News and Events

News

For the latest news from the Centre, see our regularly-updated blog.

Medieval Research Seminar

The Centre runs a fortnightly seminar series throughout the first two terms of the year, incorporating two public events (the Barton Lecture in the autumn, and the Orme Lecture in the spring, the latter of which is accompanied by a postgraduate seminar). If you would like to attend any of the other seminars and are not on the Centre for Medieval Studies mailing list, please contact Catherine Rider (C.R.Rider@exeter.ac.uk) and Gregory Lippiatt (G.E.Lippiatt@exeter.ac.uk). Listed below are the events for autumn 2024; all events start at 4pm and take place in Forum Seminar Room 6 (Streatham campus), unless otherwise stated.

25th September 2024	Welcome meeting Nibbles and new faces at the Centre!
10th October 2024	Ben Pohl (Bristol) 'A demonstration of medieval scribal practice' (workshop) * Takes place in Digital Humanities Seminar Room 1
23rd October 2024	Paul Dryburgh (National Archives) 'Plus ça change: commemorating the Norman Conquest in the twentieth century'
6th November 2024	Skills session (editing round table) Led by Gregory Lippiatt, Tom Hinton, Catherine Rider, and Loreto Romero (Exeter)
20th November 2024	Kathleen Kennedy (Bristol) 'Mind the gap: how we forgot Medieval English illumination'
4th December 2024	Simon Barton Memorial Lecture (Room TBC) Antonella Luizzo Scorpo (Lincoln) '"Frenemies": women, conflict, and rebellion in medieval Iberia'

To download the poster of this term's seminars, follow this link toMedieval Research Seminar (Autumn 2024). Posters from previous years' seminar series are also available for spring 2024, autumn 2023, spring 2023, autumn 2022, and spring 2022.

Reading Groups

Members of the Centre run a number of reading groups in their areas of study, to which any and all members of the University (and anyone with an interest in the field) are more than welcome. We currently run the following groups:

The Medieval French Reading Group (convened by Thomas Hinton and Edward Mills) meets weekly, on Wednesdays at 9:30am (Old Library 124), to explore and translate collaboratively a work written in the French of the pre-modern period. Our current text is the Jeu de Saint Nicolas, and members of the group bring a variety of experience with medieval and modern French, from internationally-recognised expertise to absolute beginners. All are welcome!
The Medieval Latin Reading Group (convened by Gregory Lippiatt and Naomi Howell) also meets weekly, on Wednesdays at 1pm (Forum Seminar Room 12). The focus is likewise on developing attendees' experience and familiarity with Latin texts that met with popularity during the Middle Ages, ranging from the short Disticha Catonis ('Distichs of Cato') to the longer Somnium Scipionis ('Dream of Scipio') and texts of monastic hours. For autumn 2024, the group will be exploring medieval accounts of the Trojan War.

Other Seminars and Events

Various dates: members of the Centre contribute to the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies' Monday Majalis seminar series, which will cover a number of medieval topics this term. Information about these events is hosted on the Institute's website.

If you have details of any other relevant seminars that you wish to be displayed on this page, please e-mail the webmaster for the Centre, Edward Mills.