UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Seminars in
Medieval Studies
in the Faculties of
English Language and Literature
History
Modern Languages
Music
Trinity Term 2008
Contents
Seminars and Lectures
FACULTY OF ENGLISH
Medieval English Literature seminar ............................................... 3
FACULTY OF HISTORY
Medieval History seminar................................................................. 4
Medieval Economic and Social History seminar ............................. 5
‘After Rome’ seminar ....................................................................... 6
Late Antique and Byzantine seminar ............................................... 7
Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Archaeology seminar ............. 8
History Faculty Annual Special Lecture .......................................... 8
Medieval Church and Culture seminar............................................. 9
Medieval Visual Culture seminar ................................................... 10
FACULTY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES
Astor Visiting Lectures .................................................................... 11
Medieval French seminar ................................................................ 12
Medieval German seminar............................................................... 13
CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF THE BOOK ............................................... 14
SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Keble Lecture.....................................................................................15
INTERDISCIPLINARY
Oxford Medieval Studies Lectures 2008 ........................................ 15
Oxford Medieval Society ................................................................ 16
Multi-Disciplinary Medievalism .................................................... 16
Inter-Disciplinary Symposium (7 June 2008) ............................... 17
Notices ..................................................................................................... 18
Graduate Students working on medieval topics
English Faculty ............................................................................................... 19
History Faculty .............................................................................................. 20
Byzantine Studies ........................................................................................... 22
Music .............................................................................................................. 22
French ............................................................................................................ 23
German ........................................................................................................... 23
Celtic ............................................................................................................... 23
SERIES OF SEMINARS
FACULTY OF ENGLISH
Medieval English Research Seminar
Convenors: Professor Vincent Gillespie and Professor Malcolm
Godden
WEDNESDAYS at 5.15pm in Weeks 1–6 in The History of the Book
Room, St Cross Building. Everyone interested is invited to attend.
Week 1
23 April
Anina Seiler (Zurich):
Germanic sounds and Latin spelling: The use of ‘superfluous’ letters in vernacular writing
Week 2
30 April
Dr Marion Turner (Jesus):
Political Fictions: Clerkly Writing under Richard II
Week 3
7 May
Dr John Flood (Balliol):
‘How myhte þy mouth be able to eten of þe frut of þe
tre?’: Attitudes towards Eve in medieval England
Week 4
14 May
Dr Ian Johnson (St Andrews):
Nicholas Love’s Mirror, A Mirror to Devout People, and
Vernacular Theology’
Week 5
21 May
Professor M.B. Parkes (Keble):
Scribes in England in the Later Middle Ages
Week 6
28 May
Professor Helen Cooper (Cambridge):
Shakespeare and The Canterbury Tales: The Case of
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
FACULTY OF HISTORY
Medieval History
A weekly seminar will be held on MONDAYS at 5pm in the Wharton
Room, All Souls College
Convenors: Paul Brand and Mark Whittow
Week 1
21 April
Louise Wilkinson (Canterbury Christ Church University):
Eleanor de Montfort and the Barons’ War
Week 2
28 April
George Garnett (St. Hugh’s):
Twelfth-century views of the Conquest
Week 3
5 May
Justine Firnhaber-Baker (All Souls):
‘Jura in medio’: Violence, justice and royal power in late
medieval Languedoc
Week 4
12 May
George Molyneaux (All Souls):
The Old English Bede
Week 5
19 May
Rosemary Morris (University of York):
Communal legal activity in the Byzantine countryside
(tenth–eleventh centuries)
Week 6
26 May
Vincent Poffley (Wadham):
Litteras et Mores? Was the twelfth-century Renaissance
really a backward-looking phenomenon?
