Seminars

This page lists the posts I have written about seminars I’ve been to. I add a post to this list when it moves off the front page of the blog. Here they are:

Summer 2007

1. Richard Sharpe, “King Harold’s daughter”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London, & Ros Faith, “Lincolnshire Liquidity before the Conquest”, Departmental Seminar, Fitzwilliam Museum Department of Coins & Medals
2. Charles West, “Thiefs and Vassals”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
3. Jonathan Jarrett, “Neo-Goths, Mozarabs and Kings: chronicles versus charters in tenth-century León”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
4. Jonathan Jarrett, “Currency change in pre-millennial Catalonia: coinage, counts and economics”, Departmental Seminar, Fitzwilliam Museum Department of Coins & Medals
5. Elisabeth Zadora-Rio, speaking on parishes in France from eighth to eighteenth century (exact title not available), IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
6. David Pratt, “The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
7. Susan Reynolds, “Modern problems with medieval communities”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London

Autumn 2007

8. Sinead O’Sullivan, “Why Did The Carolingians Read Martianus Capella?” & Hilary Powell, “Landscapes of Legend: folklore in Anglo-Latin hagiography”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
9. Thomas Owen Clancy, “The churches of the Picts: when, where and what were they for?”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
10. Janet Nelson, “Spades and Lies? Interdisciplinary encounters”, joint meeting of IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar and University College London Institute of Archaeology Joint Seminars in Early Medieval Studies with the British Museum, London
11. Hugh Kennedy, “Landed Estates and Incomes in the Early Islamic World”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
12. Caroline Goodson, “The Vassals’ Post-Holes: living in medieval Villa Magna”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
13. Steven Baxter, “The Earls of Mercia: Lordship and Power in Late Anglo-Saxon England”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
14. Peter Heather, “Vandal religious policy under Geneseric”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
15. Tom Brown, “Life after Byzantium: Ravenna and its hinterland in the Carolingian and Ottonian periods”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London

Spring 2008

16. Mark Handley, “Easterners in the West: the Who, Where, When, Why, and How Many?”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
17. Nicholas Brooks, “Archbishop Æthelnoth ‘the Good’ and his knights: feudal origins revisited”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
18. Neil Middleton, “Early Medieval Tolls and the Coinages of North-West Europe”, Departmental Seminar, Fitzwilliam Museum Department of Coins & Medals
19. Janet Nelson, “Charlemagne Revisited”, London Society for Medieval Studies, London
20. Sarah Foot, “Should King Æthelstan Get a Life?”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
21. Chris Wickham, “Getting justice in twelfth-century Rome”, joint meeting of the IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar and the London Society for Medieval Studies, London, and Stephen White, “A Paranoid Style in Medieval Political Culture? The Taste for Legal Melodrama in 12th- and early 13th-century France and England”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London

Summer 2008

22. Charles Insley, “Kings, Lords, Charters and the Political Culture of Twelfth-Century Wales”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
23. Stefan Patzold, “Educating the clergy: rural priests and their knowledge in Carolingian Francia”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
24. Wendy Davies, “Disputes and disputing in early medieval Spain: some comparisons with Wales and Brittany”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London

Autumn 2008

25. Ann Williams, “The World Before Domesday: The English Aristocracy 871-1066″, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
26. Charlotte Roueché, “Late Antique Ephesus: Walking the Streets”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
27. Chris Wickham, “Problems with the Dialogue between Medieval Historians and Medieval Archaeologists”, Sir David Wilson Lecture, joint meeting of IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar and University College London Institute of Archaeology Joint Seminars in Early Medieval Studies with the British Museum, London
28. Michael Wood, “Cholans and West Saxons: kingship and court culture in tenth-century England and India”, University College London Medieval Interdisciplinary Seminar, London
29. Martin Carver, “What were they thinking? Some reflections on the archaeology of Christianization”, Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar, Cambridge
30. Erik Niblaeus, “The Småland Breviary Fragments: a liturgical mystery from twelfth-century Sweden”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
31. Hugh Kennedy, “Continuity and Change through the early Muslim Conquests”, Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar, Cambridge
32. Conrad Leyser, “Law, Memory and the Priestly Office in the West before the Millennium”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
33. Chris Wickham, “The Culture of the Public: assembly politics and the ‘feudal revolution’”, Creighton Lecture, Institute of Historical Research, London
34. Janet Nelson, “Bits and Pieces: why historians should think about small metal objects from the ninth century”, Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar, Cambridge
35. Maximilian Diesenberger, “Christianizing Bavaria in the reign of Charlemagne”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London

