Michaelmas Term 2005

  • 18 October - Dr Colmán Etchingham (NUI Maynooth): Norway or Scotland: where did the Irish Vikings come from?
  • 1 November  - Mr Kenneth Clarke (University of Oxford): Chaucer, Boccaccio and Dante
  • 9 November - Dr Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London): Necromancy as Sacrament: Issues in the Historiography of Early Modern Magic
  • 10 November  - Dr Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London): The Reception of Lucretius in the Sixteenth Century
  • 14 November - Dr Ann Buckley (NUI Maynooth): Music of the Medieval Irish Church
  • 29 November - Dr Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin (TCD): Nuns and Lovers: Clerical Misdemeanours in the Decameron 

Hilary Term 2005

  • 17 January - Dr Helen Conrad-O'Briain (TCD): Astronomy, Hydraulics and the Not-Quite- Human: or  Is Chaucer the Father of English Science Fiction?
  • 31 January - Dr Catherine Swift (St Mary Immaculate, Limerick): Towns and Trouble-Makers - what way forward for Sites like Woodstown?
  • 14 February - Dr Helen Conrad-O'Briain (TCD): Tolkien: Medieval Scholarship Meets Popular Literature
  • 21 February - Dr Ann Buckley (NUI Maynooth): Between the Sacred and the Secular: Monophonic Song in the Middle Ages

Trinity Term 2005

  • 11 April - Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey (TCD): Filming the Renaissance: the Example of Patrice Chéreau's 'La Reine Margot'
  • 25 April - Dr Gerald Morgan (TCD): Chaucer s Knight and the Integrity of Medieval Chivalry


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.