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This public lecture, which is entitled, ‘The Civil Wars We Think We Know: Narrativity and Politics’, is the opening in a series of talks on Re-thinking the Wars of the Roses: Civil War in a Later Medieval Polity.
The event is kindly supported by the Trinity Association and Trust and the Trinity Long Room Hub. Registration is essential for this in-person public lecture. The registration link via eventbrite is here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/re-thinking-the-wars-of-the-roses-civil-war-in-a-later-medieval-polity-tickets-262507917247
Re-thinking the Wars of the Roses explores the causes and dynamics of Civil War through the lens of one particular and well-known conflict: the ‘Wars of the Roses’, which were centred on the kingdom of England in the second half of the fifteenth century. While this conflict has generally been treated in an insular fashion, as a notorious episode in the English national story, the aim will be to use it as a case-study for a much wider series of questions – about the workings of power in situations of contested authority, about the ways in which political division, violence and uncertainty are understood, about the boundaries of political space, and about the processes of political economy.
Much as this will be a series of historical lectures dealing with specific times and places, the hope is to say something of general and topical importance about political disorder, and certainly to locate the Wars of the Roses in a wider geographical and temporal setting. People who know about the Wars should find that these lectures intersect with and challenge their understanding of them; Professor Watts’s aim though is that the majority, who may not know much about these particular conflicts, will find the lectures interesting at a more general and methodological level.
Distinguished Guest Participants
- Professor Jan Dumolyn, Ghent University
- Professor Serena Ferente, University of Amsterdam
- Professor Justine Firnhaber-Baker, University of St Andrews
Invasion 1169
The National Conference on the Occasion of the 850th Anniversary of the Anglo-Norman Invasion, 2–4 May 2019
Thursday 2nd – Saturday 4th May 2019
Edmund Burke Theatre,
Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
PROFESSOR ROSAMOND MCKITTERICK
will deliver the
JAMES LYDON LECTURES IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY AND CULTURE
on
ROME AND THE INVENTION OF THE PAPACY IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
Monday 15th October 2018 @ 6.30pm
Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre, Arts Building Room 2043, Trinity College Dublin
Registration Essential - lydonlectures2018.eventbrite.ie
Admission Free - All Welcome
Organised by the Trinity Medieval History Research Centre
PROFESSOR ROBERT BARTLETT
will deliver the
JAMES LYDON LECTURES IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY AND CULTURE
on
DYNASTIES
FAMILY POLITICS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
Monday 24th to Thursday 27th April 2017
Trinity College Dublin
Public Lecture 1
Monday 24 April 2017 @ 7 pm
Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre, Arts Building Room 2043
Lectures 2–4
Tuesday 25, Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 September 2017 @ 5.30 pm
The Classics Seminar Room, Arts Building B6.002
ADMISSION FREE • ALL WELCOME • REGISTER HERE
For information:
T: 00 353 1 896 1791
E: lydon.lectures@gmail.com
Organized by the Trinity Medieval History Research Centre
The James Lydon Lectures 2017
R-L: Dr Ana Rodríguez (Madrid), Professor Sverre Bagge (University of Bergen), Professor Robert Bartlett (St Andrews, The Lydon Lecturer 2017), Dr Katharine Simms, FTCD (Emerita), Professor Nicholas Vincent (University of East Anglia), Dr Stuart Airlie (Glasgow)
Programme of Events
Public Lecture 1: Dynasties: Family Politics In Mediaeval Europe
Monday 24 April 2017 @ 7 pm
Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre, Arts Building Room 2043
Subsequent lectures all take place in the Classics Seminar Room
Lecture 2: The First Female Sovereigns in Mediaeval Europe
Tuesday, 25 April 2017 @ 5.30 pm
Lecture 3: Pretenders and Returners: Dynastic Imposters in the Middle Ages
Wednesday, 26 April 2017 @ 5.30 pm
Lecture 4: A Sense of Dynasty: Names, Numbers and Family Trees
Thursday, 27 April 2017 @ 5.30 pm
Distinguished guest participants:
- Dr Stuart Airlie, University of Glasgow
- Professor Sverre Bagge, University of Bergen
- Dr Ana Rodríguez, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Spanish National Research Council
- Dr Katharine Simms, FTCD (Emerita)
- Professor Nicholas Vincent, University of East Anglia
Law and The Idea of Liberty in Ireland: From Magna Carta to the Present
What is the place of Ireland in the story of Magna Carta’s global dissemination? Four centuries before the Great Charter crossed the Atlantic, it was already implanted across the Irish Sea. A two-day conference in the Music Room of Christ Church Cathedral will explore the legal-historical background to Magna Carta in Ireland, the reception of the charter into English law in Ireland, the political and polemical uses to which the charter was put, and its twentieth and twentieth-first century invocations as a living presence in contemporary Irish law.
The conference takes place on 25 and 26 November and places can be booked via Eventbrite.
View and download the programme
The Centre for Gender and Women Studies, the Medieval History Research Centre and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies are hosting a conference next week, 13 Friday - 14 Saturday of November, entitled 'Collusion, Subversion & Survival: Women in Medieval Irish History (c. 500-1500).
The conference will take place in the Neil Hoey Lecture theatre in the Trinity Long Room Hub and admission is free, but registration is required.
Information about the conference can be found here: collusionsubversionsurvival.wordpress.com, and registration can be done here: http://collusionsubversionsurvival.eventbrite.ie.
For any questions, people can contact Dr Cherie N. Peters, Dr Caoimhe Whelan and Christina Wade (conference organisers) at collusionsubversionsurvival@gmail.com.
This 9th-century text, Tecosca Cormaic, paints a vivid and horrific portrait of women struggling against strident medieval systems of patriarchy. How does the attitude depicted by this text reflect medieval opinions about women? How did women navigate their society, and how were they perceived in that society?
This conference aims to reveal the ways in which medieval women colluded, subverted, and survived in the face of their societies' prejudices, ultimately revealing the hidden world of women in medieval Ireland.
