Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures

Thank you, Keith!

To register for the conference, follow the link below:
mediumaevum.org.uk/events/medie...

The first page of the programme for the conference reads as follows: Rhagflaenir gan Ddarlith Goffa Henry Loyn, 24 Ebrill 2026 Preceded by the Henry Loyn Memorial Lecture, 24 April 2026 16:45: Derbyniad / Reception (Oriel Viriamu Jones, Prif Adeilad / Viriamu Jones Gallery, Main Building) 17:30: Darlith Goffa Henry Loyn / Henry Loyn Memorial Lecture (Darlithfa Wallace, Prif Adeilad / Wallace Lecture Theatre, Main Building) Yr Athro / Professor John Hines: ''Pentref diffaith' neu 'Dasgwedd': golygion ar y safle hanesyddol ac archeolegol yn Cosmeston, Bro Morgannwg’ / ‘'Deserted Village' or 'Taskscape': perceptions of the historical and archaeological site at Cosmeston, Vale of Glamorgan’ Saturday 25 April / Dydd Sadwrn 25 Ebrill All sessions will be held in the Glamorgan Building (Committee Room 1). Cynhelir pob sesiwn yn Adeilad Morgannwg (Ystafell Bwyllgor 1). 9.30-10:00 Welcome and Coffee / Croeso a Choffi 10:00-12:00 Session 1 / Sesiwn 1 Thomas Clancy, ‘What's the Commotion? Sound, Structure and Sense in Ystoria Gereint uab Erbin’ Natalia Petrovskaia, ‘“Revisiting the “Cauldron Story”: Some Implications of Fractal Structures in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi’ Kit Treadwell, ‘A widowed countess owns the castle’: Positions of Widows in Medieval Welsh Literature’ Jessica Shales, ‘The Arthur of the Welsh?’ 12:00-13:00 Lunch / Cinio 13:00-14.30 Session 2 / Sesiwn 2 Russell O Riagain, ‘The Welsh kingdoms and the Scandianvian diaspora, c.AD790–1110’ Buffy Revell, ‘Economy, Diet and Status: New perspectives on human:animal relations in medieval Wales’ Gwen Jones-Edwards, ‘Yr Hen Ogledd: Cyfarfyddiad y Gymraeg a’r Aeleg ar lannau’r Clud, ac olion y cyfarfyddiad hwnnw yn y ganrif rhwng 1150 -1250' (*‘The Old North: The meeting of Welsh and Gaelic on the banks of the Clyde and its traces in the century 1150-1250')

The second page of the programme reads as follows: 4.45 - 16.15 Session 3 / Sesiwn 3 Jenny Day, 'O ‘Gaerau Ffwg’ i ‘Dir Meigion’: hunaniaethau’r Gororau ym marddoniaeth Gutun Owain' (*‘From ‘Caerau Ffwg’ to ‘Tir Meigion’: Marcher Identities in the Poetry of Gutun Owain’) Gruffudd Antur, ‘Gutun Owain: ailystyried ei lawysgrifau a thymor ei oes' (*‘Gutun Owain: Reconsidering his manuscripts and lifespan’) Adam Chapman, ‘Negotiating the bounds of Personal Authority in the 15th century March: Edward IV and William Herbert through the eyes of Hywel Dafi and Guto'r Glyn’ 16.15-17:00 SSMLL Annual Meeting / Cyfarfod Blynyddol SSMLL 17:00-18:00 SSMLL Keynote Lecture / Darlith Gyweirnod SSMLL Professor/ Yr Athro Helen Fulton, ‘Political Poetry in the Wars of the Roses: Constructing Marcher Lordship in Welsh, English, and French’ Sunday 26 April / Dydd Sul 26 Ebrill 9:00-11:00 Session 4 / Sesiwn 4 Scott Lloyd, ‘From Tref to Cantref: Mapping Medieval Welsh Boundaries for the Digital Age’ Elissa Chiariotti, ‘The Rubricators of the Hendregadredd Manuscript (NLW MS 6680B)’ Pietro Giusteri, ‘A Digital Scholarly Edition of the Liber Commonei: Work in Progress' Makenzie Marshall, ‘The Missing Dark Dragon: An Exploration of the Modified ‘Prophecy of the Eagle’ in Peniarth 27ii’ 11:00-11.30 Coffee / Coffi 11.30-13:00 Session 5 / Sesiwn 5 Rhiannon Jones, ‘Courtly Love Codes for a Poet’s Politics: A Re-examination of ‘Rhieingerdd Efa ferch Madog ap Maredudd’ by Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr’ Josh Coulthard, ‘ “Boen ar Gymry beunydd”: The Political Worlds of the Uchelwyr in Fourteenth-Century Wales and Beyond' Philip Hume, ‘Cherchez la Mère (‘shulde Roger Mortimer [d.1282] of right have been Prince of Wales’?)’

