List of Past Colloquia 1994 - 2009

List of LMS Colloquia

19 November 1994 – ‘Science and Magic in the Middle Ages’

• Tony Hunt (Oxford), ‘Anglo-Norman Science’
• Catherine Scarfe-Beckett (London), ‘Leaves in Books: Herbal Authorities’
• Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute), ‘Talismans: Magic or Science?’
• Patricia Morison (Oxford), ‘Miracle Books: What do they Tell us about Health and Sickness in the Middle Ages?’
• Cyril Edwards (Oxford), ‘The Merseburg Charms: Context, Conjecture, and Function’

11 February 1995 – ‘Poverty in the Middle Ages’

• Gustav Milne (UCL), ‘The Archaeology of Medieval Poetry’
• Jim Bolton (QMW), ‘Rural Poverty in late Thirteenth-Century England’
• Trish Skinner (Wellcome Institute), ‘Gender and Poverty in the Medieval World’
• Miriam Gill (Courtauld), ‘The Poor Man and the Good Woman: The Representation of the Relief of Poverty in English Wall Paintings, 1300-1500’
• John Henderson (Wellcome Institute), ‘Poverty and Charity in Medieval Florence’
• Samuel Cohn (Brandeis, Boston), ‘The Myth of Mounting Poverty in Late Medieval Florence’

20 May 1995 – ‘The Marvellous in the Middle Ages’

• Richard North (UCL), ‘Gunnar in Njáls Saga: Man or Monster?’
• Barbara Holcombe (Ludlow, Shropshire), ‘Bede and the Marvellous’
• Andy Orchard (Emmanuel College, Cambridge), ‘The Meaning of the Liber Monstrorum’
• Christine Raner (Emmanuel College, Cambridge), ‘Dragon Fights in Medieval Latin Saints’ Lives and their Relevance to Beowulf’
• George Keiser (Kansas State University), ‘Sacred History, Secular History, and the Marvellous: John Lydgate’s Understanding’

11 November 1995 – ‘Cities in the Middle Ages’

• Elizabeth Sears (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), ‘Urban Imagery in Parisian Manuscripts of the Early Fourteenth Century’
• Paolo Zanna (St John’s College, Cambridge), ‘Eulogy and Elegy in the Wonders of Early Medieval Cities’
• Geoff West (King’s College, London), ‘Preserving the Civic Fabric: Government Intervention and Local Response in Ninth-Century Italy’
• Gervase Rosser (St Catherine College, Oxford), ‘Myth, Image and Social Process in the English Medieval Town’
• Sarah Rees-Jones (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York), ‘Marketing Later Medieval York’

10 February 1996 – ‘Memory in the Middle Ages’

• Katy Cubitt (Centre for Medieval Studies, York), ‘Memory and Narrative in the Cult of Anglo-Saxon Saints’
• Michael Clanchy (Institute of Historical Research), ‘Memory and Writing in the Life and Work of Abelard’
• Mary Swan (University of Leeds), ‘Title unknown’
• Robert Webb (University of Surrey), ‘The Role of Memory in Music’
• Anke Holdenreid (UCL), ‘Memory in the Context of Manuscript Studies: Sibylla Tiburna and the Sibylline Tradition’

11 May 1996 – ‘The Comic in the Middle Ages’

• Marie Denley (King’s College London), ‘Dead Funny: The Comic in Mortality Literature’
• Malcolm Jones (Sheffield), ‘Humour and Folly in Late Medieval Art’
• John McKinnell (Durham), ‘Mocking the Gods, Mocking Ourselves: Interpreting the Old Norse Thrymskvitha’
• Readings: Ros Allen (QMW), Patience, Peter Armour (Royal Holloway), TBA, John McKinnell (Durham), Thrymskvitha

9 November 1996 – ‘Medieval Otherworlds’

• Jennifer Neville (Christ’s College, Cambridge), ‘Out-of-body Experiences in Anglo-Saxon England’
• Mark Balfour (RHUL), ‘Centaurs and Devils: Dante’s Infernal Soldiery’
• Alyson Cox (Emmanuel College, Cambridge), ‘Þis deade lif: The Voyage of the Seafarer’s Soul’
• Ananya Kabir (Trinity College, Cambridge), ‘Paradise in the Otherworld of Anglo-Latin Visions’
• Helen Phillips (Nottingham), ‘Otherworlds and the Prologue to The Legend of Good Women: Religious, Comic and Political’

8 February 1997 – ‘Clothing & Disguise’

• Lisa Monnas (Independent Scholar), ‘The Fourteenth-Century Pourpoint of Charles de Blois in the Musée Historique des Tissus at Lyon’
• Karen Pratt (King’s College, London), ‘Discovering the Truth: Clothing and Disguise in Medieval French Literature’
• Robert Webb (Independent Scholar), ‘Dressage and Message in the Roman de Fauvel: The Perilous Plight of a Dun-Coloured Horse’
• Diane Watt (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), ‘Acting Up?: Women who Dress as Men in Medieval Literature’

17 May 1997 – ‘Medieval Animals’

• Ron Baxter (Courtauld Institute), ‘Bestiaries’
• Dorothy McCarthy (Oxford), ‘Some Medieval Dogs’
• John Clark (Museum of London), ‘The Archaeology of the Medieval Horse’
• Mark Bailey (Corpus Christi, Cambridge), ‘Rabbit Rearing in Medieval East Anglia’
• Annegret Mester (King’s College, London), ‘Animals in Old English Poetry with Reference to Old Norse Material’

8 November 1997 – ‘Warfare’

• Matthew Bennett (Royal Military Academy, Sandford), ‘The Battle of Maldon: Warrior Mythmaking’
• Adrian Bell (Reading), ‘An Anatomy of a Campaign: The Earl of Arundel’s Expeditions of 1387 and 1388’
• James Simpson (Girton College, Cambridge), ‘“Medieval” Anti-Imperialism and “Renaissance” Imperialism: The Alliterative Destruction of Troy and Douglas’ Eneados’
• Andrew Fisher (Hull), ‘The Rewards of Military Service in the Reign of King John’
• Judith Jesch (Nottingham), ‘The Raven’s Yule: Beastly Battles in Skaldic Verse’

14 February 1998 – ‘The Sea’

• Clive Tolley (Chester), ‘The Milling Ocean: Some Aspects of the Sea in Old Norse and Finnish Myth’
• R. B. Tate (Nottingham), ‘The Pilgrim Maritime Route to St. James of Compostela in the Late Middle Ages’
• Sean McGrail (Southampton), ‘A Thirteenth-Century Medieval Hulc: New Light from Twentieth-Century India’
• Ian Friel (Littlehampton Museum), ‘Ships and Shipbuilding in England from the Late Thirteenth to the Early Sixteenth Centuries’
• John Fisher (The Mary Rose Information Group), ‘The King’s Ship Mary Rose: A Glimpse into the Lives of Ordinary Shipfolk’

16 May 1998 – ‘Old Age’

• Sheila Sweetinburgh (University of Kent at Canterbury), ‘Institutional Care for the Elderly: The Evidence from Late Medieval Sandwich’
• Richard Gorski (Hull), ‘Old Age and Office-holding in Fourteenth-Century England’
• Michael Hicks (King Alfred’s, Winchester), ‘Old Age and the Politics of the Wars of the Roses’
• Karen Pratt (King’s College, London), ‘De Vetula: The Figure of the Old Woman in Old French Literature’

8 November 1998 – ‘Heresy and Religious Protest’

• Rob Lutton (University of London), ‘Heresy and Orthodoxy in the Lollard Centre of Tenterden c.1420-1540’
• Laurie Ringer (Hull), ‘Lollard Concepts of Spiritual Food and Feeding’
• Malcolm Lambert, ‘Women in Catharism’
• Penny Galloway (Bristol University), ‘The Beguines’

