• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Julia Smith , Benjamin Thompson , Lesley Smith , Dave Addison , John Merrington , Laure Miolo
• Timing: Mondays at 17:00
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Monday 12 October 2015

• 17:00 - “Writing global history of the middle ages. Sources? What sources?”
  Mark Whittow (Corpus Christi)

Monday 19 October 2015

• 17:00 - “Saints’ Banners, Holy Banners”
  Richard Sharpe (Wadham)

Monday 26 October 2015

• 17:00 - “Simon of Montfort, the Cistercians, and the Schools: the Intellectual Formation of a Crusading Baron, 1185-1218”
  Gregory Lippiatt (Hertford)

Monday 2 November 2015

• 17:00 - “Bede: the problem”
  Sarah Foot (Christ Church)

Monday 9 November 2015

• 17:00 - “History and Reform: the archives of English cities around 1400”
  Sarah Rees Jones (University of York)

Monday 16 November 2015

• 17:00 - “From kingdom to colony: Ireland 1166-1254”
  Colin Veach (University of Hull)

Monday 23 November 2015

• 17:00 - “Some difficulties in forming persecuting societies: Robert of Courson thinks about communities and inquisition”
  John Sabapathy (University College, London)

Monday 30 November 2015

• 17:00 - “Mistakes were made: Hincmar of Rheims and the non-penitential state”
  Rachel Stone (King’s College, London)

Monday 18 January 2016

• 17:00 - “Monks, aristocrats and justice: twelfth-century monastic advocacy in a European perspective.”
  Charles West (University of Sheffield)

Monday 25 January 2016

• 17:00 - “Apostolic economics: heresy and theories of property in the high middle ages.”
  Claire Taylor (University of Nottingham)

Monday 1 February 2016

• 17:00 - “Cultivating the City: Urbanism and Gardening in Early Medieval Italy.”
  Caroline Goodson (Birkbeck, University of London)

Monday 8 February 2016

• 17:00 - “Lordship, Violence, and Very Small Churches: Local Religion in southern France, c. 1000-c .1150.”
  John Arnold (Birkbeck, University of London)

Monday 15 February 2016

• 17:00 - “The Environmental Impact of the Baltic Crusades: New Understandings of Conquest, Colonisation and Religious Conversion in Medieval NE Europe.”
  Aleks Pluskowski (University of Reading)

Monday 22 February 2016

• 17:00 - “The Kentish window: a new reading of Canterbury Cathedral’s stained glass and the miracles of Thomas Becket.”
  Rachel Koopmans (York University, Ontario)

Tuesday 1 March 2016

• 17:00 - “Mud, mills, and money: pre-Reformation Peterhouse and its parishes.”
  Robert Swanson (University of Birmingham)

Tuesday 8 March 2016

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Helen Gittos (University of Kent)

Monday 2 May 2016

• 17:00 - Lands for lights in early medieval Rome
  Jo Story

Monday 9 May 2016

• 17:00 - Re-thinking the Henrician Reformation: church, state and religion, c.1450-c.1550
  John Watts

Monday 16 May 2016

• 17:00 - The vita apostolica and the governance of the faithful: a reordering of the Friars Minor
  Amanda Power

Monday 23 May 2016

• 17:00 - 'On living in the time of tribulation: Archbishop Wulfstan, apocalyptic thinking and the politics of AEthelred's reign
  Katy Cubitt

Monday 30 May 2016

• 17:00 - Inquests as spie into governmental form in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
  Alice Taylor

Monday 6 June 2016

• 17:00 - Carolingian slavery
  Alice Rio

Monday 13 June 2016

• 17:00 - The cult of the Virgin 400-1200: a comparative perspective (Catholic, Orthodox, Islamic)
  Leslie Brubaker

Monday 10 October 2016

• 17:00 - “King Ceadwalla and Bishop Wilfrid: betrayal, murder, genocide, and the cover-up in Bede’s text and in his History”
  Richard Sharpe (Wadham)

Monday 17 October 2016

• 17:00 - “Scandalous Error: Calendar Reform and Calendrical Astronomy in Medieval Europe”
  Philipp Nothaft (All Souls)

Monday 24 October 2016

• 17:00 - “Landed property and foreign goods: investigating contacts across the Channel, c. 6th-7th centuries”
  Irene Bavuso (Regent’s Park)

Monday 31 October 2016

• 17:00 - “Un-gifts in late medieval London”
  Anna Boeles Rowland (Merton)

Monday 7 November 2016

• 17:00 - “Faction as a means of social and political inclusion: the case of late medieval Northern Italy (14th-15th centuries)”
  Marco Gentile (University of Parma)

