Society Events

Over the past century, the Society has catalysed medieval research through hundreds of events, directly held or sponsored, bringing together many thousands of medievalists. Below you may browse the super-abundance of topics explored. The highlights of the Society's modern calendar are the Day Conference, the Annual Lecture and the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference.

Detail from depiction of the Garden of Eden in De Proprietatibus Rerum (Paris, 1414). Image courtesy of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Detail from depiction of the Garden of Eden in De Proprietatibus Rerum (Paris, 1414). Image courtesy of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Event
Gervase of Tilbury and International Courtly Culture University of Lincoln
Medieval Anchorites in their Communities Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys
Montpelier 8 University of Oxford
London Anglo-Saxon Symposium 2014: Religion and Beliefs All Hallows by the Tower, Byward Street, London

Storytelling in Court & Cloister

 		Kings Manor, University of York
Autumn School: 'Old and Middle French and Medieval Latin' Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, Ghent
The Fifteenth Century Conference Christ Church College
XXIII. Anglo-German Colloquium: Lehren, Lernen und Bilden in der Literatur des deutschen Mittelalters (Teaching, Learning and Educating in the German Middle Ages)
 		University of Nottingham
Graduate Workshop on Digital Resources: Data and Databases University College, Dublin
DUKY Medieval Studies Conference Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Locating Boccaccio University of Manchester
Nuns’ Literacies in Medieval Europe Antwerp
Gospel Meditations in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-century Europe: Three Voices from the Upper Rhine
 		Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol
Says who? Contested Spaces, Voices, and Texts, Santa Barbara Medieval Studies Annual Graduate Student Conference
 		Santa Barbara, CA
Performing Medieval Texts Merton College
Celtic Legal Procedure
Symposia Iranica: 1st Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies University of St. Andrews
Grammatica and the Celtic Vernaculars in the Medieval World Christ Church College
London Anglo-Saxon Symposium Senate House, London

Exegesis: from East to West

 		Heythrop College, London
Gender in Material Culture Bath Spa University

The Mediterranean City: Space / Religion / Connectivity

 		Institute of Medieval Studies, University of St Andrews
The Italian Renaissance State? University of Oxford
Transmission, Translation and Dissemination in the European Middle Ages, 1000 – 1500
 		University College Cork
Summer School in Old and Medieval French Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, Ghent
Palaeography Workshop University College Cork
Annual Conference of the British Branch of the International Arthurian Society
19th International Congress of the Société Rencesvals Wadham College
There and Back Again: Writing Spaces, Mapping Places in the Medieval World
 		Queen's College
Care and Cure: Diseases, Disabilities and Therapies in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
 		Swansea University
The Ends of Story-telling University of Durham
Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels University of Westminster
Romance in Medieval Britain University of Oxford
London Anglo-Saxon Symposium 2012 School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London

Medievalists and Classicists in Conversation: Epic

 		Corpus Christi College

Bibles: Reading Scripture from Medieval to Early Modern

 		Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Liverpool
Contextualizing Miracles in the Christian West Wolfson College, Cambridge
Estate and Precedence: The Form and Function of Beds in Medieval Households
 		Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College, Oxford

The Medieval Library

 		Durham Castle
Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages University of Oxford
Burckhardt's Renaissance, 150 Years Later
How the Dominican Order Dealt with Error within its Own Ranks: Unsanctioned Publication and the Censure of Durand of St-Pourçain
 		Lincoln College, Oxford
Borderlines XIV: Codices and Codification Queen's University, Belfast

Humanism in England during the Fifteenth Century

 		Corpus Christi College
Ludic Margins: the Gravity of Play in Gothic Manuscripts Lincoln College, Oxford
Mary of the Europeans: Emotion and Devotion St. Hilda's College
Judgment And Apocalypse
Death And Resurrection
The Place of Thought in Late Medieval Didactic Literature: The Case of Christine de Pizan
 		Mansfield College
Robustissimus Antichristi Achilles: Thomas Netter, Wyclif and the Lollards Balliol College
Detail from depiction of the Garden of Eden in De Proprietatibus Rerum (Paris, 1414). Image courtesy of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Detail from depiction of the Garden of Eden in De Proprietatibus Rerum (Paris, 1414). Image courtesy of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.