Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Centre of Medieval and Rennaissance Studies

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 (William.M.Aird@ed.ac.uk).

2012/2013, Semester 1

25 September 2012	Prof. Carol Neuman de Vegvar Ohio Wesleyan University	Wayfaring Strangers: The Roles of Expats and Itinerant Objects in Insular Drinking Horns
2 October 2012	Dr Tamar Herzig Tel Aviv University	Dante, Ficino, and the Problem of Female Stigmatization
9 October 2012	Dr Tom Brown University of Edinburgh	Non Roma sed Ravenna aeterna? The "long late antiquity" and urban continuity in Ravenna
16 October 2012	Dr Talat Ahmed University of Edinburgh	Some reflections on the "Asiatic Mode of Production in India"
23 October 2012	Dr Sarah Carpenter University of Edinburgh	The Politics of Unreason: Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis and the political practices of folly
30 October 2012	Prof. Chris Fletcher Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale, Paris I	PALM: A project for the semi-automatic lemmatisation of later medieval political texts (Middle English, French and Latin)
6 November 2012	Dr Sara Parvis University of Edinburgh	Vandal Arianism - minority identity or a new Catholicism?
13 November 2012	Dr Angus Vine University of Edinburgh	Search and retrieval in seventeenth-century miscellanies
20 November 2012	Prof. Sam Cohn University of Glasgow	Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns
27 November 2012	Prof. Peter Coss Cardiff University	Gentry Entertainment

2011/2012, Semester 2

17 January 2012	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)
24 January 2012	Dr Scott Ashley Newcastle University	What did Louis the Pious See in the Night Sky? The Carolingians and Halley's Comet, 837
31 January 2012	Dr Stephen Penn University of Stirling	"Matrimonium quid proprie sit": John Wyclif on the Sacrament of Marriage
7 February 2012	Prof. Judith Green University of Edinburgh	The Normans, Northern England, and Scotland
14 February 2012	Prof. Michael Angold University of Edinburgh	Historical Turning Points: 1204 and 1453 compared
21 February 2012	Dr Jane Gilbert University College London	Outside France? Hainault Connections
28 February 2012	Dr Anna Groundwater and Dr James Loxley University of Edinburgh	Parvenus, patrons, and inebriated parsons: on the road with Ben Jonson, 1618
6 March 2012	Prof. Richard Gameson Durham University	The Earliest English Royal Books
13 March 2012	Dr Debra Strickland University of Glasgow	"Ethiopians" and the Problem of "Race" in Late Medieval Art and Thought
3 April 2012	Prof. Alison Findlay Lancaster University	"Youth's a stuff will not endure": Boy actors and women's parts

2011/2012, Semester 1

20 September 2011	Brenda Bolton University of London	"Obeying the Call of Faith": Behind the Scenes at the Fourth Lateran Council
27 September 2011	Dr Michael Staunton University College Dublin	Interpreting the Recent Past in Angevin England
4 October 2011	Prof. Ian Maclean All Souls, University of Oxford	Scholarship, commerce, religion: the Frankfurt Book Fair in its heyday (1570-1615)
18 October 2011	Dr Damien Kempf University of Liverpool	"A king, a portrait and a book": Frederick Barbarossa and the Third Crusade
25 October 2011	Dr Tim Greenwood University of St Andrews	Sixth-century Armenian Silver: The Narses Cross
1 November 2011	Dr Laura Moretti University of St Andrews	"The Churches with singing walls." The Ospedali Grandi in Venice in the Renaissance
8 November 2011	Dr Simon MacLean University of St Andrews	Palaces, kingdoms and itinerant kingship in post-Carolingian Europe
15 November 2011	Prof. Jose Maria Perez Fernandez University of Granada	Translation and the Early Modern Idea of Europe
22 November 2011	Dr John Richards University of Glasgow	"Fat-Faced Frankie": the early portraits of Petrarch
29 November 2011	Prof. Sarah Hutton University of Aberystwyth	The Platonism of Ralph Cudworth: Renaissance or Modern?