Monday 14 November 2016

• 17:00 - “The crystallisation of the aristocracy in post-Carolingian Tuscany, 9th-11th centuries”
  Maria Elena Cortese (International Telematic University Uninettuno, Rome)

Monday 21 November 2016

• 17:00 - “Elite Women and their Residences in Late Medieval England”
  Rachel Delman (University College)

Monday 28 November 2016

• 17:00 - “Recycling and the nature of the object in late medieval Europe: household inventories from Marseille”
  Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University)

Monday 16 January 2017

• 17:00 - Gender and Authenticity in the Medieval Cult of Relics
  Julia Smith (All Souls College)

Monday 23 January 2017

• 17:00 - Abandonment and Unity: The Long Shadow of the Black Death?”
  Sam Cohn (Glasgow University)

Monday 30 January 2017

• 17:00 - Humanists on the Last Imperial Coronations in Rome (c. 1300-1500): Literary Fascination and Historical Criticism
  Anne Huijbers (Ecole française de Rome)

Monday 6 February 2017

• 17:00 - Putting the Villages of China at the Centre of Chinese History, c. 600-1600
  Joseph McDermott (University of Cambridge)

Monday 13 February 2017

• 17:00 - The Architecture of Society in Latin West. Christian Edification, Aristotelian Architectonic and Urbanism (500-1500)
  Dominique Iogna-Prat (CNRS/EHESS)

Monday 20 February 2017

• 17:00 - Nivelon of Soissons, the relics of 1204, and the Cathedral of Soissons: Liturgy and Devotion in the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade
  Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth College)

Monday 27 February 2017

• 17:00 - Lordship in theory and practice in the north midlands during the long twelfth century
  Hannah Boston (Trinity College)

Monday 6 March 2017

• 17:00 - Continental Networks and Political Language in the Reign of Henry III
  Lucy Hennings (Exeter College)

Monday 24 April 2017

• 17:00 - ‘How and why was Domesday made?’
  Stephen Baxter (St Peter's College, Oxford)

Monday 1 May 2017

• 17:00 - ‘The odd one out after all: Comparing England’s economy with Scotland and Flanders.’
  Katie Ball (Worcester College, Oxford)

Monday 8 May 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Ethnicity, Christianity, and groups: Rethinking homoian Christianity in Ostrogothic Italy and Visigothic Spain.’
  Robin Whelan (Balliol College, Oxford)

Monday 15 May 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Religious views of infertility in the Middle Ages.’
  Catherine Rider (University of Exeter)

Monday 22 May 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Churchmen and the Popolo in thirteenth century Italy.’
  Frances Andrews (St Andrew's College, Oxford)

Monday 29 May 2017

• 17:00 - ‘King Chindasvind, the 'Gothic disease', and a Mediterranean crisis.’
  Stefan Esders (FU Berlin)

Monday 5 June 2017

• 17:00 - 'Sovereignty, religion and landscape: Irish ‘royal’ sites from prehistory to the Middle Ages.’
  Edel Bhreathnach (Dublin)

Monday 12 June 2017

• 17:00 - 'Remembering and forgetting the "Anglo-Norman realm" after 1204.'
  Daniel Power (Swansea)

Monday 9 October 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Lamprey and Herring: Fish and Culinary Prestige in the Middle Ages’.
  Paul Freedman (Yale)

Monday 16 October 2017

• 17:00 - 'The Abbey in the palace and the palace in the abbey: the interpenetration of religious and residential space in France in the long thirteenth century'.
  Lindy Grant (University of Reading)

Monday 23 October 2017

• 17:00 - 'Pontifex Maximus: From Numa Pompilius to James I'
  Oren Margolis (Somerville), Graham Barrett (University of Lincoln)

Monday 30 October 2017

• 17:00 - 'New Light on the Treaty of Paris 1259: King Louis IX and the political revolution in England'
  David Carpenter (King's College, London)

Monday 6 November 2017

• 17:00 - 'The Value of Meekness in Medieval Hierarchies'
  Merridee Bailey (University of Adelaide)

Monday 13 November 2017

• 17:00 - ‘The conversion of the Slavs to Christianity and its impact on the papacy'
  David Barritt (St Cross)

Monday 20 November 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Envisioning Empire: Space and Power in the Carolingian World’.
  Jonathan Conant (Brown University)

Monday 27 November 2017

• 17:00 - 'Ducal and Royal Estates in Normandy and England, c. 911-1135'
  Alexander Dymond (Corpus Christi)

Monday 15 January 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Eating together, eating apart in medieval and early modern India: "Hindu-Muslim" commensal encounters and the problem of "table"wares’.
  Elizabeth Lambourn (De Montfort University)

