Thursday 26 March: Professor Ian Campbell (University of Edinburgh): ‘The Scottish Romanesque Revival Revisited – Again’
Scottish History Seminar
Semester 2, 2019-20
Thursdays, 5:15pm, David Hume Tower, room LG.10
Monday 6 Apr
6.15pm, Room LG.06 in David Hume Tower, George Square.
Michael Hammet (Columbia University): “Cleave to the Mediator”: Augustine and Medieval demonological reception of classical transformation narratives.
Monday 30 Mar
6.15pm, Room LG.06 in David Hume Tower, George Square.
John Colley (Oxford University): "[N]oyous for to carye”: Chaucer’s “Ebrayk Josephus” and "The House of Fame"'
Monday 16 Mar
6.15pm, Room LG.06 in David Hume Tower, George Square.
Giuseppe Colonna (University of Italian Switzerland, Lugano): Simplicius on the category of “When”: A Late-Antique account on being on time.
[Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society]
Monday 9 Mar
6.15pm, Room LG.06 in David Hume Tower, George Square.
Roberta Marangi (University of St Andrews): A masculine ending: Decapitation and the Story of Chiomara in Plutarch’s "Moralia" and Christine de Pizan’s "Le Livre de la Cite des Dames"'.
(Trigger Warning: rape and violence)
Monday 2 Mar
6.15pm, Room LG.06 in David Hume Tower, George Square.
Andrew Levie (University of Edinburgh): Theseus, Thebes and chivalry: Geoffrey Chuacer’s intertextual skills in undermining a portrait of knightly rulership within “The Knight’s Tale”; Mark Marchenko (University of Edinburgh): Sir Thomas Malory’s “La Morte Darthur” as Aristotelian tragedy.
Monday 24 Feb
6.15pm, Room LG.06 in David Hume Tower, George Square.
Ethan Schmidt (University of Edinburgh): Ancient statues in New Rome.
Monday 17 Feb
6.15pm, Room LG.10 in David Hume Tower, George Square.
Eilis Coughlin (Independent Scholar): The Cassinese 132 manuscript: Analyses on the representations of pagan gods in the Middle Ages.
Monday 10 Feb
6.15pm, Room LG.06 in David Hume Tower, George Square.
Michael Micci (University of Iceland): Building narratives through the visions of the past in Late-Medieval Iceland.
Monday 3 Feb
6.15pm, Room LG.06 in David Hume Tower, George Square.
Samuel Azzopardi (University of Edinburgh): Social nobility and dower in Late Antique Roman Law.