The third page of the conference programme reads as follows: 1-2 Cinio / Lunch 2-3.30 Session 6 / Sesiwn 6 Luciana Cordo Russo, ‘Crusade discourse and epic elements in Kedymdeithyas Amlyn ac Amic' Peter McIntosh, ‘The Hidden Queen: Do the Hereford Gospels hold a clue to a lost queen of Wales?’ Brigid Ehrmantraut, ‘Geoffrey of Monmouth, Gerald of Wales, and the Ruins of Caerleon Revisited’ * Papers in Welsh with simultaneous English translation. / Papurau yn Gymraeg gyda chyfieithu ar y pryd i'r Saesneg. To register for the conference today, visit mediumaevum.org.uk/events/medieval-wales Registration closes on 20 April I gofrestru ar gyfer y gynhadledd, ewch i mediumaevum.org.uk/events/medieval-wales Bydd cofrestru'n cau ar 20 Ebrill. The prices for attendance are then given as a table. In person attendance for members is £50, while online attendance is £10. In person attendance for non-members is £60, while online attendance is £15. In person attendance for students is £20, while online attendance is free.

The full programme for the SSMLL Annual Conference 2026, Medieval Wales, is now available!

Join us 25-26 April at @cardiffuni.bsky.social and online for two days of research exploring the languages and literature of medieval Wales.

We very much enjoy their title. Please do send our congratulations to your undergraduate on their published piece.

Our friends at the Early English Text Society are holding a workshop on editing texts from medieval Britain for graduate students and early career scholars.

📖Texts in Transition
📍St Hilda's College, Oxford
📆18/04/2026
🕐11am-5pm

For registration email eets[at]ell.ox.ac.uk

...alongside notes and review articles, and reviews of exhibitions, monographs, and edited collections.

Become a member of SSMLL today to receive your digital and hard copies of forthcoming Medium Ævum issues by visiting mediumaevum.org.uk

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🖊️Emma-Catherine Wilson, ‘The Henrician tournament letters of London, College of Arms, MS. L6, and the role of heralds in the preservation of an older English tournament tradition’

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🖊️Yun Ni, ‘Constance on trial: allegorizing legal personhood in John Gower’s ‘The Tale of Constance’ and Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘The Man of Law’s Tale’’

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🖊️Marijane Osborn, ‘Redeeming Chaucer of mistakes about time on the way to Canterbury’

🖊️Philip Knox, ‘‘Thomas Skreveyn’: some autograph documents by Thomas Usk'

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🖊️Geneviève Young, ‘Dead man walking: repetition and catastrophe in the Chanson de Roland’

🖊️R. F. Yeager, ‘Appropriated forms in John Gower’s Mirour de l’omme and some implications’

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🖊️Leonard Neidorf, ‘Hrothgar’s empire: Old English Ingwine and Scandinavian Paganism’

🖊️ @edolmans.bsky.social, ‘‘Natale solum dulcedine cunctos ducit’: looking homeward in medieval literature’

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An image of the bright green cover of Medium Aevum which details the names of its editors: David Rundle, Corinne Saunders, Sylvia Huot, and Stephen Mossman.

