Hear ye, hear ye! Very exciting news! 🎉Our PGRs have now released the call for papers for their annual CMS PGR conference (the longest-running PGR medieval conference in the UK!) We'd be so grateful if you could share this with anyone who may be interested! #medievalsky #skystorians

Last week, we were privileged to host Professor Sarah Hamilton (Exeter) for a CMS seminar on ‘The Liturgy of the Road: Masses for Travellers at St Gall, 900-1100’. We certainly learned a lot! Thank you so much Sarah — we hope that you’ll come back and visit us soon! ☺️ #medievalsky #skystorians

Curious about what a Bristol Medieval Studies Summer School might look like? Check out this wonderful video made by one of this year's summer school students! #medievalsky #skystorians

🚨 Hwæt, medievalists: following its successful inauguration last year, the Bristol Medieval Studies Summer School will be running again in 2026! 🚨 Please share the good news or—even better—sign up yourself: www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s... We're so proud of this course, and we'd love to see you! 🚨

Great to spot some of our PGRs in attendance! #medievalsky #skystorians

4th edition of #DanteFutures - this time at University of Warwick. Big CDSI presence. 👏👏👏to all involved

Our fabulous Environmental Humanities Summer School is open for applications for 2026! Together, we examine human relationships with nature on a Global scale, and with the city of Bristol. According to 2025 cohort student Choon Woi “Bristol itself became part of the classroom…

Applications are open! Environmental history is a key part of this Environmental Humanities summer school + thinking about how our relationships with the natural world changes over time. Along the way we might well visit Iranian oil fields, Antarctica and the deep sea!

A short but sweet CMS seminar schedule for December! #medievalsky #skystorians

We were fascinated to hear George Rayson (University of Cork) speak at a CMS/Italian seminar on ‘“Così o così”: Choosing the Right Words in Dante’s Commedia’. Thank you for such an interesting talk George — we hope to welcome you back to Bristol soon! 😊 #medievalsky #skystorians

We can't wait for the next seminar in our CMS Research Series, taking place tomorrow at 4pm! This week Professor Sarah Hamilton (Uni of Exeter) will be giving a paper on 'The Liturgy of the Road: Masses for Travellers at St Gall, 900-1100'. We are very excited!

Please do pass this on to anyone who may be interested! ☺️ #medievalsky #skystorians

Exciting news! 📣🎉The Bristol Summer team are hosting a Q&A event for people to find out more about the Bristol Summer School in Medieval Studies. 🙋🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️ The event will run Jan 2026 (date tbc), and you can register your interest via the QR code or the link in the comments!😊 #medievalsky #skystorians

Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto. Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃 Wed 19th Nov 17:45–19:00 Online & in-person

Very proud of my former PhD student, Dan Booker, whose important study on women and the law of the exchequer has just been published by @ihrlibrary.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

Last Thursday, the CMS were delighted to hear from Bristol's own Dr Kathleen Thompson on the topic of 'Leperhouses and Lordships: Some Ideas from Medieval Bristol'. What an absolutely fascinating paper Kathleen, thank you so much! 😊 #medievalsky #skystorians

Not sure what to do on a particularly rainy Friday in Bristol? ☔️ We’ve got you covered! Old English Reading Group runs at 3pm in Hattie’s office, no experience or prep required! Email [email protected] for more info! ☺️ *Old Norse isn't running today but will be back next week!*

We are very excited to hear more about this tomorrow!

Tomorrow (Thursday 13th) is also brat symposium: the remix! Last year's inaugural brat symposium was created by CMS PGRs (pictured), and it was a huge success! Tomorrow's event promises to be just as exciting, with 14 papers on topics from environmental humanities to medieval studies! #medievalsky

For this week's CMS seminar, we are lucky enough to be joined by Bristol's own Dr Kathleen Thompson for a paper on 'Leperhouses and Lordship: Some Ideas from Medieval Bristol'. We can't wait to find out more! #medievalsky #skystorians

We can't wait for this!

📢 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 We are thrilled to announce that our 2025/26 Donors’ Celebration will be a lecture delivered by Jonathan Stamp, former consultant for the HBO series ROME. 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein... ⏰18/11, 5-6:30 PM. 📍Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building, BS8 1RJ

We are very excited to be joined on Thursday by Professor Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (University of Cambridge) for our next CMS Research Seminar: 'The Place of History in the History of Place: Constructing the Literary Landscapes of Medieval Ireland'. We can't wait! #medievalsky #skystorians

Friday afternoons = Old English and Old Norse reading groups! In honour of spooky season, here are a few highlights from today’s sessions! (And yes, we can confirm that pic 3 includes a genuine quote from one of our texts!) #medievalsky #skystorians

What might our PGRs be plotting? Could it be the first meeting for this year’s CMS PGR conference?! 🧐🕵️‍♀️ Naturally, we can neither confirm nor deny…But do watch this space for some exciting news coming soon! 😁 #medievalsky #skystorians

We hope that everyone is having a wonderful reading week! Here's a sneak peek at some of the CMS Research Seminars we can look forward to in the second half of the semester! #medievalsky #skystorians

We can't wait to watch this!

Get your proposals in by the end of the month! A title and rough outline is more than enough - and remember to sign up if you just want to be a spectator. We want to make sure there’s enough coffee/pizza/wine for all 💚💚💚

This is amazing! 🥰

Now equivalent to 3 US credit-hours, so go fill an elective with some intense medieval studies in this 3-week short-course!

📣 UPCOMING EVENT! 📣 The Hellenic society is launching a new South West and Wales regional network! 🎟️ Sign up: forms.office.com/e/tbYuWrWwNP ⏰October 30th, 2-6PM 📍Humanities Research Space, University of Bristol 1st floor, 7 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TB

Delighted to run this summer school again! Please, take a look at our new site and share this with colleagues and students who may be interested. www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...

Objectively the best Medieval Summer School out there 😉 Please consider sharing and, even better, applying! 🙂

We are SO excited to announce that applications are now open for this year's Medieval Studies Summer School! 🎉 Please do pass this information on to anyone you think might be interested! We'll be sharing some highlights of last year's programme over the next few weeks! #medievalsky #skystorians

We love (haha) this review from the CMS' Prof Ad Putter!

We can't wait! 😍

Last year’s brat symposium is (and might very well always be) my favourite academic event. Super creative research in an informal, experimental space. Come along, it’ll be a blast! 🍏

anyone in the area needs to attend this- the original was next-level and this one is not to be missed!!

Our brilliant PGRs are at it again! After last year's inaugural and highly-successful brat symposium (organised by CMS PGRs Shauna Roach, Sarah Collinson, Harry Lewis, and Isla Dawson), this year's committee is once again inviting Bristol PGRs to consider how 'brat' connects with their own research.

Is there anything better than a post-seminar discussion in the Highbury Vaults? Also proof, if it’s needed, that the CMS welcomes medievalists of all ages!

Yesterday, the CMS were lucky enough to see a snapshot 🧑‍🔬📷 of Dr Alexander Zawacki's (@achillghost.bsky.social) work in his seminar on ‘Analysing Manuscripts with MSI’. Thank you for such a fascinating talk Alexander, and thanks also to @benpohl.bsky.social for chairing! #medievalsky #skystorians

We absolutely loved having you -- come back and see us soon! 🥰

Don't forget to sign up for tomorrow's seminar if you are joining us online! #medievalsky #skystorians

Join us this Thursday in person or remotely!

We're very excited to be able to share this seminar online! Be sure to email Hattie to register! #medievalsky #skystorians

This Thursday we have a very special CMS Seminar, which will be a crossover with the GW4 collaborative project 'Medieval Studies: Mobilising Digitial Humanities'. Very excitingly, it will also be online! Contact [email protected] to register for online attendance!

Exciting news! 📣 The CMS' own Dr Sig Sønnesyn (@sigsonnesyn.bsky.social) is giving a lecture tomorrow (Tuesday) on 'Meaning, Intelligibility, and Fusing Horizons: Medieval Thought as a Case Study' at 3:30pm in G.HO1, Arts Complex. All welcome. We can't wait! 😀 #medievalsky #skystorians

Ending the week on a high with an Old English/Old Norse reading group mash up! Thanks as ever to Hattie Soper for coordinating! Remember that Old English reading group runs on Fridays at 3pm, followed by Old Norse at 4pm. All welcome, no prior knowledge necessary! #medievalsky #skystorians

The stop-motion animation 'Reynard the Fox' -- directed by Maddy Pull, and executive-produced by Dr Kristian Moen and our own Prof Ad Putter -- has made it to the semi-finals of the Animalis Fabula Film Festival, and will be shown in San Antonio in late Nov. 🎉 Huge congrats to all! #medievalsky

Yesterday, we were lucky enough to hear about Dr Elena Rossi’s (@elenarossi.bsky.social) work on female employment in medieval universities. A HUGE thank you to Elena for sharing such a fascinating paper with us all: we really hope to welcome you back to Bristol soon! 🥰 #medievalsky #skystorians