Medieval Studies Seminar Series 2022-2023
Semester 2
All in person in Old Class Library or Parliament Hall and online on TEAMS at 5.15pm
Week 1 – Thursday 19 January
Dr Coralie Mills (St Andrews) TEAMS Only
Joint with ISHR and Archaeology Society
The precise power of the rings: Dendrochronological insights into the last millennium in Scotland
Week 2 – 23 Monday January
Dr Martha Baldon (St Andrews) Old Class Library
The Illusory World of the Grail: Sensing the self in the Queste del Saint Graal and Thomas Malory’s Tale of the Sankgreal
Week 3 – Monday 30 January
Dr Arietta Papaconstantinou (Reading) Old Class Library
Joint with ILCR
Negotiating eternity: monks, aristocrats, and phantoms
Week 4 – Monday 6 February
Professor Kathryn Smith (NYU) TEAMS
Calamity and Creativity: The Painted Histories of the Welles-Ros Bible (Paris BnF MS fr. 1)
Week 5 – Monday 13 February
Dr Roberta Cimino (St Andrews) Parliament Hall
Empress Ermengard and the Transformation of Carolingian Queenship
Week 6 – Monday 20 February
Dr Kathryn Lowe (Glasgow) Old Class Library
Continuing traditions: Old English after the Conquest in documentary contexts
Week 7 – Monday 6 March
Dr Danica Summerlin (Sheffield) Old Class Library
Papal councils and the practice of government in the twelfth century
Week 8 – Monday 13 March
Dr Sophie Ambler (Lancaster) Parliament Hall
English crown investigations of civil war combatants in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries
Week 9 – Monday 20 March
Professor Nora Berend (Cambridge) Parliament Hall
The Wondrous life of a medieval crown: ‘The Holy Crown of Hungary’
Week 9 – Thursday 23 March
Dr Bryony Coombs (Edinburgh) Old Class Library
Joint with ISHR and Centre for French History
Scottishness in the Margins: Visualising Scottish National Identity in French Manuscripts 1420-1540
Week 10 – Monday 27 March
Professor Elaine Treharne (Stanford) Parliament Hall
Annual SAIMS Lecture
Scribes, Scribal Practices, and Writing Environments in Britain 1150-1250
Week 11 – Monday 3 April
Professor Gérard Chouin (William & Mary)
Medieval Ife and the World it made (Southwestern Nigeria, 10th-15th c.)
Week 11 – Thursday 6 April
Dr Jo Tucker (Glasgow) Old Class Library
Joint with ISHR
Scribal autonomy in multi-scribe manuscripts: the example of the Chronicle of Melrose Abbey
Week 13 – Monday 17 April – Lawson Room, Kennedy Hall (School of English) (hybrid)
Professor Yoko Iyeiri (Kyoto University)
George Jack Memorial Lecture
Jack’s Law and the History of English Negation