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The University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies hosts one of the largest interdisciplinary medieval studies programs in the world. https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/
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A new episode of Bow & Blade: The Battle of Stirling Bridge (1297) www.medievalists.net/2025/12/the-... #medievalwarfare #Scotland
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In this episode of Bow & Blade, Michael and Kelly examine the Battle of Stirling Bridge in Scotland as a clear example of poor generalship. Focusing on the English command’s mistakes, they explore…
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December 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish, NS!

Medieval Engagements with Disability: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...
Call for Papers / Appel à communications MEDIEVAL ENGAGEMENTS WITH DISABILITY 2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS / RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026 The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session that will explore disability in the medieval past and/or the ways in which disability studies and medieval studies fruitfully intersect. Papers might consider: • Constructions of disability and difference, and the power structures they engage • Mobility impairments and aids, and/or responses to them • Sensory impairments and/or responses to them • The temporality of disability • How disability intersects with other axes of identity Presentations may be in either English or French and should be 15-20 minutes in length. Please submit proposals by email by January 5, 2026. For inquiries or proposal submissions, please contact Emma-Catherine Wilson at emma-catherine.wilson@hertford.ox.ac.uk.
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish, NS!

Queer World-Making: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...
CALL FOR PAPERS 2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS / RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026 QUEER WORLD-MAKING The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session on queer world-making in medieval studies. This session takes as its starting point the idea that queerness is a mode of imagining, creating, and inhabiting other worlds. We are interested in how medieval texts envision alternatives to normative ideals, and in how queer approaches to these texts might open transformative possibilities. LENGTH: 15-20 MINUTES LANGUAGE: ENGLISH OR FRENCH Please submit proposals by email by January 5, 2026. For inquiries or proposal submissions, please contact Gavin Foster at gavin.foster@dal.ca.
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish, NS!

Understanding Medieval Race-Making: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...
CALL FOR PAPERS UNDERSTANDING MEDIEVAL RACE-MAKING 2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS / RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026 The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session on medieval race-making. THIS PANEL ASKS THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: • HOW DID WE UNDERSTAND THE IDEA OF RACE BEFORE MODERN DISCOURSES ON IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM? • HOW DO MODERN DISCOURSES ON IMPERIALISM, COLONIALISM, AND RACE HELP US UNDERSTAND MEDIEVAL RACE? • ALTERNATIVELY, HOW DOES MODERN DISCOURSE ON RACE SHAPE HOW RACE-MAKING OR RACE IS ENGAGED WITHIN MEDIEVALISM? • HOW DID THE PREMODERN IMAGINE ALTERITY? HOW DID THEY DEFINE THEMSELVES? • HOW DID THE PREMODERN UNDERSTAND THE INDIGENOUS VS THE COLONIZER? Presentations may be in either English or French and should be 15-20 minutes in length. Please submit proposals by email by January 5, 2026. For inquiries or proposal submissions, please contact Arkaprabha Chakraborty at arkaprabha.chakraborty@mail.utoronto.ca.
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish NS!

You are on Native Land: Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...
Call for Papers YOU ARE ON NATIVE LAND: UNDERSTANDING MEDIEVAL STUDIES IN TURTLE ISLAND 2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS / RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026 The EDID Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers on Indigeneity and the medieval. It has been over a decade since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released their report and 94 Calls to Action. Academia was called to decolonize, reconcile, and Indigenize their apporach to research, scholarship, and the classroom. This panel builds on conversations from the 2025 International Congress of Medieval Studies' "Slow Engagement" Roundtable, which asked medieval scholars to consider how they've 'slowed down' to be responsible and reciprocal in their learning, approaching, or engaging with Indigenous Studies. PAPERS MIGHT CONSIDER: • How can we respectfully and appropriately engage with Indigenous methodologies in our approaches to medieval studies? • How have indigenous communities responded to, engaged with, subverted, or appropriated medieval studies or medievalism? • What do personal and/or scholarly engagements with Indigenous communities, identities, and Knowledge Keepers look like for diffferent medievalists, and what has been learned from such engagements? • What has been the impact of colonialism on the discipline of medieval studies? Alternately, how have medieval studies been an essential tool in colonialism? Presentations may be in either English or French and should be 15-20 minutes in length. Please submit proposals by email by January 5, 2026. For inquiries or proposal submissions, please contact Brenna Duperron at brenna.duperron@unbc.ca.
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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JOIN US for the CSM's annual conference at St F-X University in lovely Antigonish, NS, 26-28 May 2026! We welcome proposals for sessions or individual papers. Submissions due 15 January 2026.

Details: www.canadianmedievalists.org/Annual
Picture of the beautiful campus of St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, with text superimposed, 2026 Annual Conference, May 26 to 28, 2026.
December 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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On advance access: "Lordship in the Later Middle Ages: A Round Table Discussion"

Ft: Frederik Buylaert, Sandro Carocci, Thijs Lambrecht, Christian D Liddy, Alice Rio Tristan W Sharp, Alice Taylor, Chris Wickham

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Lordship in the Later Middle Ages: A Round Table Discussion
Abstract. Over the last few years, a number of articles have featured in Past and Present on the subject of late medieval lordship. Three were accepted wit
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December 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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📜 Read "Anselm the Fool: Meditation and the Joy of Unbelief in the 'Proslogion'" by Professor James R. Ginther in 'Traditio' Volume 80.

