Mediaeval Studies Research Seminar Programme

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Programme for Candlemas Semester 2013
Meeting on Monday 5.15 pm in the Old Class Library, St John’s House, unless otherwise stated

4 February Dr Andrew Peacock (St Andrews)
  "Nomads and elites on the Byzantine-Muslim frontier in the early 13th century"
   
11 February Dr Alice Rio (Kings College, London)
Penal slavery in the early Middle Ages
   
18 February Dr Helen Birkett (Exeter)
  Signa plura et permaxima: Visionary Culture at Melrose Abbey c.1200’
   
25 February Dr Justine Firnhaber-Baker (St Andrews)
  A son de cloche: The interpretation of public order and legitimate authority in northern France, 1355–58  
 
4 March Professor Warren Brown (CalTech)
  Images of the laity in Carolingian formula collections
   
11 March Dr Barbara Bombi (Kent)
  'Anglo-papal relations in the early fourteenth century. Was the papacy's move to Avignon a turning point?'
   
1 April Dr Victoria Whitworth (UHI, Orkney)
  Beyond the Hiberno-Norse: Sculputral Evidence for an Irish Clerical Presence in 10th and 11th-century Northumbria
   
8 April Professor Elizabeth Zachariadou (Athens)
  The Kariye Cami and the Eastern Preferences of its Late Byzantine Donor
   
15 April Professor Peter Coss (Cardiff)
  Literacy and Entertainment in the Medieval Manor House
   
22 April Dr Therese Martin (Madrid)
  ERC-Funded Collaborative Research on Medieval Art: The Actions by and Impact on Royal Women
   
29 April Professor Bryan Ward-Perkins (Oxford)
  'Continuity' and 'discontinuity': the post-Roman Germanic West and Arab East contrasted