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Monash Medieval & Renaissance Studies
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Community of Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Monash University, Australia. The past is not as distant as you imagine.
(Banner: Lincoln County Archives, BNLW 1/1/55/1; Profile pic: Monash, Bischoff frag. 002, MS 1821) Skeets by KN.
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New paid doctoral position with the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus project in Munich, for students researching Arabic or Latin texts related to Ptolemy's astronomical or astrological material; dissertation can be in English or German, apply by March 31st. ptolemaeus.badw.de/start #HistSTM #MedievalSky
January 15, 2026 at 5:37 PM
oops! should have tagged @melichloron.bsky.social! 👏
December 11, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Please join us in celebrating the success of Monash MRS members at the recent @anzamems.bsky.social prizes!

Dr Jason Crow - Chris Jones Book Prize 2025 for A new Material Interpretation of Twelfth-Century Architecture: Reconstructing the Abbey of St Denis
A New Material Interpretation of Twelfth-Century Architecture: Reconstructing the Abbey of Saint-Denis
Today, we perceive Gothic cathedrals as light-filled forms representing the sacred. The colored light projected from brightly-colored stained glass windows onto the walls and floors of these buildings...
www.routledge.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
We're back with big congratulations to @eaburrell.bsky.social, awarded the @austhistassoc.bsky.social Philippa Hetherington Prize for best postgraduate dissertation on a non-Australian topic: “Words for Wellbeing: Charms, Caregiving and Health in England, 1300—1550” 👏👏👏
July 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Friday 3 May @ 6pm AEST / 5pm JST / 9am BST. A/Prof. Asami Kobayashi (Shujitsu University) “Integrative Violence Through Examples Of Heresy Combat” on zoom. All welcome. Email us for the link!
April 30, 2024 at 1:03 PM
This week's seminar features another ep. in our continuing collaboration with TUCEMEMS! Unpick book technologies with Prof. Matti Peikola on "Articulating the operation of tables and figures for early modern English readers"! Fri 26 Apr on zoom @ 6pm AEST / 11am EEST / 9am BST. Email us for the link
April 23, 2024 at 9:22 AM
Exciting news! We will share the official CFP & details as soon as they're available, but followers may like to know that (like IMC, ICMS, RSA &c) this conference traditionally accepts general paper submissions, as well as those on the specific theme.
Psst #medievalsky #earlymodern! The next @anzamems.bsky.social conference is going to be in Melbourne, sometime in December 2025. Why not start planning your trip!? It would be a blast to see you there!
April 17, 2024 at 5:47 PM
For our next seminar we join the team at TUCEMEMS, feat. Dr Anna-Stina Hägglund on 'Female Religious Houses and Remembrance in the Late Medieval Swedish Kingdom (1350-1520)'. Friday 19 Apr @ 17:15 AEST / 10:15 EEST / 8:15 BST. #nuntastic #medievalsky
April 16, 2024 at 11:52 AM
This Friday; 12 April! Dr Romney Smith (ANU) on "Diplomacy in the Shadows. A lost Christian-Muslim Alliance in the 12th c Mediterranean?" 10am AEST on Zoom. Email us for the link (details in image/alt) #medievalsky
April 9, 2024 at 7:07 AM
This Friday 10am AEDT Joe Biggerstaff on "Orphans in an infant society: Crisis and dependency in early Barbados"
Join us in person at Monash or on zoom from anywhere! For details email cmrs-postgraduatecommittee [at] monash [dot] edu.
March 12, 2024 at 9:18 AM
Coming up on 1 March at 10am AEDT, our first seminar of the semester!
Dr Paige Donaghy (U Queensland) on '"When her ship was laden with wares, then she could take in passengers": pregnant women's sexuality in England, c. 1600-1750.' Email Zoom link: cmrs-postgraduatecommittee [at] monash [dot] edu
February 21, 2024 at 3:46 AM
OK, let's try that again... without the crucial email typo!
Coming soon: Exciting new series of Public Seminars (online and/or hybrid) for 2024. Contact our team at cmrs-postgraduatecommittee [at] monash [dot] edu for zoom details.
January 23, 2024 at 6:18 AM
Free download until 25 Jan! Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494-1559, by Susan Broomhall and Carolyn James: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494–1559
Cambridge Core - European History 1000-1450 - Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494–1559
www.cambridge.org
January 17, 2024 at 11:21 PM
5-year job (Lecturer/Snr Lecturer level) available for an Italian Renaissance historian contributing to our Medieval & Renaissance Studies Community! careers.pageuppeople.com/mob/513/cw/e...
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Italian History
Contribute expertise in Italian Renaissance history and broader European/transnational contexts to our dynamic academic environment!
careers.pageuppeople.com
January 17, 2024 at 7:12 AM
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The Early Modern Graphic Literacies project, funded by the Reseach Council of Finland, 2021-25, is now on Bluesky! We study English printed books 1500-1800 to find out how graphic devices e.g. tables and diagrams were used in the #EarlyModern period. #BookHistory
January 9, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Some good news just slipping in as the door closes on 2023 - MMRS members have just secured seed funding with collaborators in Padua for a new project: "Feeling the Middle Ages: Interdisciplinary approaches to medieval devotional culture". Watch this space for its findings! #medievalsky
December 20, 2023 at 5:32 AM
oh dear...
Latest from the British Library:
"disruption to certain services is expected to persist for several months."

