• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Natalia Nowakowska , Hannah Skoda , John Watts
• Timing: Tuesdays 14:00-15:30

Wednesday 18 January 2017

• 17:00 - Toward a History of Obliteration in the Age of Paper
  John Gagné (University of Sydney)

Wednesday 25 January 2017

• 17:00 - Divine Impressions: Aldus Manutius and Catherine of Siena
  Oren Margolis (Somerville College)

Wednesday 1 February 2017

• 17:00 - The Economic Dimension of Early Printing: Book Prices in Venice (1484-88), from the Zornale of Francesco de Madiis
  Cristina Dondi (Lincoln College)

Wednesday 8 February 2017

• 17:00 - The Manuscript/Print Age in Jewish Book History: The Different Audiences of the Illustrated Passover Haggadah
  Katrin Kogman Appel (University of Münster / Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Wednesday 15 February 2017

• 17:00 - Painting on Parchment
  Stella Panayotova (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)

Wednesday 22 February 2017

• 17:00 - Book Cultures: Forensic Science and Textual Hermeneutics
  Stephen Milner (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 1 March 2017

• 17:00 - Coats of Arms in Books and Beyond: The Objectivation of Heraldry and Its Materiality
  Torsten Hiltmann (University of Münster)

Wednesday 8 March 2017

• 17:00 - Final discussion and display of early books
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 17 January 2018

• 17:00 - The Universal Ordinary: meditations on a text by Maitland
  David D’Avray (UCL)
• 17:00 - The Universal Ordinary: meditations on a text by Maitland
  David D’Avray (UCL)

Wednesday 24 January 2018

• 17:00 - Adapting to a Changing Political Environment: the Benedictine Monasteries in England and the Low Countries in the Later Middle Ages
  Jérôme Verdoot (VUB)
• 17:00 - Adapting to a Changing Political Environment: the Benedictine Monasteries in England and the Low Countries in the Later Middle Ages
  Jérôme Verdoot (VUB)

Wednesday 31 January 2018

• 17:00 - The Good Old Law in England and Sicily
  Pippa Byrne (Oxford)
• 17:00 - The Good Old Law in England and Sicily
  Pippa Byrne (Oxford)

Wednesday 7 February 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Art, objects and ideas in the records of the medieval Court of Chivalry’
  Julian Luxford (St Andrews)
• 17:00 - ‘Art, objects and ideas in the records of the medieval Court of Chivalry’
  Julian Luxford (St Andrews)

Wednesday 14 February 2018

• 17:00 - Structures, Networks, and ‘Europeanness’: A Comparison of Late Medieval English and Irish Towns'
  Eliza Hartrich (Sheffield)
• 17:00 - Structures, Networks, and ‘Europeanness’: A Comparison of Late Medieval English and Irish Towns'
  ***This meeting will take place in the Morelli Room***
  Eliza Hartrich (Sheffield)

Wednesday 21 February 2018

• 17:00 - The Late Medieval ‘Artillery Revolution’ in Comparative Perspective. Technology, Military Organisation, and Statebuilding in England and Elsewhere (c.1400 - c. 1500).
  Michael Depreter (VUB)
• 17:00 - The Late Medieval ‘Artillery Revolution’ in Comparative Perspective. Technology, Military Organisation, and Statebuilding in England and Elsewhere (c.1400 - c. 1500)
  Michael Depreter (VUB)

Wednesday 28 February 2018

• 17:00 - The Soldier in Later Medieval England: ‘hadde he ridden, no man ferre’
  Adrian Bell (Reading)
• 17:00 - The Soldier in Later Medieval England: ‘hadde he ridden, no man ferre’
  ***This meeting will take place in the Rainolds Room***
  Adrian Bell (Reading)

Wednesday 7 March 2018

• 17:00 - Discussion
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 15 January 2019

• 14:00 - Nostalgia and Commemoration in the Later Middle Ages
  Hannah Skoda (Oxford)

Tuesday 22 January 2019

• 14:00 - Picturing the Passion in the Capetian present
  Emily Guerry (Kent)

Tuesday 29 January 2019

• 14:00 - Medieval memory, gendered emotion and the recent past
  Elizabeth van Houts (Cambridge)

Tuesday 5 February 2019

• 14:00 - Ancient music’ in late-medieval Europe: From thirteenth-century Paris to seventeenth-century Silesia
  Karl Kugle (Oxford)

Tuesday 12 February 2019

• 14:00 - 'Rethinking the late medieval relic (c. 1200-1550)
  Marika Rasanen (Turku)