Monday 22 January 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Sometimes less is more… On the vices and virtues of writing medieval biographies’
  Benjamin Pohl (Bristol)

Monday 29 January 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Demons in Heaven: Late Medieval Cosmology and Ritual Magic’
  Sophie Page (UCL)

Monday 5 February 2018

• 17:00 - 'A very Roman affair: conflict and disorder in Rome, 1433-1533'
  Katie Fellows (St Peter's College)

Monday 12 February 2018

• 17:00 - 'Being a parishioner in late twelfth-century England'
  Rebecca Springer (Oriel College)

Monday 19 February 2018

• 17:00 - 'Trustworthy men: how inequality and faith made the medieval Church'
  Ian Forrest (Oriel)

Monday 26 February 2018

• 17:00 - 'Southampton's people and their goods, 1250-1500'
  Chris Woolgar (University of Southampton)

Monday 5 March 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Was vendetta legal in Late Medieval Italy?’
  Lidia Zanetti Domingues (St Cross)

Monday 23 April 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Lending to God: Charitable Giving in an Age of Commerce’
  Adam Davis (Denison University/Clare Hall Cambridge)

Monday 30 April 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Rethinking Thirteenth-Century Byzantine Historiography: A Postmodern, Narrativist, and Narratological Approach’
  Matthew Kinloch (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Monday 7 May 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Rescuing Global History from the Nation’
  Naomi Standen (University of Birmingham)

Monday 14 May 2018

• 17:00 - ‘From Aristotle to the Almanac: The Medieval Transformation of Meteorology’
  Anne Lawrence (University of Reading)

Monday 21 May 2018

• 17:00 - 'Widows, orphans and the church: protection and virtue signalling in the Carolingian world’
  Ingrid Rembold (Hertford College)

Monday 28 May 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Whittington, the Two Carpenters and Canynges: Fashioning Late Medieval Urban Piety’
  Clive Burgess (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Monday 4 June 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Embodying penance: rereading the body in early medieval penitentials’
  Zubin Mistry (University of Edinburgh)

Monday 8 October 2018

• 17:00 - Willing Wives: Probate, Property and Piety in Late Medieval England
  Cordelia Beattie (Edinburgh)

Monday 15 October 2018

• 17:00 - Tallage at Will in Late Medieval England
  Mark Bailey (UEA and All Souls)

Monday 22 October 2018

• 17:00 - Virtuous Judges in Twelfth-Century Sicily
  Pippa Byrne (Somerville)

Monday 29 October 2018

• 17:00 - The Men in the Mirror: Marriage and Monastic Reform in Tenth-Century England
  Kate Sykes (Birmingham)

Monday 5 November 2018

• 17:00 - Edward the Confessor’s Diplomas
  Tom Licence (UEA)

Monday 12 November 2018

• 17:00 - Resurrecting the Book of Life: Libri Vitae and Monastic Historical Writing
  Claire Macht (Kellogg)

Monday 19 November 2018

• 17:00 - Protection and Coercion of Jews in Gratian’s Decretum
  Anna Abulafia (LMH)

Monday 26 November 2018

• 17:00 - Customary Law in Later Medieval Theory and Practice: Brittany, Piedmont, Paris and Politics
  Magnus Ryan (Cambridge)

Monday 14 January 2019

• 17:00 - In their mother tongue: the use of Old English in the liturgy
  Helen Gittos (Balliol)

Monday 21 January 2019

• 17:00 - An Ottoman Capital Idea: Edirne 1402-1453
  Amy Singer (Tel Aviv/All Souls)

Monday 28 January 2019

• 17:00 - Guilds, neighbourhoods, and city councils: Political participation in late medieval towns. Tournai and Burgos, 1380-1520
  Pablo Gonzalez Martin (Queen's)

Monday 4 February 2019

• 17:00 - Preaching Passion: Art and Emotion in Thirteenth-Century Sermons
  Sara Lipton (State University of New York at Stony Brook/Corpus Christi)

Monday 11 February 2019

• 17:00 - Cultural Convergences: Saint Catherine’s Monastery and its Palimpsest Manuscripts
  Claudia Rapp (University of Vienna)

Monday 18 February 2019

• 17:00 - 'Between the Ice: Stories of Climate Change in the Middle Ages
  Scott Ashley (University of Newcastle)

Monday 25 February 2019

• 17:00 - Making Matches: Towards a Social History of Medieval Jewish Marriage in Northern Europe 1200-1350
  Elisheva Baumgarten (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Monday 4 March 2019

• 17:00 - 'Anglo-Saxons in the landscape: identity, conflict, and communication
  Andrew Holland (Queen's)

Monday 29 April 2019

• 17:00 - 'Europeanization and creolization in the twelfth century'
  Bernard Gowers (Keble)

