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James Lydon Research Seminar in Medieval History

Lydon seminars

Michaelmas Term 2025

All seminars at 4:15 in the Mediaeval Seminar Room, Phoenix House, 7-9 South Leinster Street, Room PX 2.1.  A Zoom link will be circulated for those on the mailing list wishing to attend remotely. To be added to the mailing list or to receive the Zoom link for a particular seminar, contact ruth.karras@tcd.ie.

25 Sept

Anne-Hélène Miller, University of Texas at Knoxville, ‘Crusading and Cross-Cultural Identity in a Hiberno-Norman Geste (Carew MS 596)’

 

 

2 Oct

Thomas McCarthy, New College of Florida, ‘An unholy and divided Trinity: the three manifestations of Ekkehard of Aura's Chronicle in the twelfth century’

 

 

9 Oct

Dyan Elliott, Northwestern University, ‘Clerical Chastity and Same-Sex Eroticism’

 

 

16 Oct

Annabel Hancock, TCD, 'Trust Work in Medieval Trade: Barcelona and Mallorca, 1240-1350'

 

 

23 Oct

Daniela Banks, TCD, ‘Reflections of Chivalric Treatises in the Privy Council Records on the Education of Henry VI of England’

 

 

6 Nov

Peter Fraundorfer, TCD, ‘A Job for More than One Hand: Identifying Scribal Hands in the Reichenau Group’

 

 

13 Nov

Justin Colvin, TCD, ‘Scilicet Hiberione constitutus episcopum me esse fateor: Patricius' geographical and ethnic vocabulary’

 

 

20 Nov

Sparky Booker, TCD, 'Storytelling and law in petitions in Ireland, 1450-1500'

 

 

27 Nov

Nasir Mahmood, University of Sialkot/TCD,  ‘Medieval Masculinity in The Arabian Nights: Discourse Analysis of Linguistic Shifts and Cultural (re)interpretations’

 

 

4 Dec

Tadg Farrell, TCD, ‘Gold, Hides and Mercenaries: The Economics of Gaelic Warfare in the Late Fourteenth Century'                 


Last updated 10 September 2025 medieval.history@tcd.ie (Email).