Week 7
2 June
Anne Bailey (Harris Manchester):
Madness and miracles: Perceptions of mental illness in
English Miracle Collections (c.1050–1200)
Week 8
9 June
Tom Williamson (University of East Anglia):
Landscape and environment in early medieval England
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Medieval Economic and Social History Seminar
A weekly seminar will be held on WEDNESDAYS at 5pm in the
MacGregor Room, Oriel College
Convenors: John Blair (Queen’s) and Ian Forrest (Oriel)
Week 1
23 April
Justine Firnhaber-Baker (All Souls College):
Seigneurial warfare and rural society in fourteenthcentury Languedoc: feudal crisis or history that stands
still?
Week 2
30 April
Hannah Wheeler (Wadham College):
Stereotyping students: student misbehaviour in thirteenth-century Paris
Week 3
7 May
Ann Cole (Kellogg College):
The place-name evidence for an early medieval routeway network
Week 4
14 May
John Hines (Cardiff):
Sceattas and Scyllingas: coins and values in seventhcentury Anglo-Saxon society
Week 5
21 May
Guy Geltner (Lincoln College):
Towards a social history of medieval anti-fraternalism
Week 6
28 May
Peter Coss (Cardiff):
A gentry family in the mid-fourteenth century: the Multons of Frampton
Week 7
4 June
Sally Harvey:
Knights again: the horses and assets of the AngloNorman knight
Week 8
11 June
Charles West (Hertford College):
Breaking down immunity: on Carolingian and postCarolingian property rights
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‘After Rome’: Aspects of the History and Archaeology of the Fifth to Seventh Centuries
Convenors: James Howard-Johnston (Corpus Christi College) and
Bryan Ward-Perkins (Trinity College)
THURSDAYS at 5pm in the Danson Room, Trinity College
Week 1
24 April
Josef Wiesehoefer (Kiel):
Kawad, Khusro I and the Mazdakites: a New Proposal
Week 2
1 May
No Seminar in the Danson Room
Instead, at 5pm in the Headley Lecture Theatre of
the Ashmolean Museum: Susan Walker and Michael
Vickers (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford): Miracles,
Myths and Menorahs: Celebrating the Wilshere Collection
Week 3
8 May
John Dillon (Trinity College Dublin):
The Last Hellenic Philosophers
Week 4
15 May
gans
Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh):
Early Constantinople through the Eyes of Eastern Pa-
Week 5
22 May
tinople
Geoffrey Greatrex (Ottawa):
Patriarchs and Politics in early sixth-century Constan-
Week 6
29 May
Yuri Marano (Padova):
The Building Policy of Theoderic
Week 7
5 June
Thought
Gyburg Radke (Freie Universität, Berlin):
Studia Humanitatis in late Ancient and Medieval
Week 8
12 June
ple?
Claire Sotinel (Tours):
Imperial Rome in the fifth century: a new Constantino-
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Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
Convenors: Dr J.D. Howard-Johnston, Professor M. Lauxtermann, Dr M.
Mango
WEDNESDAYS at 5 pm in the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’. All sessions are in the lecture theatre on the
ground floor except for those on 14 and 21 May.
Week 1
23 April
James Howard-Johnston:
Heraclius’ celebration and exploitation of victory
Week 2
30 April
Marc Lauxtermann:
Two manuscripts in search of an author: Vat.gr. 676 and
John Mauropous, Bodl. Clarke 15 and Mark the Monk
Week 3
7 May
John Dillon (Dublin):
The religion of the last Hellenes*
Week 4
14 May
Andrew Wilson:
Bread and water: milling and baking in Roman and late
Roman cities (to be held in first-floor seminar room,
Ioannou Centre)
Week 5
21 May
Gilbert Dagron (Paris):
À propos du De Cerimoniis
(To be held in the New Seminar Room, St John’s
College)
Week 6
prus):
28 May
Tassos Papacostas (London) and Maria Parani (Cy-
Week 7
4 June
Gyburg Radke (Berlin):
Late neo-Platonism*
Week 8
11 June
Cyril Mango:
Imagining Constantinople
The monastery of St. John Chrysostom at Koutsovendis,
Cyprus: history, architecture and painting
* The seminars in Weeks 3 and 7 are held jointly with the
Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity, www.ocla.ox.ac.uk
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The programme of seminars has been devised to include several topics of
particular interest to Cyril Mango, who celebrates his eightieth birthday
in April.