Spring 2009

36. Sally Harvey, “Domesday Book: an inquest of sheriffs?”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
37. Peter Heather, “Predatory Migration and the First Millennium”, Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar, Cambridge
38. Wendy Davies, “What Can We Say About Local Priests in Northern Spain before the Year 1000?”, London Society for Medieval Studies, London
39. Celia Chazelle, “Why is this Feast different from all other Feasts? Eucharistic ritual and belief in early medieval societies”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
40. Helen Foxhall Forbes, “Gone but not Forgotten: Anglo-Saxon charters, Purgatory and Commemoration of the Dead”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
41. Leif Petersen, “Siege warfare in the seventh century”, Cambridge Byzantine Seminar
42. Eamon Duffy & David d’Avray, “Mary Douglas among the Medievalists”, University College London Medieval Interdisciplinary Seminar, London
43. Simon Keynes, “The Cult of Edward the Martyr in the Reign of King Æthelred ‘the Unready’”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London

Summer 2009

44. Andrew Reynolds, “Assembly Sites and the Emergence of Supra-local Communities in Early Kent”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
45. Chris Wickham, “Social Change (and Complexity) in Early Medieval Rome, 700-1000″, Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar, Cambridge
46. Rory Naismith, “Kings, Moneyers and Currency in Southern England, c. 750-c. 865″, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
47. Wendy Davies, “Economic Change in Early Medieval Ireland: the case for growth?”, Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar, Cambridge
48. Liana Chua, “Speaking of Continuity: change, conversion and the anthropology of (Bidayuh) Christianity”, Post-Doc Seminar, Department of Anthropology, Cambridge University, Cambridge
49. Chris Lewis, “The Ideology and Culture of Anglo-Saxon Government”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
50. Wendy Davies (coord.), “The Language of Iberian Charters of the Tenth Century”, Approaches to Medieval Spain, Oxford

Autumn 2009

51. Arietta Papaconstantinou, “Identifying Rural Elites in Egypt and Southern Palestine from Justinian to the Umayyads”, Cambridge Byzantine Seminar, Cambridge
52. Simon MacLean, “Recycling the Franks in 12th-century England: Regino of Prum and the monks of Durham”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London

Spring 2010

53. Mayke de Jong, “The penitential state – a year later”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
54. Sylvie Joye, “Abduction and Elopement in Early Medieval Europe”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
55. Peter Sarris, “Aristocrats, Peasants and the State in Byzantium c. 600-1100″, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
56. Sir Jack Goody, “Renaissances: the one or the many?”, with response by Peter Burke, Medieval and Middle Eastern Network Seminar, Cambridge
57. Damián Fernández, “Hilltop Settlement and Economic Change in Late-Antique Northern Iberia”, Cambridge Byzantine Seminar, Cambridge
58. Andrea Augenti, “Rome and Ravenna from late Antiquity to the Early Middle ages: an archæological perspective”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London

Summer 2010

59. John Blair, “Can we know anything about the beliefs of the laity in pre-Christian and early Christian England?”, Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar, Cambridge