13 February 1999 – ‘Scholars and Scholarship’

• David Ganz (King’s College, London), ‘Latin Verse and Composition: The Cambridge Songs Manuscript’
• Justin Croft (Kent), ‘Literacy and Scholarship in the English Medieval Town’
• Carole Maddern (King’s College, London), ‘“Þu cwen, lare lufiend”: Transformations of the Learned Female across Medieval English Texts of Apollonius of Tyre’
• Lucy Lewis, ‘Medieval Commentaries on the Consolation of Philosophy’
• Michael Clanchy (Institute of Historical Research), ‘The Significance of Abelard’s Sic et Non in the History of Scholarship’

22 May 1999 – ‘Minorities’

• Patricia Newton (Royal Holloway), ‘Mary of Egypt, the Harlot Saint’
• Shaheen Kulikhankhattak (London), ‘Muslim Women in the Middle Ages’
• Jim Bolton (Institute of Historical Research), ‘Strangers in the City: The Aliens in Fifteenth-Century London’
• Reva Brown (Northampton), ‘The Jewish Minority in Medieval England, 1066-1290’
• Jed Chandler (Aberystwyth), ‘Male Despite Anatomy: Medieval Transgenderism’

5 February 2000 – ‘Love’

• Philip Hardie (New Hall, Cambridge), ‘Fama amor/amor famae: Some Connections’
• Clive Cheeseman (College of Arms), ‘Fame and the Bearing of Arms in the Later Middle Ages’
• Steve Ellis (Birmingham University), ‘Chaucer’s Fame in the Twentieth Centuries’
• Helen Cooper (University College, Oxford), ‘Title unknown’

19 May 2000 – ‘Friendship’

• Marianne Ailes (Reading University), ‘“Sweeter than the love of a woman”: The Friendship of Kaerdin and Tristan in Thomas’s Version of the Tristan Legend’
• Clare Lynch (University of London), ‘Friendship in The Wife’s Lament’
• Julian Haseldine (Hull University), ‘Title unknown’
• Peter Armour (Royal Holloway), ‘Poets and Friends in Dante’s Florence’

11 November 2000 – ‘Land & Landscapes’

• Andrew Wareham (Editor, Victoria County History), ‘The Transformation of the Cambridgeshire Fenland c.970-1100’
• Catherine Clarke (King’s College, London), ‘Landscape and Text in the Old English Guthlac A’
• Charles Insley (Assistant County Editor, Victoria County History Northamptonshire), ‘Ecclesiastical Land Units and Landscapes in the South-West c.700-1100’
• Chris Callow (Birmingham University), ‘Landscape and Society in a Region of Medieval Iceland’
• Oliver Creighton (Exeter University), ‘Castles in the Landscape: Expressions of Power in Medieval England’

24 February 2001 – ‘Orality and Literacy’

• Simon Gaunt (King’s College, London), ‘Fictions of Orality in Marie de France’s Lais’
• Alison Truelove (Royal Holloway), ‘Levels of Literacy Amongst Fifteenth-Century Writers’
• Peter Orton (Queen Mary and Westfield), ‘The impact of incipient literacy on linguistic and literary forms in Old English’
• Ananya Kabir (Trinity College, Cambridge), ‘Scop, Scyppend, Shaping: Imaging Oral Performance in Anglo-Saxon Texts’
• Catriona O Dochartaigh (School of Celtic Studies, D.IA.S.), ‘Prayer in Medieval Irish Manuscripts’
• Tom Berger (School of Celtic Studies, D.IA.S.), ‘The End-Point of Literacy: A Middle-Irish Poem Composed from other Written Poems’

18 May 2001 – ‘Masculinities’

• Rachel Stone (King’s College, London), ‘Good Christian Noblemen’: Carolingian Morality and Masculinity’
• Ross Balzaretti (Nottingham), ‘Masculinities in Early Medieval Europe’
• Rebecca de Saintonge (Birkbeck), ‘Masculine bodies, feminine souls: The effects of gender fragmentation on spiritual men in the later middle ages, based on the letters of the Swedish Dominican, Peter of Dacia (d.1289)’
• Emma Campbell (King’s College, London), ‘Boys Won’t be Boys: Sainthood and Masculinity in the Vie de Saint Alexis’
• Catherine Batt (Leeds), ‘Malory’s Launcelot: Masculinity in Translation’

