Medieval History Seminar
Convenors: Mark Whittow and Chris Whickham
A weekly seminar will be held on Mondays at 5 p.m. in the Old Library in All Souls College. All are welcome
Week 1 (17 January)
Mark Whittow (Corpus Christi)
Pirenne, Muhammad and Bohemond: Before Orientalism
Week 2 (24 January)
Richard Allen (St John’s)
Life before Lanfranc: the careers of three archbishops of Rouen, 942-1137
Week 3 (31 January)
Steffen Patzold (University of Tübingen)
Einhard's first readers. Aims and context of the 'Vita Karoli'
Week 4 (7 February)
Peter Edbury (Cardiff University)
Ernoul and the Continuations of William of Tyre: approaches and implications
Week 5 (14 February)
Hilde de Weerdt (Pembroke)
Empire and Information during the Twelfth-Century Chinese Crisis
Week 6 (21 February)
Alex Metcalfe (Lancaster University)
The Norman Conquest of Africa
Week 7 (28 February)
Marina Rustow (The Johns Hopkins University)
The Fatimid state as viewed by medieval Jews and modern social theorists
Week 8 (7 March)
Daniel Gerrard (St Peter’s)
The spiritual sword on temporal battlefields: Rites, relics and sacred banners in the prosecution of English medieval warfare