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Past Events 2010-2011

La Zisa/Gloriette: Elite Residences in Sicily, England, and France at the End of the 13th Century
Date:	Tuesday, 12 October 2010, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series Speaker: Sharon Farmer, Professor of History, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara Location: Council Chamber, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. For further details, contact Axel Müller, phone 0113 343 3614, or email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

The Continental Connections of the Anglo-Saxon Courts from Aethelbert to Offa
Date:	Wednesday, 20 October 2010, 17.00
Details:
School of History Medieval & Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Ian N. Wood, School of History, University of Leeds Location: Michael Sadler Building, room 340. For further details, contact Graham Loud, G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/events/Medieval.htm

IMS Field Trip to Repton/Brixworth & Brixworth Lecture
Date:	Saturday, 30 October 2010, 11.30-20.30
Details:
IMS Field Trip Trip to Repton, Derbyshire, with its Anglo-Saxon church, royal mausoleum and evidence for a Viking defensive site and mass burial; and to the major early Anglo-Saxon church at Brixworth, Northamptonshire, where Dr Julia Barrow's Brixworth Lecture, ‘Who served the altar at Brixworth? Clergy in English minsters c.800-c.1100' will take place. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

The Seventeenth Annual Medieval Research Afternoon
Date:	Wednesday, 3 November 2010, 15.00-17.30
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Event The Research Afternoon will be held in the Le Patourel room, Parkinson, 4.06. The programme can be downloaded by clicking here. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Medieval Chester and North Wales: Border and Identity
Date:	Tuesday, 9 November 2010, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series Speaker: Helen Fulton, Professor of Medieval Literature, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. For further details, contact Axel Müller, phone 0113 343 3614, or email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Straight from the Horse's Mouth: Local Information from Eastern Europe in Medieval English Sources
Date:	Monday, 15 November 2010, 17.00
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Meeting Speaker: Zsuzsanna Reed Papp, Institute for Medieval Studies and Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds Location: The Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 406). Tea at 17.00. Presentations begin at 17.30. Everyone is welcome. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Nationality, Language, and Internal Conflict in the Armies of the First Crusade
Date:	Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 17.00
Details:
School of History Medieval & Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Alan V. Murray, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: Michael Sadler Building, room 340. For further details, contact Graham Loud, G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/events/Medieval.htm

'Ephrem: a Jewish sage: a comparison of the Exegetical writings of St Ephrem the Syrian and Jewish traditions'
Date:	Thursday, 18 November 2010, 19.15
Details:
Leeds Trinity University College Eastern Christian Studies Seminar Speaker: Dr Elena Narinskaya, Kellog College, Oxford Location: Leeds Trinity University College. For further details, contact Hannah Hunt (h.hunt@leedstrinity.ac.uk) or Kirsteen Kim (k.kim@leedstrinity.ac.uk).

CANCELLED DUE TO BAD WEATHER After Alfred: The Vernacular English Chronicles in the 10th and 11th Centuries
Date:	Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 17.00
Details:
School of History Medieval & Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Pauline Stafford, School of History, University of Liverpool / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: Michael Sadler Building, room 340. For further details, contact Graham Loud, G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/events/Medieval.htm

CANCELLED DUE TO BAD WEATHER

After Alfred: The Vernacular English Chronicles in the 10th and 11th Centuries

Date:

Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 17.00

Details:

School of History Medieval & Renaissance Seminar
Speaker: Pauline Stafford, School of History, University of Liverpool / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Location: Michael Sadler Building, room 340. For further details, contact Graham Loud, G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/events/Medieval.htm

Interpreting Battlefield Finds: Making the Most of Museums
Date:	Saturday, 4 December 2010
Details:
Study Day This interactive study day will examine the process of interpreting pieces recovered from battlefield sites and especially how to tap in to the wealth of expert knowledge in the field of the study of arms and armour. It will highlight the range of assistance that museum curators and arms and armour specialists can offer archaeologists, military historians and indeed anyone who has an interest in interpreting material discovered through battlefield excavations. Archaeologists and historians eminent in the field of the study of battlefields and related sites will discuss aspects of the role which can be played by museum collections and staff in helping interpret objects recovered from them. They will tackle a wide variety of fascinating topics covering the period from the Norman Conquest to World War One and sites including the battles of Fulford (1066) and Towton (1461), an Elizabethan wreck off Alderney and The Somme. The conference will also offer a unique opportunity to examine and discuss battlefield related pieces from the Royal Armouries collections. For further details contact Jon Copley, email jon.copley@armouries.org.uk; http://www.royalarmouries.org/events/events-at-leeds/calendar/2010-12-04/interpreting-battlefield-finds-making-the-most-of-museums

A Durham Monk Prepares to Preach: Thomas Swalwell's Marginal Notes
Date:	Monday, 6 December 2010, 17.00
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Meeting Speaker: Anne Thayer, Lancaster Theological Seminary (Lancaster, PA). Location: The Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 406). Tea at 17.00. Presentations begin at 17.30. Everyone is welcome. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Rewriting History: Royal Conspiracies in Later Medieval England
Date:	Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series Speaker: Ian Mortimer, Historian and Author Location: Council Chamber, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. For further details, contact Axel Müller, phone 0113 343 3614, or email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

CANCELLED - to be rescheduled next semester: Research Opportunities in the Archives of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society
Date:	Wednesday, 8 December 2010, 17.30
Details:
IMS Medieval Group - Special Event Speaker: Robert Frost, Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Location: Meet at the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 23 Clarendon Road, LEEDS LS2 9NZ. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Byzantine Heresies and the Papacy: The Doctrinal See-Saw of the 7th Century and the Frescoes in S Maria Antique in the Roman Forum
Date:	Thursday, 9 December 2010, 19.15
Details:
Leeds Trinity University College Eastern Christian Studies Seminar Speaker: Dr Eileen Rubery, Girton College, University of Cambridge Location: Leeds Trinity University College. For further details, contact Hannah Hunt (h.hunt@leedstrinity.ac.uk) or Kirsteen Kim (k.kim@leedstrinity.ac.uk).

What Has the Postcolonial Got to Do with the Medieval?
Date:	Monday, 24 January 2011, 17.00
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Meeting Speaker: Eva Frojmovic, School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds Location: The Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 406). Tea at 17.00. Presentations begin at 17.30. Everyone is welcome. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk

The Liber Pontificalis, Old St Peter's, and the Politics of Papal Burials in the Early Middle Ages
Date:	Tuesday, 1 February 2011, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series Speaker: Rosamond McKitterick, Professor of Medieval History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. For further details, contact Axel Müller, phone 0113 343 3614, or email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Our Arthurian Imagination: Medieval and Medievalism in Film and Television
Date:	Saturday, 5 February 2011, 15.00
Details:
Speaker: Paul Sturtevant, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. For further details, contact the gallery, gallery@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/gallery/events.htm

Women and Land in Early Modern England
Date:	Tuesday, 8 February 2011, 17.15
Details:
Leeds Interdisciplinary Renaissance & Early Modern Seminar Speaker: Amanda Capern, Department of History, University of Hull Location: Michael Sadler Building, room 340. For further details, contact Paul Cavill, P.R.Cavill@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/news.htm

After Alfred: The Vernacular English Chronicles in the 10th and 11th Centuries
Date:	Wednesday, 9 February 2011, 17.05
Details:
School of History Medieval & Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Pauline Stafford, School of History, University of Liverpool / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: Michael Sadler Building, room 340. For further details, contact Graham Loud, G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/news.htm

Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Medieval Political Theory
Date:	Monday, 14 February 2011, 17.00
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Meeting Speaker: S. H. Rigby, School of Arts, Histories & Cultures, University of Manchester Location: The Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 406). Tea at 17.00. Presentations begin at 17.30. Everyone is welcome. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Anglo-Saxon Monasteries as Sacred Places: Topography, Exegesis and Vocation
Date:	Wednesday, 23 February 2011, 17.05
Details:
School of History Medieval & Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Tom Pickles, Department of History, University of York Location: Michael Sadler Building, room 340. For further details, contact Graham Loud, G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/news.htm

