IMEMS Durham
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Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: a home for innovative interdisciplinary research from the medieval to the early modern in a World Heritage Site.
Feuding neighbours, adultery, defamation, witchcraft...👀 welcome to the wonderful world of Early Modern Church Court Records! ✒️
Learn to decipher these important historical texts and unlock unrivalled insight into Early Modern life, online and at your own pace: imemsdurhamlearn.com/working-with...
Learn to decipher these important historical texts and unlock unrivalled insight into Early Modern life, online and at your own pace: imemsdurhamlearn.com/working-with...
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Feuding neighbours, adultery, defamation, witchcraft...👀 welcome to the wonderful world of Early Modern Church Court Records! ✒️
Learn to decipher these important historical texts and unlock unrivalled insight into Early Modern life, online and at your own pace: imemsdurhamlearn.com/working-with...
Learn to decipher these important historical texts and unlock unrivalled insight into Early Modern life, online and at your own pace: imemsdurhamlearn.com/working-with...
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📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓
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October 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓
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November To-Do List 🐗📆
- Thrash acorns
- Fatten pigs
- Book the new online short course from IMEMS: imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev...
Learn about Books of Hours, the labour of the months and the history and manuscripts of the Medieval Latin Bible in our flexible 1-week online course!
- Thrash acorns
- Fatten pigs
- Book the new online short course from IMEMS: imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev...
Learn about Books of Hours, the labour of the months and the history and manuscripts of the Medieval Latin Bible in our flexible 1-week online course!
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
November To-Do List 🐗📆
- Thrash acorns
- Fatten pigs
- Book the new online short course from IMEMS: imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev...
Learn about Books of Hours, the labour of the months and the history and manuscripts of the Medieval Latin Bible in our flexible 1-week online course!
- Thrash acorns
- Fatten pigs
- Book the new online short course from IMEMS: imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev...
Learn about Books of Hours, the labour of the months and the history and manuscripts of the Medieval Latin Bible in our flexible 1-week online course!
Congrats to IMEMS Barker Senior Research Fellow Tom Hamilton, whose book, A Widow's Vengeance @oxfordunipress.bsky.social, has won the #NatalieZemonDavis Prize! 🎓
Read more about the book: academic.oup.com/book/55732/c...
Learn about Tom's work with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/.../forging-...
Read more about the book: academic.oup.com/book/55732/c...
Learn about Tom's work with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/.../forging-...
Preface
As a historian of the religious wars that caused such violence and disorder in sixteenth-century France, I was drawn to work with criminal archives by the
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November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Congrats to IMEMS Barker Senior Research Fellow Tom Hamilton, whose book, A Widow's Vengeance @oxfordunipress.bsky.social, has won the #NatalieZemonDavis Prize! 🎓
Read more about the book: academic.oup.com/book/55732/c...
Learn about Tom's work with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/.../forging-...
Read more about the book: academic.oup.com/book/55732/c...
Learn about Tom's work with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/.../forging-...
Thinking of applying for Durham University's MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)? Click here to book onto a session to hear more about it! 👇🎓
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November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Thinking of applying for Durham University's MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)? Click here to book onto a session to hear more about it! 👇🎓
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So excited to see this one almost out there! 🎉🎉🎉
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Our NEW online short course is launching soon! Learn essential skills for working with Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours 💻
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Studying with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Our NEW online short course is launching soon! Learn essential skills for working with Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours 💻
Sign up to the mailing list to hear more: mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d...
Studying with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
So excited to see this one almost out there! 🎉🎉🎉
Know someone who works with early modern Church Court Records? 📖💻
Our online course is designed to help researchers, librarians, curators and students get the most from these fascinating early modern documents.
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Our online course is designed to help researchers, librarians, curators and students get the most from these fascinating early modern documents.
