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Great to see two members of Glasgow's Celtic & Gaelic dept in this very promising-looking conference

Enjoying this not least because I think I am occupying the “new band the festival organiser drafted in from the pub for Sunday 9am” slot on the poster here 😉💜

And we are delighted to be platforming their research!

We would like to clarify you are certainly *not* the draft (some might say that we saved the best 'til last). We look forward to hearing your paper later this month!

An image of Cardiff Castle sits in the background, with the names of the speakers of the Medieval Wales conference in the foreground. The names listed are: Graffudd Antur Adam Chapman Elissa Chiariotti Thomas Clancy Natalia Petrovskaia Kit Treadwell Jessica Shales Russell O Riagain Buffy Revell Gwen Jones-Edwards Jenny Day Gruffudd Antur Adam Chapman Helen Fulton Scott Lloyd Elissa Chiariotti Pietro Giusteri Makenzie Marshall Rhiannon Jones Josh Coulthard Philip Hume Luciana Cordo Russo Peter McIntosh Brigid Ehrmantraut John Hines

There's just ten days left to register for the upcoming SSMLL Annual Conference 2026: Medieval Wales (25th-26th April, Cardiff University).

Students can attend in-person for just £20, or online for free (registration is required).

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Sowing the Seeds VIII

CFP: Sowing the Seeds VIII: a Workshop for Early Career Medieval Economic and Social Historians × 13th Annual Conference of the Research Group for Late Medieval Economic History 5–6 Nov 2026. The conference theme is political economy, broadly interpreted. Full details: www.lse.ac.uk/economic-his...

Helen Fulton, 'Literary Networks and Patrons in Late
Medieval Wales' in The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature, ed. by Geraint Evans and Helen Fulton (Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 129-159 (p. 138).

Whether you are a newcomer or expert in medieval Welsh literary and linguistic studies, join us for our upcoming SSMLL Annual Conference 2026: Medieval Wales 🏰

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The Society received an outstanding range of essays, and the the standard of submissions was extremely high.

The Medium Ævum Essay Prize 2027 will open to entries at the beginning of next academic year (Autumn 2026) with a deadline of 12:00 midday (GMT) on Tuesday 1st December 2026.

A graphic with the Society logo announces the winner of the Medium Aevum Essay Prize 2026. The winner is Clara Bykvist studying at Queen's College University of Oxford, for her essay 'The Liber Iparchi: A Twelfth Century Forgery of Ancient Astronomy'.

We are delighted to announce that Clara Bykvist (@queenscollegeox.bsky.social) has been awarded the Medium Ævum Essay Prize 2026 her essay 'The Liber Iparchi: A Twelfth Century Forgery of Ancient Astronomy'.

*The medieval Welsh and translation in this post is drawn from Helen Fulton, 'Britons and Saxons: The Earliest Writing in Welsh' in The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature, ed. by Geraint Evans and Helen Fulton (Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 26-51.

Is your imagination is captured by these crimsoned crows and songs of triumph from 'Gawaith Argoed Llwyfain' ('The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain')? Then join us for the SSMLL Annual Conference 2026: Medieval Wales ⚔️

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Thank you, Keith!

