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The CSM Online: Tune in Wednesday 5 Nov. 2025, at 11am EST to hear 2025 Boyle Prize Winner Laura Moncion talk about her dissertation, "Being a Recluse is No Small Thing: Late Medieval Women’s Reclusion in Theory and Practice."

Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/n6LJh7JYKvRD...
Laura Moncion – Boyle Prize Presentation / Colloque du prix Boyle - REGISTRATION / INSCRIPTION
On 5 Nov. 2025 at 11h00 (EST), the Canadian Society of Medievalists will hold its second annual Boyle Prize Online Presentation, when Laura Moncion, the winner of the Society's Leonard E. Boyle Prize ...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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La SCM en ligne : le mercredi 5 novembre 2025 à 11 h (heure de l'Est) on écoute Laura Moncion, lauréate du prix Boyle 2025, parler de sa thèse intitulée « Being a Recluse is No Small Thing: Late Medieval Women’s Reclusion in Theory and Practice ».

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Laura Moncion – Boyle Prize Presentation / Colloque du prix Boyle - REGISTRATION / INSCRIPTION
On 5 Nov. 2025 at 11h00 (EST), the Canadian Society of Medievalists will hold its second annual Boyle Prize Online Presentation, when Laura Moncion, the winner of the Society's Leonard E. Boyle Prize ...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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CFP - CSM Sessions at ACCUTE's 2026 conference in Montreal, 4-7 June

Submit your paper proposals on
• Medieval Magic
• Medieval Masculinities

for two CSM-sponsored sessions. Deadline 15 Nov. 2025. Details here www.canadianmedievalists.org/CSM-at-ACCUT...
The Canadian Society of Medievalists - CSM at ACCUTE 2026
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October 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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CFP - CSM Sessions at ACCUTE's 2026 conference in Montreal, 4-7 June

Submit your paper proposals on
• Medieval Magic
• Medieval Masculinities

for two CSM-sponsored sessions. Deadline 15 Nov. 2025. Details here www.canadianmedievalists.org/CSM-at-ACCUT...
The Canadian Society of Medievalists - CSM at ACCUTE 2026
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October 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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La SCM en ligne : le mercredi 5 novembre 2025 à 11 h (heure de l'Est) on écoute Laura Moncion, lauréate du prix Boyle 2025, parler de sa thèse intitulée « Being a Recluse is No Small Thing: Late Medieval Women’s Reclusion in Theory and Practice ».

Inscription : forms.gle/n6LJh7JYKvRD...
Laura Moncion – Boyle Prize Presentation / Colloque du prix Boyle - REGISTRATION / INSCRIPTION
On 5 Nov. 2025 at 11h00 (EST), the Canadian Society of Medievalists will hold its second annual Boyle Prize Online Presentation, when Laura Moncion, the winner of the Society's Leonard E. Boyle Prize ...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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The CSM Online: Tune in Wednesday 5 Nov. 2025, at 11am EST to hear 2025 Boyle Prize Winner Laura Moncion talk about her dissertation, "Being a Recluse is No Small Thing: Late Medieval Women’s Reclusion in Theory and Practice."

Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/n6LJh7JYKvRD...
Laura Moncion – Boyle Prize Presentation / Colloque du prix Boyle - REGISTRATION / INSCRIPTION
On 5 Nov. 2025 at 11h00 (EST), the Canadian Society of Medievalists will hold its second annual Boyle Prize Online Presentation, when Laura Moncion, the winner of the Society's Leonard E. Boyle Prize ...
forms.gle
October 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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CSM Member Dr. Joanne Findon's new book, Bound and Free: Voices of Mortal and Otherworld Women in Medieval Irish Literature, is being celebrated with a virtual book launch on September 30! All are welcome but registration is required here: uark.zoom.us/meeting/regi.... See the poster attached.
At the top: a sculture of a woman with one hand behind her head and the other reaching out, on a grey background. Below that on a gold background are the words, CSANA Virtual Book Launch (for) Bound and Free: Voices of Mortal and Otherworld Women in Medieval Irish Literature by Joanne Findon. With responses from Amy Mulligan (Notre Dame) and Kristen Mills (University of Oslo). Register here (but see registration link in post). Tuesday September 30 12 pm (CST) and 6 PM (BST)
September 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Another excellent panel from this year's CSM Annual Meeting. Chris Nighman spoke about two previously unknown sources for Robert of Naple's Sermo factus pro liga Lombardie, the Manipulus florum and John of Wales' Communiloquium. Much of Dr. Nighman's recent work has been exploring the manuscripts
July 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Another day, another panel. First up, Carmen Gudiño, who examined the class diversity at the monastery of Rypertsberg under Hildegard of Bingen. While Hildegard's writings suggest that the importance of hierarchy when responding to a colleague's idea that only nobles should be allowed to enter into
A list of papers presented in a panel. The text is as follows: Session 8A: New Perspectives on Medieval Monasticism Location: SJ2-2003 Carmen Gudiño, Ph.D. student, University of Toronto Social Diversity at Rupertsberg: Theology vs. Practice in Hildegard of Bingen Winston Black, St. Francis Xavier University Monastic Infirmaries in Twelfth-Century England: A reassessment of their role in the history of medicine Meredith Bacola, University of Manitoba Reconstructing the medieval past: ArcGIS as a tool for understanding the development of Crowland Abbey, England Chair: Jacqueline Murray, University of Guelph
July 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Another day, another session summary! To begin, Katherine Pierpont used municipal records to trace the presence of troubadours and jongleurs in medieval Toulouse. Her work enables her to sometimes place individuals in precise domiciles and allows her to start to understand their social networks.
A part of a conference schedule noting the names of scholars and titles of papers for a particular panel, details below. Session 5A: Mapping Medieval People's Lives || Cartographier la vie des médiévaux Location: SJ2-2003 Katherine Pierpont, University of Toronto The Proof is in the Property: Digital Maps as Historical Narratives in Toulouse (c. 1150-1250) Emily Hutchison, Mount Royal University Healthscaping in a Time of Climate Change: Mapping the Evidence in Late Medieval Paris Lucie Laumonier, Concordia University Neighborly Relations: the Montpellier Butchers c. 1380-1500 Chair: Isabelle Cochelin, University of Toronto
July 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Congratulations to Laura Moncion, 2025 winner of the @canmedievalists.bsky.social Leonard Boyle Dissertation Prize! 🎉
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/laura-m...
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July 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Next up, a terrific panel entitled Queer Pasts and Queer Futurities. All of these papers looked at queer spaces, times and identities in medieval texts. Simran Dhaliwal discusses the fragility of a happy, carefree child-like Arthur in the court of Camelot in the face of expectations of masculinity
An imge of a conference program that take place between 3::30 adn 5:30. The panel is entitled Session 3A: Queer Past/Queer Futurities and includes the following papers: Location: SJ2-2003 Simran Dhaliwal, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge Queer Time and Queer Failure in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Jes Battis, University of Regina Phoenix, Wolf, Day-Watcher: Trans Embodiment in Old English Verse Adrien Savard-Arseneault, Université de Montréal Foreseeable futures for the “trans man” in two medieval chivalric romances Gavin Foster, Ph.D. Candidate, Dalhousie University Translating Transtextually: Headley’s Beowulf and Oberman’s The Unstill Ones Chair: Siobhain Bly Calkin, Carleton University
July 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Another wonderful interactive experience at the CSM Annual conference was the DACT sound walk (still ongoing if you are at UWaterloo!). Walking with the app open past the installations will allow you to experience different chants from the database. More info here:
Sound Walking with the University of Waterloo’s University Colleges; Spring 2025 | Music | University of Waterloo
This spring, Grebel turned into a space for listening, wandering, and discovering the sounds of the medieval past through a chant-inspired soundwalk. Conrad Gre
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June 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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As promised, a recap of some of the sessions at the Canadian Society of Medievalists Annual Conference at Waterloo Ontario June 9-11 2025. First, our plenary address by Dr. Echard! An introduction to the art of facsimiles, focussing especially on the 18th and 19th centuries.
A slide showing a book cover. On he book cover is a medieval illuminated initial, and F in green and gold, highly decorated. It is the beginning of the word Facsimile. the entire title is Facsimlie: Making Likeness and Medieval Manuscipts. Below the title is a cross and then the author's name in dark red/brown, Siân Echard. On the left is a note saying that the CSM 2025 plenary address was by De. Echard and entitled "Facsimile: Making Likeness and Medieval Manuscripts: Reproducing Medieval Manuscripts in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
June 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Last week was our annual conference. Over the next several days, I'll post summaries of some of the panels. But first, thanks to @stjeromesuni.bsky.social and Dragen Lab for hosting us. It was a pleasure to see all the important work being done at the lab. www.dragenlab.ca
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June 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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April 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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April 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Rowan Dorin a remporté le prix Labarge de la SCM ET le prix Ferguson de la SHC. Pour célébrer l'événement, la SHC et le CSM organisent une table ronde en ligne sur son livre, le 5 mai à 17 heures UTC. Pour détails et pour s'inscrire, voir les informations sur le lien. cha-shc.ca/fr/table-ron...
Table ronde : « No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe » par Rowan Dorin | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada
La Revue de la Société historique du Canada vous invite à une table ronde sur le livre de Rowan Dorin, No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe (Princeton...
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April 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Last year Dr. Rowan Dorin won the CSM's Margaret Wade Labarge prize AND the CHA's Ferguson Prize. To celebrate, the CHA and CSM are co-sponsoring an online panel about his book No Return on May 5 at 5pm UTC. See details and to register, see information at the link. cha-shc.ca/roundtable-d...
Roundtable Discussion: "No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe" by Rowan Dorin | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada
The Journal of the Canadian Historical Association invites you to a roundtable discussion of Rowan Dorin's Ferguson-Prize-winning book, No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers and the Spread of Mass Expuls...
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April 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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#medievalsky #jobfairy. Job posting, Tenure Track (!) medieval, early modern Literature at UNBC. universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?....
March 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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CSM Online Research Forum 2025 || SCM Forum de recherche en ligne 2025-03-01

