International Medieval Congress Leeds

Two delegates looking in the IMC Programme Book.

🚨The deadline for any acceptance changes to be made to the #IMC2026 Programme is Monday 08 December 2025🚨 Make sure to have a look at your details in the Speaker Center this weekend and if you see anything which doesn't look right to you, then email the IMC team at imc@leeds.ac.uk before Midday! 👍

Today we are in #Bologna to share some thoughts on #executivedocuments in the #middleages Follow us online!
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Poster for a talk called Twisted Ribbons of Song: The Saga of the Earls of Orkney and poetry from or inspired by northern Scotland. Date: Tuesday 9 December, 5.30 pm, Baines Wing G36 (and online) Speakers Judith Jesch and Charlotte Eichler. Text: The medieval Icelandic Saga of the Earls of Orkney contains 82 stanzas composed from the tenth to the twelfth century by residents of and visitors to Orkney and Shetland. At this event, Judith Jesch, Professor of Viking Studies at Nottingham, will introduce the saga and its poetry and read selected examples in both Old Norse and her English versions. Award-winning Leeds-based poet Charlotte Eichler will read some of her published and unpublished poems inspired by the Saga and by visits to Orkney and Shetland as part of Judith’s Ragna’s Islands project. Photos of book cover of Judith's translation of the saga (which includes four Lewis chessmen) and picture of Charlotte on Fair Isle writing amidst stones and grass

If you are into sagas and poetry our next seminar is for you. Sign up to attend online: forms.office.com/e/ngg1zukWH3 More details at ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/eve... #medievalsky #poetry #sagas #orkney #shetland #icelandic #northernisles #vikings @judithjesch.bsky.social @ragnasislands.bsky.social

A 'celebratory card' provided by IMC Leeds saying: 'I have been accepted for the LEEDS INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL CONGRESS 6–9 July 2026. www.imc.leeds.ac.uk University of Leeds'

Screenshot of a list of my sessions at the IMC 2026: Nr 226, Monday, 6 July 2026: 2:15 PM-3:45 PM, The Reckoning of Time in Medieval Scandinavia, Organiser Nr 1224, Wednesday, 8 July 2026: 2:15 PM-3:45 PM, Envisioning the Times: Writing the Past and Shaping the Future in 13th-Century Norway, I, Organiser Nr 1324, Wednesday, 8 July 2026: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM, Envisioning the Times: Writing the Past and Shaping the Future in 13th-Century Norway, II, Organiser

All my sessions have been accepted for the #IMC2026. 😊 'The Reckoning of Time in Medieval Scandinavia' with Dr Adrián Rodríguez Avila, and a double 'Envisioning the Times: Writing the Past and Shaping the Future in 13th-Century Norway' with Mary O'Connor!
#medievalsky #oldnorse

IMC programme 2026

Yes, the rumours are true (sorry). I'm back at Leeds next July for #IMC2026, speaking on praemunire no less, nearly a decade after I completed the PhD. No, I don't know how it's been a decade. And no, I haven't published the book yet. Have you been speaking to my old PhD supervisor?

A poster with medieval illustrations that reads: I have been accepted to the Leeds International Medieval Congress, 6-9 July 2026. #imc2026, University of Leeds, www.imc.leeds.ac.uk

Almost forgot to say, but I'll be talking about peasant women and customary law in Hampshire at #imc2026! Looking forward to seeing people there!

Also, while I'm here, you'd better all not be too hungover at IMC 2026 because you're all obviously attending my Thursday 9am paper. (Pray for me).

I'm a bit late to the party, but very happy to see the Constructing Masculinities sessions accepted. Looking forward to a day of fantastic new research on #premodern #masculinities @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2026

See you in July! @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2026

Delighted to say I’ll be presenting in session 1348 at @imc-leeds.bsky.social IMC 2026! #imc2026

Looking forward to a rather busy Leeds! Delighted by the set of panels organised with @jakestattel.bsky.social!

