Mediaeval Studies Research Seminar Programme

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Programme for Candlemas Semester 2012
Meeting on Monday 5.15 pm in the Old Class Library, St John’s House, unless otherwise stated

6 February Dr Sarah Bowden (Oxford)
  'The poetics of confession in 12th-century Germany'
   
13 February Dr Evrim Binbas (Royal Holloway, London)
  'The Anatomy of a Regicide Attempt: Shahrukh and Timurid Intellectuals in 830/1426-27'
   
20 February Professor Mark Ormrod (York)
  '"The common profit of king and kingdom": The development of political language in England, 1300-1450'
   
27 February Dr Mark Zumbuhl (Oxford/Manchester)
  'The emergence of queenship in pre-Norman Ireland?'
 
5 March Marianne Pollheimer (Vienna)
  "The politics of preaching - sermon collections and homilies in the early Middle Ages"
   
12 March Dr Cordula Bocking (St Andrews)
  Amazons and Wild Women: Uncourtly Femininity in Wirnt von Gravenberc's Wigalois
   
19 March Dr Juliet Mullins (Cork)
  'Visible yet indivisible: envisioning the body of Christ in early medieval Ireland' 
   
9 April Dr Marlene Hennessy (Hunter College, CUNY)
  Imaginative Piety and the Making of Books: Late Medieval Images from the Scottish Libraries and Collections
   
16 April Professor Michelle Szkilnik (Oxford)
  Illuminating the Jovencel by Jean de Bueil: text and images in a 15th century military manual
   
23 April Dr Anthea Harris (Birmingham)
  'Sacred objects in late Antiquity'
   
30 April Dr Katie Stevenson (St Andrews)
  Chivalry, British Sovereignty and Dynastic Politics in Tudor-Stewart Relations, c.1490-c.1513
   
7 May May Day Holiday - No Seminar
   
14 May Professor Lindy Grant (Reading)
  'The Great Sanctuary Pavement at Westmister Abbey and the coronation'