Programme cover for Gender and Medieval Studies Conference on Gender: Charity and Care, 2-5 July 2024, Canterbury.

A group of people in medieval costumes, including chainmail and tunics, walking through a cobbled street in Canterbury.

A photo of the exterior of Canterbury Cathedral in the sunlight with a clear blue sky behind.

Speaker Rachel Moss presenting in front of a PowerPoint slide showing the 'This is fine' dog meme with flames, overlaid with the text 'We are not fine.'

I'm so late to the party but what an amazing #GMS2025 in Canterbury! Thank you @menysnoweballes.bsky.social for some incredible closing words 🙏

Three medievalists in a pilgrim photo stand-in board at Canterbury cathedral.

Three colleagues/friends at a conference, in a restaurant

Five tall windows at Canterbury cathedral, including a Jesse tree window from the twelfth century (left).

Salvation window, Canterbury cathedral, by Ervin Bossanyi

Had a wonderful time at #gms2025 learning about so much new & exciting work, but even better, spending time with dear friends new & old (including at the cathedral!)
Special thanks to @janebonsall.bsky.social & Hannah Piercy (photos 1 & 2).

Settling in for a morning of writing, drawing on the fantastic advice from @daisyeblack.bsky.social at her workshop at #gms2025. Yay!

Grief, Care, and the Non-Viable Foetus: Emotions from History This post contains discussion of foetal abnormalities.

I wrote this post following the wonderful #gms2025 conference on Care. Please be aware it contains discussions of foetal non-viability.
lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/grief-care...

#GMS2025 was fantastic-inspiring, encouraging, and also exhausting. I thought I might have a wander around London tonight, but after 3 days of conferencing and 1 of walking the entirety of Canterbury I ordered food in and am going to watch some fluff.

So many highlights of #gms2025! @menysnoweballes.bsky.social plenary, the Unruly Wombs roundtable, all the care that @medievalcanter.bsky.social showed us (cake & more!), and spending time with the most wonderful people ❤️ Thank you!

Your closing words were ✨magnificent✨ Rachel! A call to arms and a love letter- what more could we want or need! #gms2025 Excited for next year already!

What a birthday haul from my lovely #gms2025 buddies! Thank you so much! I’ve been spoiled all day, I’m so touched 🥰🙏🏻 Amazing dragon paperweight from my partner in crime @laurakalas.bsky.social and the mug feat. ‘the nun with the penis tree’ is just brilliant, thank you @daisyeblack.bsky.social 🤣

Starting off my birthday with some gorgeous Kent cherries, thanks to dear @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social 🍒🙏🏻 Excited for #gms2025 day 3 and to celebrating with my medieval besties! 🥳🎂🍾🥂

Presented my paper Birgitta on the Ladder at #GMS2025 🪜✨
I explored queer authority, visionary voice swaps & textual transing in medieval archives.
Birgitta meets Snorton & Hayward—on a ladder, between heaven & dissent.
📜💥
#QueerMedieval #BirgittaOfSweden

In a large lecture theatre, five women are gathered around a small coffee table engaged in discussion in front of an audience. Behind them is a large screen displaying the cover of a book. The book's title is: 'Reconsidering Consent and Coercion - Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature'.

Another fascinating day at #GMS2025 comes to an end by celebrating book launches on medieval animals and reconsidering consent and coercion in medieval literature.

Great #gms2025 session on ‘Carelessness?’ with @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social Caitlin Coxon & Lloyd Forster, ranging from Gawain to Wulf & Eadwacer to Gower’s Philomela.

We're honored to celebrate the launch of 'Reconsidering Consent and Coercion, the first volume of our new series ' #Gender and #Sexuality in the Global #MiddleAges', with editors Jane Bonsall and Hannah Piercy at the #GMS2025 conference!

More info: bit.ly/3I9qaiE

#Medievalists #Medievalsky

Thank you, Rachel! 💜🩷🩵 Taking my colour coordinating to the Next Level 😆 #gms2025

Photo of Canterbury Cathedral, blue sky

View through a stone archway with columns, looking out onto a garden and historic stone building in sunlight.

Name tag reading “Eva Locher” placed on top of a blue book titled Queering the Mediterranean, with part of an old map visible underneath.

Possibly the best backdrop for a Medieval Studies conference (and the prettiest name tags). A great day at #GMS2025, thank you @medievalcanter.bsky.social!

Front cover of the lecture/workshop programme for the 2025 Gender and Medieval Studies Conference on Gender: Charity and Care held from 2-5 July in Canterbury

Great first day of the Gender & Medieval Studies 2025 Conference. Thanks to Dr Diane Heath @medievalcanter.bsky.social and #CKHH Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh for organising! Looking forward to tomorrow! #GMS2025

#gms2025 First afternoon of papers has been cracking! Much to think about, esp. the rhetoric of women’s letters and laments. @daisyeblack.bsky.social and I were getting excited about creative possibilities!!

And @medievalgender.bsky.social is GO! #gms2025

And I’m on my way to Canterbury! 🥳 Yay! #gms2025

This might also be a good opportunity to share my poem 'Medieval Mystic Margery Kempe in Tesco', published last year in The London Magazine (thank you!). It has a flavour of the medieval/modern mash-up that I enjoy! #gms2025 #teammargery thelondonmagazine.org/poetry-medie...

A slide of a conference presentation about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with quoted sections (lines 1841-5, 1837-8, 644, 1818, 1827-9) and an illustration from Paris, BnF, MS Francais 9561, f.2v, showing the Virgin Mary holding a red book with a pentangle on it. The illustrations of Gawain and Lady Bertilak from the Cotton AX manuscript are cropped and facing one another as if speaking to each other at either side of the quoted text, and background from Febrian Zakaria on Unsplash, depicting a series of gold rings arranged on red fabric, dimly lit.

My favourite slide for my #GMS2025 talk @medievalgender.bsky.social which is a preview of my argument in Chapter 4 of Love & anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (available for pre-order now, out 2 Sept!): manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183170/

First slide for a conference presentation entitled 'Secret Sacrifices: Gawain, Lady Bertilak, and Abraham', with pictures of Abraham from the Tall Cross in Monasterboice, Ireland (photograph), and Lady Bertilak with Gawain in bed from the Gawain/Pearl manuscript, London, British Library Cotton Nero A X 2, fourteenth century (from Wikimedia Commons).

Making some slides today ready for #GMS2025 (a bit early but June has become v busy!) and wanting to write a whole new Thing on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a poem that is always somehow different & new on each re-reading!

Cfp for the wonderful #GMS2025 next July in Canterbury, organised by @medievalcanter.bsky.social. 👇I’ll be there for @amsterdamupress.bsky.social - really looking forward to this edition!

2025 Christ Church University Canterbury – Gender and Medieval Studies

The cfp is out for #GMS2025, join us! The wonderful theme is gender, charity & care: medievalgender.co.uk/2025-canterb...