We organise three one-day colloquia each year on different themes chosen by our members. Recent themes have included; A celebration of the fortieth anniversary of Jacques Le Goff's Medieval Civilization: 400-1500, The Book, Love, New Research from Postgraduates, Fame, Friendship, Land and Landscapes, Orality and Literacy, Masculinities, Picturing and Writing and Biography. 

Abstracts from papers are circulated in our annual newsletter. Offers of papers are always welcome, especially from visiting scholars and postgraduates.

• Suzy Knight (History, Queen Mary - University of London) - Protecting the Innocents: Devotional Jewellery and Magical Amulets for Children: The Case of the Florentine Foundling Hospital
• Christopher Wilson (History, Queen Mary - University of London) - The After-life of Visions of the Otherworld in Thirteenth-century England
• Linda R. Bates (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) - The Journey and the Stable: Aspects of Middle English Nativity Narratives
• Ken-Kun Hsu (King's College, London) - Aimance as the Politics of Friendship in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale
• Virginia Langum (Magdalene College, Cambridge) - Wholesome Tongues: Speech, Health and Authority in Late Medieval Medical Prologues

We now have a new venue for our colloquia: The Lock-Keeper's Cottage, Queen Mary - University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS. View annotated map ('42' is the Lock-Keeper's Cottage)

In this fascinating talk, award-winning author Adam Nicolson follows the high and glamorous trajectory of a single great family – the Earls of Pembroke – across three generations of change, nostalgia, ambition, resistance and war.

Taking as his starting point van Dyck's famous portrait of the family, he will explore a medieval England on the edge of transition to a more modern world – from the intrigues, alliances and vendettas of the court to the conduct of everyday business.  In this rich and detailed evocation of the family's rivalries, longings and compulsions, he will reveal a country split between the old and new.

£15 including wine reception with the speaker and book signing. To book call 020 7942 2277/78, quoting 'London Medieval Society'

Download the poster for this event

At the last colloquium, members of the LMS helped Michael Clanchy to celebrate his 70th birthday. You can now see a gallery of pictures taken at the event.

Westfield Medieval Studies is an interdisciplinary series published from Queen Mary University of London and distributed by Boydell and Brewer (ISSN 0307-5362).  WMS publishes scholarly monographs, editions and collective volumes of broad comparative interest in the culture of Europe (and other areas in exceptional cases) from the early Middle Ages to the sixteenth century. The series has been newly relaunched and replaces: the former ‘Westfield Publications in Medieval (and Renaissance) Studies’. The first publication in the new series is Pamela M. King’s The York Mystery Cycle  and the Worship of the City (D.S. Brewer, 2006).

Proposals of books for publication are sought from medieval scholars in all areas of the discipline. All submissions will receive prompt and informed consideration from appointed readers and should be sent in the first instance to the General Editor, Rosamund Allen.  

The Editorial Board of Westfield Medieval Studies consists of: Professors Julia Boffey, Alan Deyermond, Silvia Ranawake and Miri Rubin, Drs Virginia Davis and Peter Orton, and Mr Brian Place (Arts Computing). Proposals may be sent to the General Editor, Rosamund Allen, School of English and Drama, QMUL, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS. 

The Winter 2007 LMS Newsletter is now available: click here to download it. Past issues of the newsletter are also available.