After another busy term that saw us writing castle guidebooks, listening to bardcore, and meeting medieval horses (among many other activities), the Centre for Medieval Studies blog is now taking a well-deserved Easter break. We’ll be back for the new term on Monday 28th April, when we’ll be sharing what’s in store for the Centre […]
Next week, on 8th August, our friends and colleagues at Exeter Cathedral will be hosting the 2024 Annual Library Lecture. This year, the event has a distinctly medieval theme: James Willoughby, Director of the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project, will be discussing the Cathedral’s medieval library, from the development of the earliest collections to […]
With the teaching term now having ended, the Centre for Medieval Studies blog is taking a break from regular Monday posts until the start of the next academic year. There will still be occasional posts over the next few months, and regular posts will resume in September.
A new book, Education and Religion in Medieval & Renaissance England, honours our colleague, Emeritus Professor Nicholas Orme, for his outstanding contribution to the study of cultural and religious life in medieval England which has spanned the six decades since he first arrived at Exeter as a lecturer. Nicholas’ research interests have ranged wide, from […]
We are very happy to announce the publication of an edition and translation of The History of Alfred of Beverley by one of our former PhD students, Dr John Slevin, in collaboration with Lynda Lockyer. Alfred of Beverley was the subject of both John’s Master’s dissertation at Birkbeck and his doctoral thesis at Exeter, which […]
In medieval England Queen Consorts were not the only women whose status and style of life were changed forever at the coronation of a king. Crowning conferred on the monarch many prerogative rights; Richard II (1377-1399) – after defeating the challenge of the Lords Appellant in 1387 – saw them codified in law. The focus […]
Emily Selove, Senior Lecturer of Medieval Arabic Literature in the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, has published a book of cartoons about the medieval city of Baghdad. “You can get a PhD in Classical Arabic Literature, or you can just buy this book,” said Michael Cooperson, professor of Arabic at UCLA. […]
Have you ever come across mysterious references to medieval heretics and their violent repression and wished to know more? Have you ever wondered about those signs welcoming you to the pays cathare as you travel through the south of France? If so, you may be interested in my recent conversation with Dr Sophie Ambler of […]
David Bates, who received his PhD from the University of Exeter in 1970, has been awarded the prestigious Prix Syndicat national des Antiquaires du Livre d’Art 2020 for the book La Tapisserie de Bayeux published in 2019 and co-authored with the art historian Xavier Barral i Altet. The book gained the prize against competition from twenty-three […]
It’s the start of a new academic year at Exeter and many things are different. We can’t teach, research, or meet together as a community in quite the same way as before. But we’ve adapted and found workarounds – and it’s no different for the Centre’s Medieval Research Seminar! We have a full programme of […]