You are warmly invited to join us for a summer celebration of all things Medieval and Early Modern. As well as a wide selection of papers highlighting new research from undergraduate and postgraduate students, early career researchers and staff, you will be able to join us for lively roundtables and workshops.
Owing to the current global health crisis, we have had to cancel MEMS Fest 2020 in its usual Canterbury-based format. However, we are excited to announce that we will be hosting MEMS Fest in a new digital format this year.
Friday 12 June
| Time | Stream 1 | Stream 2 |
| 9.30am | Plenary: Welcome and opening remarks | |
| 10am – 12pm | Cultural Encounter and Correspondence | Emotion and Embodiment |
| Benjamin Sharkey: Christian Conversion Among the Turkic Nomads of Central Asia: The Sixth to Eleventh Century | Francesca Saward-Read: Audience Culpability in Early Modern Drama | |
| Kirsteen MacKenzie: Anglo-French Diplomacy Under Cromwell | Anna-Nadine brochet: “Spekyngly silent”: Moments of Irrationality in The Cloud of Unknowing | |
| Gabriele Bonomelli: Political and Economic Dominium in Fourteenth Century England? | Lydia McCutcheon: Familial Relationships in the Miracle Collections for St Thomas Becket and the ‘Miracle Windows’ of Canterbury Cathedral | |
| Nat Cutter: Grateful Fresh Advice and Random Dark Relations: Maghrebi News and Experiences in British Expatriate Letters, 1660 – 1710 | Jordan Cook: Embodying the “Earthly” in Early Netherlandish Painting | |
| 12pm – 1pm | Break for lunch | |
| 1pm – 3pm | Workshop: Emotion and Embodiment in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore | Patronage, Community, and civique Participation |
| WORKSHOPAnna Hegland: Exploring gendered expressions of emotion on the early modern stage | Eilish Gregory: We Bless the Queen, and We Invoke the Saint | |
| Chris Hopkins: One Day in Canterbury: The Story of an Anglo-Saxon Charter | ||
| Noah Smith: Bakers, Fishmongers, and Militant Brotherhoods: Reassessing the Guild Iconography of the Leugemeete Chapel in Ghent circa 1334 | ||
| Ella Ditri: Women and Landed Society in Conquest England | ||
| 3pm – 3:30pm | Break | |
| 3:30pm – 5:30pm | Intellectual Networks and Early Modern Knowledge Communities | Literary Tradition and Criticism |
| Michael Harrigan: Understanding Early Modern Colonial Ecology | Grace Murray: Thomas Tusser’s “Mnemonic Jingles” | |
| Emma Hill: John Flamsteed (1646-1719): Astronomer or Astrologer | Faith Acker: Beer, Sex and Life After Death in Early Modern Epitaphs | |
| Pelayo Fernández García: Challenges of the Social Network Analysis in History: The Case of the Marquis of Santa Cruz de Marcenado | Andrew Levie: The thématique Transformation of Translation Imperii | |
| Emily Rowe: Whetstones of esprit: Iron Wits and Cutting Words in Early Modern English Prose | Mitchell Perry: How to be King: The Educational Instructions of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and King James VI and I of Scotland and England | |
| 5:30pm | Closing remarks |
Saturday 13 June
| Time | Stream 1 | Stream 2 |
| 9.30am | Plenary: Welcome and opening remarks | |
| 10am – 12pm | Stories from the National Archives | Visual Culture and Materiality |
| Paul Dryburgh: More than just chips and gravy? The ‘Northern Way’: Archbishops of York and the English state in the fourteenth century | Jack Wilcox: The Mystery of the Tree of Jesse Tomb Slab in Lincoln Cathedral | |
| Ada Mascio: The Archivist’s Tale: Extreme Cataloguing at The National Archives | Philippa Sissis: Humanist Aesthetics of Script: The Humanistic Miniscule of Poggio Bracciolini | |
| Daniel Gosling: Building a Bear Garden: Deeds and Disputes Surrounding Southwark’s Bear Garden in the Early Seventeenth Century | Samantha Brown: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Material Features in the Manuscripts of an Early Modern Arabist | |
| 12pm – 12:30pm | Closing remarks |
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