Category: News

Professor Quentin Skinner will be asking this question at our annual Renaissance Lecture on Tuesday, 24th March 2015 at 6pm in Lecture Theatre 1, Grimond Building. … Read more

The University of Kent will host a conference in April to examine the theme of early medieval monasticism in the North Sea Zone from a … Read more

The University of Kent’s ‘Festival of English’ begins this evening (Tuesday, 3rd February) at 6.30pm with a talk by Professor Peter Brown on Chaucer. Held in … Read more

Editors at the Review of English Studies have selected Dr Sarah James’ paper, ‘Oculi Carnis, Oculi Mentis: Why Seeing Is Not Believing In Capgrave’s Life … Read more

Entitled, ‘Diets of the Poor in Medieval England’, this year’s Anselm Lecture will be given by Professor Chris Dyer, Emeritus Professor of Regional and Local … Read more

Moveable Types: People, Ideas, and Objects is an international conference on cultural exchanges in early modern Europe, taking place at the University of Kent between … Read more

August 2014 sees the second anniversary of ‘Picture this…’, the monthly online collaboration which takes a digital image from Canterbury cathedral library’s store of manuscripts and … Read more

The Church Monuments Society is holding its 2014 annual symposium jointly with the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Entitled, ‘Monuments of Power’ the event takes … Read more

This interdisciplinary, cross-period conference explores the representation, effects and meanings of liminal time and space in medieval and early modern performance culture.  Emphasising the inherently … Read more

A number of staff and students from MEMS will be giving papers at this year’s Leeds International Medieval Congress and the Centre will be hosting … Read more