Reposted by LAMPS EdinburghCentre 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! 111
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · 26/01/2026We are pleased to announce our three seminars of the semester (in red) jointly run with the Classics PGR community, held on Fridays at 17:05 in the Meadows Lecture Theatre. We warmly invite you all to see what your Late Antique/Medieval and Classics peers have been up to this year! 031
Reposted by LAMPS EdinburghCentre 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 ... 1106
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Some photos from @bryonycoombs.bsky.social fantastic workshop, Embodied Knowledge: Experiential Learning and Manuscript Studies hosted at the Centre for Research Collections here in Edinburgh. 1214
Reposted by LAMPS EdinburghCentre 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. 1114
Reposted by LAMPS EdinburghCentre 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. 142
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · 20/09/2025We're proud to present our seminar series for the new semester; alongside our regular postgraduate seminars, we will be hosting two manuscript workshops! We look forward to seeing postgraduate students new and old at our first seminar on Tuesday 30th September, which will be followed by drinks! 184
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · 14/07/2025LAMPS SEMINAR SERIES CALL FOR PAPERS AUTUMN 2025 Please submit your paper to us at lampsedinburgh@gmail.com Deadline: 29th August 2025 087
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · 20/05/2025FINAL SEMINAR OF THE YEAR! Tomorrow at 5pm in Teviot Lecture Theatre, Ana Inés Aldazabal will be presenting "Folkloric Echoes and Carnivalesque Inversions: The Sabbath of the 'Old Bearded Hags' in the Roman de Perceforest". 000
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Join us tomorrow for our penultimate seminar of the year, where Lucas Butler (University of Edinburgh) will be presenting ‘Empress and Consul? Reassessing the Reign of Eirene of Athens’. We will be starting at 17:00, and the venue will be the Teviot lecture theatre! 000
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · 28/04/2025This Wednesday, we have our manuscript workshop at the Centre of Research Collections, Main Library (3-4:45pm) followed by @callumhendleman.bsky.social's paper 'A dialogue with the dead: Grief and performance in the Threnos Epitaphios of Ioannes Chortasmenos' at Teviot! 022
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 LAMPS Archival Workshop Date: 3-4:45pm, Wednesday 30th April Location: Centre of Research Collections, Main Library, 6th floor. No registration required! 020
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Join us 5pm tonight in room G.01, 50 George Square for Jacob Morley's paper on "Papal Authority in Milan: The Evolution of Roman Church Hierarchy c. 1165-1211" ! We will take a small break and return on Monday 21st April, followed by an exciting event on the 30th! (details tbc) 010
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Join us tonight at 5pm in the Teviot Lecture Theatre for Alex Bridges' paper ‘Castration on the Nile: the treatment of Egyptian ithyphallic sculpture from the Middle Kingdom to Modernity’ ! 010
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Join us tonight at 5pm for Alevtina Matveeva's paper ‘From Intellectual Discourse to Spiritual Guidance and Back: The Correspondence Between Irene-Eulogia Choumnaina and Gregory Akindynos.’ The seminar will be in Teviot Lecture Theatre and online. ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88367482438 Passcode: JRX9XWcMed-ac-uk.zoom.usJoin our Cloud HD Video MeetingZoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom ... 000
Reposted by LAMPS EdinburghDaniel @danclaggett.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Thanks to everyone who attended my riveting (certainly not the last time I’ll be using that pun) talk last night at the @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social seminar series. Great audience and great questions! 143
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · 12/03/2025In today's seminar at 5pm @ Teviot Lecture Theatre (Doorway 5, Old Medical School), Daniel Claggett from Flinders University will talk to us about "Metal, Mounds and Memory: Viking Boat Burials in Scotland and the Isle of Man." 010
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Today our first seminar of the semester "Untraditional Chivalry in Sir Orfeo" by Sara Yahya Hamed will take place at 5 PM in G.16 (Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing). We hope to you see there! 030
Reposted by LAMPS EdinburghCentre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025⚔️ Join us next week as we welcome Francesca Petrizzo of @uofglasgow.bsky.social to discuss her recent research, and her approaches to complex questions raised by dealing with primary sources relating to the crusades. #History #Edinburgh #HCA #Seminars 1114
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · 24/02/2025We are excited to present our (tentative) schedule for the 2025 Lamps Seminar Series featuring postgraduates from Edinburgh and around the world. We hope to see you at our inaugural session on the 5th March! Also, join our mailing list here: mailchi.mp/8f15fd897f53... 121
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · 21/02/2025CALL FOR PAPERS: The Third Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival (30-31 May 2025). This is an exciting opportunity for authors to share recently published books on on any area of #LateAntique and #ByzantineStudies (AD ca.300–ca.1500)! hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... #byzantiumhca.ed.ac.ukCfp: 3rd Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book FestivalThe 3rd Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival will occur 30-31 May. The deadline for submissions is 6 April, 2025. 095
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · 20/01/2025🚨LAMPS SEMINAR SERIES CALL FOR PAPERS 2025🚨 Please submit a 300 word abstract to lampsedinburgh@gmail.com by the 7th February. All subjects related to the Late Antique and Medieval worlds are welcome! See the poster below for full details: 122
LAMPS Edinburgh @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · 19/11/2024🚨ALL-NEW ALL-DIFFERENT LAMPS🚨 LAMPS is BACK (soon)! We are holding a meeting on Thursday 21st November in Room 2.26, Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing from 11-12PM to discuss the future of LAMPS. If you're a postgraduate at Edinburgh interested in helping out, please come along! 172