Edinburgh Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Previous Series
The current programme is available on the Events and Activities page and for more information about the Edinburgh Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, please contact the CMRS activities co-ordinator Bill Aird (waird@staffmail.ed.ac.uk).
2011/2012, Semester 2
17 January |
Dr Isabella Lazzarini
University of Durham / University of Molise |
'The Words of Emotion: Political Language and Discursive Resources in Lorenzo de Medici’s Lettere (1468-1492).'
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24 January |
Dr Scott Ashley
Newcastle University |
'What did Louis the Pious See in the Night Sky? The Carolingians and Halley's Comet, 837.'
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31 January |
Dr Stephen Penn
University of Stirling |
‘“Matrimonium quid proprie sit”: John Wyclif on the Sacrament of Marriage.’
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7 February |
Prof. Judith Green
University of Edinburgh |
‘The 'Normans, Northern England, and Scotland'.’
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14 February |
Prof. Michael Angold
University of Edinburgh |
‘Historical Turning Points: 1204 and 1453 compared.'
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21 February |
Dr Jane Gilbert
University College, London |
‘Outside France? Hainault Connections.’ |
28 February |
Dr Anna Groundwater and Dr James Loxley
University of Edinburgh |
'Parvenus, patrons, and inebriated parsons: on the road with Ben Jonson, 1618.’ |
6 March |
Prof. Richard Gameson
Durham University |
‘The Earliest English Royal Books.’ |
13 March |
Dr Debra Strickland
University of Glasgow |
‘"Ethiopians” and the Problem of "Race" in Late Medieval Art and Thought.’
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3 April |
Prof. Alison Findlay
Lancaster University |
‘"Youth's a stuff will not endure": Boy actors and women's parts’ |
2011/2012, Semester 1
20 September |
Brenda Bolton
University of London |
'"Obeying the Call of Faith": Behind the Scenes at the Fourth Lateran Council'
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27 September |
Dr Michael Staunton
University College Dublin |
'Interpreting the Recent Past in Angevin England' |
4 October |
Professor Ian Maclean
All Souls University of Oxford |
'Scholarship, commerce, religion: the Frankfurt Book Fair in its heyday (1570-1615)' |
11 October |
Dr Stephen Penn
University of Stirling |
‘“Matrimonium quid proprie sit”: John Wyclif on the Sacrament of Marriage’ |
18 October |
Dr Damien Kempf
University of Liverpool |
‘“A king, a portrait and a book”: Frederick Barbarossa and the Third Crusade' |
25 October |
Dr Tim Greenwood
University of St Andrews |
'Sixth-century Armenian Silver: The Narses Cross' |
1 November |
Dr Laura Moretti
University of St Andrews |
‘“The Churches with singing walls.” The Ospedali Grandi in Venice in the Renaissance' |
8 November |
Dr Simon MacLean
University of St Andrews |
‘Palaces, kingdoms and itinerant kingship in post-Carolingian Europe’ |
15 November |
Professor Jose Maria Perez Fernandez
University of Granada |
‘Translation and the Early Modern Idea of Europe’ |
22 November |
Dr John Richards
University of Glasgow |
‘“Fat-Faced Frankie”: the
early portraits of Petrarch' |
29 November |
Professor Sarah Hutton
University of Aberystwyth |
‘The Platonism of Ralph Cudworth: Renaissance or Modern?’
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2010/2011, Semester Two
11 January
Roger Collins, Edinburgh
‘The Eunuch, the Forger and the Lost Histories of Early Medieval Spain’
18 January
Miranda Anderson, Edinburgh
‘“Look what thy memory cannot contain”: Extending the Renaissance Mind’
25 January
Luke Sunderland, Durham
‘“Se cenefie la guerre a maintenir”: Feud in the Chansons de geste’
1 February
Stuart Airlie, Glasgow
'Good-bye, sweet prince; show-trials and the unmaking of princes in
the Carolingian era'
8 February
Ian Astley, Edinburgh
‘The idea of "Middle Ages" -- A view from the other end of the Eurasian land-mass’
22 February
Nicola Clarke, Oxford
‘Make your fortune, lose your head: military careers on the eastern borders of Islam in the early eighth century’
1 March
Donal Cooper, Warwick
‘Giotto's Stigmatization of St Francis in the Louvre and its Pisan Context'
Lila Wallace - Reader's Digest Endowment Fund Villa I Tatti' Lecture
8 March
Helen Birkett, IASH Fellow, Edinburgh
‘Telling Tales: Cistercians, Narratives and Networks in Britain c.1200’
15 March
Enrico Cirelli, Bologna
‘From Villa to Palace: the Imperial residence of Ravenna between Myth and Archaeology’
22 March
Amira Bennison, Cambridge
‘Tribal Identities and the Formation of the Almohad Élite in 12th Century Morocco: the salutary tale of Ibn 'Atiyya’
11 May
Eyal Poleg, Centre for the History of the Book, Edinburgh
'Living or Weaving - the Bible in Liturgy and Preaching in Late Medieval England'
2010/2011, Semester One
21 September
Michelle Brown, London
'The Lost Kingdom: Mercian Mss, the Staffordshire Hoard and other recent discoveries'
28 September
James Fraser, Edinburgh
‘Beyond Matriliny: unity, plurality and the Picts’
5 October
Len Scales, Durham
‘The once-and-future Kaiser: expecting the emperor in late medieval Germany’
12 October
Beth Robertson, Glasgow
‘Formel/Formal Subjectivity: Consent to Marriage, Parliamentary Identity, and Intersubjectivity in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Parliament of Fowles”’
19 October
