EXETER MEDIEVAL SEMINAR
2005-6
October 11
Howard Williams (Department of Archaeology): ‘Playing with the Dead: Excavations at a Viking Boat-Grave Cemetery at Skamby, Sweden’
October 18
The Syon Manuscripts
A visit to view the medieval manuscripts recently entrusted to the care of Exeter University Library, in the Special Collections Reading Room, Old Library (numbers are limited; contact j.p.gardner@ex.ac.uk)
October 25 [N.B. start 4.30pm]
Dr Elliot Kendall (Dept of English): ‘The Political Economy of the Aristocratic Household and Gower’s Confessio amantis’
November 8
Steve Rippon (Department of Archaeology): ‘New Light of the Origins of the Medieval Village’
November 22
Stefano Jossa (University of Naples): 'Building the Community: Dante, Boccaccio, Ariosto, and the Italian Tradition’
December 6
Workshop: ‘Literature, Costume and Society in Late Medieval France’.
Rebecca Dixon (Department of French, Exeter University), ‘Dressing in Borrowed Robes: Costume and Identity in the Burgundian Girart de Roussillon (ONB 2549)’.
Professor David Cowling (Univeristy of Durham): '"La très haulte, resplendissant et opulente maison des Bourgoignons": Metaphor and Burgundian identity under the last Valois dukes'
Dr Emma Cayley (Department of French), 'Debating the State: Alain Chartier and his cultural milieu'
January 17
Yolanda Plumley (Centre for Medieval Studies):‘New Year’s Songs and Lyrics in Late Medieval France and Italy ’
For Semester 2, seminars take place in Room D, Queen's Building, 4pm
January 31
Dr Oliver Creighton (Department of Archaeology), ‘Mural Mentalities and Urban Identities: New Light on Medieval Town Walls’
February 7
Dr Ardis Butterfield (University College London), ‘Converting Joan of Arc: trahison and nation in the Hundred Years War’
February 14
Reading Workshop: Chaucer’s Parlement of Fowles, led by Dr Eddie Jones and Elliot Kendall
February 21 [hosted jointly with the Department of History]
Professor James Carley (Visiting Leverhulme Professor, University of Oxford),
‘John Leland, John Bale and the lost chronicle of John, abbot of B[ury]’
February 28
Professor Anthony Musson (Department of Law), ‘Law and Image: the Architecture of Justice in Late Medieval England’
March 7
Dr Louise Bourdua (University of Aberdeen), ‘Art in fourteenth-century Padua: from Giotto to Altichiero’
March 14
Professor Yahya Michot (Oxford University), ‘Astrology in Islam: Avicenna’s Point of View’
May 2
Dr Rachel Gibbons(University of Bristol), ‘Isabeau of Bavaria (1370-1435): Queenship and Regency Provisions in Late Medieval France’
May 16
Dr Elizabeth Leach (Royal Holloway), ‘Nature's Forge, Pythagoras' Smithy, and the Mechanics of Musical Invention’
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