In March 2019, a workshop and public lecture took place to celebrate the return to the City of Canterbury, a late-thirteenth century Parisian Bible (the ‘Lyghfield Bible’) … Read more
Category: Research
Conference Report: Liminality and Early Performance Culture
Liminal Time and Space in Medieval and Early Modern Performance 5th-7th September 2014, University of Kent Human experience of time and space has been the … Read more
Report from ‘Knowledge Machines: The potential of the Digital’ Symposium
On 27th September, the University of Kent hosted Knowledge Machines, a one-day symposium that showcased different approaches to using digital methodologies in the humanities. A … Read more
Civic Pride and Stairways to Heaven, KAS Churches Committee Study Day on 5th April 2014
Programme: Medieval Hythe & civic uses of sacred space by Sheila Sweetinburgh Church upper spaces and their uses by Toby Huitson Masonry sculpture: Hythe’s carved … Read more
Cultural Exchanges between Persian and European Travellers in the C17th
At the latest meeting of the Early Modern Research Group, Maryam Ala-Amjadi, presented her research into cultural exchanges between Persian and European travelers in the C17th. … Read more
MEMS Friends Visit to Saint John’s Hospital, Canterbury
On a dry but blustery March day a group of almost thirty MEMS friends and postgraduates joined Centre staff members Helen Gittos and Jacqueline Basquil … Read more