Seminar series: The Long Middle Ages

A PGR-led interdisciplinary seminar series for postgraduate students and early career researchers working on the late antique, medieval and early modern periods.

Events

29 January

• Holly Dempster-Edwards (University of Liverpool): ‘Emotions, Gender and Crusading in Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Prose Epics and Chronicles’
• Martina Rizzini Ongarato (University of Padua): ‘The Old English creation of the Rune Poem Tradition’

12 February

• Eszter Sipos (University of Tokaj): ‘The Quinta Essentia of Wine and the Long Middle Ages: Spirits between Court, Laboratory, and Curiosity’
• James Rhodes (University of Leeds): ‘From Parchment to Paper: Post-Medieval Receptions of Richard Rolle’s Emendatio Vitae’

26 February

• Giacomo Savani (University of Leeds): ‘Voiceless Spas: Non-Elite Sensory Interactions with Water and the Divine’
• Louise Simongiovanni (Sorbonne Université): ‘Balms, Baths, and Beyond: Exploring the Therapeutic Relationship in the Old English Leechbooks’

12 March

• Agnese Bargagna (University of Edinburgh): ‘Copying What They Could Not Read: Greek Passages and Scribal Practice in Codex Vaticanus Latinus 1873 (V)’
• Devon Sherwood, (University of Toronto): ‘The Books of Hours of Anne de Bretagne, Queen of France: Evolving Self-Representations of Queenship’

26 March

• Emma Nelson (University of Manchester/Chetham's Library): ‘No Take-Backsies? Gerald of Wales and the Boundaries of Book Donation’
• Amber Peut (Leiden University): ‘Selling Love and Lust to the Early Modern Youth? Printed alba amicorum as Pedagogical Works’

How to attend

Please register here if you would like to attend the 26^th March seminar. This seminar will take place in room B.10 of the Parkinson Building. Online attendees will be sent a link shortly before the seminar begins.

9 April

• Mehdy Shaddel (University of Cambridge): ‘Changing Patterns of Landholding and Extraction in the Early Caliphate, 7th-10th Centuries’
• Majideh Qazizadeh (University of Exeter): ‘Women, Myth, and the Gendering of Chess in Medieval Islam’

How to attend

Registration link will be posted soon. This seminar will take place in room B.10 of the Parkinson Building. Online attendees will be sent a link shortly before the seminar begins.

23 April

• Mary Catherine O'Connor (University of Oxford): ‘The rex iustus, King Hákon Hákonarson, and Norse Arthurian’
• J.D. Moore (University of St Andrews): ‘Encounters with Courtesy: Jarl Rǫgnvald Kali Kolsson and Ermengarde of Narbonne in the Mid-Twelfth Century’

How to attend

Registration link will be posted soon. This seminar will take place in room B.11 of the Parkinson Building. Online attendees will be sent a link shortly before the seminar begins.

7 May

• Maria Sandali (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): ‘The transformation of an Ancient Greek Hero during the Middle Ages: Achilles of Benoît de Sainte-Maure’
• Carlo Scapecchi (Arden University): ‘Weaving Tapestries with Wasted and Recycled Silk in Sixteenth-Century Italy’

How to attend

Registration link will be posted soon. This seminar will take place in room B.11 of the Parkinson Building. Online attendees will be sent a link shortly before the seminar begins.

21 May

• Inmaculada Villafranca (Universidad de Córdoba): ‘From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages through a Vine Branch: Knowledge Transmission or Common Roots? The Case of Vegetal Decoration in Córdoba (Spain) from the 5th to the 10th centuries’
• Erik Nilsson (Linné University): ‘From Everywhere to Everywhere: Movement Corridors and Shared Spaces Between the Baltic and the Mediterranean (AD 0–500)’

How to attend

Registration link will be posted soon. This seminar will take place in room 2.20 of the Parkinson Building. Online attendees will be sent a link shortly before the seminar begins.

Acknowledgements

This series is organised by Natalie Hopwood and Saaleha Iqbal. The series is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities.