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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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Next up was Iris Bednarski who shared her work on a textile fragment now housed at the McGill Museum of Fine Arts. The pic here was kindly provided by Iris. The project attempted "to reconstruct the life of [this] object". The fragment is probably from Grenada and was likely created in the 13th c.
July 16, 2025 at 1:51 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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the consequences of such events much more visible. Attached here is a modern image of Pont Neuf, (credit: Wiki Commons) which is now the oldest bridge in in Paris, opened in 1607, long after the Great Winter.
A recent photograph of Pont Neuf with the Île de la Cité in between the two different sections.
July 7, 2025 at 6:13 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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and heredity. Jes Battis invited us to imagiine Old English poetry as containing passages of trans joy and resistance Pointing to Wulf and Eadwacer and The Phoenix in particular. While content was explored, so was OE grammar and the idea of a kenning, both of which, Battis suggested, allow for
An image of a folio page from the Exeter Book.
July 3, 2025 at 2:14 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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Comme promis, voici un compte rendu de quelques-unes des sessions de la conférence annuelle de la Société canadienne des médiévistes, qui s'est tenue à Waterloo, en Ontario, du 9 au 11 juin 2025. Tout d'abord, notre discours plénier donné par Dr Echard! Une introduction à l'art des facsimilés.
June 27, 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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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 !
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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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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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And because the conference is at St. Jerome's here's a Jerome for you from the CFP. Et puisque la conférence a lieu à St. Jerome, voici un Jérôme de l'appel.
St Jerome, in ed, sitting at a desk with a window and arched doorway in the background. Thee is an hourglass and books on a shelf beside him. He also has a pet (dog?) lying beside him.
December 12, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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Hello #medievalsky! Please see a CFP for special panel devoted to queer pasts, queer futurities being planned for the CSM Annual Conference at Waterloo in June. See details in images below.
A CFP which reads: Call for Papers/Session(s) at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists June 9-11, 2025 at St Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Queer Pasts/Queer Futurities The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session, or sessions, that will consider queerness in both the medieval past and its future(s). This panel seeks to disrupt the myth that queerness must be defended— that its place in the medieval past and in medievalism must be “proven.” We will consider where queerness has been overwritten or forgotten in medieval scholarship, where it has been written into medievalism, and/or where it has valuably shaped scholarly conversations. Papers might consider: Queer methodologies for analyzing medieval histories, arts, and/or literatures Pedagogical approaches to and/or engagements with queerness How we can locate and study queerness in the medieval past The silencing, erasing, and/or Othering of queer voices/figures How queer temporalities might disrupt linear/normative historical narratives Queerness in medievalism (considering the representation of queerness in fantasy, science fiction, gaming, etc.) How queer identities have and/or continue to intersect with other axes of identity (considering race, disability, class, etc.) Presentations may be in either English or French and should be 15- 20 minutes in length. Please submit proposals by email by January 10, 2025. Proposal Details which reads: Proposal Submission Details: Paper proposals must include a document giving the title plus a one-page abstract (without identifying the author). A separate document should consist of a one-page curriculum vitae which includes the paper’s title at the top. **Scholars need not be members of the Canadian Society of Medievalists to submit proposals but, by the time of the conference, must be members in good standing and are expected to pay their 2024-25 annual membership fees to CSM / SCM by March 15, 2025 if they are not already members. For more information on our Society, visit https://canadianmedievalists.org/ and for more information on the Annual Conference and the general CFP, please visit: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/Annual**
December 10, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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Le vendredi 22 novembre 2024, à 15h00 HNE, Alessia Berardi, lauréate du prix Boyle 2024, présentera en anglais un exposé en ligne intitulé Vita, scientia, doctrina : Stephen Langton et la relation entre l'enseignement et la prédication. Les détails: www.canadianmedievalists.org/La-SCM-en-li...
November 18, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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Tune in Friday 22 Nov. 2024, at 3pm ET, to hear 2024 Boyle Prize winner, Alessia Berardi in an online presentation: "Vita, scientia, doctrina: Stephen Langton and the relationship between teaching and preaching." Details to receive zoom link: www.canadianmedievalists.org/The-CSM-Online
thirteenth-century manuscript page, from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS 492: the text is Stephen Langton's Glosa Biblia. Photo of Alessia Berardi: a smiling woman with brown hair and a gold-coloured top.
November 18, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS! Rejoignez la Société canadienne des médiévistes pour leur congrès annuel à St Jerome's University, Waterloo ON, du 9 au 11 juin 2025. Nous accueillons des communications sur tout sujet dans le domaine des études médiévales au sens large! www.canadianmedievalists.org/Annual
Une affiche de l'appel à communications. Texte français: La SCM accueille les propositions qui concernent n'importe quel sujet dans les études médiévales au sens large, dans l'un des formats suivants : • Communications individuelles (max 20 minutes) • Sessions (trois communications plus une période de questions de 90 minutes) • Tables rondes, ateliers ou autres formes alternatives, d'une durée maximale de 90 minutes. Les propositions de communications individuelles doivent comprendre • un document indiquant le titre et un résumé d'environ 250 mots, mais omettant le nom de l’auteur ; • un second document consistant en un CV d'une page avec les coordonnées de la personne à contacter. Les propositions de sessions complètes, d'ateliers ou de tables rondes doivent inclure • les informations ci-dessus pour chaque communication • le/la président.e de la session, le titre de la session et une brève justification de la session et (le cas échéant) de son format. Les présentations peuvent être faites en anglais ou en français. Les sessions bilingues sont particulièrement bienvenues. SOUMISSION : Veuillez soumettre vos propositions par courriel avant le 15 janvier 2025 à la présidente Shannon McSheffrey (shannon.mcsheffrey@concordia.ca) pour évaluation par le comité de planification de la conférence. **Les chercheurs.euses ne doivent pas nécessairement être membres pour soumettre des propositions, mais doivent être membres en règle pour participer à la réunion annuelle. Pour plus d'informations sur notre Société, visitez le site https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/accueil/~fr
November 18, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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CALL FOR PAPERS! Join the Society of Canadian Medievalists for their Annual Conference at St Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo, 9-11 June 2025. We welcome papers on any topic in the field of Medieval Studies broadly defined!
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Poster for the Call for Papers for the Canadian Society of Medievalists Annual Conference, 2025. The English text reads: The CSM welcomes proposals that concern any topic within Medieval Studies broadly defined, in one of the following formats: • Individual papers (no more than 20 minutes in length) • Sessions (three papers plus question period over 90 minutes) • Roundtables, Workshops, or other alternative forms, no more than 90 minutes total Individual paper proposals must include • a document giving the title with an abstract of about 250 words but omitting the presenter’s name • a second document consisting of a one-page CV with contact information Proposals for complete sessions, workshops, or roundtables must include • the above information for each paper • the session’s chair, the session’s title, and a brief rationale for the session and (if relevant) its format. Presentations may be in either English or French. Bilingual sessions are particularly welcome. SUBMISSION: Please submit proposals by email by 15 January 2025 to President Shannon McSheffrey (shannon.mcsheffrey@concordia.ca) for review by the Conference Planning Committee. **NB: Scholars need not be members to submit proposals but must be members in good standing to participate in the Annual Meeting. For more information on our Society, visit https://canadianmedievalists.org/.
November 18, 2024 at 7:22 PM