U of T Centre for Medieval Studies

Tonight, March 6, at 6 pm I will be discussing the historical roots of women's rights and why medieval debates are important today. Listen at 6 PM on Sauga960AM or watch full episode: lnkd.in/grdBy53d 🎦 video casts can be accessed any time on the web site briancrombie.com
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Kirsten Schut, "An Enduring Habit: Lay Death and Burial in Religious Clothing" YouTube video by Medieval Institute

Kirsten Schut is live at the Medieval Institute presenting "An Enduring Habit: Lay Death and Burial in Religious Clothing"!

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GLI Language and Culture Day The Global Languages Initiative is hosting an annual Language and Culture Day on Friday, March 6, 2026. The event is aimed at U of T students, providing a venue for bringing students together with rep...

March 6 - Learn more about language offerings throughout U of T departments, including research, study, and internship opportunities abroad.
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A series of rectangular convex and concave mirrors attached to a wall, reflecting people and objects. The text overlay is Call for Proposals: 2026-27 JHI Program for the Arts. Deadline is March 24, 2026. Theme is Doubles, Doppelgangers.

📣 Calling University of Toronto faculty! If you have an idea for a lecture series, exhibit, or performance and need some funding, apply to the JHI Program for the Arts. Our theme next year is "Doubles, Doppelgangers".

Deadline March 24.

Info + application link 👇

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Congratulations to CMS Alumna, Mary Dzon, who was awarded the 2026 Bonnie Wheeler Fellowship to support the completion of her book on divine emotion and affective piety in the later Middle Ages. 👏
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Christian Works : Sol meldunensis Sol meldunensis was a gift to the "sun and moon of Malmesbury", Geoffrey, abbot from 1246 to 1260. It is a miscellany of

This article untangles the relationships behind a very strange manuscript - which was made available online by Andrew Dunning: 'Sol meldunensis' (MS Gg.6.42) - cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-GG-0...

Read "Friendship and Publishing in Geoffrey Brito’s 'Sol meldunensis': A Collaborative Gift Book from Cirencester Abbey for Geoffrey, Abbot of Malmesbury, 1246–60’ in 'Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 17' - an article by Andrew Dunning.
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🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Zinaida Uzdenskaya who successfully defended her dissertation titled "Portable objects, travelling subjects: The development of the Iconography of canterbury pilgrim souvenirs in comparison to St. Thomas Becket’s imagery in other media 1170–1538". uoft.me/cc-

Peter H. Brieger Memorial Lecture: Paul Binski (University of Cambridge) and Elina Gertsman (Case Western Reserve University) The Department of Art History is pleased to present the 2026 Peter H. Brieger Memorial Lecture, featuring Paul Binski (University of Cambridge) and Elina Gertsman (Case Western Reserve University). “S...

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PIMS home to rare Bible dating to 1500s Thanks to a donation from Tony Comper, the former Bank of Montreal CEO and longtime board chair of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of St. Michael’s College, a complete ...

"PIMS home to rare Bible dating to 1500s: Toronto Pontifical Institute receives first-edition Douay-Rheims Bible"
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This Friday: attend in person at U of T, or virtually via Zoom. Reserve your spot now! www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/siobh...

Multi spectral imagining of the letetr fragment

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Deep within #UofT’s rare book collections, even the humblest materials can hold extraordinary stories.

A scrap of 📜 from the Robertson Davies Library @masseycollege.bsky.social Library has been identified as part of a 15th-century letter from the court of King Louis XI of France

Editing and Translating Philoponus - CSMBR Focusing on Philoponus's commentary on Aristotle’s "Physics", this lecture will examine the recovery of the Greek text and its later diffusion through Latin translation from the lands of Byzantium to ...

March 10 - Tommaso De Robertis presents "Science in Print: Editing and Translating Philoponus in the Renaissance" at the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance, Institutio Santoriana-Fondazione Comel.
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Undergraduate Students Deliver New Translation of 13th-Century Medieval Drama - University of St. Michael's College Two Medieval Studies students have created a splash with their translation of a 13th-century Biblical-miracle play, a work they hope to see published soon.  Meagan Mellor and Lauren Saxberg were study...

Two St. Mike's Medieval Studies Undergraduate Students, Meagan Mellor and Lauren Saxberg, pen a new translation of the 13th-Century medieval drama 'La Seinte Resurreccion' with the encouragement of Matt Sergi, Alison More, and Ann Hutchison.

