Room of Diplomacy? The Kalmar Union, the Teutonic Order, and other Key Players as a Late Medieval Communication Network
17:30 End
19:00 Conference Dinner
Students and researchers interested in medieval German history are very welcome to attend and listen to the presentations. There is no charge for attendance, but pre-booking is essential due to limited capacity. If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Kim König.
The Call for Papers
This one-day workshop on the history of medieval Germany (broadly defined) offers an opportunity for researchers from Europe and the wider English-speaking world to meet at the German Historical Institute in London. Participants will be able to discuss their work in a relaxed and friendly setting and to learn more about each other’s research.
Proposals for short papers of 10–15 minutes are invited from researchers at all career stages with an interest in any aspect of the history of medieval Germany. Participants are encouraged to present work in progress, highlight research questions and approaches, and point to yet unresolved challenges of their projects. Presentations will be followed by a discussion.
Participation is free of charge and includes lunch and dinner. The GHIL and the GHS will also provide a contribution towards travel expenses. Accommodation costs cannot be reimbursed. Support is available for postgraduate and early career researchers: up to £150 for travel within the UK (excluding London) and up to 300€ for an economy round trip from Europe. Please indicate your interest in travel support in your application.
We look forward to reading your proposals. Please send your submission—which must include a title, an abstract of c.2000 words, and a biographical note of no more than c.1000 words—to Thomas Kaal: t.kaal@ghil.ac.uk. Questions about all aspects of the workshop can also be sent to Marcus Meer: m.meer@ucl.ac.uk.
500 Years of Yiddish Printing: Symposium
4–6 October 2026 | University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
In celebration of the quincentenary of the first Yiddish printing (the 1526/7 Agode of Gershom ben Salomon Kohen of Prague), please join us at the University of Oxford on the 4th–6th of October for a symposium on Yiddish printing, broadly defined.
Papers and workshops will be on the topics of Yiddish printing (letterpress & otherwise), book & publishing history, type design & production, printed images, orthography & linguistics of the printed word, &c. Other topics are included as they relate to Yiddish printing history and practice.
The deadline for submissions of abstracts for papers (~20 minutes) and workshops has now passed. Any inquiries (or late submissions, within reason) may be submitted to Giovanna Truong.
A link for conference registration will be released on this page. Stay tuned!
Conference Programme:
- Rare Yiddish Book Viewing (Weston Library) (Time TBA)
- Hands-On Print Workshop (Time TBA)
Medieval Matter HT26, Week 8
We have made it, at long last, to the end of another Hilary term – but the events don’t stop coming! Please find below another week full of medieval events for you to enjoy, and an ever-increasing list of future opportunities. NB: the Maison Française d’Oxford lecture this Tuesday has had to move earlier and is now at 12:00.
Monday
- French Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 10:30, Weston Library.
- Seminar in Palaeography and Manuscript studies – 2:15, Weston Library. Seamus Dwyer (Cambridge) will speak on ‘Pen-Flourishing and the Boundaries of Meaning’.
- Medieval Archaeology Seminar – 3:00, Archaeology Faculty. Eugene Costello will be speaking on ‘Exploring the expansion of pastoral farming in northern Europe’s uplands, c.1200-1600’.
- Medieval History Seminar – 5:00, All Souls College. Nick Evans (Birkbeck) “Cowries, Cloth and Coins: Currency in Medieval Economic Anthropology”.
- Theory and Play: Comparative Medievalisms – 5.15, Lady Margaret Hall.
Tuesday
- Europe in the Later Middle Ages Seminar – 2:00, New Seminar Room, St John’s College. Mike Carr (Edinburgh) will be speaking on ‘Popes, Ambassadors and Falcons: Trade and Diplomacy between Latin Europe and the Mamluk Sultanate in the Fourteenth Century’.
- Latin Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room). Those who are interested can contact the convenor, Laure Miolo.
- Maison Française d’Oxford lectures: ‘Children in the Middle Ages’ – 12:00, Maison Française. NB. the new, earlier, time.