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The first page of the programme for the conference reads as follows: Rhagflaenir gan Ddarlith Goffa Henry Loyn, 24 Ebrill 2026 Preceded by the Henry Loyn Memorial Lecture, 24 April 2026 16:45: Derbyniad / Reception (Oriel Viriamu Jones, Prif Adeilad / Viriamu Jones Gallery, Main Building) 17:30: Darlith Goffa Henry Loyn / Henry Loyn Memorial Lecture (Darlithfa Wallace, Prif Adeilad / Wallace Lecture Theatre, Main Building) Yr Athro / Professor John Hines: ''Pentref diffaith' neu 'Dasgwedd': golygion ar y safle hanesyddol ac archeolegol yn Cosmeston, Bro Morgannwg’ / ‘'Deserted Village' or 'Taskscape': perceptions of the historical and archaeological site at Cosmeston, Vale of Glamorgan’ Saturday 25 April / Dydd Sadwrn 25 Ebrill All sessions will be held in the Glamorgan Building (Committee Room 1). Cynhelir pob sesiwn yn Adeilad Morgannwg (Ystafell Bwyllgor 1). 9.30-10:00 Welcome and Coffee / Croeso a Choffi 10:00-12:00 Session 1 / Sesiwn 1 Thomas Clancy, ‘What's the Commotion? Sound, Structure and Sense in Ystoria Gereint uab Erbin’ Natalia Petrovskaia, ‘“Revisiting the “Cauldron Story”: Some Implications of Fractal Structures in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi’ Kit Treadwell, ‘A widowed countess owns the castle’: Positions of Widows in Medieval Welsh Literature’ Jessica Shales, ‘The Arthur of the Welsh?’ 12:00-13:00 Lunch / Cinio 13:00-14.30 Session 2 / Sesiwn 2 Russell O Riagain, ‘The Welsh kingdoms and the Scandianvian diaspora, c.AD790–1110’ Buffy Revell, ‘Economy, Diet and Status: New perspectives on human:animal relations in medieval Wales’ Gwen Jones-Edwards, ‘Yr Hen Ogledd: Cyfarfyddiad y Gymraeg a’r Aeleg ar lannau’r Clud, ac olion y cyfarfyddiad hwnnw yn y ganrif rhwng 1150 -1250' (*‘The Old North: The meeting of Welsh and Gaelic on the banks of the Clyde and its traces in the century 1150-1250')

The second page of the programme reads as follows: 4.45 - 16.15 Session 3 / Sesiwn 3 Jenny Day, 'O ‘Gaerau Ffwg’ i ‘Dir Meigion’: hunaniaethau’r Gororau ym marddoniaeth Gutun Owain' (*‘From ‘Caerau Ffwg’ to ‘Tir Meigion’: Marcher Identities in the Poetry of Gutun Owain’) Gruffudd Antur, ‘Gutun Owain: ailystyried ei lawysgrifau a thymor ei oes' (*‘Gutun Owain: Reconsidering his manuscripts and lifespan’) Adam Chapman, ‘Negotiating the bounds of Personal Authority in the 15th century March: Edward IV and William Herbert through the eyes of Hywel Dafi and Guto'r Glyn’ 16.15-17:00 SSMLL Annual Meeting / Cyfarfod Blynyddol SSMLL 17:00-18:00 SSMLL Keynote Lecture / Darlith Gyweirnod SSMLL Professor/ Yr Athro Helen Fulton, ‘Political Poetry in the Wars of the Roses: Constructing Marcher Lordship in Welsh, English, and French’ Sunday 26 April / Dydd Sul 26 Ebrill 9:00-11:00 Session 4 / Sesiwn 4 Scott Lloyd, ‘From Tref to Cantref: Mapping Medieval Welsh Boundaries for the Digital Age’ Elissa Chiariotti, ‘The Rubricators of the Hendregadredd Manuscript (NLW MS 6680B)’ Pietro Giusteri, ‘A Digital Scholarly Edition of the Liber Commonei: Work in Progress' Makenzie Marshall, ‘The Missing Dark Dragon: An Exploration of the Modified ‘Prophecy of the Eagle’ in Peniarth 27ii’ 11:00-11.30 Coffee / Coffi 11.30-13:00 Session 5 / Sesiwn 5 Rhiannon Jones, ‘Courtly Love Codes for a Poet’s Politics: A Re-examination of ‘Rhieingerdd Efa ferch Madog ap Maredudd’ by Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr’ Josh Coulthard, ‘ “Boen ar Gymry beunydd”: The Political Worlds of the Uchelwyr in Fourteenth-Century Wales and Beyond' Philip Hume, ‘Cherchez la Mère (‘shulde Roger Mortimer [d.1282] of right have been Prince of Wales’?)’

