2020 events

Persianisms: Cultural Encounters in the Anglophone World

Thursday 10 December 2020

Registration is now open for this online colloquium.

Thursday 19 November 2020

Dr Richard Dance is a Reader in the ASNC department at the University of Cambridge. He has published on various aspects of Old and Middle English language and literature.

How the Vikings "got Allah": Toward an Integrated Medieval Studies in an Age of White Nationalism

Thursday 5 November 2020

Jointly hosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Islamic Arts Circle.

CMS Graduate Conference

Tuesday 23 June 2020

Fully digital postgraduate conference on the theme of 'Relationships'. Keynote by Dr Hollie Morgan (Lincoln).

The Patrons of the Percy Psalter-Hours

Tuesday 9 June 2020

The Centre for Medieval Studies and the History of Art Department’s Medieval Art and Medievalisms Research School are holding this online summer research seminar about a manuscript which was recently acquired by the British Library and has a York connection.

Dr Alaric Hall (Leeds) - "Old Norse riddles about plants, their Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew analogues, and related thoughts about global ecohistory"

Friday 22 May 2020

Dr Alaric Hall (Leeds) delivers the first of two Summer Term virtual meetings of the Viking Studies Research Group

Prof. Shadreck Chirikure - 'Medieval African Urbanism'

Friday 15 May 2020

Prof. Shadreck Chirikure (Cape Town) delivers a special virtual lecture in place of our usual postgraduate research forum.

De-bunking the D-shaped enclosure. The search for winter camps of the Viking Great Army

Friday 1 May 2020

RESCHEDULED: Profs. Julian Richards and Dawn Hadley (York) present to the Viking Studies Research Group

CANCELLED: The Social Intellectual: experience and thought in the Middle Ages

Thursday 19 March 2020

Please note that this event is CANCELLED and will be rescheduled for Autumn 2020

Scandinavian courtly laws: the hirðskrá and the lex castrensis

Friday 6 March 2020

PhD candidate William Raybould (Durham) presents to the Viking Studies Research Group

Stained Glass Conservation in Context: The Bigger Picture

Saturday 29 February 2020

Workshop in connection with the MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management

Viking Studies Research Group

Friday 14 February 2020

Dr Heidi Stoner (Durham) presents on the topic of Manx stone sculpture (title TBD).

Reactionary Patriots and European Romance: Aspects of Medievalism in Early Victorian Wales

Tuesday 28 January 2020

Research Seminar by Huw Pryce (Professor of Welsh History at Bangor University, Wales). Co-organized by the Centre for Modern Studies research strand on 'Medievalism and Imperial Modernity', Centre for Medieval Studies, and Department of History. All are welcome to attend.

Fornaldarsögur, Prosimetrum, and History-Writing in Medieval Iceland

Friday 24 January 2020

Dr Tim Rowbotham (York) presents to the Viking Studies Research Group

Support or Scourge? Archbishop William Melton and the Tradition of Loyal Opposition to the English Crown, 1317-1340

Tuesday 21 January 2020

Prof. Mark Ormrod (York, Emeritus) delivers the Spring 2020 Northern Way lecture

The Ordered Universe Project: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Medieval Science of Robert Grosseteste

Tuesday 14 January 2020

Profs. Hannah Smithson (Oxford), Giles Gasper (Durham), and Tom McLeish (York) deliver the Spring 2020 York Medieval Lecture