How to Get the Journal. We are delighted to announce that the Winner of the 2017 Essay Prize is. In Latin Commentaries, Glosses and Variant Texts. About the Essay Prize, and Past Winners. To Sat, 7 Apr.

Mobility and Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. A two-day interdisciplinary conference at the University of Oxford, 23-24 June 2017. In focusing on these issues, the conference also intends to relate to current social challenges. The conference brought together both early career and more established scholars from six humanities disciplines and over a dozen different countries. It featured a total of 20 papers and 2 keynote speeches, which were given by Dr Mario Damen.

Saturday 21 October, 2017. How did medieval individuals and communities engage with those around them, both locally and further afield? In what ways did textual, performative and interpretative practices serve to police, challenge or re-negotiate these relationships? And where were distinctions between neighbours and strangers unstable, ambiguous or malleable? Create a free website or blog at WordPress.

The Reading of History in High Medieval Europe. 28th-30th June 2017, Aberystwyth. The use of the past as an expression of identity. The representation and interpretation of political power through reconstructions of the past. The influence of classical and early medieval intellectual, literary, and rhetorical traditions.