SAIMS - St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies

08/10/2024

We are looking forward to the visit of Dr Alison More (Toronto) as this year's Bullough Fellow! Read more here: https://saims.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/dr-alison-more-bullough-fellow-24-5/

06/10/2022

Please join Dr Christine Rauer (University of St Andrews) for "Where was Mercian Spoken? Brixworth, its Old English Dialect and the limits of Anglo-Saxon Mercia" on Saturday October 29th, 2022 at All Saints Church in Brixworth!

20/09/2022

The Medieval Reading Group has been renewed for a second season! Anyone interested in participating can email Roberta Marangi ([email protected]) or Dr Martha Baldon ([email protected]) a line and they will be added to the list.

https://bit.ly/3Uocn9p

14/09/2022

SAIMS is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 seminar series for semester 1.

In light of the Queen’s funeral on 19 September, next week’s seminar has been postponed to a later date and we shall start in Week 3.

18/07/2022

Congratulations to winner Carole Lamble (University of Bristol) and proxime Chris Halstead (University of Virginia) for the SAIMS/TMJ Essay Prize Competition! Check out our new post to read about our winners and for news about the next application cycle.

SAIMS is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 SAIMS/TMJ Essay Prize Competition! Winner: Carole Lamble (University of Bristol) Speaking from the floor: explain the presence and purpose of Va…

02/06/2022

“Goodbye to the Vikings”

“The term ‘Viking’ as it is commonly used is misleading, warping our perception of the Middle Ages. It should be retired”

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/goodbye-vikings?fs=e&s=cl&fbclid=IwAR11XpWG5NW9fwg3dZNxKk_FhlTEEIarpoDgyGiwu9quyEnXzpZZjCsA4C0&fs=e&s=cl

Behind the Times Goodbye to the Vikings The term ‘Viking’ as it is commonly used is misleading, warping our perception of the Middle Ages. It should be retired. Alex Woolf | Published in History Today Volume 72 Issue 6 June 2022 Ben Jones (detail). There was no such thing as a ‘Viking’ in th...

19/05/2022

Call for Volunteers!

Can you help the museums team with an event?

"For our current exhibition on Medieval St Andrews, we are running monthly sessions on Saturday's called 'I want to be a... '. These run for a couple of hours, from 1pm to 3pm, with an academic coming from a department to talk about a career path, followed by participants having a chance to take part in a related activity.

The main aim of these events is for widening participation and admissions to St Andrews and give participants the opportunity to see what careers they could go into after studying different subjects at university. We are looking for a fun, hands-on activity connected to the specific career and theme, with an opportunity for participants to chat about studying at St Andrews as well.

Our next session is Saturday 28th May and called 'I want to be a Super Sleuth', looking at palaeography and how historians can decipher and read historical texts.

Please let us know if there would be anyone interested in helping and if anyone has any further queries at all or would like to chat more about the event."

With kind regards

Sophie
[email protected]

09/03/2022

Please join SAIMS PGR tonight for a very interesting paper given by the wonderful Rosalie Bernheim and chaired by Guy Fassler:

Menstruation in Medieval Judaism

We will meet tonight in the New Seminar Room in St John's House and on TEAMS. The room will open by 5.15pm for a 5.30pm start.

06/03/2022

Following a combination of Spring break and strikes, the SAIMS seminar series will start up again tomorrow!

Professor Benjamin Saltzman (Chicago) will present "Witnessing St. Margaret, or the Frenetic Historicity of the Inconceivable". This will be held on TEAMS on Monday starting promptly at 5.15, although please join a little before this if you can!

You can access the seminar via this link:

27/02/2022

Call for Entries!

The Murray Medal, together with a prize of £200, is awarded biennially for an outstanding piece of research of up to 12,000 words on the history or historical heritage of St Andrews. Judged by academic stafffrom the School of History, the prize may be
awarded for work in any branch of history, including art history, architectural history, curatorship).

Entries will be accepted to [email protected] until June 24th 2022, 5pm. The winner will be announced on September 25th.

We look forward to receiving your entries!

27/02/2022

The Department of Medieval History at the University of St
Andrews invites applications for the Donald Bullough Fellowship, to be taken up during either semester of the academic year 2022-2023.

You should send a letter of application by the advertised closing date, together with a scheme of research for the project on which you will be engaged during your time in St Andrews. You
should also enclose a CV, together with the names of two academic referees, who should be asked to write by the closing date. All correspondence should be addressed to [email protected]

The closing date for applications is Friday 25th March. Previous applicants should not be deterred from applying.

Further enquiries may be addressed to the Departmental Chair, Dr Felicity Hill ([email protected]).