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Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art
seminar
Convenor: Dr Marlia Mango (St John’s College)
WEDNESDAYS at 12 noon, Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8
Institute of Archaeology, Seminar Room
Week 2
30 April
Dr Marlia Mango:
MM = the Forty Martyrs? Monks and the Military
Week 4
14 May
Dr Orit Peleg:
A Byzantine neighbourhood south of Temple Mount in
Jerusalem: But where is the church?
Week 6
28 May
Dr David Milson:
On the first-identified synagogue converted to a church
in late antique Palestine
Week 8
11 June
Yaman Dalanay:
From Ephesus to Ayasuluk: the transformation of a city
between the eleventh and the sixteenth century
HISTORY FACULTY
ANNUAL SPECIAL LECTURE
Professor Julian Gardner
(Foundation Professor of the History of Art, University of Warwick)
Painters and Saints
Anthroponymy and art in medieval Italy
Monday 28 April 2008 at 5pm
in the Examination Schools
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All welcome
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Medieval Church and Culture seminar
Convenors: Henrietta Leyser (St Peter’s); Lesley Smith (HMC);
Kate Sykes (BNC).
TUESDAYS, Garrard Room, Harris Manchester College
(except for Week 1).
Refreshments from 5pm; papers begin at 5.15pm
Everyone is welcome at this informal and friendly graduate seminar
Week 1
THU 24 April
Barbara Newman:
Julian of Norwich: a close reading of Revelations
1-5
NB: Date (Thursday) and place: St Peter’s, Dorfman
Room
Week 2
29 April
Joanna Greer (St Peter’s):
Prostitute Saints and the Virgin Mary (tbc)
Week 3
6 May
Rose
Caitlin Hartigan (Queen’s):
Manuscript and Printed Copies of the Roman de la
Week 4
13 May
Damien Kempf (Bristol):
Creating a Carolingian Capital: Paul the Deacon’s
Liber de episcopis Mettensibus and the rise of
Metz
Week 5
20 May
Hilary Powell (Queen’s):
Following in the footsteps of Christ: Ascension imagery in the Vita S. Mildrethe
Week 6
27 May
Rory Cox (St Peter’s):
Wyclif and the Laws of War
Week 7
3 June
Brian McGuire (Copenhagen):
The Difficult Saint: Biographies of St Bernard
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Week 8
10 June
view
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Margaret Coombe (Worcester):
Reginald of Durham’s Life of Godric: an editor’s
Medieval Visual Culture Seminar: Jerusalem
and the Holy Land
Convenors: Lucy Donkin; Gervase Rosser
THURSDAYS at 1pm in Weeks 2, 4, and 6 in the Goodhart Seminar
Room, University College
2nd week Dr Kathryne Beebe (Balliol):
1 May
The eye of the armchair traveller: Bernhard von Breydenbach’s “Peregrinati”
4th week Professor Mary Carruthers (New York University; All
Souls)
15 May
and Dr Lesley Smith (Harris Manchester):
The imaginary Jerusalem of Nicholas of Lyra
6th week Dr Hanna Vorholt (Warburg Institute, London):
29 May
Copying the Holy Land: Remarks on some English
maps of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
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FACULTY OF MEDIEVAL AND
MODERN LANGUAGES
Astor Visiting Lectures
Professor Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University)
Convenor: Dr A. M. V. Suerbaum (Somerville College)
Week 1
Wednesday, 23 April at 11.15am
Venue: Somerville College (Flora Anderson Hall)
Inscribing the Word – Illuminating the Sequence: Epithets in Honour
of John the Evangelist in the Graduals from Paradies bei Soest
Thursday, 24 April at 5pm
Venue: Taylor Institution
TAYLORIAN SPECIAL LECTURE:
Representations of Reading – Reading Representations: The Female
Reader from the Hedwig Codex to Châtillon’s Léopoldine au Livre
d’Heures
Friday, 25 April at 2.15pm
Venue: Keble College (Pusey Room)
Nuns as Patrons and Producers of Liturgical Lectionaries in Late Medieval Germany: Douce 185 and Keble 49
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Medieval French
Convenors: Dr Tony Hunt (St Peter’s College), Dr Sophie Marnette
(Balliol College) and Dr Helen Swift (St Hilda’s College)
The following seminars will take place at the Maison Française on
TUESDAYS in Weeks 3, 5, and 7 at 5.15pm (wine served from 5pm).
