Medieval History Seminar

Convenors: Paul Brand and Mark Whittow

MONDAYS at 5pm. in the Wharton Room, All Souls College. All are welcome.

WEEK 1 (22 April)
Mark Whittow (Corpus Christi)
Worlds in motion: Byzantium’s Eurasian policy in the age of the Türk empire, 550-630

WEEK 2 (29 April)
Ilya Afanasyev (Hertford)
Saintly Norman Dukes in Twelfth-Century England and Normandy?

WEEK 3 (6 May)
Elina Screen (Trinity)
Norway in the age of Cnut (d.1035), through the Anglo-Saxon coinage evidence

WEEK 4 (13 May)
Philip Booth (Trinity)
Beyond Alfred Butler’s Arab Conquest of Egypt

WEEK 5 (20 May)
Brendan Smith (University of Bristol)
The Governed and the Ungovernable in Late Medieval Ireland

WEEK 6 (27 May)
Rory Naismith (Clare College, Cambridge)
Peter’s Pence and Beyond: the Forum Hoard and Anglo-Roman Monetary Relations in the Early Middle Ages

WEEK 7 (3 June)
Oliver Watson (Khalili Research Centre)
Islamic luxury pottery: China v.Syria in Abbasid Iraq

WEEK 8 (10 June)
Alice Taylor (King's College, London)
Homage