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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

JOB!! The Department of History at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a position in medieval and/or transregional history, 7th-16th centuries. French or English, bilingualism an asset. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

EMPLOI!! Le Département d’histoire de l’Université d’Ottawa sollicite des candidatures pour un poste en histoire médiévale et/ou histoire transrégionale, 7e – 16e siècle. Français ou anglais, bilinguisme un atout. www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/trouver-un-e...

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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Celebrating Canadian Society of Medievalists member Joan Greatrex, who turned 100 this year. May we all continue to publish into our 90s. Read more: www.canadianmedievalists.org/news/13669826 Image: Joan in 1948 yearbook photo, University of Toronto. archive.org/details/toro...

A yearbook photo of a young woman with brown curly hair, looking at the camera, from 1948. The photo comes from the University of Toronto yearbook that year, when Joan Greatrex (the woman pictured) graduated with her BA.

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended. They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision. Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Birkbeck, University of London, is seeking a Lecturer in Medieval Studies to join our dynamic team within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Autumn 2026.

As Lecturer in Medieval Studies you will contribute to the teaching of Medieval English literature and Medieval history across the Faculty, within our School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, and School of Historical Studies - this includes our BA English and BA History programmes, as well as postgraduate taught programmes in the two subject areas.

This post is offered on a permanent contract at Birkbeck, full time 35 hours per week, with a salary of £44,247 rising to £60,858 per year. Teaching hours will vary from 6pm - 9pm, Monday to Friday.

To be successful, you will bring research expertise in the literature, history and culture of the Late Medieval period (c.1300-1500), and demonstrate a capacity to contribute to interdisciplinary research and teaching, participate actively in curriculum development, supervise doctoral students, and help shape the intellectual life of our vibrant academic community.

We would also welcome applicants who would be able to contribute to collaborative teaching programmes or research in the Faculty, in areas such as identity, race/ethnicity, or gender - experience of collaboration with cultural institutions, whether through research or teaching, is also welcome.

Core responsibilities will initially include programme/module administration, teaching, supervision, assessment, student support and pastoral care. You will also be equipped to supervise doctoral students.

With a PhD in any area of Medieval Studies, you will contribute the Faculty’s and Schools’ research impact and culture, and to the intellectual and cultural life of the institution and the various communities and partners with whom we work and serve.

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Prolongation jusqu'au 15 jan pour propositions aux sessions EDID et études médiévales: - Vous êtes sur une terre indigène: les études médiévales sur l'ile de la tortue - Création d'un monde LGBTQ+ - Engagements médiévaux vis-à-vis du handicap ***Détails 👇 ou à www.canadianmedievalists.org/page-18160

texte à https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/page-18160

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

!!! Deadline extension to 15 Jan for EDID and Medieval Studies Sessions !!! - You Are On Native Land: Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island - Queer World-Making - Medieval Engagements with Disability ***See details below or at www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...

See details in text format at https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Papers-EDID-2026

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

REJOIGNEZ-NOUS pour la conférence annuelle du CSM à l'université St F-X à Antigonish, en Nouvelle-Écosse, le 26 à 28 mai 2026 ! Nous acceptons les propositions de sessions ou d'articles individuels. Date limite de soumission : 15 janvier 2025. Détails: www.canadianmedievalists.org/conference-fr

Photo du magnifique campus de l'université St Francis Xavier à Antigonish, en Nouvelle-Écosse, avec texte superposé, Conférence annuelle 2026, du 26 au 28 mai 2026.

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

JOIN US for the CSM's annual conference at St F-X University in lovely Antigonish, NS, 26-28 May 2026! We welcome proposals for sessions or individual papers. Submissions due 15 January 2026. Details: www.canadianmedievalists.org/Annual

Picture of the beautiful campus of St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, with text superimposed, 2026 Annual Conference, May 26 to 28, 2026.