Sign up to the mailing list: ✉https://mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d/imems-signup
November 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Know someone who works with early modern Church Court Records? 📖💻
Our online course is designed to help researchers, librarians, curators and students get the most from these fascinating early modern documents.
Sign up to the mailing list: ✉https://mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d/imems-signup
Our online course is designed to help researchers, librarians, curators and students get the most from these fascinating early modern documents.
Sign up to the mailing list: ✉https://mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d/imems-signup
📢 Share, share share!
Our NEW online short course is launching soon! Learn essential skills for working with Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours 💻
Sign up to the mailing list to hear more: mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d...
Studying with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Our NEW online short course is launching soon! Learn essential skills for working with Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours 💻
Sign up to the mailing list to hear more: mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d...
Studying with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
📢 Share, share share!
Our NEW online short course is launching soon! Learn essential skills for working with Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours 💻
Sign up to the mailing list to hear more: mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d...
Studying with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Our NEW online short course is launching soon! Learn essential skills for working with Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours 💻
Sign up to the mailing list to hear more: mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d...
Studying with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
For those attending the North American Conference on British Studies, our Honorary Fellow Professor Anne Thayer will be presenting tomorrow, Saturday, Nov 15, at 3:15 pm (Eastern time)!
November 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
For those attending the North American Conference on British Studies, our Honorary Fellow Professor Anne Thayer will be presenting tomorrow, Saturday, Nov 15, at 3:15 pm (Eastern time)!
The group also visited the University of Macau (澳門大學), meeting colleagues in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities to discuss shared interests in and further collaborations in transcultural East-West research. 🌏 (2/2)
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The group also visited the University of Macau (澳門大學), meeting colleagues in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities to discuss shared interests in and further collaborations in transcultural East-West research. 🌏 (2/2)
This week, our Director Richard Scholar, along with
@durham.ac.uk Vice Chancellor Karen O'Brien and Director of Philanthropy and Operations, Katie Harland-Edminson, visited Macao, a Renaissance city in East Asia, home to the 17th-century Ruins of Saint Paul's. (1/2)
@durham.ac.uk Vice Chancellor Karen O'Brien and Director of Philanthropy and Operations, Katie Harland-Edminson, visited Macao, a Renaissance city in East Asia, home to the 17th-century Ruins of Saint Paul's. (1/2)
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This week, our Director Richard Scholar, along with
@durham.ac.uk Vice Chancellor Karen O'Brien and Director of Philanthropy and Operations, Katie Harland-Edminson, visited Macao, a Renaissance city in East Asia, home to the 17th-century Ruins of Saint Paul's. (1/2)
@durham.ac.uk Vice Chancellor Karen O'Brien and Director of Philanthropy and Operations, Katie Harland-Edminson, visited Macao, a Renaissance city in East Asia, home to the 17th-century Ruins of Saint Paul's. (1/2)
Introducing another publication from the IMEMS Press with @boydellbrewer 📚
The first complete, scholarly edition of Curiosa Americana, offering transcriptions and annotations that illuminate Mather’s contributions to natural philosophy.
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The first complete, scholarly edition of Curiosa Americana, offering transcriptions and annotations that illuminate Mather’s contributions to natural philosophy.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/cotton-...
November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Introducing another publication from the IMEMS Press with @boydellbrewer 📚
The first complete, scholarly edition of Curiosa Americana, offering transcriptions and annotations that illuminate Mather’s contributions to natural philosophy.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/cotton-...
The first complete, scholarly edition of Curiosa Americana, offering transcriptions and annotations that illuminate Mather’s contributions to natural philosophy.
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/cotton-...
Last month we were delighted to host Memory Club, part of @universitypress.cambridge.org's Memories Come Alive project.🧠
Read more here: www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/mem...
Take the Memories Come Alive survey here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Read more here: www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/mem...
