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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
MÆ On Twitter (@medium_aevum)

Monday 01 March, 2021

1:43pm    RT @DarkArchives: Our next #DarkArchives #UnEdition entry is out: @ZBartliff , First steps towards an UnEdition of Cyfraith Hywel Digest a…
1:43pm    RT @DarkArchives: And once you have registered, in the meantime: * digest the wealth of presentations from the panelists at your leisure, a…
1:43pm    RT @DarkArchives: *Registration now open* for Birth of the UnEdition 18th March 2021 at 4.30pm GMT, via Zoom. Register for free at: https:…
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Posted: February 23, 2021
Out Now: Medium Ævum Vol. 89, No. 2 (2020)

Out Now: MAE 89/2 (2020).
The latest issue features the following articles:
Julia Aguilar Miquel, La primera tradición indirecta de las Sententiae de Tajón de Zaragoza (s. VII): un acercamiento a su difusión en época carolingia
Daniel Anlezark, Aldhelm, Daniel and Azarias
Maria Teresa Rachetta, Paris 1244: the Jews, the Christians, and the Tartars: the Livre of Moses ben Abraham, a little-known case of Jewish apologetics in Medieval French
Stephen H. A. Shepherd and Courtney Harshbarger, Text–image alignment in MS Douce 104 (Piers Plowman): ‘articulation’, pre-drawing, and proximal allusion
Patrizia Serra, New hypotheses on Guillaume d’Angleterre
Elizabeth Eva Leach, Ripping romance to ribbons: the French of a German knight in the Tournament at Chauvency
Leonard Neidorf, Hygelac and his daughter: rereading Beowulf lines 2985–98
Marijane Osborn, Princess Freawaru and Hamlet's other uncle …
Keagan Brewer and James H. Kane, Ricardus explicit: an elusive marginal note on the earliest manuscript of the Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum
Sebastian Sobecki, A new life record for John Gower, 1396
along with dozens of reviews of the latest medieval scholarship.
Posted: January 6, 2021
Translation: The 2020 Oxford Medieval Grad. Conf.
29th-30 Sep. Register Now, via Zoom
Posted: September 14, 2020
2020 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)

Tuesday 23 February, 2021

4:14pm    RT @DarkArchives: We are delighted to publish our next #UnEdition entry: @RealMandeville 's video presentation on: 'Towards an un-editio…

Friday 19 February, 2021

1:39pm    RT @DarkArchives: meantime, 1) read our first 'UnEdition' blog entry, from Michael G. Sargent, at https://t.co/TtmCQBZj6d , and others fro…
1:38pm    RT @DarkArchives: delighted to announce the first live #DarkArchives 20/21 seminar: 'Birth of the Unedition', on 18th March 2021, from 4.3…
1:38pm    RT @DarkArchives: Among the burning issues from #DarkArchives 20/20: How and why might one incorporate the medieval Unread and Unreadab…
1:38pm    RT @DarkArchives: Among the burning issues from #DarkArchives 20/20: How and why might one incorporate the medieval Unread and Unreadab…

Thursday 18 February, 2021

1:46pm    RT @Christi68164012: Can you help us? We are producing a partial digital edition of Alfonso de Palencia's ‘Vidas Paralelas’ (1491) and tryi…

Wednesday 17 February, 2021

11:02am    **We are delighted to announce financial (up to £500) and infrastructure support for online medieval conferences** Apply online at https://t.co/tZfdZ5zjL7 Please note that while the physical conference grants scheme remains shut, we expect to announce an update after 9th May.

Friday 12 February, 2021

Monday 01 February, 2021

1:23pm    RT @Longshanks1307: The very first thing I read at university, on my first ever trip to the library, was the opening chapter of Michael Cla…
1:22pm    RT @MedFrenchOx: We were all so saddened to hear of the death of Michael Clanchy. A huge loss to the medieval community, and to all who wer…
1:22pm    RT @SebSobecki: 'From Memory to Written Record' is one of greatest academic books ever published. Michael Clanchy will be sorely missed. ht…
1:22pm    RT @KateClanchy1: This is thread for my father, Michael Clanchy, who has died aged 84. https://t.co/d7Jk6HDl7q
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Posted: November 10, 1971