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New Call for Papers for more sessions on premodern race & racialisation at #IMC2026!!
@medievalgeorgie.bsky.social and I are looking forward to receiving your proposals 🙂
If you have any questions, please do reach out!
@imc-leeds.bsky.social
#premoderncriticalracestudies #medievalsky #skystorians

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.

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

Visualising the Destruction of Convents and Monasteries in the German Peasants' War The the first-ever attempt to quantify and map the full destruction of religious houses during the German Peasants' War (1525-26).

Now live! We've created the most comprehensive map to-date of religious institutions in the German Peasants' War (1524-26), identifying many more affected institutions than existing source lists.

Find our map, case studies, and much more on our website:
germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk

#skystorians

Good news, @tamarajatkin.bsky.social - a minor technical hitch has been resolved and @memslibukc.bsky.social is back up and available in all its glory. As always, thanks go to the @memsunikent.bsky.social students who make it possible.

Codicology | MEMSLib

Take a look at our latest resource: 'Fragments of Devotion: a Sensory History of Illuminated Manuscript Cuttings' memslib.co.uk/codicology
This exhibition explores the materiality and multi-sensory aspects of illuminated manuscript cuttings!
devotion.barber.org.uk

#ResourceOfTheWeek: The special collections of the Belgrade University Library contain 90 cyrillic manuscripts which date from the 13th to 18th centuries. All are fully digitised and are available at this link: arhiva.unilib.rs/engleski/zbi...
Find more at: www.memslib.co.uk/eastern-euro...

MEMS on Instagram: "Our first #MEMSNews of 2024! Already lots of exciting things have happened at th... 19 likes, 0 comments - mems_ukc on February 5, 2024: "Our first #MEMSNews of 2024! Already lots of exciting things have happened at the Centre for Medi..."

Our first #MEMSNews of 2024! Already lots of exciting things have happened at the Centre, and more are on their way. First, a massive congratulations to everyone who passed their viva & submitted! 🥳 And save the date for our future events!

Watch the video on Insta:
www.instagram.com/reel/C2-QwEH...

A delight to hear our eminent colleague, Prof. Kenneth Fincham, begins the @memslibukc.bsky.social 2024 Renaissance Lecture before a packed house.

Here you can find more resources on Canterbury and Kent in the medieval and early modern periods! www.memslib.co.uk/medievalcant...

Our 'Canterbury and Kent Medieval and Early Modern Resources' page has a new addition: a report on the 'Destruction in the Cathedral' study day on 11th March. Take a look to read about the great talks on medieval and early modern Canterbury and iconoclasm blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...

While the British Library is still working hard to restore their online resources, our latest additions to our 'Alternative Routes to the British Library Collections' list may be of some help. www.memslib.co.uk/finding-manu...

If you know of a catalogue that should be included, please contact us here: www.memslib.co.uk/contact 

We wish you all the best in your research!

Take a look at our BRAND NEW page. While the British Library is working hard to restore its online resources, our handy list, 'Alternative Routes to the British Library Collections' can help bridge the gap! 
www.memslib.co.uk/finding-manu...

Have you needed to consult a
British Library manuscript catalogue in the aftermath of the cyber-attack? Our new resource list might be just the thing you need!
www.memslib.co.uk/post/researc...

MEMSLib is making headlines! Take a look at the latest MEMS News blog to find out more about the new MEMSLib team and what we have been working on! blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...

Research Rolls on Despite Cyber-Attack! The worst days of COVID19 may be a bad memory now but a lockdown library still has its uses. The dangers to out way of living come not just from a deadly virus, as has been shown by the cyber-attack o...

This is incredibly useful from the amazing @memsunikent.bsky.social graduate students who run @memslibukc.bsky.social - a listing of British Library manuscript catalogues you can access, even in the aftermath of the cyber attack:
www.memslib.co.uk/post/researc...
Thank you, @memslibukc.bsky.social!

We are excited to see what Amilia, Cristina, Emily and Rebecca have in store for MEMSLib! Stay tuned for some updates very soon👀

Check out all the bios for past and present team members here: www.memslib.co.uk/about

from c.1614-c.1621. She graduated with Distinction from the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies MA at Kent (2022), for which she was awarded a "Tomorrow's World" Excellence Scholarship. Amilia is also Branch Secretary for the Canterbury Historical Association.

Finally, we are pleased that Amilia will also be continuing to work on MEMSLib! Amilia is a second-year PhD student at the University of Kent, supervised by Professor Kenneth Fincham. Amilia's PhD analyses contemporary perceptions of scandal and corruption at the Jacobean Court [Cont.]

she is interested in anything and everything to do with the fourteenth century, particularly how that tumultuous time period affected England’s peasants.

She is beyond thrilled to be pursuing her MA with MEMS in England’s cradle of medieval history! Having written her undergraduate dissertation on The Great Bovine Pestilence, [Cont.]

A very warm welcome to Rebecca! After a career in broadcast journalism that spanned more than three decades, Rebecca returned to the classroom and earned her bachelor’s degree in history from Southern Utah University (U.S.) in 2022. [Cont.]

During that time, she also worked as a Spanish tutor and developed a webcomic using her background in freelance illustration. Currently, she is a Masters students at the University of Kent.

We are delighted that Cristina will be continuing as a member of the team! Cristina graduated in English with an Emphasis in Creative Writing and a minor in Spanish at Colorado State University-Pueblo (2019-22), having taken a class on Chaucer and another on History of British Literature. [Cont.]

and Medieval English towns and Cathedral cities.

and popular literature. Now, after a short break from academia, she is thrilled to be completing an MA in MEMS in her native city of Canterbury. Among her interests are premodern understandings of neurodivergence; Shakespeare’s connections with Early Modern Denmark; [Cont.]

We are excited to welcome Emily to the MEMSLib team! Emily graduated from the University of Exeter in 2019 with a First Class BA in English Literature. Her undergraduate research culminated in a dissertation on portrayals of petty treason and its consequences in Early Modern drama [Cont.]

We say goodbye to Fay West, and we'd like to thank her for the great work that she did for MEMSLib.

Say hello to the new members of the team: Emily Allison and Rebecca Gaylord! Emily and Rebecca will be joined by some familiar faces, Cristina Alvarez Ortiz and Amilia Gillies.

Hear ye, hear ye! MEMSLib is entering a new era! 

Meet the new (and not so new) members of the team!

MEMS Library MEMSlib is an initiative of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent. This is a space where students and researchers can share their research interests and loo...

Delighted to see that, as well as Kent's vibrant Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, @memsunikent.bsky.social, the wonderful MEMSLib, curated by some of the doctoral and Masters students, has made it here as @memslibukc.bsky.social. If you have not seen it, do visit www.memslib.co.uk