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Registration for our annual Spaces & Places conference will open in Jan 2018. Stay tuned for info! 

We've posted a call for papers for our annual conference. Check out the 'spaces & places' tab!

An Introduction to the Crusades (May, 2017) is published this month by University of Toronto Press. Aimed at undergraduates, it is a companion text to the earlier co-edited sourcebook, The Crusades: A Reader (Allen and Amt, Second edition, 2014, University of Toronto Press).

Jonathan Gibson will present the next session in this season’s line-up of Open University Book History Research Group seminars on the theme of “Literature and Copyright.” This seminar is held in conjunction with the Institute of English Studies and will take place in room 243, Senate House, University of London, on 15 May 2017, 5.30-7.00 pm

On 24 February, members of the OU's medieval and early modern research group presented papers with colleagues from CHASE consortium universities on the theme, Medieval and Early Modern Spaces and Places. The workshop was organised by the Open University but held at Birkbeck and will be an annual event.

Leah Clark will be giving a paper 'Objects, sociability, and the spaces of collection in fifteenth-century Italy' in Japan this coming week (March 23) at the History of Consumer Culture conference at Gakushuin University, Tokyo.

Peg Katritzky will be busy in February 2017! She is an invited participant toTraveling Engineers and Architects – Knowledge Transfer in Early Modern Theater Cultures, a by-invitation-only free-discussion format workshop at the Herzog August Library, which is part of the international project “Technologies of Spectacle” funded by the Dutch Research Organisation, NWO (Wolfenbüttel, February 7 – 8).

PhD Studentships in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the Open University

The Open University’s Medieval and Early Modern Research Group invites applications for October 2017 entry to its PhD programme.

The Medieval and Early Modern Research Group brings together staff from a variety of disciplines across Arts and Humanities at The Open University, including Art History, Classical Studies, English, History and Music. We have wide-ranging expertise in social, political, religious and cultural developments of the medieval and early modern periods.

On 12 December Helen King's 60th post goes live on Wonders & Marvels, a fabulous site on ancient and early modern topics, focussing on the history of the body and of medicine.

Leah Clark will be presenting a paper on Nov 25 'From Naples to Ferrara: The Collections of Duchess Eleonora d’Aragona' at an international conference in Ferrara on the architect Biagio Rossetti (Biagio Rossetti e il suo tempo).