International Medieval Congress begins next week
More than 1,600 experts from all over the world will come together and take a medieval look at the contentious themes of poverty…
Scholars examine life and writings of Jocelin of Furness
Jocelin of Furness was one of the most significant writers to emerge from England’s north-west during the Middle Ages, but historians have tended…
KALAMAZOO 2011: Session 92 – Thursday, May 12, 2011: In Giro: Italian Identity and Travel in the Middle Ages
In Giro: Italian Identity and Travel in the Middle Ages Sponsor: Italians and Italianists at Kalamazoo Organizer: Rachel D. Gibson (University of Minnesota–Twin…
KALAMAZOO 2011: Session 47 – Thursday, May 12: The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing I: Images and Objects
Session 47 – Thursday, May 12, 2011: The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing I: Images and Objects Sponsor: AVISTA: The Association…
The Black Dragon – Music from the Time of Vlad Dracula
The Black Dragon – Music from the Time of Vlad Dracula Annette Bauer – recorders, voice, percussion, citole, bells Phoebe Jevtovic – voice,…
Midlands Viking Symposium to explore the legacy of the Vikings in Ireland
This year’s Midlands Viking Symposium will be taking place outside the United Kingdom for the first time in its history as scholars focus on the…
Immigration issues take forefront at the Medieval Academy of America meeting
The subjects of immigration, migration and borders will be the focus of the Medieval Academy of America when it begins it annual meeting…
The Language of Maps
The Language of Maps: Communicating through cartography during the middle ages and renaissance: A colloquium and exhibition at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Thursday June…
How To Use a Medieval Pilgrimage Shrine: Pilgrims’ Interaction with Architecture and its Furnishings
The 31st Annual Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians How To Use a Medieval Pilgrimage Shrine: Pilgrims’ Interaction with Architecture and its Furnishings…
A New Vision of Death: Re-Evaluating Huizinga’s Views on the Late Medieval Macabre
The 31st Annual Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians A New Vision of Death: Re-Evaluating Huizinga’s Views on the Late Medieval Macabre Kralik,…
Archaeologists meet in Orkney
Scientists and researchers from across northern Europe will gather in Orkney on Thursday to learn how the islands protect their rich archaeological resources…
“Ful blissfully in prison maistrow dure”: Pleasure and imprisonment in the Knight’s Tale
SESSION 8: Spaces Real and Imagined “Ful blissfully in prison maistrow dure”: Pleasure and imprisonment in the Knight’s Tale Sparks, Corey (Indiana University)…
To see or not to see in the Middle Ages: Blind Jews in Christian eyes
Vagantes To see or not to see in the Middle Ages: Blind Jews in Christian eyes Brooke Falk Permenter Session V: Seeing the…
“Salvation, Sex, and Subjectivity”
Vagantes Conference Bruce Vernarde (Pitt U) “Salvation, Sex, and Subjectivity” In 1980, John Boswell published “Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality”. It was considered…
The Performance of Separation at Escomb Church
VAGANTES CONFERENCE: Session 1: Performance & Ritual The Performance of Separation at Escomb Church Ashely Lonsdale Cook (University of Wisconsin – Madison) This…
Vagantes: Medieval Graduate Student Conference (2011)
The University of Pittsburgh hosted the 10th annual Vagantes: Medieval Graduate Student Conference, from March 3-5, 2011.
Seventh Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference – “Crisis of Categorization”
“The Anglo-Saxon Death Lists: Crisis and Categorization” David Lennington (Princeton University) The Exeter Book details the various ways of dying. In The Fates…
Seventh Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference – “Crisis of Categorization”
“Internal/External Interactions in the Exeter Book ‘Storm Riddles’” James Paz (King’s College London) This paper discussed some of the Riddles in the Exeter…
Seventh Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference – “Crisis of Categorization”
SESSION 2: Storms Within and Without “Winter Landscape and Season” Paul Langeslag (U of T) This fascinating paper was about Anglo-Saxon seasonal imagery…
Seventh Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference – “Crisis of Categorization”
SESSION 1: Transhistorical Anglo-Saxon England “Vernacular Authority in a Materialized God: Reading the Text of Christ’s Body in Old and Middle English” Camin…
“The Fifteen Signs Before Doomsday and “Post Conquest English Identity”
“The Fifteen Signs Before Doomsday and “Post Conquest English Identity” Stephen Pelle (U of T) This paper detailed the fifteen signs before Doomsday…
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium – Seventh Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference Held at the University of Toronto February 12, 2011 Nine papers were presented…
Schedule released for the 2011 International Congress on Medieval Studies
The Medieval Institute of Western Michigan University has released the schedule for the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, which takes place May…
Disease, Disability and Medicine in Early Medieval Europe workshop at the University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham will be hosting a workshop this Sunday and Monday that will examine how disability, in all its forms, was…
Dancing with Death: Warfare, Wounds and Disease in the Middle Ages
Dancing with Death: Warfare, Wounds and Disease in the Middle Ages was a three day event held at California University of Pennsylvania in…