Monday 6 May 2019

• 17:00 - ‘Pastoral teaching for humble mendicants in the thirteenth century. Casuistical questions between theology and canon law’
  Emily Corran (St John’s)

Monday 13 May 2019

• 17:00 - ‘Contested spaces, animal faces: legal authority over criminal animals’
  Lesley MacGregor (Oriel)

Monday 20 May 2019

• 17:00 - 'Ending Islamic rule in medieval Iran: the case of Mardawij ibn Ziyar (d. 935)'
  Christian Sahner (St Cross)

Monday 27 May 2019

• 17:00 - 'In extremo Europae: a 15th-century microhistory of the Black Sea'
  Serena Ferente (KCL)

Monday 3 June 2019

• 17:00 - ‘Rolling eyeballs and slashed papyri: cutting heiresses out of early Anglo-papal history’
  Ben Savill (UEA)

Monday 10 June 2019

• 17:00 - Church History between Memory and History: The case-study of conciliarism
  Bénédicte Sère (University of Paris-Nanterre)

Monday 17 June 2019

• 17:00 - ‘Romanesque beyond Christianity - Jewish ritual architecture, 1150-1270’
  Neta Bodner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem/LMH)

Monday 14 October 2019

• 17:00 - Dominican Political Counsel in Early Trecento Italy
  Charles Briggs (University of Vermont)

Monday 21 October 2019

• 17:00 - Slave Resistance in Anglo-Saxon England
  Janel Fontaine (Institute of Historical Research)

Monday 28 October 2019

• 17:00 - Archives and archival sensibilities in medieval Arabic historiography
  Fozia Bora (Leeds)

Monday 4 November 2019

• 17:00 - Institutionalising Slavonic: The Life of Methodios as Latin-ate Hagiography
  Mirela Ivanova (University College)

Monday 11 November 2019

• 17:00 - The Politics of Memory: Charters and the (un)making of the English Kingdom in the mid-tenth century
  Charles Insley (Manchester)

Monday 18 November 2019

• 17:00 - The Medieval Monastic Enclosure
  Benjamin Thompson (Somerville)

Monday 25 November 2019

• 17:00 - Modes of Collecting: Relic Lists in Twelfth-Century England
  William Kynan-Wilson (Aalborg University)

Monday 2 December 2019

• 17:00 - Climate and Empire in Medieval Inner Asia
  Please note this seminar has been moved to the Wharton Room
  Nicola di Cosmo (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton)

Monday 20 January 2020

• 17:00 - “Where's all the bloody stuff?” Carmelite Preaching in the Late Middle Ages
  Ralf Lützelschwab (Berlin)

Monday 27 January 2020

• 17:00 - Rethinking the rise of genealogical diagrams in the medieval west
  Sarah Greer (St John's)

Monday 3 February 2020

• 17:00 - Ecclesiastical Taxation and Episcopal Leadership in the Reigns of the Three Edwards, 1272-1377
  Sam Lane (Christ Church)

Monday 10 February 2020

• 15:00 - The Canons of Nablus and Sexuality in Medieval Western Europe
  History Faculty Special Lecture, 15:00 at the Examination Schools
  Ruth Karras (Trinity College Dublin)
• 17:00 - Doubting Thomas Becket: Scepticism and Hostility in the Canterbury Miracle Collections
  Michael Staunton (University College, Dublin)

Monday 17 February 2020

• 17:00 - The Curious Case of Hospitals in Canon Law
  Sethina Watson (York)

Monday 24 February 2020

• 17:00 - Joan of Arc and the miraculous
  Jonathan Sumption (All Souls)

Monday 2 March 2020

• 17:00 - The Power of Marvelous Objects: Charles IV of Luxembourg and his gems
  Ingrid Ciulisová (Corpus/Slovak Academy of Sciences)

Monday 9 March 2020

• 17:00 - Gender and Peasant Experiences in Later Medieval England
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Bronach Kane (Cardiff)

Monday 12 October 2020

• 17:00 - Al-Qalqashandi's lost tribes: genealogy, administration and identity in the Mamluk countryside
  This seminar relies on signing up to receive an online invitation to access papers and join the seminar itself. Click for details.
  Yossef Rapoport (QMUL)

Monday 19 October 2020

• 17:00 - Petitions from Medieval Egypt and the Problem of Premodern Rights
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  Marina Rustow (Princeton)

Monday 26 October 2020

• 17:00 - The Material Fall of Roman Britain: Living with Little Corpses
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  Robin Fleming (Boston College)

Monday 2 November 2020

• 17:00 - Evil May Day, 1517: Xenophobia, Labour, and Politics in early Tudor London
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  Shannon McSheffrey (Concordia)

