IMEMS Durham
@imems.bsky.social
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.
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...
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...
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...
📢 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...
*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...
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...
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...
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!
Know someone who works with early modern Church Court Records? 📖💻
Our online course is designed to help researchers, librarians, curators and students get the most from these fascinating early modern documents.
Sign up to the mailing list: ✉https://mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d/imems-signup
Our online course is designed to help researchers, librarians, curators and students get the most from these fascinating early modern documents.
Sign up to the mailing list: ✉https://mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d/imems-signup
November 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Know someone who works with early modern Church Court Records? 📖💻
Our online course is designed to help researchers, librarians, curators and students get the most from these fascinating early modern documents.
Sign up to the mailing list: ✉https://mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d/imems-signup
Our online course is designed to help researchers, librarians, curators and students get the most from these fascinating early modern documents.
Sign up to the mailing list: ✉https://mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d/imems-signup
📢 Share, share share!
Our NEW online short course is launching soon! Learn essential skills for working with Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours 💻
Sign up to the mailing list to hear more: mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d...
Studying with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Our NEW online short course is launching soon! Learn essential skills for working with Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours 💻
Sign up to the mailing list to hear more: mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d...
Studying with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
📢 Share, share share!
Our NEW online short course is launching soon! Learn essential skills for working with Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours 💻
Sign up to the mailing list to hear more: mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d...
Studying with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Our NEW online short course is launching soon! Learn essential skills for working with Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours 💻
Sign up to the mailing list to hear more: mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d...
Studying with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
This week, our Director Richard Scholar, along with
@durham.ac.uk Vice Chancellor Karen O'Brien and Director of Philanthropy and Operations, Katie Harland-Edminson, visited Macao, a Renaissance city in East Asia, home to the 17th-century Ruins of Saint Paul's. (1/2)
@durham.ac.uk Vice Chancellor Karen O'Brien and Director of Philanthropy and Operations, Katie Harland-Edminson, visited Macao, a Renaissance city in East Asia, home to the 17th-century Ruins of Saint Paul's. (1/2)
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This week, our Director Richard Scholar, along with
@durham.ac.uk Vice Chancellor Karen O'Brien and Director of Philanthropy and Operations, Katie Harland-Edminson, visited Macao, a Renaissance city in East Asia, home to the 17th-century Ruins of Saint Paul's. (1/2)
@durham.ac.uk Vice Chancellor Karen O'Brien and Director of Philanthropy and Operations, Katie Harland-Edminson, visited Macao, a Renaissance city in East Asia, home to the 17th-century Ruins of Saint Paul's. (1/2)
Introducing another publication from the IMEMS Press with @boydellbrewer 📚
The first complete, scholarly edition of Curiosa Americana, offering transcriptions and annotations that illuminate Mather’s contributions to natural philosophy.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/cotton-...
The first complete, scholarly edition of Curiosa Americana, offering transcriptions and annotations that illuminate Mather’s contributions to natural philosophy.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/cotton-...
November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Introducing another publication from the IMEMS Press with @boydellbrewer 📚
The first complete, scholarly edition of Curiosa Americana, offering transcriptions and annotations that illuminate Mather’s contributions to natural philosophy.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/cotton-...
The first complete, scholarly edition of Curiosa Americana, offering transcriptions and annotations that illuminate Mather’s contributions to natural philosophy.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/cotton-...
A perfect pumpkin 🎃 from a collection of drawings of Chinese flowers, plants and fruits held at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 5292
October 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A perfect pumpkin 🎃 from a collection of drawings of Chinese flowers, plants and fruits held at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 5292
📢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...
Today, we're shining the #IMEMSSpotlight on Professor Emily Williams and her work on African American tombstones for #BlackHistoryMonth.
Read more about Emily's research here: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/emily-...
Read more about Emily's research here: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/emily-...
October 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Today, we're shining the #IMEMSSpotlight on Professor Emily Williams and her work on African American tombstones for #BlackHistoryMonth.
Read more about Emily's research here: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/emily-...
Read more about Emily's research here: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/emily-...