Gregory of Tours and the Women in his Works: A Summary of Research / Acre: Holy Land Pilgrimage outside the Holy Land
Date:	Monday, 7 March 2011, 17.00
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Meeting Speakers: Erin Daley, School of History, University of Leeds / Liz Mylod, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: The Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 406). Tea at 17.00. Presentations begin at 17.30. Everyone is welcome. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Imagined Encounters in the Renaissance with Netherlandish Art
Date:	Tuesday, 15 March 2011, 17.15
Details:
Leeds Interdisciplinary Renaissance & Early Modern Seminar Speaker: Jeanne Nuechterlein, Department of History of Art, University of York Location: Michael Sadler Building, room 340. For further details, contact Paul Cavill, P.R.Cavill@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/news.htm

Changing Habits: Monastic transitus and Religious Competition in Medieval England
Date:	Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 17.05
Details:
School of History Medieval & Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Jochen Schenk, German Historical Institute, London Location: Michael Sadler Building, room 340. For further details, contact Graham Loud, G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/news.htm

From Master Chef to Pudding Wife: Cultures of Cooking in Late Medieval England
Date:	Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series / Wellcome Project: 'You Are What You Ate' Speaker: Chris Woolgar, Head of Special Collections and Professor of History, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. For further details, contact Axel Müller, phone 0113 343 3614, or email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Homilies as Sacred Performance
Date:	Thursday, 24 March 2011, 19.15
Details:
Leeds Trinity University College Eastern Christian Studies Seminar Speaker: Niki Tsironi, Institute for Byzantine Research, Athens Location: Leeds Trinity University College. For further details, contact Hannah Hunt (h.hunt@leedstrinity.ac.uk) or Kirsteen Kim (k.kim@leedstrinity.ac.uk).

Officers or Warlords: Changing Power Relations at the End of the Roman Period in Northern England
Date:	Monday, 28 March 2011, 17.00
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Meeting Speaker: Richard Jones, Department of Classics, University of Leeds Location: The Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 406). Tea at 17.00. Presentations begin at 17.30. Everyone is welcome. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Warfare in the Mediterranean Region in the Age of the Crusades, 1095-1291: A Clash of Contrasts
Date:	Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series Speaker: John France, Professor of History, Department of History and Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict, Power, Empire, Swansea University Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. For further details, contact Axel Müller, phone 0113 343 3614, or email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Sugar and Sweets in Tudor Times
Date:	Thursday, 7 April 2011, 18.30
Details:
Wellcome Project: 'You Are What You Ate' Speaker: Peter Brears, Food historian and former Director of Leeds City Museums Location: Leeds City Museum, Thoresby Room. For further details, contact Fiona Blair, phone 0113 343 1390, or email youarewhatyouate@leeds.ac.uk.

Restructuring Urban Identity in England : The Appropriation of Guild Buildings by Civic Corporations
Date:	Tuesday, 3 May 2011, 17.15
Details:
Leeds Interdisciplinary Renaissance & Early Modern Seminar Speaker: Kate Giles, Department of Archaeology, University of York Location: Michael Sadler Building, room 340. For further details, contact Paul Cavill, P.R.Cavill@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/news.htm

From Charter to Saga: The Vikings in Iberia
Date:	Wednesday, 11 May 2011, 17.05
Details:
School of History Medieval & Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Ann R. Christys, University of Leeds Location: Michael Sadler Building, room 340. For further details, contact Graham Loud, G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/news.htm

Tunics of Skin, Garments of Light: Some Insights into Gregory of Nyssa's Theology of the Body of Christ
Date:	Thursday, 12 May 2011, 19.15
Details:
Leeds Trinity University College Eastern Christian Studies Seminar Speaker: Robin Orton, King's College London Location: Leeds Trinity University College. For further details, contact Hannah Hunt (h.hunt@leedstrinity.ac.uk) or Kirsteen Kim (k.kim@leedstrinity.ac.uk).

Quintilian in the Classroom: Pedagogical Theory and Practice in Late Medieval France
Date:	Wednesday, 1 June 2011, 17.05
Details:
School of History Medieval & Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Sarah B. Lynch, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: Michael Sadler Building, room 340. For further details, contact Graham Loud, G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/news.htm

Medieval Group Excursion: Restoration and Research at York Minster
Date:	Friday, 3 June 2011, 09.00
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Meeting Speakers: Sarah Brown, Kate Giles, and Alex Holton, University of York Location: An opportunity to see and discuss the restoration and new interpretations of the Minster's East Front. The excursion includes a morning visit to the Bedern Glaziers' Studio and an afternoon visit to the Stoneyard and up the scaffolding of the East Front. Cost: £12.50 (Students: £11.50). Space is limited, so please contact William Flynn, w.flynn@leeds.ac.uk , (0113 343-3273) by Tuesday 29 March, 2011 to reserve places, to arrange payment, and to receive further details.

July 2011

International Medieval Congress 2011

International Medieval Congress 2011 - Special Thematic Strand: Poor . . . Rich
Date:	Monday, 11 July - Thursday, 14 July 2011
Details:
Organised by the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. The Congress also hosts a series of events which are open to the general public. For further information please click here or contact the IMC at imc@leeds.ac.uk.

Past Events 2009-2010

Postcolonizing the Medieval Image - Postgraduate Study Day in Leeds
Date:	17 September 2009
Details:
Short papers and presentations are invited from MA and Ph.D. students working on projects that link the postcolonial with medieval images. The study day will be open to art historians, historians, literary scholars and anyone else interested in the visual. The keynote lecture will be followed by workshops for MA and PhD students on topics such as periodization and temporality, geographies, borders and border crossing, translation subversion and appropriation, especially as they apply to visual culture. Participation will not be limited to medievalists. A limited number of student bursaries for both UK and international students will be available. For further information please contact Dr. Eva Frojmovic (e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk) or Professor Catherine Karkov (c.e.karkov@leeds.ac.uk), School of Fine Art, University of Leeds.

IMS Day Trip: Bosworth (1485)
Date:	Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Details:
For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

IMS Day Trip: Lincoln Cathedral
Date:	Tuesday, 2 October 2009
Details:
For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Leverhulme Lecture: 'Science' of Medieval War: Firepower and Military Technology, c. 1400-1600
Date:	Wednesday, 7 October 2009, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series - Leverhulme Lecture Speaker: Steven A. Walton, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds and Science, Technology & Society Program, Pennsylvania State University Location: Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Discovering Dante: An Evening of Poetry, Music and Art
Date:	Wednesday 7 October 2009, 19.30
Details:
'Discovering Dante' Public Lecture Series, Department of Italian, University of Leeds With performances of works by composers including Palestrina, Monteverdi and Victoria, by members of the Choir of the Leeds Cathedral, surtitled readings of Dante's poetry, and lavish illustrations, this evening brings Dante's Commedia to life. There will be a small charge for attendance at this event. Location: The Howard Assembly, Leeds Grand Theatre. For more information about these lectures, please contact Matthew Treherne (m.treherne@leeds.ac.uk).

Oriental Odin: Appropriations of the East
Date:	Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 17.15
Details:
School of English Medieval Research Seminars Speaker: Robert Jensen-Rix, University of Copenhagen Location: Douglas Jefferson Room, University of Leeds. For more information about these lectures, please contact Alaric Hall, a.t.p.hall@leeds.ac.uk

Public Lecture (i): Introduction to Dante
Date:	Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 18.00-19.00
Details:
'Discovering Dante' Public Lecture Series, Department of Italian, University of Leeds Speakers: Claire Honess and Matthew Treherne, University of Leeds Location: Conference Auditorium, University of Leeds. For more information about these lectures, please contact Matthew Treherne (m.treherne@leeds.ac.uk).

