Upcoming events
9 December 2025, online: discussion with Melanie Shaffer on her ‘Signs of Song in Medieval Iberia’ UKRI project
10 February 2026, online: discussion of Karin Largergren’s recent book, Birgittine Chantscapes: Chant and Liturgy in the Order of St Birgitta of Sweden, 14th–21st Century (Uppsala, 2025)
7 April 2026, online: informal peer-review of ECR work (please get in touch if you’d like to submit works in progress for us to discuss)
9 June 2026, online: discussion with Elizabeth Eva Leach on her recent book, Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders (Cornell, 2024).
11 August 2026, online: informal peer-review of early career researcher work (please get in touch if you’d like to submit works in progress for us to discuss). This is intended to be a friendly and constructive forum for development.
All members welcome. To register for these events, please contact secretary@plainsong.org.uk
Past events
AGM 2025: Online, 8th October 2025
PMMS Reading Group: 7 October 2025: discussion with Margaret Bent on her recent book, The Motet in the Middle Ages (Oxford, 2023)
Study Day and AGM 2024: Peterborough, 25th May 2024
Study Day and AGM 2023: Oxford, 10th June 2023
Study Day and AGM 2022: Cambridge, 3rd December 2022
AGM 2021: Online, 4th December 2021
AGM 2019: Oxford, 5th December 2019
Study Day and AGM 2018: Oxford, 20th October 2018
Study Day: Oxford, 20th January 2018
Study Day and AGM 2017: Worcester Cathedral, 13th May 2017
Workshop: Palaeography of Old Hispanic Manuscripts: Music, Text and Beyond: Lisbon, 4th May 2017
The Ranworth Symposium: St Helen’s Church, Ranworth, 30th April 2016
Study Day and AGM 2016: Northumbria University, 9th April 2016
Study Day: John Rylands Library, Manchester: 13th November 2015