Playing with medieval visions, sounds, sensations

The theme for this year’s arts and humanities festival at King's was announced as ‘Play’ way back in spring 2016. A few of us PhD students in the English department had known for a while that we wanted to put together an event to explore our academic interests which sit slightly outside of our main …

CLAMS Postgrad Forum: dates for your diary

We're very happy to announce the dates for the coming year for the the CLAMS Postgrad Forum. The Forum is open to all students of medieval history, literature, and culture at King's and further afield. We meet fortnightly to discuss works in progress, practice conference papers, and test out thesis ideas. We will also share news …

Playing with medieval things: Patience Agbabi

In a series of posts, the organisers of ‘Playing with Medieval Visions, Sounds, Sensations’ explore some of the pieces of work, modern and medieval, that have inspired these workshops. see my jaw dropping neat Anglo-Saxon, I got ink in my veins more than Caxton and it flows hand to mouth, here’s a mouthfeast, verbal feats …

Booking now open: Playing with medieval visions, sounds, sensations

We are very happy to announce that booking for the Arts and Humanities Festival 2016 is now open! CLAMS PhD candidates Charlotte Rudman, Charlotte Knight, Francesca Brooks, Francesca Allfrey, Beth Whalley, and Dr Carl Kears will be facilitating four workshops exploring the physical, textual, and aural properties of medieval poems. We'll be focusing on Chaucer's …

MRG #6 – Chaucer’s Big Bang – Charlotte Rudman

Today's MRG was led by King's second year PhD researcher Charlotte, who drew imaginative and provocative comparisons between how we imagine the internet today, and Chaucer's Dream Vision poetry. Her comparisons elucidated how Chaucer imagined the functions of oral and written poetry, and suggested some anxieties that he may have felt about differences and effects …

CLAMS Colloquium 2016: Registration open now!

Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies Annual Colloquium: The Senses in the Pre-Modern World Organised by CLAMS teachers and postgraduates, this one-day event will explore sensory understanding and sensory experience in the pre-modern world from an interdisciplinary perspective. The event will feature panel discussions, a musical performance, and a plenary lecture by Dr Heather …