24 November 2001 – ‘Violence’

• Paul Cavill (Nottingham University), ‘Violence in Anglo-Saxon Saint’s Lives’
• Matthew Stanham (Royal Holloway), ‘Crusading Violence in Middle English Literature’
• Adrian Jobson (Public Record Office), ‘Thou Shalt not Kill: Enforcing the Law in Mid-Thirteenth-Century Oxfordshire’
• Trevor Dean (University of Surrey), ‘Women and Violence in Late-Medieval Italy and Beyond’
• Matthew Bennett (Sandhurst), ‘A Celebration of Death?: Agincourt, 1415’

16 February 2002 – ‘Picturing and Writing’

• Alixe Bovey (Dept. of Manuscripts, British Library), ‘Titles, Captions and Commentaries: Reading Pictorial Narrative in Fourteenth-Century Manuscripts’
• Alan Deyermond (QMW), ‘The Woven Text: Analogues for Old French Chansons de Toile’
• John Lowden (Courtauld Institute), ‘Images before Words: The Strange Case of the Bibles Moralisées’
• Michael A. Michael (Christies Education), ‘The Semiology of the “Prayerbook”’
• Carol Magner (King’s College, London), ‘The Knight of the Lion in Medieval Literature and Art’

17May 2002 – ‘Biography’

• Barry Windeatt (Emmanuel College, Cambridge), ‘Hearing Voices and Writing the Self: Margery Kempe’
• Catherine Batt (Leeds), ‘Henry, Duke of Lancaster’s Book of Holy Medicines: A Medieval Essay in Abjection?’
• Alison Truelove (Cambridge), ‘Minding the Biographical Gaps in Fifteenth-Century English Correspondence’
• Michael Clanchy (Institute of Historical Research), ‘Establishing the Authenticity of Abelard and Heloise’

16 November 2002 – ‘Food and Drink’

• Nicole Crossley-Holland (University of Wales), ‘Church Laws and the Diets of Medieval French and Russian Christians’
• Eileen White (Bradford), ‘The Medieval Kitchen’
• Winifred Harwood (King Alfred’s Winchester), ‘Feeding the Household – Winchester College 1460-1560’
• John Lee (formerly University of Cambridge), ‘Feeding the Colleges: Cambridge’s Food Supplies, 1450-1560’
• Sharon Wells (formerly Centre for Medieval Studies, York), ‘Food Provisioning in London and the Creation of a Civic Ethos’

15 February 2003 – ‘Childhood’

• Geoff Egan (Museum of London), ‘Medieval Playthings: Some Recent Discoveries from London’
• Nicholas Orme (University of Exeter), ‘Problems of Researching Medieval English Childhood’
• Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy (University of Leicester), ‘“[A]n awngel al clothyd in white”: Hermeneutics of the Child in the Book of Margery Kempe’
• Elizabeth l’Estrange (University of Leeds), ‘Imaging the Spaces of Childbirth’
• Jacqueline Tasioulas (Newnham College, Cambridge), ‘Christ in the Virgin’s Womb’
• Michael Clanchy (Institute of Historical Research), ‘Mary taking the Child Jesus to School’

17 May 2003 – ‘Communities’

• Dee Dyas (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York), ‘The Communities of Pilgrimage’
• Diane Watt (University of Aberystwyth), ‘Critics, Communities, Compassionate Criticism: Learning from The Book of Margery Kempe’
• Carolyn Muessig (University of Bristol), ‘Education in Nunneries in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries’
• Finn Sinclair (University of Glasgow), ‘Communities of Difference: Constantinople and the Ambiguity of Desire’
• Anneke Mulder-Bakker (University of Groningen), ‘Eve of Saint Martin, Community of  Liege and Corpus Christie’

Autumn, 2003 – ‘The Medieval Book’

14 February 2004 – ‘Love’

• Jane Gilbert (UCL), ‘The Knight as Thing: Courtly Love in the Prose Lancelot’
• Sally Burch (UCL), ‘Love and Law in Amadas et Ydoine’
• Philip Shaw (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds), ‘“Vinctus sum domni regis amore mei”: Expressions of Love in the Correspondence of Charlemagne and Paul the Deacon?’
• Heidrun Odonkor (King’s College, London), ‘The Love Declaration in Middle High German Romances’
• Danna Piroyansky (Queen Mary College, London), ‘“[A] martirdome and a contynuaunce of sorowe ay lasting”: Love and Marriage as Martyrdom in Later Medieval England’
• Barry Windeatt (Emmanuel College, Cambridge), ‘Love in a Manner of Speaking: Medieval English Examples’

12 June 2004 – ‘Presenting Postgraduate Work’

• Melanie Heyworth (Royal Holloway and University of Sydney), ‘Constructions of Sexual and Emotional Knowledge in Two Exeter Books Riddles’
• Danna Piroyanski (Queen Mary), ‘Richard Scrope Archbishop of York: Patron-Saint in Perilous Seas’
• Stephanie Gibbs (King’s College, London and University of Pennsylvania), ‘Rewriting Cupid: Authorial Identity in Three Late-Medieval Allegories’
• Natasha Romanova (UCL), ‘Female Doubles in Thomas’s Tristan and in Renaut’s Galeron de Bretagne’
• Pirkko Koppinen (Royal Holloway), ‘Ond Seo Cwen Numen (And the Queen Taken): Feud and the Ambiguity of Hildeburg’s Marriage in the Old English Poem Beowulf’

20 November 2004 – ‘Celebrating the 40^th Anniversary of the Publication of Jacques Le Goff’s Medieval Civilisation: 400-1500’

• John Arnold (Birkbeck College, London), ‘Lay Belief and Unbelief’
• Tom Williamson (University of East Anglia), ‘Woodland and Champion: Exploring Regional Variation in the Medieval Landscape’
• Brigitte Resl (Goldsmith’s College, London), ‘Title unknown’
• Sophie Page (UCL), ‘Title unknown’

26 February 2005 – ‘Animals and Birds: Natural and Supernatural’

• Kathleen Walker-Meikle (UCL), ‘Pet Keeping and Gender’
• Aleks Pluskowski (University of Cambridge), ‘Hunting the Hunters: Wolves and Royal Interests in Medieval Britain and Scandinavia’
• Brigitte Resl (Goldsmith’s College, London), ‘Wild Beasts and Medieval Mentalities’
• Jennifer Neville (Royal Holloway), ‘Fostering the Cuckoo in Exeter Book Riddle 9’
• Jonathan Burt (Animal Studies Group, UK), ‘An Obsession with Boundaries: The Current Status of Animal Studies’

25 June 2005 – ‘Postgraduate Presents’

• Jennifer Ledfors (Royal Holloway), ‘A Medieval Maritime Parish and Family: The Gonsons of St Dunstan in the East, London 1500-1550’
• Kathryn Hurlock (Aberystwyth), ‘Power, Authority and the Crusades: The Experience of Wales’
• Peter Robson (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), ‘Alfred’s Gothic Ancestry and the Viking Invasions’
• Muriel Cadilhac (St. John’s College, Cambridge), ‘Exhausting Friendship: A Lacanian Reading of the Moral Ambiguities in Amis and Amiloun’
• Tina Chronopoulos (King’s College, London), ‘Who is Saying What? The Literary Sources in the Passion of St Katherine of Alexandria’
• Lauren Fogle (Royal Holloway), ‘The Domus Conversorum in the Later Middle Ages’
• Hannah Batson (Royal Holloway), ‘The Law of Nature in Middle English Literature: A Case Study’

