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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · 2d

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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · 2d

🕍📜 Join us at tomorrow's seminar as PhD student Jacob Morley shares findings from his research on the medieval papacy.

📚 💬 Then on Friday the first session of our new Renaissance Discussion Group will look at work from our own Elise Watson, exploring the role of women in publishing.

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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 5d

We ❤️ books! Join us for some upcoming book launches:

Tue 7 Oct, 17:30 -"Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance: Typologies of violence and desire" by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social from @manchesterup.bsky.social

Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... (in person and online)

Book Launch: "Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance"

New book: "Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance: Typologies of violence and desire" by Hope Doherty-Harrison

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · 8d

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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · 8d

💬 🤝 We'll be hosting a range of seminars this semester, run in collaboration with students and staff from across our university and beyond.

💻 ⬆️ You can follow the link in our bio to find out more about these events, as well as the reading and discussion groups we have planned over the next months!

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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · 9d

🙏 Thank you to all those who helped kick off this semester by attending last week's Denys Hay Lecture, and thanks again to @philippebuc.bsky.social for giving such an insightful talk!

📅 Watch this space for an update soon on our seminar schedule for this semester!

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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · 13d

⬇️ Students, staff and members of the public will all be welcome at tomorrow's lecture!

HCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social · 14d

This Friday! The 2025 Denys Hays Lecture will be given by Professor Philippe Buc
on 'Buddhadharma, rajahdarma, regnum, sacerdotium: Some Comparisons between Medieval Japan and Western Medieval Europe'. Find out more, edin.ac/3ImcpO5

#History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Japan

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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · 18d

⬇️ A fantastic-looking programme for the term ahead!

LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · 18d

We're proud to present our seminar series for the new semester; alongside our regular postgraduate seminars, we will be hosting two manuscript workshops! We look forward to seeing postgraduate students new and old at our first seminar on Tuesday 30th September, which will be followed by drinks!

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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · 23d

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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · 23d

👨‍🏫 🧭 We’ll be kicking off the new academic year with the return of the Denys Hay lecture to @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, as we welcome @philippebuc.bsky.social from @unileiden.bsky.social to deliver a talk on his recent comparative historical research looking at both medieval Europe and Japan.

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HCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social · 26d

Free conference - 'Roman History in Carolingian Europe', 22-24 Sept in Edinburgh. Find out more and register: edin.ac/4noqMQB

#History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Romanhistory #Edinburgh

Conference: Roman History in Carolingian Europe | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology

This conference will explore the ways in which these historians were read and copied in the Carolingian period and the role of Roman historical texts and scholarship in Carolingian intellectual life, ...

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · Sep 2

It is publication day for Love & anti-Judaism in medieval English romance @manchesterup.bsky.social! Thank you so much @siobhanmup.bsky.social for believing in this project.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183170/

A photo of Hope Doherty-Harrison wearing a navy blue shirt holding an author copy of her book, Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance, against a background of green trees/bushes.

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Open Education at The University of Edinburgh @openededinburgh.bsky.social · Aug 28

Learn about Renaissance women scholars, painters, sculptors & architects in this series of 25 min lectures by Professor Jill Burke.
Made for Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures at the @edincollegeofart.bsky.social.
#OER @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social ‪
open.ed.ac.uk/renaissance-...

Renaissance Feminism

These video lectures on Renaissance Feminism are part of a series by Jill Burke, Professor of Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures at Edinburgh College of Art. All three videos are licensed Creat...

open.ed.ac.uk

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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · Aug 27

📕This work takes a fascinating look at themes of accessibility and inclusion in relation to medieval studies — including a chapter from our own @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social, who also co-edited the book!

⬇️ Find out more below about a hybrid book launch being held for it next month:
bit.ly/3HRAM5W

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · Aug 26

Tariffs are in the news - but what about their history? Pleased to announce a new VSI that draws on Early Medieval Europe's back catalogue in this area.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Tariffs and Tolls in Early Medieval Europe: Early Medieval Europe

Early Medieval Europe is an interdisciplinary medieval studies journal covering European history from the fall of the Roman Empire up until the 11th century.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · Aug 5

CALL FOR PAPERS!!! The MEMRN Committee are delighted to share the call for papers for our second annual Winter Conference: Fragmented Worlds, Shared Histories.