2010/2011, Semester 2

11 January 2011	Dr Roger Collins University of Edinburgh	The Eunuch, the Forger and the Lost Histories of Early Medieval Spain
18 January 2011	Dr Miranda Anderson University of Edinburgh	"Look what thy memory cannot contain": Extending the Renaissance Mind’
25 January 2011	Dr Luke Sunderland Durham University	"Se cenefie la guerre a maintenir": Feud in the Chansons de geste
1 February 2011	Dr Stuart Airlie University of Glasgow	Good-bye, sweet prince; show-trials and the unmaking of princes in the Carolingian era
8 February 2011	Dr Ian Astley University of Edinburgh	The idea of "Middle Ages" - A view from the other end of the Eurasian land-mass
22 February 2011	Dr Nicola Clarke University of Oxford	Make your fortune, lose your head: military careers on the eastern borders of Islam in the early eighth century
1 March 2011	Dr Donal Cooper University of 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 2011	Dr Helen Birkett IASH Fellow, University of Edinburgh	Telling Tales: Cistercians, Narratives and Networks in Britain c.1200
15 March 2011	Dr Enrico Cirelli Università di Bologna	From Villa to Palace: the Imperial residence of Ravenna between Myth and Archaeology
22 March 2011	Dr Amira Bennison University of Cambridge	Tribal Identities and the Formation of the Almohad Élite in 12th Century Morocco: the salutary tale of Ibn 'Atiyya
11 May 2011	Dr Eyal Poleg Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh	Living or Weaving - the Bible in Liturgy and Preaching in Late Medieval England

2010/2011, Semester 1

21 September 2010	Prof. Michelle Brown University of London	The Lost Kingdom: Mercian Mss, the Staffordshire Hoard and other recent discoveries
28 September 2010	Dr James Fraser University of Edinburgh	Beyond Matriliny: unity, plurality and the Picts
5 October 2010	Dr Len Scales Durham University	The once-and-future Kaiser: expecting the emperor in late medieval Germany
12 October 2010	Prof. Beth Robertson University of Glasgow	Formel/Formal Subjectivity: Consent to Marriage, Parliamentary Identity, and Intersubjectivity in Geoffrey Chaucer’s "The Parliament of Fowles"
19 October 2010	Stephen Holmes University of Edinburgh	The Aberdeen Liturgists: Worship and Reform in Renaissance Scotland
26 October 2010	Dr Gianlucca Raccagni University of 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 2010	Dr Andrew Gordon University of Aberdeen	The comic afterlife on the early modern stage
9 November 2010	Prof. Alison Brown Royal Holloway, University of London	The impact of Lucretius in Renaissance Florence: some further thoughts
16 November 2010	Dr Helena Carr University of St Andrews	From Raetia Prima to Churraetia: The development of an early medieval Alpine Pass-State
23 November 2010	Dr Maria Cristina Carile Università di Bologna	Imperial Weddings and Dome Mosaics: Thessaloniki in the First Half of the Fifth Century
30 November 2010	Dr Ross Balzaretti University of Nottingham and University of St Andrews	Liguria in the Early Middle Ages

2009/2010, Semester 2

19 January 2010	Crystal Lubinsky University of Edinburgh	Male Nuns, Female Monks and Transvestite Saints: Switching Sexualities in Early Medieval Christianity
26 January 2010	Prof. Michael Lynch University of Edinburgh	Scotland’s first Protestant coronation: revolutionaries and the culture of nostalgia
2 February 2010	Prof. Julie Sanders University of Nottingham	Making Space in the drama of Ben Jonson
9 February 2010	Dr Jane Hawkes University of York	Design and Definition. Revisualising "Rome" in Anglo-Saxon Sculpture
16 February 2010	Dr Bronach Kane Queen Mary, University of London	Memory, Gender and Social Practice in Late Medieval England
23 February 2010	Dr Pádraic Moran National University of Ireland, Galway	Teaching advanced Latin in the ninth century: The St Gall Priscian glosses
2 March 2010	Dr Alan Macniven University of Edinburgh	Churches, Cows and the Causes of the Viking Age
9 March 2010	Prof. Paul Stephenson Durham University	Byzantine military martyrdom, c. 600-c.970 joint seminar with Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar
16 March 2010	Dr Debra Higgs Strickland University of Glasgow	The Problem of the Prophet in Late Medieval Christian Art
23 March 2010	Dr Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe King’s College London	Beasts, dragons and monsters: the late antique diabolical imagination

