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:
- 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
- Charles West, “Thiefs and Vassals”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Jonathan Jarrett, “Neo-Goths, Mozarabs and Kings: chronicles versus charters in tenth-century León”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Jonathan Jarrett, “Currency change in pre-millennial Catalonia: coinage, counts and economics”, Departmental Seminar, Fitzwilliam Museum Department of Coins & Medals
- Elisabeth Zadora-Rio, speaking on parishes in France from eighth to eighteenth century (exact title not available), IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- David Pratt, “The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Susan Reynolds, “Modern problems with medieval communities”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- 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
- Thomas Owen Clancy, “The churches of the Picts: when, where and what were they for?”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- 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
- Hugh Kennedy, “Landed Estates and Incomes in the Early Islamic World”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Caroline Goodson, “The Vassals’ Post-Holes: living in medieval Villa Magna”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Steven Baxter, “The Earls of Mercia: Lordship and Power in Late Anglo-Saxon England”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Peter Heather, “Vandal religious policy under Geneseric”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Tom Brown, “Life after Byzantium: Ravenna and its hinterland in the Carolingian and Ottonian periods”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Mark Handley, “Easterners in the West: the Who, Where, When, Why, and How Many?”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Nicholas Brooks, “Archbishop Æthelnoth ‘the Good’ and his knights: feudal origins revisited”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Neil Middleton, “Early Medieval Tolls and the Coinages of North-West Europe”, Departmental Seminar, Fitzwilliam Museum Department of Coins & Medals
- Janet Nelson, “Charlemagne Revisited”, London Society for Medieval Studies, London
- Sarah Foot, “Should King Æthelstan Get a Life?”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- 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
- Charles Insley, “Kings, Lords, Charters and the Political Culture of Twelfth-Century Wales”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Stefan Patzold, “Educating the clergy: rural priests and their knowledge in Carolingian Francia”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Wendy Davies, “Disputes and disputing in early medieval Spain: some comparisons with Wales and Brittany”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Ann Williams, “The World Before Domesday: The English Aristocracy 871-1066”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Charlotte Roueché, “Late Antique Ephesus: Walking the Streets”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- 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
- Michael Wood, “Cholans and West Saxons: kingship and court culture in tenth-century England and India”, University College London Medieval Interdisciplinary Seminar, London
- Martin Carver, “What were they thinking? Some reflections on the archaeology of Christianization”, Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar, Cambridge
- Erik Niblaeus, “The Småland Breviary Fragments: a liturgical mystery from twelfth-century Sweden”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Hugh Kennedy, “Continuity and Change through the early Muslim Conquests”, Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar, Cambridge
- Conrad Leyser, “Law, Memory and the Priestly Office in the West before the Millennium”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Chris Wickham, “The Culture of the Public: assembly politics and the ‘feudal revolution’”, Creighton Lecture, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Janet Nelson, “Bits and Pieces: why historians should think about small metal objects from the ninth century”, Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar, Cambridge
- Maximilian Diesenberger, “Christianizing Bavaria in the reign of Charlemagne”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Sally Harvey, “Domesday Book: an inquest of sheriffs?”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Peter Heather, “Predatory Migration and the First Millennium”, Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar, Cambridge
- Wendy Davies, “What Can We Say About Local Priests in Northern Spain before the Year 1000?”, London Society for Medieval Studies, London
- 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
- Helen Foxhall Forbes, “Gone but not Forgotten: Anglo-Saxon charters, Purgatory and Commemoration of the Dead”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Leif Petersen, “Siege warfare in the seventh century”, Cambridge Byzantine Seminar
- Eamon Duffy & David d’Avray, “Mary Douglas among the Medievalists”, University College London Medieval Interdisciplinary Seminar, London
- Simon Keynes, “The Cult of Edward the Martyr in the Reign of King Æthelred ‘the Unready'”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Andrew Reynolds, “Assembly Sites and the Emergence of Supra-local Communities in Early Kent”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Chris Wickham, “Social Change (and Complexity) in Early Medieval Rome, 700-1000”, Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar, Cambridge
- Rory Naismith, “Kings, Moneyers and Currency in Southern England, c. 750-c. 865”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Wendy Davies, “Economic Change in Early Medieval Ireland: the case for growth?”, Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar, Cambridge
- Claudia Rapp, “Ritual Brotherhood in Byzantium: origins and context”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Liana Chua, “Speaking of Continuity: change, conversion and the anthropology of (Bidayuh) Christianity”, Post-Doc Seminar, Department of Anthropology, Cambridge University, Cambridge
- Chris Lewis, “The Ideology and Culture of Anglo-Saxon Government”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Wendy Davies (coord.), “The Language of Iberian Charters of the Tenth Century”, Approaches to Medieval Spain, Oxford
- Arietta Papaconstantinou, “Identifying Rural Elites in Egypt and Southern Palestine from Justinian to the Umayyads”, Cambridge Byzantine Seminar, Cambridge
- Simon MacLean, “Recycling the Franks in 12th-century England: Regino of Prum and the monks of Durham”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Mayke de Jong, “The penitential state – a year later”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Sylvie Joye, “Abduction and Elopement in Early Medieval Europe”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Peter Sarris, “Aristocrats, Peasants and the State in Byzantium c. 600-1100″, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Sir Jack Goody, “Renaissances: the one or the many?”, with response by Peter Burke, Medieval and Middle Eastern Network Seminar, Cambridge
- Damián Fernández, “Hilltop Settlement and Economic Change in Late-Antique Northern Iberia”, Cambridge Byzantine Seminar, Cambridge
- Andrea Augenti, “Rome and Ravenna from late Antiquity to the Early Middle ages: an archæological perspective”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- 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
- Ildar Garipzanov, “Graphicacy and Authority in Early Medieval Europe: Graphic Signs of Power and Faith”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Chris Wickham, “The Financing of Roman Politics, 1050-1150”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
- Guy Halsall, Leslie Webster and David Ganz, Staffordshire Hoard Round-Table, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- 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
- Jonathan Jarrett, “A Likely Story: narratives in charter material from early medieval Catalonia”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
- Rachel Stone,”Hincmar’s Use and Abuse of the Canon Law of Marriage”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Caroline Goodson, “Excavations at Villa Magna”, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, Oxford
- Susan Reynolds, “Eurasia: society and solidarity 500-1500”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Tom Lambert, “Theft, Homicide and Crime in Late Anglo-Saxon Law”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
- Emma Cavell, “Foulke le fitz Wareyn: literary space for real women?”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
- David Score, “The Dorset Ridgeway Viking Mass Burial “, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, Oxford University
- 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
- 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
- James Howard-Johnston, “The Seventh Century and the Formation of Byzantium”, Inaugural Lecture of Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, Oxford
- Robin Fleming, “Recycling In Britain after Rome’s Fall”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Mark Whittow, “Pirenne, Mohammed and Bohemond: before Orientalism”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
- Bruce Campbell, “Population, Disease and Environmental Change in the Fourteenth Century”, Europe in the Later Middle Ages Seminar, Oxford University
- Tom Faulkner, “Peoples and Legal Practice in the Carolingian Minor Law-Codes”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Conrad Leyser, “History, Anthropology, and Early Medieval Kinship”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
- Graham Barrett, “Visigothic Law after the Visigoths”, Medieval Church and Culture Seminar, Oxford University
- Jane Kershaw, “New Insights on the Viking Settlement of England: the small finds evidence”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Steffen Patzold, “Einhard’s First Readers”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
- Vivien Prigent, “The Myth of the Mancus and The Origins of the European Economy“, Byzantine History Seminar, University of Oxford
- 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
- Anne Pedersen, “New Discoveries at the Royal Site of Jelling, Denmark”, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, Oxford University
- Alex Metcalfe, “The Norman Conquest (and Loss) of Africa”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University.
- Marina Rustow, “The Fatimid State as Viewed by Medieval Jews”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University.
- Levi Roach, “Stating the Obvious? Ritual, Assemblies and the Anglo-Saxon State, 871-978”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Aidan O’Sullivan, “Early Medieval Dwellings and Settlement in Ireland: perspectives from archaeology, history and palaeoecology”, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, Oxford University
- 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
- Andrew Reynolds, “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anglo-Saxon Assembly Sites”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
- David Ganz, “Latin Manuscript Books Before 800, 2: scribes and patrons”, Elias Avery Lowe Lecture in Palæography, Christ Church College, Oxford
- Sarah Foot, “Thinking with Christians: doing ecclesiastical history in a secular age”, Inaugural Lecture as Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Oxford
- Laura Carlson, “An Encyclopedic Theology: Theodulf of Orléans and the Carolingian Wiki-Bible”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
- Anton Scharer, “The King’s Voice: expressions of personal concern in royal diplomas”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Rob Portass, “Magnates and their monasteries in the tenth-century kingdom of Leon”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford University
- Lesley Abrams, “Migration, Diaspora, and Identity in the Viking Age”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- 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
- Jonathan Jarrett, “Managing power in the post-Carolingian era: rulers and ruled in frontier Catalonia, 880-1010”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Laura Carlson, “Creating a Christian Language: letter and spirit at the Carolingian court”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Rory Naismith, “Mints, Moneyers and Authority in Anglo-Saxon England”, Seminar of the Winton Institute for Monetary History, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- Alex Woolf, “Framing Scotland in the Early Middle Ages”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford
- Michael Metcalf, “Thrymsas and sceattas and the balance of payments”, Seminar of the Winton Institute for Monetary History, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- Graham Barrett, “The Literate Mentality and the Textual Society in Early Medieval Spain”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford
- Adam J. Kosto, “Free men made bond: finding hostages in the medieval sources”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford
- Miri Rubin, “Gender: a useful concept for medievalists”, Europe in the Later Middle Ages Seminar, Oxford
- Philipp von Rummel, “The Search for the Vandals on the North African Kingdom”, Late Roman Seminar, Oxford
- Maureen C. Mellor, “The Archaeology of Stuff: scorched interiors”, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, Oxford
- George Molyneaux, “The formation of the English kingdom in the tenth century”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford
- Ildar Garipzanov, “Christian Identities, Social Status, and Gender in Viking-Age Scandinavia”, Oliver Smithies Lecture, Balliol College, Oxford
- Andrew Marsham, “God’s Caliph: authority in the Umayyad Caliphate”, Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar, Oxford
- Andrew Marsham, “Public Execution with Fire in Late Antiquity and Early Islam”, Late Roman Seminar, Oxford
- Naomi Standen, “Politics, Piety and Pots: shared repertoires across Continental Asia in the 7th to 12th centuries”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford
- Judith Bennett, “Early, Erotic, and Alien: cross-dressing in late medieval London”, Europe in the Later Middle Ages Seminar, Oxford
- Alison Bonner, “The Manuscript Transmission of Pelagius’s Ad Demetriadem“, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Chris Fern, “The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Tranmer House (Sutton Hoo)”, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, Oxford
- Timothy Hunter, “‘They Made No Difference Between Sacred and Profane’: images of Norman knighthood in Romanesque art”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford
- Hajnalka Herold, “Between the Carolingian West and the Byzantine East: fortified élite settlements of the 9th and 10th centuries AD in Central Europe”, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, Oxford
- Marek Jankowiak, “Dirhams for Slaves: investigating the Slavic slave trade in the tenth century”, Medieval History Seminar, Oxford
- Peter Sarris, “The Economics of Salvation in late Antiquity and Byzantium”, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar, Oxford
- Ildar Garipzanov, “The Rise of Graphicacy and Graphic Symbols of Authority in Early Europe (c. 300-1000)”, Oliver Smithies Lecture, Balliol College, Oxford
- Isaac Sastre Diego, “Early Hispanic Churches through their Liturgical Sculpture”, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, Oxford
- Janet Nelson, “Putting Dhuoda in Context”, Medieval Church and Culture Seminar, Oxford
- Emma Cavell, “Did Women Cause The Fall of Native Wales?”, Late Medieval Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- 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
- Morn Capper, “Rethinking Thought and Action Under the Mercian Hegemony: responses to Mercian supremacy, 650-850”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Florin Curta, “In Line with Omurtag and Alfred: linear frontiers in the ninth century”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- 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
- 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
- Alex Woolf, “The Churches of Pictavia”, Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture 2012, Hughes Hall, Cambridge
