CMS Christmas Party & Medieval Bake-Off

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

Lecture by Richard McClary available online

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

New book from Dr Lydia Zeldenrust

Lydia’s book, The Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe: Translation, Circulation, and Material Contexts will be released by Boydell & Brewer in January 2020 as part of their Studies in Medieval Romance series. Here at the CMS, we would like to congratulate Dr Zeldenrust on what looks to be a fantastic contribution to scholarship on the … Continue reading New book from Dr Lydia Zeldenrust

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s ‘Callimachus’

Earlier this summer, the CMS theatre group The Lords of Misrule, put on a performance of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s 'Callimachus' at the Leeds International Medieval Congress. Directed by Nicola Peard, the free performance took place on Wednesday 3 July in Beech Grove Plaza, and was blessed by good weather and an interested crowd. Written by the 10th-century … Continue reading Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s ‘Callimachus’

CMS-sponsored sessions at Kalamazoo 2020

Two PhD students based at the Centre, Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow (CMS) and Kirstin Barnard (History), have come together to organise two sessions at ICMS Kalamazoo 2020.   To see the submission guidelines, please visit the official Call for Papers page on the Western Michigan University website. Date:  7th–10th May 2020. Organiser: Prof. Sarah Rees Jones Chairs: … Continue reading CMS-sponsored sessions at Kalamazoo 2020

Dr Lydia Zeldenrust Awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

The Centre would like to congratulate Dr Lydia Zeldenrust, Associate Lecturer at the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, and key member of the CMS, who has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship this summer, for the project ‘Continental Connections: European Bestselling Romances in England (c. 1400-1600).’ Having been awarded such … Continue reading Dr Lydia Zeldenrust Awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship