EXETER MEDIEVAL SEMINAR
2008-9
Semester 2
Unless specified, the seminars are held in Room MR1, Queen's Building, Tuesdays at 4-5.30pm
All welcome -
Convenor: Yolanda Plumley
3 February
Dr Angelo Mangini (Department of Modern Languages, Italian)
‘Hunting for the Fox. The Issue of Heresy in Dante's Commedia’
17 February
Dr Flora Dennis (University of Sussex)
‘Listening to the Past: Sounds,
Spaces and Objects in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy’
Thursday 5 March - Queen's Building Lecture Theatre 2, at 5.15pm
NICHOLAS ORME LECTURE IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY 2009
Professor Robert Bartlett (University of St Andrews)
‘Saint-Making in the Middle Ages’
17 March
Dr Andrew Butcher (University of Kent)
‘Textual Production and Vernacular Behaviour in Late Medieval England’
28 April
Sjoerd Levelt (Warburg Institute, London)
‘'Writing Medieval Chronicles in the Age of Erasmus’
12 May
Naomi Howell (Centre for Medieval Studies)
‘Tombs in Twelfth-Century Romances of Antiquity: Origins, Ekphrasis, and the Other’
Other forthcoming events:
Citation, Intertextuality and Memory in the Middle Ages: Text, Music, Image
International and interdisciplinary conference: 29-30 January 2009 [ go to website ]
'Accipe et Devora': Packaging, Presentation and Consumption of Manuscripts and Printed Books 1350-1550
Early Book Society Biennial Conference: 9-12 July 2009
[ go to website ]
Semester 1
The seminars are held in Room MR1, Queen's Building, Tuesdays at 4-5.30pm
14 October
Dr Catherine Rider (Department of History)
‘Religion and the Laity in 13th-Century England’
28 October
Professor Pamela King (University of Bristol)
‘Confraternities, Civic Shows, and the Rhetoric of Medieval Urban Culture: the Case of Siena's Palio’
11 November
Andy Elliot (Department of Modern Languages)
‘The Creation and Uses of Medieval Worlds in Cinema’
2 December
Dr Sarah Hamilton (Department of History)
‘The Medieval Reformation: A Reconsideration’
previous years: 2005-6 2006-7 2007-8
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