- Paul Oldfield, “A Bridge to Salvation or Entrance to the Underworld? Southern Italy and International Pilgrimage”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Oxford
- Paul Harvey, “How to Manage Your Landed Estate in the Eleventh Century”, Medieval Social and Economic History Seminar, University of Oxford
- Isaac Sastre Diego, “Architecture of power in the Asturian kingdom”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Oxford
- Rod Thomson, “‘The Dane broke off his continuous drinking bouts, the Norwegian left his diet of raw fish’: William of Malmesbury on the Scandinavians”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Oxford
- Joanna Story, “Bede, Willibrord and the Letters of Pope Honorius I on the Genesis of the Archbishopric of York”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Clare Woods, “Ninth-Century Networks: books, (gifts), scholarly exchange”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Hugh Kennedy, “Landholding and Law in Early Islam”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Oxford
- Erica Buchberger, “Romans in a Frankish World: Gregory of Tours, Venantius Fortunatus and Ethnic Identities”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Barbara Yorke, “Weland, Woden and Anglo-Saxon Court Culture, c. 600-900″, Sir David Wilson Lecture in Medieval Studies, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
- Emily Winkler, “Kings and Conquest in Anglo-Norman Historiography”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Oxford
- Stephanie Wynne-Jones, “A Material Culture: exploring urbanism and trade in the medieval Swahili world”, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, University of Oxford
- Lesley Abrams, “Early Normandy”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Oxford
- John Blair, “Land-Surveying in the Post-Roman West”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Oxford
- Roger Wright, “African Invaders and Very Old Spanish”, IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- Paul Booth, “‘Roman’ and ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Settlements and Burials at Horcott, Gloucestershire – Continuities and Discontinuities on the Thames Valley Gravels”, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, University of Oxford
- Ivo Štefan, “Great Moravia and its Collapse: early medieval polity on the edge of Carolingian world”, UCL Institute of Archaeology and British Museum Joint Seminar, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
- John Blair, “Building the Anglo-Saxon Landscape, 1. Defining Anglo-Saxon Landscapes”, Ford Lecture in History, University of Oxford
- Oliver Harris, “Places Past and Present: the Ardnamurchan boat burial”, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, University of Oxford
- Chris Wickham, “Administrators’ time: the social memory of the early medieval state in Iraq and China”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Oxford
- Els Schröder, “Searching for Friendship in Anglo-Saxon Sources: multilingual insights into tenth-century elite culture”, Institute of Historical Research Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London
- John Blair, “Building the Anglo-Saxon Landscape, 2. Landscapes of Power and Wealth”, Ford Lecture in History, University of Oxford
- Nicholas Schroeder, “The Forgotten Lords: the feudal revolution and monastic lordship in Lotharingia, c. 900 to c. 1250″, Medieval History Seminar, University of Oxford
- John Blair, “Building the Anglo-Saxon Landscape, 3. Why was Burton Built on Trent? Landscape Organisation and Economy in the Mercian Age”, Ford Lecture in History, University of Oxford
- Mark McKerracher, “Mid-Saxon Agriculture Reconsidered”, Medieval Archaeology Seminar, University of Oxford
- Tom Lambert, “Crime, Community and Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Oxford
- John Blair, “Building the Anglo-Saxon Landscape, 5: landscapes of rural settlement”, Ford Lecture in History, University of Oxford
- John Blair, “Building the Anglo-Saxon Landscape, 6: landscapes of the mind”, Ford Lecture in History, University of Oxford
- Anne Bailey, “Reconsidering ‘The Medieval Experience at the Shrine’ in High-Medieval England”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Oxford
- John Blair, “Building the Anglo-Saxon Landscape”, Ford Lecturer’s Seminar, University of Oxford
- Robin Fleming, “Women, Material Culture and the History of Post-Roman Britain”, Medieval Archaeology, Medieval History and Late Antique and Byzantine Seminars, University of Oxford
- James Lloyd, “Local Government in Wessex before the Hundred”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Jonathan Jarrett, “Brokedown palaces or Torres dels Moros? Finding the fisc in late-Carolingian Catalonia” and Phil Marter, “Archaeological Investigations at the Medieval Palacio de Ambel, Aragón”, Comparative Seminar in Medieval Cultures, University of Winchester
- Jonathan Jarrett, “On Stone and Skin: inscription of a community at a Catalan monastery around 1000”, special seminar jointly hosted by the Monash Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies and The University of Melbourne
- Mark Whittow, “Worlds in Motion: Byzantium’s Eurasian Policy in the Age of the Türk Empire, 550-630”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Oxford
- Alexander Fleming, “Exploring the History and Significance of Early Medieval Roads”, Medieval Social and Economic History Seminar, University of Oxford
- Erica Buchberger, “Romans, Barbarians and Burgundians in Early Burgundian Law”, After Rome Seminar, University of Oxford
- George Garnett & George Molyneaux, “1066: the most important date in English history?”, a debate at the Ertegun Centre, Oxford
- Michael Featherstone, “The Great Palace of Constantinople: tradition or invention”, Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar, University of Oxford
- Elina Screen, “Norway in the Age of Cnut (d. 1035), through the Coinage Evidence”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Oxford
- Philip Booth, “Beyond Alfred Butler’s Conquest of Egypt“, Medieval History Seminar, University of Oxford
- Nicholas Schroeder, “From Roman to Medieval Landscapes: settlement, society and economy in Belgian, English and German uplands”, Medieval Social and Economic History Seminar, University of Oxford
- Elizabeth Boyle, “Lay Morality, Clerical Immorality and Pilgrimage in 10th- and 11th-Century Ireland”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Rory Naismith, “Peter’s Pence and Beyond: the Forum Hoard and Anglo-Roman monetary relations in the Middle Ages”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Oxford
- Faye Taylor, “Miracles and Mutation in Southern France”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Jonathan Jarrett, “Two men and a monastery: clerical involvements in Manresa before 1000”, Medieval Social and Economic History Seminar, Oxford
- Alice Taylor, “Lex scripta and the Problem of Enforcement: Anglo-Saxon, Welsh and Scottish law compared”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Oxford
- John Gillingham, “Richard of Devizes and the Annals of Winchester“, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Patrick Geary, “Preliminary Reflections on Genomic Evidence and Medieval Migration History”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Roberta Gilchrist, “Glastonbury Abbey: reinterpreting the Anglo-Saxon archaeology”, David Wilson Lecture, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
- Simon Yarrow, “Varieties of Christian Materiality: relics and saints’ cults in Anglo-Norman England”, Seminar of the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, University of Birmingham
- Leslie Brubaker, “Byzantium at Brixworth”, Brixworth Lecture 2013, All Saints Brixworth
- Trevor Morse, “Cuthbert and Wilfrid: parallel lives(?)”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Peter Darby, “Heresy, Orthodoxy and the Codex Amiatinus Christ in Majesty”, Seminar of the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, University of Birmingham
- Sara Lipton, “Beauty and the Eye of the Beholder: Jewish caricature and Christian devotions in the later twelfth century”, Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages Annual Public Lecture, University of Birmingham
- Jonathan Jarrett, “Miles or militia: war-service and castle-guard in tenth-century Catalonia”, Seminar of the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, University of Birmingham
- Susan Tyler-Smith, “Faith and Fortune: Arab-Sasanian coins”, public lecture in support of the exhibition Faith and Fortune: visualising the divine on Byzantine and early Islamic coinage, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham
- Catherine Cubitt, “Apocalyptic Thought in England Around the Year 1000”, Royal Historical Society Public Lecture, University College London
- Tom Lambert, “Crime, Community and Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- John-Henry Clay, “St Boniface in Thuringia”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Archie Dunn, “Byzantine Greece — Microcosm of Empire? Retrospect and Prospect”, General Seminar of the Centre of Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
- Paul Garwood, “Ashes, Smoke and Fire: rethinking archaeologies of ritual”, Anthropology Seminar, University of Birmingham
- Giorgia Vocino, “Bishops in the Mirror: literary portraits and episcopal self-fashioning in early medieval Italy”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Julia Crick, “Who Were the Writers and Readers of Administrative English in the Century after the Norman Conquest?”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Henry Maguire, “Why was there no Renaissance in Byzantine art?”, General Seminar of the Centre of Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
- Charles West, “Charlemagne and the Future of the European Past”, Not the First World War Centenary Seminar, Institute of German Studies, University of Birmingham
- Ross Balzaretti, “Early Medieval Charters and Landscapes: Genoa and Milan compared“, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Chris Fern, “The Staffordshire Hoard: the current state of knowledge”, Medieval Research Centre Special Lecture, University of Leicester
- Georges Kazan, “The Head of St John the Baptist: Byzantium and the Circulation of Relics in the Early Middle Ages”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Robert Swanson, “Pastoral Care, Pastoral Cares, Pastoral Carers: the cura pastoralis in late medieval England”, Early Medieval, Medieval, Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern Forum Guest Lecture, University of Birmingham
- David Ganz, “Charlemagne in the Margin: a new Carolingian text about Karolus Magnus”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Kyle Sinclair, “Michael Attaleites and Eyewitness Accounts of Warfare in Byzantine Literature”, Gate to the Eastern Mediterranean Forum, University of Birmingham
- Arezou Azad, “Balkh Art & Cultural Heritage Project: exploration, maps and Silk Road history from northern Afghanistan”, Seminar of the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, University of Birmingham
- Guy Halsall, “The Space Between: the ‘undead’ Roman Empire and the aesthetics of Salin’s Style I”, David Wilson Lecture, Institute of Archaeology and British Museum Joint Seminar and Institute of Historical Research Earlier Middle Ages Seminar Joint Meeting, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