19 November 2005 – ‘Saints and Sinners’

• Gabrielle Corona (Centre for Medieval Studies, York), ‘Sin’s in the Emotions: Aelfric’s Affective Rhetoric in the Lives of Saints’
• Gopa Roy (Independent Scholar, London), ‘The Sacramental Structure of the Old English Life of Mary of Egypt’
• Patricia Newton (Independent Scholar, London), ‘The Sinner and the Saint – Zosimas and Mary of Egypt’
• Robin Gilbank (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), ‘Directing Sinners to Deification: Richard Rolle and De Emendatio Vitae’
• Juliana Dresvina (Magdalene College, Cambridge), ‘A Virgin Martyr as an Example for Male Devotees: The Case of St Margaret of Antioch’
• Andrea Oliver (University of East Anglia), ‘Memorialisation and Masculinity: Saint Thomas of Lancaster’
• Sarah Salih (University of East Anglia), ‘Concepts of Idolatry in Fifteenth-Century English Hagiography’

25 February 2006 – ‘Courts and Courtliness’

• Francisco Bautista (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Historiography and Court during the Reign of Alfonso the Learned (1252-84)’
• Rip Cohen (King’s College, London), ‘Foreplay and Fairplay in the Cantigas d’Amigo’
• Chris Fletcher (Pembroke College, Cambridge), ‘Passion and Politics in the Courts of England and France, c.1380-c.1420’
• Penny Eley (University of Sheffield), ‘The Courtly Other, based on the “fils à villain” theme in Partonopeus de Blois’
• Penny Simons (University of Sheffield), ‘Courts, Courtliness and Courtship in Aimon de Varennes’ Florimont’

24 June 2006 – ‘Postgraduate Presents’

• Jill Singer (King’s College, London), ‘The Company they Keep – A Vocabulary of Poverty in Early Middle English’
• Tom Hodgson-Jones (King’s College, London), ‘Out of the Mouths of Babes: The Good Daughter and the re-knitting of Social Order in the Confessio Amantis’
• Kathleen Palti (UCL), ‘Writings Women’s Songs: Lullabies and the Medieval English Carol’
• Andrea Oliver (University of East Anglia), ‘John, Duke of Lancaster and St. George: The King’s Two Bodies’

18 November 2006 – ‘Honour and Reputation’

• Laura Ashe (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘William the Marshal, Lancelot and the Perils of Chivalrous Lordship’
• Katherine McClune (St Hilda’s College, Oxford), ‘Blasphemed in thy ryme’: Poetic Reputation in John Stewart of Baldynneis’ Ane Schersing Ovt of Trew Felicitie and Gavin Douglas’ Palace of Honoure’
• Joanna Martin (Lincoln College, Oxford), ‘Literary Reputations in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth Century Scottish Literature: The Case of John Gower’
• Michael Clanchy (Institute of Historical Research), ‘The Concern of Abelard and Heloise for his Reputation’
• Bernard Gowers (Christ Church College, Oxford), ‘Three Posthumous Reputations: Abbo of Fleury, Fulbert of Chartres, Gerbert of Aurillac’

24 February 2007 – ‘Representing Women’

• Caroline Barron (Royal Holloway), ‘Representations of St Zita/Sitha in Medieval England’
• Elisabeth Van Houts (Emmanuel College, Cambridge), ‘The Role of Aristocratic Women in the Cultural Relations between Germany and the Kingdom of Poland (11^th c.)’
• Christina Lee (University of Nottingham), ‘Fabricated Identities: Textiles as Markers of Ethnicity’
• Diane Watt (University of  Wales, Aberystwyth), ‘Lesbian (In)visibility in Anglo-Saxon Saints’ Lives’
• Alcuin Blamires (Goldsmith’s, University of London), ‘“Sisterhood”, the Poor Relation of “Brotherhood” in Medieval Writings? Ipomadon as Case-Study’
• Patricia Harris (University of Essex), ‘Intercultural Connections: Matilda of Saxony and Mertran de Born’
• Rowena E. Archer (Brasenose College and Christchurch, Oxford), ‘Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk (d. 1475) and her Books’

