Welcome
The Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) was founded in 1996 as an interdisciplinary Centre within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Kent. It has four main purposes: to administer postgraduate teaching for the long-standing MA by Coursework and Dissertation, to promote research through our MA, MPhil and PhD by research, to encourage publications in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, and to develop links with Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library. more details
Latest centre news
Textus Roffensis Law, Language and Libraries in Early Medieval England: Call For Papers 25—27 July 2010
The Conference will gather for the first time work in the disciplines of History,
English, Linguistics, Political Science, Law and Codicology in order to address
the context for the creation of Textus Roffensis, the language of its texts, English
laws and their legal, political and cultural agendas, the relationship of the Church
and royal government and the legacy of the book and its texts. For further informatio please click here.
AHRC Bad Behaviour In Medieval & Early Modern Europe - Thursday 3rd December 2009
An interdisciplinary postgraduate colloquium funded by the AHRC Beyond Text Student - Led Initiatives Programme. Deadline for Call for papers is Wednesday 30th September 2009. For further details click here
AHRC Explaining Supernatural Nature: Mediations Between Image, Text and Object in the Middle Ages:Call for papers
An interdisciplinary postgraduate colloquium funded by the AHRC Beyond Text Student - Led Initiatives Programme. Deadline for Call for papers is 1st January 2010. For further details click here
Interpreting Medieval Liturgy
Dr Helen Gittos has been awarded £40,822 by the AHRC for an international research network in collaboration with Dr Sarah Hamilton (Exeter). This research network brings together historians, musicologists, literary scholars, theologians, palaeographers and art and architectural historians, to discuss the problems involves in studying the surviving evidence for occasional services. Further information is available here.