2016

The lecture will consider in particular the origins of the cycle, the role of crafts and groups of artisans and traders in relation to individual pageants, and questions to do with the nature of the production.

Lessons Learned from 'Imagining the Passion': Imagining a Devotional Landscape for Nasrid and Morisco Granada

Monday 6 June 2016

Cynthia Robinson (Cornell)

5th Annual Norse in the North Graduate Student Conference

Saturday 4 June 2016

'Translation and Transmission' in Old Norse studies,

The Development of Borough Customary Law in Medieval Britain

Tuesday 31 May 2016

All Welcome

PREFIGURING (IN) THE MEDIEVAL WORLD

Saturday 28 May 2016

This two-day multi-disciplinary conference brings together emerging scholars, early career researchers and established academics to provide a platform to discuss how this important idea was manifested in the visual, textual and material evidence of the Medieval world and to examine the implications and significance of ‘Prefiguring’ in the Medieval in its widest possible contexts.

Interrogating the 'Germanic': a category and its uses in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Friday 13 May 2016

This two-day conference is on the use of the categorical term ‘Germanic’ – frequently used as a linguistic category, ethnonym, or descriptive identifier for a range of forms of cultural and literary material.

Bede, the recta fides, and the Lateran Council of 649

Tuesday 10 May 2016

Centre for Medieval Studies Research Seminar

The Viking Great Army in England: Torksey, treasure and towns

Tuesday 3 May 2016

From AD 865 to 879 a Viking army wreaked havoc on the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, leading to political conquest, settlement on a substantial scale, and extensive Scandinavian cultural and linguistic influences in eastern and northern England.

York Historic Atlas Study Day

Saturday 23 April 2016

A new atlas reveals the development of York across two thousand years, and a study day is taking place on 23 April revealing why and how it was created.

Europe: New Foundations for an Unknown Future

Wednesday 9 March 2016

The Judith Rodin Professor of English (UPenn) and CMS alumni returns to York to give the Spring term 2016 York Medieval Lecture.

Subjecthood: Subjects and the Crown in Later Medieval England

Wednesday 2 March 2016

CMS alumna returns to York to deliver a History Department Research Seminar.

In Praise of King Canute: Norse Poetry from England (The Helen Thirza Addyman Lecture)

Tuesday 16 February 2016

York Viking Festival

The Southwark Connection, Chaucer, Gower, and William of Wykeham

Tuesday 16 February 2016

The Southwark Connection, Chaucer, Gower, and William of Wykeham

Modelling Vaults

Monday 1 February 2016

Professor Norbert Nussbaum (Kunsthistorisches Institut, University of Cologne), Dr Zoë Opačić (Birkbeck, University of London) and Professor Paul Crossley (Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art)

Past events