IMEMS Durham
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Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: a home for innovative interdisciplinary research from the medieval to the early modern in a World Heritage Site.
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The latest exhibition at the Oriental Museum, Durham University is on view until 31 May 2026:
'Journey of a Century: From the Forbidden City to the Palace Museum'
www.durham.ac.uk/things-to-do...
@ducollections.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk @imems.bsky.social
'Journey of a Century: From the Forbidden City to the Palace Museum'
www.durham.ac.uk/things-to-do...
@ducollections.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk @imems.bsky.social
Journey of a Century - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
January 22, 2026 at 1:42 PM
The latest exhibition at the Oriental Museum, Durham University is on view until 31 May 2026:
'Journey of a Century: From the Forbidden City to the Palace Museum'
www.durham.ac.uk/things-to-do...
@ducollections.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk @imems.bsky.social
'Journey of a Century: From the Forbidden City to the Palace Museum'
www.durham.ac.uk/things-to-do...
@ducollections.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk @imems.bsky.social
IMEMS travels to Parma! 🌍
Last month, our Director Ita Mac Carthy was in Parma as part of the organising committee of a 3-year project focused on the 15thc Italian poet Maria Matteo Boiardo, concluding at @durham.ac.uk in June.
Last month, our Director Ita Mac Carthy was in Parma as part of the organising committee of a 3-year project focused on the 15thc Italian poet Maria Matteo Boiardo, concluding at @durham.ac.uk in June.
January 22, 2026 at 11:35 AM
IMEMS travels to Parma! 🌍
Last month, our Director Ita Mac Carthy was in Parma as part of the organising committee of a 3-year project focused on the 15thc Italian poet Maria Matteo Boiardo, concluding at @durham.ac.uk in June.
Last month, our Director Ita Mac Carthy was in Parma as part of the organising committee of a 3-year project focused on the 15thc Italian poet Maria Matteo Boiardo, concluding at @durham.ac.uk in June.
Our Research Showcase yesterday featured Dr @Ben_Raffield from the University of Uppsala speaking on slavery in the Viking age. @uppsalauni.bsky.social
Read more about Ben's research here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Read more about Ben's research here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
January 22, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Our Research Showcase yesterday featured Dr @Ben_Raffield from the University of Uppsala speaking on slavery in the Viking age. @uppsalauni.bsky.social
Read more about Ben's research here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Read more about Ben's research here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
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1/ A shout out to seriously the most stunning article I have read perhaps ever - Erin Maglaque's in the December @Journalofmoder. I was one of the readers for this piece, and I even wrote in my report that it was such an intense read that I had to go for a walk afterwards to calm down.
January 14, 2026 at 3:47 PM
1/ A shout out to seriously the most stunning article I have read perhaps ever - Erin Maglaque's in the December @Journalofmoder. I was one of the readers for this piece, and I even wrote in my report that it was such an intense read that I had to go for a walk afterwards to calm down.
New Year, new book from the IMEMS Press! 📖 @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
Chelsea Reutke's 'Catholic Print Networks in Restoration London, 1660-1688' reconstructs the various networks that sustained the production and circulation of Catholic texts.
📲Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/catholi...
Chelsea Reutke's 'Catholic Print Networks in Restoration London, 1660-1688' reconstructs the various networks that sustained the production and circulation of Catholic texts.
📲Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/catholi...
January 21, 2026 at 11:20 AM
New Year, new book from the IMEMS Press! 📖 @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
Chelsea Reutke's 'Catholic Print Networks in Restoration London, 1660-1688' reconstructs the various networks that sustained the production and circulation of Catholic texts.
📲Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/catholi...
Chelsea Reutke's 'Catholic Print Networks in Restoration London, 1660-1688' reconstructs the various networks that sustained the production and circulation of Catholic texts.
📲Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/catholi...
With the first week of term underway, here's a round up of recent publications from the IMEMS community, including with @universitypress.cambridge.org and @saqibooks.bsky.social ✍️...
January 14, 2026 at 10:01 AM
With the first week of term underway, here's a round up of recent publications from the IMEMS community, including with @universitypress.cambridge.org and @saqibooks.bsky.social ✍️...
