Bristol CMS Research Seminars are held on Thursday afternoons and speakers are invited from across the UK and from abroad. In recent years, Bristol CMS have hosted experts in archives and manuscript studies, history, art history, archaeology, and literature.
2025/6 Seminar Schedule
Semester 1
| 2 October 2025 | Kathleen E. Kennedy and Melek Karatas, with other members of the CMS | Les Enluminures and University of Bristol | A Celebration of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections and Other New Books |
| 9 October 2025 | Elena Rossi | University of Oxford | ‘Lest the plague spread in the said house’: The Employment of Women in University College in the Middle Ages |
| 16 October 2025 | Alexander J. Zawacki | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | Surface, Substrate, Signal: Digital Interventions in the Archive (A crossover with the GW4 collaborative project , ‘Medieval Studies: Mobilising Digital Humanities’) |
| 6 November 2025 | Máire Ní Mhaonaigh | University of Cambridge | Title TBC |
| 13 November 2025 | Kathleen Thompson | University of Bristol | Leperhouses and Lordship: Some Ideas from Medieval Bristol |
| 20 November 2025 | Sarah Hamilton | University of Exeter | Title TBC |
| 4 December 2025 | Anthony Bale | University of Cambridge | Witchcraft in the Fourteenth Century: Texts, Contexts and Challenges |