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Appel à communications pour une session de la conférence annuelle 2026 de la SCM, 2026.05.26-2026.05.29, Antigonish, N-É VOUS ÊTES SUR UNE TERRE INDIGÈNE: COMPRENDRE LES ÉTUDES MÉDIÉVALES SUR L'ÎLE DE LA TORTUE Voir ci-dessus ou notre site web: www.canadianmedievalists.org/page-18160

Appel à communications
VOUS ÊTES SUR UNE TERRE INDIGÈNE: COMPRENDRE LES ÉTUDES
MÉDIÉVALES SUR L'ÎLE DE LA TORTUE

RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MEDIÉVISTES 2026 / 2026

La commission EDID de la SCM / CSM lance un appel à contributions sur l'indigénéité et le médiéval. Plus d'une décennie s'est écoulée depuis que la Commission de vérité et de réconciliation a publié son rapport et 94 appels à l'action. Le monde universitaire a été appelé à décoloniser, réconcilier et indigéniser son approche à la recherche, l'érudition et la salle de classe. Cette séance s'appuie sur les excellentes conversations de la table ronde « Slow Engagement » du Congrès international d'études médiévales 2025, qui a demandé aux à la communauté de recherche médiévale de réfléchir à la manière donton a ralenti pour être responsables et réciproques dans son apprentissage, son approche et son engagement avec les études indigènes.

• Comment pouvons-nous nous engager de manière respectueuse et appropriée avec les méthodologies indigènes dans nos approches des études médiévales?
• Comment les communautés indigènes ont-elles réagi, se sont-elles engagées, ont-elles subverti ou se sont-elles approprié les études médiévales ou le médiévalisme?
• A quoi ressemblent les engagements personnels et/ou de recherche avec les communautés, les identités et la préservation du savoir indigène pour différentes personnes en études médiévales, et quels sont les enseignements tirés de ces engagements?
• Quel a été l'impact du colonialisme sur la discipline des études médiévales? Ou encore, comment les études médiévales ont-elles été un outil essentiel du colonialisme?

Les présentations peuvent être livrées en anglais ou en français et doivent durer de 15 à 20 minutes. Les propositions doivent être envoyées par courriel avant le 5 janvier 2026. Pour toute question ou soumission de proposition, veuillez contacter Brenna Duperron à l'adresse
suivante: brenna.duperron@unbc.ca.

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Appel à communications pour une session de la conférence annuelle 2026 de la SCM, qui se tiendra du 26 au 29 mai 2026 dans la belle ville d'Antigonish, en Nouvelle-Écosse ! COMPRENDRE L'ÉLABORATION DE LA RACE AU MOYEN AGE Voir ci-dessus ou notre site web: www.canadianmedievalists.org/page-18160

APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS

COMPRENDRE L'ÉLABORATION DE LA RACE AU MOYEN AGE

RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026 /
2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS
Le comité EDID (Equité, diversité, inclusivité et décolonisation) de la
SCM/CSM lance un appel à communications pour une table ronde qui explorera l'élaboration de
la race au Moyen Âge.
CETTE SESSION POSE
LES QUESTIONS SUIVANTES:
COMMENT COMPRENIONS-NOUS L'IDÉE DE RACE AVANT LES DISCOURS MODERNES SUR L'IMPERIALISME ET LE COLONIALISME?
• COMMENT LES DISCOURS MODERNES SUR
L'IMPÉRIALISME, LE COLONIALISME ET LA RACE NOUS AIDENT-ILS À COMPRENDRE LA RACE MÉDIÉVALE?
• PAR AILLEURS, COMMENT LES DISCOURS MODERNES SUR LA RACE FAÇONNENT-ILS LA MANIÈRE DONT LA RACE EST CRÉÉE OU ABORDÉE DANS L'ÉPOQUE MÉDIÉVALE?
• COMMENT, AUX ÉPOQUES PRÉMODERNES, IMAGINAIT-ON L'ALTÉRITÉ? COMMENT SE DÉFINISSAIT-ON?
COMMENT, AUX EPOQUES PREMODERNES, COMPRENAIT-ON L'INDIGENE PAR RAPPORT AUX PEUPLES COLONISATEURS?
Les présentations peuvent se faire en anglais ou en français et doivent durer de 15 à 20 minutes afin de laisser suffisamment de temps pour la discussion. Les propositions doivent être envoyées par courriel avant le 5 janvier 2026. Pour toute demande de renseignements ou soumission de propositions, veuillez contacter Arkaprabha
Chakraborty à l'adresse arkaprabha.chakraborty@mail.utoronto.ca.

