A new episode of Bow & Blade: The Battle of Stirling Bridge (1297) www.medievalists.net/2025/12/the-... #medievalwarfare #Scotland

**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish, NS! Medieval Engagements with Disability: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...

**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish, NS! Queer World-Making: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...

**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish, NS! Understanding Medieval Race-Making: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...

**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish NS! You are on Native Land: Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...

JOIN US for the CSM's annual conference at St F-X University in lovely Antigonish, NS, 26-28 May 2026! We welcome proposals for sessions or individual papers. Submissions due 15 January 2026. Details: www.canadianmedievalists.org/Annual

On advance access: "Lordship in the Later Middle Ages: A Round Table Discussion" Ft: Frederik Buylaert, Sandro Carocci, Thijs Lambrecht, Christian D Liddy, Alice Rio Tristan W Sharp, Alice Taylor, Chris Wickham #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

📜 Read "Anselm the Fool: Meditation and the Joy of Unbelief in the 'Proslogion'" by Professor James R. Ginther in 'Traditio' Volume 80. muse.jhu.edu/pub/122/arti...

On Friday, January 9, David Ungvary of Bard College will kick off the Winter 2026 Convivium Series with a talk on Christian Poetry Books in the Post-Roman West. Register to attend in person or virtually! www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/convi...

🎥 Watch: Elisa Brilli, "La postura profetica: storia, poesia e ricezioner" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8-S...

📣 Call for Participants - New Workshop Series: Saints Outside Hagiography

Publication – Siân Echard, « Facsimile. Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts » rmblf.be/2025/12/13/p...

Fr. James Farge's handmade Christmas cards are on display at University of St. Michael's College John M. Kelly Library. stmikes.utoronto.ca/news/christm...

This is a fantastic article about the representation of #Jesus as a child in biblical #apocrypha & medieval traditions! It's perfectly in time for the #holidays. #Christmas #MedievalSky

I was just talking to my kids about this! They were asking about Jesus as a child. I will be armed with more apocrypha for them in the morning.

"The Bible says little about Jesus’ childhood – but that didn’t stop medieval Christians from enjoying tales of him as holy ‘rascal’" - CMS Alum Mary Dzon writes for @ca.theconversation.com. theconversation.com/the-bible-sa...

This week on The Medieval Podcast with @5minmedievalist.bsky.social : Richard the Lionheart with Heather Blurton www.medievalists.net/2025/12/rich... #RichardtheLionheart #podcasts

Pretty awesome to see one of my essays in Italian! www.internazionale.it/magazine/iri...

Read David Townsend's post about "The Cat" on Substack. substack.com/home/post/p-...

👏 Congratulations to CMS Alum, St. Francis Xavier University Philosophy Professor Dr. Steven Baldner, who received the StFX Outreach Award for his long-standing efforts to connect the university with the wider community. educationnewscanada.com/article/educ...

Learn about Old High German with Shami Ghosh, Associate Professor at the Centre for Medieval Studies (and Heidi, of course!) youtu.be/3MYK8uq3v4s

Appel à contribution – Saints Outside Hagiography rmblf.be/2025/11/26/a...

Just wrote a post on the historical background to THE QUEEN'S COMPANION on my long-neglected blog -- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Crusades, and more: lucypick.com/2025/12/the-... 💙📚 ⏳📚

REMINDER: You can attend this year's Annual Bennett Lecture with Rita Copeland in person at Alumni Hall, or virtually via Zoom! This Friday, December 5, @ 4 pm (EST). uoft.me/c00

Did you miss our Open House for prospective MA and PhD Students? You can now watch online! Tune in to presentations from our Faculty, Students, and Alumni, and follow the Q&A for in-depth answers to frequently asked questions. youtu.be/oAPHoiinClk?...

From the current issue: “Needed but Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490–1525” by Judith M. Bennett (@usc.edu) doi.org/10.1093/past...

Read Sebastian Sobecki's "Unveiling the Premodern World through the Lens of Global Travel Writing" for the Cambridge University Press (@universitypress.cambridge.org) blog. cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/unve...

On December 2, attend Ruba Kana’an's online lecture, "Iconography of a 1526 Painting from Safavid Tabriz". iranianstudies.utoronto.ca/event/iconog...

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! bit.ly/3KdqOwW

The deadline is approaching for applications to Rare Book School’s 𝗠. 𝗖. 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀. Apply by 11:59 p.m. ET on 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟳 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. For details, visit rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/lang

New Alumni Articles! @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social Vol 269 #1 includes "Needed But Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490–1525" by Judith M Bennett, and "The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney" by Miles Pattenden and Michael D Barbezat. bit.ly/4iCoCvT

8/ “The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney” by Miles Pattenden (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social) and Michael Barbezat (Australian Catholic University) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

This week on The Medieval Podcast with @5minmedievalist.bsky.social : The Medieval Moon with @ayoushlazikani.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/11/the-... #medieval #moon

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. uoft.me/c00

Congratulations to Walid Saleh, who has been elected Vice President of the American Academy of Religion. www.religion.utoronto.ca/news/walid-s...

The Special Issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Orosius Through the Ages, is out!! Co-edited with Elisabeth Manzo & Cameron Wachowich, on the boil since 2019, we're so pleased with the final output. Both Dr M. & Dr W. have completed their PhDs since then too!

Read the latest issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies on Orosius Through The Ages academic.oup.com/bics/issue/6...

A new essay prize for Department of History students celebrates the legacy of world-renowned scholar Natalie Zemon Davis. Learn more: www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/essay-p...

Check out my new single "Interesting Times" distributed by #DistroKid and live on Deezer! www.deezer.com/album/842105...

TOMORROW: "From Photographing Life to Saving Souls After Death: A Workshop with Nicole Liao and Ariana Sider Mésenge" uoft.me/cefmf

I had a lot of fun writing this piece for @psyche.co, which just reminded me that people have always had to deal with criticism from others -- and the key is to be creative about how you deal with your haters. psyche.co/ideas/get-me...

Calling anyone interested in saints, sanctity, and the weird and wonderful world of primary sources outside the conventional hagiography form! ❤️‍🔥

Laura Moncion and I are organising an online workshop series and we want to know about your work in progress on relics, sermons, liturgies, tokens, monuments and more... Submit a proposal by the 15th Jan 2026 to get involved.

📃 Read CMS PhD Candidate Eva Plesnik's "‘Why Did You Go to Buda?’: The Humanist Sodality and Mantuan’s Rustic Idyll in Bohuslaus of Hassenstein’s 'Ecloga sive Idyllion Budae' (1503)" in 'Renaissance Studies'. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📃 Read "Tolkien's Elegiac Trees: 'Enta Geweorc' and the Ents Across Time" by CMS / Woodsworth's Alexandra Bolintineanu in 'Tolkien Studies' Volume 21. muse.jhu.edu/pub/20/artic...

Congratulations to CMS Alum, Joseph Eska, (Virginia Tech English) who was awarded a Jacob A. Lutz III Award for Eminent Scholars. 👏 news.vt.edu/articles/202...

Are you a medieval maker? Or know someone who is? Email [email protected] for a chance to be featured in my holiday gift guide!

🎙️ Listen to Jon McGinnis (Philosophy / CMS) discuss Ibn Sina’s views of divine and human freedom on The Free Will Show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO4L...

Save the Date: November 18 - "From Photographing Life to Saving Souls After Death": A Workshop with Nicole Liao and Ariana Sider Mésenge at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy uoft.me/bYZ

C. P. Lesley's 3 favourite reads in 2025 include Lucy Pick's "The Queen's Companion" shepherd.com/bboy/2025/f/...