So exciting! The first IMEMS Press publication of 2026. 🎉
New from @imems.bsky.social in the @catholicismsem.bsky.social series, this book uncovers the hidden networks behind Catholic publishing in Restoration London, where politics, religion, and print intersected in unexpected ways under. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/JlXm0RY
#skystorians #catholicism
#skystorians #catholicism
January 14, 2026 at 9:59 AM
So exciting! The first IMEMS Press publication of 2026. 🎉
This week, the #IMEMSSpotlight is on Professor Mary Watt, our 2025/26 Slater Fellow, who joins us this term from the University of Florida. 🌏
Learn more about Mary's research and plans for the fellowship here:
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
news.clas.ufl.edu/italian-stud...
Learn more about Mary's research and plans for the fellowship here:
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
news.clas.ufl.edu/italian-stud...
January 13, 2026 at 1:06 PM
This week, the #IMEMSSpotlight is on Professor Mary Watt, our 2025/26 Slater Fellow, who joins us this term from the University of Florida. 🌏
Learn more about Mary's research and plans for the fellowship here:
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
news.clas.ufl.edu/italian-stud...
Learn more about Mary's research and plans for the fellowship here:
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
news.clas.ufl.edu/italian-stud...
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We turn on the heating or grab a hot water bottle when winter hits but how did medieval monks cope with the cold? ❄️
Historian Professor Giles Gasper takes a step back in time to explain.
www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...
@durhamhistory.bsky.social y.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social s.bsky.social
Historian Professor Giles Gasper takes a step back in time to explain.
www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...
@durhamhistory.bsky.social y.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social s.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 12:04 PM
We turn on the heating or grab a hot water bottle when winter hits but how did medieval monks cope with the cold? ❄️
Historian Professor Giles Gasper takes a step back in time to explain.
www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...
@durhamhistory.bsky.social y.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social s.bsky.social
Historian Professor Giles Gasper takes a step back in time to explain.
www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...
@durhamhistory.bsky.social y.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social s.bsky.social
We're proud to support Things That Matter Summer School again, this time at Uppsala University from 26-26 June 2026!
Apply:💻 www.rug.nl/education/su...
- 1 week intensive course
- Expert-led & hands-on
- Explore the possibilities & challenges of the digital age
Apply:💻 www.rug.nl/education/su...
- 1 week intensive course
- Expert-led & hands-on
- Explore the possibilities & challenges of the digital age
Things That Matter
Curate a virtual exhibition, engage in critical debates on Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage and learn the latest technical tools through hands-on...
www.rug.nl
December 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
We're proud to support Things That Matter Summer School again, this time at Uppsala University from 26-26 June 2026!
Apply:💻 www.rug.nl/education/su...
- 1 week intensive course
- Expert-led & hands-on
- Explore the possibilities & challenges of the digital age
Apply:💻 www.rug.nl/education/su...
- 1 week intensive course
- Expert-led & hands-on
- Explore the possibilities & challenges of the digital age
📢 Calling all prospective PhD students: just 4 weeks left to apply to be part of one of our Inventing Futures project teams here in Durham with an Inventing Futures studentship! ⏳
Learn more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Learn more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
December 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
📢 Calling all prospective PhD students: just 4 weeks left to apply to be part of one of our Inventing Futures project teams here in Durham with an Inventing Futures studentship! ⏳
Learn more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Learn more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
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Registration is now open for our Online Winter Meeting on 10 January, 'Creeds, Councils & Canons'.
All are welcome to attend.
Please complete your registration by 5 January.
We look forward to seeing you there!
More info & programme: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...
All are welcome to attend.
Please complete your registration by 5 January.
We look forward to seeing you there!
More info & programme: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...
December 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Registration is now open for our Online Winter Meeting on 10 January, 'Creeds, Councils & Canons'.
All are welcome to attend.
Please complete your registration by 5 January.
We look forward to seeing you there!
More info & programme: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...
All are welcome to attend.
Please complete your registration by 5 January.
We look forward to seeing you there!
More info & programme: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...