Monday 9 November 2020

• 17:00 - Plague and Persecution: The Black Death’s Impact on Europe’s Jewish Communities
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  Monica Green (Independent Scholar)

Monday 16 November 2020

• 17:00 - Observing peoples as peoples: the study of ethnicity in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages
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  Helmut Reimitz (Princeton)

Monday 23 November 2020

• 17:00 - Abbot Balsamo’s Book: The Origins of Administrative Registers at Cava dei Tirreni
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  Maureen Miller (UC Berkeley)

Monday 30 November 2020

• 17:00 - Object History: Global and Gendered Perspectives on a Parisian alms purse, c. 1340
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  Sharon Farmer (UC Santa Barbara)

Monday 18 January 2021

• 17:00 - The Challenges and Dangers of Integrating Genomic Data into Early Medieval History
  Patrick Geary (emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

Monday 25 January 2021

• 17:00 - Judging Sex in Late Medieval France
  Sara McDougall (City University of New York)

Monday 1 February 2021

• 17:00 - Settler Colonialism, Shatterzones of State Power, and the Exploitation of Cheap Nature in Song Era China (960-1276 CE)
  Ruth Mostern (University of Pittsburgh)

Monday 8 February 2021

• 17:00 - Euphrosyne of Polotsk: Princess of Rus, Traveller to the Holy Land, and the National Saint of Belarus
  Alex Vukovich (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)

Monday 15 February 2021

• 17:00 - Gold on the move in medieval Afro-Eurasia
  Yusen Yu (Corpus Christi, Oxford)

Monday 22 February 2021

• 17:00 - What if our chronological framework is wrong? Misdated popes, the mission to Northumbria, and a puzzling Merovingian charter
  Marek Jankowiak (Corpus Christi, Oxford)

Monday 1 March 2021

• 17:00 - “Measure endures”: Merchants in late medieval Italy and the virtue of “misura”
  Henry Tann (Balliol, Oxford)

Monday 8 March 2021

• 17:00 - Seamen and The Realm: Were Medieval Mariners "Political"?
  Maryanne Kowaleski (Fordham University, New York)

Monday 26 April 2021

• 17:00 - The Language of the Royal Service in Castilian Political Culture, c. 1275-1325
  Laurence McKellar (Exeter College, Oxford)

Monday 3 May 2021

• 17:00 - Is Love in One’s Blood? Establishing Solidarities via Common Descent in Late Medieval Thought, 1250-1400
  Jose Andres Porras (St Hugh's College, Oxford), Respondent: Professor David D’Avray (UCL)

Monday 10 May 2021

• 17:00 - The Mozarabs And Their Neighbours: Mapping Communities in Medieval Toledo
  Helen Flatley (St Cross College, Oxford)

Monday 17 May 2021

• 17:00 - Mechthild of Magdeburg: Mystic Writer, Political Commentator
  Alice Spiers (St Anne's College, Oxford)

Monday 24 May 2021

• 17:00 - The de festis Model Sermon Collection of Nicolas de Biard: Toward a Critical Edition
  Antonio Marson Franchini (St Cross College, Oxford), Respondent: Professor Jessalynn L Bird (St. Mary's College, Notre Dame University (Indiana))

Monday 31 May 2021

• 17:00 - Trust and Trade in the Late Medieval Mediterranean World
  Various Speakers

Monday 7 June 2021

• 17:00 - Visual and Verbal Narratives in the Eastern Roman Empire, 500–1400
  Various Speakers

Monday 14 June 2021

• 17:00 - Politics and Power Plays, c. 1000–1500
  Various Speakers

Monday 21 June 2021

• 17:00 - Minds, Morals, and Martyrs in Medieval Communities
  Various Speakers

Monday 11 October 2021

• 17:00 - From Bible to Law in the Early Middle Ages: Adaptations of the Old Testament from the Collectio Hibernensis to King Alfred's Law-Book
  Roy Flechner (UCD/All Souls)

Monday 18 October 2021

• 17:00 - The Weak, the Poor, and the Landed: reading the Sermons of William of Auvergne (d. 1249)
  Lesley Smith (Harris Manchester)

Monday 25 October 2021

• 17:00 - Rewriting History: The Evolution and Impact of Ralph of Coggeshall’s Account of the Third Crusade
  Stephen Spencer (KCL)

Monday 1 November 2021

• 17:00 - The Battle of Evesham (1265): Dark Trophies, the War of the Welsh Marches, and the Cult of Simon de Montfort
  Sophie Ambler (Lancaster)

Monday 8 November 2021

• 17:00 - The Holy Roman Empire: Global Histories 800-1519
  Len Scales (Durham)