Medieval Global History: Time and Space on Mappae Mundi
Date:	Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series Speaker: Felicitas Schmieder, Professor of History, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen Location: Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

IMS Day Trip: Towton (1461) and Marston Moor (1644)
Date:	Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Details:
For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Public Lecture (ii): Duccio and the Flowering of Sienese Art
Date:	Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 18.00-19.00
Details:
'Discovering Dante' Public Lecture Series, Department of Italian, University of Leeds Speaker: Matthew Treherne, University of Leeds Location: Conference Auditorium, University of Leeds. For more information about these lectures, please contact Matthew Treherne (m.treherne@leeds.ac.uk).

Icons, Sacred Images and Prayer, East and West
Date:	Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 19.00
Details:
Eastern Christian Studies Seminar: "Theology as Spirituality: Living Christianity, East & West" Speaker: Stephen Platt, St Alban & St Sergius, Oxford. Location: All talks are free and open to the public. Sessions begin with 19.00 drinks for 19.30 p.m. lecture, and take place at Leeds Trinity University College, Brownberrie Lane, Horsforth, Leeds LS18 5HD. For further details, contact S. Simpson on s.simpson@leedstrinity.ac.uk, or 0113 283 7126.

Bad Air and Healing Saints: responding to plague in the Early Portuguese Empire (the island of Madeira c.1470-c.1540)
Date:	Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 17.15
Details:
Interdisciplinary Renaissance and Early Modern Seminar Speaker: Iona McCleery, School of History, University of Leeds Location: Room 3.40, School of History (3rd floor, Michael Sadler building). For further details, contact Alex Bamji (a.bamji@leeds.ac.uk)

Medieval Research Afternoon
Date:	Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 15.00-17.00
Details:
You are warmly invited to attend this event, which consists of short presentations by scholars and research students on current projects and pursuits. This is an excellent opportunity to meet other medievalists, share your own findings and keep well informed of developments in a wide range of medieval disciplines, learn about Medieval Group's activities for 2009-10, and consider joining the Group's Steering Committee. The schedule for the Research Afternoon is now available as a downloadable pdf. Location: Parkinson 4.06, University of Leeds. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Public Lecture (iii): Giotto di Bondone and Florentine Narrative Painting
Date:	Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 18.00-19.00
Details:
'Discovering Dante' Public Lecture Series, Department of Italian, University of Leeds Speaker: Matthew Treherne, University of Leeds Location: Conference Auditorium, University of Leeds. For more information about these lectures, please contact Matthew Treherne (m.treherne@leeds.ac.uk).

The Queen's Touch: Sanctity and Healing in a Medieval Portuguese Cult
Date:	Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 17.15
Details:
School of History: Medieval and Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Dr. Iona McCleery, School of History, University of Leeds. Location: History Staff Common Room, School of History, Michael Sadler Arts Building, Room 330. For more information about these lectures, please contact Graham Loud (G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk).

Public Lecture (iv): Dante and the Vision of Paradise
Date:	Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 18.00-19.00
Details:
'Discovering Dante' Public Lecture Series, Department of Italian, University of Leeds Speakers: TBC Location: Conference Auditorium, University of Leeds. For more information about these lectures, please contact Matthew Treherne (m.treherne@leeds.ac.uk).

Living Repentance and the Desert Tradition
Date:	Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 19.00
Details:
Eastern Christian Studies Seminar: "Theology as Spirituality: Living Christianity, East & West" Speaker: Alexis Torrance, Christ Church, University of Oxford. Location: All talks are free and open to the public. Sessions begin with 7.00 p.m. drinks for 7.30 p.m. lecture, and take place at Leeds Trinity University College, Brownberrie Lane, Horsforth, Leeds LS18 5HD. For further details, contact S. Simpson on s.simpson@leedstrinity.ac.uk, or 0113 283 7126.

Square Harp or Psalterium Quadratum? Depictions of rectangular stringed instruments in 9th-century Ireland
Date:	Monday, 9 November 2009, 17.00
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Events Speaker: Alice Margerum, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). The meeting opens with tea at 17.00 and presentations begin at 17.30 . For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

IMS Day Trip: Siege Sites
Date:	Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Details:
For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Franciscan Inquisitors and Franciscan Heretics in Medieval Greece
Date:	Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 17.15
Details:
School of History: Medieval and Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Dr. Nicky Tsougarakis, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. Location: History Staff Common Room, School of History, Michael Sadler Arts Building, Room 330. For more information about these lectures, please contact Graham Loud (G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk).

Hearing and Image in Christianity
Date:	Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 19.00
Details:
Eastern Christian Studies Seminar: "Theology as Spirituality: Living Christianity, East & West" Speaker: Carol Harrison, University of Durham. Location: All talks are free and open to the public. Sessions begin with 7.00 p.m. drinks for 7.30 p.m. lecture, and take place at Leeds Trinity University College, Brownberrie Lane, Horsforth, Leeds LS18 5HD. For further details, contact S. Simpson on s.simpson@leedstrinity.ac.uk, or 0113 283 7126.

Discovering Dante: Workshop on the Comedy in print
Date:	Saturday, 21 November 2009, 10.30-12.00
Details:
'Discovering Dante' Public Lecture Series, Department of Italian, University of Leeds Speaker: Prof. Brian Richardson (University of Leeds) Location: Brotherton Library, University of Leeds. Please register for this event by emailing Matthew Treherne at m.treherne@leeds.ac.uk.

The Conquest of the Northern Danelaw in the Light of the Vale of York Hoard
Date:	Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series Speaker: Gareth Williams, Curator of Early Medieval Coinage, Department of Coins & Medals, The British Museum, London Location: Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

IMS Day Trip: Rievaulx and Mount Grace
Date:	Friday, 27 November 2009
Details:
For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Clinging to Heaven: Mount Athos & the Heights of Spirituality
Date:	Wednesday, 2 December 2009, 19.00
Details:
Eastern Christian Studies Seminar: "Theology as Spirituality: Living Christianity, East & West" Speaker: M.C. Steenberg, Leeds Trinity University College Location: All talks are free and open to the public. Sessions begin with 7.00 p.m. drinks for 7.30 p.m. lecture, and take place at Leeds Trinity University College, Brownberrie Lane, Horsforth, Leeds LS18 5HD. For further details, contact S. Simpson on s.simpson@leedstrinity.ac.uk, or 0113 283 7126.

IMS Day Trip: Southwell Minster
Date:	Friday, 4 December 2009
Details:
For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Material culture and hagiography
Date:	Monday, 7 December 2009, 17.00
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Events Speaker: Steven A. Walton, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds and Science, Technology & Society Program, Pennsylvania State University. Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). The meeting opens with tea at 17.00 and presentations begin at 17.30. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

The Cistercians and the Nobility in Croatia during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Date:	Wednesday, 9 December 2009, 17.15
Details:
School of History: Medieval and Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Hrvoje Kekez, Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb Location: History Staff Common Room, School of History, Michael Sadler Arts Building, Room 330. For more information about these lectures, please contact Graham Loud G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk).

IMS Day Trip: Gawain's Journey
Date:	Friday, 1 January 2010
Details:
This will re-trace on foot Gawain's journey to the Green Chapel through the Staffordshire's moorlands on New Year's Day. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

The Modern Origins of the Middle Ages
Date:	Monday, 25 January 2010, 17.00
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Events Speaker: Ian Wood, School of History, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). The meeting opens with tea at 17.00 and presentations begin at 17.30. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Non-Canonical Gospels and Other Apocryphal Texts, East and West
Date:	Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 19.00
Details:
Eastern Christian Studies Seminar: "Theology as Spirituality: Living Christianity, East & West" Speaker: Paul Foster, University of Edinburgh Location: All talks are free and open to the public. Sessions begin with 7.00 p.m. drinks for 7.30 p.m. lecture, and take place at Leeds Trinity University College, Brownberrie Lane, Horsforth, Leeds LS18 5HD. For further details, contact S. Simpson on s.simpson@leedstrinity.ac.uk, or 0113 283 7126.

