Mediaeval History Seminar Program

Martinmas Semester 2007-2008

15 October

Craig Taylor (York)

Chivalry, wisdom and writing during the Hundred Years War

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22 October 

Virginie Pektas (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Deus est intellectus et intelligere et est ipsum intelligere fundamentum ipsius esse. Augustine and the Eckhartian theory of the intellect

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29 October

David Dumville (Aberdeen)

A dead letter? The first surviving will of a king of England

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5 November 
              
Frederik Pedersen (Aberdeen)

Kings, clerics, canon law and crusading. Some reflections on Scandinavia in Europe, c.980-1120

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19 November             

Elizabeth Tyler (York)

Reading through the Conquest: The 'Life of King Edward' and the Women of Wilton Abbey

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26 November             

Andrew Reynolds (UCL)

Headstakes and heathen burials: the archaeology of judicial execution in Anglo-Saxon England

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3 December               

John Watts (Oxford)

The dynamics of politics in later medieval Europe, c.1300-c.1500

 

 

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