All are welcome.
Week 3 (6 May)
Melanie Florence
(Somerville College, Oxford):
Re-presenting set-piece description in the courtly romance: Hartmann’s adaptation of Chretien’s Erec et Enide
Week 5 (20 May)
Alexei Lavrentev
(Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences humaines):
Transcrire un manuscrit médiéval au XXIe siècle : l’informatique
et les traditions editorials
Week 7 (3 June)
Luke Sunderland
(Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge):
The Cruelty of Charlemagne: Revolt and Sovereignty in the chanson de geste
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Medieval German
SUBJECT: Eilhart von Oberge, ‘Tristrant’
The seminar in Trinity Term 2008 will take place on WEDNESDAYS
at 11.15am in Oriel College.
Convenors: Dr Almut Suerbaum, Dr Annette Volfing
‘Thuering von Ringoltingen, Melusine’
ACADEMIC VISITORS (MEDIEVAL GERMAN) 2007/8
 Professor Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard Astor
Visiting Professorship): Trinity Term 2008
 Dr Yvonne Dellsperger (Univeristaet Bern; PostDoctoral Fellowship from the Schweizer Nationalfond): 2007/8
 Simone Haeberli (Universitaet Bern; graduate
scholarship of the Schweizer Nationalfond)
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CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF THE BOOK
See http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb/csbeventspage.htm for a full
listing, including the James P.R. Lyell lectures in bibliography (22
April–6 May 2008)
Dr. Christopher Tyerman
(Fellow and Tutor in History, Hertford College, Oxford):
Bodleian Library MS. Tanner 190
(Marino Sanudo, Secreta Fidelium Crucis, Venice, c. 1321–
1324):
Europe and the wider world in the fourteenth century
Tuesday 6 May at 1pm
Cecil Jackson Room, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
Admission to lecture free. All welcome.
Wine and sandwiches will be served in Chancellor’s Court after
the lecture at a cost of £5 per person, for which bookings should be
made and paid for in advance with the Administrator, Friends of
the Bodleian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG.
Tel: 01865 277234, email:fob@bodley.ox.ac.uk
OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
The following two lectures at the Taylor Institution are for members
only. Details here on how to join: http://www.oxbibsoc.org.uk/
Monday 19 May 2008 at 5.15pm
James Willoughby:
The libraries of medieval colleges beyond the universities
Monday 16 June 2008 at 5.15pm
Claire Bolton
Fifteenth-century printing practices of Johann Zainer, Ulm
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SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Keble Lecture
Trinity Term 2008
Professor Roberta Gilchrist
(University of Reading)
‘Magic for the Dead.
The Archaeology of Magic in Later Medieval Burials’
Wednesday 11 June at 5.30pm, followed by wine reception.
Keble College, O’Reilly Lecture Theatre
Everyone welcome
OXFORD MEDIEVAL STUDIES LECTURES 2008
Barbara Newman
(Professor of English, Religion and Classics
at Northwestern University)
“Visions and Revisions: Redeeming the Time
in Piers Plowman and A Revelation of Love”
Examination Schools
Tuesday 22 April, 5.15pm
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Oxford Medieval Society
Dorfman Centre, St Peter’s College
Wine from 8.15pm, papers start at 8.30pm
For
queries
please
contact
<laura.varnam@univ.ox.ac.uk>
the
secretary,
3rd Week
Thursday 8 May
Paul Brand: Thirteenth-century English Judges: what we know
and what we do not know about what they did
6th Week
Thursday 29 May
Michelle Brown: Preaching with the Pen: The making and
meaning of the Lindisfarne Gospels
Multi-disciplinary medievalism
Mountains
Thursday 22 May, 5pm, New Seminar Room at St. John’s.
