MEDIUM ÆVUM exists to support and promote research into the cultures and intellectual life of the medieval world, principally through its
Events Calendar
Events sponsored by the Society and organized by its members, & the Society's own events and deadlines
2021
Wed, 1 Dec

Medium Ævum Essay Prize
2022
Jan (TBA)

Coming in 2022:

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Pfaff at 50: New Devotions and Religious Change in Late Medieval England. Celebrating 50 years of Richard Pfaff's New Liturgical Feasts

, University of Nottingham
Posted: November 29, 2030
News
From the Society and its Members
Posted: November 28, 2030
Out Now: Medium Ævum Vol. 90, No. 1 (2020)
Out now: MAE 90/1
The latest issue includes the following articles:
Caroline Batten

Hand over head: a possible reference to the Old English metrical psalms in the ‘Journey Charm’
Leonard Neidorf Grendel’s blood: on the translation of Beowulf line 849
Rafael J. Pascual

Hrothgar’s warhorse and the audience of Beowulf
Joan Duran-Porta The Grail as a ‘converted’ object: literary fiction and historical archetypes
Aisling Byrne Guy of Warwick in Iberia: England, Portugal and the background to Tirant lo Blanch
Siegfried Wenzel

The three enemies of man: an unlisted sermon in Middle English
Julia Mattison Universalizing doublets in Middle English verse: Chaucer and romance
Arvind Thomas

Rechelesnesse’s learned ignorance or how to make a law from a rule in Piers Plowman
along with dozens of reviews of the latest medieval scholarship
Posted: August 30, 2021
The 2021 MAE Lecture: Now Viewable Online!
Posted: July 9, 2021
Posted: February 23, 2021
Translation: The 2020 Oxford Medieval Grad. Conf.
29th-30 Sep. Register Now, via Zoom
Posted: September 14, 2020
2022 Medium Ævum Essay Prize
The Race is On!
Posted: September 6, 2020
Dark Archives 20/20: Registration Open, & Polonsky Blogging Prize
Online, 8th-10th September

Registration Now Open, and all details, at http://darkarchiv.es.. We are delighted to announce that the newly created #PolonskyGerman #BloggingMSS Prize for this year is to be awarded at Dark Archives 20/20, following a session showcasing shortlisted entries and by popular vote! 

Posted: August 4, 2020
Pfaff at 50: 2-day MAE Joint Conference
Posted: February 1, 2020
Out Now: Medium Ævum Monographs, NS 36
Leslie Brook (ed.), Jeun de Meun's Translation of the Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Posted: January 7, 2020
2nd Edn Out Now: Medium Ævum Monographs, NS 23
David Macnab (ed.), A Sporting Lexicon of the Fifteenth Century
Posted: January 7, 2020
On Sat. 27th April, David d'Avray delivers the 2019 MÆ Lecture - How to explain the Medieval Papacy
Arts Bldg, Birmingham Uni, at 4.45pm. Free & Open to All. Followed by Drinks.

Posted: April 16, 2019
*Registration Open*
Posted: September 14, 2018
Dame Jinty Nelson, 'Writing the Life of Charlemagne' - The 2018 MÆ Annual Lecture
Delivered as Part of Medieval Lifewriting, a Special Society Colloquium.
Dame Jinty Nelson, 'Writing the Life of Charlemagne' - 2018 MÆ Annual Lecture
Posted: July 4, 2018
Posted: March 29, 2018
AHRC CHASE Collaborative Doctoral Award
BEAUTIFUL FRAGMENTS: GLASS, CERAMICS, LEATHER, AND METALWORK IN MEDIEVAL LONDON

Is a broken artwork useless? What can only a fragment of something tell us about the past?

Application Deadline: 7 May 2018

Posted: March 29, 2018
LASS 2018
Posted: January 31, 2018
Posted: November 16, 2017
Animals
CfP now open
Posted: November 15, 2017

Conference Programme now published for Ovid Across Europe

Posted: August 31, 2017
The Animal in Medieval Romance, Kalamazoo 2018
Posted: August 1, 2017

All details at https://neighboursstrangers.wordpress.com

Posted: May 5, 2017
Prof. David d'Avray's Plenary Lecture at Time, the 2017 Oxford Medieval Grad. Conf.
Posted: April 27, 2017
Posted: March 22, 2017
Prof. Helen Cooper: Plenary Address to Wonder, The 2016 Oxford Medieval Grad. Conf.
Posted: April 29, 2016
Prof. Paul Binski's Plenary Address to Colour, the 2015 Oxford Medieval Grad. Conf.
Posted: April 23, 2015
MÆ On Twitter (@medium_aevum)

Wednesday 06 October, 2021

3:18pm    RT @Medium_Aevum: ** Submissions are now invited for the 2022 Medium Ævum Essay Prize ** Open to all postgraduates and those recently grad…
3:16pm    RT @InsularWorld: In the latest @Medium_Aevum issue: new evidence that part of Joanot Martorell's 15thc Catalan epic, 'Tirant lo Blanch', g…
3:15pm    RT @JEugeneClay: @Medium_Aevum just published a great review of Beasts, Humans, and Transhumans in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. htt…
3:14pm    RT @GPellissa: I am very excited about the publication of Ovid in the Vernacular in @Medium_Aevum Monographs, together with @marta_balzi ht…
3:13pm    RT @commish24: Looking back at my notes on this and I see Jocelyn referred to a recent article that suggest Marie de France's lais were co-…
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Posted: November 10, 1971