Tuesday 26 February 2019

• 14:00 - Converting the Cross: Monuments, Memory and Time in Early Modern England
  Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge)

Friday 8 March 2019

• 11:00 - Commemorating civil war in the Low Countries 1566-1648
  NOTE DIFFERENT DAY AND TIME
  Judith Pollman (Leiden)

Tuesday 21 January 2020

• 14:00 - Opening discussion on animals in medieval history
  Lesley McGregor (Oxford)

Thursday 23 January 2020

• 17:00 - Animate Ivory: Animality, Materiality, and Pygmalion’s Statue
  This seminar is at the Faculty of English at 17:00
  Peggy McCracken (Michigan)

Tuesday 28 January 2020

• 14:00 - Life Drawing and the Body Politic: Rethinking Matthew Paris’s Elephants
  Robert Mills (UCL)

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 14:00 - Renaissance Abstinence: Pre-Cartesian Debates on (not) Eating Animals
  Cecilia Muratori (Warwick)

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 14:00 - The Medieval Urban Dog: Trusty Servant or Idle Vagrant?
  Carole Rawcliffe (UEA)

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 14:00 - Mary's animal skin: Weaving the signification of the Sevillan Virgen de los Reyes in the times of Alfonso X
  Aleksandra Rutkowska (Oxford)

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 14:00 - What Edward Topsell Saw: An Unthinkable Thought
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Erica Fudge (Strathclyde)

Tuesday 3 March 2020

• 14:00 - Peasants and their animals in late medieval England
  David Stone (Exeter)

Thursday 12 March 2020

• 14:00 - Discussion and viewing of medieval bestiaries
  This seminar will be rearranged for next term
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  N/A

Tuesday 19 January 2021

• 14:00 - Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean
  Amanda Phillips (University of Virginia)

Tuesday 26 January 2021

• 14:00 - Hammered, Gilt, and Spun: Innovations in Gold Thread Technology during the Yuan dynasty
  Eiren Shea (Grinnel College)

Tuesday 2 February 2021

• 14:00 - The Worsted Cloth Industry in Late Medieval Norfolk
  Nick Amor (University of East Anglia)

Tuesday 9 February 2021

• 14:00 - The Material Regulation of Fashion: Sumptuary Laws in the Medieval and Early Modern World
  Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick)

Tuesday 16 February 2021

• 14:00 - The Fabric of Social Relations: Burgundian Tapestry
  Katherine Wilson (University of Chester)

Tuesday 23 February 2021

• 14:00 - Renaissance Clothes and Colour
  Ulinka Rublack (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 2 March 2021

• 14:00 - Castilian elites and the production of Nasrid textiles, thirteenth to fifteenth centuries
  Maria Feliciano (Independent scholar)

Tuesday 9 March 2021

• 14:00 - "...And he changes into a white shirt and receives his new name”: changing and washing of cloths in Jewish medieval religious ceremonies
  Neta Bodner (Open University of Israel)

Tuesday 18 January 2022

• 14:00 - Introductory reading session
  N/A

Tuesday 25 January 2022

• 14:00 - Unclean beasts: towards a queer ecology of the late middle ages
  Tim Wingard (York)

Tuesday 1 February 2022

• 17:00 - Byzantine Camp Aesthetics: A Queer Reading of Nikephoros Basilakes’s Bagoas
  Please note this seminar is on Zoom at 17:00
  Roland Betancourt (University of California, Irvine)

Tuesday 8 February 2022

• 14:00 - Trans-forming identities: Menarche from St Wilgefortis to Charlotte Church
  **THIS TALK HAS MOVED ONLINE**
  Rachel Moss (Northampton)

Tuesday 15 February 2022

• 17:00 - The Shape of Sex: A Conversation about Nonbinary Gender before Modernity
  Please note this seminar is on Zoom at 17:00
  Leah deVun (Rutgers)

Tuesday 1 March 2022

• 17:00 - Queering the maternal body: same-sex lactations in late medieval and early modern art and literature
  Please note this seminars is on Zoom at 17:00
  Jutta Sperling (Hampshire College)

Tuesday 8 March 2022

• 14:00 - Discussion
  N/A

Tuesday 17 January 2023

• 14:00 - The politics and anti-politics of labour in late medieval England
  Christopher Fletcher (CNRS, Lille)

Tuesday 24 January 2023

• 14:00 - Logics of Political Division in England’s Wars of the Roses
  Please note change of speaker
  John Watts

Tuesday 31 January 2023

• 14:00 - A Europe of Network States? The View from Italy
  Luca Zenobi (Cambridge)

