Trinity College Dublin
James Lydon Research Seminar in Medieval History
Michaelmas Term 2026-27
Seminars meet on Thursdays at 4.15 pm, usually in the Trinity Medieval History Research Centre Seminar Room (Room PX2.1), 5‒7 South Leinster St. You are very welcome to attend.
1 October |
Jiachun Xu: (TCD) Debating and Synthesising the (A)Temporality of Creation in the Early Medieval Latin World; chair: Immo Warntjes |
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8 October |
Professor Gerald Schwendler (Kiel): Words of Peace: Conflict, Conciliation, and Concord in Late Medieval Europe; chair: David Ditchburn |
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15 October |
Dr Emma Cavell (Swansea): Gender, Power and Identity: Matilda de Saint-Valery and the Welsh frontier, c. 1170-1210; chair Sparky Booker |
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22 October |
Tamara Vitale (TCD): The Fork in the Road: Eros vs. Agape in the 12th Century; chair: Ruth Karras |
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29 October |
Reading Week: no seminar |
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5 November |
Hanyang Ma (TCD): Beyond the Sacred Surface: Gestating Interiority and Gender Complexity of the Medieval Christ; chair: Ruth Karras |
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12 November |
Dr Eugene Costello (UCC): Feeding Commerce? Tracing the Expansion of Cattle Farming in Late Medieval Europe; chair: David Ditchburn |
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19 November |
Professor Benjamin Pohl (Bristol): Chewing over the Norman Conquest: The Bayeux Tapestry as Monastic Mealtime Reading chair: tbc |
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26 November |
Thanksgiving: no seminar |
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3 December |
Arthur Rocha (Univ. Estadual de Campinas, Brazil): Spaces of Confession: A Historiographical Approach to the Individual and Penance in the 11th and 12th Centuries; chair: Ruth Karras |