Monday 15 November 2021

• 17:00 - Cistercian? How Cistercian? The Example of late medieval Wales
  Janet Burton (UWTSD Lampeter)

Monday 22 November 2021

• 17:00 - The Diffusion of Governmentality in the Western Indian Ocean, c. 300-800 CE
  Rebecca Darley (Leeds)

Monday 29 November 2021

• 17:00 - Anglo-Saxon Landholding: the Unimportance of Bookland
  John Blair (Oxford)

Monday 17 January 2022

• 17:00 - In Search of Charlemagne's relic collection
  Julia Smith (All Souls)

Monday 24 January 2022

• 17:00 - Ascetic elitism beyond the cloister: Valerius of Bierzo and “Galician” monasticism at the end of the seventh century'
  David Addison (All Souls)

Monday 31 January 2022

• 17:00 - The Rhos guests of Louis the Pious: not just a flash in the pan?
  Please note this seminar will be ONLINE ONLY accessible with the standard seminar Teams link
  Jonathan Shepard (Oxford)

Monday 7 February 2022

• 17:00 - Compiling, creating, innovating: looking again at twelfth-century authorial practices
  Julie Barrau (Cambridge)

Monday 14 February 2022

• 17:00 - The concept of good government in Medieval Islam: the case of Umayyad al-Andalus
  Eduardo Manzano Moreno (St Andrews)

Monday 21 February 2022

• 17:00 - Excommunication: collective action and communal knowledge
  Felicity Hill (St Andrews)

Monday 28 February 2022

• 17:00 - Under the Tatar Yoke: Persian Local Courts Under the Mongols in the 13th Century
  Edith Chen (Exeter College)

Monday 7 March 2022

• 17:00 - 'Memory and the dynamics of dispute in Anglo-Norman England
  Nicholas Karn (Southampton)

Monday 25 April 2022

• 17:00 - The limits of the Danelaw
  Richard Purkiss (Lincoln/RAI)

Monday 2 May 2022

• 17:00 - When is a Pope an Anti-Pope? The Medieval Papacy and the Concept of Schism
  Rebecca Rist (Reading)

Monday 9 May 2022

• 17:00 - When Anglo-Saxon Pots Aren't Anglo-Saxon Pots and Why Historians Should Care?
  Robin Fleming (Boston College)

Monday 16 May 2022

• 17:00 - Feminising Migration in the Viking North
  Please note this seminar will be via MS Teams only
  Pragya Vohra (York)

Monday 23 May 2022

• 17:00 - Comets, Elements, and Pastoral Care: Framing Medieval Science in Collaborative Working
  Giles Gasper (Durham)

Monday 30 May 2022

• 17:00 - Riches and Respect. Baghdad’s robber barons (892-945)
  The Teams session can be accessed by logging in to Teams with your Oxford (ox.ac.uk) account and joining the group “Medieval History Research Seminar” (team code rmppucs). If you have any difficulties please email: medhistsem@history.ox.ac.uk
  Fanny Bessard (Trinity)

Monday 6 June 2022

• 17:00 - How to do medieval papal (and perhaps most) history
  Please note change of speaker and title
  David d'Avray (UCL)

Monday 13 June 2022

• 17:00 - The Problem of Politics in C12 Europe
  Alice Taylor (KCL)

Monday 10 October 2022

• 17:00 - Political Economy and the Wars of the Roses
  John Watts (Corpus Christi)

Monday 17 October 2022

• 17:00 - The city and the household: Towards a social history of politics in the late medieval town
  Christian Liddy (Durham)

Monday 24 October 2022

• 17:00 - Early Medieval Minuscule Texts: What, where, and why?
  Ildar Garipzanov (Oslo)

Monday 31 October 2022

• 17:00 - Staffing the Conquest: Mobility, Stasis, and Scribal Work in England, 1066-1100
  Julia Crick (KCL)

Monday 7 November 2022

• 17:00 - Rape and Survival in Late Medieval France and Burgundy
  Lucia Akard (Oxford SU)

Monday 14 November 2022

• 17:00 - A new look at silver in the Golden Age of Islam
  Jane Kershaw (School of Archaeology)

Monday 21 November 2022

• 17:00 - Lost in translation: diplomacy and the use of languages at the papal curia in Avignon
  Barbara Bombi (Kent)

Monday 28 November 2022

• 17:00 - Avoid undue leaps. Clerical career paths in Late Antiquity
  Robert Wiśniewski (Warsaw)

Monday 16 January 2023

• 17:00 - Magic Saracen treasures, credulous merchants, and other stories: itinerant notaries and their "judicial novellas" in fourteenth-century Italy
  Lorenzo Caravaggi (University of East Anglia)