Power, Polity and the Hospital in England, 1180-1260
Date:	Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 17.15
Details:
School of History: Medieval and Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Dr. Sethina Watson, Department of History / Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York Location: School of History, Michael Sadler Arts Building, Room 340. For more information about these lectures, please contact Emilia Jamroziak (e.m.jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk).

Bernardus Silvestris and the Medieval Art of Declamation
Date:	Monday, 15 February 2010, 17.00
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Events Speaker: Mark Kauntze, Independent Scholar, Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). The meeting opens with tea at 17.00 and presentations begin at 17.30 . For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Holy Theft: The Relics of St Thomas Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, and Competing Visions of Reform on the Eve of the Great Schism
Date:	Tuesday, 23 February 2010, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series Speaker: Constant Mews, Professor in School of Historical Studies and Director, Centre for Studies in Religion & Theology, Monash University, Victoria Location: Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Hearing Worship: Liturgy and Music
Date:	Wednesday, 24 February 2010, 19.00
Details:
Eastern Christian Studies Seminar: "Theology as Spirituality: Living Christianity, East & West" Speaker: Eugenia Russell, University of London Location: All talks are free and open to the public. Sessions begin with 7.00 p.m. drinks for 7.30 p.m. lecture, and take place at Leeds Trinity University College, Brownberrie Lane, Horsforth, Leeds LS18 5HD. For further details, contact S. Simpson on s.simpson@leedstrinity.ac.uk, or 0113 283 7126.

Medieval Monasticism as Generator and Mediator of Entertainment Games in Pre-Modern Society
Date:	Wednesday, 3 March 2010, 17.15
Details:
School of History: Medieval and Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Dr. Jörg Sonntag, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte, Katholische Universität, Eichstätt Location: School of History, Michael Sadler Arts Building, Room 340. For more information about these lectures, please contact Emilia Jamroziak (e.m.jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk).

Alliteration and rankings of synonyms in Beowulf: on alliteration as a tool to create new senses in epic poetry
Date:	Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 5.15
Details:
Speaker: Ilya Sverdlov, University of Toronto Location: Baines Wing G42. Further information: Alaric Hall, School of English, a.t.p.hall@leeds.ac.uk

Mary the Mother of God: Receptacle of Divinity and Human Mother
Date:	Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 19.00
Details:
Eastern Christian Studies Seminar: 'Theology as Spirituality: Living Christianity, East & West' Speaker: Mary Cunningham Corran, University of Nottingham Location: All talks are free and open to the public. Sessions begin with 7.00 p.m. drinks for 7.30 p.m. lecture, and take place at Leeds Trinity University College, Brownberrie Lane, Horsforth, Leeds LS18 5HD. For further details, contact S. Simpson on s.simpson@leedstrinity.ac.uk, or 0113 283 7126.

Church and State on the Eve of the Reformation: Revisited
Date:	Monday, 15 March 2010, 17.00
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Events Speaker: Paul Cavill, School of History, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). The meeting opens with tea at 17.00 and presentations begin at 17.30 . For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Serfdom Without Strings: Amartya Sen in the Middle Ages
Date:	Thursday, 18 March 2010, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series Speaker: Paul R. Hyams, Professor, Department of History, Cornell University Location: Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

'Un rommant des fais d'un nommé Froissart et un Ovide': Marketing Historical Non-Fiction in 15th-Century Paris
Date:	Tuesday, 20 April 2010, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series Speaker: Godfried Croenen, Senior Lecturer, Department of French, University of Liverpool Location: Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Poverty and Civility in Late Medieval Cities
Date:	Wednesday, 21 April 2010, 17.15
Details:
School of History: Medieval and Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Prof. Martial Staub, Department of History, University of Sheffield Location: School of History, Michael Sadler Arts Building, Room 340. For more information about these lectures, please contact Emilia Jamroziak (e.m.jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk).

Commerce, Combat, and Colonisation: IMS PG Symposium

Date:

Saturday, 24 April 2010, 09.30-17.30

Details:

IMS Post-Graduate Symposium: From Normans and Vikings to the Hanseatic League and the Teutonic Knights, medieval Northern Europe provides numerous examples of peoples, kingdoms, trade organizations, and religious orders interacting by means of exchange, invasion, and settlement to lay the foundations of modern Europe. The IMS postgraduate symposium seeks to be a forum for the discussion of groups such as those mentioned above and others that had an impact on the boundaries, culture, trade, and ideologies of Northern Europe.

Programme:

09.30 Arrival

10.00 Keynote Lecture: Dr Alan V. Murray 'Europe's Final Frontier: Western Encounters with the Peoples of the Baltic Region'

11.00 Break

11.15 Lucy Moore 'Costume and Coinage: A New Approach'
Mark Tizzoni 'The York Tremisses: Origin and Iconography'

12.15 Erin Dailey 'The Vita Gregorii and Being English in the 8th Century'
Sheryl McDonald 'Travel and Geography in Nitida Saga '

13.15 Lunch

14.00 Steve Werronen 'The Leper Hospital of St Mary Magdalene, Ripon: Foundation and Tranformation'
Eleanor Warren 'St Mary and the Holy Angels, York: The Foundation of an Early Chantry Chapel'

15.00 Isabella Bolognese 'The [Once] Virgin Mountain: Montevergine and the Eremitical Colonisation of South Italy'
Katarzyna Grabowska 'Slavonic Armagedon: Destruction of Arkona Temple'

16.00 Break

16.15 Publishing Workshop

17.15 Conclusion

Location: Leed Humanities Research Institute (LHRI), 29-31 Clarendon Place, University of Leeds. Please contact Eleanor Warren for further details (imssymp@leeds.ac.uk). The IMS symposium is funded by the LHRI.

Iacop and Iosep: The Happy Adventures of a Noble Family
Date:	Monday, 26 April 2010, 17.00
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Events Speaker: Cathy Hume, School of English, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). The meeting opens with tea at 17.00 and presentations begin at 17.30. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

A Patchwork of Sources: Eastern Europe in Medieval English Histories
Date:	Wednesday, 5 May 2010, 17.15
Details:
School of History: Medieval and Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Dr. Zsuzsanna Reed Papp, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: School of History, Michael Sadler Arts Building, Room 340. For more information about these lectures, please contact Emilia Jamroziak (e.m.jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk).

Excursion to Royal Armouries and Leeds City Museum
Date:	Saturday, 5 June 2010, 10.00
Details:
Meet at Royal Armouries at 10.00 (bus 28 runs from opposite the University to Clarence Dock; for schedules and route see www.wymetro.com). There will be a handling session and a store tour and also a falconry show at 12.00 for those who wish to stay. The Royal Armouries handling session will cost £3 per person; please bring the fee with you on the day. We will continue to Leeds City Museum, and will meet there at 14.00 for a handling session and visit to the galleries (all free of charge). The excursion will finish around 16.00. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk. If you plan to join the excursion, please email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk by Friday 28 May 2010.

International Medieval Congress 2010

International Medieval Congress 2010 - Special Thematic Strand: Travel and Exploration
Date:	Monday, 12 July - Thursday, 15 July 2010
Details:
Organised by the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. The Congress also hosts a series of events which are open to the general public. For further information please click here or contact the IMC at imc@leeds.ac.uk.

Past Events 2008-2009

Monasteries on the borders of medieval Europe: new perspectives
Date:	11-12 September 2008
Details:
A two-day conference Organiser: Emilia Jamroziak, School of History, University of Leeds Location: School of History, University of Leeds This conference is sponsored by the AHRC ‘Religion and Society' programme grant 'Survival and Success on Medieval Borders' and aims to bring together new research on the frontiers and borders of medieval Europe (1000-1500) focusing specifically on the role of monastic houses in these regions. The frontiers and borders are understood here as political, religious and ethnic boundaries as well as being areas of particularly significant interaction. Possible topics for papers can include: the role of monasteries in political control monastic houses involvement in the Christianization and missionary activities monks as colonizing force the role of monastic houses as repositories of cultural identities in the contested regions monastic houses and frontier violence It is intended that the scope of the conference should be as broad as possible covering all areas of medieval Europe, including internal and external borders. Papers discussing Iberian Peninsula, Mediterranean, Scandinavia and Central/Eastern Europe are particularly encouraged. Different theoretical approaches and models are much encouraged, too. The papers should be 30 minutes in length followed by 15 minutes discussion. There will be no registration fee for participants. It is not possible to pay for all the expenses of the speakers, although accommodation costs (2 nights) will be paid for. The conference is envisaged to generate a collected volume of papers. Further information: Conference Programme and Conference Registration Form.

IMS Day Trip: Beverley Minster (via Howden)
Date:	Friday, 3 October 2008, 09.00-17.30
Details:
Minibus departs Parkinson Steps 09.00 returning 17.30. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

IMS Day Trip: North York Moors including Lastingham and Kirkdale
Date:	Friday, 10 October 2008, 09.00-17.30
Details:
Minibus departs Parkinson Steps 09.00 returning 17.30. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Jelling, the Empire, and the Christianization of Denmark
Date:	Wednesday, 15 October 2008, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series Speaker: Niels Lund, Professor, SAXO-Institute, Københavns Universitet Location: Brotherton Room, Brotherton Library, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

IMS Day Trip: Towton (1461) and Marston Moor (1644)
Date:	Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Details:
For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

IMS Day Trip: Ledsham
Date:	Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 13.30-17.30
Details:
Anglo-Saxon church on the edge of Leeds. Coach departing 13.30 arrive back 17.30. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

'Venetia città nobilissima et singolare': An Introduction to Renaissance Venice
Date:	Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 18.00
Details:
'The Culture of Renaissance Venice' Public Lecture Series, Department of Italian, University of Leeds Speaker: Brian Richardson, Department of Italian, University of Leeds Location: Conference Auditorium, University of Leeds. For more information about these lectures, please contact Matthew Treherne (m.treherne@leeds.ac.uk).

Field Systems through Time: Prehistory to Modern
Date:	Saturday, 25 October 2008, 09.30
Details:
A day-school held by CBA Yorkshire in association with the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds and the Medieval Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. The cost of the day school is £12.50p (incl. drinks). Lunch is not provided. Registration is at 09.30. Location: Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, University of Leeds. For further information please contact Stephen Moorhouse, 01924 475618 or Mike Edwards at Secretary CBA Yorkshire, 12 Smithwell Lane, Heptonstall, HEDBEN BRIDGE, HX7 7NX.

Textual Criticism in Progress: Latin Medieval Texts from Spain
Date:	Monday, 27 October 2008, 17.00
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Medieval Group Speaker: Juan A. Estévez Sola, Universidad de Huelva Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). Tea from 17.00. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

The Language of Colour and Light (I): Titian
Date:	Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 18.00
Details:
'The Culture of Renaissance Venice' Public Lecture Series, Department of Italian, University of Leeds Speaker: Matthew Treherne, Department of Italian, University of Leeds Location: Conference Auditorium, University of Leeds. For more information about these lectures, please contact Matthew Treherne (m.treherne@leeds.ac.uk).

The Language of Colour and Light (ii): Jacopo Tintoretto
Date:	Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 18.00
Details:
'The Culture of Renaissance Venice' Public Lecture Series, Department of Italian, University of Leeds Speaker: Matthew Treherne, Department of Italian, University of Leeds Location: Conference Auditorium, University of Leeds. For more information about these lectures, please contact Matthew Treherne (m.treherne@leeds.ac.uk).

IMS Day Trip: Jarrow and Durham
Date:	Saturday, 8 November 2008, 08.30-20.30
Details:
Coach departs 08.30 and arrives back 20.30. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Swords, Sex & Sin: Manuscript Rubrication, Malory's Morte Darthur and Late Medieval Religion
Date:	Wednesday, 12 November 2008, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series Speaker: Kevin Whetter, Associate Professor, Mediaeval Literature, Department of English, Acadia University, Nova Scotia Location: Brotherton Room, Brotherton Library, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Music and Architecture in Renaissance Venice
Date:	Wednesday, 12 November 2008, 18.00
Details:
'The Culture of Renaissance Venice' Public Lecture Series, Department of Italian, University of Leeds Speaker: Prof. Deborah Howard, University of Cambridge Location: Conference Auditorium, University of Leeds. For more information about these lectures, please contact Matthew Treherne (m.treherne@leeds.ac.uk).

IMS Day Trip: Bosworth (1485) and Edgehill (October 1642) Battlefields
Date:	Thursday, 13 November 2008, 09.00-17.30
Details:
Minibus departs Parkinson Steps 09.00 returning 17.30. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

The Search for Eastern Christian Allies in the Crusader States
Date:	Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 17.15
Details:
Medieval and Renaissance Seminar, School of History, University of Leeds. Speaker: Prof. Bernard Hamilton, Professor Emeritus of Crusader History, University of Nottingham Location: History Staff Common Room, Michael Sadler Arts Building , Room 330. For further details, contact G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk.

Reshaping Cities at the End of the Roman World. The British Case / Gender and Access to Monastic Shrines in 6th-Century Gaul
Date:	Monday, 24 November 2008, 17.00
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Medieval Group Speakers: Meritxell Perez Martinez, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Erin Thomas Dailey, School of History, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). Tea from 17.00. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

The Dim Religious Light: Old Glass in New Settings: A Recusant Gothic Chapel and its Windows
Date:	Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series Speaker: Anna Eavis, Head of NMR Services, National Monuments Record, Swindon Location: Brotherton Room, Brotherton Library, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Why does Freyr have a big penis?
Date:	Monday, 1 December 2008, 17.15
Details:
Medieval English Literature Seminar, School of English, University of Leeds Speaker: Alaric Hall, School of English, University of Leeds Location: Douglas Jefferson Room, School of English, University of Leeds. For further details, contact A.Hiatt@leeds.ac.uk.

Before She Was Queen: Matilda of Flanders as Countess in Normandy
Date:	Wednesday, 3 December 2008, 17.15
Details:
Medieval and Renaissance Seminar, School of History, University of Leeds. Speaker: Charlotte Cartwright, University of Liverpool Location: History Staff Common Room, Michael Sadler Arts Building , Room 330. For further details, contact G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk.

IMS Day Trip: Boroughbridge Battlefield, Mount Grace Priory and Rievaulx Abbey
Date:	Thursday, 11 December 2008
Details:
For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

IMS Day Trip: Gawain's Journey
Date:	Thursday, 1 January 2009
Details:
This will re-trace on foot Gawain's journey to the Green Chapel through the Staffordshire's moorlands on New Year's Day. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Eastern European Saints in English Historiography / Thirteenth-Century Pilgrim Guides
Date:	Monday, 26 January 2009, 17.00
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Medieval Group Speakers: Zsuzsanna Papp, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Liz Mylod, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). Tea from 17.00. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

The 'Crusade' against Frederick II, 1229-30
Date:	Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 17.15
Details:
Medieval and Renaissance Seminar, School of History, University of Leeds. Speaker: Graham A. Loud, Professor of Medieval Italian History, School of History, University of Leeds Location: History Staff Common Room, Michael Sadler Arts Building, Room 330. For further details, contact G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk.