The third page of the conference programme reads as follows: 1-2 Cinio / Lunch 2-3.30 Session 6 / Sesiwn 6 Luciana Cordo Russo, ‘Crusade discourse and epic elements in Kedymdeithyas Amlyn ac Amic' Peter McIntosh, ‘The Hidden Queen: Do the Hereford Gospels hold a clue to a lost queen of Wales?’ Brigid Ehrmantraut, ‘Geoffrey of Monmouth, Gerald of Wales, and the Ruins of Caerleon Revisited’ * Papers in Welsh with simultaneous English translation. / Papurau yn Gymraeg gyda chyfieithu ar y pryd i'r Saesneg. To register for the conference today, visit mediumaevum.org.uk/events/medieval-wales Registration closes on 20 April I gofrestru ar gyfer y gynhadledd, ewch i mediumaevum.org.uk/events/medieval-wales Bydd cofrestru'n cau ar 20 Ebrill. The prices for attendance are then given as a table. In person attendance for members is £50, while online attendance is £10. In person attendance for non-members is £60, while online attendance is £15. In person attendance for students is £20, while online attendance is free.

The full programme for the SSMLL Annual Conference 2026, Medieval Wales, is now available!

Join us 25-26 April at @cardiffuni.bsky.social and online for two days of research exploring the languages and literature of medieval Wales.

We very much enjoy their title. Please do send our congratulations to your undergraduate on their published piece.

Our friends at the Early English Text Society are holding a workshop on editing texts from medieval Britain for graduate students and early career scholars.

📖Texts in Transition
📍St Hilda's College, Oxford
📆18/04/2026
🕐11am-5pm

For registration email eets[at]ell.ox.ac.uk

...alongside notes and review articles, and reviews of exhibitions, monographs, and edited collections.

Become a member of SSMLL today to receive your digital and hard copies of forthcoming Medium Ævum issues by visiting mediumaevum.org.uk

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🖊️Emma-Catherine Wilson, ‘The Henrician tournament letters of London, College of Arms, MS. L6, and the role of heralds in the preservation of an older English tournament tradition’

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🖊️Yun Ni, ‘Constance on trial: allegorizing legal personhood in John Gower’s ‘The Tale of Constance’ and Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘The Man of Law’s Tale’’

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🖊️Marijane Osborn, ‘Redeeming Chaucer of mistakes about time on the way to Canterbury’

🖊️Philip Knox, ‘‘Thomas Skreveyn’: some autograph documents by Thomas Usk'

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🖊️Geneviève Young, ‘Dead man walking: repetition and catastrophe in the Chanson de Roland’

🖊️R. F. Yeager, ‘Appropriated forms in John Gower’s Mirour de l’omme and some implications’

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🖊️Leonard Neidorf, ‘Hrothgar’s empire: Old English Ingwine and Scandinavian Paganism’

🖊️ @edolmans.bsky.social, ‘‘Natale solum dulcedine cunctos ducit’: looking homeward in medieval literature’

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An image of the bright green cover of Medium Aevum which details the names of its editors: David Rundle, Corinne Saunders, Sylvia Huot, and Stephen Mossman.

An image of the article contents list of the 94.1 issue of Medium Aevum, which is also given in the following posts.

We are delighted to announce the release of issue 94.1 of Medium Ævum, the journal of the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature.

Medium Ævum (94.1) contains:

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🖊️Emma-Catherine Wilson, ‘The Henrician tournament letters of London, College of Arms, MS. L6, and the role of heralds in the preservation of an older English tournament tradition’

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🖊️Philip Knox, ‘‘Thomas Skreveyn’: some autograph documents by Thomas Usk'

🖊️Yun Ni, ‘Constance on trial: allegorizing legal personhood in John Gower’s ‘The Tale of Constance’ and Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘The Man of Law’s Tale’’

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We at the Society of Medieval Languages and Literature (and our seasonally dressed mascot, the scribe astride a wyvern) wish all of our members and followers a peaceful and merry festive season.

📢 Deadline extended! To give prospective speakers additional time to submit their abstracts, the OMGC committee has extended our Call for Papers deadline to 15 December 2025.

Please send submissions to: oxgradconf@gmail.com.

We look forward to reading your abstracts!