Monash Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Community of Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Monash University, Australia. The past is not as distant as you imagine.
(Banner: Lincoln County Archives, BNLW 1/1/55/1; Profile pic: Monash, Bischoff frag. 002, MS 1821) Skeets by KN.
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- Please join us in celebrating the success of Monash MRS members at the recent @anzamems.bsky.social prizes! Dr Jason Crow - Chris Jones Book Prize 2025 for A new Material Interpretation of Twelfth-Century Architecture: Reconstructing the Abbey of St Denis
- Please join us in celebrating the success of Monash MRS members at the recent @anzamems.bsky.social prizes! Dr Jason Crow - Chris Jones Book Prize 2025 for A new Material Interpretation of Twelfth-Century Architecture: Reconstructing the Abbey of St Denis
- We're back with big congratulations to @eaburrell.bsky.social, awarded the @austhistassoc.bsky.social Philippa Hetherington Prize for best postgraduate dissertation on a non-Australian topic: “Words for Wellbeing: Charms, Caregiving and Health in England, 1300—1550” 👏👏👏
- Friday 3 May @ 6pm AEST / 5pm JST / 9am BST. A/Prof. Asami Kobayashi (Shujitsu University) “Integrative Violence Through Examples Of Heresy Combat” on zoom. All welcome. Email us for the link!
- This week's seminar features another ep. in our continuing collaboration with TUCEMEMS! Unpick book technologies with Prof. Matti Peikola on "Articulating the operation of tables and figures for early modern English readers"! Fri 26 Apr on zoom @ 6pm AEST / 11am EEST / 9am BST. Email us for the link
- Exciting news! We will share the official CFP & details as soon as they're available, but followers may like to know that (like IMC, ICMS, RSA &c) this conference traditionally accepts general paper submissions, as well as those on the specific theme.
- For our next seminar we join the team at TUCEMEMS, feat. Dr Anna-Stina Hägglund on 'Female Religious Houses and Remembrance in the Late Medieval Swedish Kingdom (1350-1520)'. Friday 19 Apr @ 17:15 AEST / 10:15 EEST / 8:15 BST. #nuntastic #medievalsky
- This Friday; 12 April! Dr Romney Smith (ANU) on "Diplomacy in the Shadows. A lost Christian-Muslim Alliance in the 12th c Mediterranean?" 10am AEST on Zoom. Email us for the link (details in image/alt) #medievalsky
- This Friday 10am AEDT Joe Biggerstaff on "Orphans in an infant society: Crisis and dependency in early Barbados" Join us in person at Monash or on zoom from anywhere! For details email cmrs-postgraduatecommittee [at] monash [dot] edu.
- Coming up on 1 March at 10am AEDT, our first seminar of the semester! Dr Paige Donaghy (U Queensland) on '"When her ship was laden with wares, then she could take in passengers": pregnant women's sexuality in England, c. 1600-1750.' Email Zoom link: cmrs-postgraduatecommittee [at] monash [dot] edu
- OK, let's try that again... without the crucial email typo! Coming soon: Exciting new series of Public Seminars (online and/or hybrid) for 2024. Contact our team at cmrs-postgraduatecommittee [at] monash [dot] edu for zoom details.
- Free download until 25 Jan! Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494-1559, by Susan Broomhall and Carolyn James: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
- 5-year job (Lecturer/Snr Lecturer level) available for an Italian Renaissance historian contributing to our Medieval & Renaissance Studies Community! careers.pageuppeople.com/mob/513/cw/e...
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- Some good news just slipping in as the door closes on 2023 - MMRS members have just secured seed funding with collaborators in Padua for a new project: "Feeling the Middle Ages: Interdisciplinary approaches to medieval devotional culture". Watch this space for its findings! #medievalsky
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- Congratulations and good luck to Lucy Moloney (@lucyelm.bsky.social) on submission of her MA thesis, "Appeals to the Past in Sovereignty Disputes in Wales, Scotland, and England during Edward I’s Reign (1272–1307)"!
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- Our seminars are now in summer recess. Looking forward to seeing you again on zoom or in person for our 2024 series. If you're interested to present, get in touch now! #medievalsky #earlymodernsky Meanwhile, have some red poppies, snapped at our recent annual "Med-Ren Feast"!
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- ah nuts... we're hearing reports that the registration link is demanding institutional credentials. Bear with us... {Under Construction GIF}
- Join us from 6pm on 13 November in Melbourne for the annual Bill Kent Memorial Lecture, to be delivered by A/Prof. Nick Eckstein on "Time and Space in Renaissance Florence (and the Mouse in Matteo Cavalcanti's Underpants)". Are you not intrigued?! www.monash.edu/prato/alumni...
- Join us from 6pm on 13 November in Melbourne for the annual Bill Kent Memorial Lecture, to be delivered by A/Prof. Nick Eckstein on "Time and Space in Renaissance Florence (and the Mouse in Matteo Cavalcanti's Underpants)". Are you not intrigued?! www.monash.edu/prato/alumni...
- Friday 20 October 10am AEDT (Thurs 19 in USA): Anurag Advani (UC Berkeley) on "The Madness of the Majzūbs: Marginal Sufi Saints in Sixteenth-Century Mughal India". Join us! (email cmrs-postgraduatecommittee [at] monash [dot] edu for the zoom link or come in person!)
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