The Middle Ages in the Modern World
A One-Day Symposium
hosted by the St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies
17 October 2009

University of St Andrews
Stephen Boyd Room, Kennedy Hall, School of English
9.30am – 5.30pm

Speakers
David Matthews (Manchester): ‘Origins of English medievalism’
David Evans (St Andrews): ‘Rewriting national literary history: Francois Villon and Charles d’Orleans in nineteenth-century France’
Richard Fawcett (St Andrews): ‘Denoting the ecclesiastical: the continued use of medieval architectural forms after the Reformation’
Clare Lees (KCL): ‘Extreme pasts, absolute presents: contemporary arts and medieval materials’
Alex Woolf (St Andrews): ‘Ancient kindred: the Cruithin and the identity of Ulster’
Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones (St Andrews): ‘Developments in mediaevalist poetry and film’
Oliver Smith (St Andrews): ‘God against the world? The significance of medieval religiosity to Russian intellectuals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries’
Bill Burgwinkle (Cambridge) ‘Updating medieval sexuality: has it changed or have we?’
Louise D’Arcens (Wollongong): ‘Funding the Middle Ages: Network for Early European Research’