Autumn 2010

60. Ildar Garipzanov, “Graphicacy and Authority in Early Medieval Europe: Graphic Signs of Power and Faith”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
61. Chris Wickham, “The Financing of Roman Politics, 1050-1150″, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
62. Guy Halsall, Leslie Webster and David Ganz, Staffordshire Hoard Round-Table, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
63. Rebecca Day, “Late Roman and Byzantine gold coins in the Madras Government Museum – fashion, imitation and the economics of religious devotion”, Royal Numismatic Society, London: brief notice of paper only, as I didn’t actually make it there
64. Jonathan Jarrett, “A Likely Story: narratives in charter material from early medieval Catalonia”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
65. Rachel Stone,”Hincmar’s Use and Abuse of the Canon Law of Marriage”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
66. Caroline Goodson, “Excavations at Villa Magna”, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, Oxford
67. Susan Reynolds, “Eurasia: society and solidarity 500-1500″, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
68. Tom Lambert, “Theft, Homicide and Crime in Late Anglo-Saxon Law”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
69. Emma Cavell, “Foulke le fitz Wareyn: literary space for real women?”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
70. David Score, “The Dorset Ridgeway Viking Mass Burial “, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, Oxford University
71. Laura Ashe, “‘A Knight’s Whole Life is Passed in Sin’: literary engagements with war, conquest, and crusade, 1100-1250″, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
72. Gabor Thomas, “Settlement Dynamics and Monastic Foundation in pre-Viking England: new perspectives from excavations at Lyminge, Kent”, Institute of Archaeology and British Museum Joint Medieval Seminar, London
73. James Howard-Johnston, “The Seventh Century and the Formation of Byzantium”, Inaugural Lecture of Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, Oxford
74. Robin Fleming, “Recycling In Britain after Rome’s Fall”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London

Spring 2011

75. Mark Whittow, “Pirenne, Mohammed and Bohemond: before Orientalism”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
76. Bruce Campbell, “Population, Disease and Environmental Change in the Fourteenth Century”, Europe in the Later Middle Ages Seminar, Oxford University
77. Tom Faulkner, “Peoples and Legal Practice in the Carolingian Minor Law-Codes”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
78. Conrad Leyser, “History, Anthropology, and Early Medieval Kinship”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
79. Graham Barrett, “Visigothic Law after the Visigoths”, Medieval Church and Culture Seminar, Oxford University
80. Jane Kershaw, “New Insights on the Viking Settlement of England: the small finds evidence”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
81. Steffen Patzold, “Einhard’s First Readers”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
82. Vivien Prigent, “The Myth of the Mancus and The Origins of the European Economy“, Byzantine History Seminar, University of Oxford
83. Simon Ford, “`Take Us To Your Leader’: the mechanics of ecclesiastical authority in the exilic Monophysite Church (AD 518-638)”, Late Roman Seminar, Oxford University
84. Anne Pedersen, “New Discoveries at the Royal Site of Jelling, Denmark”, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, Oxford University
85. Alex Metcalfe, “The Norman Conquest (and Loss) of Africa”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University.
86. Marina Rustow, “The Fatimid State as Viewed by Medieval Jews”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University.
87. Levi Roach, “Stating the Obvious? Ritual, Assemblies and the Anglo-Saxon State, 871-978″, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
88. Aidan O’Sullivan, “Early Medieval Dwellings and Settlement in Ireland: perspectives from archaeology, history and palaeoecology”, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, Oxford University
89. Wendy Davies, “Water mills and cattle standards: probing the economic comparison between Ireland and Spain in the early Middle Ages”, Chadwick Memorial Lecture, University of Cambridge

Summer 2011

90. Andrew Reynolds, “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anglo-Saxon Assembly Sites”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
91. David Ganz, “Latin Manuscript Books Before 800, 2: scribes and patrons”, Elias Avery Lowe Lecture in Palæography, Christ Church College, Oxford
92. Sarah Foot, “Thinking with Christians: doing ecclesiastical history in a secular age”, Inaugural Lecture as Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Oxford
93. Laura Carlson, “An Encyclopedic Theology: Theodulf of Orléans and the Carolingian Wiki-Bible”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
94. Anton Scharer, “The King’s Voice: expressions of personal concern in royal diplomas”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
95. Rob Portass, “Magnates and their monasteries in the tenth-century kingdom of Leon”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
96. Lesley Abrams, “Migration, Diaspora, and Identity in the Viking Age”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
97. Patrick Wadden, “Ireland and the Normans c. 1000: the evidence from Dudo of St-Quentin’s History of the Normans“, Medieval Church and Culture Seminar, Oxford University
98. Jonathan Jarrett, “Managing power in the post-Carolingian era: rulers and ruled in frontier Catalonia, 880-1010″, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London