Congrats to Dr Lorenzo Dell'Oso, (IMEMS and @MLACdurham) whose forthcoming monograph, 'Il poeta alle “scuole delli religiosi”: Dante, Pietro delle Travi e il convento di Santa Croce (1294-1296)”' (Carocci, 2026) has won the Dante Society of America's Kleinhenz Prize! 🎉
December 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Congrats to Dr Lorenzo Dell'Oso, (IMEMS and @MLACdurham) whose forthcoming monograph, 'Il poeta alle “scuole delli religiosi”: Dante, Pietro delle Travi e il convento di Santa Croce (1294-1296)”' (Carocci, 2026) has won the Dante Society of America's Kleinhenz Prize! 🎉
Help @relish-he.bsky.social researchers identify young people’s perspectives on food habits, traditions & futures by taking 3 surveys!🍜
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/youth_survey
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_survey
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_narr...
RELISH: relisheu.org/about/
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/youth_survey
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_survey
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_narr...
RELISH: relisheu.org/about/
December 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Help @relish-he.bsky.social researchers identify young people’s perspectives on food habits, traditions & futures by taking 3 surveys!🍜
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/youth_survey
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_survey
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_narr...
RELISH: relisheu.org/about/
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/youth_survey
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_survey
relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_narr...
RELISH: relisheu.org/about/
*DEADLINE*⏳
Just 6 weeks until our 16 January deadline to apply for one of our fully funded Inventing Futures PhD places! 🎓
🎨Daphne and Her Sisters:
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
🌎Imagining Alternatives: Utopia in the World: durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Just 6 weeks until our 16 January deadline to apply for one of our fully funded Inventing Futures PhD places! 🎓
🎨Daphne and Her Sisters:
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
🌎Imagining Alternatives: Utopia in the World: durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
December 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
*DEADLINE*⏳
Just 6 weeks until our 16 January deadline to apply for one of our fully funded Inventing Futures PhD places! 🎓
🎨Daphne and Her Sisters:
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
🌎Imagining Alternatives: Utopia in the World: durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Just 6 weeks until our 16 January deadline to apply for one of our fully funded Inventing Futures PhD places! 🎓
🎨Daphne and Her Sisters:
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
🌎Imagining Alternatives: Utopia in the World: durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
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7 more days 🥳
Join us next week in-person at the University of Cape Town or online!
Register here: tinyurl.com/yhayw8zy. Our conference program can be found here: sites.google.com/view/memorie...
Join us next week in-person at the University of Cape Town or online!
Register here: tinyurl.com/yhayw8zy. Our conference program can be found here: sites.google.com/view/memorie...
December 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
7 more days 🥳
Join us next week in-person at the University of Cape Town or online!
Register here: tinyurl.com/yhayw8zy. Our conference program can be found here: sites.google.com/view/memorie...
Join us next week in-person at the University of Cape Town or online!
Register here: tinyurl.com/yhayw8zy. Our conference program can be found here: sites.google.com/view/memorie...
Another busy afternoon at IMEMS! Here's a photo from today's job application writing workshop, organised by our Co-Director for Early Career Researchers, Dr Venetia Bridges. 🖊️
📆 Learn about our upcoming events: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
📆 Learn about our upcoming events: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
December 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Another busy afternoon at IMEMS! Here's a photo from today's job application writing workshop, organised by our Co-Director for Early Career Researchers, Dr Venetia Bridges. 🖊️
📆 Learn about our upcoming events: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
📆 Learn about our upcoming events: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Many congratulations from all at IMEMS on a wonderful book! 🎉
Delighted ( and slightly dazed and confused ) to report that Sir Tristrem is out. All my thanks to IMEMS Durham Press and the editorial team at B&B!
December 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Many congratulations from all at IMEMS on a wonderful book! 🎉
Hot off the IMEMS press...📚
This edition of Sir Tristram pairs a lively modern English verse translation with the complete Middle English text, offering a dual-language format that remains sensitive to the poem’s performance-driven origins.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/.../sir-tris...
This edition of Sir Tristram pairs a lively modern English verse translation with the complete Middle English text, offering a dual-language format that remains sensitive to the poem’s performance-driven origins.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/.../sir-tris...
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Hot off the IMEMS press...📚
This edition of Sir Tristram pairs a lively modern English verse translation with the complete Middle English text, offering a dual-language format that remains sensitive to the poem’s performance-driven origins.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/.../sir-tris...
This edition of Sir Tristram pairs a lively modern English verse translation with the complete Middle English text, offering a dual-language format that remains sensitive to the poem’s performance-driven origins.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/.../sir-tris...
