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'Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North' 25-26 May 2026 at the University of Aberdeen Registration and information: forms.gle/AATYMcMUkKt7XmtKA

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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
An incredible set of papers yesterday!
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
In just under two weeks, we'll be hosting our second annual conference! Registration is still open! Link is below: forms.gle/z3wPRBRtErD5...
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AMAEM 2026 Conference Registration
Registration for the 2026 AMAEM Conference 'Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North' is now open! The conference is for the 25th and 26th of May at the University of Aberdeen and is set in GMT...
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Andrew Colquhoun, a PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow, will be presenting '“Restoring Scotland to its Antient Military Spirit”: the 6th Earl of Mar’s Plan for Scotland’s Defence After a Stuart Restoration'.
An advertisement for the AMAEM conference, reading "Andrew Colquhoun, '“Restoring Scotland to its Antient Military Spirit”: the 6th Earl of Mar’s Plan for Scotland’s Defence After a Stuart Restoration', online and in-person". A picture of Andrew, a brown haired man facing the camera, is in the top left corner, and a manuscript image of medieval rabbits at war borders the right.
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Dr. Samantha Elsie Jones, a research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, will be presenting 'Farmers, monks and raiders: exploring cultural and environmental transitions in the Inner Hebrides during the 1st millennium AD'
An advertisement for the AMAEM conference, reading "'Samantha Elsie Jones, 'Farmers, monks and raiders: exploring cultural and environmental transitions in the Inner Hebrides during the 1st millennium AD', online and in-person. A picture of one of the archelogical sites (a green field and hill with a small pond), is in the top left corner, and a manuscript image of medieval rabbits at war borders the right.
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Sophie Tindle-Betts, a second-year master’s at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, will be presenting 'The Other’s Mother: Monstrosity, Maternity, and the Precarious Social Body in Sir Gowther and Sultan of Babylon'.
An advertisement for the AMAEM conference, reading "Sophie Tindle-Betts, 'The Other’s Mother: Monstrosity, Maternity, and the Precarious Social Body in Sir Gowther and Sultan of Babylon', online and in-person". A picture of Sophie, a brown haired woman smiling at the camera, is in the top left corner, and a manuscript image of medieval rabbits at war borders the right.
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Roslin Kerr, a PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow, will be presenting 'Coerced Consent: Civic Authority and Violence in Aberdeen’s Covenanting Crisis'.
An advertisement for the AMAEM conference, reading "Roslin Kerr, 'Coerced Consent: Civic Authority and Violence in Aberdeen’s Covenanting Crisis', online and in-person". A picture of Roslin, a brown/grey haired woman standing partially turned from the camera holding a book, is in the top left corner, and a manuscript image of medieval rabbits at war borders the right.
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Professor Rita Regina Trimonienė, a professor and researcher at Vilnius University, will be presenting 'Violence by Mayors Against “Their Own”: The Case of the Siauliai Economy in the Late 17th Century'.
 An advertisement for the AMAEM conference, reading "Rita Regina Trimonienė, 'Violence by Mayors Against “Their Own”: The Case of the Siauliai Economy in the Late 17th Century', online and in-person". A picture of Rita, a brown haired woman facing the camera, is in the top left corner, and a manuscript image of medieval rabbits at war borders the right.
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Sarah Schubarth, a MA student at the University of Cologne, will be presenting 'Brains vs. Brawn: Chivalric Violence in Konráðs saga keisarasonar'.
An advertisement for the AMAEM conference, reading "Sarah Schubarth, 'Brains vs. Brawn: Chivalric Violence in Konráðs saga keisarasonar', online". A picture of Sarah, a brown haired woman standing beside a large manuscript, is in the top left corner, and a manuscript image of medieval rabbits at war borders the right.
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Megan Müller, a PhD candidate at the University of Hamburg, will be presenting 'The loss of violence and the birth of a hopeful iconography: Changing forms of the fons vitae ('Christusbrunnen') in the 16th and 17th century'.
An advertisement for the AMAEM conference, reading "Megan Müller 'The loss of violence and the birth of a hopeful iconography: Changing forms of the fons vitae ('Christusbrunnen') in the 16th and 17th century', online". A picture of Megan, a red haired woman facing the camera, is in the top left corner, and a manuscript image of medieval rabbits at war borders the right.