Stephen Holmes, Edinburgh
‘The Aberdeen Liturgists: Worship and Reform in Renaissance Scotland’
26 October
Gianlucca Raccagni, Edinburgh
‘University teacher, great trickster, but also political commentator: revaluating the views of the rhetorician Boncompagno da Signa on the conflicts between the Holy Roman Emperor and the Italian Republics (1198-1245)’
2 November
Andrew Gordon, Aberdeen
‘The comic afterlife on the early modern stage’
9 November
Alison Brown, Royal Holloway
‘The impact of Lucretius in Renaissance Florence: some further thoughts ’
16 November
Helena Carr, St Andrews
‘From Raetia Prima to Churraetia: The development of an early medieval Alpine Pass-State’
23 November
Maria Cristina Carile, Bologna
‘Imperial Weddings and Dome Mosaics: Thessaloniki in the First Half of the Fifth Century ‘Liguria in the Early Middle Ages’
2009/2010, Semester Two
19 January 2010
Crystal Lubinsky, Edinburgh
‘Male Nuns, Female Monks and Transvestite Saints: Switching Sexualities in Early Medieval Christianity’
26 January 2010
Michael Lynch, Edinburgh
‘Scotland’s first Protestant coronation: revolutionaries and the culture of nostalgia’
2
February 2010
Julie Sanders, Nottingham
‘Making Space in the drama of Ben Jonson’
9 February
2010
Jane Hawkes, York
‘Design and Definition. Revisualising “Rome” in Anglo-Saxon Sculpture’
16 February
2010
Bronach Kane, Queen Mary, London
‘Memory, Gender and Social Practice in Late Medieval England’
23 February
2010
Pádraic Moran, National University of Ireland, Galway
‘Teaching advanced Latin in the ninth century: The St Gall Priscian glosses’
2 March 2010
Alan Macniven, Edinburgh
‘Churches, Cows and the Causes of the Viking Age’
9 March 2010
joint seminar with Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar
Paul Stephenson, Durham
‘Byzantine military martyrdom, c. 600-c.970’
16 March
2010
Debra Higgs Strickland, Glasgow
‘The Problem of the Prophet in Late Medieval Christian Art’
23 March
2010
Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe, King’s College, London
‘Beasts, dragons and monsters: the late antique diabolical imagination’
2009/2010, Semester One
22 September
2009
Tony Hunt, Oxford
‘Gautier de Coinci - admiring reflections’
29 September
2009
Chris Black, Glasgow
‘Writing a history of the Italian Inquisition’
6 October 2009
Rob Maslen, Glasgow
‘The Early English Novel in Antwerp: the Impact of Jan van Doesborch’
13 October
2009
Rob Collins, Newcastle
‘The impact of the Roman frontier on the emergence of the kingdom of Northumbria’
20 October 2009
Richard Flower, Cambridge
‘Nobody Does It Better: Epiphanius of Salamis and the Birth of Heresiological Authority’
27 October
2009
Bill Aird, Cardiff
‘St Anselm of Canterbury and the Norman court: How feeble was the “old sheep”?’
3 November 2009
Thomas Noble, Notre Dame, Indiana
‘Charlemania: Writing Charlemagne, 800-2009’
10 November 2009
Sylvia Huot, Cambridge
‘Vain Images and Visual Monuments: Ecphrasis, Memory, and History in the Prose Lancelot and the Roman de Perceforest’
17 November 2009
Peter Heather, King’s College, London
‘Predatory Migration and the First Millennium’
24 November 2009
Katherine Wilson, St Andrews
‘Material Ambition: The tapissiers of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless c.1363-1419’
1 December 2009
joint seminar with Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar
Gerald Hawting, SOAS
‘The Resurgence of Sacrifice: Islamic Ritual and Animal Slaughter’
2008/2009, Semester One
30 September 2008
Dr Bryan Ward-Perkins (Trinity College, Oxford)
‘The Disappearance, and Reappearance, of Public Statues, 300-1300 AD’
7 October 2008
Dr John Maddicott (Exeter College, Oxford)
‘Political Theatre and Popular Politics: The General Oath of Fealty to King John and Prince Henry, 1209’
14 October 2008
joint seminar with Scottish History Research Seminar
Dr Emila Jamroziak (School of History, University of Leeds)
‘How to be a successful Cistercian monastery - some lessons from Northern Europe (12-14th cents.) ’
21 October 2008
Dr John McGavin (English, School of Humanities, University of Southampton)
‘Spectatorship and Community in Late Medieval Theatre’
28 October 2008
Dr Andrew Marsham (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh)
‘The invention of the oath of allegiance in Islam’
4 November 2008
Dr Sam Turner (Archaeology, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
‘Making Christian landscapes: the Atlantic 'microkingdoms' of the early middle ages’
11 November 2008
Professor John Hudson (Medieval history, University of St Andrews)
‘Legal knowledge and legal reasoning in twelfth-century England: from the Leges to Glanvill’
18 November 2008
joint seminar with Modern History Seminar
Dr Sarah Cockram (History, University of Edinburgh)
‘Courtly Creatures: Animals and Image Construction at the Court of Isabella d’Este’
25 November 2008
Dr Matthew Hammond (Scottish History, University of Edinburgh)
‘Scotland in the 12th and 13th centuries: Anglicization or Scotticization?’
2 December 2008
Dr Louise Haywood (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
‘Nostalgia, Translatio and the Ornament of the World: The Literary Historical Reception of Islamo-Christian Medieval Iberia/Al-Andalus’
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December 2008
Professor Sam Cohn (Medieval History, University of Glasgow)
‘The evolution of plague and thought from the Black Death to the seventeenth century’
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