Katy Bennett

Call for Papers for the 10th Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar: Durham University, 12-13 December 2025 Image: Jardin d'amour à la cour de Philippe le bon, duc de Bourgogne, Musée de Versailles Tradition and Innovation For the tenth meeting of the Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar (Durham, 2025), we invite proposals for 20-minute papers on the theme of Tradition and Innovation. We would welcome any explorations of this theme based on original research on France and/or Burgundy between c.1250 and c.1500, or which reflect on developments in modern scholarship relating to these territories, in any field, including history, art, literature, languages and music. Papers might examine (but are not limited to considering):  Major shifts in politics, society, culture, literature, art or music within the Franco-Burgundian lands during the late Middle Ages.  The durability of established practices and structures in these regions.  Old and new approaches in historiography looking back at late medieval France/ Burgundy – including new approaches to ‘English Frances’ and ‘Lordship and the Decentralised State’.  Continuity and change in textual analysis and other scholarship relating to late medieval France/Burgundy. We would particularly welcome submissions from postgraduates and early career researchers, as well as scholars at any stage in their research. The deadline for paper proposals (of around 100 words) is 31 October. Please send proposals/queries to Professor Graeme Small (g.p.small@durham.ac.uk) and Dr Andrew Green (admgreen7@gmail.com).

A reminder that there's about a week left to pitch your paper for this year's interdisciplinary Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar, the loveliest event of its kind, at Durham in mid-December! There's a great (and non-exclusive) theme, and it's lots of fun for ECRs and senior scholars alike!

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For the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, 1066, here is thread on why 'who was the rightful king?' is the wrong question to ask, why we don't know the complete story and why that makes things more interesting. 1/ #medievalsky #skystorians #historyedu #historyteachers

The ‘Loyalty in the Medieval World’ network welcomes proposals which explore the intersections between the concept of ‘loyalty’ and the IMC 2026 theme of ‘temporalities’. Was there a shift in how the concept of loyalty was used and perceived by people across the Middle Ages? To what extent, if at all, were bonds of loyalty an archaic predecessor to the coercive potential of a centralising medieval ‘state’? How did the language (e.g. treue, fides, leal), theories, and practices of loyalty change or stay the same in the medieval period? What can the study of loyalty do for the historian of medieval political society? Submissions could reflect on: • Emotional frameworks of loyalty • Political frameworks of loyalty • Ethical and legal frameworks of loyalty • The theory and practice of loyal behaviour • Loyalty and identity • Loyalty and power • Horizontal loyalties and solidarities • The material culture of loyalty • Contested and/or multiple loyalties • Disloyalty. We particularly welcome abstrats which explore who is 'left out' from traditional scholarly frameworks of loyalty, such as women, children, exiles, and migrants. Please send a paper title, affiliation, and abstract of up to 150 words to Eleanor Bailey ejbailey98@outlook.com, Katy Bennett katy.bennett@york.ac.uk, AND Jenny McHugh j.mchugh@lancaster.ac.uk. Deadline 15th September.

And speaking of exciting work, exactly one week left to submit to our strand on Loyalty for IMC 2026! We already have some brilliant papers lined up and would be especially keen to hear from ECRs and those working on underrepresented aspects of loyalty #CfP #medievalsky

Back to the thesis after an enjoyable few days at the Fifteenth Century Conference in Durham last week! Always nice to step out of the bubble and be reminded of the exciting work going on in the field

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Just over 2 weeks left to apply to the Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers conference! It will take place in Oxford on April 20-21, 2026. We hope to provide bursaries to help with attendance. Email your abstracts to bordersboundariesbarriers[at]gmail[dot]com
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Just over two weeks left to send us your abstracts! #CfP #IMC2026 #medievalsky

And Open Access, too! 😁

Vacancy: the Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator - RHS The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and develop...

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We look to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £31,904 pro rata. Closing date Monday 8 September #Skystorians

The ‘Loyalty in the Medieval World’ network welcomes proposals which explore the intersections between the concept of ‘loyalty’ and the IMC 2026 theme of ‘temporalities’. Was there a shift in how the concept of loyalty was used and perceived by people across the Middle Ages? To what extent, if at all, were bonds of loyalty an archaic predecessor to the coercive potential of a centralising medieval ‘state’? How did the language (e.g. treue, fides, leal), theories, and practices of loyalty change or stay the same in the medieval period? What can the study of loyalty do for the historian of medieval political society? Submissions could reflect on: • Emotional frameworks of loyalty • Political frameworks of loyalty • Ethical and legal frameworks of loyalty • The theory and practice of loyal behaviour • Loyalty and identity • Loyalty and power • Horizontal loyalties and solidarities • The material culture of loyalty • Contested and/or multiple loyalties • Disloyalty , such as women, children, exiles, and migrants. Please send a paper title, affiliation, and abstract of up to 150 words to Eleanor Bailey ejbailey98@outlook.com, Katy Bennett katy.bennett@york.ac.uk, AND Jenny McHugh j.mchugh@lancaster.ac.uk. Deadline 15th September.

Call for Papers @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026 ‼️ The 'Loyalty in the Medieval World' network welcomes papers which explore the intersections between the concept of ‘loyalty’ and the conference theme of ‘temporalities’, c.500-1500! Get in touch by 15 September

CFP: Leeds IMC 2026
The Society for Fourteenth-Century Studies invites papers on any aspect of the long 14thC across the Plantagenet estates.
📅 6–9 July 2026
📨 Title + abstract by 31 Aug 2025
✉️ Laura.Tompkins@hrp.org.uk & dgreen@harlaxton.ac.uk

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For those at @imc-leeds.bsky.social, I’m part of what promises to be two great sessions on oaths, trust, and allegiance this afternoon, both in Esther Simpson LG.08. Looking forward to discussing all things allegiance!

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I'm constantly thinking about the fact that despite all the focus on 'impact', they don't seem to count the context in which we have the most impact of all: teaching students, and especially those from a wide range of backgrounds

Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.

I remember discovering and being v entertained by John II and John III Paston as an undergrad

Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers have become increasingly prominent themes in historical scholarship. There is, therefore, a pressing need to examine how these constructs have shaped the lived experiences of historically marginalised groups, as well as how they were perceived, defined, and engaged with by those groups. This conference seeks to reorient discussions around borders, boundaries, and barriers by foregrounding the experiences and perspectives of marginalised groups and considering how these divisions were perceived from the peripheries of societies. Rather than treating these concepts as abstract or solely geopolitical, we will explore the ways in which they have operated — both historically and historiographically — as tools of exclusion and differentiation. Organised by Natasha Jenman (University of Oxford), Naomi Reiter (QMUL), and Dean A. Irwin (University of Lincoln/OCHJS), the conference will focus on individuals, religious groups, social groups, societal constructions, and natural phenomena. Participants are invited to explore the role played by evolving borders, boundaries, and barriers in the medieval world as part of group identities; and how groups used them to their advantage. Likewise, it will consider the extent to which borders, boundaries and barriers have been imposed upon the medieval world by modern scholars. Possible topics for consideration include: • Legal jurisdictions • The natural and the supernatural worlds • Socio-economic strata • Ritual and religion • Space, time, and the environment • Gender and sexuality • Disability • Transgression, delinquency, and the grey middle space This conference adopts a broad chronological and geographical approach with submissions from all historically-related disciplines being welcome. The conference will take place on 20 and 21 April 2026 in Oxford. To submit, please send a title, abstract (c. 250 words), and a bio (c. 100 words) to: bordersboundariesbarriers@gmail.com.

I’m co-organising a medieval conference next year in Oxford! Please take a look at the CfP and consider submitting an abstract, by the 15th of September, to bordersboundariesbarriers@gmail.com. We hope to be able to provide funding to help cover expenses of attendance.
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Congratulations to Robyn Stewart who passed her viva yesterday. Robyn’s thesis “Harmonising the Word: A Textual and Philological Study of Iohannes Scottus Eriugena’s Gospel Quotations in the Periphyseon” was supervised by Mary Garrison, Thomas McLeish and Thomas O'Loughlin (Nottingham).

It's out! On Thursday, there was a book launch for this transformative study of how the Domesday Book was made. Astonishing that it has been possible to learn so much about something so apparently well-understood. @oxmedstud.bsky.social

A fab opportunity for #MedievalHistory students interested in the Medieval March and the Mortimer family. The Mortimer History Society have opened applications for their 2025 Student Bursary: 2 awards of £1,000!

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The @frenchhistory.bsky.social is recruiting another associate editor to join our team, with a preference for an 18th c or revolution specialist.
The journal team are a wonderful intellectual community behind loads of recent exciting initiatives 🗃️ frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/associate-ed...

The martyrdom of St Alban, the executioner's eyes popping out and falling to the ground after dealing the final blow. Cotton MS Nero D II, f. 39.

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Rethinking the aristocracy in Capetian France, 987–1328 Any analysis of medieval French society requires a detailed study of the aristocracy. Landowning elites were a dominant force in France throughout the Midd

The latest issue of French History is out now, a special issue on 'Rethinking the aristocracy in Capetian France, 987–1328' edited by Daniel Power doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

I think this is our first ever #medieval special issue @frenchhistory.bsky.social !

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✨ Viva Success ✨

Congratulations to @marisapmichaud.bsky.social for passing her viva last week! Completing the PhD is a huge achievement, and the massive efforts and dedication shown by the students that come through CMS are always inspiring.

Have been looking forward to this delivery, excited to get stuck into this after teaching prep is done this week!

Regional networks in revolt: opposition to the Valois in Gascony at the end of the Hundred Years’ War, c.1452–1453 Abstract. This article offers a reassessment of late medieval resistance to the Valois monarchy, through examining south-western France in the mid-fifteent

New in French History @frenchhistory.bsky.social, 'Regional networks in revolt: opposition to the Valois in Gascony at the end of the Hundred Years’ War, c.1452–1453', by Andrew Green academic.oup.com/fh/article-a...

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Looks like there's a two year postdoc going in Dublin for a legal historian (and/or historian of law? books?) in Medieval Irish Law on Prof. Fangzhe Qiu's "Fluid texts and scholars’ digests: (re)production of law in medieval Ireland" project, #medievalsky!!

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