MEMS
@memsunikent.bsky.social
The Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent | MA & PhD scholarships available.
For our latest updates: linktr.ee/MEMS_UniKent
For our latest updates: linktr.ee/MEMS_UniKent
From the Medway History Showcase (26–27 Oct 2024) to Medieval Canterbury Weekend (1–3 May 2026) — Kent’s history comes alive! 🕰️
Find details & highlights 👇
🔗 kchh.org/medway-history-showcase-plus-forthcoming-events
#KentHeritage #LocalHistory
Find details & highlights 👇
🔗 kchh.org/medway-history-showcase-plus-forthcoming-events
#KentHeritage #LocalHistory
October 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
From the Medway History Showcase (26–27 Oct 2024) to Medieval Canterbury Weekend (1–3 May 2026) — Kent’s history comes alive! 🕰️
Find details & highlights 👇
🔗 kchh.org/medway-history-showcase-plus-forthcoming-events
#KentHeritage #LocalHistory
Find details & highlights 👇
🔗 kchh.org/medway-history-showcase-plus-forthcoming-events
#KentHeritage #LocalHistory
⚔️ Assassins vs. Templars — Myth, Blood & History
Join Steve Tibble for this year’s MEMS Anselm Lecture.
📅 Thursday 30 October 2025
🕕 6 pm
📍 Templeman Lecture Theatre, UKC
💬 Free | No booking needed
Post-lecture drinks, sponsored by CAMEMS.
Join Steve Tibble for this year’s MEMS Anselm Lecture.
📅 Thursday 30 October 2025
🕕 6 pm
📍 Templeman Lecture Theatre, UKC
💬 Free | No booking needed
Post-lecture drinks, sponsored by CAMEMS.
October 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
⚔️ Assassins vs. Templars — Myth, Blood & History
Join Steve Tibble for this year’s MEMS Anselm Lecture.
📅 Thursday 30 October 2025
🕕 6 pm
📍 Templeman Lecture Theatre, UKC
💬 Free | No booking needed
Post-lecture drinks, sponsored by CAMEMS.
Join Steve Tibble for this year’s MEMS Anselm Lecture.
📅 Thursday 30 October 2025
🕕 6 pm
📍 Templeman Lecture Theatre, UKC
💬 Free | No booking needed
Post-lecture drinks, sponsored by CAMEMS.
📜 Pre-Modern Race Roundtable
🗓 Thurs 16 Oct | 17:15–18:30
📍 Darwin LT1 & Online (Teams)
🎙 Dr Sarah Dustagheer, Natalie Tolentino, Georgie Anderson, & Eleanor Hex discuss race in the medieval and early modern worlds, from the ‘Other’ and fabulation to Digital Humanities and Premodern Race Studies.
🗓 Thurs 16 Oct | 17:15–18:30
📍 Darwin LT1 & Online (Teams)
🎙 Dr Sarah Dustagheer, Natalie Tolentino, Georgie Anderson, & Eleanor Hex discuss race in the medieval and early modern worlds, from the ‘Other’ and fabulation to Digital Humanities and Premodern Race Studies.
October 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
📜 Pre-Modern Race Roundtable
🗓 Thurs 16 Oct | 17:15–18:30
📍 Darwin LT1 & Online (Teams)
🎙 Dr Sarah Dustagheer, Natalie Tolentino, Georgie Anderson, & Eleanor Hex discuss race in the medieval and early modern worlds, from the ‘Other’ and fabulation to Digital Humanities and Premodern Race Studies.
🗓 Thurs 16 Oct | 17:15–18:30
📍 Darwin LT1 & Online (Teams)
🎙 Dr Sarah Dustagheer, Natalie Tolentino, Georgie Anderson, & Eleanor Hex discuss race in the medieval and early modern worlds, from the ‘Other’ and fabulation to Digital Humanities and Premodern Race Studies.
🔥 This Thursday in Canterbury! 🔥
Join Jonathan Sumption for “The Hundred Years War and its Legacy.”
