Medieval Seminars: Programme for Candlemas Semester 2025
Mondays at 5.15pm
All events will be held in person in Parliament Hall unless otherwise indicated
Week two 3rd February – Graham Barrett (Durham)
De viris illustribus: on the organisation and transmission of knowledge in medieval Western Europe
Chair: James Palmer
Week three 10th February – Barry Lewis (Dublin Institute for Advanced Study)
Narratives of early British Christianity in Jocelin’s Life of St Kentigern and other 12th-century texts
Chair: Alex Woolf
Week four 17th February – Alison More (Bullough Fellow/Toronto St Michael’s College)
The Other Sister: Non-Cloistered Women Religious and the Search for Identity”
Chair: Alison Beach
Week five 24th February – Robin Whelan (Liverpool)
How to be Both: Models of Christian Political Service in Late Antiquity.
Chair: Caroline Humfress
Week six 10th March – Elizabeth Rowe (Cambridge)
Scotland in the Medieval Icelandic Annals
Chair: Alex Woolf
Week seven 17th March – John Blair – joint with School of English
Why Did the Dead Walk in Medieval and Reformation Europe?
Chair: Christine Rauer
Week eight 24th March – John Arnold (Cambridge). Annual SAIMS lecture
Inquisitors, usury and witchcraft in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries
Chair: Victoria Turner
Week nine 31st March – John Sabapathy (UCL)
Anachronic Cockaigne: experiments with the history of a non-existent land
Chair: Frances Andrews
Week eleven 14th April – Jessica Barker (Courtauld)
‘In-Jokes: Art and Unruliness at Norwich Priory’
Chair: TBC