Institute of Historical Research
Venue: Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House unless otherwise stated
Time: Wednesday, 5.30pm

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

Programme :

7 October
A View of Possession and Ownership in Old English Culture and Law
Paul Hyams (Cornell)
Venue: Gordon Room G34, Ground floor, South block, Senate House

14 October
Cultural Contacts and Debates about Ethnic Origins in Northern Britain: the Evidence of Historia Brittonum and Lebor Bretnach
Nick Evans (Hull)
Venue: Gordon Room G34, Ground floor, South block, Senate House

21 October
Recent discoveries at Rendlesham: the archaeology and contexts of a 7th- century East Anglian royal settlement
Chris Scull (UCL)
Sir David Wilson Lecture, at the Institute of Archaeology, jointly sponsored with the Earlier Medieval Seminar, IHR.
Venue: Room G6, UCL Institute of Archaeology at 18:00
Followed by a launch party for the seminar series

28 October
Baptism in Anglo-Saxon world
Carolyn Twomley, BC (IHR Mellon Fellow)

4 November
Rethinking Visigothic Spain
Santiago Castellanos (Leon)

11 November
St Alban: Britain’s Lost Martyr. Romano-British, Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon devotion, c.400-800
Mark Laynesmith (SAS)
Venue: Torrington Room 104, 1st floor, Senate House, South block

18 November
Peace, Violence, and Christian Empire: The Salian Campaigns in Hungary
Erik Niblaeus (Durham)
Venue: Torrington Room 104, 1st floor, South block, Senate House

25 November
Senate House Founders day, no seminar

2 December
Polemic against the Jews and the liturgy in early medieval Iberia
Kati Ihnhat (Bristol)

9 December
No seminar

Source : Institute of Historical Research