Category Archives: Conferences

You still have time to register! Join us on 3-5 September for the 2021 CARMEN meeting, “The Middle Ages in the Americas,” co-hosted online by the Medieval Academy of America and the Harvard University Committee on Medieval Studies. The theme … Continue reading →

Communities and Networks in Late Medieval Europe (c. 1300–1500) St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, 9–10 September 2021* Historical research has witnessed a rapidly growing interest in ‘networks’ since the turn of the twenty-first century, as seen in ambitious endeavours such as … Continue reading →

The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Fragments and Frameworks Illuminated Manuscripts and Illustrated Books in Digital Humanities Friday, October 1 The study of art history has long dealt with fragments and processes of fragmentation. Illuminated manuscripts and … Continue reading →

Dominican Culture, Dominican Theology: The Order of Preachers and Its Spheres of Action (1215-ca. 1600) Virtual conference 29 June – 2 July, 2021 Annual meeting of IGTM – International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology Hosted by the Faculty … Continue reading →

Brut in New Troy (virtual conference) 25–28 June 2021 From at least the twelfth until well into the seventeenth century, the ‘standard’ version of Britain’s history held that the realm’s founder was an exiled descendant of Aeneas called Brutus (or … Continue reading →

8-20 June 2020 York Festival of Ideas 2021 has many online history events to watch and engage with; these include the events below. A full list of history events can be viewed at https://yorkfestivalofideas.com/2021/themes/history/. The full Festival programme can be … Continue reading →

Liturgy, Literature & History: Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the High Middle Ages Online: 5th & 6th August 2021 The centrality of the cult of saints to medieval Christianity is reflected in surviving liturgical, historical, literary … Continue reading →

On 5 & 6 August 2021, we will be holding an online conference, in collaboration with the British Academy and Peterborough Cathedral, which uses the cult of Oswald of Northumbria as a case study to examine the mechanisms by which … Continue reading →