Take the Memories Come Alive survey here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Sixth Meeting of Memory Club – When Memories Come Alive
The sixth meeting of Memory Club took place in Durham, with the generous support of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Last month we were delighted to host Memory Club, part of @universitypress.cambridge.org's Memories Come Alive project.🧠
Read more here: www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/mem...
Take the Memories Come Alive survey here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Read more here: www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/mem...
Take the Memories Come Alive survey here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Two funded PhDs here as part of the Inventing Futures programme at IMEMS! One on the project Utopia in the World and the other on the project Framing Gendered Violence, lead supervisors Richard Scholar and Ita Mac Carthy in Modern Languages and Cultures, details via the link...
📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓
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October 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Two funded PhDs here as part of the Inventing Futures programme at IMEMS! One on the project Utopia in the World and the other on the project Framing Gendered Violence, lead supervisors Richard Scholar and Ita Mac Carthy in Modern Languages and Cultures, details via the link...
A perfect pumpkin 🎃 from a collection of drawings of Chinese flowers, plants and fruits held at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 5292
October 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A perfect pumpkin 🎃 from a collection of drawings of Chinese flowers, plants and fruits held at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 5292
📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
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To mark the annual @16csociety.bsky.social conference, there is 50% off and free shipping on all the books so far published in the series. Enter the code BB151 here: boydellandbrewer.com/books/series... #skystorians #Jesuits #nuntastic #Inquisition @imems.bsky.social @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
To mark the annual @16csociety.bsky.social conference, there is 50% off and free shipping on all the books so far published in the series. Enter the code BB151 here: boydellandbrewer.com/books/series... #skystorians #Jesuits #nuntastic #Inquisition @imems.bsky.social @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
Attending the #SixteenthCenturyConference in Portland later this week?
Our honorary fellow, Professor Anne Thayer, is presenting "From Personal to Communal?: Direct Address in the Marginalia of Thomas Swalwell" at 8.30am (Pacific Time) on Saturday 1 November. #ThomasSwalwell #Marginalia
Our honorary fellow, Professor Anne Thayer, is presenting "From Personal to Communal?: Direct Address in the Marginalia of Thomas Swalwell" at 8.30am (Pacific Time) on Saturday 1 November. #ThomasSwalwell #Marginalia
VMX
Virtual Meeting Experience
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October 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Attending the #SixteenthCenturyConference in Portland later this week?
Our honorary fellow, Professor Anne Thayer, is presenting "From Personal to Communal?: Direct Address in the Marginalia of Thomas Swalwell" at 8.30am (Pacific Time) on Saturday 1 November. #ThomasSwalwell #Marginalia
Our honorary fellow, Professor Anne Thayer, is presenting "From Personal to Communal?: Direct Address in the Marginalia of Thomas Swalwell" at 8.30am (Pacific Time) on Saturday 1 November. #ThomasSwalwell #Marginalia
Today, we're shining the #IMEMSSpotlight on Professor Emily Williams and her work on African American tombstones for #BlackHistoryMonth.
Read more about Emily's research here: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/emily-...
Read more about Emily's research here: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/emily-...
October 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Today, we're shining the #IMEMSSpotlight on Professor Emily Williams and her work on African American tombstones for #BlackHistoryMonth.
Read more about Emily's research here: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/emily-...
Read more about Emily's research here: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/emily-...
Congratulations to IMEMS member and short course tutor Dr Arnold Hunt, whose article on circumcision in the English Protestant Imaginary has been published in the latest issue of Reformation! Read online: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Bloody Work: Circumcision in the English Protestant Imaginary
Circumcision occupied a paradoxical position in early modern Protestant thought. As one of the ceremonies of the Jewish law which had been abolished with the coming of Christ, it was no longer bind...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Congratulations to IMEMS member and short course tutor Dr Arnold Hunt, whose article on circumcision in the English Protestant Imaginary has been published in the latest issue of Reformation! Read online: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🎉Another exciting publication!
IMEMS Director Ita Mac Carthy's essay 'Icons in Time: Ariosto’s Orlando furioso and Chivalric Literature through the Ages' appears in The Oxford Handbook of Italian Literature, now available to read online: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
IMEMS Director Ita Mac Carthy's essay 'Icons in Time: Ariosto’s Orlando furioso and Chivalric Literature through the Ages' appears in The Oxford Handbook of Italian Literature, now available to read online: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
Icons in Time: Ariosto’s Orlando furioso and Chivalric Literature through the Ages
AbstractFor five centuries, Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso has enjoyed the status of literary icon. Traversing space and time, it has traveled within a
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October 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🎉Another exciting publication!
IMEMS Director Ita Mac Carthy's essay 'Icons in Time: Ariosto’s Orlando furioso and Chivalric Literature through the Ages' appears in The Oxford Handbook of Italian Literature, now available to read online: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
IMEMS Director Ita Mac Carthy's essay 'Icons in Time: Ariosto’s Orlando furioso and Chivalric Literature through the Ages' appears in The Oxford Handbook of Italian Literature, now available to read online: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
We're excited to be collaborating with
@durhamhistory.bsky.social
for a thought-provoking discussion with Dr Nicole Phillip-Dowe of the University of the West Indies this afternoon at IMEMS! #BeUWI 💭🌎
@durhamhistory.bsky.social
for a thought-provoking discussion with Dr Nicole Phillip-Dowe of the University of the West Indies this afternoon at IMEMS! #BeUWI 💭🌎
October 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
We're excited to be collaborating with
@durhamhistory.bsky.social
for a thought-provoking discussion with Dr Nicole Phillip-Dowe of the University of the West Indies this afternoon at IMEMS! #BeUWI 💭🌎
@durhamhistory.bsky.social
for a thought-provoking discussion with Dr Nicole Phillip-Dowe of the University of the West Indies this afternoon at IMEMS! #BeUWI 💭🌎
📢 Fully Funded PhD Opportunities The Times University of the Year Durham University's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies📢
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🌎Imagining Alternatives www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
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October 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
📢 Fully Funded PhD Opportunities The Times University of the Year Durham University's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies📢
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🎨Daphne and Her Sisters www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
🌎Imagining Alternatives www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
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Happy Diwali to all our members who celebrate! 🎇
This week, our IMEMS bulletin featured the gorgeous late 18th-century painting 'Radha and Krishna watching fireworks in the night sky' by the Kishangarh painter Sitaram.
💻Read more here: artsandculture.google.com/asset/radha-...
This week, our IMEMS bulletin featured the gorgeous late 18th-century painting 'Radha and Krishna watching fireworks in the night sky' by the Kishangarh painter Sitaram.
💻Read more here: artsandculture.google.com/asset/radha-...
October 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Happy Diwali to all our members who celebrate! 🎇
This week, our IMEMS bulletin featured the gorgeous late 18th-century painting 'Radha and Krishna watching fireworks in the night sky' by the Kishangarh painter Sitaram.
💻Read more here: artsandculture.google.com/asset/radha-...
This week, our IMEMS bulletin featured the gorgeous late 18th-century painting 'Radha and Krishna watching fireworks in the night sky' by the Kishangarh painter Sitaram.
💻Read more here: artsandculture.google.com/asset/radha-...
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The Black Italian Renaissance is a critically acclaimed documentary that examines the presence of Black people in the Italian Renaissance and their contribution to its development and significance.
Join us for a screening & discussion: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Join us for a screening & discussion: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Black Italian Renaissance - Screening & Discussion
Screening of the film The Black Italian Renaissance and discussion with Angelica Pesarini (Toronto), Kate Lowe (Warburg) and Francesca Priori (Milan)
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October 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The Black Italian Renaissance is a critically acclaimed documentary that examines the presence of Black people in the Italian Renaissance and their contribution to its development and significance.
Join us for a screening & discussion: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Join us for a screening & discussion: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...