Place-Names, and the Infamous Dearth of Etymologically Celtic Ones in England
Date:	Monday, 23 February 2009, 17.00
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Medieval Group Speaker: Alaric Hall, School of English, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). Tea from 17.00. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Representing Byzantine Society
Date:	Wednesday, 25 February 2009, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series Speaker: Margaret Mullett, Professor of Byzantine History, Queen's University, Belfast Location: Council Chamber, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

King Æthelstan: Texts and Traditions / Old English Charters Through the Conquest
Date:	Monday, 9 March 2009, 17.00
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Medieval Group Speakers: Angela Smith, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Kate Wiles, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). Tea from 17.00. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Language, Mission, and Diplomacy in the Conversion of Livonia, 1190-1250
Date:	Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 17.15
Details:
Medieval and Renaissance Seminar, School of History, University of Leeds Speaker: Alan V. Murray, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: Michael Sadler Arts Building, Room 340. For further details, contact G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk.

Middle English Saints' Lives
Date:	Thursday, 12 March 2009, 17.15
Details:
Medieval English Literature Seminar, School of English, University of Leeds Speaker: Veronica O'Mara, Department of English, University of Hull Location: Douglas Jefferson Room, School of English, University of Leeds. For further details, contact A.Hiatt.

The Emergence of Anglo-Saxon Judicial Practice: The Message of the Gallows
Date:	Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Open Lecture Series Speaker: Andrew Reynolds, Reader, Institute of Archaeology, University College London Location: Council Chamber, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Medieval Liturgical Music
Date:	Thursday, 23 April 2009, 16.15-17.30
Details:
Students and staff of MEDV 5290 ‘English Medieval Parish Church and Community' in the Institute for Medieval Studies (University of Leeds) will be singing through the Sarum Vespers of the Annunciation, chanting the psalms and antiphons, singing the Magnificat in alternatim with anonymous sixteenth-century organ versets and William Byrd's hymn setting of Ave Maris Stella, alternating sung verses with organ intabulations. Anyone interested is welcome to sing with us or come to listen. Location: Chapel at Notre Dame Sixth Form College (Leeds Catholic Chaplaincy) on St Mark's Avenue. For further information, please contact Dr William Flynn, w.flynn@leeds.ac.uk.

Within Reach: European Peripheries in the Middle Ages
Date:	Saturday, 25 April 2009, 09.30-18.30
Details:
IMS Postgraduate Symposium. For the call for papers, please click here. Where was the edge of Europe in the Middle Ages? Where are the religious, linguistic and cultural faultlines? Are there any common features in intercultural contact zones? How and why did medieval people cross geographical, political, and cultural frontiers? This one-day symposium is aimed primarily at postgraduates who wish to share and discuss their recent research in an informal interdisciplinary environment. The symposium will provide a forum for interaction, discussion, and the exchange of ideas, and includes the session Within Reach: Academic Careers. Location: Leeds Humanities Research Institute - click here for a location map. Tea and Coffee from 09.00. For further information, or to register, please contact Zsuzsa Papp, Katie Neville, or Liz Mylod, Institute for Medieval Studies, Room 4.05, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds, LEEDS, LS2 9JT, UK; imssymp@leeds.ac.uk.

Sceatta Imagery - the Unseen, the Unknown, the Unique
Date:	Monday, 27 April 2009, 17.00
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Medieval Group Speaker: Tony Abramson, Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Medieval Studies Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). Tea from 17.00. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

The Paternity of Chlothar II
Date:	Wednesday, 29 April 2009, 17.15
Details:
Medieval and Renaissance Seminar, School of History, University of Leeds. Speaker: Erin Thomas Daley, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). For further details, contact G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk.

Excursion to Markenfield Hall and Ripon Cathedral
Date:	Sunday 7 June 2009, 1.30-4.30pm
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Medieval Group Meet at Markenfield Hall at 1:30pm (map and bus routes can be found at www.markenfield.com. The 36 bus is probably easiest from Leeds). Entry to Markenfield Hall will cost £5 per head, and Karen Watts will be our guide. Please bring the entry fee with you on the day. We will continue to Ripon Cathedral (again, the 36 bus is probably easiest), and will meet there at 3:00pm where Richard Morris will be our guide to the crypt. The day will finish with tea with the Dean at 4:30pm. Evensong is at 5:30pm for those who wish to stay. If you plan to join the excursion, please email medieval@leeds.ac.uk by Friday, 29 May 2009.

International Medieval Congress 2009

International Medieval Congress 2009 - Special Thematic Strand: Heresy and Orthodoxy
Date:	Monday, 13 July - Thursday, 16 July 2009
Details:
Organised by the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. The Congress also hosts a series of events which are open to the general public. For further information please click here or contact the IMC at imc@leeds.ac.uk.

Past Events 2007-2008

Bede and Archaeology
Date:	16 July 2008
Details:
National Archaeology Week Lecture Speaker: Richard Morris, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: St. Peter's Church, St.Peter's Way, Sunderland - NE of the Wearmouth Bridge, near the NGC. A talk by Professor Richard Morris on “Bede and Archaeology” held at the Wearmouth part of the Anglo-Saxon site of Wearmouth-Jarrow, the UK ' s World Heritage status candidate for 2010. Further information: Ian Stockton, phone 0191 5160135 (the Parish Office, Mon-Fri 9am until 1pm), email Monkwearmouth.Parish@durham.anglican.org, www.britarch.ac.uk/naw.

International Medieval Congress 2008

International Medieval Congress 2008 - Special Thematic Strand: The Natural World
Date:	7-10 July 2008
Details:
Organised by the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. The Congress also hosts a series of events which are open to the general public. For further information please click here or contact the IMC at imc@leeds.ac.uk.

Excursion to Pickering Parish Church and Castle
Date:	Saturday, 31 May 2008, 11.00
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Guides: Peter Meredith, School of English, University of Leeds, and Robert C. Woosnam-Savage, Senior Curator of Edged Weapons, Royal Armouries. Location:We shall meet at Pickering Parish Church at 11:00am. Following this first tour, we will have lunch in the town before proceeding to Pickering Castle . Pickering is easy to reach from Leeds by bus or train.

Roger Bacon and the Jews
Date:	Wednesday, 7 May 2008, 17.15
Details:
School of History Medieval and Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Amanda Power, University of Sheffield Location: History Staff Common Room, Michael Sadler Arts Building, Room 330. For further details, contact either G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk or E.M.Jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk. For updates, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/events/Medieval.htm.

Consecrated groves: Imperial Uses of a Tacitean Trope
Date:	Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 17.15
Details:
School of English Seminar Series Speaker: Ananya Kabir, University of Leeds Location: Douglas Jefferson Room, School of English. For further details, contact Alfred Hiatt, email a.hiatt@leeds.ac.uk

'Goodmen of the District': Medical Practitioners as Social Actors in Late Medieval Portugal
Date:	Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 15.15
Details:
History and Philosophy of Science Seminars Speaker: Iona McCleery, School of History, University of Leeds Location: Baines Wing G36, Department of Philosophy, Woodhouse Lane. Tea is available from 15.00 pm in the same room. For further details please contact Dr Fern Elsdon-Baker, email phlfeb@leeds.ac.uk

Beneath the Sands of Time: Unravelling the Hidden Past of the Vale of Pickering
Date:	Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 17.30
Details:
IMS Open Lecture Series Speaker: Dominic Powlesland, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds / Landscape Research Centre, Malton Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

‘When my grave is broke up again': Attitudes towards Dead Kings and Queens in Medieval and Renaissance Portugal
Date:	Monday, 21 April 2008, 17.30
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Speaker: Iona McCleery, School of History, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). Tea from 17.00. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

How to be a Good Knight: Chivalric Treatises of the Thirteenth Century
Date:	Wednesday, 16 April 2008, 17.15
Details:
School of History Medieval and Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Iris Rau, School of History, University of Leeds Location: History Staff Common Room, Michael Sadler Arts Building, Room 330. For further details, contact either G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk or E.M.Jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk. For updates, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/events/Medieval.htm.

