Join us for our 2nd annual York and the North Lecture with Dr Andrew Woods (Head of Collections and Research at York Museums Trust) on Tuesday 30 September. Andrew will be speaking on: Coinage, silver and power in York and the Viking North. Registration required: www.york.ac.uk/medieval-stu...
The AHRC funds outstanding original research across the arts and humanities. The University of York is pleased to be awarding six Doctoral Landscape awards to fund students beginning their doctoral research in 2026. www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Congratulations to Robyn Stewart who passed her viva yesterday. Robyn’s thesis “Harmonising the Word: A Textual and Philological Study of Iohannes Scottus Eriugena’s Gospel Quotations in the Periphyseon” was supervised by Mary Garrison, Thomas McLeish and Thomas O'Loughlin (Nottingham).
Ella Gaskell (CMS MA student) is another recipient of an Elizabeth Salter bursary, which partially funded their recent trip to Istanbul to research the Virgin Mary in Byzantine Apocrypha #byzantineart#medievalstudies
📢 Congratulations to former York PhD student Josh Ravenhill and post-doc Bart Lambert on their new article on nationality-based insults against immigrants in later medieval London. Read it here: biblioscout.net/article/99.1...
Diana Wallis, CMS MA student, recently presented a paper at the ‘Reading Visual Devices in Early Books' conference in Turku, Finland. The trip was partially funded by a bursary from the Elizabeth Salter Fund, which supports research and career development of postgraduate students.
Look what arrived from @yorkmedieval.bsky.social today ! I am so honored by this award and grateful for the continued support of the wonderful community at the CMS.
To celebrate this milestone, Becca will be reading from her new book this Thursday (12th June) at the Bluebird Bakery in Acomb. The event is all sold out (!), but you can read all about Becca's book here: www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/becca...
Huge congratulations to our CMS alumna, Becca Drake, on the publication of her debut poetry collection with Guillemot Press -- an award-winning publisher of eco-poetry 📚✨ www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/becca...
Thank you to CMS PhD student, John Margham, who took us on a historical excursion around York yesterday. #yorkhistory#walkingtour#CliffordsTower#BoothamBar
For both international and UK applicants, there is still time to apply to study a medieval MA at York this September. To find out more, join us for our online open day on Tuesday 10 June. www.york.ac.uk/.../postg......#StudyInUK / #studyineurope
Happy to say that Norse in the North 2025 is officially underway! Looking forward to a day of discussions of power and powerlessness in the Old Norse world #medievalsky#conference
Part of @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social Join Hannah Armstrong (York) on Saturday, May 31st, 11–11:20 at #York Explore Library for her talk "Sagaland: A history of British writers in Iceland." Free admission, but booking essential!
Discover the fascinating history of British writers who journeyed to Iceland in search of the sites where their favourite Viking heroes had lived, fought and died! 👉 yorkfestivalofideas.com/2025/calenda...#York#History#Literature#Iceland#Sagas
Sign up to this #free#webinar to hear how medieval carols weren’t just dance songs or sacred hymns, but a rich blend shaped by both mendicant preaching and festive tradition—revealing a far more complex history than previously considered.
This Monday, the Ideology, Society and Medieval Religion #seminar series is delighted to present Dr Micah Mackay, talking on ‘An Odour of Sanctity?’: The Late Medieval Carol in Dance and Devotion. 6pm, #online - register here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/ideology-soc...#medievalsky
Next Tuesday (29th April) is the Annual Riddy Lecture. Come along to hear Professor Marion Turner (Oxford) talk about "Medieval Fictionality: Poetics, Emotion, and Chaucer", in-person (K/133, King's Manor) and online. Register here: www.york.ac.uk/medieval-stu...#medievalsky#Chaucer
The edited volume, published with Edinburgh University Press, engages with new methodological approaches, including those that go beyond traditional art-historical ones, and works with a wide range of disciplines, including material science and archaeology.
Congratulations to Dr Richard McClary on the publication of his latest work: "Stucco in the Islamic World. Studies of Architectural Ornament from Spain to India." #newbook#medieval#islam#arthistory
If you haven't already, check out the Dante exhibition @uoyborthwick.bsky.social@uoylibrary.bsky.social This is the final week showcasing beautiful facsimiles connected to some of Dante’s famous works #York#medieval
Join the next Ideology, Society, and Medieval Religion Seminar to hear Dr Kimm Curran (St Andrews) talk on "Communities of Medieval Women Religious: Re-assessing definitions of gendered landscapes in Scotland" - 7 April, 6pm #online#webinar#medievalwomen
Next week we have the York Medieval Literature Seminar: ‘Oaths on the Edge in The Battle of Maldon and Völundarkviða’. Dr Harriet Soper (Bristol) will focus on representations of betrayal and its consequences in these two texts
A reminder for the Ideology, Society, and Medieval Religion Seminar tomorrow (Monday 10th), where Gillian Jack (Open University) will talk on: "Sex Work, Lay Religion and the Cloister in Renaissance Florence". 6pm, register for the zoom link here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/ideology-soc...
