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‘Bring-and-share’ lunches at the Centre for Medieval Studies

This week, Gregory Lippiatt (Director of the Centre) shares the news about an exciting new series of events.


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Spotlight: liturgical rites (and 10am coffee)

Longstanding Centre member Sarah Hamilton offers an insight into her teaching and research.


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Summer Term 2025 at the Centre

As the summer term begins, we take our traditional look at what’s coming up in the Centre for Medieval Studies.


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‘Medieval lived religion’: the 2025 Orme Lecture

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’.


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Spotlight: magic spells and medieval Baghdad

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 […]


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‘Bardcore’: ‘medieval’ music for modern ears

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 […]


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A warm welcome to a new term of seminars

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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The Upside of Virtual Research

Just when Lockdown 1 began I’d started to think about the acknowledgements I would include at the front of my new book, The Dissolution of the Monasteries. A New History. Already I had a long list of names in mind. Then the implications of a complete suspension of research life became clear. Campus and library […]


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Exploring Late Medieval Links Across the Seas at Exeter

This week we have a guest post from Sheila Sweetinburgh at Canterbury Christ Church University, who is reporting on the Fifteenth Century conference, held in Exeter last week, with a good showing of Centre staff and PhD students.  The post first appeared on Canterbury Christ Church University’s Centre for Kent History and Heritage blog here and […]


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PhD Students Wanted Again: Funding Opportunities at Exeter

It’s that time of year again – funding deadlines for students applying for PhD study are coming up.  Staff at the Centre for Medieval Studies are always keen to hear from prospective students.  Have a look at the tips and information that Helen Birkett and I posted last year in our post on ‘PhD Students […]


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