Call for Papers: Listing the World before the Age of Print
For the 2024 International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds
Call for Papers: Place, Space, and the Cult of Saints: Defining and Transcending Boundaries in the Medieval World
Seeking proposals for a paper to round out a session at IMC Leeds, 2022, centered on the role of place, in either a static or dynamic sense, within the cult of saints.
Major medieval conferences go online in 2021
The International Medieval Congress and the Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting are joining the International Congress on Medieval Studies in becoming a virtual event in 2021.
Virtual IMC – major medieval conference goes online
About 180 sessions and 500 papers will take place between Monday, July 6th and Friday, July 10th.
International Medieval Congress is cancelled because of coronavirus
All of the major medieval studies conferences that were to be held this spring and summer have been cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic. This includes the International Medieval Congress, which officially cancelled this week.
Making Leeds Medieval: International Medieval Congress begins
The International Medieval Congress, one the largest academic conferences about the Middle Ages, has started this week at the University of Leeds.
10 Interesting Sessions the 2019 International Medieval Congress
The programme for this year’s International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds has been released. Here are 10 sessions we think will…
Call for Papers: Reconstituting the Middle Ages: using medieval sources to recover the material past
Call for papers for a session at the 2019 International Medieval Congress
Call for Papers: The Medieval Horse – IMC 2018
Call for Papers for the sessions on THE MEDIEVAL HORSE at the International Medieval Congress 2018 at Leeds, 2-5 July 2018
Call for Papers: Special on Sessions Medieval Equestrianism at IMC 2017
Following the success of Medieval Equestrianism Sessions at the IMC Leeds 2016, we invite papers for special sessions on medieval equestrian history for the International Medieval Congress at Leeds in 2017.
Call for Papers: Exploring the Fourteenth Century Across the Eastern and Western Christian World
Session at Leeds International Medieval Congress, 4-7 July 2016
Prostitution in the Medieval City
Prostitution was a vice that was was considered a necessary evil because of “men’s lust”. Ecclesiastics felt that if brothels weren’t available to men in cities, they would find other inappropriate outlets for their entertainment. In an effort to curb potential problems, civic officials permitted prostitution to function within the city walls so long as it was regulated and turned a profit.
Buried, Forgotten, Disinterred?: The 1944 National Socialist St. Olav Monument at Stiklestad
In ‘Buried, Forgotten, Disinterred?: The 1944 National Socialist St. Olav Monument at Stiklestad’, Øystein Ekroll gave the audience a glimpse into a struggle going on in Norway as it deals with its Nazi past.
When Reality Becomes Fantasy: How Video Games are Hijacking the Middle Ages
“The Middle Ages is a space where White Supremecy is legitimised. The maintenance of white privilege. The gamer community use ‘historical facts’ to legitimise this kind of literacy.’
Imprisonment, Execution and Escape: Medieval History and the National Curriculum
The final talk in Sesson #1041, Engaging the Public with the Medieval World, looked at what English children are being taught in school. How much medieval history is in the new programme that was released in September 2014? Megan Gooch, Curator at the Historic Royal Palaces breaks down the English system for us in her paper, ‘Imprisonment, Execution, and Escape: Medieval History and the National Curriculum’.
Making the Castle a Home: Creating an Immersive Medieval World Using Live Costumed Interpreters
How does the use of unscripted, adaptive, historical interpretation boost the tourist experience? Right on the heels of our look at the Tower of London’s visitor engagement, we heard a paper from Lauren Johnson, Research Manager for Past Pleasures, the oldest historical interpretation company in the UK who educate and entertain the public at historical sites, museums, on stage and and on TV.
‘But Where are the Dungeons?’: How to Engage the Public at the Tower of London
A talk about how historical sites, like the Tower of London engage the public. How to handle visitor expectations, what do people come t see and how to tell history in a captivating but accurate manner.
The Experience of Growing Up in Medieval Society
This session (#508) was one of several at Leeds devoted to exploring childhood in the Middle Ages. Our presenters talked about the stereotypes of adolescence, and what the coroner’s rolls revealed about the deaths (and lives) of medieval children.
2015 International Medieval Congress – Day 4
It’s the final day at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds – here is what people are tweeting about…
Explaining Extreme Weather in the Middle Ages
What was causing extreme weather in the Middle Ages? A medieval historian is starting to examine how chroniclers and writers from this period were turning to the night sky to better understand and perhaps prevent natural disasters.
The Medieval #Twitterati at #IMC2015
The International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds hosted the session The Twitterati: Using Twitter in Medieval Scholarship and Pedagogy – A…
2015 International Medieval Congress – Day 3
It is Wednesday at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds – here is what people are tweeting about!
2015 International Medieval Congress – Day 2
Here is what medievalists are tweeting about on the second day of the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds.
The Public Medievalist: What it Means for Medievalists to be Public Intellectuals Today
Covering the conversation on Twitter during the Public Medievalist Roundtable session at the International Medieval Congress.
2015 International Medieval Congress – Day 1
The International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds has begun, and the medievalists on Twitter are keeping busy.