Please share widely! Sponsored by @chase-dtp.bsky.social

We, the committee of the CHASE Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (MEMRN), are overjoyed to announce the return of our Winter Conference this year between the 14th and 16th November.

Join us at the University of East Anglia and online for three exciting days of workshops, papers, social events, and adventure through the historic cathedral city of Norwich.
We welcome papers on a range of topics within medieval and early modern studies for this interdisciplinary conference, including:

* History and politics
* Philosophy and theology
* Literature, drama, performance culture and music
* Latin and vernacular languages
* Art history, architecture and archaeology
* Manuscript studies and book history

For this year's conference, we particularly encourage papers engaging with marginalised histories and communities, global intercultural contact and exchange, or conflict and diplomacy.

We invite abstracts of up to 250 words for individual research papers of twenty minutes in length (or 700 words for a panel of three people presenting on a particular subject or sub-theme).

The CHASE MEMRN conference remains open to all UK and overseas postgraduates. This includes independent scholars who are unaffiliated at this time. When submitting your abstract, please include your institution (if applicable) and, if from a CHASE-affiliated university institution, whether or not you are directly funded by CHASE.
All proposals should be emailed to chasememrn@gmail.com by Friday
12th September with the subject line 'Conference Paper Submission' and your name. Priority will be given to those available to present in-person, but remote presentation applications will also be considered.

Please feel free to contact the MEMRN team via email or social media DM with any questions you may have. We look forward to welcoming you to Norwich as part of this proudly CHASE-funded event.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Aug 8

New episode of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME: Renaissance Beauty — makeup, hair, skincare in 16th century Italy

With me, comedian Tatty Macleod, and expert historian Professor @jillburke.bsky.social

Available now on BBC SOUNDS, and coming to other podcast apps in 28 days www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Smily photo of comedian Tatty Macleod with pink hair and pink shirt, Professor Jill Burke with blonde hair and white shirt, and Greg Jenner with green shirt, brown curly hair and beard, and he is pointing to splodges of orange makeup on his face

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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · Aug 6

🥳 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social PhD student Jess Nutt won Best Speaker for her paper 'Sagas and Swords: Early #Medieval #Wales and Evidence of #Viking Conflict' @ Society for Medieval Archaeology Student Colloquium @exeter.ac.uk last week! 🏆 📷 C. Mason #EdinArch #archaeology @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social

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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · Aug 5

And team! Suzanne Trill, @sharonhoward.bsky.social and @hagenilda.bsky.social.

UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · Aug 5

Great coverage yesterday of how a reunited set of memoirs are helping us learn about life for women in the 17th Century.

Belonging to Alice Thornton, described as the "northern female counterpart to Samuel Pepys", they have been studied extensively by historian @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social.

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Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England

Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war

www.theguardian.com

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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · Jul 30

📖 We can't wait to read this new, cross-cutting look at such an important part of the Middle Ages!

⬇️ You can click below to find out more about the book:

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · Jul 24

🧪 📜 It's great to see @uoe-llc.bsky.social PhD student @seerauberaine.bsky.social in action at this week's @durhammemsa.bsky.social conference, speaking in the first picture about representations of female healers in twelfth-century French narrative literature.

Durham MEMSA @durhammemsa.bsky.social · Jul 22

Alongside hosting the conference in Durham Castle, our other panel is held in 7 Owengate, the home for the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Here are some of our talks taking place there yesterday

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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · Jul 16

🙏 It's fantastic to see @cvspragg.bsky.social flying the flag for @edincollegeofart.bsky.social, both in giving her paper and in being part of the organising committee that delivered such a successful conference!

⬇️ Look below to see some of what went on at @kingjamesconf.bsky.social last week!

Charlie Spragg @cvspragg.bsky.social · Jul 12

For the past year I have been on the most amazing team organising the ‘Understanding King James VI & I 400 Years On’ conference! (1/3) 🧵 @kingjamesconf.bsky.social

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LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · Jul 14

LAMPS SEMINAR SERIES CALL FOR PAPERS AUTUMN 2025

Please submit your paper to us at [email protected]
Deadline: 29th August 2025

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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · Jul 11

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