Alison Keith (U of T Classics, CMS, Jackman) recognized with Order of Canada www.utoronto.ca/celebrates/u...

A recent public-facing article anout monogamy bring twisted by incels #medievalsky www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c231c7b...

A public-facing on the editing influence of gendered language on women’s rights. #medievalsky theconversation.com/when-man-did...

Searching for: Lecturer in Medieval Literature Location: Newcastle, GB DL: 9 July 2026 Fixed Term, 10 months Sept 2026 - June 2027 Salary: £36,636 to £38,784 jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Read "Al-Fārābī and Quine on 'reductio' and paradox" by CMS Alum, Boaz Faraday Schuman in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#UofT will be closed for Presidential Days on Monday, June 29 and Tuesday, June 30, followed by Canada Day on Wednesday, July 1. To find resources for the U of T community, visit utoronto.ca/utogether. Enjoy the long weekend!

"Why Dante still matters: Professor Elisa Brilli joins the leadership of the Dante Society of America" www.italianstudies.utoronto.ca/news/why-dan...

New festschrift: "From Cairo to Jerusalem and Beyond: Studies of the Later Islamic Middle Period in Honor of Linda Stevens Northrup" brill.com/display/titl...

Read "The Holy Grail of Arthurian Manuscripts is for auction at Christie’s" by Christopher Berard for @medievalists.bsky.social. www.medievalists.net/2026/06/holy...

Way to go, Jim!

From USMC: "St. Michael’s Professor James Ginther Appointed Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies" stmikes.utoronto.ca/news/st-mich...

The surprisingly connected origins of Car and Chariot #Etymology youtube.com/shorts/beWtO...

I'll be hosting our #FictionFest panel discussion on #fantasy world-building, starting in about 25 minutes! :) #BookSky #ReaderSky #CanadaSky ⏰📚 www.youtube.com/live/I3WQjxf...

New Publication: "On the Minting of Money Nicolaus Copernicus" translated from the original Latin by CMS Alum, Gerald Malsbary www.amazon.com/Minting-Mone...

New Publication: "Eriugena Unbound" by CMS Alum, Paul Edward Dutton: trivent-publishing.eu/home/227-430...

CMS Alum Christopher Berard writes "Did King Arthur Conquer Greenland?" for Medievalists.net about his latest article, "The Crown of the Kingdom of Britain. King Arthur’s Northern Empire in the 'London Collection of the Laws of England'" (Encomia 2025, #47, pp 13-65). bit.ly/4xNPnV1

Congratulations to PhD Student, Samuel MacPhee, who was awarded the Graduate Student Scholarship for Studies in the History of Ideas from the Robert and Moira Sansom Ideas Foundation! 🎉🎉 medieval.utoronto.ca/news/samuel-macphee-awarded-scholarship-studies-history-ideas

Congratulations to Julien Levit and Annika Rempel, recipients of UTEA Awards for Summer Research Projects. Both Annika and Julien's research contribute to German / CMS Professor Markus Stock's SSHRC-funded project, "Medieval Undergrounds." german.utoronto.ca/german-studi...

Fantastic news: Lisa Cruikshank successfully defended her dissertation, “'…coronas regni susceperunt': Image-Making and Co-Rule in Late Medieval Queenship, c.1250–c.1370" in May 2026. Congratulations, Dr. Cruikshank! 🎉 www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/lisa-cr...

Congratulations to CMS PhD Candidate, Ariana Sider Mésenge, who was awarded this year's Lilly Offenbach Strauss Graduate Fellowship from the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies - CRRS. Read more about the award, and Ariana's research: uoft.me/LOS-2026

Congratulations to Professor James Ginther, who has officially been appointed Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, effective July 1. We are thrilled to have Professor Ginther at the helm of CMS, guiding us into our next term and beyond! uoft.me/JG-2026

Congratulations to Professor Steven Bednarski (St. Jerome's University / CMS Faculty), who has been elected as Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London! uwaterloo.ca/st-jeromes/n...

Read "Roesia Burford (1286–1329) and Her Mercantile Milieu: Commerce, Continuity, and Family Strategy in Fourteenth-Century London" by CMS PhD Candidate, Jack McCart, in "Medieval People" Volume 40 / Issue 1. scholarworks.wmich.edu/medpros/vol4...

"Learning from the Middle Ages. A roundtable with Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Lloyd De Beer, Beate Fricke, and Clovis Maillet, Moderated by Eva Schlotheuber" appears in "Mittelalter", Issue 142 of "Texte zur Kunst". www.textezurkunst.de/en/142/round...

#UofT ranked first in Canada, 20th globally in latest U.S. News & World Report university rankings 🌎 uoft.me/cv3

Professor Elisa Brilli (ISPLAS / CMS) was recently elected as a Councilor to the Dante Society of America. To celebrate this nomination, Professor Brilli spoke to ISPLAS about the honour: www.medieval.utoronto.ca/people/honou...

Very deserved. If you haven't read it, you should remedy that.

Friendship that spans over two millenia! Two @uoftcms.bsky.social colleagues catching up in the best library for medieval manuscript enthusiasts @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social

Congratulations to CMS Alum Helen Marshall (@manuscriptgal.bsky.social), whose "The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death" (Titan Books) has been longlisted for Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic! www.sunburstaward.org/node/147

A new episode of Bow & Blade: The Battle of Hattin (1187) www.medievalists.net/2026/06/the-... #crusades #podcast #history

Congratulations to Mairi Cowan, who has been awarded the President's Teaching Award! www.utm.utoronto.ca/historical-s...

@canmedievalists.bsky.social — Hurray, Emma!

@canmedievalists.bsky.social — Hurray, Bard!

#UofT's Roberto Abraham, John Borrows & Nicholas Terpstra named University Professors ➡️ uoft.me/crr

Read "The Gentildonne of Fabriano: Forging Women’s Voices in Sixteenth-Century Italy" @lauraingalli.bsky.social (ISPLAS / CMS) in 'Renaissance Quarterly' Volume 79, Number 2. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Emma Gabe, who received a rare Leonard Boyle Prize honourable mention, for her dissertation, "Sorores in coquina: Laysisters in German Monasteries, c.1300–1550" from the Canadian Society of Medievalists! www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/emma-ga...

Congratulations to Bard Swallow, winner of this year's Canadian Society of Medievalists Leonard Boyle Dissertation Prize for Medieval Studies! uoft.me/LB2026 Bard earned their PhD last September, with a dissertation titled "Formal Functions of Latin Poetry in Fourteenth-Century England

Both I and the shadow twin Kris Jamison are taking part in this online festival of Canadian literature!

I reviewed Sophia Vasalou's book on al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness for Mind philpapers.org/rec/HADAAT-4

Read "Byzantine Purple, Purple Wampum: The Global Middle Ages on Lunaapahkiing" by Suzanne Conklin Akbari in 'Exemplaria. Medieval, Early Modern, Theory' Volume 38. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking for Medieval Latin philologists: Postdoc specializing in Digital Philology in München job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/4...

Last Call! Submit your papers and proposals by this Monday, June 1! uoft.me/MAA2027

🏅 UC Principal, Markus Stock, Professor at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Centre for Medieval Studies, has been awarded the Hermann Boeschenstein Medal by German Studies Canada. www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/markus-...

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be one of the lecturers at the Runokuu Poetics Conference, part of the Runokuu Festival this year in Helsinki. The theme of this year’s conference is breath, and I’m thinking about the poetics of embodied objecthood.

We took a behind-the-scenes tour of #UofT’s Robarts Library with librarian & podcast host Jesse Carliner, who explored the brutalist icon’s history & secrets, including the question he gets most: is Robarts sinking under the weight of all those books? Spoiler: It’s just a myth 🎧

The Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, invites applications for two grant-funded Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Dictionary of Old English. @uoftcms.bsky.social www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...

"Who's the Boss? Status & Characterisation", a workshop with Helen Marshall on Saturday, August 1, Brisbane. queenslandwriters.org.au/events/whos-...

Read Landon Reitz's research article, "Reading 'Iwein' in the Garden: A Study of Medieval Mediality" in the 'Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies' 56 (2): 241-266. read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/articl...

Kristina Sessa has been appointed Professor of Late Antiquity at U of T's Classics / CMS, with the additional appointment of Jackman Chair. We look forward to welcoming Tina in January 2027! www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/kristin...