- Carl Phelpstead, “Geoffrey of Monmouth and J. R. R. Tolkien: myth-making and national identity in the twelfth and twentieth centuries”, Public Lecture of the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, University of Birmingham
- Wendy Scase, “The Simeon Manuscript and its Scribes”, Seminar of the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, University of Birmingham
- Luca Larpi, “Medical Practitioners before Medical Schools: the evidence from Salernitan charters, ss. VIII-XI” and Anthony Mansfield, “Lords of the North Sea: comparative approaches to the aristocracies of the tenth and eleventh centuries”, M6 Medieval Seminar, Keele University
- Rebecca Ingram, “Making it Last: the construction and repair of a 7th-century ship from Constantinople’s Theodosian harbour”, General Seminar of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
- Ingrid Rembold, “The Stellinga, the Saxon Elite and Carolingian Politics”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- John Mitchell, “Abul-Abbas and all That: the West and the Caliphate in the age of Bede, Desiderius and Charlemagne”, General Seminar of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
- Ryder Patzuk-Russell, “The Development of Grammatica in Medieval Iceland: the teaching and study of languages and literature in the eleventh through fourteenth centuries” and Jeffrey Brubaker, “Nuncios or Legati: what makes a papal representative in 1234”, Medieveval Seminar of the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, University of Birmingham
- Caterina Galatariotou, “Byzantine Adolescence”, General Seminar of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
- Danica Summerlin, “The Afterlife of the ‘Old Law’: rethinking the role of pre-Gratian texts in later twelfth-century canonical collections”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
- Jill Harries, “Mother vs maiden: Helena, Pulcheria and the formulation of imperial dynasty in late antiquity”, General Seminar of the Centre of Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
- Jean Birrell, “‘And he shall stand there all day with a rod’: peasant farmers and their farm-workers in thirteenth-century England”, Research Seminar of the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, University of Birmingham
- Robert Houghton, “Modelling the Middle Ages in grand strategy computer games”, History and Cultures Workshop, University of Birmingham
- Jane Kershaw, “The Bullion Economy of Viking England”, Research Seminar of the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, University of Birmingham
- John Gillingham, “Eadmer of Canterbury and William Longsword”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
- Graham Barrett and George Woudhuysen, “Small Wars in Faraway Places under the Emperor Honorius”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
- Christine Woodhead, “Friends, Colleagues and Grand Vezirs: the Ottoman art of letter-writing”, General Seminar of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
- Rory Naismith, “Coinage and the Late Anglo-Saxon State”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
- Matthew Harpster, “Refashioning a Maritime Past in the Eastern Mediterranean”, General Seminar of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
- Simon Esmonde Cleary, “A Funny Thing Didn’t Happen on the Way to the Forum: archaeology and the refashioning of the late Roman West”, Inaugural Lecture, University of Birmingham
- Aengus Ward, “Digital Editing and the Estoria de Espanna: of XML and crowd-sourcing”, Research Seminar of the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, University of Birmingham
- Leslie Brubaker, “Teenagers of Byzantium”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Staffan Wahlgren, “From Theophanes to Psellos: transformations of Byzantine historiography”, General Seminar of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
- Rebecca Darley, “”A Sign of God’s Favour’: Byzantine gold coins in Indian Ocean trade”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
- Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo, “Agrarian Archaeology in Northern Iberia: a general overview of medieval landscapes”, University College London Institute of Archaeology and British Museum Joint Seminar, University College London
- Stephen Ling, “Regulating the Life of the Clergy between Chrodegang’s Rule and the Council of Aachen, c. 750-816″, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Ed Roberts, “The Composition, Structure and Audience of Flodoard’s Annals“, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
- Federico Montinaro, “The Photian Schism (858-880): towards a cultural history”, General Seminar of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
- Bill Endres, “The St Chad Gospels: a rare witness to early Anglo-Saxon England and beyond”, Centre for West Midlands History Research Seminar, University of Birmingham
- Scott Bruce, “The Dark Age of Herodotus: shards of a fugitive history in medieval Europe”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
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Now, at this point it became impossible for me to sustain blogging at the same kind of level as I’d made my trademark, and one of the things that had to go was this kind of seminar coverage. What I began to do instead, as you can read here, was give quarterly accounts of what I’d been to, with summary remarks where I had them to offer, and I took some forward as more substantial posts. So, from here onwards, a link in this list sadly doesn’t imply that there’s a review linked to it; but if I genuinely had nothing to say, writing it up years later, I haven’t listed it here, so at least if it’s here here should be some kind of description or comment behind the link, and where it’s a stand-alone post I say so.
