Medieval Church and Culture
Tuesdays, 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
28th April
Charles Roe (Mansfield)
The Vulgate Cycle and the Vernacular in High Medieval England
Week 2
5th May
Patrick Outhwaite (St. Catherine’s)
The Church Sleeping: Physiological and Eschatological Sleep Imagery in the
Lanterne of Liȝt
Week 3
12th May
John Schnakenberg (Blackfriar’s)
The Dominican Processionarium: Religious Observance and Lay Piety in
13th-century Italy.
Week 4
19th May
Conner Noteboom (Harris Manchester)
Week 5
26th May
Sian Witherden (Merton)
The Dialogue between Late-Medieval English Biblical Drama and Stained
Glass Windows
Week 6
2nd June
Laura Cleaver (Trinity College, Dublin)
Forging History in Twelfth-Century England
Week 7
8th June
no seminar. Medieval Studies lecture:
Seth Lerer (University of California, San Diego)
What Was Late-Medieval English Poetry?
Week 8
16th June
Lesley Abrams (Balliol)
Baptism, Conversion, and Apostasy in Normandy in the Early 10th Century:
The Archbishop of Reims and the Vikings on the Seine
Hagiography or History: Situating a Hebrew Crusade Chronicle in its Christian
Cultural Context
Convenors: Margaret Coombe (HMC), Karl Kinsella (Keble), Lesley Smith (HMC), Gustav Zamore
(Merton)