Yesterday we met these two! 🤖
From using computer-generated data to investigate the past to digitising marginalia & analysing pigments, our researchers often use cutting-edge tech.🔬
Learn about cross-faculty, interdisciplinary IMEMS projects: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
From using computer-generated data to investigate the past to digitising marginalia & analysing pigments, our researchers often use cutting-edge tech.🔬
Learn about cross-faculty, interdisciplinary IMEMS projects: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
December 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Yesterday we met these two! 🤖
From using computer-generated data to investigate the past to digitising marginalia & analysing pigments, our researchers often use cutting-edge tech.🔬
Learn about cross-faculty, interdisciplinary IMEMS projects: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
From using computer-generated data to investigate the past to digitising marginalia & analysing pigments, our researchers often use cutting-edge tech.🔬
Learn about cross-faculty, interdisciplinary IMEMS projects: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
📢 IMEMS and University College (Durham Castle) are delighted to invite applications for the 2026/27 Slater Fellowship, a three-month residential, senior fellowship at @durham.ac.uk during Epiphany Term 2027.
✉ Read more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
✉ Read more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
📢 IMEMS and University College (Durham Castle) are delighted to invite applications for the 2026/27 Slater Fellowship, a three-month residential, senior fellowship at @durham.ac.uk during Epiphany Term 2027.
✉ Read more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
✉ Read more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Feuding neighbours, adultery, defamation, witchcraft...👀 welcome to the wonderful world of Early Modern Church Court Records! ✒️
Learn to decipher these important historical texts and unlock unrivalled insight into Early Modern life, online and at your own pace: imemsdurhamlearn.com/working-with...
Learn to decipher these important historical texts and unlock unrivalled insight into Early Modern life, online and at your own pace: imemsdurhamlearn.com/working-with...
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Feuding neighbours, adultery, defamation, witchcraft...👀 welcome to the wonderful world of Early Modern Church Court Records! ✒️
Learn to decipher these important historical texts and unlock unrivalled insight into Early Modern life, online and at your own pace: imemsdurhamlearn.com/working-with...
Learn to decipher these important historical texts and unlock unrivalled insight into Early Modern life, online and at your own pace: imemsdurhamlearn.com/working-with...
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📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
October 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
November To-Do List 🐗📆
- Thrash acorns
- Fatten pigs
- Book the new online short course from IMEMS: imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev...
Learn about Books of Hours, the labour of the months and the history and manuscripts of the Medieval Latin Bible in our flexible 1-week online course!
- Thrash acorns
- Fatten pigs
- Book the new online short course from IMEMS: imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev...
Learn about Books of Hours, the labour of the months and the history and manuscripts of the Medieval Latin Bible in our flexible 1-week online course!
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
November To-Do List 🐗📆
- Thrash acorns
- Fatten pigs
- Book the new online short course from IMEMS: imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev...
Learn about Books of Hours, the labour of the months and the history and manuscripts of the Medieval Latin Bible in our flexible 1-week online course!
- Thrash acorns
- Fatten pigs
- Book the new online short course from IMEMS: imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev...
Learn about Books of Hours, the labour of the months and the history and manuscripts of the Medieval Latin Bible in our flexible 1-week online course!
Congrats to IMEMS Barker Senior Research Fellow Tom Hamilton, whose book, A Widow's Vengeance @oxfordunipress.bsky.social, has won the #NatalieZemonDavis Prize! 🎓
Read more about the book: academic.oup.com/book/55732/c...
Learn about Tom's work with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/.../forging-...
Read more about the book: academic.oup.com/book/55732/c...
Learn about Tom's work with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/.../forging-...
Preface
As a historian of the religious wars that caused such violence and disorder in sixteenth-century France, I was drawn to work with criminal archives by the
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November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Congrats to IMEMS Barker Senior Research Fellow Tom Hamilton, whose book, A Widow's Vengeance @oxfordunipress.bsky.social, has won the #NatalieZemonDavis Prize! 🎓
Read more about the book: academic.oup.com/book/55732/c...
Learn about Tom's work with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/.../forging-...
Read more about the book: academic.oup.com/book/55732/c...
Learn about Tom's work with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/.../forging-...