Our final seminar of the year will take place this Wednesday, 1 July, when we welcome Tom Lambert (Cambridge) to speak on 'The crisis of 1065 and mid-eleventh-century English politics'. All welcome! Please sign up at the link below. IHR, Wolfson NB.02, 5.30pm.

The crisis of 1065 and mid-eleventh-century English politics

Earlier Middle Ages Seminar

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We're back at the IHR this Wednesday, 17 June, when Victoria Ziegler (@uclarchaeology.bsky.social) will join us to speak on 'An alternative methodology for the study of urban development in early medieval London AD 850-1100'. Wolfson Room NB.02, 5.30pm. All welcome - please register in advance!

An alternative methodology for the study of urban development in early medieval London AD 850-1100

Earlier Middle Ages Seminar

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On Wednesday, we will be joined by Gerda Heydemann for a lecture organised in collaboration with @earliermiddleages.bsky.social, titled 'The Social Life of Carolingian Exegesis'. Sign up here to join us in person or online: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu....

A reminder that our next meeting is this Wednesday, 10 June, at 5.30pm, a lecture held in collaboration with @ghilondon.bsky.social: Gerda Heydemann (FU Berlin) joins us to speak on 'The Social Life of Carolingian Exegesis'. This will take place in the GHIL Building (17 Bloomsbury Square, WC1A 2NJ).

We're delighted to collaborate with @ghilondon.bsky.social for this event!

German Historical Institute London@ghilondon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join us next Wednesday, 10 June, for a lecture in cooperation with the Earlier Middle Ages Seminar (@earliermiddleages.bsky.social), Institute of Historical Research, given by Gerda Heydemann (Freie Universität Berlin ) on 'The Social Life of Carolingian Exegesis'! 1/5

Our next seminar will be this Wednesday, 20 May, with Hannah Boston (@hannah-boston.bsky.social) speaking to us on 'Charters and ideas of property in England, 1000-1200'. All welcome, but please register in advance as usual! IHR Wolfson Room NB.02, 5.30pm.

Charters and ideas of property in England, 1000-1200

Earlier Middle Ages Seminar

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Tomorrow brings our first meeting of the term, with James Burns (Leicester, @dosse-project.bsky.social) joining us to speak on 'Gregory of Tours and Slavery'. All welcome! 5.30pm, IHR Wolfson NB.02. Please register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Gregory of Tours and Slavery

Earlier Middle Ages Seminar

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The IHR Earlier Middle Ages seminar reconvenes in May, with another great line-up of papers for the term! #medievalsky

Our final seminar of the term takes place this Wednesday, 18 March, with Philip Wood, speaking on "The Church of the East in Abbasid Iraq (750-950). A second established religion?". 5.30pm, IHR Wolfson NB02. All welcome - please register in advance!👇

The Church of the East in Abbasid Iraq (750-950). A second established religion?

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Our next seminar will be this Wednesday 4 March with Niall Ó Súilleabháin (King's College London), speaking on 'Archives of Servitude in Post-Carolingian Francia'. All welcome - please register here! IHR Wolfson NB02, 5.30pm.

Archives of Servitude in Post-Carolingian Francia

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Tomorrow we are delighted to welcome Rebecca Thomas (Cardiff) to the Earlier Middle Ages seminar to speak on 'Hostages in Early Medieval Wales'. Weds, 18 Feb, 5.30pm, IHR Wolfson NB02. All welcome! #medievalsky

Hostages in Early Medieval Wales

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The next History of Liturgy Seminar is in London @ihr.bsky.social on Monday 16 Feb 17.30. The award-winning @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social on The Augustinian Friars & their Liturgical Cult of Saint Augustine. In-person (chat! drinks! people!) or online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #medievalsky

We're back this week, welcoming @rossbalzaretti.bsky.social to speak on 'Corteolona and Santa Cristina: the lives and afterlives of a Lombard “palace” and a “Lombard” monastery'. Weds 4 Feb, 5.30pm, IHR Wolfson NB.02. All welcome - please sign up in advance here!

Corteolona and Santa Cristina: the lives and afterlives of a Lombard “palace” and a “Lombard” monastery

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Today, Wed 21 Jan, @earliermiddleages.bsky.social, 17.30pm.

IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar@earliermiddleages.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our first seminar of 2026 will be this Wednesday at 5.30pm (IHR, Wolfson Room NB02), when we welcome @helengittos.bsky.social to speak on "Christianity before Conversion: The women who led the way". All welcome, please register in advance: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #medievalsky

Our first seminar of 2026 will be this Wednesday at 5.30pm (IHR, Wolfson Room NB02), when we welcome @helengittos.bsky.social to speak on "Christianity before Conversion: The women who led the way". All welcome, please register in advance: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #medievalsky

Christianity before Conversion: The women who led the way

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Happy new year! We're delighted to share our seminar schedule for Spring 2026. All events take place at the @ihr.bsky.social (Wolfson NB02) on Wednesdays at 5.30pm. All welcome - please sign up in advance here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

1 week to go until the final lecture in our autumn/winter series! Join us next week for a lecture by Stefan Esders (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) on 'Ethnicity and Legal Pluralism in the Early Middle Ages': www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu... #skystorians #medievalsky #medievalhistory

German Historical Institute London@ghilondon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Save the date of the last GHIL lecture in our winter series given by Stefan Esders (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) on 'Ethnicity and Legal Pluralism in the Early Middle Ages': 📅 9 December 2025 📍Pushkin House, London ⏰ 5:30pm GMT 🔗 Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/event... 1/7

Unfortunately we have had to postpone this Wednesday's seminar with Markus Mindrebø, a joint event with the Bedford Centre for the History of Women and Gender. We will rearrange this for the new year. Stay tuned for our spring term programme, to be announced shortly!

*POSTPONED* ‘Queens in the North’: Elite women and their social networks in the world of the Sagas

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We are back at @ihr.bsky.social this week on Wednesday, 26 Nov, 5.30pm, in Wolfson Room NB02, where we welcome Ella Kirsh (Cambridge) to speak on "Ipsissima verba? The limits of shorthand under the Roman empire". All welcome, but please register in advance here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Ipsissima verba? The limits of shorthand under the Roman empire

Earlier Middle Ages Seminar- Session 4

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📣 Next week we are delighted to host a book launch for Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050, by Alice Hicklin, Steffen Patzold, @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social & @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social, who will be joined by John Arnold, Julia Barrow & Conrad Leyser. Weds 19 Nov, 5.30pm, King's. All welcome!

Book Launch: Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050

Earlier Middle Ages Seminar- Session 3

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This week we're back at the IHR on Weds 15 October, where we welcome Maroula Perisanidi (Leeds), speaking on "Beyond Punishment: Speech Difference, Sin and Disability in Byzantine Thought, c. 1000-1200". All welcome, please sign up here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Beyond Punishment: Speech Difference, Sin and Disability in Byzantine Thought, c. 1000-1200

Earlier Middle Ages Seminar- Session 2

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Should anyone find themselves in central London on Weds 19 November, consider yourself invited to a book launch! @earliermiddleages.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Book Launch: Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050

Earlier Middle Ages Seminar- Session 3

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THIS WEEK: Please join us and @uclioabmmedieval.bsky.social for the Sir David Wilson lecture, with @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 'From Mesoamerica to Early Medieval England: Money, Materiality and Society'. Weds 8 Oct, 6.15pm, Archaeology Lecture Theatre G6. All welcome! www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

The Sir David Wilson Lecture in Medieval Studies 2025

The Sir David Wilson Lecture, the first event in the 2025-26 UCL Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar Series, will be given by Rory Naismith (University of Cambridge) on 8 October.

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📣 The Earlier Middle Ages seminar @ihr.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Here's our autumn term schedule. First up is @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 8 October, giving the annual David Wilson Lecture (with @uclarchaeology.bsky.social). All welcome! Please sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...