🕕 Lecture 7pm (AGM 6.15pm)
📍 Michael Berry Lecture Theatre, Old Sessions House, CCCU
💷 Free for HA members & students • £5 visitors
Join Jonathan Sumption for “The Hundred Years War and its Legacy.”
🕕 Lecture 7pm (AGM 6.15pm)
📍 Michael Berry Lecture Theatre, Old Sessions House, CCCU
💷 Free for HA members & students • £5 visitors
October 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🔥 This Thursday in Canterbury! 🔥
Join Jonathan Sumption for “The Hundred Years War and its Legacy.”
🕕 Lecture 7pm (AGM 6.15pm)
📍 Michael Berry Lecture Theatre, Old Sessions House, CCCU
💷 Free for HA members & students • £5 visitors
Join Jonathan Sumption for “The Hundred Years War and its Legacy.”
🕕 Lecture 7pm (AGM 6.15pm)
📍 Michael Berry Lecture Theatre, Old Sessions House, CCCU
💷 Free for HA members & students • £5 visitors
🌟 Missed last week’s Nightingale Lecture? Catch up with Sheila Sweetinburh’s latest blog post on conserving heritage in Kent & Canterbury. A great read! 👉 kchh.org/conserving-h...
October 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🌟 Missed last week’s Nightingale Lecture? Catch up with Sheila Sweetinburh’s latest blog post on conserving heritage in Kent & Canterbury. A great read! 👉 kchh.org/conserving-h...
🎉 A big welcome to our new MEMS MA & PhD cohort! 🎓✨
We’re thrilled to have such a brilliant group of minds joining the MEMS family.
We’re thrilled to have such a brilliant group of minds joining the MEMS family.
October 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🎉 A big welcome to our new MEMS MA & PhD cohort! 🎓✨
We’re thrilled to have such a brilliant group of minds joining the MEMS family.
We’re thrilled to have such a brilliant group of minds joining the MEMS family.
Looking forward to this interesting event tomorrow at Canterbury Cathedral!
September 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Looking forward to this interesting event tomorrow at Canterbury Cathedral!
✨ Considering doing a MA or PhD with us? ✨
Join us March 23th for our online open event with Dr Rob Gallagher at 5pm GMT! Come ask all of your questions about #funding & our #postgrad programmes. ☺️ We look forward to meeting you!
For more info & registration:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ma-and-phd...
Join us March 23th for our online open event with Dr Rob Gallagher at 5pm GMT! Come ask all of your questions about #funding & our #postgrad programmes. ☺️ We look forward to meeting you!
For more info & registration:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ma-and-phd...
March 12, 2024 at 8:37 AM
✨ Considering doing a MA or PhD with us? ✨
Join us March 23th for our online open event with Dr Rob Gallagher at 5pm GMT! Come ask all of your questions about #funding & our #postgrad programmes. ☺️ We look forward to meeting you!
For more info & registration:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ma-and-phd...
Join us March 23th for our online open event with Dr Rob Gallagher at 5pm GMT! Come ask all of your questions about #funding & our #postgrad programmes. ☺️ We look forward to meeting you!
For more info & registration:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ma-and-phd...
Want to learn more about #iconoclasm?
On March 11th, @CburyCathedral is hosting 'Destruction in the Cathedral: A study day’ and will also be celebrating the acquisition of a 17th-cent painting!
Some of our members will be speaking on the topic, see who is here: blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...
On March 11th, @CburyCathedral is hosting 'Destruction in the Cathedral: A study day’ and will also be celebrating the acquisition of a 17th-cent painting!
Some of our members will be speaking on the topic, see who is here: blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...
February 8, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Want to learn more about #iconoclasm?
On March 11th, @CburyCathedral is hosting 'Destruction in the Cathedral: A study day’ and will also be celebrating the acquisition of a 17th-cent painting!
Some of our members will be speaking on the topic, see who is here: blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...
On March 11th, @CburyCathedral is hosting 'Destruction in the Cathedral: A study day’ and will also be celebrating the acquisition of a 17th-cent painting!
Some of our members will be speaking on the topic, see who is here: blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...
We are incredibly grateful to the @leverhulme.bsky.social for funding ‘Knowledge Orders before Modernity: a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme’ co-led by our own @drdavidrundle.bsky.social & Prof Julia Crick at KCL. This is an incredible opportunity that will allow us to fund more students
February 2, 2024 at 2:37 PM
We are incredibly grateful to the @leverhulme.bsky.social for funding ‘Knowledge Orders before Modernity: a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme’ co-led by our own @drdavidrundle.bsky.social & Prof Julia Crick at KCL. This is an incredible opportunity that will allow us to fund more students
February 1, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Dr Peter Good’s talk on the Indian Ocean Trade of Persian Wine: youtu.be/cmCShIiUZI4
February 1, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Dr Peter Good’s talk on the Indian Ocean Trade of Persian Wine: youtu.be/cmCShIiUZI4
#BookHistory friends, join us tomorrow for what promises to be an excellent evening with the equally excellent @RMMPerry!
📜 A New Look At The Common Profit Book Phenomenon
📆 Thurs 1st Feb, 5pm, DLT1 & Teams
👉 Join here: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
#medievalsky #manuscripts
📜 A New Look At The Common Profit Book Phenomenon
📆 Thurs 1st Feb, 5pm, DLT1 & Teams
👉 Join here: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
#medievalsky #manuscripts
January 31, 2024 at 1:38 PM
#BookHistory friends, join us tomorrow for what promises to be an excellent evening with the equally excellent @RMMPerry!
📜 A New Look At The Common Profit Book Phenomenon
📆 Thurs 1st Feb, 5pm, DLT1 & Teams
👉 Join here: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
#medievalsky #manuscripts
📜 A New Look At The Common Profit Book Phenomenon
📆 Thurs 1st Feb, 5pm, DLT1 & Teams
👉 Join here: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
#medievalsky #manuscripts
✨ Did you know that CHASE DTP (AHRC) has a new network for #Medieval and #EarlyModern researchers? ✨
Welcome to MEMRN, which is launching tonight with their first meeting! At the prow of the ship is Harry Gilbert, Clara Chamberlain, Isa Schwarzer & Segolene Gence.
Just email them to join!
Welcome to MEMRN, which is launching tonight with their first meeting! At the prow of the ship is Harry Gilbert, Clara Chamberlain, Isa Schwarzer & Segolene Gence.
Just email them to join!
January 31, 2024 at 1:33 PM
✨ Did you know that CHASE DTP (AHRC) has a new network for #Medieval and #EarlyModern researchers? ✨
Welcome to MEMRN, which is launching tonight with their first meeting! At the prow of the ship is Harry Gilbert, Clara Chamberlain, Isa Schwarzer & Segolene Gence.
Just email them to join!
Welcome to MEMRN, which is launching tonight with their first meeting! At the prow of the ship is Harry Gilbert, Clara Chamberlain, Isa Schwarzer & Segolene Gence.
Just email them to join!
Join us a bit later today for a fascinating talk with Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, a long time member of our MEMS community.
📜 Rethinking the Medieval Pig 🐷
📆 Thurs 25 Jan, 11am GMT, DLT1 and Online
For the Teams link: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
This talk will also be recorded, skystorians!
📜 Rethinking the Medieval Pig 🐷
📆 Thurs 25 Jan, 11am GMT, DLT1 and Online
For the Teams link: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
This talk will also be recorded, skystorians!
January 25, 2024 at 8:29 AM
Join us a bit later today for a fascinating talk with Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, a long time member of our MEMS community.
📜 Rethinking the Medieval Pig 🐷
📆 Thurs 25 Jan, 11am GMT, DLT1 and Online
For the Teams link: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
This talk will also be recorded, skystorians!
