Convenors: Stephen Baxter, Julia Crick, David Ganz, Caroline Goodson, Peter Heather, Hugh Kennedy, Alice Rio, Antonio Sennis, Alice Taylor, Jinty Nelson, Dionysios Stathakopoulos, Alan Thacker.

For enquiries relating to this seminar please contact Caroline Goodson: c.goodson@bbk.ac.uk

Venue: Wolfson Room II, in the basement, unless otherwise indicated in the programme

Time: Wednesday, 5.30pm

Programme (Autumn Term 2014) :

15 October
Sir David Wilson Lecture, jointly sponsored with the UCL Institute of Archaeology/British Museum medieval seminar
The Space Between: The ‘undead’ Roman Empire and the aesthetics of Salin’s Style I
Professor Guy Halsall (York)

Please note: this session will take place at 18:15 in lecture theatre G6, in the Institute of Archaeology, Gordon Square. It will be followed by a wine reception in room 609 (Institute of Archaeology Staff Common Room)

22 October
Bede’s Temple as History
Conor Obrien (Sheffield)

29 October
Sacral Kingship and Its Discontents in Sixth- and Seventh-century Byzantium
Philip Booth (Oxford)

5 November
No seminar

12 November
Daniel O’Connell, the Irish Question and the early Irish Church
Ian Wood (Leeds)

19 November
The Stellinga, the Saxon elite, and Carolingian politics
Ingrid Rembold (Cambridge)

26 November
Investigating the chest burial rite in northern England c. A.D.650-900: an archaeological, osteological and historical approach
Elizabeth Craig-Atkins (Sheffield)

3 December
The afterlife of the ‘old law’: rethinking pre-Gratian texts’ roles in later-twelfth-century canonical collections
Danica Summerlin (UCL)

10 December
Negotiated power in northern Eurasia, c. 7th to 10th centuries
Naomi Standen (Birmingham)

Source de l’information : Insitute for Historical Research