Dr Ellen Gallimore

@emgallimore.bsky.social

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Recently completed PhD at @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social, studying early medieval literature, tithes, 19th C. medievalism, tithes, English church history, tithes, historiography, and tithes. p/t PS staff at @manchester.ac.uk & @imc-leeds.bsky.social

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A call for papers for Building Scientific Communities: The Transmission of the Quadrivium in the Early Medieval Period (c. 300-1000 C.E.), with an invitation to contact robyn.stewart@york.ac.uk with submissions.
Schedule for three Leeds IMC sessions on Thursday 9 July from 9:00-10:30, 11:15-12:45, and 14:15-15:45.
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A poster of the scheduling of three sessions on Old English in the Long 19th Century taking place on Thursday 09 July at the Leeds International Medieval Congress
The staff list for the International Medieval Congress 2026
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Disappointed guy meme format: top image of man looking exited reads "nineteenth-century historian says he used a medieval manuscript as a source". Bottom image of man looking disappointed reads "Reference is to Wanley's 1705 Catalogue".
Call for papers for the 2026 Leeds IMC for "Old English in the Long 19th Century". Deadline 1 Sept. 2025. Description reads: Throughout the long 19th c., various advances were made in the study of Old English, ranging from the 1st edition of Beowulf (1815) the outlining of OE metre by Eduard Sievers, as well as discoveries of such OE texts as the Vercelli Book, the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary and the Brussels Cross. When approaching OE in the 21st c., it is impossible to deny the impact of 19th-c. scholarship. When we refer to titles of such OE poems as The Wanderer, The Seafarer and The Wife’s Lament, we are using titles bestowed on these texts by 19th-c. scholars. Several standard editions of OE texts were made in the 19th c. or heavily rely on earlier, 19th-c. editions. Lexicographical tools with a relevance for OE, including Bosworth and Toller’s An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, A Thesaurus of Old English and the Oxford English Dictionary, also have their roots firmly in 19th-c. philological practices and how OE is taught still relies on paradigms and set texts from the 19th c. Thus, when studying OE, we often have to engage with material on multiple temporal levels, considering not just our own concepts of the early medieval period but also how that period was understood by 19th-c. scholars. Paper proposals are welcome from scholars from all academic backgrounds. Possible topics include but are not limited to: - Discoveries of OE texts - Disputes about linguistic or literary interpretations of OE - Disciplinary developments in the field of OE studies - Personal, religious, political and ideological motivations for the study of OE - Biographical contributions about scholars of OE - Scholarly correspondence on OE matters - Editing and printing of OE texts - Teaching of OE Please send an abstract (300 words) to Rachel A. Fletcher (r.a.fletcher@hum.leidenuniv.nl), Ellen Gallimore (ellen.gallimore@york.ac.uk) and Thijs Porck (m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl).
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A red brick Tudor building in the sunshine at King's Manor in York
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Exterior of a tithe barn with a red-tiled pitched roof. Credit Wikimedia Commons.
Excerpt from IMC Leeds programme showing session 1534 "Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century, I: Early Medieval History and Culture".
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A printed German homework assignment. The top in bold asks the student to write about their favourite club, pub, bar or restaurant in Manchester. The student has responded in low-level German about a branch of Greggs on Oxford Road, espousing the quality of their bacon sandwiches and the friendliness of the staff.
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