We are pleased to announce this year’s programme for the IHR seminar European History 1150-1550. All seminars take place on Thursdays at 5.30pm and will be hosted live via zoom. If you would like to attend, please book via the IHR website here.
Autumn Term 2020
1 October 2020
Lucy Donkin (Bristol), ‘Truly the cause of this was the land’: Materiality and portability of place in Marco Polo’s le Devisement du Monde’
15 October 2020
Merchants and Diaspora Round Table: Miri Rubin (QMUL), Serena Ferente (KCL) and Kate Franklin (Birkbeck)
29 October 2020
Kirsty Schut (Cologne/Bristol), ‘Religious Habits as Burial Clothing: Some Late Medieval Developments’
12 November 2020
PhD Session: Jack Ford (UCL), ‘Symbols of Affectivity in the De anima Texts of the Twelfth Century’
Alex Good (UCL), ‘Lazarus: the making of a saint’
16 November 2020
Joint session with the Medieval Liturgy Seminar: Laura Light (Les Enluminure), ‘Evidence for the Liturgical Use of Thirteenth Century Bibles’
26 November 2020
Emily Ward (Darwin College, Cambridge), ‘Neither Saint nor Crusader: Louis IX rex puer and Capetian Rulership 1226-1235’
10 December 2020
Rachel Koopmans (York), ‘Thomas Becket’s Greatest Miracle: The Blinding and Castration of a Thief in Bedford.’
Spring Term 2021
14 January 2021
Pavel Soukup (Prague), ‘Preachers of the Hussite Crusades: Background, Careers, Agenda’
28 January 2021
Karl Ubl (Cologne), ‘The Formation of a Holy City: Cologne in the High Middle Ages.’
11 February 2021
Judith Bennett (Professor Emerita, Univ. Southern California), ‘Women, Men, and the Business of Consent in Late Medieval England’
25 February 2021
Lindy Grant (Reading), ‘The implications of itineracy: residences, logistics and the elite lifestyle in France in the long 13th Century’
11 March 2021
Ruth Karras (Dublin), ‘The Twelfth Century Critique of Cousin Marriage’
25 March 2021
Arnaud Fossier (Bourgogne), ‘The Bishop, the Abbess and the Monks. A Judicial Tale from the Medieval Pistoia’
Discover more from Medieval Art Research
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Medieval Art Research 