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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS)

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CMEMS brings together staff and students from across the University of Edinburgh engaged in research on the medieval and early modern periods Find out more at hca.ed.ac.uk/centre-medieval-early-…

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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Would you like to join the University of Edinburgh Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies mailing list? 📩 Just pop an email to Mike Carr and Kate Ash-Irisarri mike.carr@ed.ac.uk and k.ash-irisarri@ed.ac.uk
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thank you to everyone who came along to the CMEMS Welcome event for the 2026/7 academic year! It was wonderful to see so many new and returning faces from across the University🍷
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Please join us for the Edinburgh University CMEMS Welcome Event! 

22nd September 5pm at the Centre for Research Collections (Main Library Floor 6) Anyone interested in the activities of CMEMS is welcome! There will be drinks, nibbles and a viewing of items from the CRC’s fantastic collection...
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Please join us for the Edinburgh University CMEMS Welcome Event! 

22nd September 5pm at the Centre for Research Collections (Main Library Floor 6) Anyone interested in the activities of CMEMS is welcome! There will be drinks, nibbles and a viewing of items from the CRC’s fantastic collection...
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New term, new title… We are now the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS)! Socials have been updated to cmemsedinburgh across platforms We’re really looking forward to an exciting programme for the year ahead so stay tuned for updates!
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great to see the new @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social programme is out hca.ed.ac.uk/centre-medie... (including a couple of medieval reading group tbcs - Edinburgh people, let me know if you have suggestions!)
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Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies Seminars | Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies | History Classics and Archaeology
The Centre hosts a seminar series which takes place throughout the academic year and is open to staff, students and the general public
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
📅 Join us tomorrow for the CMRS seminar where we welcome @williampurkis.bsky.social (University of Birmingham): Portals to Holy Places: Relics, Round Churches, and the Reshaping of the Crusading Ideal 5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square All welcome!
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
📆 ⚔️Join us tomorrow for the CMRS Seminar where we will welcome Benjamin Raffield (University of Uppsala): 'Making a Warrior: Exploring the Martial Cultures of the Viking Age' 5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square All welcome!
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
👏 Great to hear Louise Gardiner talking about MS183 at the CMRS seminar, hosted in the CRC, yesterday. Thanks to everyone for coming!
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Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Our second PG Symposium is coming up on 30 March! Join us online to explore more about 'Theories, Frameworks and Concepts' in #ChurchHistory. If you would like to attend, please email Michael Fraser (mcf24@st-andrews.ac.uk). ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/pg-symposium...
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
📖Join us on Tue 24 Feb for the next CMRS Seminar by our very own Louise Gardiner: 'Royal Correspondence in Late Fourteenth-Century England: Exploring the ‘Royal Letter Book’ (Edinburgh University Library Ms. 183)' 5:15, Centre for Research Collections (6th floor, Edinburgh University main Library)
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Gabriel Fidler @gabrielfidler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Despite Scots weather (medieval), past and present @durhammemsa.bsky.social members @areforbes.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social swelled @medievaljay.bsky.social's merry band for tonight's talk @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social. Well worth the trip, which did not disappoint the Indiana Jones setup.
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Next week we will be running a roundtable on 'Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland', co-organised by with the Scottish History Seminar. The event will take place on Tue 10 Feb, 5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square. All welcome!
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
📆Join us on Tuesday 3 Feb for the next CMRS seminar where @medievaljay.bsky.social will be giving a talk about 'Raiders of the Lost Patriarchs: Hebron and Crusader Jerusalem'. 5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square. Everyone welcome!
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
📆 Join us tomorrow for the CMRS seminar where Joanna Martin (University of Nottingham) will be giving a talk about 'Spaces and Places in Hary’s 'Wallace''. 5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square. Everyone welcome!
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
📢 ✌️ We're kicking off our event programme for this semester off with two CMRS sessions! 🎨 📜 First join us tomorrow as our own @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social discusses depictions of Judas in medieval art and literature. 📅 ➡️ Then later this week ...
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Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Why starting 2026 with an #homicide? ⬇️ Have a read at our latest blog @artandinequality.bsky.social to find out about a mysterious #murder, an #inventory and forthcoming #projects and #publications for #ArtandInequality @glasgow.ac.uk #medievalsky ➡️ link: www.artandinequality.com/homicide-wit...
murder of Abel, medieval miniature, blue background. Abel falling on the green grass while being hit with a heavy hummer by his brother (not visible in the picture)
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
⏰The final @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social seminar of the semester is tomorrow! Thijs Kersten will discuss their research on singing as a form of protest in late antiquity. 📌Join the group at 17:10 in the Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5, Old Medical Building, followed by a social in Potterrow Dome.
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
🪡 ⚔️ Tomorrow our final Renaissance Discussion Group of the year will review work from our own Jess Bailey, on what medieval quilt designs reveal about popular narratives of the time and wider considerations of gender. 📌⏰ Join us at 1pm in Room 3.32 of the Edinburgh Futures Institute to take part!
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🔘 📖 The last of this semester's reading groups will be held tomorrow. ⬇️ 💬 Read the below article and join us at 5pm (in Room 1.26, Old Medical School, Doorway 4) to take part!
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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
So very grateful to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, Prof Carol Richardson, @kateai.bsky.social & everyone who came to talk about my new book with me yesterday evening 💖 and a wonderful flowery surprise from @starcrossed2018.bsky.social and @liederfollower.bsky.social ! 💐
Discussing/reading from new book 'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance', in a seminar format and with flowers on a table. Hope Doherty-Harrison holding flowers and a copy of her book with a background of book cabinets at IASH, Edinburgh.
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🎨 In our final seminar of the semester, Neil McClelland joins us from @uofglasgow.bsky.social to discuss his ongoing doctoral research into the the history of art commissions from across the social strata from late medieval and early modern Naples.
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🏙️ ⚖️ Today Andrew Simpson of @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social will join us to discuss one of Scotland’s oldest surviving legal texts, some elements of which are still echoed in modern Scots law.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
