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.

Event
Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Chaucer and the Law	Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London	30 June, 2017
Power and Identity: The Reading of History in High Medieval Europe	Old College, Aberystwyth University	28 June, 2017
Mobility and Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe	TORCH	23 June, 2017
Storytelling: York CMS Graduate Conference 2017	University of York	19 June, 2017
The Power of the Bishop: Bishops as Diplomats	John Percival Building, University of Cardiff	1 June, 2017
Literary Networks of the Vicars Choral and the Clerical Proletariat in Late Medieval York	Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park, Nottingham	6 May, 2017
Teaching the Codex 2: further pedagogical approaches to palaeography and codicology	Merton College	6 May, 2017
The Material Culture of Religious Change and Continuity, 1400-1600	University of Huddersfield	11 April, 2017
Architectural Representation in the Middle Ages	University College	7 April, 2017
Animals: The 2017 London Anglo-Saxon Symposium	Senate House, London	25 March, 2017
Translating, Editing and Using Medieval Documents	Cardiff University	13 January, 2017
Shaping, Representing and Using the Medieval City	University of Ghent	18 October, 2016
Saints and Sinners: Footprints of Mary and Margaret, Queens of Scots	IASH, Edinburgh University	6 October, 2016
The Crusades in France and Occitania – Roots, Impact, and Cultural Signification of the Crusading Movement in Medieval Texts	Institute of Historical Research, London	10 September, 2016
People, Places and Possessions, 1350-1550	TORCH	3 September, 2016
The Codex Amiatinus and its Contexts	University of York, Bede's World, Jarrow	14 July, 2016
New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, 2016	Queen Mary, University of London	10 July, 2016
Æthelred II and Cnut the Great: A Millennial Conference to Commemorate the Siege of London in 1016	University of London	6 July, 2016
Celts, Romans, Britons: Classical and Celtic Influence in Britain, 55 BC - 2016 AD	Radcliffe Humanities Building	2 July, 2016
Old Norse Poetry in Performance	Somerville College	24 June, 2016
Pastoralia in the Late Middle Ages: Teaching, Translation, Transmission	University of Kent	24 June, 2016
Interrogating the Germanic a category and its use in Late Antiquity	University of York	29 May, 2016
Medieval Culture and War: Ideals, Representations, Realities	University of Leeds	5 May, 2016
Eleanor Knott Memorial Conference	Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity College Dublin	28 April, 2016
MAE Annual Lecture and AGM 2016 (Cardiff)	Cardiff University	16 April, 2016
Crusading Masculinities Conference (Zurich)	University of Zurich	30 March, 2016
Fifth London Anglo-Saxon Symposium 2016	Court Room, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Uni. of London	12 March, 2016
The Senses in Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Sight and Visual Perception	University College, Dublin	11 March, 2016
Subversions of Classical Learning (Aberdeen)	University of Aberdeen	15 January, 2016
Art and Articulation: Illuminating the Mystical, Medieval and Modern	St. Hilda's College	8 January, 2016
Dominus Episcopus	Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquity, Stockholm Sweden	3 December, 2015
The Influences of the Dominican Order in the Middle Ages	Taylorian Institute	10 September, 2015
Telling Tales: Manuscripts Books and the Making of Narrative	St. Anne's College	2 July, 2015
Looking back with Auerbach: A Convivial Celebration of Dante’s 750th Birthday	St. John's College	5 June, 2015
The Medieval and Early Modern Garden: Enclosure and Transformation	Swansea University	4 June, 2015
Image in Medieval Studies		29 May, 2015
Mightier than the Sword? Grasping the Point of the Anglo-Saxon Riddle Tradition	Bancroft Building, Queen Mary, University of London	9 May, 2015
Medieval Thought Experiments: Poetry and Speculation in Europe, 1100-1450		13 April, 2015
Gender in Medieval Studies		10 April, 2015
Animal in Medieval Studies		27 March, 2015
North of England Saints, 600-1500	Lady Margaret Hall	21 March, 2015
London Anglo-Saxon Symposium 2015: Constructing Gender in Anglo-Saxon England	Deller Hall, Senate House, London	11 March, 2015
Stephen Langton's Theological Questions and MS Cambridge, St John's College, C7 (57)	St. John's College	6 February, 2015
Latin Palaeography and Medieval Liturgy Workshop	University of Ghent	18 October, 2014
Robert Grosseteste and the Pursuit of Religious and Scientific Learning in the Middle Ages	Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln	18 July, 2014
Across the North Sea: North Sea Connections from 400 AD into the Viking Age	Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands	5 June, 2014
Didacticism, Satire, and Song: Understanding the Jena Songbook	Somerville College	30 May, 2014
Transforming Scripture: Biblical translations and adaptations in Old and Middle English	University of Oxford	29 May, 2014
The Art of Ritual: Object, Image and Space in Medieval/Early Modern Europe	Senate House, London	17 May, 2014
Leeds Monasticism Conference	University of Leeds	16 May, 2014