Monday 23 January 2023

• 17:00 - The Memory of the Martyrs: The topography of sanctity in Visigothic Toledo
  Jamie Wood (Lincoln)

Monday 30 January 2023

• 17:00 - Rogue emporium and universal empire: Rethinking Mamluk-Venetian relations (mid 13th to end of 14th c.)
  Georg Christ (Manchester)

Monday 6 February 2023

• 17:00 - Books and the Late Medieval Landscape of Heresy and Inquisition
  Justine Trombley (Durham)

Monday 13 February 2023

• 17:00 - Law in the late seventh century: the case of Theodore, Hlothhere, Wihtræd and Ine
  Ingrid Ivarsen (Cambridge)

Monday 20 February 2023

• 17:00 - Domestic Slavery, Sexual Exploitation, and the Transformation of the Late Roman World, AD 300–900
  Erin Dailey (Leicester)

Monday 27 February 2023

• 17:00 - Towards a new biography of Empress Matilda: what can be known about the women of her acquaintance?
  This seminar is cancelled due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Liesbeth van Houts (Cambridge)

Monday 6 March 2023

• 17:00 - Ethiopia and Byzantium: Reframing the Evidence
  Jacopo Gnisci (UCL)

Monday 24 April 2023

• 17:00 - Hell's Army: Heretics and Usurers in Medieval Arras
  Brianne Dolce (Merton)

Monday 1 May 2023

• 17:00 - Reckoning and Economic Life in Late-Medieval England
  Tom Johnson (York)

Monday 8 May 2023

• 17:00 - Bees in the medieval Mediterranean: Wax, honey and cross-cultural trade in the later Middle Ages
  This seminar has been cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Alexandra Sapoznik (King's College London)

Monday 15 May 2023

• 17:00 - Fashioning connectivity: Political communication and history-writing in late thirteenth-century Italy
  Susannah Bain (Jesus)

Monday 22 May 2023

• 17:00 - Monks, martyrs, and masculinity: authority and gender in early Islamic Palestine
  Lucy Parker (Wadham)

Monday 29 May 2023

• 17:00 - Violence, Blood, and Vendetta: A Girardian Interpretation
  José Maria Andres Porras (St Hugh's)

Monday 5 June 2023

• 17:00 - Iconography Against the Grain: Looking at and Learning from Art in the High Middle Ages
  Sara Lipton (Stony Brook/All Souls)

Monday 12 June 2023

• 17:00 - Understanding the cult of saints in the late medieval Cistercian order
  Emilia Jamroziak (Leeds)

Monday 9 October 2023

• 17:00 - Graze, Forage, Cook: authenticity and authority in medieval monastic reform
  Andrew Jotischky (RHUL)

Monday 16 October 2023

• 17:00 - A Measure of Monastic Reform? New saints, ancient saints, and the re-forming of monastic communities in late 10th-century England
  Sumner Braund (History of Science Museum, Oxford)

Monday 23 October 2023

• 17:00 - Dante’s Political Theology
  Matthew Kempshall (Wadham)

Monday 30 October 2023

• 17:00 - Networked Diplomacy: the Bahmani Sultanate in the Islamic world (ca. 1475)
  Meia Walravens (Trinity College, Oxford)

Monday 6 November 2023

• 17:00 - The Pecia System and the Medieval Oxford Book Trade
  Alison Ray (St Peter's College and Bodleian Library, Oxford)

Monday 13 November 2023

• 17:00 - Towards a New Biography of Empress Matilda: what can be known about the women around her?
  Liesbeth van Houts (Cambridge)

Monday 20 November 2023

• 17:00 - Translating Holiness: Relics and the Dynamics of Empire in the Late Antique Mediterranean
  Nadine Viermann (Durham)

Monday 27 November 2023

• 17:00 - Coined Money in the Early Middle Ages: did it matter?
  Rory Naismith (Cambridge)

Monday 15 January 2024

• 17:00 - The Rise of Christian Kingship and the De-Secularization of the Latin West
  Conor O'Brien (Oxford)

Monday 22 January 2024

• 17:00 - Did Charlemagne Worry about his Body?
  John Merrington (Oxford)

Monday 29 January 2024

• 17:00 - Philippe de Vitry in Clement VI’s Avignon
  Andrew Wathey (TNA/All Souls College, Oxford)

Monday 5 February 2024

• 17:00 - Thinking about Grief and Loss in the High Middle Ages
  Emily Winkler (Oxford)

Monday 12 February 2024

• 17:00 - Medicine in the margins: Exploring the unexpected environments of early medieval medical knowledge
  Claire Burridge (University of Oslo)

Monday 19 February 2024

• 17:00 - Re-examining the role of inter-faith rivalry as the main driver of conflict in the Middle East at the time of the Crusades
  Nicholas Morton (Nottingham Trent)