- Maghrib History Seminar: “Reading the Qurʾān across the Mediterranean: Toward a Maghribī School of Tafsīr in Early Islam” – 5:00, The Queen’s College.
- Medieval Church and Culture, theme: TRANSLATION(S) – tea and coffee from 5:00, Harris Manchester College. Celeste Pan (Balliol) will be speaking on ‘Some issues of translation in an illuminated Hebrew bible manuscript from medieval Brussels (Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibl., Cod. Levy 19)’.
- Old English Hagiography Reading Group – 5:15, Jesus College Memorial Room.
- Church Historian Pub Night – 6:00 at the Chequers Inn. Contact Rachel Cresswell.
Wednesday
- History and Materiality of the Book Seminar series – 2:15, Weston Library. Matthew Holford and Laure Miolo will be speaking on ‘Text identification’.
- Older Scots Reading Group – 2:30, Room 30.401 (Humanities Centre). Palyce of Honour, Thyrd Part, ll. 1288-2142; Palyce of Honour, Dedication, ll. 2142-2169.
- The Medieval Latin Documentary Palaeography Reading Group – 4:00, online.
- Islamic Studies Seminar – 5:00, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Oxford) will speak on ‘Leviathan’s Health: State Capacity and Epidemics from the Black Death to Covid’.
- Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar – 5:00, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies. Nathan Websdale (Oxford) will be speaking on ‘Unbecoming Roman: Performative Ethnicity and Panspermía in the Byzantine World c.1190-1235’.
- eCatalogus+: A Digital Tool for the Automated Study of Latin Manuscripts (Liturgical Case Studies) – 5:00, Weston Library. More infomation here.
- Lydgate Book Club – Weston manuscript visit with Laure Miolo. Meet 3:50pm at the Weston lockers for a 4pm start. Please email Shaw Worth for any information.
Thursday
- Middle English Reading Group (MERG) – 11:00, Lincoln College, Beckington Room. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
- Medieval Women’s Writing Research Seminar – 4:00, Somerville College. Making and Breaking Connections, including letters sent by Hildegard von Bingen and Catherine of Lancaster, queen of Castile.
- Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music – 5:00, online. Elisabeth Giselbrecht, Louisa Hunter-Bradley and Katie McKeogh (King’s College London) will be speaking on ‘No two books are the same. Interactions with early printed music and the people behind them’.
- Celtic Seminar – 5:15, hybrid. Eleanor Stephenson (Cambridge) will be speaking on ‘Landscapes of Extraction: Philippe de Loutherbourg and the Morris Family’s Copper Works, Swansea’.
- Medieval Visual Culture Seminar – 5:00, St Catherine’ College. Emily Guerry (University of Oxford) will be speaking on ‘Silver trees and pearl crosses: Franco-Mongolian diplomacy and cultural exchange in thirteenth-century Karakorum’.
- The Khalili Research Centre For the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East: Research Seminar – 5:15, The Khalili Research Centre. Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis (Freie Universität, Berlin) will be speaking on ‘A Greek-Orthodox monastery in the desert: Mount Sinai and the material culture of its Arabic (and Islamic) manuscripts’.
Friday
- Medievalist Coffee Morning – Friday 10:30, Visiting Scholars Centre (Weston Library). All welcome, coffee and insight into special collections provided. This week, Jana Lammerding will speak on the representation of witches in the Douce Collection.
- The History of the Bible: From Manuscripts to Print – 12:00, Visiting Scholars Centre at the Weston Library. Week 8: The Bible printed. Places are limited. To register interest and secure a place, please contact Péter Tóth.
- Exploring Medieval Oxford through Surviving Archives – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room). Those who are interested can contact the convenor, Laure Miolo.
- EMBI ‘New Books: A Celebration’. – 4:30, Schwartzman Room 421. Helena Hamerow and Conor O’Brien will talk informally about the process of researching and writing the projects that they have both just published, and we will also hear some reflections on being a postdoctoral researcher on a major project such as the ERC-funded grant for FeedSax. End-of-term drinks in Jude the Obscure, Walton St.