The theme for this term’s seminar is ‘mountains’ – we will be considering the physical and metaphorical role of mountains as obstacles, permeable boundaries, and regions of cultural particularism.
Helena Carr (St Peter’s, History) will discuss the conscious or unconscious cultural independence of the Swiss Alps in the early middle ages. This particularism will be contrasted with the role of
mountains in the transmission of ideas. Simon Oakes (St John’s, Art
History) will discuss artistic exchange between Venice and Germany
in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
These presentations will be followed by discussion, in which all
are invited to contribute ideas from their own research, whatever
the discipline.
For further information, please contact Patrick Lantschner (St
John’s) or Hannah Wheeler (Wadham). Relevant texts will be available on weblearn, in the history graduate section of the humanities
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division.
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Interdisciplinary Symposium
There and back again: Re-fashioning journey and
place in the Middle Ages
Balliol College, Oxford, 7 June 2008
WEBSITE: http://www.medieval.ox.ac.uk/tab/
Confirmed speakers include Colin Morris (Southampton), John
Blair (Oxford), John Hines (Cardiff), Kathryn Rudy (The Hague)
Images, imagination and the written word shaped medieval perceptions of the world just as much as direct experience and observation. By writing their own accounts, pilgrim authors re-encoded
holy writ into a new framework of the holy places. Secular writings,
architectural recreations of faraway buildings and artistic representations of journeys in illuminated manuscripts fed ideas about the
world ‘out there’, while bringing the ‘out there’ very much into the
realm of the ‘right here’. Likewise, images, sagas, ballads, and travellers’ tales changed, and were changed by, real-world experience.
This one-day symposium will bring together scholars in several disciplines to discuss how those throughout the middle ages chose to
portray the reality they encountered—and constructed—through
travel, whether in their own journeys or in journeys made by others.
Topics discussed will include:
 journeys in literature
 virtual pilgrimage
 images and art
 architecture and the Holy Sepulchre in the West
The day will also include a session held in the thirteenth-century
shrine of
St Frideswide in Christ Church Cathedral, reconstructed in 2002.
Organisers: Kathryne Beebe <kathryne.beebe@balliol.ox.ac.uk>
Laura Varnam <laura.varnam@univ.ox.ac.uk>
Bernard Gowers <bernardgowers@gmail.com>
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Notices
Medieval Studies at Oxford Website
This site aims to bring together information about
Oxford’s wealth of resources, research and teaching
in the medieval period, including details of postgraduate
courses, research projects and an updated list of seminars.
http://www.medieval.ox.ac.uk/
The site is still under development, and if you have
suggestions or comments about it please contact:
Dr Nicholas Perkins, St Hugh’s College
<nicholas.perkins@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk>
Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity
This site collects all the available information on research
and study (at a graduate level) into ‘Late Antiquity’ at Oxford
–
the period between roughly 250 and 750, from Sasanian
and Islamic Iran, through the Byzantine and Roman worlds,
to the Celtic North.
http://www.ocla.ox.ac.uk
MSt in Medieval Studies
http://www.medieval.ox.ac.uk/studies_mst.h
tml
Marginalia
MEDIEVAL STUDIES AT CAMBRIDGE
http://www.marginalia.co.uk
A collection of resources and a point of contact for medievalists
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both at Cambridge and around the world who are engaged in
the study of medieval English literature, history, culture, and
thought.
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GRADUATE STUDENTS WORKING ON MEDIEVAL TOPICS
Please note that these lists may be incomplete, and in some details inaccurate; the subjects indicate only general areas of interest. They do not yet include graduates starting in Michaelmas Term 2007.
