Medieval History Seminar
Convenors: Mark Whittow and Chris Wickham
MONDAYS at 5 p.m. in the Wharton Room, All Souls. All are welcome.
Please note the TORCH public lectures in weeks 3 and 7 when there
will be no seminar
Week 1
27 April
Walter Pohl (Instituts für Mittelalterforschung, Vienna)
Genealogies, dynasties and kinship in the Early Middle Ages
Week 2
4 May
Peter Jackson (University of Keele)
The Rule of the Infidel: The Mongols and their Muslim
Subjects
Week 3
11 May
Barbara Rosenwein (Loyola University, Chicago, IL)
How can there be a history of emotions?
* TORCH Public Lecture, Andrew Wiles Building ROQ
5p.m.*
Week 4
18 May
Arezou Azad (University of Birmingham)
When brothers shared a wife: the transition to Islam in 8thcentury rural Bactria
Week 5
25 May
Jonathan Jarrett (Barber Institute of Fine Arts,
Birmingham )
Miles or militia: war-service and castle-guard in tenthcentury Catalonia
Week 6
1 June
Levi Roach (University of Exeter)
A Feudal Revolution in Germany? Comital Office in the
Salian Century
Week 7
8 June
Seth Lerer (Professor of Literature, University of California
at San Diego)
What Was Late-Medieval English Poetry?
*TORCH Public Lecture*
Meeting at the Taylorian Hall followed by a drinks
reception at the Taylorian
Week 8
15 June
Malcolm Vale (St John’s)
Henry V: a Personal Portrait revisited