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Appel à communications pour une session de la conférence annuelle 2026 de la SCM, qui se tiendra du 26 au 29 mai 2026 dans la magnifique ville d'Antigonish, en Nouvelle-Écosse ! CRÉATION D'UN MONDE LGBQT+ Voir ci-dessus ou notre site web: www.canadianmedievalists.org/page-18160

Appel à communications
RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026 /
2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS
Creation d'un
monde LGBQT+
Le comité EDID (Equité, diversité, inclusivité et décolonisation) de la SCM/CSM lance un appel à communications pour une session sur la création de mondes queers dans les études médiévales. Cette session part de l'idée que l'homosexualité n'est pas seulement une catégorie identitaire ou une perspective critique, mais aussi une manière d'imaginer, de créer et d'habiter d'autres mondes. Nous nous intéressons à la manière dont les textes médiévaux envisagent des alternatives aux idéaux normatifs, et à la façon dont les approches queer de ces textes peuvent ouvrir des possibilités de transformation.
15 À 20 MINUTES
EN ANGLAIS OU EN FRANÇAIS
Les propositions doivent être envoyées par courriel avant le 5 janvier 2026.
Pour toute question ou soumission de proposition, veuillez contacter Gavin Foster à l'adresse suivante: gavin.foster@dal.ca.

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Appel à communications pour une session de la conférence annuelle 2026 de la SCM, qui se tiendra du 26 au 29 mai 2026 dans la magnifique ville d'Antigonish, en Nouvelle-Écosse ! ENGAGEMENTS MÉDIÉVAUX VIS-À-VIS DU HANDICAP Voir ci-dessus ou notre site web: www.canadianmedievalists.org/page-18160

Appel à communications / Call For Papers
ENGAGEMENTS MÉDIÉVAUX VIS-À-VIS DU HANDICAP

RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES
2026 / 2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF
MEDIEVALISTS
Le Comité EDID (Equité, Diversité, Inclusivité et Décolonisation) de la SCM / CSM lance un appel à communications pour une session qui explorera le handicap dans le passé médiéval et/ou les façons dont les études sur le handicap et les études médiévales s'entrecroisent de manière fructueuse.
Les communications pourront porter sur les points suivants:
• Les constructions du handicap et de la différence, et les structures de pouvoir qu'elles impliquent
• Les déficiences et les aides à la mobilité, et/ou les réponses qui leur sont apportées
• Les déficiences sensorielles et/ou les réponses qui y sont apportées
• La temporalité du handicap
• Comment le handicap croise d'autres axes identitaires
Les présentations peuvent être livrées en anglais ou en français et doivent durer de 15 à 20 minutes. Les propositions doivent être envoyées par courriel avant le 5 janvier 2026. Pour toute question ou soumission de proposition, veuillez contacter Emma-Catherine Wilson à l'adresse suivante:
emma-catherine.wilson@hertford.ox.ac.uk.

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish NS! You are on Native Land: Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...

Call for Papers
YOU ARE ON NATIVE LAND:
UNDERSTANDING
MEDIEVAL STUDIES IN
TURTLE ISLAND
2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS / RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ
CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026
The EDID Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers on Indigeneity and the medieval. It has been over a decade since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released their report and 94 Calls to Action. Academia was called to decolonize, reconcile, and Indigenize their apporach to research, scholarship, and the classroom. This panel builds on conversations from the 2025 International Congress of Medieval Studies' "Slow Engagement" Roundtable, which asked medieval scholars to consider how they've
'slowed down' to be responsible and reciprocal in their learning, approaching, or engaging with Indigenous Studies.