A list of scholars and students at the University of Cambridge who are currently
working
on
the
middle
ages
is
available
at
http://www.marginalia.co.uk/Register.pdf
Old and Middle English
Maria Artamonova (Linacre): Word order
variation in late Old English, with
special reference to the evidence of
translation and revision
Tamara Atkin (University College): Reforming drama: Theology and theatricality, 1450–1552
Sarah Baccianti (Lincoln): The writing of
history in Anglo-Saxon England and
medieval Iceland
Christopher Bradley (Balliol): The psychology of devotion: Problems and
potentials of Late Medieval English
devotional instruction
Mary Carr (Balliol): Langland and Spenser: Anatomists of England
Anna Caughey (Christ Church): Literary
representations of knighthood in late
medieval Scotland
Kenneth Clarke (University College): I
shall fynde it in a maner glose: Commentary and hermeneutics, the commentary and glossing traditions in
the work of Chaucer
Melissa Coll (Jesus): Vestal virgins and
vilified whores: saintly women in
Scottish vernacular literature 1400–
1560
Alexandra da Costa (St Hilda’s): Types of
devotion: Devotional literature in
print on the eve of the Reformation,
with a detailed study of the Festial
and Gilte Legends
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Mark Faulkner (St John’s): Anglo Saxon
books and their post-Conquest users,
c.1066–1200
Rebecca Fields (St Hilda’s): Codeswitching, code-crossing and accommodation as literary devices in medieval England
Stephanie Fishwick (Linacre): The liminal
space in Old English and Old Norse
literatures
Johanna Fridriksdottir (Lincoln): Subversive women in Old Norse and Old
English Literature
Ilona Gottwaldova (Linacre): Gift in Old
Norse and Anglo-Saxon Literatures
Ryoko Harikae (St Hilda’s): John Bellenden’s Chronicles of Scotland
Cecilia Hatt (St Hilda’s): ‘Tytlet, token and
tyxt’: Theologising in the work of the
Gawain-poet
Anna Johnson (Brasenose): Modernism
and the medieval in the work of David
Jones
Anna McHugh (University College): I
Hecht in Verbo Regio: Scottish Kings
as Men of Letters
Kylie Murray (Lincoln): Scottish Dream
States: The Dream Vision in Scotland,
1424–1530
Marco Nievergelt (Lincoln): Spiritual
chivalry, allegorical quests: The
knightly quest from the late Middle
Ages to the Renaissance
Olivia Robinson (St Hilda’s): ‘Bothe text
and glose/Of the romaunce of the
Rose’: text, physical form and interpretation in late medieval France and
England
Alexander Stewart (St Anne’s): The anxiety of status? Richard Rolle, Piers
Plowman and the eremitic ideal
William Sweet (St John’s): An AngloScottish literary ideology: Chaucer in
the fifteenth century
Jillian Taylor (St Hugh’s): The continuing
advice tradition in the prose romances printed by William Caxton
Bethan Thomas Tovey (Somerville): The
book and the body: Religion and masculinity in Old English literature
Laura Varnam (Lady Margaret Hall): The
howse of God on erthe: Constructions
of sacred space in Middle English literature
Sarah Wood (Lady Margaret Hall): Conscience in Piers Plowman
Gilly Wraight (Worcester): A study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century embroidered bookbindings with
particular emphasis on those in Oxford libraries
Nicolay Yakovlev (Wolfson): Development
of the alliterative metre from Old to
Middle English
History Faculty
Anna Anisimova (St Peter’s College), Monastic initiatives in the process of urbanisation in medieval England
Anne Bailey (Harris Manchester College):
The Representation of Female Pilgrimage and Piety in English Miracle Collections (1050-1200)
James Berrill (St Edmund Hall): The
Woodville Family – Aspects of Chivalry at the Court of Edward IV
Matthew Carver (Brasenose), Henry of
Blois, Bishop of Winchester
Romy Cerratti (Magdalen), The concept
and practice of fellowship in late medieval England