📜 Rethinking the Medieval Pig 🐷
📆 Thurs 25 Jan, 11am GMT, DLT1 and Online
For the Teams link: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
This talk will also be recorded, skystorians!
It was fantastic to welcome back Dr Peter Good at MEMS for such a thrilling talk! It was exciting to learn about the culture and traditions around Persian wine, and how far it travelled. What tidbits did you particularly enjoy? ☺️
January 18, 2024 at 2:58 PM
It was fantastic to welcome back Dr Peter Good at MEMS for such a thrilling talk! It was exciting to learn about the culture and traditions around Persian wine, and how far it travelled. What tidbits did you particularly enjoy? ☺️
Good afternoon #skystorians, #medievalsky and #earlymodern aficionados!
We have just released our termcard and we are excited to share with you all of our wonderful #MemsSeminars!
👉More info on: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
We have just released our termcard and we are excited to share with you all of our wonderful #MemsSeminars!
👉More info on: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
January 18, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Good afternoon #skystorians, #medievalsky and #earlymodern aficionados!
We have just released our termcard and we are excited to share with you all of our wonderful #MemsSeminars!
👉More info on: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
We have just released our termcard and we are excited to share with you all of our wonderful #MemsSeminars!
👉More info on: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
📢TODAY📢
MEMS is kicking off the new year with the brilliant Peter Good! 🥳
Join us for our 1st #MemsSeminar of 2024:
📜 The Indian Ocean Trade in Persian Wine: New Perspectives on Cultural Exchange
📆 Thurs 18th Jan, 11:00-12:00, DLT1 & Online
To join us on Teams: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
MEMS is kicking off the new year with the brilliant Peter Good! 🥳
Join us for our 1st #MemsSeminar of 2024:
📜 The Indian Ocean Trade in Persian Wine: New Perspectives on Cultural Exchange
📆 Thurs 18th Jan, 11:00-12:00, DLT1 & Online
To join us on Teams: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
January 18, 2024 at 9:49 AM
📢TODAY📢
MEMS is kicking off the new year with the brilliant Peter Good! 🥳
Join us for our 1st #MemsSeminar of 2024:
📜 The Indian Ocean Trade in Persian Wine: New Perspectives on Cultural Exchange
📆 Thurs 18th Jan, 11:00-12:00, DLT1 & Online
To join us on Teams: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
MEMS is kicking off the new year with the brilliant Peter Good! 🥳
Join us for our 1st #MemsSeminar of 2024:
📜 The Indian Ocean Trade in Persian Wine: New Perspectives on Cultural Exchange
📆 Thurs 18th Jan, 11:00-12:00, DLT1 & Online
To join us on Teams: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
This is a big week for our new doctoral student Georgie Anderson! She will be talking about post-colonialism at the Research Salon organised by the School of Classics, English & History tomorrow at 4pm in Elliot Extension Seminar Room 2.
📜WHAT IS THE PLACE OF THE POSTCOLONIAL IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES?
📜WHAT IS THE PLACE OF THE POSTCOLONIAL IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES?
December 5, 2023 at 12:49 PM
This is a big week for our new doctoral student Georgie Anderson! She will be talking about post-colonialism at the Research Salon organised by the School of Classics, English & History tomorrow at 4pm in Elliot Extension Seminar Room 2.
📜WHAT IS THE PLACE OF THE POSTCOLONIAL IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES?
📜WHAT IS THE PLACE OF THE POSTCOLONIAL IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES?
This week is a busy one for some of our first-year PhDs. On Thursday, Georgie Anderson and Farrell will respectively present their budding research. All welcome to join us!
📜 Tracing the figure of the Black Knight / Mapping Elizabethan Canterbury
📅 07/12 at 1pm
👉 research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
📜 Tracing the figure of the Black Knight / Mapping Elizabethan Canterbury
📅 07/12 at 1pm
👉 research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
December 5, 2023 at 12:45 PM
This week is a busy one for some of our first-year PhDs. On Thursday, Georgie Anderson and Farrell will respectively present their budding research. All welcome to join us!