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We are very excited to announce that the DoSSE project will be sponsoring four panels on slavery at #IMC2026 in Leeds, on Tues 7 July, featuring Merovingian, Sasanian, East Roman, Armenian, Visigothic, Islamic, Jewish & Venetian sources - and more!

More details in due course.

Screenshot of the session timeslot information

placard saying "I have been accepted for the Leeds International Medieval Congress 6-9 July 2026"

Looking forward to rocking up at #imc2026 to talk about all the fun (and surprising!) things you can find in the wills of single men across early modern England, alongside other fascinating talks on fatherhood, masculinity, and emotions on the Constructing Masculinities Panel.

Due to the funding we have received from the National Research Foundation of South Africa, we are delighted to be able to offer a limited number of fee waivers for online attendance on a first-come, first-served basis! This means that you can attend all our conference events ONLINE for FREE!

Make sure you book a late train home on Thursday to be able to see all three panels on Old English in the 19th Century at #IMC2026!

An IMC Team Member assisting a delegate at the Information's and Payments Desk.

It's been so lovely seeing everyone posting their 'I've been Accepted to IMC 2026' postcards! 🥰

This is your one week reminder that you have until Monday 08 December to get any acceptance changes for the #IMC2026 Programme to the IMC Team at imc@leeds.ac.uk! 🐴⚔

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Looking forward to being back at @imc-leeds.bsky.social this summer! Can’t wait to share some highlights from my Big Scary Pontifical Spreadsheet with the world!

Thrilled to be presenting at #IMC2026 alongside some really excellent papers on policing the premodern urban environment!

Expect lots of court leet rolls, dung heaps, and blocked gutters!

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Happy to be in #imc2026 next year as Moderator and Speaker @imc-leeds.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social

excited to return to @imc-leeds.bsky.social next year!! talking about imposed linearity and moderating a panel on material culture. #imc2026

So glad that our sessions on premodern race got accepted!
@medievalgeorgie.bsky.social
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Can't wait for #IMC2026! 🤗

Delighted to be returning to the @imc-leeds.bsky.social in 2026 - quite a busy one this year, too! I'll be joined by my good friends @karanthir.bsky.social and @history-w-hilbert.bsky.social across 2 panels dedicated to the Early Medieval Frisians, perhaps a first for the IMC!

Super excited to have the new strand "Future Insight and Its Discontents in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (200–900 CE)" accepted for next year's @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Come join us on Thursday, 9 July

Excited to announce my first ever panel at #IMC2026! 🎉 Our session, 'Negotiating Masculinity in Eastern Orthodoxy', brings together papers from @nick-mayhew.bsky.social, Orlen Crawford (co-organiser) and myself, with @maroulix.bsky.social as moderator. @imc-leeds.bsky.social @leedsims.bsky.social

Sara J Charles, The Medieval Scriptorium

Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

Catherine Clarke, A History of England in 25 Poems

Eleanor Baker, Book Curses

#IMC2026, Weds, 8 July, 7pm! Four medievalists who've published 'trade' books will discuss the process - from finding an agent to working with publishers & beyond. Sponsored by @ihr.bsky.social. @realmandeville.bsky.social @saracharles.bsky.social @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Tuesday 7th July 2026 at @imc-leeds.bsky.social is going to be Jinty Nelson appreciation/memorial day, with confirmation of 4 sessions and a roundtable in her honour.

Super excited to see that the sessions that Birgit Wiedl and I organised for @imc-leeds.bsky.social have been accepted! Four panels, and a round table, considering Jews and Christians in medieval Europe!

I'm really delighted to say that the three sessions that a group of us have proposed for Leeds IMC 2026 in celebration of Prof Edward James and his many contributions not just to the history and archaeology of the early Middle Ages but also to the academic study of fantasy and sf have been accepted!

It was so amazing to hear a preview of the papers just before this exciting news came out! Yay for PresentDead and yay for getting a Tuesday!

Anyone interested in interactions with the dead, come to our session at the next @imc-leeds.bsky.social !!

Ich freue mich sehr, heute erfahren zu haben, dass ich am #IMC26 teilnehmen darf. 😁