2010 Seminars & events

Thursday 14 January 2010, 16:15 - 17:30

Andrew Butcher-Event Cancelled

Ground Floor Seminar Room, Graduate Centre, 7 Woodland Road

The aesthetics of the written word: cultural change in the  English town, c.1200-1509

EVENT CANCELLED

Friday 15 January 2010, 14:00 - 18:00

The Anglo Saxon Church in the West Country and its wider connections.
Organised by Mark Horton

tbc

**FINAL DATE AND TIME TO BE CONFIRMED**

Wednesday 20 January 2010, 14:00 - 17:00

Princess Eadgyth of Wessex and her World

Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, 43 Woodland road

 

In 2008, the probable remains of the Saxon Princess Eadgyth were located in a tomb at Magdeburg Cathedral, her bones wrapped in silk. This conference will be the first opportunity in the UK to hear about this remarkable discover and the scientific project that has been undertaken to confirm the identification of the remains.  It will also place the discovery within the context of late ninth century Merciaand Wessex, where Eadgyth grew up, the role of the Church, and especially the cult of St Oswald, that flourished in tenth-century southern Germany. Free Entrance (but to be sure of a ticket, please contact Professor Mark Horton, Mark.Horton@bristol.ac.uk)

 

Programme

2.00                Introductory Remarks (Professor Mark Horton, Universityof Bristol)

2.15                 The Editha-Project and its Science (Harald Meller and Veit Dresely, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle)

3.15                 Eadgyth and the West Saxon Royal Family (Professor Sarah Foot, Universityof Oxford)

3.45                 The Minster of St Oswald's, Gloucester and his cult (Carolyn Heighway, PastHistoric, Gloucester)

4.15                 Anglo-Saxon Berkeley – history and topography (Michael Hare)

5.00                  Reception

Thursday 28 January 2010, 16:15 - 17:30

Alfred Hiatt (London)

Ground Floor seminar room, Graduate Centre, 7 Woodland Road

Reading medieval maps: Narrative, anachronism, mutations

Thursday 11 February 2010, 16:15 - 17:30

Judith Bryce (Bristol)

Ground Floor Seminar Room, Graduate Centre, 7 Woodland Road

Thursday 25 February 2010, 16:15 - 17:30

Simon Gilson (Warwick)

Ground Floor Seminar room, Graduate Centre, 7 Woodland Road

Friday 26 February 2010, 00:00 - Sat, 27 February 2010, 00:00

16th Annual Postgraduate Medieval Conference
Master Class with Professor Bernard McGinn

Centre for Medieval Studies, 7 Woodland Road

Call for Papers-More Information

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 14:00 - 18:00

Half-Day Conference 'Shakespeare and the Middle Ages'
please see below

Lecture Theatre 1, 3-5 Woodland Road

Helen Cooper (Cambridge): 'Shakespeare's Medieval Reading'

Diane Purkiss (Oxford): 'Lost girls: ballads, The Winter's Tale, and the menace of incest'

Alex Davis (St Andrews):  'The Renaissance Sense of the Past: Shakespeare's Exemplary Histories'

Lawrence Publicover (Bristol): '"The fixed figure": Erring in Othello'

All welcome. For further information contact Elizabeth Archibald

(E.Archibald@bristol.ac.uk, 0117 928 9121

 

Thursday 11 March 2010, 00:00

The House of God: Constructing Sacred Space in Late Medieval England
Laura Varnam (University College: Oxford)

Ground Floor Seminar Room, GSAH, 7 Woodland Road

Thursday 22 April 2010, 16:15 - 17:30

Louise Haywood (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)

Ground Floor Seminar Room, Graduate Centre, 7 Woodland Road

 Louise Haywood (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) on

 'Textual Community and the Poetics of Vision in the Cancionero de Palacio'

Thursday 29 April 2010, 16:15 - 19:30

Andrew Lynch (University of Western Australia)

Ground Floor Seminar Room, Graduate Centre, 7 Woodland Road

Andrew Lynch (University of Western Australia) on
Genre, Bodies and Power in Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108: King Horn, Havelok, and the South English Legendary