Tuesday 7 February 2023

• 14:00 - Sacral Paris and the Capetians
  Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth)

Tuesday 14 February 2023

• 14:00 - A Symbiotic Relationship? Cities and States in Europe and the Islamic World
  Patrick Lantschner (UCL)

Tuesday 21 February 2023

• 14:00 - Status, Service and Function: Revisiting Royal Councillors and Governance in 12th-13th-Century Portugal
  Maria João Branco (Universidade Nova, Lisbon)

Tuesday 28 February 2023

• 14:00 - Chimera of Conquest: Colonial Warfare in Late Medieval Ireland
  Peter Crooks (Trinity College Dublin)

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 14:00 - Reform and crusade at the imperial diets: towards a new explanatory framework for political change in the late medieval Holy Roman Empire
  Duncan Hardy (University of Central Florida)

Tuesday 16 January 2024

• 14:00 - Discussion Session
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 14:00 - A City of Dynasts? Patronage, Competition and Challenge in later medieval Constantinople
  James Cogbill (Oxford)

Tuesday 30 January 2024

• 14:00 - Florentine Orphans and their Parents
  Jose Andres Porras (Oxford)

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 14:00 - Acknowledging the known unknowns: gender and wage labour in late medieval England
  Jane Whittle (University of Exeter), Grace Owen (University of Exeter)

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 14:00 - Families in the Muslim Middle Ages – do they Matter?
  Julia Bray (Oxford)

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 14:00 - City of Women: Singlewomen, Spinners, and Houseling People in Late Medieval Coventry
  Please note change of room to New Seminar Room
  Judith Bennett (USC Dornsife)

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 14:00 - Families and Assassination Narratives in Italy and Europe
  Trevor Dean (University of Roehampton)

Tuesday 5 March 2024

• 14:00 - Queens and Popes in the Later Middle Ages: Bohemian Case Studies
  Sophie Charron (Oxford)

Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 14:00 - Academic Mobility in Medieval Europe: between Politics, Policies, and Identities
  Teresa Barucci (Oxford)

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 14:00 - "Disinformation", Communication, and Mediterranean Politics in Italian History-Writing (c. 1250-c. 1350)
  Susannah Bain (Oxford)

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 14:00 - Surviving the Black Death: Social Connectivity and Disease Modelling in Medieval England
  Alex Brown (Durham)

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 14:00 - Moving Between the City and the Cemetery: Funerary Processions in Late Medieval Cairo and Paris
  Caitlin John (UCL)

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 14:00 - Nomads or "Nomads"? Considerations on the Mode of Life of Medieval Populations of the European Steppe
  This meeting is online, but will take place at the normal time in the Dolphin Room
  Aleksander Paroń (Warsaw/Wrocław)

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 14:00 - Sacred Connections: The Eleven Thousand Virgins and Family Networks in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries
  Sylvia Alvares Correa (Oxford)

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 14:00 - Movement in the Mind: A Typology, Critique, and New Interpretative Model of Imagined Pilgrimage
  Katy Beebe (North Texas)

Tuesday 20 January 2026

• 14:00 - Beyond the Mediterranean by land and sea: Two medieval cases in a (very) broad context
  Peregrine Horden (Oxford), Nicholas Purcell (Oxford)

Tuesday 27 January 2026

• 14:00 - Negotiating Uncertain Waters: Trust in trade and diplomacy in the Mediterranean
  Annabel Hancock (Trinity College Dublin)

Tuesday 3 February 2026

• 14:00 - “He hath payd his part”: The Political Economy of Fishing Doles in Late-Medieval England
  Tom Johnson (Oxford)

Tuesday 10 February 2026

• 14:00 - “God forebede that a wylde Yrishe wyrlynge shulde be chosene for to be there kynge”: Gaelic Recovery in a North Atlantic Context, c.1350-c.1550
  Simon Egan (Queen's University Belfast)

Tuesday 17 February 2026

• 14:00 - Maritime Risk Management and Aequitas: the long life of the principle of General Average
  Maria Fusaro (Exeter)

Tuesday 24 February 2026

• 14:00 - The Mortar Wreck: A Thirteenth Century shipwreck outside of Poole Harbour, Dorset
  Tom Cousins (Bournemouth)

Tuesday 3 March 2026

• 14:00 - NO SEMINAR
  Please note there is no seminar this week
  No seminar

Tuesday 10 March 2026

• 14:00 - Popes, Ambassadors and Falcons: Trade and Diplomacy between Latin Europe and the Mamluk Sultanate in the Fourteenth Century
  Mike Carr (Edinburgh)