PAPERS MIGHT CONSIDER:
• How can we respectfully and appropriately engage with Indigenous methodologies in our approaches to medieval studies?
• How have indigenous communities responded to, engaged with, subverted, or appropriated medieval studies or medievalism?
• What do personal and/or scholarly engagements with Indigenous communities, identities, and Knowledge Keepers look like for diffferent medievalists, and what has been learned from such engagements?
• What has been the impact of colonialism on the discipline of medieval studies? Alternately, how have medieval studies been an essential tool in colonialism?

Presentations may be in either English or French and should be 15-20 minutes in length. Please submit proposals by email by January 5, 2026. For inquiries or proposal submissions, please contact
Brenna Duperron at brenna.duperron@unbc.ca.

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish, NS! Understanding Medieval Race-Making: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...

CALL FOR PAPERS

UNDERSTANDING MEDIEVAL RACE-MAKING

2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS / RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026
The EDID (Equity, Diversity,
Inclusivity and Decolonization)
Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session on
medieval race-making.
THIS PANEL ASKS THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
• HOW DID WE UNDERSTAND THE IDEA OF RACE BEFORE MODERN DISCOURSES ON IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM?
• HOW DO MODERN DISCOURSES ON IMPERIALISM, COLONIALISM, AND RACE HELP US UNDERSTAND MEDIEVAL RACE?
• ALTERNATIVELY, HOW DOES MODERN DISCOURSE ON RACE SHAPE HOW RACE-MAKING OR RACE IS ENGAGED WITHIN MEDIEVALISM?
• HOW DID THE PREMODERN IMAGINE ALTERITY? HOW DID THEY DEFINE THEMSELVES?
• HOW DID THE PREMODERN UNDERSTAND THE INDIGENOUS
VS THE COLONIZER?
Presentations may be in either English or French and should be 15-20 minutes in length. Please submit proposals by email by January 5, 2026. For inquiries or proposal submissions, please contact
Arkaprabha Chakraborty at
arkaprabha.chakraborty@mail.utoronto.ca.

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish, NS! Queer World-Making: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...

CALL FOR PAPERS
2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS / RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026
QUEER WORLD-MAKING
The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Decolonization)
Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session on queer world-making in medieval studies. This session takes as its starting point the idea that queerness is a mode of imagining, creating, and inhabiting other worlds. We are interested in how medieval texts envision alternatives to normative ideals, and in how queer approaches to these texts might open transformative possibilities.
LENGTH: 15-20 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH OR FRENCH
Please submit proposals by email by January 5, 2026. For inquiries or proposal submissions, please contact Gavin Foster at gavin.foster@dal.ca.

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish, NS! Medieval Engagements with Disability: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...

Call for Papers / Appel à communications
MEDIEVAL ENGAGEMENTS
WITH DISABILITY
2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS / RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE
DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026
The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Decolonization)
Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session that will explore disability in the medieval past and/or the ways in which disability studies and medieval studies fruitfully intersect.
Papers might consider:

• Constructions of disability and difference, and the power structures they engage
• Mobility impairments and aids, and/or responses to them
• Sensory impairments and/or responses to them
• The temporality of disability
• How disability intersects with other axes of identity

Presentations may be in either English or French and should be 15-20 minutes in length. Please submit proposals by email by January 5, 2026.
For inquiries or proposal submissions, please contact Emma-Catherine Wilson at emma-catherine.wilson@hertford.ox.ac.uk.

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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...

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The Canadian Society of Medievalists - CSM at ACCUTE 2026

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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...

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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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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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...