Thursday 06 May 2010, 16:15 - 17:30

Alixe Bovey (University of Kent)

Ground Floor Seminar Room, Graduate Centre, 7 Woodland Road

Alixe Bovey  (University of Kent) on 'Exile, Abduction, Adventure: Representing Romance in English Medieval Art'

Thursday 20 May 2010, 16:15 - 17:30

Helen Deeming (Royal Holloway)

Ground Floor Seminar Room, Graduate Centre, 7 Woodland Road

 Helen Deeming (Royal Holloway)

'Boni cantores erant in Anglia': on the creation and reception of

thirteenth-century English music

Thursday 10 June 2010, 16:15 - 17:30

Adrian Ailes (The National Archives)

Ground Floor Seminar Room, Graduate Centre, 7 Woodland Road

Adrian Ailes (The National Archives) will lead a workshop on Heraldry and Seals

Thursday 07 October 2010, 16:15 - 17:30

‘Poetry, portraits, mirrors (from Giacomo da Lentini, to Petrarch, to Castiglione)
Lina Bolzoni, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.

Ground Floor Seminar Room, 7 Woodland Road

Tuesday 19 October 2010, 16:15 - 17:30

War and the Enslavement of Women and Children

Lecture Room 8, 21 Woodland Road

Thursday 21 October 2010, 16:15 - 17:30

'Personifications of Old Age in Medieval Poetry'

Reception Room, Wills Memorial Building

Tuesday 26 October 2010, 13:00 - 14:00

Researching Women's Lives in Renaissance Italy

Ground Floor Seminar Room, GSAH, 7 Woodland Road

Sarah Dunant, the broadcaster and writer whose work includes three best-selling novels about women in Renaissance Italy (The Birth of Venus, In the Company of the Courtesan, and Sacred Hearts) will give a seminar on archival research aimed at postgraduates in particular (though others are welcome too, of course).   as space is limited, places should be reserved in advance (contact Tracy.Nunn@bristol.ac.uk)

 

Tuesday 26 October 2010, 17:15 - 18:30

Lecture on 'Women's Lives in Renaissance Italy'

Lecture Theater 2, 11 Woodland Road

Sarah Dunant, the broadcaster and writer whose work includes three best-selling novels about women in Renaissance Italy (The Birth of Venus, In the Company of the Courtesan, and Sacred Hearts) will give a lecture entitled 'Herstory. The Italian Renaissance from a New Perspective'. This will be followed by a reception.

 

 

Thursday 04 November 2010, 16:15 - 17:30

Righting this poem: Translating Between Vernaculars ca. 1200
Monika Otter, Dartmouth College

Ground Floor Seminar Room, 7 Woodland Road

Wednesday 17 November 2010, 14:00 - 18:00

Halfday Conference: Poetry and Theology

LR8, 21 Woodland Road

Papers in order of delivery:

• 'Theology as entertainment: "The Pistil of Suet Susane"'
• 'Re-writing Francis: The Song of Songs, sainthood and bloodless stigmata'
• 'Opening up to Christ: The Song of Songs in Middle English lyric'
• 'Medieval English religious plays as early fifteenth-century theology: the case against'
  
  Respondents: Jo Carruthers (Bristol) and Hester Jones (Bristol)
  

It will be followed by a reception in the School of Modern Languages Common Room.

For further information please contact Prof Elizabeth Archibald (E.Archibald@bristol.ac.uk)

Thursday 18 November 2010, 16:15 - 17:30

Workshop Exploring Medieval Music Manuscripts

Alberts, Victoria Rooms

Thursday 02 December 2010, 16:15 - 17:30

Health and status in the medieval cemetery population of Taunton Priory

Ground Floor Seminar Room, 7 Woodland Road

Wednesday 08 December 2010, 15:00 - 18:00

The Medieval West (deferred until 26th January)

TBC

Regrettably the launch of The Medieval West Project has been deferred until 26 January 2011.

Monday 20 December 2010, 13:00 - 15:00

The Medieval West - Preparatory Meeting

TBC

Preparatory meeting for Bristol researchers