A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe

This page lists the posts I have written about seminars I’ve been to, as follows:

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