MATER: Medievalists Against The Extreme Right
Date 31 July 2025
31.07.2025The Extreme Right Research Network are establishing a new group to interrogate what role medievalism plays in radicalising people into extreme right spaces, and what role educators and experts in the Middle Ages can play in the vital work of combatting rising extremism.
The Extreme Right Research Network are pleased to announce the formation of a new research seminar group. Following the success of our workshop ‘Resisting Radicalisation: Medievalism and the Extreme Right’ at the 2025 The Middle Ages in the Modern World (MAMO) conference, we are establishing this group to interrogate what role medievalism plays in radicalising people into extreme right spaces, and what role we – as educators and experts in the Middle Ages – can play in the vital work of combatting rising extremism.
We will have an introductory meeting in September to establish some collective intentions for the group, and we will intend to meet quarterly thereafter. Meetings will primarily be held online on Teams, but eventually we would hope to host some in person events too.
If you are interested in joining the group, contact Rachel Moss (rachel.moss@northampton.ac.uk).
Dr Rachel Moss is an Associate Professor in History at the University of Northampton. A medievalist by training, she is a specialist in gender and family in late medieval England and is developing a new research strand on the role of medievalism in the extreme right. She has recently been awarded a British Academy and Leverhulme Small Grant for her project ‘Medievalism, gender and politicised nostalgia in the British extreme right, 1962 – 1982’.