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The University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies hosts one of the largest interdisciplinary medieval studies programs in the world. https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/
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Friday, December 5, at 4 pm, Rita Copeland will be presenting "Politics, Ethics, Style: Why Giles of Rome’s 'De regimine principum'?" at the Annual Bennett Lecture.

Join us in person at Alumni Hall (400), or register to receive a Zoom link to attend virtually.
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Did you miss our Open House for prospective MA and PhD Students? You can now watch online! Tune in to presentations from our Faculty, Students, and Alumni, and follow the Q&A for in-depth answers to frequently asked questions.
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Virtual Open House - November 6, 2025
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November 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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From the current issue: “Needed but Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490–1525”

by Judith M. Bennett (@usc.edu)

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Needed But Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490–1525*
Abstract. Late medieval Coventry attracted so many in-migrating singlewomen that it might have seemed a city of women — for every ten women, only seven men
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November 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Read Sebastian Sobecki's "Unveiling the Premodern World through the Lens of Global Travel Writing" for the Cambridge University Press (@universitypress.cambridge.org) blog.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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On December 2, attend Ruba Kana’an's online lecture, "Iconography of a 1526 Painting from Safavid Tabriz".

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Iconography of a 1526 Painting from Safavid Tabriz | Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies presents: Picturing Polemics: Iconography of a 1526 Painting from Safavid Tabriz Ruba Kana’an, University of Toronto Tuesday, December 2, 202...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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The @medievalacademy.bsky.social Leyerle-CARA Prize supports the research of an MAA member who needs to consult materials available at the University of Toronto. This includes all it collections, including the vast network of U of T Libraries. Apply by January 31!
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November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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The deadline is approaching for applications to Rare Book School’s 𝗠. 𝗖. 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀. Apply by 11:59 p.m. ET on 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟳 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱.

For details, visit rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/lang
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November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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New Alumni Articles! @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social Vol 269 #1 includes "Needed But Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490–1525" by Judith M Bennett, and "The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney" by Miles Pattenden and Michael D Barbezat. bit.ly/4iCoCvT
Volume 269 Issue 1 | Past & Present | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the Past and Present Society. Publishes original scholarly articles on historical, social and cultural change in all parts of the world, examining particular problems and perio...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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8/ “The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney”

by Miles Pattenden (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social) and Michael Barbezat (Australian Catholic University)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...
The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney*
Abstract. This article explains how the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of radical queer nuns, created gay ‘religious relics’ in San Francisco and
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November 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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This week on The Medieval Podcast with @5minmedievalist.bsky.social : The Medieval Moon with @ayoushlazikani.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/11/the-... #medieval #moon
The Medieval Moon with Ayoush Lazikani - Medievalists.net
This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Ayoush Lazikani about what – and who – medieval people across the world believed the moon to be.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Friday, December 5, at 4 pm, Rita Copeland will be presenting "Politics, Ethics, Style: Why Giles of Rome’s 'De regimine principum'?" at the Annual Bennett Lecture.

Join us in person at Alumni Hall (400), or register to receive a Zoom link to attend virtually.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Congratulations to Walid Saleh, who has been elected Vice President of the American Academy of Religion.
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Walid Saleh elected Vice President of the American Academy of Religion
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November 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The Special Issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Orosius Through the Ages, is out!!

Co-edited with Elisabeth Manzo & Cameron Wachowich, on the boil since 2019, we're so pleased with the final output. Both Dr M. & Dr W. have completed their PhDs since then too!
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November 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Read the latest issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies on Orosius Through The Ages academic.oup.com/bics/issue/6...
November 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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A new essay prize for Department of History students celebrates the legacy of world-renowned scholar Natalie Zemon Davis.

Learn more: www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/essay-p...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Check out my new single "Interesting Times" distributed by #DistroKid and live on Deezer! www.deezer.com/album/842105...
Interesting Times
Mark Sundaram - album - 2025 - 1 song
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November 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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TOMORROW: "From Photographing Life to Saving Souls After Death: A Workshop with Nicole Liao and Ariana Sider Mésenge"
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November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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I had a lot of fun writing this piece for @psyche.co, which just reminded me that people have always had to deal with criticism from others -- and the key is to be creative about how you deal with your haters.

