Events

CMS Research Seminars are held on Thursday afternoons and speakers are invited from across the UK and from abroad. In recent years, the CMS have hosted experts in archives and manuscript studies, history, art history, archaeology, and literature. 

2024/5 Seminar Schedule

Semester 1

1 October 2024Joseph MasonNew College, OxfordHeartbroken: Music, Violence and the Body in Thirteenth-Century France
10 October 2024Elizabeth LambournDe Montfort UniversityMetals and Models: The Exchange of Technologies between Aden and the Malabar Coast as Recorded in Geniza Documents
15 October 2024Miriam WendlingAlmaire Foundation, LeuvenUsing Polyphonic Sources for Plainchant Research
17 October 2024Catherine LégluUniversity of LuxembourgThe Anglo-Norman Bible and Its Glosses: Exploring a New Context
24 October 2024Jelmar HugenUtrecht University/Bristol Next Generation Visiting ResearcherPerceval Passing Borders: Adaptations and Continuations of the French Conte de Graal Outside Medieval France
5 November 2024Emma HornbyUniversity of BristolMusic in Its Intertextual Context in the First Millennium: Saint Michael the Archangel in Early Medieval Iberia
7 November 2024Nick HavelyUniversity of YorkBook Presentation: Dante’s Mountains and Nineteenth-century Travellers (Co sponsored by the Departments of Italian and English)
12 November 2024Marcus Jones, Melanie Shaffer, and Mariia RomanetsUniversity of Bristol Post-Doctoral Research
14 November 2024Jaclyn RajsicQueen Mary UniversityCross-Channel Histories: Picturing England’s Past in French and English Genealogical Rolls, 1415-1461
12 December 2024Justin StoverUniversity of EdinburghTexts and Transmission (Title TBC)

Semester 2

30 January 2025Rebecca Tyson and Rachael Harkes University of BristolMapping for Medievalists
6 February 2025Russell Ó RíagáinUniversity of St AndrewsAdventures in Transdisciplinary Research: Making Sense of the Insular Scandinavian Diaspora
13 February 2025Rachael Harkes and Matt LampittUniversity of BristolMapping Literature and Society in the Late Medieval Welsh Marches
20 February 2025Elizabeth LambournDe Montford UniversityMetals and Models: Geniza Documents on the Exchange of Technologies between Aden and the Malabar Coast
27 February 2025Eleanor JanegaHistory HitWhat Every Medievalist Should Know About Medieval Sex and the Law
6 March 2025Luciana Cordo RussoUniversity of BristolThe Chronicle of the Pseudo-Turpin in Medieval Britain: Insights from the Welsh Translation of the Latin Text
13 March 2025Kathryne BeebeUniversity of North TexasImagined Pilgrimage: A Typology, Critique, and New Interpretive Model
1 May 2025Niamh Kehoe-RouchyUniversity of OxfordTitle TBC
8 May 2025David RundleUniversity of KentTitle TBC

14th March 2025, 19:00: Sir John Lloyd Lecture, Professor Helen Fulton

Professor Helen Fulton will be delivering the Brecknock Society’s annual Sir John Lloyd lecture. The subject of this year’s lecture is: ‘Gentry Families and their Poets in Late-Medieval Brecon’, and the event will take place at the Theatr Brycheiniog with the option to join online. Tickets are free in-person and £6.50 online.

Tickets can be booked here: https://www.brycheiniog.co.uk/en

Visiting Professorship, David Scott-Macnab

Professor David Scott-Macnab (NWU, South Africa) is coming to Bristol on 1 September (for 3 months) on a prestigious Leverhulme Visiting Professorship, funded by the Leverhulme Trust.   David Scott-Macnab  is an internationally renowned expert on medieval hunting and hunting treatises, will give the English Department’s Annual Tucker-Cruse lecture as part of the Centre for Medieval Studies seminar series and will give a further lecture for our undergraduates (open to anyone interested). He will also contribute a masterclass on editing, drawing on his current research project, an edition of The Master of Game for the Early English Text Society. 

Details of the two Leverhulme Visiting Professor lectures taking place in TB1 of 2024-2025:

1. ​​‘The Natural World in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’,  Tuesday 5 November 9:00-9:50am, Chemistry Building, Lecture Theatre 3

2.  ‘Representations of Animals, Animal Communication, and Human–Animal Relations in Edward of York’s Master of Game’, Thursday 21 November,  4:00-5:15 pm in Arts Complex, Lecture Room 8. (The Annual Tucker-Cruse Lecture, hosted by the English Department and the Centre for Medieval Studies, to be followed by a drinks reception).