The James Lydon Research Seminar in Medieval History
The Seminar series is named after the former Lecky Professor of History who initiated the TCD seminar, based on his experiences as a graduate student in London.
Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars will be held online using Zoom.
All are welcome.
Further info: Dr Simon Egan
Hilary Term 2020-21
4 February |
Magi et Incantatores: Depictions of Magic in Early Medieval Irish Hagiography, Jeremy Korth (TCD) |
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11 February |
Gendered Power and Accusations of Sexual Immorality in 14th Century England and France, Audrey Covert (TCD) |
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18 February |
Game Above My Head: Goading and Gender in the Sagas of Icelanders, Sigrun Wik (TCD) |
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25 February |
Heavenly Bodies: Christina Mirabilis and The Community of the Living and the Dead, Samantha Sandy (TCD) |
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4 March |
The Memory of the Late Middle Ages in Ireland: The Preservation and Modification of Historical Narratives by the Irish Record Commission, Anna Attwood (TCD) |
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11 March |
The Lancastrian Peripheries and the Vocabulary of Disaster, 1422-1461: Mapping the Conceptual Framework, Michael Brennan (TCD) |
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25 March |
Lead Burial Plaques as Testimony to Life Writing in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, Lisbeth van Houts (University of Cambridge) |
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1 April |
Rethinking Giants: Gender, Race, and the Riddarasögur, Nahir Otaño Gracia (University of New Mexico) |
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8 April |
The Battle of Evesham (1265) and the Legacy of Simon de Montfort’s ‘Martyrdom’, Sophie Thérèse Ambler (Lancaster University) |
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15 April |
Feminising Migration: Women's Experiences of Movement in the Viking Age, Pragya Vohra (University of York) |
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22 April |
Fraud in the Medieval Mediterranean Economy, Hussein Fancy (University of Michigan) |
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6 May |
TCD-Worth Library Lecture in Medieval and Renaissance Medicine |