Michaelmas Term 2004

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

Hilary Term 2005

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

Trinity Term 2005

  • Ann Buckley, NUI Maynooth and TCD: Music in Medieval Europe I (5 April)

  • David Rundle, University of Oxford:  The Butcher of England and Renaissance Eloquence, or How John Tiptoft, earl of Worcester, used his Books (14 April)

  • Ann Buckley, NUI Maynooth and TCD:  Music in Medieval Europe II (18 April)

  • Gerald Morgan, TCD: Chaucer s Knight and Medieval Chivalry (25 April)

  • Tim Jackson, TCD: Gottfried von Strassburg: Tristan und Isold (9 May)

  • Peter Hawkins, University of Boston: The Art of Smiling (11 May)

  • Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, TCD: The Comedy of Unhappy Marriage in the Decameron (16 May)

  • Corinna Salvadori-Lonergan, TCD: title to be announced (30 May)


Image: A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts (1483–1486) by Sandro Botticelli, used under a CC BY 4.0 license / Cropped from original.