Huge congratulations to Marie Trenchant, a KCL PHD whose essay 'Reassessing Documentary Culture in Monastic Communities: The Case of a Largescale Project of Manuscript Production at Burton Abbey' won a prize from the Pipe Roll Society and will appear in the next issue of Thirteenth Century England.
He also gave a paper last friday on Going Ushkuynik – River Piracy and the Politics of Making Trouble in Medieval Novgorod at the Háskóli Íslands Student Conference.
The link for more details is:
histudentconference.wordpress.com
He is giving The Riches of Midnight: The Novgorod Yugra Campaigns at the Ceræ Conference whose theme is Fame & Fortune.
The link for more information is:
ceraejournal.com/conference-i...
He is giving Silver River – The link between Ob River silver artefacts and Novgorod’s Yugra campaigns at the Древняя Русь глазами молодых исследователей (Ancient Rus through the eyes of young researchers) conference at 10:50.
The link for more info is
ruslang.ru/conference/d...
Our phd student Ben Gray is giving two papers this Sunday 26 April based on his research into the Yugra campaigns, the titles are: 'Silver River – The link between Ob River silver artefacts and Novgorod’s Yugra campaigns' and 'The Riches of Midnight: The Novgorod Yugra Campaigns.' See links below.
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...
Dr Anthony Harvey on the Medieval Irish History Podcast had a fascinating discussion of the development of the Latin language in Ireland, with particular reference to Patrick and his writings.
Listen to the podcast here: open.spotify.com/episode/3ffC...
A photo of one of the 'bone chests' in Winchester Cathedral.
Various students and others stood around a long wooden table looking closely at various medieval manuscripts.
The stained glass window in the chantry of Winchester College.
Two students consulting documents which are lying on top of two medieval chests in the muniments tower of Winchester College.
Last Wednesday our first year cohort visited Winchester College, where they saw many wonderful things, including medieval chests and documents in the muniments tower. As part of the trip they also found time to visit the Cathedral. Huge thanks to James Willoughby and his colleagues for welcoming us.
Adrienne Green, a 1st year KOM doctoral students, will be presenting her stylometric research on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and William of Palerne at the 3rd online Computational Literary Studies research seminar at 17:00 on 25 March 2026.
Thanks as always to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding our work.
Last Wednesday the full KOM cohort had a hybrid workshop at which 7 of our number gave short presentations on aspects of their research in a format designed to emulate a conference. Many thanks to Prof. Julia Crick and @bbombi.bsky.social for organising, and to @leverhulme.ac.uk for their support.
There are 6 spaces remaining for a fascinating looking workshop on Arabic calligraphy on 24 March at KCL.
'Get ready to dive into the world of creativity by learning the expressive capacities of Arabic letters with Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani.' (from the booking site) libcal.kcl.ac.uk/event/4503803
The Zoom link to watch Harvey’s presentation (11am GMT, Thurs 12 March) is available here: www.hf.uio.no/iln/forsknin...
With ‘Close Encounters’ as the theme, Harvey's paper explores the radical Christian martyr movement in ninth-century Córdoba, examining how clerics Paul Alvarus and Eulogius used martyrology to construct sharp boundaries around Christian identity in religiously plural al-Andalus.
A greyscale picture of Harvey.
The University of Oslo Student Conference on Medieval Europe proceedings.
Harvey Moon, this year’s KOM Master’s Plus Doctoral Scholar, is giving a paper entitled 'The Making of the Martyr: Constructing Christian Identity in Ninth-Century Umayyad Córdoba' on 12 March 2026 at the University of Oslo’s Student Conference on Medieval Europe. See below for more details.
Many thanks to Dr Daniel Starza Smith for a brilliantly engaging workshop today on letterlocking. We all hugely enjoyed learning how to fold, tuck and adhere our own letters.
Thank you Prof. Julia Crick and @drdavidrundle.bsky.social for organising and @leverhulme.ac.uk for making this possible!
Her paper, ‘Challenges of Stylometry and Word Frequency in Middle English Manuscripts’, discussed how the unique features of Middle English manuscripts impact stylometric analysis.
Congratulations to our @kingsartshums.bsky.social PhD student, Adrienne Green, who recently presented at the Emerging Digital Methodologies conference @jesusoxford.bsky.social +
And the news is... We're recruiting! Applications are now open for our 2026 @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral Scholarships. So, if you want to study at PhD level pre-modern handwritten cultures and the organisation of knowledge and power within them, do investigate our refreshed website.
Tomorrow, we at the @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded Knowledge Orders before Modernity Doctoral Programme will have some exciting news for you... Keep those eyes peeled.
This past Monday, part of our #komldsp students had a workshop on vernacular manuscripts at @lampallib.bsky.social with Prof. @etreharne.bsky.social (Stanford University).
This programme is possible because of @leverhulme.ac.uk #leverhulme #manuscripts #workshop
All that glitters...this wonderful description of Tudor jewels can be found in a book of expenses of Princess Mary💎
Learn to read Early Modern handwriting in our 2-week online course (16-27 June)
Apply here: imemsdurhamlearn.com/early-modern...
@britishlibrary.bsky.social Royal MS 17 B XXVIII
The involvement of #Armenian women in manuscript production is visible in decorated margins & closing colophons—where they appear as commissioners, sponsors, scribes, illuminators, commemorators, intercessors, teachers, & witnesses.
Dr. Ani Shahinian shares some examples: hmml.org/stories/seri...
There's still time to join the London Palaeography Seminar's final meeting of this academic year here: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/corpu...
Machine Learning, Scribal Profiling and the Dating and Localisation of Manuscripts Containing Old English, w/ @markfaulkner24.bsky.social & @elimagnanti.bsky.social
Don't forget there's still time to join this! #palaeography #london #seminar #medieval
Congratulations to medievalist Prof David Carpenter for making this marvelous discovery. A previously believed copy of the Magna Carta is, in fact, genuine! Read more here: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Next London Palaeography Seminar: Changing the Script: Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Tanner 10, Scribal Stints and the Question of Norms in Early 10th Century Manuscripts, 21 May 2025 (online and in person) with Sharon Rowley (Christopher Newport University, VA) ies.sas.ac.uk/events/chang...
Attend online: Épinal-Erfurt Glossary Colloquium: "Early Latin–Old English Glossaries" - May 31-31
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/%C3%A...
Our cohort is still welcoming MA+ students! Applications are still open (UK students only). Check out the application process here together with deadlines and more info on this brilliant opportunity: www.komldsp.org.uk/ma-scholarsh...
Our PhD based at King's College, Ben Gray, joined the Haskoli Islands Student Conference on the Medieval North. His presentation looked at the three Finnic allies of Novgorod as part of a forum held every April in Reykjavik dedicated to doctoral students working in medieval northern studies
#komldsp
PhD alert! ECOMEDS examines the interrelationships between economy, environment and culture in the Mediterranean, c.1250-1550.
DL: 23rd of May 2025
www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...
#PhD #cfa #callforapplication #ecomeds #kingscollege