An image of the article contents list of the 94.1 issue of Medium Aevum, which is also given in the following posts.

We are delighted to announce the release of issue 94.1 of Medium Ævum, the journal of the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature.

Medium Ævum (94.1) contains:

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🖊️Emma-Catherine Wilson, ‘The Henrician tournament letters of London, College of Arms, MS. L6, and the role of heralds in the preservation of an older English tournament tradition’

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🖊️Philip Knox, ‘‘Thomas Skreveyn’: some autograph documents by Thomas Usk'

🖊️Yun Ni, ‘Constance on trial: allegorizing legal personhood in John Gower’s ‘The Tale of Constance’ and Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘The Man of Law’s Tale’’

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Our Society email address will have an Out-of-Office response in place from Monday 23rd December to Sunday 4th (inclusive). We will answer any queries that are received during this time as soon as possible after these dates.

We at the Society of Medieval Languages and Literature (and our seasonally dressed mascot, the scribe astride a wyvern) wish all of our members and followers a peaceful and merry festive season.

📢 Deadline extended! To give prospective speakers additional time to submit their abstracts, the OMGC committee has extended our Call for Papers deadline to 15 December 2025.

Please send submissions to: oxgradconf@gmail.com.

We look forward to reading your abstracts!

#Medievalsky Want to present your work in Reykjavík where the sagas take place? There is still time to submit! #CFP
@mediumaevum.bsky.social @jaema.bsky.social We hope to read tour submissions soon! Deadline is December 8th!

Thank you, Jo, we're very glad you think so.

Nigel was a great scholar and a lovely man and this is a very fitting tribute.

The back cover of the new issue of @mediumaevum.bsky.social features my predecessor, the late great Nigel Palmer, with an appeal for the travel fund being established in his name. For more on that, visit mediumaevum.org.uk/donate/palme... .

The latest issue of @mediumaevum.bsky.social in my editorial hands and soon to be in yours. It ranges from Beowulf to Henry VIII, from Sicily to Scandinavia, and includes articles by the likes of @edolmans.bsky.social, plus a review of recent Silk Roads exhibitions by @peterfrankopan.bsky.social.

SSMLL is proud to support the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference's provision of travel bursaries for participants.

The 22nd annual Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference on 'Sounds and Silence' taking place 23rd–24th April 2026. See below for more details on how to respond to their CFP.

Hello #Medievalsky ! The deadline is fast approaching! #CFP Submit by December 8th!
@mediumaevum.bsky.social

@leedsims.bsky.social

@anzamems.bsky.social
Please pass this along to anyone who may be interested. We hope to hear from you soon! #Medieval

Thank you for sharing, Keith!

Five days remain to submit your presentation proposal for the Medieval Wales conference taking place at Prifysgol Caerdydd/ Cardiff University, 25th-26th April 2026.

Read the full CFP in both Welsh and English at mediumaevum.org.uk/events/medie...

Polish your prose, signpost your paragraphs, and check your references, because just one week remains for graduate students and those who have recently graduated with a higher degree to submit their work to the Medium Ævum Essay Prize 2026🖋️

Find out more by visiting mediumaevum.org.uk/essayprize

Our past Medium Ævum Essay Prize winners have written on subjects ranging from acrostics to affectivity, and fertility myths to finger counting!

There's still time to review your work for submission to the Medium Ævum Essay Prize 2026. For more information, visit mediumaevum.org.uk/essayprize

Hey #Medievalsky ! There is still time to submit your articles for our #CFP ! @mediumaevum.bsky.social @leedsims.bsky.social @anzamems.bsky.social Please pass this along to anyone who may be interested. We hope to hear from you soon! #Medieval

The SSMLL Annual Day Conference 2026: Medieval Wales wants to showcase your ground-breaking research into the language and literature of medieval Wales.

Read the full CFP in both Welsh and English at mediumaevum.org.uk/events/medie...