There was moment I thought perhaps we had movement here, but the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social strike is on. You can read more about why here: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423... Please write and call your MSPs on Monday: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp
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Edinburgh university staff back industrial action again in longstanding dispute over cuts and redundancies
Staff at the University of Edinburgh have today (Tuesday) backed industrial action for a second time in a longstanding dispute over £140million cuts, job losses and compulsory redundancies.
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🤝 ⛪ Tomorrow’s seminar will welcome Alejandro Pombo Rial from @usaloficial.bsky.social . Join us as he discusses his ongoing research into social contributions made by churches and monasteries to their local communities.
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
⚔️ 📜 The 'Venetias' is an epic poem describing a period of conflict between Venice and the Holy Roman Empire. @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 's own Luke Houghton will join tomorrow's group, drawing on his knowledge of Neo-Latin literature to discuss some of the distinct features of this work.
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🐏 👨‍👨 @nicolemaceira.bsky.social will join us this week to discuss contrasting depictions of animals and humans in post-Reformation thought, and their importance in the development of the Reformed faith in Scotland.
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
⚔️ 💬 Join us tomorrow for a discussion of Lyndal Roper's recent article, which explores the relationship between emotional cycles and and the development of revolutions, set against the backdrop of Western Europe' largest popular uprising before the French Revolution. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...
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HCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
One week to go! Professor Lucy Grig - Professor of the History of Late Antiquity - gives her inaugural lecture on 'A slow history of Late Antiquity'. Tickets (free): edin.ac/4p2Ot2R #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
👑 Join us this Thursday as we welcome Alex Woolf from @standrewshist.bsky.social, who’ll be discussing with us the development of Scotland’s early history.
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
⛪ 👨‍👨 Next week we’ll be proud to welcome John Arnold from @camhistory.bsky.social , who’ll discuss his recent research into the changing expressions of lay piety found in medieval southern France.
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🕍📜 Join us at tomorrow's seminar as PhD student Jacob Morley shares findings from his research on the medieval papacy. 📚 💬 Then on Friday the first session of our new Renaissance Discussion Group will look at work from our own Elise Watson, exploring the role of women in publishing.
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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
We ❤️ books! Join us for some upcoming book launches: Tue 7 Oct, 17:30 -"Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance: Typologies of violence and desire" by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social from @manchesterup.bsky.social Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... (in person and online)
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Book Launch: "Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance"
New book: "Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance: Typologies of violence and desire" by Hope Doherty-Harrison
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
💬 🤝 We'll be hosting a range of seminars this semester, run in collaboration with students and staff from across our university and beyond. 💻 ⬆️ You can follow the link in our bio to find out more about these events, as well as the reading and discussion groups we have planned over the next months!
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🙏 Thank you to all those who helped kick off this semester by attending last week's Denys Hay Lecture, and thanks again to @philippebuc.bsky.social for giving such an insightful talk! 📅 Watch this space for an update soon on our seminar schedule for this semester!
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
⬇️ Students, staff and members of the public will all be welcome at tomorrow's lecture!
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
⬇️ A fantastic-looking programme for the term ahead!
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
👨‍🏫 🧭 We’ll be kicking off the new academic year with the return of the Denys Hay lecture to @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, as we welcome @philippebuc.bsky.social from @unileiden.bsky.social to deliver a talk on his recent comparative historical research looking at both medieval Europe and Japan.
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HCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Free conference - 'Roman History in Carolingian Europe', 22-24 Sept in Edinburgh. Find out more and register: edin.ac/4noqMQB #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Romanhistory #Edinburgh
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Conference: Roman History in Carolingian Europe | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology
This conference will explore the ways in which these historians were read and copied in the Carolingian period and the role of Roman historical texts and scholarship in Carolingian intellectual life, ...
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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
It is publication day for Love & anti-Judaism in medieval English romance @manchesterup.bsky.social! Thank you so much @siobhanmup.bsky.social for believing in this project. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183170/
A photo of Hope Doherty-Harrison wearing a navy blue shirt holding an author copy of her book, Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance, against a background of green trees/bushes.
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Open Education at The University of Edinburgh @openededinburgh.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Learn about Renaissance women scholars, painters, sculptors & architects in this series of 25 min lectures by Professor Jill Burke. Made for Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures at the @edincollegeofart.bsky.social. #OER @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social ‪ open.ed.ac.uk/renaissance-...
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Renaissance Feminism
These video lectures on Renaissance Feminism are part of a series by Jill Burke, Professor of Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures at Edinburgh College of Art.  All three videos are licensed Creat...
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
📕This work takes a fascinating look at themes of accessibility and inclusion in relation to medieval studies — including a chapter from our own @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social, who also co-edited the book! ⬇️ Find out more below about a hybrid book launch being held for it next month: bit.ly/3HRAM5W
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Towards an Accessible Academy Book Launch
Join Medievalists with Disabilities for the launch of the book "Towards an Accessible Academy" at NYU London
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Tariffs are in the news - but what about their history? Pleased to announce a new VSI that draws on Early Medieval Europe's back catalogue in this area. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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Tariffs and Tolls in Early Medieval Europe: Early Medieval Europe
Early Medieval Europe is an interdisciplinary medieval studies journal covering European history from the fall of the Roman Empire up until the 11th century.
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The Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (MEMRN) @memrn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
CALL FOR PAPERS!!! The MEMRN Committee are delighted to share the call for papers for our second annual Winter Conference: Fragmented Worlds, Shared Histories. Please share widely! Sponsored by @chase-dtp.bsky.social
We, the committee of the CHASE Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (MEMRN), are overjoyed to announce the return of our Winter Conference this year between the 14th and 16th November.