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The Canadian Society of Medievalists - CSM at ACCUTE 2026

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Laura Moncion – Boyle Prize Presentation / Colloque du prix Boyle - REGISTRATION / INSCRIPTION

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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)

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Tudor tournaments were thus, Emma-Catherine argues "deeply rooted in Early English tournaments," not Burgundian models.

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Emma-Catherine Wilson discussed early Tudor Tournament letters arguing that rather than relying on Burgundian models as other scholars have suggested, the Tudors drew from "a long lineage of insular tradition" in issuing challenges and creating the literary pageantry of tournaments.

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Her work has traced the life of this textile fragment from an Islamic courtly setting in Grenada to a Christian Church in Castile. The fabric was eventually cut and survives now in fragments across the world. In its fragmented form these textiles served as book and treasure wraps.

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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.

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

nothing has survived to the present day. Dr. Bacola also noted the importance of the Fenland in the area, allowing for isolated conditions for those (saints) seeking solitude. Using ArcGIS also brings to light local power dynamics between neighbouring monasteries.

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Finally Meredith Bacola described how she is using ArcGIS as a tool for understanding the development of Crowland Abbey. Amongst other fascinating findings, using ArcGIS made it clear that the geography supported the information found in hagiographies of St. Guthlac (and important finding since

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

was being read, but in the libraries, not the infirmaries, he speculates. @winstonblack is on bluesky, so ask questions!

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kept in the infirmary not the library, and shows clear evidence of the incorporation of the textual knowledge in the MS into medical practice. Dr. Black also hinted that there was a distinction to be made between textual medicine and the medicine of the infirmaries. Constantine Africanus' new work

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Next Winston Black reminded us that we should not be ignoring the role of monasteries in the history of medicine. Perhaps the locus of that medical knowledge was not only found in the libraries and scriptoria but in the infirmaries. Dr. Black's work on Bethesda NLM E8 suggests that manuscript was

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

a monastic community, Hildegard's own monasteries suggest her attitude may have been more flexible on this than her writing suggests. There is some evidence that suggests the presence of conversae in or near Rupertsberg. As always, Gudiño warns categories for class and types of religious are porous.

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Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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

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Unfortunately, the paper by Dr. Laumonier on Montpelier butchers and their neighbours and environs had to be cancelled. We look forward to hearing about this project at future CSM Annual Conferences.

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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.

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This resulted in the Left Bank being isolated from the Île de la Cité or beyond. These parts of Paris became only accessible by ferry making trade and travel from the Left Bank much more difficult. Dr. Hutchison's larger point was how mapping some of the events found in chronicles can make

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the importance of locating people in space as well as time for historians. Next up, CSM's treasurer, Emily Hutchison, who explored some of the impacts of the onset of the Little Ice Age on Paris. One example: when the Seine broke up after the "Great Winter" of 1408, it took down three bridges.

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Amongst her interesting findings, that jongleurs lived near butchers and tanners, near Jongleur street, but perhaps not ON it, interacted with Jewish populations, and lived near taverns and places that would have allowed for good busking. It was fascinating and important research, that demonstrates

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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

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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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Beowulf himself remains unchanged, and able to feel nothing at all -- a luxury not afforded to the grieving mother.

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the framing of her character in previous translations and discussions as monstrous. This creates moments/ a continual experience of dysphoria in the reader. But further, change is forced on Grendel's mother--she is forced to repent the act of her grieving (and the destruction that followed) while

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the agency Silence has in crafting their gender. Finally Gavin Foster explored Headley's representation of Grendel's mother as defined by her grief in her translation of Beowulf. Foster notes that although Headley asserts Grendel's mother acts out of grief and as a warrior, she cannot escape

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continued and continuing transformation and the suggestion that traditional categories can be straddled, or perhaps better, entirely :"liquified". Adrien Savard-Arsenault explored trans characters in Roman de Silence and Yde et Olive noting the seemingly stricter system of gender in Yde et Olive and

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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.

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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

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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:

uwaterloo.ca

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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