Trinity College Dublin
James Lydon Research Seminar in Medieval History
Unless otherwise indicated, seminars are held at 5.15pm in the
Centre for Medieval History,
7-9 South Leinster Street,
Dublin 2
All Welcome.
Hilary Term 2012-13
| 31st January | Brian McNamee (TCD) Pope Fregory VII, William The Conqueror and the Issue of Fealty |
| 7th February | Dr. Tom Turpie (Stirling) Duthac, Ninian and the Matters of Sanctity in Scotland and Ireland |
| 14th February | Stuart Gorman (TCD) 'They are made neither of horn, ash nor yew, but of elm': The Origin of the 'English' Longbow |
| 21st February | Professor Howard Clarke (UCD) The Identity of the Designer of the Bayeuz Tapestry |
| 28th February | Reading Week |
| 7th March | Colin Fitzpatrick (TCD) Profiting from the Irish Sea in the Late Middle Ages |
| 14th March | Professor Sam Cohn (Glasgow) Naming and Blaming: the case of syphilis 1st TCD-Worth Library Joint Seminar in the History of Medieval and Renaissance Medicine and Science NB: This session will be held in the Long Room Hub at 6pm. |
| 21st March | Professor Laura Cleaver (TCD) From Codex to Roll: Illustrating History in the Anglo-Norman World, c.1180-1300 |
| 28th March | tbc |
| 4th April | Professor Mark Hennessey (TCD) Making ireland English in the Late Thirteenth Century: The 1292 Lay Subsidy |
Michaelmas Term 2012-13
| 18th October | Felim McGrath (TCD) Native Reactions to the Norman Invasion of the Abruzzo, in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries |
| 25th October | Roman Bleier (TCD) Digitizing St Patrick's Texts: A Document-friendly Editing Approach |
| 1st November | Professor David Bates (UAE) Norman Empires and English Empires |
| 8th November | Reading Week |
| 15th November | Eiminh Walsh (TCD) 'Hells yawning pit lies in wait': Peter Damian and the Schism of Cadalus |
| 22nd November | Conor McCann (TCD) The Abbey of St. Denis, Louis VII, and the Memory of the First Crusade |
| 29th November | Chiara Ponchia (Padua) The Divine Comedy: Illuminations from Bologna, Padua and Florence in the Fourteenth Century |
| 6th December | Paolo Virtuani (UCD) "It is said that he oppressed many": Stephen de Fulburn, Brother Hospitaller and Justicar of Ireland (c. 1270-88) |