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mediumaevum.bsky.social Sat, 07/19/2025 - 16:40 3 13
During the AGM, President Alastair Minnis congratulated the winner of the 2025 Medium Aevum Essay Prize, Chenyun Zhu (Nanjing University) for their essay 'The Curse and the Seal: Fertility Myth in the Nine Herbs Charm'. We are delighted to have Chenyun join us at the conference.
mediumaevum.bsky.social Sat, 07/19/2025 - 17:33 2
Our final event of the day is the SSMLL Annual Lecture presented by Alastair Minnis (Yale). Minnis' lecture, ‘(Re)anthologizing Literary Theory from Medieval Commentary Tradition: New Parameters', is offering insight into the additions being made to the landmark anthology...
...'Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism, c.1100-c.1375: The Commentary Tradition'.
mediumaevum.bsky.social Sat, 07/19/2025 - 18:01 1
The end of Minnis' talk brings our 🌍Global Glossing: Transnational Commentary in the Later Middle Ages🌍 conference to a close! Thank you to the team at St Andrews, all of our fantastic speakers, and our audience both online and in person.
thecelticist.bsky.social Sat, 07/19/2025 - 23:38 3 22
I've never been certain of the value of winning prizes, but I know that Medium Ævum Essay Prize is the only prize I have won (in 2009), & it meant a lot to me when one of my PhD students won it in 2022, & it means a lot now to see 1st winner since I was invited to become a trustee of the society. ❤️
mediumaevum.bsky.social Mon, 07/21/2025 - 11:54 1 4
🌍Global Glossing: Transnational Commentary in the Later Middles Ages🌏was packed with exciting research, from Dante to digital reconstruction, and the self-commentary of John Walton to that of producing a new anthology edition. Thank you to our speakers, graduate chairs, and audience for joining us.
rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social Mon, 07/21/2025 - 15:05 1 22
I had a great time in St Andrews this weekend - what a convivial, beautiful, charming place with fantastic medievalists. Presenting completely fresh work was energising and terrifying! 📸 credit: Alastair Minnis
mediumaevum.bsky.social Mon, 07/21/2025 - 15:48 1
We were delighted to have you with us, Rebecca, thank you for your fascinating paper!
mediumaevum.bsky.social Wed, 07/23/2025 - 11:25 1 3
Jinty Nelson was a trustee of SSMLL 2010-2016, and we are delighted to see this special essay in in the @@royalhistsoc.org Transactions celebrating her work.
mediumaevum.bsky.social Fri, 08/22/2025 - 14:24 4 13
The Society was kindly gifted a replica model of 'The Monk Astride a Wyvern' from The Met Museum by Prof. Mary Carruthers. The original dates from the mid c.12th, and was made in Magdeburg, Germany. We need your help naming our new wyvern-riding wordsmith mascot! Comment your suggestions below 👇