12 April 2007 – ‘Postgraduate Presents’

• Amanda Moss (Royal Holloway), ‘Westminster School MS 3: A Fifteenth-Century Devotional Miscellany’
• Kirsty Black (Goldsmiths College, University of London), ‘Displaced Chronicle: A Modernist Reworking of Medieval Historiography’
• Pirkko Koppinen (Royal Holloway), ‘Multimodal Images: The Boar in Beowulf’
• Tom Hinton (King’s College, London), ‘Medieval Occitan Narrative and Cultural Identity’
• Vicki Blud (King’s College, London), ‘Sex and the City: Female Exile and Urban Wilderness’
• Christopher Lay (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘The Manuscripts of William Lichfield’s “Complaint of God”’

17 November 2007 – ‘Representations of Masculinity’

• Robert Mills (King’s College, London), ‘The Medieval “FTM” Narrative: Female Masculinity in the Middle Ages’
• Katherine J. Lewis (University of Huddersfield), ‘Religious and Devotional Masculinity in Late Medieval England’
• Natasha Romanova (University of Aberystwyth), ‘Idyllic Masculinity in French Romance’
• Ross Balzaretti (University of Nottingham), ‘Fatherhood in Late-Lombard Italy’
• Clare Lees (King’s College, London), ‘Judith’s Masculinity’

Early 2008 – (possibly ‘Music’)

19 April 2008 – ‘Postgraduate Presents’

• Suzy Knight (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Protecting the Innocents: Devotional Jewellery and Magical Amulets for Children: The Case of the Florentine Foundling Hospital’
• Christopher Wilson (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘The After-life of Visions of the Otherworld in Thirteenth-century England’
• Linda R. Bates (Trinity Hall, Cambridge), ‘The Journey and the Stable: Aspects of Middle English Nativity Narratives’
• Ken-Kun Hsu (King’s College, London), ‘Aimance as the Politics of Friendship in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale’
• Virginia Langum (Magdalene College, Cambridge), ‘Wholesome Tongues: Speech, Health and Authority in Late Medieval Medical Prologues’

22 November 2008 – ‘Childhood’

• William MacLehose (Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine at UCL), ‘Childhood and Human Frailty in Western Medieval Medicine’
• Susan Boynton (Columbia University), ‘Young Singers in Medieval Monasteries and Cathedrals’
• Michael Clanchy (Institute of Historical Research), ‘How Boys Learned to Read and Write’
• Nicholas Orme (University of Exeter), ‘Going to School in the Fifteenth Century’

21 February 2009 – ‘Seasons’

• Debbie Banham (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge), ‘Seedtime and Harvest: The Annual Cycle in Anglo-Saxon Life and Thought’
• Chris Briggs (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge), ‘The seasons and the later medieval English village’
• Robert Swanson (Department of History, University of Birmingham), ‘Seasons for the soul? The Church and the year’

25 April 2009 – ‘Postgraduate Presents’

• Tamsyn Rose-Steel (University of Exeter), ‘The Use of Citation and the Vernacular in the Motets of the Roman de Fauvel’
• Diane Heath (University of Kent, Canterbury) ‘“A beast, no more”: Doubts and the Transmission of Ideas in a late medieval English Bestiary (Canterbury Cathedral Archives Lit. Ms D.10)’
• Daniel Thomas (Jesus College, Oxford), ‘Prisons in Old English: Image and Reality’
• James Paz (King's College, London), ‘Perception, Place and Power: the anonymous Life of St Cuthbert and the Lindisfarne Gospels’

21 November 2009 – ‘Jerusalem’

• Ora Limor (Open University of Israel), ‘One Holy Site Shared by Three Religions: The Case of Pelagia's Tomb in Jerusalem’
• Anthony Bale (Birkbeck College, University of London), ‘The Prison of Christ and the Red Mountain Chapel: Rebuilding Jerusalem in the Later Middle Ages’
• Yossef Rapoport (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Jerusalem as a Muslim City’
• Ann Nichols (Winona State University), ‘De locis sanctis in CCCC, MS 426, f. 72r (f. 155r)’
• Liz Mylod (Institute for Medieval Studies, University Leeds), ‘Pilgrim Descriptions of Jerusalem in the Thirteenth Century’
• William Purkis (University of Birmingham), TBA