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Bonjour, fellow medievalists! I'm very pleased to announce a conference on Beowulf next March at the @cema-su.bsky.social Sorbonne. I have the honour of joining Francis Leneghan in giving one of the keynotes. Link below has the CFP and registration info, please spread the word!
cemasorbonne.org
⏳ Don't miss the deadline! You can send your proposal for the 'Beowulf & Circulations' conference held in Paris until January 10!
![Illustration = the Old English Hexateuch, w. an image of the creation of Eve.
Text = Everything you always wanted to know about medieval manuscripts — but were too afraid to ask
Attend the 2025-2026 CÉMA/AMAES Saturday morning sessions and learn to read medieval English manuscripts from scratch!
When — Saturday 10 am-12 noon — October 11, November 15, December 13, January 24, February 21, March 21, April 11, May 30, June 13
Where — Sorbonne & Zoom
To join at any point in the year, just e-mail us: florence.bourgne [at] sorbonne-universite.fr](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r55clalroymggnwcbda7rj6k/bafkreidcp4qdch723map5sjg4quxgqjohnccv3eokqtm7j4qzyly3boznu)
Illustration = the Old English Hexateuch, w. an image of the creation of Eve. Text = Everything you always wanted to know about medieval manuscripts — but were too afraid to ask Attend the 2025-2026 CÉMA/AMAES Saturday morning sessions and learn to read medieval English manuscripts from scratch! When — Saturday 10 am-12 noon — October 11, November 15, December 13, January 24, February 21, March 21, April 11, May 30, June 13 Where — Sorbonne & Zoom To join at any point in the year, just e-mail us: florence.bourgne [at] sorbonne-universite.fr
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Learn to read Old English from scratch! Join our online and in person monthly manuscript reading sessions at any time in the year.
Next session this Saturday, 10-12 CET, at the Sorbonne and on Zoom.
Ping us if you want to partake 🎉🎉🎉
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@cema-su.bsky.social is organizing a 'Beowulf & circulations' conference in Paris on March 13-14, 2026.
Come enjoy a public reading of the poem, and two great keynotes!
CFP & free (but compulsory) registration via the CEMA's new website:
cemasorbonne.org
A capitulum annotation from our mystery ms :D
The CEMA (Centre d'Etudes Médiévales Anglaises) logo, white letters on red background.
For more information on the programme, check out moodle-lettres-25.sorbonne-universite.fr/course/view....
Fifteenth century woodblock of the Wife of Bath
David and Jonathan from the Vespasian Psalter
The Centre d'Etudes Médiévales Anglaises @sorbonne-universite.fr is convening the 2nd instalment of the André Crépin sessions on Saturday October 18.
@irinadumitrescu.bsky.social will give a plenary on the Chaucer's women and perfection, and we will read folios from a mystery manuscript together!
Couverture de l'ouvrage.
#VendrediLecture 📚 De la tuberculose à la grippe, en passant par la variole, la peste ou le choléra, les maladies contagieuses ont eu un impact déterminant sur l'histoire humaine !
👉 Retour sur ces liens historiques avec "Sapiens et les microbes" de l'épidémiologiste Renaud Piarroux : swll.to/0qJQ3
💎 Nuit des Musées : visitez gratuitement notre Collection de Minéraux ce samedi 17 mai !
👉 RDV sur le campus Pierre et Marie Curie de 13h à 18h : swll.to/s9ZLHMI
✍️ Heureuse d'avoir signé une convention-cadre avec @caroledelga.bsky.social afin de renforcer les collaborations entre la Région Occitanie et @sorbonne-universite.fr !
Première convention que nous signons avec une Région, elle met notamment en lumière le rôle régional majeur de l' @obs-banyuls.fr
Bodleian Library MS lat. misc. c. 66, fol. 95v
Bodleian Library MS lat. misc. c. 66, fol. 106v
Balliol College MS 354, page 332
TCC MS R.3.21, fol. 1r
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Our last two sessions before the summer break will be devoted to v. late medieval commonplace books: Bodleian Library MS lat. misc. c. 66, Balliol College MS 354, TCC MS R.3.21...
Bodleian Library MS lat. misc. c. 66, fol. 95v
Bodleian Library MS lat. misc. c. 66, fol. 106v
Balliol College MS 354, page 332
TCC MS R.3.21, fol. 1r
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Our last two sessions before the summer break will be devoted to v. late medieval commonplace books: Bodleian Library MS lat. misc. c. 66, Balliol College MS 354, TCC MS R.3.21...
Notre campus Clignancourt sous le soleil (météo non contractuelle).
Les parties hautes de la Chapelle de la Sorbonne (coupole architecture classique XVIIe siècle) vues depuis le couloir de l'UFR d'études anglophones.
#ESR Les UFR études anglophones et histoire de @sorbonne-universite.fr recrutent un·e collègue MCF RQTH à la rentrée 2025. Enseignement partagé (études anglophones + anglais pour historien si profil angliciste, histoire + civi si profil historien).
Décharge de 64h sans réduction de salaire possible
Manuscript page annotated for difficult letters and abbreviations by Florence Bourgne ;-) This is a folio from the manuscript of the Middle English Charter of Christ which we are currently reading during the @cema-su.bsky.social monthly sessions (you can join us online!) British Library, Harley 2382, folio 111v
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The next International Conference on Middle English (ICOME-14) will take place in Zurich 3-6 June 2026, theme: 'Travel and travelling'.
