Hybrid Meeting: Online- via zoom & Wolfson NB02, IHR | Thursdays 17:30pm (BST)

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. If you would like to attend, please book via the IHR website here.

Convenors: 

• David Carpenter, Emily Corran, David D’Avray, Delfi Nieto-Isabel, Rodrigo Garcia-Velasco, Lindy Grant, Andrew Jotischky, Patrick Lantschner, Sophie Page, Eyal Poleg, Miri Rubin, John Sabapathy, Alex Sapozniak and Alice Taylor

Please check the programme and enter the dates in your diaries: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/european-history-1150-1550

Seminar series programme: Winter term 2024

10th October 2024

(101, seminar 4, 20 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PQ)

• Kristina Ilko (Cambridge), Chess, Race, and Race-Thinking in the Global Middle Ages

24th October 2024

(IHR, Wolfson NB02)

PhD session: European perspectives from English early Thirteenth-century chroniclers

• Jennifer Jolly (KCL), The Waverley Annals and the reign of King John
• Marie Tranchant (KCL), The Chronicler of Burton’s perspective on Europe

7th November 2024

(105 in no 24 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PQ)

• Joerg Peltzer (Heidelberg University/UEA International professorship), Richard of Cornwall’s imperial ambitions

21st November 2024

(IHR, Wolfson NB02): Session in conjunction with, and generously supported by, GHIL

• Professor Eva Schlotheuber (Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften der HHU,Dusseldorf), The Materials of Imagination. German Nuns, Tapestries, and the meaning of learned knowledge

5th December 2024

(106, Gordon House, Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PQ)

• Luca Zenobi (Edinburgh), A Europe of Network States? The View from Italy

Spring Term 2025 Programme

16th January 2025

(Room to be confirmed)

• Tom Nickson (Courtauld Institute): “He kissed me with the kiss of his mouth”: Art, Devotion and Society in 14th-century Burgos

23rd January 2025

(IHR, Wolfson NB02)

• Lidia Zanetti-Dominguez (Sheffield): Judicial violence in late medieval Europe: corporal punishments in Tuscany in the period 1260-1360

6th February 2025

(Room to be confirmed)

• Lesley Smith (Oxford), William of Auvergne

20th February 2025

(IHR, Wolfson NB02)

• Lorenzo Caravaggi (Lancaster): Citizens and peacekeeping in late-medieval Italy

6th March 2025 

(Room to be confirmed): Phd Student session: Europeans across the Mediterranean

• Alessandro Scallone (RHUL), Innocent IV and Fieschi family interest in North Africa
• Cheryl Midson (Reading), The Dominican Network- connections between the Latin East and West in 13th century

20th March 2025 

(IHR, Wolfson, NB02)

• Cecily Hennessy (Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow): Child Brides: Byzantium and Bulgaria in the 14th Century