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Thank you to everyone who came along to the CMEMS Welcome event for the 2026/7 academic year! It was wonderful to see so many new and returning faces from across the University🍷

Please join us for the Edinburgh University CMEMS Welcome Event! 

22nd September 5pm at the Centre for Research Collections (Main Library Floor 6) Anyone interested in the activities of CMEMS is welcome! There will be drinks, nibbles and a viewing of items from the CRC’s fantastic collection...

Please join us for the Edinburgh University CMEMS Welcome Event! 

22nd September 5pm at the Centre for Research Collections (Main Library Floor 6) Anyone interested in the activities of CMEMS is welcome! There will be drinks, nibbles and a viewing of items from the CRC’s fantastic collection...

New term, new title… We are now the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS)! Socials have been updated to cmemsedinburgh across platforms We’re really looking forward to an exciting programme for the year ahead so stay tuned for updates!

Great to see the new @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social programme is out hca.ed.ac.uk/centre-medie... (including a couple of medieval reading group tbcs - Edinburgh people, let me know if you have suggestions!)

Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies Seminars | Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies | History Classics and Archaeology

The Centre hosts a seminar series which takes place throughout the academic year and is open to staff, students and the general public

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📅 Join us tomorrow for the CMRS seminar where we welcome @williampurkis.bsky.social (University of Birmingham): Portals to Holy Places: Relics, Round Churches, and the Reshaping of the Crusading Ideal 5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square All welcome!

📆 ⚔️Join us tomorrow for the CMRS Seminar where we will welcome Benjamin Raffield (University of Uppsala): 'Making a Warrior: Exploring the Martial Cultures of the Viking Age' 5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square All welcome!

👏 Great to hear Louise Gardiner talking about MS183 at the CMRS seminar, hosted in the CRC, yesterday. Thanks to everyone for coming!

Our second PG Symposium is coming up on 30 March! Join us online to explore more about 'Theories, Frameworks and Concepts' in #ChurchHistory. If you would like to attend, please email Michael Fraser (mcf24@st-andrews.ac.uk). ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/pg-symposium...

📖Join us on Tue 24 Feb for the next CMRS Seminar by our very own Louise Gardiner: 'Royal Correspondence in Late Fourteenth-Century England: Exploring the ‘Royal Letter Book’ (Edinburgh University Library Ms. 183)' 5:15, Centre for Research Collections (6th floor, Edinburgh University main Library)

Despite Scots weather (medieval), past and present @durhammemsa.bsky.social members @areforbes.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social swelled @medievaljay.bsky.social's merry band for tonight's talk @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social. Well worth the trip, which did not disappoint the Indiana Jones setup.

Next week we will be running a roundtable on 'Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland', co-organised by with the Scottish History Seminar. The event will take place on Tue 10 Feb, 5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square. All welcome!

📆Join us on Tuesday 3 Feb for the next CMRS seminar where @medievaljay.bsky.social will be giving a talk about 'Raiders of the Lost Patriarchs: Hebron and Crusader Jerusalem'. 5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square. Everyone welcome!

📆 Join us tomorrow for the CMRS seminar where Joanna Martin (University of Nottingham) will be giving a talk about 'Spaces and Places in Hary’s 'Wallace''. 5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square. Everyone welcome!

📢 ✌️ We're kicking off our event programme for this semester off with two CMRS sessions! 🎨 📜 First join us tomorrow as our own @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social discusses depictions of Judas in medieval art and literature. 📅 ➡️ Then later this week ...

Why starting 2026 with an #homicide? ⬇️ Have a read at our latest blog @artandinequality.bsky.social to find out about a mysterious #murder, an #inventory and forthcoming #projects and #publications for #ArtandInequality @glasgow.ac.uk #medievalsky ➡️ link: www.artandinequality.com/homicide-wit...

⏰The final @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social seminar of the semester is tomorrow! Thijs Kersten will discuss their research on singing as a form of protest in late antiquity. 📌Join the group at 17:10 in the Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5, Old Medical Building, followed by a social in Potterrow Dome.

LAMPS Edinburgh@lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social · last yr.

We're proud to present our seminar series for the new semester; alongside our regular postgraduate seminars, we will be hosting two manuscript workshops! We look forward to seeing postgraduate students new and old at our first seminar on Tuesday 30th September, which will be followed by drinks!

🪡 ⚔️ Tomorrow our final Renaissance Discussion Group of the year will review work from our own Jess Bailey, on what medieval quilt designs reveal about popular narratives of the time and wider considerations of gender. 📌⏰ Join us at 1pm in Room 3.32 of the Edinburgh Futures Institute to take part!

🔘 📖 The last of this semester's reading groups will be held tomorrow. ⬇️ 💬 Read the below article and join us at 5pm (in Room 1.26, Old Medical School, Doorway 4) to take part!

Charles West@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Looking forward to discussing academic.oup.com/past/advance... by @rorynaismith.bsky.social at the next @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social Medieval Reading Group on Tuesday...

So very grateful to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, Prof Carol Richardson, @kateai.bsky.social & everyone who came to talk about my new book with me yesterday evening 💖 and a wonderful flowery surprise from @starcrossed2018.bsky.social and @liederfollower.bsky.social ! 💐

🎨 In our final seminar of the semester, Neil McClelland joins us from @uofglasgow.bsky.social to discuss his ongoing doctoral research into the the history of art commissions from across the social strata from late medieval and early modern Naples.

🏙️ ⚖️ Today Andrew Simpson of @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social will join us to discuss one of Scotland’s oldest surviving legal texts, some elements of which are still echoed in modern Scots law.

There was moment I thought perhaps we had movement here, but the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social strike is on. You can read more about why here: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423... Please write and call your MSPs on Monday: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp

Edinburgh university staff back industrial action again in longstanding dispute over cuts and redundancies

Staff at the University of Edinburgh have today (Tuesday) backed industrial action for a second time in a longstanding dispute over £140million cuts, job losses and compulsory redundancies.

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🤝 ⛪ Tomorrow’s seminar will welcome Alejandro Pombo Rial from @usaloficial.bsky.social . Join us as he discusses his ongoing research into social contributions made by churches and monasteries to their local communities.

⚔️ 📜 The 'Venetias' is an epic poem describing a period of conflict between Venice and the Holy Roman Empire. @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 's own Luke Houghton will join tomorrow's group, drawing on his knowledge of Neo-Latin literature to discuss some of the distinct features of this work.

🐏 👨‍👨 @nicolemaceira.bsky.social will join us this week to discuss contrasting depictions of animals and humans in post-Reformation thought, and their importance in the development of the Reformed faith in Scotland.

⚔️ 💬 Join us tomorrow for a discussion of Lyndal Roper's recent article, which explores the relationship between emotional cycles and and the development of revolutions, set against the backdrop of Western Europe' largest popular uprising before the French Revolution. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

One week to go! Professor Lucy Grig - Professor of the History of Late Antiquity - gives her inaugural lecture on 'A slow history of Late Antiquity'. Tickets (free): edin.ac/4p2Ot2R #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh

👑 Join us this Thursday as we welcome Alex Woolf from @standrewshist.bsky.social, who’ll be discussing with us the development of Scotland’s early history.