Join us at the University of East Anglia and online for three exciting days of workshops, papers, social events, and adventure through the historic cathedral city of Norwich.
We welcome papers on a range of topics within medieval and early modern studies for this interdisciplinary conference, including:

*   History and politics
*   Philosophy and theology
*   Literature, drama, performance culture and music
*   Latin and vernacular languages
*   Art history, architecture and archaeology
*   Manuscript studies and book history

For this year's conference, we particularly encourage papers engaging with marginalised histories and communities, global intercultural contact and exchange, or conflict and diplomacy.We invite abstracts of up to 250 words for individual research papers of twenty minutes in length (or 700 words for a panel of three people presenting on a particular subject or sub-theme).

The CHASE MEMRN conference remains open to all UK and overseas postgraduates. This includes independent scholars who are unaffiliated at this time. When submitting your abstract, please include your institution (if applicable) and, if from a CHASE-affiliated university institution, whether or not you are directly funded by CHASE.
All proposals should be emailed to chasememrn@gmail.com by Friday
12th September with the subject line 'Conference Paper Submission' and your name. Priority will be given to those available to present in-person, but remote presentation applications will also be considered.

Please feel free to contact the MEMRN team via email or social media DM with any questions you may have. We look forward to welcoming you to Norwich as part of this proudly CHASE-funded event.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
New episode of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME: Renaissance Beauty — makeup, hair, skincare in 16th century Italy With me, comedian Tatty Macleod, and expert historian Professor @jillburke.bsky.social Available now on BBC SOUNDS, and coming to other podcast apps in 28 days www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Smily photo of comedian Tatty Macleod with pink hair and pink shirt, Professor Jill Burke with blonde hair and white shirt, and Greg Jenner with green shirt, brown curly hair and beard, and he is pointing to splodges of orange makeup on his face
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
🥳 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social PhD student Jess Nutt won Best Speaker for her paper 'Sagas and Swords: Early #Medieval #Wales and Evidence of #Viking Conflict' @ Society for Medieval Archaeology Student Colloquium @exeter.ac.uk last week! 🏆 📷 C. Mason #EdinArch #archaeology @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social
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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
And team! Suzanne Trill, @sharonhoward.bsky.social and @hagenilda.bsky.social.
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
📖 We can't wait to read this new, cross-cutting look at such an important part of the Middle Ages! ⬇️ You can click below to find out more about the book: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
🧪 📜 It's great to see @uoe-llc.bsky.social PhD student @seerauberaine.bsky.social in action at this week's @durhammemsa.bsky.social conference, speaking in the first picture about representations of female healers in twelfth-century French narrative literature.
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