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

(Re)anthologizing Literary Theory from Medieval Commentary Tradition: New Parameters

 		University of St Andrews
University of St Andrews
2024 MÆ AGM and Lecture: ‘Shifting Landscapes: St Oswald of Northumbria in England and Germany’
 		Grimond Lecture 3, Grimond Building, University of Kent / Online
The 2023 MAE Lecture: Causes and Chronography in Medieval Historical Writing
 		Grosvenor Museum, Chester
The 2022 MAE Lecture: Middle English Books of Devotion & Liturgical Privatisation in 15th England
 		University of Nottingham
The 2021 MAE Lecture: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Women and Multilingualism in Late Medieval England
 		Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, online
DarkArchives 20/21 online
Polyphonic Communities: Ways of Belonging in the Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World
 		Exeter College
The Medieval Inquisition online
Comparative Afterlives: Medieval Eurasian Heavens and Hells online
Dark Archives 20/20 online
Medieval Cultures: Conversations and Confrontations University of Reading
Decoding the Past: Critical Editions and Their Editors The Trinity Long Room Hub
Teaching the Codex III: Decentring the Codex Merton College
Dark Archives: A Conference on the Medieval Unread and Unreadable English Faculty, Oxford
Constructing the Public Intellectual in the Premodern World University of Manchester
International Medievalisms Conference Maynooth University
Speaking Internationally: Medieval Women’s Literary Culture and the Canon in the Global Middle Ages
 		Bangor University, Wales
Old Norse Poetry in Performance: Text and Texture Christ Church College
Mediating Dante University College Cork
Angels in the Medieval World University of York
Power of the Bishop IV: Bishop as Patron from Late Antiquity to 1500 Sarum College, Salisbury
The 2019 MÆ AGM and Lecture - David d'Avray (UCL), 'How to explain the Medieval Papacy'
 		University of Birmingham
The Early English Drama and Performance Network Graduate and Early Career Symposium.
 		Fribourg
Crossing Boundaries?: Trade and Connections on the Medieval Mediterranean
 		St John's College, Oxford, Woolf Institute
The Life Course in Early Medieval England Cambridge University
Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades: 3rd Annual Symposium University of Huddersfield
Conference Title: Gender and Aliens: Gender and Medieval Studies 2019 Durham University
Names and Identity in the Medieval World: The 2018 Medium Ævum Day Conference
 		University of Glasgow
Symposium in Historical Archaeoethnology: The Frisians Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Symposia in Historical Archaeoethnology Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
MÆ Annual Lecture, Meeting and Colloquium - Medieval Life Writing - in Celebration of the Lecture's 60th Anniversary
 		Harris Manchester College
Animals Harris Manchester College
Reimagining Records Kew, The National Archives
‘Britain & its Neighbours: Cultural Contacts & Exchanges in Medieval & Early Modern Europe’, 28-9 June 2018
 		Swansea University
Sixth Annual Symposium on Medieval & Renaissance Studies Saint Louis University, Saint Louis Missouri
Brussels Medieval Culture and War Conference: Power, Authority, and Normativity
 		Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles
Wycliffitism and Hussitism: Contexts, Methods, Perspectives St. Anne's College, Oxford
2018 John Coffin Memorial Lecture Chancellor's Hall, First Floor, Senate House, London
The Animal in Medieval Romance Kalamazoo, Michigan
Application Deadline for AHRC CHASE Collaborative Doctoral Award: 'Beautiful Fragments: Glass, Ceramics, Leather and Metalwork in Medieval London'
Medieval Bodies Ignored: Politics, Culture, and Flesh Parkinson Building, University of Leeds
Medieval English (ca600-1500) in a Multilingual Context network University of Westminster, Seville, University of Bristol, Cardiff University
Margery Kempe in the 21st Century University College, Oxford
LASS 2018: 'Anglo Saxon London' Senate House, London
Bennett & Kerr - Twelfth Night Open Day Invitation Millhill Warehouse, Church Lane, Steventon
Transmissions and Translations in the Medieval World Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
A Lecture on Decorated Charters S.T. Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library, London
Neighbours and Strangers: The 2017 Medium Ævum Day Conference University of Southampton
Ovid Across Europe: Vernacular Translations of the Metamorphoses in the Middle Ages & Renaissance
 		University of Bristol
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.