On Monday 20 June 2016, we held our annual CMS Summer Party on the lawn at the King's Manor. Blessed by a unprecedented splash of sunshine, we gathered for strawberries, prossecco and ice creams provided by Paul and his truck!   During the party, we were delighted to announce that Stephanie Montieth is this year's winner of … Continue reading CMS Summer Party

Jennifer Caddick is a student on the MA in Medieval Studies and is currently writing a dissertation on Sermons and the Painted Chamber during the Opening of English Parliaments, 1399-1484. At the end of April, she was shown round the Palace of Westminster by Martyn Atkins, Senior Clerk at the House of Commons. Here she reflects on … Continue reading A Visit to the Palace of Westminster

  Usha Vishnuvajjala presented the 2015 Fair Unknown Award to Jennifer Bartlett on behalf of the selection committee. The citation read: "Jennifer Bartlett's 2015 Kalamazoo paper, titled Arthur's Dinner: Or, Robert Thornton Goes Shopping, reads the Alliterative Morte Darthur's early feast scene for what it can tell us about the material world depicted in the … Continue reading The Fair Unknown Award winner 2016 – Dr Jenn Bartlett

In May the Viking Studies Research Group, sponsored by the Department of Archaeology and the Centre for Medieval Studies, welcomed to York, two of Europe's leading archaeologists in the study of early-medieval coastal sites, Prof Dries Tys (Free University, Brussels) and Dr Sven Kalmring (Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology, Schloss-Gottorf). Here they discuss the … Continue reading Viking Studies – The Archaeology of Coastal Sites in Viking-Age Continental Europe and Scandinavia