The blog of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York
On Thursday 5 November, Dr Stephennie Mulder (UoT) will deliver the autumn York Medieval Lecture on 'Recent Controversies in Islamic Medieval Studies: Pushing Back Against the Far Right’s Appropriation of the Medieval Past'. The lecture will be delivered via Zoom, and free tickets are available here. Stephennie Mulder is Associate Professor of Islamic Art and … Continue reading York Medieval Lecture, 5 November 2020
Congratulations to newly-appointed Professors Craig Taylor (History) and Sarah Brown (History of Art), both key members of the CMS and its teaching and research profiles. Prof. Craig Taylor Professor Taylor has previously served as the Director of CMS on two occasions, from 2010-2011 and 2014-17. He has recently returned from Research Leave, and will be … Continue reading Two New Professors
From Monday 3 August some staff and research students will be returning to our city centre campus at King's Manor. This is especially welcome for those who cannot efficiently or easily work from home, as it allows them a peaceful work-space - probably a lot more peaceful than usual, given the restrictions on numbers permitted … Continue reading Return to the Manor
On Thursday 16 July, Dr Craig Taylor (History) hosted a launch for Monarchy, State and Political Culture in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of W. Mark Ormrod (Eds. Gwilym Dodd and Craig Taylor, York Medieval Press, 2020). This Festschrift has been produced by Mark Ormrod's former students and Research Assistants, and honours his long and illustrious career … Continue reading Monarchy, State and Political Culture in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of W. Mark Ormrod
On 23-24 June, the CMS (virtually) hosted its annual Postgraduate Conference. We asked the organisers, Katie Vernon (CMS), Jordan Cook (HoA), Isobel Staton (History), Yuki Sugiyama (English), and Karli Grazman (CMS), to write about the conference, and their experience of organising a virtual event. As a team of five, we organised the CMS graduate conference … Continue reading Graduate Conference 2020
On Thursday 25 June, we welcomed staff and students to our virtual King's Manor lawn (a Zoom meeting, I know, a poor substitute), to celebrate another fabulous year at the CMS. Despite the global pandemic, we had kept our cohorts and community going, through the hard work of staff, both academic and administrative, and students … Continue reading CMS Summer Party
Dr Alice Toso is the winner of the Mark Ormrod Prize for 2019 for her thesis: "Diet in Medieval Portugal: exploring Inter-faith and Social Dynamics through Stable Isotope Analysis".
The CMS community gathered on Monday 9 December for our Christmas party and the seventh annual Medieval Bake-Off. Staff, students, and CMS alumni enjoyed festive refreshments and a spectacular selection of baked goods that included Latin epigraphy, gingerbread dragons, and a real whale of a cake! The arduous task of judging fell to some of … Continue reading CMS Christmas Party & Medieval Bake-Off
Dr Lydia Zeldenrust reached an international audience last week helping a New York Times reporter explore the mystery behind a German tote bag. The bag in question, sold in Hugendubel, one of Germany’s largest bookstore chains, shows a Gothic script, and a red logo - but no one was entirely sure what the text said, … Continue reading CMS staff in The New York Times
The British Institute of Persian Studies has made Dr Richard McClary's lecture: The rediscovery of mina’i wares and the fiction of completion: 13th century polychrome Iranian ceramics and their reception in the 20th century available to listen to for free on their website. Richard McClary is one of the most recent additions to our CMS family, … Continue reading Lecture by Richard McClary available online
