Ahead of the summer conference season, Levi Roach offers his top tips to get the most out of medievalist mega-gatherings.
David McLean, PhD student in Archaeology and History, shares his work on ‘monastic manors’ either side of the Dissolution.
Clementine Pursey, a PhD student at the Centre, takes up the ‘spotlight’ mantle this week as we learn about their work into French in medieval England, nuns … and office curling.
This week, Gregory Lippiatt (Director of the Centre) shares the news about an exciting new series of events.
Longstanding Centre member Sarah Hamilton offers an insight into her teaching and research.
As the summer term begins, we take our traditional look at what’s coming up in the Centre for Medieval Studies.
Roberta Gilchrist, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading, talks to us ahead of her 2025 Orme Lecture, ‘Medieval Religion: the Complex Lives of Ritual Objects’.
Our recent ‘Spotlight’ entries have tended towards broadening definitions of what constitutes the ‘medieval’. While Richard Flower’s entry took us back in time to late Antiquity, this week’s post — courtesy of Dr. Emily Selove — invites us to look beyond the geographical confines of Western Europe. Emily is an active member of both the […]
Medieval music doesn’t typically occupy a prominent place on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show. Nevertheless, a couple of weeks ago saw an unexpected collision of the two, as a discussion of new acoustic music by Sam Fender (55:10 in the link) veered sideways into questions about what the artist’s ‘medieval’ name would be. During this […]
As the days start to lengthen and the lecture halls begin to fill up, the gears of the Centre for Medieval Studies are spinning up once again for 2024. We have an exciting range of events planned for this term at the Centre, the centrepiece of which is — as ever — our flagship Medieval […]
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