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Rev. Steve Macias, Rector of St. Paul’s Anglican Church in California's Silicon Valley and Headmaster of the Canterbury School, will be presenting 'Relics of Hurt: Viking Violence, Monastic Memory, and Trauma in the Early Modern North'.
An advertisement for the AMAEM conference, reading "Rev. Steve Macias, 'Relics of Hurt: Viking Violence, Monastic Memory, and Trauma in the Early Modern North', online and in-person". A picture of Rev. Macias, a brown haired man facing the camera, is in the top left corner, and a manuscript image of medieval rabbits at war borders the right.
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Pat Mason, a PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow, will be presenting 'When the fighting is over: Depictions of treatment of PoWs in John Spalding's History of the Troubles'.
An advertisement for the AMAEM conference, reading "Pat Mason, 'When the fighting is over:  Depictions of treatment of PoWs in John Spalding's History of the Troubles', online and in-person". A picture of Pat, a grey haired woman facing the camera, is in the top left corner, and a manuscript image of medieval rabbits at war borders the right.
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Nathan MacLennan, a PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow, will be presenting '“The Highlands do a little more than ordinary disturb themselves”: The experience of Guerilla Warfare and Societal Disruption in Cromwellian Scotland'.
 An advertisement for the AMAEM conference, reading "Nathan MacLennan, '“The Highlands do a little more than ordinary disturb themselves”: The experience of Guerilla Warfare and Societal Disruption in Cromwellian Scotland', online and in-person". A picture of Nathan, a brown haired man facing the camera, is in the top left corner, and a manuscript image of medieval rabbits at war borders the right.
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Cameron Flint, a PhD candidate at the University of Aberdeen, will be presenting a paper with the updated title of 'Duelling, Disorder and the Endemic Violence of Scotland's Early Restoration Army'.
An advertisement for the AMAEM conference, reading "Cameron Flint, Enforcing Hierarchies with Violence: Duelling Culture in the Scottish Officer Corps 1660-1714, online and in-person". A picture of Cameron, a brown haired man presenting in library, is in the top left corner, and a manuscript image of medieval rabbits at war borders the right.
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Cassiopée Guillet, a PhD candidate at the Catholic University of Louvain and the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, as well as affiliated with the HiCSA research laboratory, will be presenting 'Belief Through Violence: Printmaking as an Ideological Weapon in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries'.
An advertisement for the AMAEM conference, reading "Cassiopée Guillet, 'Belief Through Violence: Printmaking as an Ideological Weapon in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries, online". A picture of Cassiopée, a brown haired woman facing the camera, is in the top left corner, and a manuscript image of medieval rabbits at war borders the right.
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Anna Barbariol, a recent graduate from the Viking and Medieval Norse Studies Master's program (University of Iceland and the University of Oslo), will present 'Environmental Change and Endemic Warfare in Viking Age Agrarian Landscapes'.
An advertisement for the AMAEM conference, reading "Anna Barbariol,  'Environmental Change and Endemic Warfare in Viking Age Agrarian Landscapes', online". A picture of Anna, a brown haired woman turned toward the camera in front of the sea, is in the top left corner, and a manuscript image of medieval rabbits at war borders the right.
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Chiara-Marie Hauser, a PhD candidate at the University of Vienna, will be presenting 'Seeing the Unseen: Sexual Violence Against Children and Emotional Regimes in Early Modern Scotland'.
An advertisement for the AMAEM conference, reading "Chiara-Marie Hauser, 'Seeing the Unseen: Sexual Violence Against Children and Emotional Regimes in Early Modern Scotland', online". A picture of Chiara-Marie, a woman with light brown hair facing the camera, is in the top left corner, and a manuscript image of medieval rabbits at war borders the right.
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Stay tuned to see our programme of speakers for our second Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference! Registration will soon open, so keep an eye out for the link!
An advertisement for the 2nd Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference that reads "Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference, 'Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North', 25 May (in the Craig Suite of the Sir Duncan Rice Library), 26 May (in the Lower Ground Floor Seminar Room of the Sir Duncan Rice Library). A picture at top is Jacques Callot's La Pendaison (The Hanging), from Les Grandes Misères de la guerre (The Great Miseries of War).
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
It's been posted on other sites but the DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED until the 29th of January!
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We're now welcoming abstracts for our 2026 conference, on the theme of 'Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North'! The deadline is 15 January.
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