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The 5th Middle Ages in the Modern World conference (MAMO). King's College London, 24-26 June 2025. themamo.org

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‘It’s back to the future’: the 13th-century castle built by hand in France A quarter of a century after our first visit, the Guardian returns to Guédelon to find old-fashioned toil has built “thoroughly modern” architectural laboratory

That’s the location of the next MAMO sorted, then 😍 @themamoconf.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

23.08.2025 09:31 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Gawain is Not a Hero? Tensions Between the Heroic and the Complex Subject in Representations of Sir Gawain in Art - UAL Research Online UAL Research Online is the online showcase of the research produced at University of the Arts London. We hold, manage, share and preserve the research material produced by the University's researchers...

For those who may be interested ☺️ my slides and painting from my talk 'Gawain is Not a Hero' from the @themamoconf.bsky.social are available to view on the UAL research depository (no transcript as yet since its in peer review but plenty of information) ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/24...

06.07.2025 09:11 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Some more images from MAMO conference @themamoconf.bsky.social I’m with esteemed company here, Professor Sarah Salih (KCL), Dr Josh Davies (KCL), and the wonderful Dr Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social (Oxford). Such a rich experience for me and lots of new friends made 😊

29.06.2025 08:27 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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back frm @themamoconf.bsky.social & inspired by

🌟 LOCAL MEDIEDVALISMS with co-pannelists @maiablumberg.bsky.social & @linseyhunter.bsky.social

🌟public interp of MA w/ @emilyrobinson.bsky.social & @krmaude.bsky.social

🌟 practical resistance to far-right MA use @menysnoweballes.bsky.social

28.06.2025 10:29 — 👍 19    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

Thank you so much for coming, and for speaking about your Into the Mystic project!

28.06.2025 08:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow thank you Laura, it was a pleasure to meet you and hear your feminist reimaginings of Beowulf!

Thank you to all the excellent speakers, listeners and questioners at @themamoconf.bsky.social and the talented team who put it together. A special few days back at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

27.06.2025 15:41 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you all! It was a great few days and a pleasure to be a part of it! Here’s to the next one!

27.06.2025 12:39 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

That's a wrap on MAMO 2025! Heartfelt thanks to everyone who attended, presented, chatted, and made it such an enjoyable conference.
We welcomed nearly 150 across three days, heard over 100 papers, experienced 2 fire alarms, and had countless inspiring conversations on medievalism.
Until MAMO #6!

27.06.2025 10:06 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was a fantastic keynote - thank you so much for presenting!

27.06.2025 10:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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1/3: Delivering the keynote @themamoconf.bsky.social 2025 has been a wonderful (if daunting) highlight of my research activity, the painting below was made as a response to the invitation, it and the plenary were attempts to understand the women of the poem as more temporally complex figures...

27.06.2025 09:47 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

It was a pleasure to have you at the MAMO and thanks for coming and presenting! What a fantastic panel. Until the next one!

27.06.2025 09:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks so much, it was a pleasure to have you there! Until the next MAMO and enjoy your summer!

27.06.2025 09:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks so much for everything you brought to MAMO, Laura! We were lucky to have you there via GuMM and as a presenter. Love your slides here!

27.06.2025 09:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Seconded!! Fantastic conference ✨ @themamoconf.bsky.social and it was lovely to see everyone!

27.06.2025 06:53 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Gawain Between Two Deaths painting by Michael Eden

Gawain Between Two Deaths painting by Michael Eden

The plenary talk by @michaeledenart.bsky.social at @themamoconf.bsky.social on Gawain & the Green Knight was ✨MAGNIFICENT✨ Michael’s artwork- incl his painting here, Gawain between Two Deaths- is fantastic 👏 Also, a total pleasure to chat to Michael at the conf too! 😘

26.06.2025 20:56 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Such a pleasure to present at @themamoconf.bsky.social with the brilliant @daisyeblack.bsky.social and Sheila Passey. I’m in full flow here discussing my new poem in the voice of Princess Freawaru from Beowulf, inspired by Judith beheading Holofernes (while resisting girlboss feminism!!).

26.06.2025 20:51 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks so much for coming - for presenting and for such an excellent workshop! Enjoy GMS and summer.

26.06.2025 12:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you @themamoconf.bsky.social for a great conference! Really well curated programme. Sorry to leave early but I have @medievalgender.bsky.social next week and much to do in between!

26.06.2025 11:09 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

I just made my very first edit to @wikipedia.org in Fran and Lucy’s #MedievalWiki workshop @themamoconf.bsky.social #DigitalSkillz

26.06.2025 10:47 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Happening now! A Wiki-thon for MAMO 2025.

26.06.2025 09:42 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

On my way to London right this very minute for an exciting session at MAMO 👀🔥✅ #MAMOmonth

26.06.2025 08:03 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It's the final day of MAMO! Expect it all: a Wikipedia workshop, mystics, Crusades, landscapes, Christianity, theory, pedagogy, scholarship... with a final plenary by @michaeledenart.bsky.social and a closing reception on the Terrace. See you there!

26.06.2025 07:18 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Three fantastic keynote roundtablers, who spoke beautifully on Public Chaucer. The historical Chaucer, literary Chaucer, creative Chaucer all overlapped in interesting ways. Caroline's book with ARC and Mary's with Manchester UP are for sale in the Council Room, along with many other MAMO speakers!

26.06.2025 07:16 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Some wonderful MAMO snaps from @drlauravarnam.bsky.social! MAMO Day 2 was stellar!

26.06.2025 07:14 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It was great to have you! Thanks so much for coming and speaking!

25.06.2025 21:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was a pleasure chairing and speaking today at @themamoconf.bsky.social as part of the panel at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Strand Campus.

Thanks to all the organisers for making this happen!

25.06.2025 13:50 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
A classroom with people sat at tables and a PowerPoint slide saying what ways have we seen the medieval evoked by the far/extreme right?

A classroom with people sat at tables and a PowerPoint slide saying what ways have we seen the medieval evoked by the far/extreme right?

Nearly 40 people at my @themamoconf.bsky.social workshop 😍

25.06.2025 15:16 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

So glad you had a good time! Enjoy Durham and hopefully see you at the next MAMO!

25.06.2025 21:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fresh from their plenary yesterday at #MAMO2025, Angela Weisl and Robert Squillace stopped by our stand this morning! Learn more about their collection "Medievalisms in a Global Age": buff.ly/oBs96Fl @themamoconf.bsky.social‬ #Medievalism

25.06.2025 13:20 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

So glad you're enjoying it!

25.06.2025 13:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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