Autumn 2011

99. Laura Carlson, “Creating a Christian Language: letter and spirit at the Carolingian court”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
100. Rory Naismith, “Mints, Moneyers and Authority in Anglo-Saxon England”, Seminar of the Winton Institute for Monetary History, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
101. Alex Woolf, “Framing Scotland in the Early Middle Ages”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford
102. Michael Metcalf, “Thrymsas and sceattas and the balance of payments”, Seminar of the Winton Institute for Monetary History, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
103. Graham Barrett, “The Literate Mentality and the Textual Society in Early Medieval Spain”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford

Spring 2012

104. Adam J. Kosto, “Free men made bond: finding hostages in the medieval sources”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford
105. Miri Rubin, “Gender: a useful concept for medievalists”, Europe in the Later Middle Ages Seminar, Oxford
106. Philipp von Rummel, “The Search for the Vandals on the North African Kingdom”, Late Roman Seminar, Oxford
107. Maureen C. Mellor, “The Archaeology of Stuff: scorched interiors”, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, Oxford
108. Ildar Garipzanov, “Christian Identities, Social Status, and Gender in Viking-Age Scandinavia”, Oliver Smithies Lecture, Balliol College, Oxford
109. Andrew Marsham, “God’s Caliph: authority in the Umayyad Caliphate”, Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar, Oxford
110. Andrew Marsham, “Public Execution with Fire in Late Antiquity and Early Islam”, Late Roman Seminar, Oxford
111. Naomi Standen, “Politics, Piety and Pots: shared repertoires across Continental Asia in the 7th to 12th centuries”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford
112. Judith Bennett, “Early, Erotic, and Alien: cross-dressing in late medieval London”, Europe in the Later Middle Ages Seminar, Oxford
113. Alison Bonner, “The Manuscript Transmission of Pelagius’s Ad Demetriadem“, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
114. Chris Fern, “The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Tranmer House (Sutton Hoo)”, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, Oxford
115. Timothy Hunter, “‘They Made No Difference Between Sacred and Profane’: images of Norman knighthood in Romanesque art”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford
116. Peter Sarris, “The Economics of Salvation in late Antiquity and Byzantium”, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar, Oxford
117. Ildar Garipzanov, “The Rise of Graphicacy and Graphic Symbols of Authority in Early Europe (c. 300-1000)”, Oliver Smithies Lecture, Balliol College, Oxford
118. Isaac Sastre Diego, “Early Hispanic Churches through their Liturgical Sculpture”, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, Oxford
119. Janet Nelson, “Putting Dhuoda in Context”, Medieval Church and Culture Seminar, Oxford
120. Emma Cavell, “Did Women Cause The Fall of Native Wales?”, Late Medieval Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
121. Stephen Baxter, Chris Lewis & Duncan Probert, “Profile of a Doomed Élite: the structure of English landed society in 1066″, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
122. Morn Capper, “Rethinking Thought and Action Under the Mercian Hegemony: responses to Mercian supremacy, 650-850″, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
123. Florin Curta, “In Line with Omurtag and Alfred: linear frontiers in the ninth century”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London

Summer 2012

124. Mark Whittow, “Territorial Lordship and Regional Power in the Age of Gregorian Reform: Matilda of Canossa and the Matildine lands”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Oxford
125. Paul Hyams, “Disputes and How to Avoid Them: charters and custom in England during the long 12th century”, Medieval Church and Culture Seminar, University of Oxford
126. Alex Woolf, “The Churches of Pictavia”, Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture 2012, Hughes Hall, Cambridge