Every May, thousands of medievalists descend on the town of Kalamazoo, Michigan, to attend the International Congress of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, catch … Read more

Congratulations to our Centre Administration Manager, Claire Taylor, who has won a Graduate School Prize.  Claire was awarded “The Postgraduate Administrator Prize” at the Kent … Read more

On 16th of May 2019 Canterbury Cathedral hosted the 6th session of this year’s Material Witness, the ‘interdisciplinary training programme for the interrogation of physical … Read more

On Thursday, April 25th several dozen graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and academic faculty gathered in a large hall in Ghent to discuss Cross-Channel Exchanges in … Read more

MEMS and the School of English are delighted to announce a unique doctoral opportunity. It has arisen as a result of the award of an … Read more

Cassandra Harrington | clh62@kent.ac.uk PhD Candidate, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent After a rare opportunity, and successful auction bid in … Read more

Jessica Schwindenhammer | js2095@kent.ac.uk Taught MA student, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent On 4 March 2019, MEMS lecturers, Dr. David Rundle … Read more

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

This month’s ‘Picture this…’ comes courtesy of MEMS’ own Dr David Rundle, and explores the Lyghfield Bible –  a gem of a manuscript whose early history … Read more

MEMS is delighted to announce the launch of a new split-site Paris and Canterbury MA programme in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. From September 2019, … Read more