Felicity Clark (Queen’s), The Northumbrian Frontiers, c.500–800
Margaret Coombe (Worcester): An edition, translation, and commentary on
Reginald’s ‘Life’ of St Godric of Finchale
Christopher Cowley (Lincoln): Urban political activity and town relations with
central government in the fifteenth
century
Rory Cox (St Peter’s): War and politics in
late fourteenth-century England
Timothy Crafter (St John’s), Monetary
Expansion in Britain in the Late
Twelfth Century
Sophie Crichton (Christ Church), Religion
and lay piety in the medieval diocese of
Mallorca 1276–1349
Kerrith Davies (Christ Church):
Katie Clark (Corpus Christi)
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Julia Erokhina (Blackfriars), St Augustine’s use of historical data and his
theory of history
Jacqueline Fernholz (Balliol), English diplomatic missions in the fifteenth century
Milena Grabacic (Exeter): Aspects of cultural interaction in thirteenth-century
Byzantine architecture
Thomas Gruber (Merton), Atheism in the
Middle Ages
Julia Hofmann (Queen’s), The politics of
Merovingian Gaul 512–751
John Jenkins (Wadham): Monasteries in
context: Torre Abbey and the nature of
late medieval monasticism
Kelly Kilpatrick (Wadham), Early Insular
environmental history
Ilya Kovalev (St Peter’s): The representation of Wales and the Welsh in AngloNorman historical writings
Patrick Lantschner (St John’s): The politics of conflict in late medieval Tuscany
and Northern France
David Legg (Exeter College), Embassy,
diplomacy, and transition: diplomatic
relations between the Franks and their
neighbours, c.450–911
Oren Margolis (Jesus), René of Anjou,
King of Naples (1409-1480), and the
politics of cultural transmission
George Molyneaux (Merton), Amicitia
and the expansion of West Saxon power in the tenth century
Razvan Novacovschi (Exeter), East–west
church relations, 1054–1118. A fresh
look at the ‘great schism’
Lesley Pattinson (Exeter), The bodies of
holy women in Italy 1200–1450
Hilary Pearson (Somerville): Teresa de
Cartagena: a late medieval woman’s
theology and spirituality of disability
Oliver Pengelley (Keble): Rome and the
Anglo-Saxon Imagination
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Guilhelm Pepin (St John’s), The Relationship between the king of England in
their role as dukes of Aquitaine and
their Gascon subjects: forms, processes
and substance of a dialogue (1275–
1453)
Guy Perry (Lincoln), John of Brienne,
king of Jerusalem, emperor of Constantinople
Vincent Poffley (Wadham), The English
scientific tradition in the late twelfth
century
Robert Portass (Oriel), The transformation of Gallaecia and northern
Spain in the late antique period
Hilary C. Powell (Queen’s), Voluntary Religion in Early Medieval Landscape
Prerona Prasad (St Peter’s), Byzantine
foreign policy in the personal reign of
Constatine VII Porphyrogenitus (946–
959)
Luke Ramsden (University), The Duchy of
Benevento in the early middle ages
Mary Russell (Oriel): Later medieval veneration of saints across the regional
divide
Alice Taylor (St Peter’s): The Mechanisms of
Royal Governance in Scotland 1153–1214:
A Comparative Approach
Matthew Salisbury (Worcester): The medieval liturgical Use of York
Sarah Tullis (Wolfson): Glanvill after
Glanvill
Hester Schadee (Somerville), Julius Caesar in
the Italian renaissance
Peter Turner (Worcester), Exile and its
literature in late antiquity
Harry Southcott (Christ Church), County Society and the Administration of the Law in
late fourteenth- and early fifteenthcentury Herefordshire
Tiago Viula de Faria (St John’s): The establishment of Lancaster and Avis:
kingship, chivalry, and politics between Portugal and England
Erik Spindler (Oriel): Marginals and migrants in late medieval Bruges and London
Patrick Wadden (Exeter): Irish perceptions of foreigners during the Middle
Ages
Robert Shaw (Oriel): The Celestine monastery of Paris, 1352–1450
