In our monthly seminars, lectures by invited experts are combined with presentations by PhD students or post-docs about their research.

The informal discussions with the interdisciplinary public broaden the subject and approach it from different angles. The topics of the lecture and the paper are placed in a wider methodological or theoretical framework.

The Medieval Seminar Series is accredited by the Doctoral School as Specialist Course, so PhD students can include the seminars in their doctoral training programme. The seminars are also open to our partners and the public.

Programme :

Monday 22/09/2014: Opening lecture
Prof. Jan M. Ziolkowski, Harvard university: The Romantic Range of Romanness (5-6 pm, Jozef Plateauzaal, Jozefplateaustraat 22)
Reception: from 6 pm, Dhondtzaal, DHondt zaal, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35 (UFO), 2nd floor

All other seminars take place 4-6 pm in the Jozef Plateauzaal, Jozef Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Gent:

14/10/2014
Prof. David Crouch, University of Hull: Conduct Literature in the Twelfth Century: A problematical genre in changing times
Xavier Baecke, Ghent University: The Sacralisation of Knighthood. A study of religious knightly identity in the Southern Low Countries during the High Middle Ages

18/11/2014
Prof. Samuel Cohn, University of Glasgow: Popular Revolt in Europe, ca 1300-1750: Crossing the late Medieval/Early Modern Divide
Ewoud Waerniers, Ghent University: Perceptie en performance van stedelijke identiteit in de volle middeleeuwen / Perception and performance of social identity in the nascent urban societies of the High Middle Ages

16/12/2014
Prof. Robin Fleming, Boston College: Five Communities of Roman Pot and Glass recyclers in Early Post-Roman Britain
Frederica Van Dam, Ghent University: Flemish migrant artists in England between 1560 and 1620

20/01/2015
Dr. Erik Kwakkel, Leiden University: The Art and Science of Dating Medieval Script: The Case of the Long Twelfth Century
Tineke Van Gassen, Ghent University: The archive of the city: the social memory of late medieval Ghent

17/02/2015
Dr. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenshaften: Calculating the Middle Ages? Proxies, networks, equations and other quantitative approaches towards medieval history in a comparative perspective
Emerance Delancenserie, Ghent University: The reception of « The ecclesiastical history » of Socrates in the Early Byzantine historiography

17/03/2015
Dr. Fiona Griffiths, New York University: “Brotherly husbands” and “sister wives”: Remaking marriage in medieval religious life
Sofie Vanherpen, Ghent University: Tracing the textual trails of Auðr/Unnr djúp(a)uðga

21/04/2015
Dr. Alexander Andree, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto: Biblical Commentaries from the School of Laon in the Twelfth Century
Ine Kiekens, Ghent University: Vanden twaelf dogheden in changing contexts: different spiritual trends in late-medieval thinking

19/05/2015
Dr. Alex Novikoff, Fordham University: The Ars Disputandi and the “Art” of Disputation
General Meeting and presentations new PhD students

16/06/2015
Dr. Marie Bouhaïk-Gironès, Université Paris-Sorbonne: Pour une histoire sociale du théâtre (15e-16e s.)
Marta Bigus, Ghent University: The Ten Commandments in late-medieval Low Countries

Informations pratiques :
All seminars take place in the Jozef Plateauzaal, Jozef Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Gent, 4-6 pm Exceptionally, the first seminar will be on a Monday, 5-6 pm, followed by a reception

Informations pratiques : Henri Pirenne Institue for Medieval Studies