• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Nancy Thebaut
• Timing: Thursdays 17:00-18:30, unless otherwise stated

Thursday 20 October 2022

• 17:00 - Reconfiguring the Cloisters Cross: art and crusading in Cnut VI’s Denmark
  Sandy Heslop (University of East Anglia)

Thursday 3 November 2022

• 17:00 - The market for medieval illuminated manuscripts and the making of a canon, c. 1900-1925
  Laura Cleaver (University of London), Danielle Magnusson (University of London)

Thursday 17 November 2022

• 17:00 - The Seven Ages; a medieval theory of growing up and aging, as illustrated by artists’ lives
  Spike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)

Thursday 1 December 2022

• 17:00 - The iconography of the Mass of St Gregory in England
  Julian Luxford (University of St Andrews)

Thursday 26 January 2023

• 17:15 - In a Punctum: Miniature Worlds in Late Medieval Art and Literature
  Anya Burgon (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
• 17:15 - From Hours to Ages: Time in the Large-scale Diagrams of Opicinus de Canistris (1296-c.1352)
  Sarah Griffin (Lambeth Palace Library, London)

Thursday 9 February 2023

• 17:15 - In the Flat Round: Brain Diagrams in Late Medieval Manuscripts
  Lauren Rozenberg (UCL)
• 17:15 - Christian Motifs in Fifteenth-Century Alchemical Iconography
  Sergei Zotov (University of Warwick)

Thursday 23 February 2023

• 17:15 - Visualising Wombs and Obstetrical Fantasies in Late Medieval Germany
  Jack Hartnell (University of East Anglia)

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 17:15 - Envisioning Thinking: Geometry and Meditation in the Twelfth Century
  Mary Carruthers (NYU and Oxford)

Thursday 4 May 2023

• 17:15 - British Medieval Illuminators’ Blues
  Richard Gameson (Durham University)

Thursday 18 May 2023

• 17:15 - Ruled Lines and the Making of Manuscript Images
  Hanna Vorholt (University of York)

Thursday 1 June 2023

• 17:15 - Visual Exegesis and its Deployment in Insular Illumination
  Michelle Brown (University of London)

Thursday 15 June 2023

• 17:15 - Blood Piety and Anti-Judaism in an Early Fourteenth-century Illuminated Prayer Book from Liège
  Sara Lipton (Stony Brook University)

Wednesday 18 October 2023

• 17:00 - "Illuminavit hunc diem": Natural Lighting, Liturgical Time and Frescoes in late Medieval Italian Churches
  Note this seminar is on Wednesday
  Giosuè Fabiano (Courtauld Institute of Art)

Thursday 2 November 2023

• 17:00 - Topographical Realism in Winchester’s Holy Sepulchre
  John Munns (Cambridge University)

Thursday 16 November 2023

• 17:00 - The Remembrance of God’: Theologising Wall Mosaics
  Liz James (Sussex)

Thursday 30 November 2023

• 17:00 - Theodechilde, Potentin and Osanna: Saints and Cult at Jouarre Abbey in the Middle Ages
  Alexandra Gajewski (The Burlington Magazine)

Thursday 25 January 2024

• 17:00 - Diplomacy and Devotion in the Gothic Wall Paintings of Angers Cathedral
  Please note change of venue - now C Day Lewis Room, Wadham College
  Emily Guerry (Kent)

Thursday 8 February 2024

• 17:00 - Sacred Space and Imperial Authority in 'Medieval' Ethiopia: The Portrait of Yekunno Amlak in Gannata Maryam
  Jacopo Gnisci (UCL)

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 17:00 - Henry III’s Bed: Peace and Sacred Space at Westminster
  Paul Binski (Cambridge)

Thursday 25 April 2024

• 17:00 - Colour Conventions and Material Hierarchies on Late-Medieval Rood Screens
  This seminar has been cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Lucy Wrapson (Cambridge)

Thursday 16 May 2024

• 17:00 - Artistic Practice and the Emergence of the Architect in Italy, c. 1300 – c. 1480
  Livia Lupi (Warwick)

Thursday 30 May 2024

• 17:00 - Irrational, Feminine, Subversive: The Cult of Miraculous Images in Medieval England
  Gervase Rosser (Oxford)

Thursday 6 June 2024

• 17:00 - Objects of Desire: The Byzantine Art of Dining as Social and Romantic Agents
  Lara Frentrop (Heidelberg)

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 17:00 - Religious Storytelling and the Rise of Marginalia
  Elena Lichmanova (University of Oxford)

Thursday 21 November 2024

• 17:00 - Visual Storytelling in 14th-century London: Subtexts, Pretexts, Contexts
  Alixe Bovey (The Courtauld Institute of Art)

Thursday 5 December 2024

• 17:00 - What Art Does When It’s Doing Nothing: Stillness, Perdurance, and Agency in Medieval Art
  Ben Tilghman (University of Edinburgh)

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 17:00 - Frustration and Failure: Medieval Images of Christ's Transfiguration (12th-13th c.)
  Please note this seminar will be held in the Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street
  Professor Vincent Debiais (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

Thursday 30 October 2025

• 17:00 - Seeing Double: Visualising La Cité des dames and La Cité de Dieu
  Hannele Hellerstedt (Oxford)

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 17:00 - Abstract Figures and Bodily Change: Giving Form to Unseen Things in Late Medieval England
  Carly Boxer (Bucknell University)

Thursday 20 November 2025

• 17:00 - New directions in the study of ivories from the Islamic world: A talk and handling session
  Co-sponsored with the Khalili Research Center & exceptionally held at the Khalili Research Center
  Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A (London)), Ashley Coutu (Pitt Rivers Museum)

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 17:00 - Seeing Anew: Digital Methods and the Return to the Medieval Object
  Kristine Tanton (University of Montreal)

Thursday 29 January 2025

• 17:00 - Wild Forms: Hermits, Saints and Rock Art in Medieval England
  Robert Mills (UCL)

Thursday 12 March 2025

• 17:00 - Silver trees and pearl crosses: Franco-Mongolian diplomacy and cultural exchange in thirteenth-century Karakorum
  Emily Guerry

Thursday 7 May 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Cécile Voyer (Université de Poitiers)

Thursday 28 May 2025

• 17:00 - The Many Lives of the Asante Ewers
  Lloyd Debeer (British Museum)

Thursday 4 June 2025

• 17:00 - Contemporary Art Meets the Medieval Monastery
  Jessica Barker (Courtauld Institute)

Thursday 11 June 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Meg Bernstein (University of East Anglia)