Call for panels/sessions/workshops deadline 31 May 2025
Organizers contact email: icome2026@es.uzh.ch
Conference website: www.icome2026.uzh.ch/en.html
This is a wonderfully articulate letter from the English Association, University English and IES. I hope it gets the press coverage it deserves. @theguardian.com @timeshighered.bsky.social @wonkhe.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social
Conference poster image - Flora from Boccaccio in French (Des cleres et nobles dames) MS français 599 folio 56v. detail. Logos for Sorbonne Université, the MeCir medieval network and the SU Centre d'Etudes Médiévales Anglaises.
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🎉🎉🎉 13 March 2025, 6.30pm CET,
@lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social
Salle des Actes 17 rue de la Sorbonne & online!
'The Medieval Roots of Celebrity'
by @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social (University of Bonn)
Preregister for in person and online attendance by 11 March via: tinyurl.com/2hu7saka
Poster image for the conference, with logos for Faculté des Lettres, Initiative MeCir, and CEMA. Includes an image of Flora by Robinet Testard from Boccaccio's Livre des cleres et nobles femmes (c. 1498-1496). Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS français 599, folio 56v, detail.
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🎉🎉🎉 13 March 2025, 6.30pm CET, @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social Salle des Actes & online!
'The Medieval Roots of Celebrity'
by Irina Dumitrescu (University of Bonn)
Preregister for in person and online attendance by 11 March via tinyurl.com/2hu7saka
Poster image for the conference, with logos for Faculté des Lettres, Initiative MeCir, and CEMA. Includes an image of Flora by Robinet Testard from Boccaccio's Livre des cleres et nobles femmes (c. 1498-1496). Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS français 599, folio 56v, detail.
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🎉🎉🎉 13 March 2025, 6.30pm CET, @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social Salle des Actes & online!
'The Medieval Roots of Celebrity'
by Irina Dumitrescu (University of Bonn)
Preregister for in person and online attendance by 11 March via tinyurl.com/2hu7saka
30 English Sayings We Got From The Middle Ages www.medievalists.net/2024/11/english-sayings-... #History
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#oldenglish
Next session Saturday 25 January 10am-12 noon Paris time. We are currently reading from Andreas in the Vercelli ms.
If you want to attend in person or via zoom, just fill in the form forms.gle/XhT6nWV1UoNw... or send us a DM.
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Laura Saetveit Miles on Bridget of Sweden's influence on Middle English writings
Next Tuesday 4.30pm CET at the @sorbonne-universite.fr and online.
Pre-register here for in person & online access: tinyurl.com/5bv535hj
lettres.sorbonne-universite.fr/evenements/c...
🎉🎉🎉 17 Dec. 2024, 4.30pm CET, Sorbonne, staircase G, 2nd floor, Bibliothèque UFR études anglophones & online!
'Birgitta of Sweden and Devotional Literature in Late Medieval England'
by Laura Saetveit Miles
Preregister for in person and online attendance by 14th December at tinyurl.com/5bv535hj
🎉🎉🎉 17 Dec. 2024, 4.30pm CET, Sorbonne, staircase G, 2nd floor, Bibliothèque UFR études anglophones & online!
'Birgitta of Sweden and Devotional Literature in Late Medieval England'
by Laura Saetveit Miles
Preregister for in person and online attendance by 14th December at tinyurl.com/5bv535hj
Next session Saturday 14 December!
Job Alert! Mellon Postdocs at PIMS at the University of Toronto, due February 1! For more information and how to apply see pims.ca/article/post....
Event poster. The text reads: Medieval Fest! Saturday 7 December - British Library and Online www.histfest.org. The background is black and the eight speaker headshots are striped across the middle (Janina Ramirez, Michael Wood, Raksha Dave, Helen Castor, Nathen Amin, Lubaaba Al-Azami, Heather O' Donaghue and Charlie Higson).
Don’t forget to grab your online tickets to Medieval Fest!
In-person tickets have sold out, but you can still join us online on Sat 7 Dec for a day of exciting talks, with Michael Wood, Janina Ramirez, Raksha Dave, Helen Castor, Nathen Amin & more!
Book now (£15)! histfest.org/medievalfest/
French of Britain fans — amazing announcement that the wonderful Jocelyn Wogan-Browne is coming to Oxford!
Detail from a medieval manuscript: folio 155 verso in British Library, Yates Thompson manuscript 13. At the top of the image, a single line of Latin text in black ink. To the left of it and below it runs a bar border in blue, pink, and gold. In the empty space between the border and the line of text sits a painted miniature depicting the Virgin Mary, clad in blue and red robes and crowned, straddling a huge, hairy, ferocious demon. She has grasped the monster by its horns and straddles it, wrestling it to the ground. Her face shows only the mildest irritation. To the left, stands an angel clad in pale robes, its blue and green and yellow wings unfurled. The angel looks on placidly, holding the infant Jesus in its arms, as if the situation were entirely mundane. Frowning, the infant raises its arms, as if spurring his mother to even grander deeds.
Please enjoy this 14th century depiction of the Virgin Mary wrestling a ferocious demon while an angel babysits (because why not? 🤷🏻♀️). #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #RareBooks #Women 📜 📚
We organize monthly manuscript reading sessions at the Sorbonne one Saturday a month 10am-12noon (Old and Middle English). If you are in Paris and want to drop in, give us a shout! You can also attend via Zoom. Fill this form with your info to get in touch
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