Annual Lecture and General Meeting

The Medium Ævum Lecture has taken place every year since 1958, delivered by a distinguished medievalist following the Society's Annual General Meeting. Since 2012, the Lecture is hosted by a different institution each year, from around the United Kingdom.

Alastair Minnis (Re)anthologizing Literary Theory from Medieval Commentary Tradition: New Parameters University of St Andrews -
Sarah Bowden 2024 MÆ AGM and Lecture: ‘Shifting Landscapes: St Oswald of Northumbria in England and Germany’ Grimond Lecture 3, Grimond Building, University of Kent / Online -
Matthew Kempshall The 2023 MAE Lecture: Causes and Chronography in Medieval Historical Writing Grosvenor Museum, Chester -
Ryan Perry The 2022 MAE Lecture: Middle English Books of Devotion & Liturgical Privatisation in 15th England University of Nottingham -
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne The 2021 MAE Lecture: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Women and Multilingualism in Late Medieval England Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, online -
David D'Avray The 2019 MÆ AGM and Lecture - David d'Avray (UCL), 'How to explain the Medieval Papacy' University of Birmingham -
Janet Nelson MÆ Annual Lecture, Meeting and Colloquium - Medieval Life Writing - in Celebration of the Lecture's 60th Anniversary Harris Manchester College -
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton Literary Networks of the Vicars Choral and the Clerical Proletariat in Late Medieval York Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park, Nottingham -
MAE Annual Lecture and AGM 2016 (Cardiff) Cardiff University -
Andy Orchard Mightier than the Sword? Grasping the Point of the Anglo-Saxon Riddle Tradition Bancroft Building, Queen Mary, University of London -
Robert Bartlett Gervase of Tilbury and International Courtly Culture University of Lincoln -
Nigel Palmer Gospel Meditations in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-century Europe: Three Voices from the Upper Rhine Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol -
Helen Cooper The Ends of Story-telling University of Durham -
Sarah Medlam Estate and Precedence: The Form and Function of Beds in Medieval Households Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College, Oxford -
M. Michèle Mulchahey How the Dominican Order Dealt with Error within its Own Ranks: Unsanctioned Publication and the Censure of Durand of St-Pourçain Lincoln College, Oxford -
Alixe Bovey Ludic Margins: the Gravity of Play in Gothic Manuscripts Lincoln College, Oxford -
Miri Rubin Mary of the Europeans: Emotion and Devotion St. Hilda's College -
Sarah Kay The Place of Thought in Late Medieval Didactic Literature: The Case of Christine de Pizan Mansfield College -
Anne Hudson Robustissimus Antichristi Achilles: Thomas Netter, Wyclif and the Lollards Balliol College -
Mary Carruthers Learning to Read the Hard Way (Peter of Celle: "On Afflication and Reading") Balliol College -
Maurice Keen Medieval History: Angevin England through Medieval Eyes Balliol College -
Peter Dronke Imagery of Dance in Early Medieval Europe Balliol College -
Reinhard Strohm Late Medieval Song University College -
Ian Michael Private Book-Collecting in Spain from St Isidore (570-636) to the Marquis of Santillana (1398-1458) Magdalen College -
David Rees Language and National Identity in the British Isles 1100-1400 University College -
Michael Lapidge Byrhtferth and his Books Magdalen College -
Dennis Green On Recognising and Failing to Recognise Signals to Irony and Fiction in Court Literature Summer Common Room, Magdalen College -
Linda M. Paterson Editing Medieval Lyric Poetry: Marcabru's D'aisso lau Dieu St. John's College -
C. David Benson Images and Audience: Piers Plowman and Wallpainting Lady Margaret Hall -
Patrick Boyde Blossoming Garden & Circling Melody: a reading of Paradiso XXIII Lady Margaret Hall -
Alexander Murray Excommunication and Conscience in the Middle Ages Lady Margaret Hall -
Jill Mann The Owl and the Nightingale Lady Margaret Hall -
Alan Deyermond The Individual Voice in Medieval Spanish Prose St. Hilda's College -
Tony Hunt Anglo-Norman Medicine St. Hilda's College -
Stephen White Justice and Judgement at the Court of King Arthur: The Trial of Guinevere St. Hilda's College -
Alastair Minnis Towards a History of Medieval Theory and Criticism Lady Margaret Hall -
G.R. Evans Literal and Metaphorical in the Bible Lady Margaret Hall -
Damasus Trapp Thomas More and the Visual Arts Lady Margaret Hall -
Leslie Seiffert God's Amnesty: Hartmann's Gregorius and the Vie du Pape Saint Gregoire Lady Margaret Hall -
Peter Dronke The Writings of Marguerite Porete
Douglas Gray Tribute to Professor Jack Bennett
Henry Mayr-Harting The Bamberg MSS of c.1000AD and the God of the World
Dominica Legge William Marshall and Arthur of Britanny: A Detective Story Merton College -
Janet Coleman Fourteenth-century Theology. Piers Plowman and some Radical Franciscans Merton College -
R.W.V. Elliott By Hylle and by Vale in the Gawain Country Merton College -
Robert B. Patterson The Countesses of Gloucester and the status of women in Norman and Angevin England Merton College -
Giles Constable Petrarch and Monasticism Merton College -
T.B.W. Reid The Right to Emend Merton College -
Colin Hardie Allegory in the Divina Commedia: the Epistle to Cangrande St. Peter's College -
F.P. Pickering Medieval Patterns of History Merton College -
David Luscombe The pseudo-Denys in the West Merton College -
K. Ugawa Peasant Holding and Inheritance Custom in Medieval England: A Comparative Study Merton College -
Beatrice White Medieval English Literature: Heads and Tales Merton College -
Rachel Bromwich Dafydd ap Gwilym: a Welsh Contemporary of Chaucer Balliol College -
J.E. Cross The Conception of the old English Phoenix Balliol College -
E. Talbot Donaldson Approaches to Chaucer Balliol College -
J.J.G. Alexander Anglo-Saxon Illumination and the Continent in the 11th Century Taylorian Institute -
Marie Thérèse d'Alverny Dante and Wisdom Magdalen College -
E.F. Jacob A Mediaeval Bishop of Norwich: Dr Thomas Brouns Magdalen College -
James J. Murphy Rhetoric in Fourteenth Century Oxford New Room, Magdalen College -
Alfred Ewert The Twelfth Century Renaissance in French Literature New Room, Magdalen College -
K.B. McFarlane The Lollard Knights New Common Room, Merton College -
Eugène Vinaver Tradition and Design in Twelfth-century French Romance Upper Bursary, Merton College -
Nora Chadwick The Earliest Records of the British Heroic Age Upper Bursary, Merton College -
Margaret Bent The Musical Stanzas in Martin le Franc's Le champion des dames Balliol College
Liz Herbert McAvoy Gerald's Hard Country: Representations of Landscape and Enclosure in the Itinerarium Kambriae Cardiff University
Alan Deyermond These things are figures of the true': Uses of Biblical Typology in Medieval Spanish Literature St. Hilda's College
Éamonn Ó Carragáin The Dream of the Rood' and Eighth-Century Northumbria Mansfield College