Medieval Seminars: Programme for Michaelmas Semester 2025
Mondays at 5.15pm
All events will be held in person in Parliament Hall unless otherwise indicated
Week 2 Monday 22 September 2025, Lindy Brady (Liverpool)
Multilingualism in the Viking Age
Chair: Simon Maclean
Week 3 Monday 29 September 2025, Simon Maclean (St Andrews)
Worrying about queenship in the Carolingian Life of Empress Helena.
Chair: James Palmer
Week 4 Monday 6 October 2025, John Arnold (Cambridge)
“Firmiter credimus”: The Changing Dynamics of Lay Belief
Chair: Ana del Campo
Professor Arnold’s lecture will be followed by a workshop on Tuesday 7 October, 11am-1pm for MLitt and PhD students and any colleagues who wish to join. Details to follow.
Week 5 Monday 13 October 2025, Raphaela Rohrhofer (St Andrews)
Nothings of Consequence: Contemplative Nothingness in the Late Medieval British Isles and Beyond
Chair: Ian Johnson
Week 7 Monday 27 October 2025, Markus Ritter (Vienna)
Joint with Art History and Iranian Studies
Portraiture in Medieval Islamic Art: Type, Individuality, and Visual Commentary in Thirteenth-Century Book Painting
Chair: Yusen Yu
Week 8 Monday 3 November 2025, Robert Bartlett (St Andrews)
‘East’ and ‘West’ in the Middle Ages
Chair: Alex Woolf
Week 9 Monday 10 November 2025, Lili Scott Lintot (St Andrews)
“An immense accumulation of wretchedness”: Grief in the Conflict Between Henry II and Thomas Becket
Chair: Caroline Humfress
Week 10 Monday 17 November 2025, Simon Parsons (Bristol)
The Social Function of the Twelfth-Century Crusade Epic
Chair: Angus Stewart
Week 11 Monday 24 November 2025, Lucy Sackville (York)
On the Road: an Early Fourteenth-Century Inquisitor and his Handbook
Chair: Frances Andrews