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2019
Mon, 22 Apr

Large Conference Grant Application Deadline (three rounds annually; apply all year for smaller grants)
Sat, 27 Apr

The 2019 MÆ AGM and Lecture - David d'Avray (UCL), 'How to explain the Medieval Papacy'

, University of Birmingham
Thu, 30 May Power of the Bishop IV: Bishop as Patron from Late Antiquity to 1500, Sarum College, Salisbury
Fri, 21 Jun Mediating Dante, University College Cork
Sat, 22 Jun Old Norse Poetry in Performance: Text and Texture, Christ Church College, Oxford
Wed, 26 Jun Speaking Internationally: Medieval Women’s Literary Culture and the Canon in the Global Middle Ages, Bangor University, Wales
Thu, 27 Jun International Medievalisms Conference, Maynooth University
Thu, 5 Sep Constructing the Public Intellectual in the Premodern World, Chancellors’ Hotel, University of Manchester
Tue, 10 Sep Dark Archives: A Conference on the Medieval Unread & Unreadable, St Cross Building, Manor Road, Oxford
Sun, 1 Dec

Medium Ævum Essay Prize
Posted: November 29, 2030
News
From the Society and its Members
Posted: November 28, 2030
Posted: February 23, 2021
Out Now: Medium Ævum Vol. 87, No. 2 (2018)

The latest issue (MÆ 87.2) includes the following articles:

Christine Valerie Bourgeois
Devotion and disbelief in the Old French Vie de Saint Antoine: hagiographical doubt and the literary tradition of Saint Anthony the Great
Gabriel Radle
Bishops blessing the bridal bedchamber in the early Middle Ages:
reconsidering the western evidence
Joseph Mason
Debatable chivalry: a jeu-parti by the Duke of Brittany and its context
Lucas Wood
Charles d’Orléans’s heart and its books
María Dolores Bollo-Panadero
Una reevaluación de la cuestión de la misoginia en La ofrenda de Yehudá, de Ibn Sabbetay
Philip E. Bennett, Sarah Carpenter, and Louise Gardiner
Chivalric games at the court of Edward III: the jousting letters of EUL MS 183

along with dozens of reviews and notices of the latest medieval publications.
The Table of Contents for 87.2, and online access to articles for Society members, is available here.

Posted: January 1, 2019
** Call For Papers **
Posted: November 12, 2018
*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)

Friday 12 April, 2019

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Saturday 06 April, 2019

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Monday 01 April, 2019

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Friday 29 March, 2019

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