- Chronicle I: July, August and September 2015, covering these:
- Eleanor Blakelock, “Secrets of the Anglo-Saxon Goldsmiths: underlying truth of the Staffordshire Hoard”, a seminar in the Department of Physics at the University of Birmingham
- David Hinton, “Personal Possessions in Medieval England: archaeology and written evidence”, Institute for Medieval Studies Public Lecture, University of Leeds
- Chronicle II: October to December 2015, covering:
- Paul Hyams, “A View of Possession and Ownership in Anglo-Saxon England”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Jane Taylor, “Newes from the Dead”, Renaissance and Early Modern Seminar, School of English, University of Leeds
- Nicholas Evans, “Cultural Contacts and Debates about Early History in Northern Britain: the evience of Historia brittonum and Lebor Bretnach“, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Kit Heyam, “Writing and Not Writing about Edward II’s Sexual Transgressions: the fruitful ambiguity of minions”, Renaissance and Early Modern Seminar, School of English, University of Leeds
- Richard Thomason, “In pane et aqua to Esus carnium: changes in Cistercian diet in the later Middle Ages”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Leeds
- Jonathan Dugdale, “Dynasties without China and Pagodas without Buddhism: shifting the narrative in Liao history and archaeology”, Medieval Group Seminar, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
- Mark Laynesmith, “St Alban, Britain’s Lost Martyr: Romano-British, Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon devotion, c. 400-900″
- Luca Larpi, “So You Wanna Be a Medicus? Medical Occupational Identities in Early Medieval Italy”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Leeds
- Conor Kostick, “Digital Linguistics and Climate Change: a Revolution in the Digitisation of Sources since 2000”, Digital Humanities Seminar, University of Leeds, a stand-alone post by request, no less
- Ricky Broome, “OA and Me: a postgraduate perspective of Open Access publishing”, Digital Humanities Seminar, University of Leeds, done as part of a wider musing on a recent publication
2016
- Chronicle III: January to March 2016, covering:
- Katherine Cross, Robert Bracey and Dominic Dalglish, “Images, Relics and Altars: comparing material religion on the first millennium”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Alex Rodríguez Suárez, “The Komnenian Emperors: a Latinophone dynasty”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Esther Eidinow, “Seeing into the Future? Oracles and the Ancient Greeks”, Classics Seminar, University of Leeds
- Natalie Anderson, “Tournament Trappings: Textiles and Armour Working Together in the Late Medieval Joust”, Medieval Group Seminar, University of Leeds
- Philippe Buc, “Eschatology, War and Peace: of Christ’s Armies, Antichrist and the End of Times between ca. 1095 and ca. 1170″, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
- Travelling the World: from Apuleius to the Icelandic Sagas, from the picaresque novel to travel literature, a Symposium in the Department of Classics, University of Leeds
- and Ross Balzaretti, “Early Medieval Charters as Evidence for Land Management Practices”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Leeds
- Hugh Kennedy, “ISIS and the Early Caliphate”, Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages Seminar, University of Birmingham
- Julia McClure, “A New Politics of Middle Ages: a global Middle Ages for a global modernity”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Leeds
- Jonathan Jarrett, “Medieval Coins for Beginners: A Workshop”, Medieval Group Seminar, University of Leeds
- Chronicle IV: April-June 2016, covering:
- Joanna Phillips, “The Sick Crusader and the Crusader Sick: A ‘Sufferers’ History’ of the Crusades”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Leeds
- Jonathan Jarrett, “The Marriage of History and Science: Testing the Purity of Byzantine Gold Coinage”, Guest Lecture at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham
- Caroline Wilkinson, “Depicting the Dead”, Digital Humanities Workshop, University of Leeds
- Mark Humphries, “‘Partes imperii’: East and West in the fifth century”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
- Philip Kitcher, “Progress in the Sciences and in the Arts”, Leeds Humanities Research Institute Seminar, and
- Andrew Prescott, “New Materialities”, Cultures of the Book Seminar, University of Leeds
- Chronicle VI: October-December 2016, covering:
- Raluca Radulescu, “Legendary history and the land: vernacular chronicle writing in fifteenth-century England”, Public Lecture, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
- Zygmunt Bauman, “Europe’s Adventure: Still Unfinished?”, Public Lecture, Baumann Institute, University of Leeds
- Valentina Costantini, “Meat, butchers and public order: late medieval Siena in a European perspective”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Leeds
- John Haldon, “The Avgat Archaeological Project”, Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages/Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies Joint Seminar, University of Birmingham
- Hannah Ford, “What’s Next for Critical Data Studies?”, Critical Data Studies Group Seminar, University of Leeds
