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Jews and Jewishness in English Renaissance Literature and Culture

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Weekly via Zoom, 16 Mar – 18 May 2022.
This course, will tackle complex themes by reading and discussing canonical and lesser-known English Renaissance texts that feature Jewish characters and Jewish questions.
Topics that range from medieval literary precedents to Elizabethan theater conventions will be examined, reading excerpts from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, and much more.
This class is open to anyone interested in the topic.

Marché Médiéval 2022

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Il aura lieu le samedi 4 juin et dimanche 5 juin. Chalet, chapiteau Santonier, et extérieur pour toute inscription et tarifs veuillez vous adresser au centre culturel de la mairie

Society for Renaissance Studies Annual Lecture 2022

St Cecilia's Hall: Concert Room & Music Museum 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The lecture brings together scholars to explore the connectedness of Scotland and sixteenth-century Continental Europe.

Coffee with a Codex: Ethics

St Cecilia's Hall: Concert Room & Music Museum 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The event is informal and everyone is welcome to attend. Registration required to attend.

Hildegard of Bingen: Medieval Herbalist (3-week series)

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You are invited to join us for this three-part series exploring some of the herbal remedies recorded by Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century German Benedictine Herbalist and Natural Healer. We will be using excerpts from her great works, Physica and Causes and Cures.

Hildegard of Bingen: Medieval Herbalist (3-week series)

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You are invited to join us for this three-part series exploring some of the herbal remedies recorded by Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century German Benedictine Herbalist and Natural Healer. We will be using excerpts from her great works, Physica and Causes and Cures.

Hildegard of Bingen: Medieval Herbalist (3-week series)

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You are invited to join us for this three-part series exploring some of the herbal remedies recorded by Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century German Benedictine Herbalist and Natural Healer. We will be using excerpts from her great works, Physica and Causes and Cures.

The Trans-Tasman Buhurt Cup 2022

Brewtown Upper Hutt 25 Blenheim Street, Maidstone, Upper Hutt, New Zealand

Come and support your local fighters and see an Australia vs NZ medieval battle competition at Brewtown, Upper Hutt on the 27th of August. Entry is free!

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Journeys to the Underworld 2022

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Our online concerts return! We launch with 'Journeys to the Underworld', the first in our winter series of themed online concerts, combining storytelling, poetry, folklore and more.

Myrddin – the Welsh Merlin by Dr Mark Williams

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Casting an eye at some early Welsh poems (one spoken by Myrddin to his pet piglet) and some high medieval texts which let us glimpse the lost Celtic saga of Merlin.

GBP5.00 – GBP10.00
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The Museum of Drugs: Under the Influence – A History of Drug Use

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In modern times, drugs have become synonymous with crime and disorder; vilified in the media as the root cause of many of our social ills, and lambasted by politicians who are keen to demonstrate they are tough and uncompromising. Yet the history of narcotics and the use thereof, is not so cut and dry.

GBP5.00 – GBP10.00

The Gjellestad Ship Project – On-line

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Follow the analyses, results, and interpretations of the Gjellestad excavation, the first ship burial to be excavated in Norway since 1904!

How Culhwch Won Olwen and tales of Arthur by Dr Mark Williams

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This fantastical and varied story features giants, horror, love, and adventure, and is the earliest Arthurian story to survive in any language. Arthur is a Celtic figure in origin, and here we get a glimpse of a stranger, less comfortable Arthur than the one we know.

GBP5.00 – GBP10.00

Deirdriu of the Sorrows by Dr Mark Williams

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One of the most famous heroines of Irish literature, whose story was turned into numerous plays in the Irish Revival of the turn of the 20th century. Deirdriu – sometimes called ‘the Irish Helen of Troy’ – is a heroine of great vividness

GBP5.00 – GBP10.00

22nd Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies

Harvard University Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

A unique opportunity to showcase the Medieval Studies community at your institution, gain valuable professional development experience, and meet fellow medievalists!

Celtic Students Conference 2023 at the University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

A unique opportunity to showcase the Medieval Studies community at your institution, gain valuable professional development experience, and meet fellow medievalists!

Early Music Society of Queensland Memorial Concert

Nickson Room, Zelman Cowen Building, Zelman Cowen Building, St. Lucia Campus, The University of Queensland Nickson Room, Zelman Cowen Building, Zelman Cowen Building, St. Lucia Campus, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

The Early Music Society of Queensland Inc. (EMSQ) brings together people with an interest in the music, instruments and dance of the medieval, renaissance, baroque, and classical periods.

Mittelalterliche Instrumentalmusik Workshop mit Michael Dollendorf

Berlin , Germany

Was klingt für uns mittelalterlich? Würden Menschen die vor 800 Jahren lebten darin ihre Musik wieder erkennen?
Es gibt einen wundervollen Reichtum an Skulpturen und Darstellungen in der Buchmalerei, woraus wir Informationen über die Instrumente des Mittelalters schöpfen können. Zusammen mit dem Wissen aus theoretischen Schriften und seltenen archäologischen Fundstücken mag es möglich sein diese Instrumente zu rekonstruieren, zu besaiten und zu stimmen.

Online Talk: German Renaissance Sculpture

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Completely out of kilter with the developments in Italy of the High Renaissance, this episode in art history is not especially well known, but it is spectacular, with many individual virtuosic sculptors creating astonishing works. Lecture by Dr Victoria Mier

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The Museum of Drugs: Under the Influence – A History of Drug Use

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In modern times, drugs have become synonymous with crime and disorder; vilified in the media as the root cause of many of our social ills, and lambasted by politicians who are keen to demonstrate they are tough and uncompromising. Yet the history of narcotics and the use thereof, is not so cut and dry.

GBP5.00 – GBP10.00

SRS 10th Biennial Conference

LJMU Student Life Building LJMU Student Life Building, Copperas Hill, Liverpool

The topic for the tenth SRS Biennial Conference is ‘Difficult Pasts‘; it will open in Liverpool on the evening of Wednesday 19 July 2023 with the SRS Annual Lecture (Dr Islam Issa), and close on Saturday 22 July 2023.

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