The ‘King’, from the Lewis Chessmen

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The LMS meets regularly at Lock-Keeper's Cottage, at Queen Mary College London

Since 1945, the London Medieval Society (LMS) has provided a forum within London for the exploration and appreciation of the many areas of research associated with the Middle Ages. Membership of the LMS is open to interested scholars and students from all scholarly disciplines.

The LMS organises three colloquia each year. At the autumn and spring colloquia, speakers deliver short papers in response to a single theme. Recent themes have included Representations of Masculinity, Childhood, Seasons, Courts and Courtliness, and Honour and Reputation. The third colloquium offers an opportunity for postgraduates to present their work and to discuss their ideas with fellow medievalists.

The LMS website provides information about membership and about the Society’s forthcoming colloquia. It also includes archive sections documenting the papers delivered at the LMS’s colloquia over the last two decades.

The LMS encourages suggestions about all areas of its activity from its members.

Next Colloquium

Spring Colloquium: 'Peace'

February 25

Poster

  • Helen Lacey (University of Oxford)
    Interpretations of the King’s Peace in Later Medieval England: ‘occasional privilege to common right’?   
  • Jenny Benham (University of St. Andrews)
    Peace in Victory, Peace in Defeat: The theory and practice of kingship, law and peace in the high Middle Ages: how did victory impact on the terms of a treaty?
  • Gianluca Raccagni (University of Edinburgh)
    An iconic peace settlement between monarch and subjects: the  emperors, the Lombard cities and the battle over the legacy of the Peace of Constance in the thirteenth century
  • Rob Ellis (Queen Mary, University of London)
    Politicising Peace: Sir Nicholas Brembre’s Anti-Associational Rhetoric
  • Catherine Nall (Royal Holloway, University of London)
    The Problem of Peace in Fifteenth-Century Military Treatises

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