2009/2010, Semester 1

22 September 2009	Dr Tony Hunt University of Oxford	Gautier de Coinci - admiring reflections
29 September 2009	Prof. Chris Black University of Glasgow	Writing a history of the Italian Inquisition
6 October 2009	Dr Rob Maslen University of Glasgow	The Early English Novel in Antwerp: the Impact of Jan van Doesborch
13 October 2009	Dr Rob Collins Newcastle University	The impact of the Roman frontier on the emergence of the kingdom of Northumbria
20 October 2009	Dr Richard Flower University of Cambridge	Nobody Does It Better: Epiphanius of Salamis and the Birth of Heresiological Authority
27 October 2009	Dr Bill Aird Cardiff University	St Anselm of Canterbury and the Norman court: How feeble was the "old sheep"?
3 November 2009	Prof. Thomas Noble University of Notre Dame, Indiana	Charlemania: Writing Charlemagne, 800-2009
10 November 2009	Prof. Sylvia Huot University of Cambridge	Vain Images and Visual Monuments: Ecphrasis, Memory, and History in the Prose Lancelot and the Roman de Perceforest
17 November 2009	Prof. Peter Heather King’s College London	Predatory Migration and the First Millennium
24 November 2009	Katherine Wilson University of St Andrews	Material Ambition: The tapissiers of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless c.1363-1419
1 December 2009	Prof. Gerald Hawting SOAS, University of London	The Resurgence of Sacrifice: Islamic Ritual and Animal Slaughter joint seminar with Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar

2008/2009, Semester 1

30 September 2008	Dr Bryan Ward-Perkins Trinity College, University of Oxford	The Disappearance, and Reappearance, of Public Statues, 300-1300 AD
7 October 2008	Dr John Maddicott Exeter College, University of Oxford	Political Theatre and Popular Politics: The General Oath of Fealty to King John and Prince Henry, 1209
14 October 2008	Dr Emila Jamroziak University of Leeds	How to be a successful Cistercian monastery - some lessons from Northern Europe (12-14th cents.) joint seminar with Scottish History Research Seminar
21 October 2008	Dr John McGavin University of Southampton	Spectatorship and Community in Late Medieval Theatre
28 October 2008	Dr Andrew Marsham University of Edinburgh	The invention of the oath of allegiance in Islam
4 November 2008	Dr Sam Turner Newcastle University	Making Christian landscapes: the Atlantic 'microkingdoms' of the early middle ages
11 November 2008	Prof. John Hudson University of St Andrews	Legal knowledge and legal reasoning in twelfth-century England: from the Leges to Glanvill
18 November 2008	Dr Sarah Cockram University of Edinburgh	Courtly Creatures: Animals and Image Construction at the Court of Isabella d’Este joint seminar with Modern History Seminar
25 November 2008	Dr Matthew Hammond University of Edinburgh	Scotland in the 12th and 13th centuries: Anglicization or Scotticization?
2 December 2008	Dr Louise Haywood Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge	Nostalgia, Translatio and the Ornament of the World: The Literary Historical Reception of Islamo-Christian Medieval Iberia/Al-Andalus
9 December 2008	Prof. Sam Cohn University of Glasgow	The evolution of plague and thought from the Black Death to the seventeenth century

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