Leeds:
October 2006
Reading an unpublished medieval romance: 'The story of Ulf, son of Uggi' Date:Wednesday, 25 October 2006, 17.15Details: Medieval English Literature Seminar Speaker: Andrew Wawn
Location: School of English. For further details, please contact Alfred Hiatt or telephone +44 (0)113 343 4734.
Lastingham revisitedDate:Wednesday, 25 October 2006, 17.15Details: History Medieval Seminar Speaker: Richard Morris
Location: School of History. For further details, please contact Graham Loud: telephone +44 (0)113 343 3601.
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November 2006
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series:
Magic for the Dead: The Archaeology of Magic in Later Medieval BurialsDate:Wednesday, 8 November 2006, 17.30 - 18.30 Details:Speaker: Roberta Gilchrist, Professor of Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading
Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. All welcome - please stay on for a glass of wine or Congress Ale afterwards. For further details, please contact
Sue Julier or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3617.
Making friends on the borders: Cistercian strategies from northern Europe in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries Date:Wednesday November 22 2006, 17.15Details: Medieval and Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Dr Emilia Jamroziak, School of History
Location: History Staff Common Room, Michael Sadler Arts Building, Room 330. For more, contact either
G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk or
E.M.Jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk Exchanging Words and Deeds in The Franklin's Tale and The Manciple's Tale Date:Thursday November 23 2006, 17.15Details: Medieval English Literature Seminar Speaker: Nicholas Perkins, St Hugh's College, Oxford
Location: School of English. For further details, contact Alfred Hiatt or telephone +44 (0)113 343 4734.
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Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series:
Did Henry III and Edward I have an artistic policy?Date:Wednesday, 29 November 2006, 17.30 - 18.30 Details:Speaker: Paul Binski, Reader in History of Art, Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge
Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. All welcome - please stay on for a glass of wine or Congress Ale afterwards. For further details, contact
Sue Julier or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3617.
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'Adelchi and Attila': the barbarians and the RisorgimentoDate:Wednesday, 6 December, 2006, 17.15Details: Medieval and Renaissance SeminarSpeaker: Ian Wood, Professor of Early Medieval History
Location: History Staff Common Room, Michael Sadler Arts Building, Room 330.
January 2007
Symposium: The Anglo-Saxon Benedictine ReformDate:Tuesday, 9 January 2007Details:Preliminary announcement: for more, contact Professor Joyce Hill,
j.m.hill@leeds.ac.uk.
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series:
Made in England?: The Bayeux TapestryDate:Wednesday, 24 January 2007, 17.30 - 18.30Details:Speaker: Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture, Department of English & American Studies, University of Manchester
Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. All welcome - please stay on for a glass of wine or Congress Ale afterwards. For further details, please contact
Sue Julier or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3617.
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Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series:
Sea-Faring Saints and Land-Lubber PaintersDate:Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 17.30 - 18.30 Details:Speaker: Julian Gardner, Professor of the History of Art, Department of the History of Art, University of Warwick
Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. All welcome - please stay on for a glass of wine or Congress Ale afterwards. For further details, please contact
Sue Julier or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3617.
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j.m.hill@leeds.ac.uk.
For me:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/ - International Medieval Congress 2007, Leeds
Aspects of this thematic strand may include:
- Cities and social and political formation
- Cities and patterns of belief: worship, cults, pilgrimage, and heresy
- Cities as sites of material and cultural production
- Cities as sites of commercial and cultural exchange
- Cities and the shaping of custom and law
- Cities and war
- Cities in history, myth, and imagination
- Life and death in the medieval city
- Networks of cities and other towns
- The impact of cities on territories
- The symbolic landscape of cities
- The representation of cities in graphic art
- Medieval cities in the modern world: conservation, museums, historiography, tourism
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