Medieval Studies Seminar Series 2023-2024
All in person in Parliament Hall South Street Mondays at 5.15pm
except * Thursdays Old Class Library at 5.30pm
Semester 2
Week 2 22 January Dr Mirela Ivanova (Sheffield)
Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing between Rome and Constantinople
Week 3 29 January Dr Philip Slavin (Stirling) Old Class Library Joint with MEH
A Global Disease in a De-Globalising World: Plague Pandemics in Afro-Eurasia, c.1338-1520
Week 4 5 February Dr Jamie Wood (Lincoln)
Lost Texts and Careless Readers in Visigothic Iberia
Week 5 12 February Professor Leah Tether (Bristol)
From Chrétien to Chronicles: The Compilation of Romance and Historiography in Manuscripts
Week 6 19 February Dr Sam Leggett (Edinburgh)
The Norse and the North Atlantic: fishing and migration in early medieval Scotland
Week 6* 22 February Dr Neil McGuigan (St Andrews) Joint ISHR
Scottish Kings and the Old English Past
26 February Vacation
Week 7 4 March SAIMS Annual Lecture Professor Walter Pohl (Vienna)
Where Rome really fell: the lands along the Danube in the fourth to seventh centuries
Week 8 11 March Dr Conor O’Brien (Oxford)
The Rise of Christian Kingship and the De-secularisation of the Latin West
Week 9 18 March Professor Nora Berend (Cambridge)
The wondrous life of a medieval crown: The Holy Crown of Hungary
Week 10 25 March Professor Holger Zellentin (Tübingen) Joint with ILCR
Jesus’ Confirmation of the Torah in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Week 11 1 April Professor Jennifer Jahner (Caltech)
Sir John Fortescue and the Making of Legal Science
Week 12* 11 April Kate Ash-Irisarri (University of Edinburgh) Joint with IHSR
TBC