📜 Tracing the figure of the Black Knight / Mapping Elizabethan Canterbury
📅 07/12 at 1pm
👉 research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
📜 Tracing the figure of the Black Knight / Mapping Elizabethan Canterbury
📅 07/12 at 1pm
👉 research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
We would like to thank Dr Rory Loughnane who has brought so much energy and passion to MEMS, and has helped us forge new relationships across Europe. We would also like to thank his co-director @drdavidrundle.bsky.social who has also been a huge support to the community. ⬇️[2/3]
November 29, 2023 at 7:33 PM
We would like to thank Dr Rory Loughnane who has brought so much energy and passion to MEMS, and has helped us forge new relationships across Europe. We would also like to thank his co-director @drdavidrundle.bsky.social who has also been a huge support to the community. ⬇️[2/3]
We have some thrilling MEMS news!
Please welcome our new director, Dr Suzanna Ivanic (@suzannaivanic.bsky.social)! Suzanna will be at the helm of our ship for the next 3 years, taking up the baton from @loughnrv.bsky.social who has taken MEMS to exciting waters.
👉 blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...
Please welcome our new director, Dr Suzanna Ivanic (@suzannaivanic.bsky.social)! Suzanna will be at the helm of our ship for the next 3 years, taking up the baton from @loughnrv.bsky.social who has taken MEMS to exciting waters.
👉 blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...
November 29, 2023 at 7:32 PM
We have some thrilling MEMS news!
Please welcome our new director, Dr Suzanna Ivanic (@suzannaivanic.bsky.social)! Suzanna will be at the helm of our ship for the next 3 years, taking up the baton from @loughnrv.bsky.social who has taken MEMS to exciting waters.
👉 blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...
Please welcome our new director, Dr Suzanna Ivanic (@suzannaivanic.bsky.social)! Suzanna will be at the helm of our ship for the next 3 years, taking up the baton from @loughnrv.bsky.social who has taken MEMS to exciting waters.
👉 blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...
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 ⬇️
📜 Dissent in Late Medieval & Early Modern England
📅 Thur 30 Nov, 5pm GMT
📍 Darwin LT1 & Zoom
Abstract below ⬇️
November 27, 2023 at 12:31 PM
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 ⬇️
📜 Dissent in Late Medieval & Early Modern England
📅 Thur 30 Nov, 5pm GMT
📍 Darwin LT1 & Zoom
Abstract below ⬇️
Are you passionate about the #Medieval, #Renaissance, and/or #EarlyModern periods? Would you like to pursue a #postgraduate degree that would give you the tools to work with pre-modern material & textual cultures?
Come meet us at our Open Event online today at 6PM GMT/1PM EST!
👉 bit.ly/3R1T3PF
Come meet us at our Open Event online today at 6PM GMT/1PM EST!
👉 bit.ly/3R1T3PF
November 16, 2023 at 1:01 PM
Are you passionate about the #Medieval, #Renaissance, and/or #EarlyModern periods? Would you like to pursue a #postgraduate degree that would give you the tools to work with pre-modern material & textual cultures?
Come meet us at our Open Event online today at 6PM GMT/1PM EST!
👉 bit.ly/3R1T3PF
Come meet us at our Open Event online today at 6PM GMT/1PM EST!
👉 bit.ly/3R1T3PF
Have you checked out ‘Mysteries of the Faith’ on Netflix yet? You definitely should! For in that docu-series the amazing Emily Guerry tells us about the journey of the Crown of Thorns, a relic that found its way to the Sainte-Chapelle in medieval Paris.
👉 Read more: blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...
👉 Read more: blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...
November 14, 2023 at 11:41 AM
Have you checked out ‘Mysteries of the Faith’ on Netflix yet? You definitely should! For in that docu-series the amazing Emily Guerry tells us about the journey of the Crown of Thorns, a relic that found its way to the Sainte-Chapelle in medieval Paris.
👉 Read more: blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...
👉 Read more: blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...