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Archive 2004/ 2005

Sandro Botticelli: Lorenzo Tornabuoni before the Assembly of Liberal Arts

PUBLIC LECTURES: EXPLORING THE MIDDLE AGES: LITERATURE, CULTURAL CONTEXT, MUSIC AND ART

MICHAELMAS TERM 2004

  • Catherine Yvard, TCD: ‘The Book of Hours: A Mirror of Late-Medieval Piety’(Monday 22 November)
  • Raluca Radulescu, TCD: ‘The Sword in the Stone: Arthurian Heroes and the Challenge of the Past’(Monday 29 November)
  • Catherine Yvard, TCD: ‘The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (ca. 1411/12-1416; Chantilly, Musée Condé, ms. 65)’(Monday 6 December)

HILARY TERM 2005

  • Helen Conrad O’Briain, TCd: ‘Tolkien and Medieval Literature’(Tuesday 11 January)
  • Catherine Yvard, TCD: ‘The Hours of Prigent de Coëtivy, Treasure from the Chester Beatty Collection in Dublin (MS 82)(Monday 17 January)
  • Ann Buckley, NUI Maynooth and TCD: ‘Music in Medieval Ireland I’(Tuesday 25 January)
  • Catherine Yvard, TCD: ‘Jean Fouquet, Fifteenth-Century Painter and Miniaturist’(Monday 31 January)
  • Adrian Tudor, University of Hull: ‘Sex, Lies and… Manuscripts’(Monday 7 February)
  • Adrian Tudor, University of Hull: ‘More Sex and Lies: What Can Manuscripts Tell Us about the Medieval Reader?’(Tuesday 8 February)
  • Catherine Yvard, TCD: ‘Minute Masterpieces: Study of a Late 15th Century French Book of Hours (Chester Beatty Library, MS 89)’(Monday 14 February)
  • Helen Conrad O’Briain, TCD: ‘Women in the Early Middle Ages - A Golden Age or Wishful Thinking’(Monday 21 February)
  • Ann Buckley, NUI Maynooth and TCD: ‘Music in Medieval Ireland II’(Tuesday 1 March)
  • Helen Conrad O’Briain, TCD:’Beowulf: A Poem in Search of a Context’(Monday 7 March)

TRINITY TERM 2005

  • Ann Buckley, NUI Maynooth and TCD: ‘Music in Medieval Europe I’(Tuesday 5 April)
  • David Rundle, University of Oxford: ‘The Butcher of England and Renaissance Eloquence, or How John Tiptoft, earl of Worcester, used his Books’(Thursday 14 April)
  • Ann Buckley, NUI Maynooth and TCD: ‘Music in Medieval Europe II’(Monday 18 April)
  • Gerald Morgan, TCD: ‘Chaucer’s Knight and Medieval Chivalry’(Monday 25 April)
  • Tim Jackson, TCD: ‘Gottfried von Strassburg: Tristan und Isold‘(Monday 9 May)
  • Peter Hawkins, University of Boston: ‘The Art of Smiling’(Wednesday 11 May)
  • Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, TCD: ‘The Comedy of Unhappy Marriage in the Decameron‘ (Monday 16 May)
  • Corinna Salvadori-Lonergan, TCD: title to be announced(Monday 30 May)

If there is sufficient demand, the following lectures will also be offered (for CMRS only):

  • Adrian Tudor, University of Hull: ‘Preaching, Storytelling and Performance: Short Pious Narratives in Old French’(9 February)
  • Ann Buckley, NUI Maynooth and TCD: ‘Music in Medieval Ireland III, ‘Music in Medieval Europe III’(dates to be announced)

Last updated 26 March 2013 by Sarah Alyn Stacey (Email).