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medieval manuscript illumination of three figures inside the letter O.
December 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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On Friday, January 9, David Ungvary of Bard College will kick off the Winter 2026 Convivium Series with a talk on Christian Poetry Books in the Post-Roman West. Register to attend in person or virtually! www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/convi...
Saint Anthony reading
December 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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🎥 Watch: Elisa Brilli, "La postura profetica: storia, poesia e ricezioner"
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LOPERESEGUITE, SERIE II, WS2 | ELISA BRILLI, LA POSTURA PROFETICA: STORIA, POESIA E RICEZIONE
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December 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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📣 Call for Participants - New Workshop Series: Saints Outside Hagiography
Call for Participants - New Workshop Series: Saints Outside Hagiography We invite expressions of interest to participate in a new series of online workshops examining how saints and holy people are represented outside the classic form of the single-text hagiography, what Thomas J. Heffernan calls the ‘sacred biography’. This group aims to bring together scholars interested in saints and sanctity across global history and culture, to explore how they are constructed in other forms—poetry, visual art, sermons, letters, monuments, drama, chronicles, liturgy, objects, didactic literature, and others—in an informal, work-in-progress format focused on discussion of primary sources from any historical period. We envision each meeting consisting of 1-2 brief presentations, with the text or object and a short description or summary (max 500 words) circulated in advance along with one or two questions for discussion. If you have a historical source or item related to sanctity that you would like to bring to an interdisciplinary forum, please get in touch with Laura Moncion (laura.moncion@philosophie.uni-tuebingen.de) and Alicia Smith (alicia.smith@uib.no) by January 15, 2026 with a brief description, your career stage and institutional affiliation if any. Guidelines: The chronological and geographical scope is intentionally open. We are happy to receive proposals that argue for definitions of saint / sanctity outside the mainstream. Speakers are free to contest whether a text is ‘outside hagiography’ or ‘not a classic hagiography’— the goal is to study saints and the construction of saint/sanctity beyond canonical textual forms, including troubling our understanding of those forms. If your source is not in English, you will need to include an English translation.
December 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Publication – Siân Echard, « Facsimile. Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts »

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Publication – Siân Echard, « Facsimile. Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts »
Facsimiles are, or claim to be, exact copies of objects, and medieval manuscripts have long been a focus for this kind of reproduction. Today, digitization delivers complete, high-resolution, full-…
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December 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Fr. James Farge's handmade Christmas cards are on display at University of St. Michael's College John M. Kelly Library.
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Christmas Cards on Display a Labour of Love  - University of St. Michael's College
A seasonal display in the lobby of the John M. Kelly Library at the University of St. Michael’s College is proof that the origins of Christmas traditions can spring from […]
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December 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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This is a fantastic article about the representation of #Jesus as a child in biblical #apocrypha & medieval traditions! It's perfectly in time for the #holidays. #Christmas #MedievalSky
December 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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I was just talking to my kids about this! They were asking about Jesus as a child. I will be armed with more apocrypha for them in the morning.
December 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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"The Bible says little about Jesus’ childhood – but that didn’t stop medieval Christians from enjoying tales of him as holy ‘rascal’" - CMS Alum Mary Dzon writes for @ca.theconversation.com.
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The Bible says little about Jesus’ childhood – but that didn’t stop medieval Christians from enjoying tales of him as holy ‘rascal’
Legends about Jesus’ early years that circulated in medieval Europe often drew on apocryphal texts.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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This week on The Medieval Podcast with @5minmedievalist.bsky.social : Richard the Lionheart with Heather Blurton www.medievalists.net/2025/12/rich... #RichardtheLionheart #podcasts
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This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Heather Blurton about how Richard’s contemporaries saw him, the wild stories told about him in the later Middle Ages, and why we still just…
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December 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Pretty awesome to see one of my essays in Italian!

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In difesa dei bambini schizzinosi
Secondo un’altra teoria, i bambini schizzinosi sarebbero parte di un malessere più ampio diffuso nei paesi occidentali. Il problema non sono i genitori, è la cultura…. Leggi
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December 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Read David Townsend's post about "The Cat" on Substack.

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The Cat
(Icon by Robert Lentz, available through Trinity Stores.)
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December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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👏 Congratulations to CMS Alum, St. Francis Xavier University Philosophy Professor Dr. Steven Baldner, who received the StFX Outreach Award for his long-standing efforts to connect the university with the wider community.
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St. Francis Xavier University - Nearly 300 Students Join StFX Alumni at Fall Convocation - Legendary cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon receives honorary degree
St. Francis Xavier University graduated nearly 300 students during its Fall Convocation 2025 today. Bruce MacKinnon, one of Canada's foremost editorial cartoonists, was also celebrated with an Hon. . ...
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December 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Learn about Old High German with Shami Ghosh, Associate Professor at the Centre for Medieval Studies (and Heidi, of course!)
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Old High German with Shami Ghosh, Associate Professor at the Centre for Medieval Studies (and Heidi)
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December 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Appel à contribution – Saints Outside Hagiography

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Appel à contribution – Saints Outside Hagiography
We invite expressions of interest to participate in a new series of online workshops examining how saints and holy people are represented outside the classic form of the single-text hagiography, wh…
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November 26, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Just wrote a post on the historical background to THE QUEEN'S COMPANION on my long-neglected blog -- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Crusades, and more:
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The History Behind The Queen's Companion — LUCY PICK BOOKS
At the end of my novel, I have an “author’s note” which is (deliberately…) less revelatory than some might like, so I thought I’d rectify that with a blog post, intended for the general reader who wan...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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REMINDER: You can attend this year's Annual Bennett Lecture with Rita Copeland in person at Alumni Hall, or virtually via Zoom! This Friday, December 5, @ 4 pm (EST).
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December 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Did you miss our Open House for prospective MA and PhD Students? You can now watch online! Tune in to presentations from our Faculty, Students, and Alumni, and follow the Q&A for in-depth answers to frequently asked questions.
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Virtual Open House - November 6, 2025
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November 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM