We look back at the last term’s posts, and share our thanks for readers’ support over the past year.
Ahead of her upcoming lectures and workshops, Monica Green, the renowned historian of medicine and plague, took the time to answer a few questions about her work.
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 […]
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