Browse events by 'Medieval'

Jan 2012
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19 University of Edinburgh research seminar in Scottish History

These seminars will take place at 5.15pm.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Feb 2012
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01 - 07 Department of History Film Season 2012 (University of Reading)

The past is a four-letter word…and it’s film

How do film-makers capture the past on the big screen?  Is it possible to be historically accurate without...

Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
10 - 11 Nationalism and the City

Blame it, perhaps, on a hangover from nationalism’s early mingling with European romantics, but the primacy of ‘the rural’ in nationalist imaginaries remains well established, recurring in...

Cambridge, United Kingdom
15 - 17 Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 11th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe

Crises have been common in the history of Central and Eastern Europe. The term crisis implies that a particular order, whether financial, social or political is thrown into a state of...

London, United Kingdom
18 Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe

This one-day symposium on Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe will bring together historians, art-historians and literary scholars from the UK, Europe and beyond to discuss their recent...

Alton, United Kingdom
24 - 25 Identity and Image: 18th Annual Postgraduate Medieval Conference Bristol, United Kingdom
25 Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2012: Junctions and Crossroads

The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge is pleased to announce the date for its annual interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, the theme of which...

Cambridge, United Kingdom
25 Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage

We are very pleased to announce that The University of York, UK, will be hosting the event Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage on the 25th of February 2012.  This event...

York, United Kingdom
28 Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12

We are in the process of organising our seminar series for the academic year 2011/2012.  These will be held in the James Callaghan Conference Room (JC B02/3)  of Swansea University....

Swansea, United Kingdom
Mar 2012
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08 - 10 New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012 Sarasota, United States
09 - 10 New Researchers in Maritime History Conference 2012

The British Commission for Maritime History's (BCMH) New Researchers in Maritime History conference is an established forum for those that have recently become engaged in research in maritime...

Glasgow, , United Kingdom
09 Gendering the history of charity and voluntary effort: A workshop for postgraduate and early-career researchers

From medieval and early modern elite understandings of charitable virtue to industrial cultures of mutual aid or contemporary understandings of community engagement, gender has been critically...

Huddersfield, United Kingdom
10 Herbal History Research Network Study Day – South and West Region

The aim of this day is to bring together current and interested researchers in herbal history to report on progress in current projects and share ideas and problems. Our theme for the day will be...

Bradford-on-Avon, United Kingdom
19 - 20 "Oikonomia, Economy and War", Fifth Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History

Paper proposals are invited for the fifth Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History, to be held on 19-20 March 2012 at the University of Cambridge. The theme of...

Cambridge, United Kingdom
23 - 24 On the margins? Rethinking the problem and place of 'outsiders', 1400-1800

This event is designed to challenge and rethink existing ideas about the ‘social margins’.  It is not all-encompassing in terms of the 'outsider' groups considered.  Instead, it is...

Oxford, United Kingdom
24 Gothic Ivory Sculpture: Old Questions, New Directions (Day 2)

10.15 – 17.00 (with registration from 09.45) 

Gothic ivory sculpture, surviving in large numbers in collections around the world, has thus far not received all the attention it deserves...

London, United Kingdom
25 - 27 Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest

This conference brings together some leading authorities to examine the relative importance of the Norman Conquest in shaping the fortunes of St Edmund's monastic community. Hosted at the...

Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom
27 Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12

We are in the process of organising our seminar series for the academic year 2011/2012.  These will be held in the James Callaghan Conference Room (JC B02/3)  of Swansea University....

Swansea, United Kingdom
29 Sowing the Seeds Network and the Centre for Economic History at the University of Reading: An Early-Career Workshop on Medieval Urban Community and Public Space

Registration: Free. Furthermore, travel bursaries are available subject to certain criteria

Duration: 10am-5pm (followed by an optional...

Reading, United Kingdom
Apr 2012
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02 - 04 The Royal Body

The idea of the king’s two bodies, the body natural and the body politic, founded on the distinction between the personal and mortal king and the perpetual and corporate crown, has long been of...

Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
11 - 14 European Social Science History Conference 2012 - Material and Consumer Culture Network

The ESSHC 2012 will take place in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Information about the European Social Science and History Conference can be found at: http://www....

Glasgow, United Kingdom
13 - 14 Contextualising the Fifth Crusade: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Crusading Movement in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century

A two-day international conference to be held at the University of Kent featuring keynotes by Professor Peter Edbury (Cardiff), Professor Bernard Hamilton (Nottingham), and Dr A.V. Murray (Leeds...

Canterbury, United Kingdom
13 - 15 Aberystwyth’s Fifth Annual Postgraduate Historical Studies Conference: ‘Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity.’

This years’ conference theme is ‘Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity’: a theme that we hope will generate a wide scope of interest. The conference provides an ideal friendly environment for students...

Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
18 - 19 Postgraduate Forum for the History of Medicine: 3rd Annual Summit

Swansea University is hosting the third annual summit for postgraduate students and early-career researchers working in the History of Medicine. Following on from the success of two previous...

Swansea, United Kingdom
19 - 20 Kings and Queens: Politics, Power, Patronage and Personalities in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy

The institution of Monarchy was absolutely central to the political developments and events of the medieval and Early Modern world. This conference aims to celebrate monarchy in all of its various...

Corsham, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
21 The Clerical Cosmos: Ecclesiast​ical power, culture, and society, c. 900- c. 1075

A one-day colloquium looking at clerical life in Latin Europe during the ‘very long tenth century’, between the Carolingians and eleventh-century papal reform. We want to explore this period in...

Oxford, United Kingdom
24 Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12

We are in the process of organising our seminar series for the academic year 2011/2012.  These will be held in the James Callaghan Conference Room (JC B02/3)  of Swansea University....

Swansea, United Kingdom
27 Desiring Statues: Statuary, Sexuality and History

Statuary has offered a privileged site for the articulation of sexual experience and ideas, and the formation of sexual knowledge. From prehistoric phallic stones, mythological representations of...

Exeter, United Kingdom
27 Between Families and Institutions: Towards a Comparative History of Urban Communities, 1350-1600 Florence, Italy
27 - 29 Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages

This conference seeks to explore the functions of seals in medieval Britain and Western Europe in the broadest possible context. Themes will include the use of seals in law and administration, the...

Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
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