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IMC 4: my partial conversion to social physics from magistra 103 days old

I’m just back from a week in Orkney, where the Middle Ages seems like a recent blip in a 5000 year history, so my next account of the International Medieval ...

IMC 3: things to do with charters before you're dead from magistra 115 days old

[ ... ] IMC sessions this year gave a very good spread of both the kind of things you can study with charters, and even more interestingly, the scale ...

IMC 2: gender and the purposes of history from magistra 122 days old

The paper I heard at the International Medieval Congress that got the most varied reactions was probably Jeff Rider from Wesleyan University on 'The ...

IMC 1: what are the unorthodox saying? from magistra 124 days old

Although the special theme for this year's International Medieval Congress was 'Heresy and Orthodoxy', I didn't actually go to many sessions on the topic. ...

Bloggers meet-up at IMC [UPDATED] from magistra 138 days old

Several of us who are going to be at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds in a week's time thought it would be good to have a bloggers' meet-up ...

IMC reflections (3): Envy and community from magistra 847 days old

While I always find the International Medieval Congress fascinating, it’s also a gruelling event. Partly, that’s just the intellectual and physical pace ...

IMC Reflections (2) The non-significant Carolingian body from magistra 853 days old

There were a couple more papers from IMC that also got me thinking about Carolingian matters, ironically by concentrating on fifth and sixth century ...

IMC reflections (1): prophets and courtiers from magistra 859 days old

I was too tired to blog while at the International Medieval Congress this year, so here is the first of several reflections on the event. This isn’t ...

International Medieval Congress 3 from magistra 1583 days old

Some rather belated comments on my last (part) day at IMC. I started with two sessions on life cycles: youth and then masculinity (which I was speaking ...

International Medieval Congress 2 from magistra 1591 days old

A hot, tiring and very interesting day yesterday (Tues 12th). I did the full works – four sessions, plus the evening Medieval Academy of America lecture ...