Monday 26 February 2024

• 17:00 - James Campbell, William Stubbs, and German Idealism
  George Garnett (Oxford)

Monday 4 March 2024

• 17:00 - From Text to Teeth: Embodied Stories of Premodern Women at Work
  Alison Beach (St Andrews)

Monday 22 April 2024

• 17:00 - Eleanor of Aquitaine: the power of a queen and duchess
  Lindy Grant (Reading)

Monday 29 April 2024

• 17:00 - The transformation of the monastic enclosure at Marmoutier (Tours, France) between the 11th and the early 13th century
  Elisabeth Lorans (Tours/All Souls, Oxford)

Monday 6 May 2024

• 17:00 - Reading the Arabic Documents of Medieval Toledo: Local Practice and Community Formation on the Iberian Frontier
  Helen Flatley (Somerville College, Oxford)

Monday 13 May 2024

• 17:00 - Intertextuality in medieval Spain: liturgy, iconography, architecture and music at San Miguel de Escalada in the tenth century
  Emma Hornby (Bristol)

Monday 20 May 2024

• 17:00 - Charles West, Helen Gittos, and Mirela Ivanova, in discussion: Inventing Slavonic Cultures of Writing Between Rome and Constantinople
  Please note this seminar is in the OLD LIBRARY, All Souls College
  Charles West (Edinburgh), Helen Gittos (Balliol College, Oxford), Mirela Ivanova (Sheffield)

Monday 27 May 2024

• 17:00 - Establishing a school of astronomy and astrology in the fourteenth century? The case of the universities of Paris and Oxford
  Laure Miolo (Lincoln College, Oxford)

Monday 3 June 2024

• 17:00 - A room with a view: Chichele’s college
  Peregrine Horden (All Souls College, Oxford)

Monday 10 June 2024

• 17:00 - The Relics of Rome
  Katherine Jansen (Catholic University of America)

Monday 14 October 2024

• 17:00 - Writing the Conquest of Egypt: A case study in the Formation of Islamic Historical Writing
  Edward Zychowicz-Coghill (KCL)

Monday 21 October 2024

• 17:00 - Making moral judgements: theory and practice in the thought of Johannes Nider
  Genevieve Caulfield (UCL)

Monday 28 October 2024

• 17:00 - Writing history in the tenth century
  Sarah Hamilton (University of Exeter)

Monday 4 November 2024

• 17:00 - Identity and geographical origin at the late medieval University of Paris: an analysis of manuscript decoration
  Teresa Barucci (Magdalen College, Oxford)

Monday 11 November 2024

• 17:00 - 'Bogomils or Bogeymen?: Heresy between East and West in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
  Please note this seminar is in the Hovenden Room, not the Wharton Room
  Gregory Lippiatt (University of Exeter)

Monday 18 November 2024

• 17:00 - New perspectives on Gerald of Wales
  Moreed Arbabzedah (Jesus College, Oxford)

Monday 25 November 2024

• 17:00 - Gender Ventriloquism in Medieval India: the Writings of Amir Khusro
  Fouzia Farooq AhmedAzam (Oxford/Quaid-i- University, Islamabad)

Monday 2 December 2024

• 17:00 - Harlot/saint: tracking the figure of Thais meretrix in medieval manuscript compilations
  Alicia Smith (Oxford)

Monday 20 January 2025

• 17:00 - A History of Mountains in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: North Africa, Syria, and Iran
  Christian Sahner (New College/AMES, Oxford)

Monday 27 January 2025

• 17:00 - Stephen I of Hungary: medieval myths and modern nationalism
  Nora Berend (Cambridge)

Monday 3 February 2025

• 17:00 - Twelve migrant women and the history of early medieval Europe
  Alice Rio (KCL)

Monday 10 February 2025

• 17:00 - Visualising the Lateran Patriarchium: Recent research by the Rome Transformed Project
  Ian Haynes (Newcastle/All Souls, Oxford)

Monday 17 February 2025

• 17:00 - Re- and mis-gendering St Marina*us in high medieval Italy
  Michael Eber (Oxford/Cologne)

Monday 24 February 2025

• 17:00 - Economic and cultural connections within Mediterranean ecosystems
  Alexandra Sapoznik (KCL)

Monday 3 March 2025

• 17:00 - Listing royal lands in the Carolingian Empire
  Simon MacLean (St Andrews)

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 17:00 - French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History c. 1100-c. 1500: Discussion seminar with Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University)
  Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham)

Monday 10 March 2025

• 17:00 - How to qualify as a notary in the early-16th century Mamluk Sultanate
  Daisy Livingston (Durham)