Between 17:00 and 18:00 today, Jonathan Jarrett, of this parish, is presenting a paper on our theme to the Leicester Medieval Research Seminar, which is online and thus open to all...
Rethinking the Medieval Frontier has been active for some years now, and we've done a reasonable amount of stuff, but one area in which we have been less active than would have been good has been publication. I'm happy to say that that is now set to change.
If you have found this site and are a scholar of frontiers but not a medieval historian or archaeologist, then we would very much like to hear from you! A post has just gone up on our blog in which we express our desire to find collaborators...
The Rethinking the Medieval Frontier project announces plans to hold sessions at the 2022 International Medieval Congress, whose theme will be 'Borders'
... in the increasingly dire world situation the administration of the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2020 Congress, at which the round table recently announced here was to happen.
Rethinking the Medieval Frontier is pleased to announce that, even though we're in a low-activity phase just now, we will still be present at the 2020 International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds. The theme for this year's Congress is Borders, so we can hardly not put in an appearance!
In case you had been wondering (and who hasn't?), the first conference of the project Rethinking the Medieval Frontier, which as you may remember is being held on April 10th 2018 in Leeds and for which paper proposals are still very welcome—see the Call for Papers—will be hosted by the University of Leeds in their...
The first conference of the project Rethinking the Medieval Frontier is now scheduled, and will happen on April 10th 2018 in Leeds, venue and timing to be confirmed, and the Call for Papers is now available! Please click the link to see it. We have funding for up to forty participants' registration, and a small...
The first workshop meeting of our project has come and gone, with everyone in attendance except Álvaro Carvajal Castro, who managed nonetheless to be present via Skype for some of the discussion before the technology failed us. A useful agenda has been produced and we have plans for the next stage. For more information see...
As promised, things are afoot with our network. All the participants are now agreed and we have our first meeting scheduled for the 24th July, with people making their journies and being fed and watered by the good offices of our funders, the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust, and of course our hosts the...