Proposals by 15 Feb 2025 – all medievalists welcome! || Propositions avant le 15 fév 2025 – tou.te.s les médiévistes sont les bienvenu.e.s !
www.canadianmedievalists.org/The-CSM-Online
Collage of medieval faces, Zoom-style, in the decorated initials of manuscript Walters W.39, from the Walters Gallery Flickr page, https://www.flickr.com/photos/medmss/13960223208/
February 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Great to see our Great Viking Survey pop up in the newsfeed of the Canadian Society of Medievalists (@canmedievalists.bsky.social) this week!

www.canadianmedievalists.org/news/13453984
The Canadian Society of Medievalists - The Great Viking Survey, University of Oslo
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January 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Forum de recherche en ligne de la SCM 2025 : nous invitons à soumettre des travaux en cours pour un forum Zoom, le sam 1 mars 2025, 13h à 16h HNE. Exposés de 7 minutes, recherches en cours, émergentes ou à un stade précoce ! Propositions ici avant le 15 février docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Détails d'initiales décorées dans un livre d'heures du XIVe siècle, provenant de la Walters Art Gallery MS W.39, extrait de la page Flickr de la galerie, https://www.flickr.com/photos/medmss/13960223208/
January 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Canadian Society of Medievalists Online Research Forum 2025, CFP: we invite submissions of works in progress for a Zoom forum, Sat 1 Mar 2025, 1-4pm EST. 7-minute talks, early-stage, emerging, or ongoing research! Submit proposals here by 15 Feb docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Assortment of medieval faces, displayed Zoom-meeting style, from decorated initials in a 14th-century book of hours now at the Walters Art Gallery, manuscript W.39, from the Museum's Flickr page. https://www.flickr.com/photos/medmss/13960223208/
January 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Abstracts due 15 Jan!
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Here's our general CFP for our annual conference. It's in Waterloo in June this year. Voici notre appel à communications pour notre conférence annuelle! Rendez-vous à Waterloo, en Ontario, en juin 2025. www.canadianmedievalists.org/Annual
The Canadian Society of Medievalists - Annual Conference
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January 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM