The Lords of Misrule present ‘3 Moral and Edifying Tavern Plays’, an anthology of medieval farce theatre at the Black Swan Inn this coming week, on the 24-26th April. Performances will start at 7pm, and tickets are available at the door (£7 for students, £10 standard ticket).

Next week is the Annual Riddy Lecture with Professor Cameron Cross (University of Michigan), speaking on: The Boundaries of Love: Romance as a Method of Joining and Parting (in) the Global Middle Ages www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Diana Wallis (CMS graduate and research associate) features on the latest episode of Out of the Archive Box, speaking on York’s Merchant Adventurers and the Petition of 1478: open.spotify.com/episode/6yAK...

What a glorious day on campus!

Registration for the annual Norse in the North Conference on 15 May is now open! This year the conference is hosted by the University of Leeds: norseinthenorth.wordpress.com/programme/

Our own Hanna Vorholt will deliver an online lecture as part of the SIMS Online Lecture Series, University of Pennsylvania: "Grid as Ground: Ruled Lines and Manuscript Images." Friday April 17 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT www.library.upenn.edu/events/schoe...

Not medieval, but everyone loves when Mary Beard visits York (14 April): www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/york/...

📣 The deadline for our MA in Medieval Studies full UK fee waiver scholarship is fast approaching (31 March 2026). www.york.ac.uk/medieval-stu... There is still time to apply: www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr... The scholarship is open to both home and overseas students.

Find out more about what it’s like to study at Heslington Hall here: www.york.ac.uk/about/depart...

Spring has officially arrived on our Master Taster Day🌞. Thank you to everyone who joined us to discover more about medieval MAs at York. @uniofyork @englishlityork @uoyhistory www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr... www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr... www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Two CMS graduates, Joanna Laynesmith and Katherine Lewis, have appeared on the BBC Sounds In Our Time podcast on Margaret Beaufort: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

More alumni news🎓️! Becca Drake (MA in Medieval Literatures & Languages & English PhD graduate) has just started working with Senate House as their Printer in Residence. www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

Publication News 🎉! Congratulation to Emma Nuding, who’s new book 'Writing St Guthlac: From the Medieval to the Modern' is now out! Emma is a PhD in Medieval Studies graduate, current CMS research associate and teaching fellow at the University of Birmingham. boydellandbrewer.com/book/writing...

Ancient documents discovered in the archives reveal a new history for York's Guildhall. John Jenkins (CMS Research Associate) and Louise Hampson (Christianity and Culture) have an article published in the Journal of Medieval History about York's Guildhall. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and...

We are delighted to announce that on 6th February, Nelleke IJssennagger van der Pluijm gave her inaugural lecture as a professor at the University of Groningen. In 2010, Nelleke came to the CMS as a Visiting Student from the Netherlands. Read more: www.york.ac.uk/medieval-stu...

Join us for our Masters Taster Day on Wednesday 18 March and find out more about the Centre for Medieval Studies. 🦆Explore our campus 🎓 Learn more about our medieval MAs 🗨️Speak to our staff and students ☕Get advice on accommodation and financing your Masters www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr...

New research led by our own Steve Ashby has just been published in Antiquity! The study uses biomolecular analysis of artefacts to find important culinary differences between Viking-Age England and Denmark. www.york.ac.uk/medieval-stu...

POSTPONED! Sadly, the York Medieval Lecture on Tuesday 17 Feb is postponed. We will post when it has been rescheduled. Tuesday 17 Feb The Darker Side of the Middle Ages Speaker: Professor Kathy Lavezzo (University of Iowa)

We are delighted to say that the CMS’s professors Dawn Hadley and Julian Richards have had ‘Life in the Viking Great Army‘ shortlisted for the prestigious Archaeology Book of the Year award. If you’ve read the book and enjoyed it, why not vote for it at archaeology.co.uk/vote. Deadline TODAY!

CMS Research Associate & graduate in the news! York Minster's research co-ordinator Dr Jennie England has curated a new exhibition on parts of a 14th Century medieval shrine dedicated to York's patron saint. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are delighted to announce that on 19 September 2026, the Society for Medieval Archaeology annual symposium will take place in York, jointly hosted by the University of York’s Department of Archaeology and Centre for Medieval Studies. CFP details: medievalarchaeology.co.uk/sma-conferen...

Find your next step at the Centre for Medieval Studies! Join our Postgraduate Online Open Day on Tuesday 10 February, 10am to 2pm to: 🎓 Find out more about the MA in Medieval Studies, MA in Medieval History and MA in Medieval Literatures & Languages Find out more at: tinyurl.com/446d93fx

We are delighted to share an update on some recent exciting developments at the Centre for Medieval Studies: bit.ly/4bY647L

We are delighted to announce the details of our Semester two York Medieval Lecture: The Darker Side of the Middle Ages Speaker: Professor Kathy Lavezzo (The University of Iowa) 📅 Tuesday 17 February 🕛 Lecture 6:30-8:00pm 📍 SLB/118, Spring Lane building 🌐 www.york.ac.uk/medieval-stu...

One of the highlights of our Semester One skills teaching are our Palaeography workshops. The Early Medieval group learned how to make ink, as well as working with a calligrapher, Sue Sparrow, to help them understand the skill and discipline required to write ancient and medieval scripts.

On 8th January, we had the pleasure of celebrating with our graduates and recognizing the recipients of our MA awards. For more information, please visit our website: www.york.ac.uk/medieval-stu...

We are delighted to announce the details of the January ISMR seminar! **26th January, 6pm (online via zoom) – Maya Maskarinec (USC Dornsife), 'Anician Saints and their Domestic Spaces in Medieval and Early Modern Rome'** Please register here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/ideology-soc...

We were delighted to support 'Norse in the North', an annual event demonstrating the strength and originality of Old Norse research in the North of England, in the form of an interdisciplinary conference. You can read more on our website: www.york.ac.uk/medieval-stu...

We enjoyed a jolly and productive CMS Staff Away Day at Jacob's Well yesterday. #CMSAwayDay #JacobWell

Our Autumn 2025 York Medieval Lecture recording is now live with Dr Glaire Anderson speaking on Video Games & the Work of Medieval Art History. youtu.be/wIJhRG2-wQs?...

The recording of our Annual York and the North Lecture is now LIVE on our Youtube Channel! Coinage, silver and power in York and the Viking North with Dr Andrew Woods (Head of Collections and Research at York Museums Trust) youtu.be/d79-OgW6H9g?...

Thanks to all our MA Medieval Studies students, who closed our final week of teaching before the winter break with their wonderful poster presentations. A fantastic way to round off 2026. Well done all!

A selection of our other wonderful bakes...

We also had the pleasure of announcing the Mark Ormrod PhD prize for the 2024/5 academic year, which was awarded to Laura Atkinson for their thesis on: Registers and Registration under William Wickwane and John le Romeyn (1279-1296). Congratulations Laura!

A special thanks goes to our wonderful judges, who ate their way through lots of bakes (from left): Dilnoza Duturaeva (History), Alicia Maddalena (English) and James Lewis (Student Services Administrator).

The 'Medieval Showstopper' goes to Jessie Summerhayes & Theo Long (Eng & CMS PhDs) for their Dante's Inferno cake.

'Best Medieval Recipe' goes to Ellen Gallimore (English PhD) for their Anglo-Saxon hearth cakes.

And our bake-off winners are... 'Best Flavour Bake' goes to Emilie James (CMS MA student) for their custard tarts.

The CMS Bake-off is upon us once again! We're still in the early stages, but here's a sneak peek at some of the delightful creations that have just arrived.🍰

We thoroughly enjoyed hearing about Professor David Berikashvili's research yesterday evening on the geography and history of Samshvilde.

The Lords of Misrule are proud to present the Yuletide performance of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’ 🌿 Come along to St Mary’s Church Bishophill Junior @ 7:30pm on the 11th, 12th and 13th of December for some festive foolery! Tickets are £10 (£7 concession) on the door, cash or card

Our next CMS research seminar is this Tuesday (9 Dec: Samshvilde Through the Middle Ages: Geography, History, and Archaeology in the South Caucasus Tuesday 9 December 2025, 5.30PM Speaker(s): Professor David Berikashvili (University of Georgia, Tbilisi) www.york.ac.uk/medieval-stu...

📣 2026/7 MA in Medieval Studies scholarships 📣 We are delighted to announce that we will be awarding two MA scholarships for the 2026/7 MA in Medieval Studies cohort. Full details can be found on the CMS website: www.york.ac.uk/medieval-stu... Spread the news!

Warm congratulations to three of our PhD students who recently passed their viva examinations! www.york.ac.uk/medieval-stu... #PhDSuccess #VivaVictory #AcademicAchievement

Join us for our Autumn York Medieval Lecture with Dr Glaire Anderson (The University of Edinburgh) on Wednesday 12 Nov. Glaire will be speaking on: Video Games & the Work of Medieval Art History: Possibilities for Public Impact Through Industry Collaborations. Further details: buff.ly/4MAXOHZ

Join us for our 2nd annual York and the North Lecture with Dr Andrew Woods (Head of Collections and Research at York Museums Trust) on Tuesday 30 September. Andrew will be speaking on: Coinage, silver and power in York and the Viking North. Registration required: www.york.ac.uk/medieval-stu...

New PhD Funding for 2026! The AHRC funds outstanding original research across the arts and humanities. The University of York is pleased to be awarding six Doctoral Landscape awards to fund students beginning their doctoral research in 2026. www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Congratulations to Robyn Stewart who passed her viva yesterday. Robyn’s thesis “Harmonising the Word: A Textual and Philological Study of Iohannes Scottus Eriugena’s Gospel Quotations in the Periphyseon” was supervised by Mary Garrison, Thomas McLeish and Thomas O'Loughlin (Nottingham).

Ella Gaskell (CMS MA student) is another recipient of an Elizabeth Salter bursary, which partially funded their recent trip to Istanbul to research the Virgin Mary in Byzantine Apocrypha #byzantineart #medievalstudies