Medieval Church and Culture Seminar
The theme for the term is Parents and Children
Convenors: Margaret Coombe (LMH), Brian FitzGerald (Lincoln), Henrietta Leyser (St Peter’s), Conor O’Brien (Queen’s), Elizbeth Russell (Oriel), Lesley Smith (HMC)
TUESDAYS in the Carpenter Room, Harris Manchester College.
Refreshments from 5pm; papers begin at 5.15pm. Everyone is welcome at this informal and friendly graduate seminar
Week 1(17 January)
Kate Cooper (Manchester)
Remembering Monnica
Week 2 (24 January)
Michael Clanchy (IHR)
‘Our Astrolabe and yours’: Heloise and Abelard as dutiful parents
Week 3 (31 January)
Heather O’Donoghue (Linacre)
Moses in Iceland: miracle story, fairytale or infanticide?
Week 4 (7 February)
Jackie Tasioulas (Cambridge)
The foetal existence of Christ
Week 5 (14 February)
Elena Ene Draghici-Vasilescu (Kellogg)
Iconography along Via Egnatia: St Anna nursing
Week 6 ( 21 February)
Elizabeth Russell (Oriel)
Parental Love as Christian Conflict: Evidence from a Middle English Sermon ‘Spem habeamus’
Week 7 (28 February)
Nicholas Perkins (St Hugh’s)
Children and the Subject of Medieval Romance
Week 8 (6 March)
Jinty Nelson (King’s, London)
Putting Dhuoda in Context