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Liberal Arts 'Moments of Change' initiative to explore societal fragmentation | Penn State University “Fragmentation” is the latest theme for the College of the Liberal Arts’ ongoing “Moments of Change” initiative, which brings together students, faculty, staff and alumni to explore society-shaping id...

February 25: CMS Alum, Michael Kulikowski will present “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Why the Western Roman Empire Fell and the Eastern Empire Survived” at Penn State.
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"Hidden in plain sight: a message from the Spider King" - Old Books New Science Lab researchers uncover a rare 15th-century French royal letter.
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The editors of the Publications of the Dictionary of Old English have broadened the scope of the series to consider the culture, history, and literature of England from the seventh to the twelfth century. Read more about submitting with PIMS Press! uoft.me/cbt

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Please join CMS in celebrating Alexandra Atiya, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Economic and Spiritual Conflict in Medieval East Anglian Drama". Congratulations, Dr. Atiya! 👏
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Including a study of the #ArabicBible upper text

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"The Early Illustrated 'Apollonius of Tyre' Studies of a Sinai Palimpsest" by Head of Research of the Old Books New Science Lab / CMS Alum, Jessica Lockhart, with Michelle P. Brown, is now available from Barkhuis Publishing. 📖
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medieval illumination of a rabbit blowing a trumpet

Congratulations to CMS' Eva Plesnik, who has successfully defended her dissertation, "In the Shade on Parnassus: Places of Otium in Renaissance Humanism".
Well done, Dr. Plesnik! 🎉
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/eva-ple...

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#UofT will be closed for Family Day on Monday, February 16.

To find resources for the U of T community, please visit utoronto.ca/utogether.

Enjoy your long weekend and the start of Reading Week! 💙

📸: Polina Teif

Séminaire – « Saints Outside Hagiography » Workshop Winter-Spring 2026 We will circulate the readings and Zoom link in advance of the meetings. For those who would like to attend, we ask that you read over the sources in advance of the meetings and come prepared …

Séminaire – « Saints Outside Hagiography » Workshop Winter-Spring 2026

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Dr. Steven Baldner Speaks on Aquinas and Descartes for Collegiate Lecture Series Christendom welcomed St. Thomas Aquinas expert Dr. Steven Baldner for the college’s latest Collegiate Lecture Series event on January 29.

CMS Alumnus Steven Baldner speaks on Aquinas and Descartes for Collegiate Lecture Series at Christendom College
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Crafting Kashan | Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies presents: Crafting Kashan: Ceramics, Colour, and Commerce from the Pre-Mongol to Ilkhanid Periods Moujan Matin, University of Western Ontario...

Today, 2 pm: The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies presents: Moujan Matin, "Crafting Kashan: Ceramics, Colour, and Commerce from the Pre-Mongol to Ilkhanid Periods".

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sketch from a medieval manuscript of a map and buildings

On Friday, March 6, CMS welcomes Siobhain Bly Calkin of Carleton University's English Department to present "Writing Passion Relic Agency in Pilgrim Tales of Christian-Muslim Contexts". Please register to attend in person via Zoom, or in person, joining us for a Convivial lunch! uoft.me/SBC

A lovely email to receive first thing on a Monday: my article 'Poet-Bishop and Harlot Saint: Marbod of Rennes's Life of Thais in Context' was selected as Feminae's Article of the Month! inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/feminae/Arti...

Symposium “Mappa Mundi: Mapping the Mediaeval World” to Take Place in Toronto - Medievalists.net St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto will host Mappa Mundi: Mapping the Mediaeval World, an in-person symposium exploring medieval cartography and how people in the Middle Ages…

Symposium “Mappa Mundi: Mapping the Mediaeval World” to Take Place in Toronto www.medievalists.net/2026/02/symp... #Toronto #medievalmaps

Mytologi foredag med Kristen M. Mills - Deichman.no Som en del av Deichmarillion festivalen, inviterer vi Kristen M. Mills til Holmlia! Hun er professor i irsk og norrøn filologi ved Universitetet i Oslo. Hun har publisert artikler og undervist i kurs ...

On Thursday, February 5, Deichman Bjørvika welcomes CMS Alum, Kristen M. Mills, to Holmlia as part of the Deichmarillion festival to present "Death and Other Endings: The Norse Myth of Baldr, Then and Now."
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The Concept of Matter in Islam: Prof. Dr. Jon McGinnis, University of Toronto (Canada) YouTube video by BaFID

Watch: Jon McGinnis' "The Concept of Matter and the Concept of Spirit in Judaism, Christianity and Islam" recently posted by the Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses.
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