Hannah Wheeler (Wadham), Popular violence in late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century France
Jesse Simon (Exeter), Images of the built
landscape in the later Roman Empire
Lilly Stammler (Corpus Christi), Attitudes
towards place and space in medieval Bulgarian hagiography (tenth to fourteenth
centuries)
Seth Wilson (Trinity): Early Germanic
cultural influences on church and
kingship
Katharine Sykes (Brasenose): The origins of
the role of Master of the order of Sempringham, c.1130–c.1230
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Byzantine Studies
Halil Dalanay (Exeter): Byzantine archaeology
William Danny (Corpus Christi), Eleventh-century provincial history
Simon Davies (Lincoln), Animal sculpture
in medieval Constantinople
Saskia Dirkse (Brasenose): Byzantine literature
Benjamin Drury (Worcester): Byzantine
history
Jennifer Fry (Worcester), Byzantine art
Milena Grabacic (Exeter): Byzantine archaeology
Maja Kominko (Exeter): Illustration of the
Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes
Serafima Krasnopolskaya (Exeter): Narrative cycles of native saints in Russian art
Irina Kukota (Wolfson): Descent of Christ
into Sheol in early Syriac literature
Katherine LaFrance (Exeter), The Dionysiaka of Nonnus
Rebecca McGann (Exeter), The Ascension
in late antique and early Byzantine art
Philippa Malas (Wolfson): Byzantine art
history
Anthousa Papagiannaki (Keble), Byzantine ivory caskets with secular decoration
Theodore Papaioannou (University College): Transport amphorae in western
Asia Minor, sixth to eleventh centuries
Prerona Prasad (St Peter’s), Byzantine
history
Lori Frey Ribeiro (Keble): The mendicant
orders in Frankish Greece
Meredith Riedel (Exeter). Byzantine attitudes to warfare in the ninth and tenth
centuries
Natalija Ristovska (Exeter): Trade in luxury goods in Byzantium, Russian and
the Islamic worlds, ninth to twelfth
centuries
Thomas Robinson (University College):
Byzantine history
Roderick Saxey (University College): Byzantine literature
Dimittrios Skrekas (Merton), The iambic
canons of John of Damascus
Peter Schadler (University), Byzantine
view on Islam (8th and 14th centuries)
Yvonne Stolz (St John’s), Byzantine jewellery excavated at Canopus near Alexandria
Tenny Thomas (Wolfson): Eastern Christian Studies
Philip Wood (St John’s), Studies in Syriac
religious traditions
Medieval Music
Alexandra Buckle (Magdalen): Music in
Late Medieval Warwick
Dana Marsh (Queen’s): Music, Church,
and Henry VIII’s Reformation
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Yael Sela (St Hugh’s): Virginal Music in
Early Modern England
Fiona Shand (Magdalen): Sacred Polyphony in Lyon, c.1450–c.1550: proscription, composition, and adaptation
Medieval French
Caitlin Hartigan (Queen’s): manuscripts
and printed editions of the Roman de
la rose
Eliza Hoyer-Millar (Lincoln): Classical
and contemporary allusion in the
lais and fables of Marie de France
Fleur Willson (Merton): Early medieval theatre
Medieval Celtic
Hannah Means (Jesus): Perceptions of the
British heroic age in the work of the
Gogynfe irdd
Medieval German
Jan Alessandrini (St Edmund Hall), Didacticism in Wolfram and Thomasin
Undine Bruckner (St Edmund Hall), Dorothea von Hof’s ‘Buch der tugenden’
Johanna Kershaw (Oriel), Hagiography
in Mechthild von Magdeburg
Alastair Matthews (Somerville), Narratology in the ‘Kaiserchronik’
Siân Renwick (Queen’s): Dietrichepik
If you wish to have further information, including preparatory
handouts, for the graduate seminars listed in this booklet,
please consult the name of the convenor of the seminar
(where given) or the appropriate Faculty.
The booklet does not claim to be comprehensive.
It only includes such entries as were submitted.
Please send any entries for next term’s booklet to
Stephanie Jenkins <stephanie.jenkins@history.ox.ac.uk>
at the Faculty of History, George Street