We're excited to be collaborating with
@durhamhistory.bsky.social
for a thought-provoking discussion with Dr Nicole Phillip-Dowe of the University of the West Indies this afternoon at IMEMS! #BeUWI 💭🌎
@durhamhistory.bsky.social
for a thought-provoking discussion with Dr Nicole Phillip-Dowe of the University of the West Indies this afternoon at IMEMS! #BeUWI 💭🌎
October 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
We're excited to be collaborating with
@durhamhistory.bsky.social
for a thought-provoking discussion with Dr Nicole Phillip-Dowe of the University of the West Indies this afternoon at IMEMS! #BeUWI 💭🌎
@durhamhistory.bsky.social
for a thought-provoking discussion with Dr Nicole Phillip-Dowe of the University of the West Indies this afternoon at IMEMS! #BeUWI 💭🌎
📢 Fully Funded PhD Opportunities The Times University of the Year Durham University's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies📢
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
🎨Daphne and Her Sisters www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
🌎Imagining Alternatives www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
🎨Daphne and Her Sisters www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
🌎Imagining Alternatives www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
October 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
📢 Fully Funded PhD Opportunities The Times University of the Year Durham University's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies📢
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
🎨Daphne and Her Sisters www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
🌎Imagining Alternatives www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
🎨Daphne and Her Sisters www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
🌎Imagining Alternatives www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Happy Diwali to all our members who celebrate! 🎇
This week, our IMEMS bulletin featured the gorgeous late 18th-century painting 'Radha and Krishna watching fireworks in the night sky' by the Kishangarh painter Sitaram.
💻Read more here: artsandculture.google.com/asset/radha-...
This week, our IMEMS bulletin featured the gorgeous late 18th-century painting 'Radha and Krishna watching fireworks in the night sky' by the Kishangarh painter Sitaram.
💻Read more here: artsandculture.google.com/asset/radha-...
October 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Happy Diwali to all our members who celebrate! 🎇
This week, our IMEMS bulletin featured the gorgeous late 18th-century painting 'Radha and Krishna watching fireworks in the night sky' by the Kishangarh painter Sitaram.
💻Read more here: artsandculture.google.com/asset/radha-...
This week, our IMEMS bulletin featured the gorgeous late 18th-century painting 'Radha and Krishna watching fireworks in the night sky' by the Kishangarh painter Sitaram.
💻Read more here: artsandculture.google.com/asset/radha-...
This week, Prof. Raphael Lyne (Cambridge University) presented on 'Remembering and Doubting Dreams in Shakespeare' to colleagues from across the disciplines.
The first Research Showcase in a packed term of IMEMS events! 📅
Read about our upcoming events:
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
The first Research Showcase in a packed term of IMEMS events! 📅
Read about our upcoming events:
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
October 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
This week, Prof. Raphael Lyne (Cambridge University) presented on 'Remembering and Doubting Dreams in Shakespeare' to colleagues from across the disciplines.
The first Research Showcase in a packed term of IMEMS events! 📅
Read about our upcoming events:
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
The first Research Showcase in a packed term of IMEMS events! 📅
Read about our upcoming events:
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
📚Mary Carruthers' 'Meditation, Invention, and Designing Thought in the Augustinian Middle Ages' is the newest publication from the IMEMS Press with Boydell & Brewer. Find out more and order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/meditat...
October 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
📚Mary Carruthers' 'Meditation, Invention, and Designing Thought in the Augustinian Middle Ages' is the newest publication from the IMEMS Press with Boydell & Brewer. Find out more and order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/meditat...
Today we met with students from the 2025/26 Medieval and Early Modern Studies MA cohort - the largest to date! 🎉
🎓 Read more about Durham's Medieval and Early Modern Studies MA course here: www.durham.ac.uk/study/course...
🎓 Read more about Durham's Medieval and Early Modern Studies MA course here: www.durham.ac.uk/study/course...
October 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Today we met with students from the 2025/26 Medieval and Early Modern Studies MA cohort - the largest to date! 🎉
🎓 Read more about Durham's Medieval and Early Modern Studies MA course here: www.durham.ac.uk/study/course...
🎓 Read more about Durham's Medieval and Early Modern Studies MA course here: www.durham.ac.uk/study/course...