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Get medieval on your haters: lessons from Beowulf and Chaucer | Psyche Ideas
When your reputation is at stake, get medieval on your haters: lessons from Beowulf, Margery Kempe and Geoffrey Chaucer
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November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Calling anyone interested in saints, sanctity, and the weird and wonderful world of primary sources outside the conventional hagiography form! ❤️‍🔥
New Workshop Series: Call for Participants Saints Outside Hagiography We invite expressions of interest to participate in a new series of online workshops examining how saints and holy people are represented outside the classic form of the single-text hagiography, what Thomas J. Heffernan calls the ‘sacred biography’. This group aims to bring together scholars interested in saints and sanctity across global history and culture, to explore how they are constructed in other forms—poetry, visual art, sermons, letters, monuments, drama, chronicles, liturgy, objects, didactic literature, and others—in an informal, work-in-progress format focused on discussion of primary sources from any historical period. We envision each meeting consisting of 1-2 brief presentations, with the text or object and a short description or summary (max 500 words) circulated in advance along with one or two questions for discussion. If you have a historical source or item related to sanctity that you would like to bring to an interdisciplinary forum, please get in touch with Laura Moncion (laura.moncion@philosophie.uni-tuebingen.de) and Alicia Smith (alicia.smith@uib.no) by 15 January 2026 with a brief description, your career stage and institutional affiliation if any. Guidelines: • The chronological and geographical scope is intentionally open. We are happy to receive proposals that argue for definitions of saint / sanctity outside the mainstream. • Speakers are free to contest whether a text is ‘outside hagiography’ or ‘not a classic hagiography’—the goal is to study saints and the construction of saint/sanctity beyond canonical textual forms, including troubling our understanding of those forms. • If your source is not in English, you will need to include an English translation.
November 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Laura Moncion and I are organising an online workshop series and we want to know about your work in progress on relics, sermons, liturgies, tokens, monuments and more... Submit a proposal by the 15th Jan 2026 to get involved.
November 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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📃 Read CMS PhD Candidate Eva Plesnik's "‘Why Did You Go to Buda?’: The Humanist Sodality and Mantuan’s Rustic Idyll in Bohuslaus of Hassenstein’s 'Ecloga sive Idyllion Budae' (1503)" in 'Renaissance Studies'.
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‘Why Did You Go to Buda?’: The Humanist Sodality and Mantuan’s Rustic Idyll in Bohuslaus of Hassenstein’s Ecloga sive Idyllion Budae (1503)☆
In the late fifteenth century, the Hungarian royal court at Buda was home to a cosmopolitan community of humanists. In early modern historiography, this cultural milieu has often been interpreted as ...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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📃 Read "Tolkien's Elegiac Trees: 'Enta Geweorc' and the Ents Across Time" by CMS / Woodsworth's Alexandra Bolintineanu in 'Tolkien Studies' Volume 21.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Congratulations to CMS Alum, Joseph Eska, (Virginia Tech English) who was awarded a Jacob A. Lutz III Award for Eminent Scholars. 👏
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Three faculty members recognized with 2025 Jacob A. Lutz III Award for Eminent Scholars
Walid Saad, Joseph Eska, and Robert Gourdie, whose work spans wireless communications to Celtic linguistics to cardiac biology, were honored during the university's annual research awards ceremony, Ce...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Are you a medieval maker? Or know someone who is? Email [email protected] for a chance to be featured in my holiday gift guide!
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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🎙️ Listen to Jon McGinnis (Philosophy / CMS) discuss Ibn Sina’s views of divine and human freedom on The Free Will Show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO4L...
Episode 107: Ibn Sina with Jon McGinnis
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November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Save the Date: November 18 - "From Photographing Life to Saving Souls After Death": A Workshop with Nicole Liao and Ariana Sider Mésenge at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
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From Photographing Life to Saving Souls After Death: A Workshop with Nicole Liao and Ariana Sider Mésenge | The Munk School
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November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM