Links

QMed is a new site aiming to provide for medievalists a central place for the dissemination of information about lectures, conferences and other events in London and beyond. Visit QMed at http://qmed.history.qmul.ac.uk/index.html.
Westfield Medieval Studies: Westfield Medieval Studies is a newly reconstituted series, formerly produced in-house, which has in the past published monographs, editions and collective volumes on literary and historical subjects relating to western Europe from Italy to Iceland. The aim of this inter-disciplinary series is to produce books for a scholarly readership with a marked emphasis on historical contexts. Books are accepted by the Editorial Board of Westfield Medieval Studies if they break new ground and meet our criteria for the series: cutting-edge research, with a strongly interdisciplinary element which would attract a readership of specialists in literature, language, history, history of art and other cultural studies.
Recent publication:
Granger, Penny, The N-Town Play: Drama and Liturgy in Medieval East Anglia (Cambridge: DS Brewer, May 2009).

Groups of interest to medievalists in London

LOMERS (The London Old and Middle English Research Seminar) organises four seminars over the autumn and spring terms and a conference in the summer. Recent speakers at LOMERS include Derek Pearsall, Amanda Holton, and Richard Marsden. For more details about LOMERS see: http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/visitor_areas.php?page=ies_series.
Medieval Manuscripts Seminar has been running for several years at the Institute of English Studies. For details see: http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/visitor_areas.php?page=ies_series.
London Society for Medieval Studies at the IHR runs a seminar every fortnight during the autumn and spring terms. For a list of their upcoming seminars see: http://www.history.ac.uk/ihrseminars/index.php.
Late Medieval Seminar runs weekly in the autumn and spring terms at the IHR. For a list of upcoming seminars see: http://www.history.ac.uk/ihrseminars/seminar.php?series=127.
European history 1150-1550 runs fortnightly seminars at the IHR during the autumn and spring terms. For details see: http://www.history.ac.uk/ihrseminars/index.php.
TOEBI(Teacher's of Old English in Britain and Ireland) aims to promote and support the teaching of Old English in British and Irish Universities, and to raise the profile OE language literature and Anglo Saxon England in the public eye. The organisation produces a twice yearly newsletter hosts an annual meeting and an AGM. For details please visit www.toebi.org.uk.

Textus Roffensis Law, Language and Libraries in Early Medieval England at Rochester Cathedral, Allington Castle and the Medway Campus of the University of Kent, on 25-27 July 2010. Michael Wood, broadcaster and historian of early medieval England, will deliver a public lecture on the legacy of Textus Roffensis on the 26th July 2010.
For details please visit the MEMs website www.kent.ac.uk/mems/.
Church Monument Society Symposium: Making Monuments. At the Winchester Royal Hotel on 10-12^th September 2010 with an opening session at Winchester Cathedral. For information, or to download a booking form please visit www.churchmonumentssociety.org.

Aleks Plukowski, Omnis Mundi Creatura, http://www.beasts-in-the-woods.org/graphics.html
The website of Aleks Plukowski, who spoke at the LMS’s 2005 conference ‘Animals and Birds: Natural and Supernatural’. The site details Plukowski’s own research into how people in Medieval Europe responded to animals and their environment.
An Electronic Edition of Partonopeus de Blois, http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/partonopeus/
An electronic edition of the 12^th-century French romance, prepared by Penny Eley, Penny Simons, Mario Longtin, Catherine Hanley, and Philip Shaw. Both Penny Eley and Penny Simons delivered papers at the LMS’s ‘Courts and Courtliness’ colloquium in February 2006. Philip Shaw also spoke at the LMS’s colloquium on ‘Love’ in February 2004.

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