Event Durham

Interested in history? Want to learn about cutting edge academic research? Join the Durham MEMSA course on Memory in the Medieval & Early Modern Worlds.

Memory played a central role in shaping individual and collective identities in the medieval and early modern worlds. Across Europe and beyond, practices of remembering were deeply intertwined with religion, politics, culture, and the arts. This course offers a unique opportunity to explore how memory was constructed, preserved, and utilised in various aspects of life, from dynastic legacies and religious traditions to folklore, historic sites, and everyday domestic practices. Over six weekly sessions, we will explore medieval and early modern myths and local folklore, kings, queens, and dynastic memory, memory in historic sites and monuments, supernatural beliefs and ghost stories, family traditions and domestic life, festivals, rituals, and public commemorations, forgotten voices and erased histories, as well as feasts, food, and cultural traditions.

The price for six weeks is £15. Concessions are available.

The course will run every Wednesday, 17.00-19.00pm between 14 May and 18 June and take place at 7 Owengate, DH1 3HB.

While it would be ideal to attend the whole course, if some weeks will not work, please feel free to sign up anyway.