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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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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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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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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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📃 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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Jack McCart awarded Dean’s Doctoral Excellence Scholarship on SGS News 🎉
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November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Latin America History Month Open House
Woodblock from "The Puerto Rican War Collection"
Tomorrow, October 31, Maclean Hunter Room, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto; 12pm-5pm
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October 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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The latest issue of "Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies" includes contributions by two CMS Students!
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October 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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BOOK LAUNCH: 📖 Join David Townsend online or in person at CMS for "Historical Fiction and Its Discontents," an introduction to and reading from his new book, "The Ram in the Thicket, A Novel of Medieval Norwich."
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October 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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The Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto is holding an Open House for prospective Students! Visit us in person on November 4 - or virtually via Zoom on Thursday, November 6 - to learn about MA and PhD programming directly from current students, faculty, and alumni!
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October 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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PhD Candidate, Jack McCart discovered an illumination predicting Toronto's big win! Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 78r depicts fans celebrating a Blue Jay! Go Jays Go! @torontobluejays.bsky.social
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October 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Friday, October 24: "Gaelic Ireland: Revising the Narrative with Archaeology and Digital Humanities" with Saint Louis University's Thomas J. Finan. Register now to attend in person or virtually via Zoom!
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October 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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👏 Congratulations to Lisa Cruikshank, PhD Candidate at CMS, who was awarded the Historical Studies Teaching Assistant Award from the Department of Historical Studies, UTM.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to Bard Swallow, who has successfully defended their thesis entitled "Formal Functions of Latin Poetry in Fourteenth-Century England," which studies the choices made by poets in the multilingual environment of late medieval England. 👏
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October 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Today! Graduate English Speaker Series talk by Marion Turner, J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at University of Oxford, "Premodern Fictionality: Aristotle, Ibn Rushd, Chaucer”.
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October 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Read the Hidden Stories Summer 2025 Newsletter!
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September 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Magnificent news: Brianna Daigneault has successfully defended her thesis entitled, "De homine et portentis: Humanising the Monster in the Early Medieval British Isles". Congratulations, Dr. Daigneault! 🎉
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/brianna...
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September 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Next Friday, September 26, Lisa Fagin Davis - @medievalacademy.bsky.social - presents "The Materiality of the Voynich Manuscript" at the CMS Convivium. Register to attend online or in person! www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/lisa-...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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premodernity.net/strong PLS, JHI, and the CRRS present
in a new translation from the 15th / 16th-century Welsh by Morgan Moore: THE STRONG MAN (and SOUL AND BODY)!
September 27 / 28 - Oxford Renaissance Faire; September 30-October 4 - Toronto (visit premodernity.net/strong for more details!)
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September 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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The September issue of the Chronica is now available! Read it online at uoft.me/bPG, or visit CMS to pick up a printed copy. Thank you to our wonderful contributors who have made Chronica IX an amazing publication!
Chronica cover. Title and images of grapes, leaves, vines.
September 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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September 30, 1 pm (EDT) - virtual book launch for Joanne Findon's "Bound and Free: Voices of Mortal and Otherworld Women in Medieval Irish"
All are welcome to attend this free virtual event. Advanced registration is required: uark.zoom.us/.../register....
poster with an image of a bronze figurine. CSANA Virtual Book Launch. Bound and Free: Voices of Mortal and Otherworld Women in Medieval Irish Literature" by Joanne Findon. With responses from Amy Mulligan of Notre Dame and Kristen Mills of University of Oslo. Tuesday, September 30 1 pm EDT. 6 pm BST.
September 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to Jacqueline Murray @jacquelinemurray.bsky.social, who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada!
Professor Murray is a CMS Alumna and Adjunct Professor, University Professor Emerita at @uofguelph.bsky.social, and Fellow at St. Michael's College. uoft.me/bNR
Jacqueline Murray. Citation reading; Jacqueline Murray’s intellectual creativity and impeccable scholarship have transformed the landscape of premodern European history. Her groundbreaking research in premodern sex, sexualities, genders and bodies has introduced innovative approaches to the study of medieval women and men and established the new research field of premodern men and masculinities. As a public humanist, she bridges her historical scholarship to explicate the premodern foundations of contemporary social issues and institutions.
September 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Many congratulations to our CMS Faculty who have received SSHRC Insight Grant Funding! Shami Ghosh, James Ginther, Riccardo Macchioro, Chris Nighman, Sebastian Sobecki (@sebsobecki.bsky.social), and Renée Trilling (@rrtrilling.bsky.social)!
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August 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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We are excited to welcome Sébastien Rossignol of Memorial University to open the 2025-26 Convivium series with his lecture, 'Tenere suam aquam equo modo': Understanding the Urbanized Energy Landscape of Medieval Silesia" on September 12! RSVP today to attend in person or virtually! uoft.me/bLL
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August 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to Alison Keith, Professor of Classics / CMS, and Director of the @jhievents.bsky.social, who was awarded the Sharon L. James Mentorship Award from the Women's Classical Caucus.
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Alison Keith's photo on a blue background. White text reading The WCC Sharon L. James Mentorship Award. Alison Keith. University of Toronto.
August 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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We're Hiring! The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity.
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August 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM