Graduate Centre For Medieval Studies
The Institute for Medieval Studies (IMS) at the University of Leeds, founded in 1967, is a leading research and teaching institute in the field of medieval studies. It is home to the International Medieval Bibliography and the International Medieval Congress. History Precursors Although Leeds University had seen lively intellectual activity in medieval studies throughout its history, the first formal precursor to the Institute for Medieval Studies was Leeds's 'Medieval Group', founded in October 1951. The group would gather to hear academic papers on relevant topics, preceded by 'sherry in the Chairman's room' and followed 'by supper'. Early chairs were John Le Patourel (1951–71), J. R. Wilkie (1971-77), and A. C. Cawley (1978–79); secretaries were Kenneth William Humphreys (1951–52), A. C. Cawley (1952-59), and William Rothwell (1959-?); and treasurers included Glanville Rees Jeffrey Jones (1951–71).R. L. Thomson, 'Preface', ''A Medieval Miscellany: Essays by Past a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Parkinson Building, University Of Leeds
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Peter Meredith
Peter Meredith (born Ross-on-Wye 1933) was, prior to retirement, a lecturer in medieval and early modern English language and literature. He was editor of the journal '' Leeds Studies in English'' from around 1978 to 1981 and chaired its editorial board from 1985 until his retirement. He was also an editor of ''Medieval English Theatre''.Catherine Batt and Lesley Johnson,Editorial Preface, ''Leeds Studies in English'', n. s. 29 (1998), xi-xiii. He is particularly noted for his contributions, through editing, research, and performance, to the study of medieval English theatre.John Marshall, 'Introduction', in Peter Meredith, The Practicalities of Early English Performance: Manuscripts, Records, and Staging: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies', ed. by John Marshall (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018), xiii-xvii. Career Meredith lived and studied in Southampton, Bideford and Eastleigh, followed by undertaking national service in the Royal Air Force. From 1953-57 he was an under ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Leeds University Union
Leeds University Union (LUU) is the representative body for the students at the University of Leeds, England. It is led by a group of student sabbatical officers known as the Student Executive, and supported by around 140 full-time staff members, with up to 500 student members of staff at peak times, as well as hundreds of dedicated volunteers. The organisation's aim is to ensure that students love their time at Leeds, by representing, supporting and advising students to improve their academic experience and welfare, and through the provision of social activities. LUU represents students and their interests to the University of Leeds, as well as on a local and national scale. It was the first Students' Union in the country to be re-verified as 'Excellent' in the NUS Quality Students' Union accreditation in 2019, and continues to hold a Green Impact award at “Excellent” standard and the highest possible standard for the Best Bar None quality mark. History The current Union ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alaric Hall
Alaric Hall (born 1979) is a British philologist who is an associate professor of English and director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. He has, since 2009, been the editor of the academic journal '' Leeds Studies in English'' and its successor ''Leeds Medieval Studies''. Biography Hall received his B.A. in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from the University of Cambridge, his M.Phil. in Medieval Studies from the University of Glasgow, and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Glasgow. His Ph.D. thesis was on elves in Anglo-Saxon England. He has subsequently become an associate professor of English and director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. Hall researches and teaches the languages, cultures and history of Northwest Europe in the Middle Ages. He has written and edited several works on these subjects. Hall is also an authority on Icelandic language and literature. His 2007 book ''Elves in Anglo-Saxon England ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Emilia Jamroziak
Emilia Jamroziak is professor of medieval religious history at the University of Leeds. Jamroziak is a specialist in medieval British and European religious history of the 12th to the 16th centuries, the Cistercian order, and frontiers and borders in medieval Europe. She was the director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds from 2016 to 2019. Jamroziak took her BA at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, her MA at Central European University, and her PhD University of Leeds (where her thesis, submitted in 2001, was entitled 'Rievaulx Abbey and its social environment, 1132-1300'). She was the recipient of the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, which she held at the TU Dresden in 2015–2016. and in 2019-2020 she is a holder of MWK-COFUND fellowship at the Max Weber Kolleg at the University of Erfurt. Selected publications *''The Cistercian Order in Medieval Europe 1090-1500''. Routledge, 2013. (Medieval World Series) *''Monaster ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Julia Barrow
Julia is usually a feminine given name. It is a Latinate feminine form of the name Julio and Julius. (For further details on etymology, see the Wiktionary entry "Julius".) The given name ''Julia'' had been in use throughout Late Antiquity (e.g. Julia of Corsica) but became rare during the Middle Ages, and was revived only with the Italian Renaissance. It became common in the English-speaking world only in the 18th century. Today, it is frequently used throughout the world. Statistics Julia was the 10th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2007 and the 88th most popular name for women in the 1990 census there. It has been among the top 150 names given to girls in the United States for the past 100 years. It was the 89th most popular name for girls born in England and Wales in 2007; the 94th most popular name for girls born in Scotland in 2007; the 13th most popular name for girls born in Spain in 2006; the 5th most popular name for girls born in Sweden ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Graham Loud
Graham Anthony Loud (born 1953) is a professor emeritus of medieval history at the University of Leeds. Loud is a specialist in the history of southern Italy during the Central Middle Ages (tenth to thirteenth centuries), and also in German history in the Staufen period.Thomas Ernst Josef Wiedemann">Thomas Wiedemann(Manchester Medieval Translations 1998), xvii + 286 pp. *''Conquerors and Churchmen in Norman Italy'' (Variorum Collected Studies Series, Aldershot 1999), xii + 314 pp. *''Montecassino and Benevento in the Middle Ages. Essays in South Italian Church History'' (Variorum Collected Studies Series, Aldershot 2000), xi + 334 pp. *''The Age of Robert Guiscard: Southern Italy and the Norman Conquest'' ( Harlow: Longman/Pearson Education 2000), xii + 329 pp. *''The Society of Norman Italy'', edited by G.A. Loud & A. Metcalfe ( Leiden: Brill, 2002), xx + 347 pp. *''The Latin Church in Norman Italy'' (Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the university ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Royal Armouries Museum
The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a national museum which displays the National Collection of Arms and Armour. It is part of the Royal Armouries family of museums, with other sites at the Royal Armouries' traditional home in the Tower of London, and the National Collection of Artillery at Fort Nelson, Hampshire. The Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, USA also previously housed a collection of artifacts on loan from the Royal Armouries. The Royal Armouries is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The Royal Armouries Museum is a £42.5 million purpose-built museum located in Leeds Dock that opened in 1996. Its collection was previously on display or in storage at the Tower of London where the Royal Armouries still maintains a presence and displays in the White Tower. As at all UK National Museums, entry is free, though certain extra attractions are charged for. Construction T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Richard Morris (archaeologist)
Richard Morris, OBE (born 8 October 1947) is an English archaeologist and historian who specialises in the study of churchyard and battlefield archaeology. Having been involved in the discipline since the early 1970s, he has worked at a number of British universities, including the University of Leeds and the University of Huddersfield, as well as publishing a series of books on the subject of archaeology. He has also held a number of significant positions within the British archaeological community. He was director of the Council for British Archaeology from 1991 to 1999, and was Commissioner of English Heritage. Morris studied English at Oxford University before proceeding to study music at the University of York, until he finally decided to go into archaeology as an academic vocation. His first book, ''Cathedrals and Abbeys of England and Wales'', was published in 1979, and would be followed by two others on the same subject over the following decade, ''The Church in British Ar ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Simon Forde (medievalist)
Simon Forde is a publisher and medievalist, noted as the former editor of the ''International Medieval Bibliography'' and founder of the International Medieval Congress. Education Forde completed a BA at the University of Birmingham in 1980, an MA in 1982, and a PhD in 1985, all with dissertations on late medieval English sermons. Career Following postdoctoral research positions at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto and Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford, Forde succeeded Catherine R. E. Coutts as the editor of the ''International Medieval Bibliography'' at the University of Leeds in 1988, becoming deputy director of the Leeds Centre for Medieval Studies the next year. In 1994 he founded the International Medieval Congress and Leeds's International Medieval Institute (which in 2003 became the Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies). He oversaw much of the digitisation of the formerly print-only ''Bibliography''. In 1996 he left Lee ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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University Of York
, mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £8.0 million , budget = £403.6 million , chancellor = Heather Melville , vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery , students = () , undergrad = () , postgrad = () , city = Heslington, York , country = England , campus = Heslington West, Heslington East, and King's Manor , colours = Dark blue and dark green , website = , logo = UoY_logo_with_shield_2016.png , logo_size = 250px , administrative_staff = 3,091 , affiliations = The University of York (abbreviated as or ''York'' for post-nominals) is a collegiate research university, located in the city of York, England. Established in 1963, the university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects. Situated to the south-east of the city of York, the university campus is about in size. The original campus, Campus West, incorporates the York Scien ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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University Of Reading
The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 1926 by royal charter from King George V and was the only university to receive such a charter between the two world wars. The university is usually categorised as a red brick university, reflecting its original foundation in the 19th century. Reading has four major campuses. In the United Kingdom, the campuses on London Road and Whiteknights are based in the town of Reading itself, and Greenlands is based on the banks of the River Thames in Buckinghamshire. It also has a campus in Iskandar Puteri, Malaysia. The university has been arranged into 16 academic schools since 2016. The annual income of the institution for 2016–17 was £275.3 million of which £35.4 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditur ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |