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.

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Dominus Episcopus Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquity, Stockholm Sweden - Dominus Episcopus Proceedings
The Influences of the Dominican Order in the Middle Ages Taylorian Institute -
Telling Tales: Manuscripts Books and the Making of Narrative St. Anne's College -
Looking back with Auerbach: A Convivial Celebration of Dante’s 750th Birthday St. John's College -
The Medieval and Early Modern Garden: Enclosure and Transformation Swansea University -
Image in Medieval Studies
Andy Orchard Mightier than the Sword? Grasping the Point of the Anglo-Saxon Riddle Tradition Bancroft Building, Queen Mary, University of London - AL
Medieval Thought Experiments: Poetry and Speculation in Europe, 1100-1450
Gender in Medieval Studies
Animal in Medieval Studies
North of England Saints, 600-1500 Lady Margaret Hall -
London Anglo-Saxon Symposium 2015: Constructing Gender in Anglo-Saxon England Deller Hall, Senate House, London -
Stephen Langton's Theological Questions and MS Cambridge, St John's College, C7 (57) St. John's College -
Latin Palaeography and Medieval Liturgy Workshop University of Ghent -
Robert Grosseteste and the Pursuit of Religious and Scientific Learning in the Middle Ages Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln -
Across the North Sea: North Sea Connections from 400 AD into the Viking Age Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands -
Didacticism, Satire, and Song: Understanding the Jena Songbook Somerville College -
Transforming Scripture: Biblical translations and adaptations in Old and Middle English University of Oxford -
The Art of Ritual: Object, Image and Space in Medieval/Early Modern Europe Senate House, London -
Leeds Monasticism Conference University of Leeds -
Robert Bartlett Gervase of Tilbury and International Courtly Culture University of Lincoln - ALGM14
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 -
Nigel Palmer 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 - Oxford: Bodleian, MS. Or. 62, fol. 59r . A thirteenth-century Hebrew Psalter with Latin glosses. Copyright: Bodleian Library, Oxford.
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 -
Helen Cooper The Ends of Story-telling University of Durham - Helen Cooper
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 -
Sarah Medlam Estate and Precedence: The Form and Function of Beds in Medieval Households Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College, Oxford -
The Medieval Library Durham Castle - Medieval Library
Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages University of Oxford -
Burckhardt's Renaissance, 150 Years Later
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 -
Borderlines XIV: Codices and Codification Queen's University, Belfast -
Humanism in England during the Fifteenth Century Corpus Christi College - OS04
Palaeography Workshop University College Cork -
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 -
Judgment And Apocalypse
Alan Deyermond These things are figures of the true': Uses of Biblical Typology in Medieval Spanish Literature St. Hilda's College -
Death And Resurrection
Éamonn Ó Carragáin The Dream of the Rood' and Eighth-Century Northumbria Mansfield College - Rood
Sarah Kay The Place of Thought in Late Medieval Didactic Literature: The Case of Christine de Pizan Mansfield College - Kay
Anne Hudson Robustissimus Antichristi Achilles: Thomas Netter, Wyclif and the Lollards Balliol College - Hudson
Mary Carruthers Learning to Read the Hard Way (Peter of Celle: "On Afflication and Reading") Balliol College -
Margaret Bent The Musical Stanzas in Martin le Franc's Le champion des dames Balliol College -