- Jonathan Spangler, “A thistle between lilies and roses: the Renaissance duchy of Lorraine as a border space, between France and the Habsburgs”, Interdisciplinary Renaissance and Early Modern Seminar, University of Leeds
- Elisa Foster, “The Black Madonna: Medieval Devotion and Modern Misconceptions”, Medieval Group Seminar, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
- Chris Given-Wilson, “Sorcerors, Bastards, Changelings: political smears in late medieval England”, Public Lecture, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
- Janel Fontaine, “Assessing the Evidence of Slave Trading in Early Anglo-Saxon England and Great Moravia”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
- Kevin MacNish, “Correlation not Causation and the Moral Problems It Brings”, Critical Data Studies Seminar, University of Leeds
- Jason T. Roche, “The Crusades in the Balkans: Dearth Amidst Plenty”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Leeds
- Emilia Jamroziak, “The Present Mirrored in the Past: Why Interpreting Medieval Monasticism Matters”, Inaugural Lecture, University of Leeds
- Jennifer Davis, “Rethinking the Frankish Capitulary”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
- Maroula Perisanidi, “Clerical Marriage in A Comparative Perspective”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Leeds
- Jonathan Jarrett, “Judging the Judges in the Frankish March of Spain before the Year 1000”, Medieval and Renaissance Seminar, University of Sheffield
2017
- Chronicle VII: January-March 2017, covering:
- Andrew Jotischky, “The Image of the Greek: Western views of Orthodox monks and monasteries, c. 1000–1500″, Institute for Medieval Studies Public Lecture, University of Leeds
- Graham Loud, “The Problem with Pseudo-Hugo: who wrote the History of ‘Hugo Falcandus’?”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Leeds
- Judith Jesch, “Runes and Verse: the medialities of early Scandinavian poetry”, Institute for Medieval Studies Public Lecture, University of Leeds
- Sunny Harrison, “Ugly, Dangerous and Furious: modelling health and impairment in later-medieval horse medicine treatises”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Leeds
- Simon Coupland, “New Light from Carolingian Coinage”, Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
- Oliver Creighton, “The Archaeology of Anarchy? Landscapes of War and Status in Twelfth-Century England”, Open Lecture, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
- Chronicle VIII: April to June 2017, covering only:
- Rebecca Darley, “Seen from Across the Sea: India in the Byzantine World View”, Medieval Group, University of Leeds
- Hervin Fernández-Aceves, “Reframing the Role of Nobility: misconceptions and omissions in the historiography of the kingdom of Sicily”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Leeds
- Lutz Ilisch, “Mashghara – a Condominial Mint of the County of Sidon/Barony of Shuf and the Kingdom of Damascus”, Royal Numismatic Society Christmas Lecture 2017, Spink’s, London
2018
With the advent of 2018 I abandoned the unwieldy Chronicle structure. I was now going to far fewer seminars anyway, mostly at Leeds, and reporting on even fewer, and so something like the old pattern has reestablished itself. These are those under that dispensation.
- Kathryn Baxter, Chris Tuckley and Eleanor Wilkinson-Keys, “A Day in the Life of… Heritage Professionals”, Medieval Group, University of Leeds
- Peter Sarris, “Merchants and Bankers in Byzantium”, Marginalisation and the Law Lecture, University of Leeds
- Simon Keynes, “Edward the Confessor, Westminster Abbey – and the Cult of King Alfred the Great”, Parliament Lecture, Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London
- Ingrid Rembold, “Widows, Orphans and the Church: protection and virtue signalling in the Carolingian world”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Leeds
- Carenza Lewis, “Triumph and Disaster: new archaeological evidence for the turbulent development of rural settlement”, Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture, University of Leeds
2019
- Claudia Rogers, “Encountering Pictorials: a a workshop on sixteenth-century Meso-American manuscripts”, Medieval Group Workshop, University of Leeds
- Levi Roach, “Forging Exemption: Fleury from Abbo to William (997-1072)”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Leeds
- Jeremy Johns, “Documenting Multi-Culturalism in Norman Sicily”, Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture, University of Leeds
- Francesca Petrizzo, “`Normans Don’t Cry’: grief, anger and the Hautevilles”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Leeds
- John Moreland, “Sheffield Castle: archives, excavations, and augmented reality, 1927-2018”, Medieval Group Seminar, University of Leeds
- Helen Birkett, “News, Current Events, History: The Preservation of News Texts from 1187/8”, Medieval History Seminar, University of Leeds
- Chris Wickham, “How did Feudalism Work? The Economic Logic of Medieval Societies”, Hobsbawm Lecture, Birkbeck, University of London
- Jamie Doherty, James Harris and Fraser McNair, “Regionalism”, Political Cultures Seminar, School of History, University of Leeds
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