- Oxford Medieval Manuscript Group – 5:00, John Roberts Room at Merton College. Julian Harison (Curator, British Library) will be speaking on ‘Sir Robert Cotton and Oxford’.
Opportunities and Reminders
- CfP for the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2026: Sounds & Silence, taking place on April 23–24, 2026. More information here.
- Register for the Reading Graduate conference ‘Locational Lives: Medieval Experience in Town and Country’. More information
- CfP: Borders, Boundaries and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages. More information here.
- Registration is still open for the Medieval Insular Romance Conference, ‘Moving Medieval Romance’. 8–10 April 2026, St Hugh’s College, Oxford.
- Dies Legibiles, Smith College’s undergraduate journal of Medieval Studies, is looking for submissions for the 2025-2026 edition, deadline 3 March 2026 (website)
- Submission welcome to the journal Manuscript and Text Cultures.
- Doctoral studentship on Carolingian Latin poetry (Toronto-Melbourne).
- CfP: 20th Annual MEMSA Conference: Connection, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World – deadline 9 March 2026
- CfP: Imagining Britain: Postgraduate and Early Career Research in British and Irish Art, 9 June 2026. Deadline 9th March.
- CfP: Forgotten Libraries: Lost, Dispersed, and Marginalised Manuscript Collections – deadline 14 March 2026
- CfP: Crossing Intellectual Boundaries in English Legal History. Proposals for papers should be no more than 400 words and should be sent to Ciara Kennefick and Ian Williams by 5pm on 23 March 2026.
- CfP: Gender and Medieval Studies conference 2026: Gender and Creativity. The conference will take place at University College, Oxford, 8-10 September. Deadline 13 April.
- CfP: Summer Conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society on the theme “The Church and Race. Deadline 15 April.
- Call for submissions for a special issue of Public Humanities journal on the topic ‘Creating the Medieval Now.’ Edited by Laura Varnam and Eleanor Barraclough. Short essays of 2,000-3,000 words, due 1 May 2026, by medievalists who are also creative practitioners.
- CfP: The Body in History. Deadline 6th July.
- Save the date – 500 Years of Yiddish Printing: Symposium: 4–6 October 2026 | University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Locational Lives: Medieval Experience in Town and Country
Invitation to join the Graduate Centre of Medieval Studies at Reading on Thursday, 16th April 2026, for a postgraduate forum and discussion on understanding medieval life from the perspective of those in Town and those in the Country. Four sessions of 20-minute presentations followed by discussion on each topic area. Hybrid event in person and online – please register with Eventbrite.
10:00 -17:00 (Registration from 9:30; Lunch break 13:00 -14:00)
Session 1: The Impact of the Church on the Rural
- The Templar estates in Gloucestershire, c.1308-1310
- Hyde Abbey’s management of its estates in the localities around Winchester
- The Network of Bishop Birinus: Religious Influence in the Upper Thames Valley
Session 2: The Rurality of Italy
- ¨ The countryside and its changes during the Middle Ages in the Italian Peninsula
- ¨ The emergence of rural communes in the Florentine hinterland
- ¨ Regulating Transhumant Pastoralism in The Liber Augustalis
Session 3: Cities, Towns and Links with Wider Populations
- ¨ Religious Fraternities dedicated to St Christopher in Town and Country
- ¨ From Country to City: the London Artisan and the Art of Assimilation 1300-1520
- ¨ Experiential Anthropogenic(ity): Locational Identities in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale
Session 4: The Urban as seen in Manuscripts
- ¨ Architecture: Representing the Urban Cathedral in Late Medieval French Manuscript Tradition
- ¨ The visual representation of the ancient Russian ‘grad’ (city, fortress) in manuscript miniatures
TICKETS FOR BOTH IN PERSON AND ONLINE ATTENDEES AVAILABLE VIA EVENTBRITE: Please search ‘GCMS Eventbrite’ , or use this Eventbrite link