blogs.bl.uk/living-knowl...
December 13, 2023 at 12:17 AM
Congratulations and good luck to Lucy Moloney (@lucyelm.bsky.social) on submission of her MA thesis, "Appeals to the Past in Sovereignty Disputes in Wales, Scotland, and England during Edward I’s Reign (1272–1307)"!
December 3, 2023 at 10:50 PM
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This week for our #MEMSSeminar, our special guest is Dr Gabriele Bonomelli, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kent. We are absolutely delighted to welcome Dr Bonomelli to MEMS!

📜 Dissent in Late Medieval & Early Modern England
📅 Thur 30 Nov, 5pm GMT
📍 Darwin LT1 & Zoom

Abstract below ⬇️
November 27, 2023 at 12:31 PM
Our seminars are now in summer recess. Looking forward to seeing you again on zoom or in person for our 2024 series. If you're interested to present, get in touch now! #medievalsky #earlymodernsky Meanwhile, have some red poppies, snapped at our recent annual "Med-Ren Feast"!
November 27, 2023 at 5:59 AM
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We are saddened to learn of the death of the inimitable Natalie Zemon Davis

www.rensoc.org.uk/natalie-zemo...
October 23, 2023 at 6:46 PM
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Our online series "Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History" continues - have a look at the programme and join us: dhi-roma.it/fileadmin/us...

#medievalsky #medievalmediterranean @DHIParis @MWS
dhi-roma.it
October 19, 2023 at 5:38 PM
ah nuts... we're hearing reports that the registration link is demanding institutional credentials. Bear with us...

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Join us from 6pm on 13 November in Melbourne for the annual Bill Kent Memorial Lecture, to be delivered by A/Prof. Nick Eckstein on "Time and Space in Renaissance Florence (and the Mouse in Matteo Cavalcanti's Underpants)". Are you not intrigued?!
www.monash.edu/prato/alumni...
Bill Kent Memorial Lecture
www.monash.edu
October 17, 2023 at 4:30 AM
Join us from 6pm on 13 November in Melbourne for the annual Bill Kent Memorial Lecture, to be delivered by A/Prof. Nick Eckstein on "Time and Space in Renaissance Florence (and the Mouse in Matteo Cavalcanti's Underpants)". Are you not intrigued?!
www.monash.edu/prato/alumni...
Bill Kent Memorial Lecture
www.monash.edu
October 17, 2023 at 2:52 AM
Friday 20 October 10am AEDT (Thurs 19 in USA): Anurag Advani (UC Berkeley) on "The Madness of the Majzūbs: Marginal Sufi Saints in Sixteenth-Century Mughal India". Join us!
(email cmrs-postgraduatecommittee [at] monash [dot] edu for the zoom link or come in person!)
October 15, 2023 at 9:49 PM