Timothy Glover published a journal article in Mediaeval Studies, demonstrating that a manuscript in Shrewsbury School contains the only surviving original version of Richard Rolle’s Emendatio vitae: i.e. the most popular work by the most disseminated late-medieval English writer. All other 120 surviving copies and all editions in print are now shown to be an abridgement […]

Professor Anthony Bale gave an invited lecture at the Cambridge Group for Irish Studies Seminar on 2 December 2025. On 4 December he gave an invited lecture, ‘Witchcraft in the Fourteenth Century: Texts, Contexts and Challenges’, at the University of Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies.

On Thursday 15th-Friday 16th January, the Medieval Ideas Creative Laboratory will be hosting a symposium on Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages today and tomorrow. Confirmed speakers include Anthony Bale, Elizabeth Boyle, Kristen Haas Curtis, Isabel Davis, Irina Dumitrescu, Amy Jeffs, Laura Varnam, Stacie Vos, James Wade. All are welcome but spaces are strictly […]

Author & columnist Caitlin Moran chose the episode on English medieval mystic Margery Kempe. Link to listen to the episode: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b… This ‘In Our Time’ episode was first broadcast in June 2016.

PACE (Professional and Continuing Education) is the home of the Centre for Creative Writing at University of Cambridge. This year, we announced our updated part-time Master’s in Creative Writing course, where students will have the opportunity to study poetry across two years at Newnham College. To mark the occasion, we’re collaborating with Propel Magazine to launch […]

Core to the performance work of Elaine Mitchener is her commitment to poetry and literature, which emerges as a complex sonic engagement with many 20th century writers, from N.H Pritchard and Edward Kamau Brathwaite, to Una Marson and Aime Cesaire. Mitchener has collaborated with musicians and artists such as Sonia Boyce, The Otolith Collective, Moor […]

Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has published a chapter on Arundhati Roy in Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives. Turning to Roy’s 2017 novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, the chapter asks how her representation of vulture extinction challenges the ways we tend to think about species endangerment. Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives is […]

This symposium will think about how narratives of risk are employed in legal and social institutions and how emergent narratives of risk are driving new forms of legal inquiry and ways of thinking about criminal responsibility. It will draw together legal scholars, criminologists, journalists, and narrative theorists to investigate the question of risky character in […]

The 2025 Henn Lecture at St Catharine’s College will be given by Hester Lees-Jeffries (University Associate Professor and Fellow) on 1 December at 5.30pm. Entitled ‘Shakespeare and the early modern textile imagination’, it will present material from her new book, Textile Shakespeare, and will be followed by a drinks reception to celebrate the book’s publication. […]

Available on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0mgcl37 Or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/44fHgV6uJqaFiGL1oYdjVQ Catch up on other recent broadcasts by Prof. Hurley on: AI, beauty, language.