Propaganda, Piety and Polemic: Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England
Date:	Thursday, 10 April 2008, 10.00-16.30
Details:
A one-day research symposium This symposium will examine hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England, illustrating its contemporary uses and the way in which attitudes to and understanding of hagiographical texts have changed in the period of modern scholarship. The papers will range across the Anglo-Saxon period and will cover material in Latin and Old English. Speakers: Joyce Hill (Leeds), Clare Lees (London), Rosalind Love (Cambridge), Winfried Rudolf (Oxford), and Alan Thacker (London). Location: Leeds Humanities Research Institute, 29-31 Clarendon Place (on main campus) http://webprod2.leeds.ac.uk/campusmap/detail.asp?ID=546 . For further details, contact Professor Joyce Hill j.m.hill@leeds.ac.uk. Download the registration form here.

Children's Calligraphy Workshops
Date:	Wednesday 26 March from 10.30 until 15.30
Details:
As part of the Chronicles of Froissart exhibition (http://www.royalarmouries.org/extsite/view.jsp?sectionId=3687) the Royal Armouries will be hosting calligraphy workshops. These workshops have been designed as an ideal introduction into this art form in which anyone with the correct guidance and patience can achieve a good standard of lettering. Workshops for adults will be taking place on Friday 29 February and Sunday 30 March from 10.30 until 15.30. Children's Workshops will take place on Sunday 9 March and Wednesday 26 March. The cost is £20 for adults and £10 for children, including tuition and materials. For further information and booking call (0113) 220 1985 or visit the Royal Armouries webpage (http://www.royalarmouries.org/extsite/view.jsp?sectionId=3786). The Chronicles of Froissart exhibition is curated by Karen Watts, Senior Curator of European Armour and Art at the Royal Armouries. Karen is also a member of the IMS Learning and teaching Committee. The exhibition will run until 6 April 2008.

Religious patronage in Frankish Greece
Date:	Wednesday, 12 March 2008, 17.15
Details:
School of History Medieval and Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Nicky Tsougarakis, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: History Staff Common Room, Michael Sadler Arts Building, Room 330. For further details, contact either G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk or E.M.Jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk. For updates, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/events/Medieval.htm.

Re-forming the Ploughman: Reading Langland in the Sixteenth Century
Date:	Tuesday, 11 March 2008, 17.15
Details:
School of English Seminar Series Speaker: Mike Jones, University of Leeds Location: School of English. For further details, contact Alfred Hiatt, email a.hiatt@leeds.ac.uk

Observations on the Twelfth-Century Context of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College manuscript 383 / Eastern European Saints in Medieval English Historiography
Date:	Monday, 10 March 2008, 17.30
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Speakers: Thomas Gobbitt, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Zsuzsanna Papp, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). Tea from 17.00. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Children's Calligraphy Workshops
Date:	Sunday 9 March from 10.30 until 15.30
Details:
As part of the Chronicles of Froissart exhibition (http://www.royalarmouries.org/extsite/view.jsp?sectionId=3687) the Royal Armouries will be hosting calligraphy workshops. These workshops have been designed as an ideal introduction into this art form in which anyone with the correct guidance and patience can achieve a good standard of lettering. Workshops for adults will be taking place on Friday 29 February and Sunday 30 March from 10.30 until 15.30. Children's Workshops will take place on Sunday 9 March and Wednesday 26 March. The cost is £20 for adults and £10 for children, including tuition and materials. For further information and booking call (0113) 220 1985 or visit the Royal Armouries webpage (http://www.royalarmouries.org/extsite/view.jsp?sectionId=3786). The Chronicles of Froissart exhibition is curated by Karen Watts, Senior Curator of European Armour and Art at the Royal Armouries. Karen is also a member of the IMS Learning and teaching Committee. The exhibition will run until 6 April 2008.

Varietas, Taedium, Curiositas: Studies in the Medieval Esthetic Lexicon
Date:	Wednesday, 5 March 2008, 17.30
Details:
IMS Open Lecture Series Speaker: Mary Carruthers, Department of English, New York University Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Multilingualism in the Low Countries
Date:	Monday, 3 March 2008, 15.00
Details:
WUN Multilingualism in the Middle Ages Seminar Series Speakers: Sarah Rees Jones (York University), Elizabeth Tyler (York University), Bart Besamusca (Utrecht University), Paul Wackers (Utrecht University), Carol Symes (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign) Further background information can be found at http://www.wun.ac.uk/multilingualism/seminars.html; General information on WUN virtual seminars can be found at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/international/wun/wun_seminars.html. If you wish to attend please contact Anoushka Kulikowski (a.kulikowski@leeds.ac.uk) by noon on Friday 29 February at the latest. Please note that if no one expresses an interest in attending this event, they will cancel the room booking.

Calligraphy Workshops
Date:	Friday 29 February and Sunday 30 March from 10.30 until 15.30
Details:
As part of the Chronicles of Froissart exhibition (http://www.royalarmouries.org/extsite/view.jsp?sectionId=3687) the Royal Armouries will be hosting calligraphy workshops. These workshops have been designed as an ideal introduction into this art form in which anyone with the correct guidance and patience can achieve a good standard of lettering. Workshops for adults will be taking place on Friday 29 February and Sunday 30 March from 10.30 until 15.30. Children's Workshops will take place on Sunday 9 March and Wednesday 26 March. The cost is £20 for adults and £10 for children, including tuition and materials. For further information and booking call (0113) 220 1985 or visit the Royal Armouries webpage (http://www.royalarmouries.org/extsite/view.jsp?sectionId=3786). The Chronicles of Froissart exhibition is curated by Karen Watts, Senior Curator of European Armour and Art at the Royal Armouries. Karen is also a member of the IMS Learning and teaching Committee. The exhibition will run until 6 April 2008.

The Grail and the Templars: Contrasting Medieval Concepts of Chivalry
Date:	Wednesday, 27 February 2008, 17.30
Details:
IMS Open Lecture Series Speaker: Helen J. Nicholson, School of History & Archaeology, Cardiff University Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

A Break with Medieval Reality in the Movies: I Don't Care about ‘Accuracy' and Neither Should You! / Early Islam and Utilitarian Architecture
Date:	Monday, 18 February 2008, 17.30
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Speakers: Paul Sturtevant, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Essam As-Sayyid, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). Tea from 17.00. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email .

The Chancery and Charters of the Norman Kings of Sicily
Date:	Wednesday, 13 February 2008, 17.15
Details:
School of History Medieval and Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Graham Loud, School of History, University of Leeds Location: History Staff Common Room, Michael Sadler Arts Building, Room 330. For further details, contact either G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk or E.M.Jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk. For updates, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/events/Medieval.htm.

Early Music Festival
Date:	Friday, 8 February - Sunday, 10 February 2008
Details:
Various events, including concerts, lectures, workshops and dance performances. There is a study day on Abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) on Sunday 10 February. For further details see: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/illuminations.pdf Location: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall and the University Great Hall, University of Leeds.

Archaeological Theory Discussion Group
Date:	Wednesday, 6 February 2008, 12.00
Details:
Archaeological Theory Discussion Group Discussion Topic: Culture in Archaeology. The core papers and chapters we are looking at are: 1. Christopher Tilley, Metaphor and Material Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), chapter 1 2. Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley, Re-constructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice, 2nd edn (Routledge, 1992), chapter 6 3. Patty Watson, 'Archaeology, Anthropology and the Culture Concept', American Anthropologist new series, 97 (1995), 683-94 Location: Meeting at the Quilted Llama, Woodhouse Lane. For further details, contact Thom Gobbitt and Michael Garcia, mstjg@leeds.ac.uk and mesmmg@leeds.ac.uk.

Launch of the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies - 'Guido's Disdain: Inferno IX-XI'
Date:	Wednesday, 6 February 2008, 16.00
Details:
Everyone is cordially invited to the launch of the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies, the UK's only Centre devoted to the study of Italy's national poet. The launch will take place on Wednesday 6th February 2008 at 4.00 p.m. in the Great Woodhouse Room, University House. Lecture: Prof. Zygmunt G. Baranski (University of Cambridge) will give a lecture entitled 'Guido's Disdain: Inferno IX-XI', to be followed by a drinks reception. Location: Great Woodhouse Room, University House. For further details, contact Claire Honess (c.e.honess@leeds.ac.uk) or Matthew Treherne (m.treherne@leeds.ac.uk)

'Ask the animals and they will teach you': Animals in Medieval Culture
Date:	Wednesday, 30 January 2008, 17.30
Details:
IMS Open Lecture Series Speaker: Brigitte Resl, School of History, University of Liverpool Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Teaching the Old French Language: Updating Medfrench for the Web-Based Age
Date:	Monday, 28 January 2008, 17.30
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Speakers: Alan Hindley, University of Hull, Rosalind Brown-Grant and Katherine Fenton, Department of French, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). Tea from 17.00. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

The Anglo-Saxon Church in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
Date:	Thursday, 10 January 2008, 10.00-16.30
Details:
A one-day research symposium Speakers: Julia Barrow (University of Nottingham), Jesse Billett (University of Cambridge), Richard Gameson (University of Durham), Catherine Karkov (University of Leeds), and Tom Pickles (University of Oxford). Location: Leeds Humanities Research Institute, 29-31 Clarendon Place (on main campus) http://webprod2.leeds.ac.uk/campusmap/detail.asp?ID=546 . For further details, contact Professor Joyce Hill j.m.hill@leeds.ac.uk. Download the registration form here.

Archaeological Theory Discussion Group - Post-Processualism
Date:	Monday, 10 December 2007, 12.00
Details:
Archaeological Theory Discussion Group - Post-Processualism Discussion Topic: Chapter 5 ‘Hermeneutics, Dialectics and Archaeology': Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley, Re-constructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice, 2nd edn (1992), pp. 103-15. Location: Meeting at Le Patourel Room, (Room 4.06), Parkinson Building, then moving on to the Quilted Llama. For further details, contact Thom Gobbitt and Michael Garcia, mstjg@leeds.ac.uk and mesmmg@leeds.ac.uk.

‘þen hentes he þe healme, and hastily hit kisses': The Symbolic Significance of Donning Armour in Medieval Romance
Date:	Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 17.30
Details:
IMS Open Lecture Series Speaker: Rob Jones, Cardiff University Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Pathfinder (Dir. Nispel)
Date:	Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 19.15
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Medieval Film Club - The Epic Middle Ages: Heroism, Death, Glory Film: Pathfinder (Dir. Nispel) 2007. Vikings versus Indians. Enough said. Note later start time. Location*: Le Patourel Room, (Room 4.06), Parkinson Building. For further details, contact Paul Sturtevant at imsps@leeds.ac.uk.

Archaeological Theory Discussion Group - Post-Processualism
Date:	Monday, 3 December 2007, 12.00
Details:
Archaeological Theory Discussion Group - Post-Processualism Discussion Topic: Chapter 10 ‘Archaeology and its Social Context': Bruce G. Trigger, A History of Archaeological Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 370-411. Location: Meeting at Le Patourel Room, (Room 4.06), Parkinson Building, then moving on to the Quilted Llama. For further details, contact Thom Gobbitt and Michael Garcia, mstjg@leeds.ac.uk and mesmmg@leeds.ac.uk.

Reaching through the Stars: Astronomy and Cosmology in Medieval Europe
Date:	Friday, 30 November 2007, 17.30
Details:
Bolton Lecture 2007 Speaker: Allan Chapman, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Location: Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre

Rethinking the Material Text in Medieval Culture
Date:	Thursday, 29 November 2007, 17.15
Details:
School of English Medieval Literature Seminar Speaker: Orietta Da Rold, Department of English, University of Leicester Location: Douglas Jefferson Room, School of English

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (Dir. Besson)
Date:	Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 19.15
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Medieval Film Club - The Epic Middle Ages: Heroism, Death, Glory Film: The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (Dir. Besson) Yes, women can be heroes too. However, Luc Besson seems to enjoy judging Joan of Arc by decidedly modern Christian standards in what turns out to be a strangely pacifistic version of Joan's story. Was she a saint, or just mad? Note later start time. Location*: Le Patourel Room, (Room 4.06), Parkinson Building. For further details, contact Paul Sturtevant at imsps@leeds.ac.uk.

Art, Power, and Patronage in Renaissance Siena
Date:	Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 18.00
Details:
Public Lecture Series: Art and Literature in Siena: 1250-1600 Speaker: Philippa Jackson (Birkbeck College, University of London) Location: Yorkshire Bank Lecture Theatre, Leeds University Business School. For further information, please visit http://www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/research/sienalectures.htm; or contact Matthew Treherne (m.treherne@leeds.ac.uk) or Claire Honess (c.e.honess@leeds.ac.uk).

NEW TITLE: The Impact of the Coming of Islam on the Cities of Iran
Date:	Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 17.30
Details:
IMS Open Lecture Series Speaker: Hugh Kennedy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Archaeological Theory Discussion Group - Post-Processualism
Date:	Monday, 26 November 2007, 12.00
Details:
Archaeological Theory Discussion Group - Post-Processualism Discussion Topic: Chapter 8 ‘Post-Processual Archaeology': Ian Hodder, Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology, 2nd edn. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 156-81. Location: Meeting at Le Patourel Room, (Room 4.06), Parkinson Building, then moving on to the Quilted Llama. For further details, contact Thom Gobbitt and Michael Garcia, mstjg@leeds.ac.uk and mesmmg@leeds.ac.uk.

Beowulf (Dir. Zemeckis)
Date:	Thursday, 22 November 2007, 17:20 (for 17:30 performance)
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Medieval Film Club - The Epic Middle Ages: Heroism, Death, Glory Film: Beowulf (Dir. Zemeckis) Location: Meet at the Vue Cinema in the Light in Leeds City Centre. Time to be confirmed. Individuals responsible for purchase of their own tickets. (N.B. not free. Sorry!). For further details, contact Paul Sturtevant at imsps@leeds.ac.uk

Renaissance Siena: Art for a City
Date:	Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 18.00
Details:
Public Lecture Series: Art and Literature in Siena: 1250-1600 Speaker: Luke Syson (National Gallery, London) Location: Yorkshire Bank Lecture Theatre, Leeds University Business School. For further information, please visit http://www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/research/sienalectures.htm; or contact Matthew Treherne (m.treherne@leeds.ac.uk) or Claire Honess (c.e.honess@leeds.ac.uk).

Devils and Pagans in the Chronicles of the Baltic Crusades
Date:	Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 17.15
Details:
School of History Medieval and Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Alan V. Murray, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: History Staff Common Room, Michael Sadler Arts Building, Room 330. For further details, contact either G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk or E.M.Jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk. For updates, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/events/Medieval.htm.

To Sing in Your Sight: The Role of the Eadwine Portrait in the Eadwine Psalter
Date:	Monday, 19 November 2007, 17.30
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Speaker: Catherine Karkov, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). Tea from 17.00. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Beowulf & Grendel (Dir. Gunnarsson)
Date:	Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Medieval Film Club - The Epic Middle Ages: Heroism, Death, Glory Film: Beowulf & Grendel (Dir. Gunnarsson) The 2005 Icelandic-Canadian collaboration shows a version of Beowulf with distinctly modern attitudes. Starring Gerard Butler. Location: Le Patourel Room, (Room 4.06), Parkinson Building. For further details, contact Paul Sturtevant at imsps@leeds.ac.uk.

Archaeological Theory Discussion Group - Processualism
Date:	Monday, 12 November 2007, 12.00
Details:
Archaeological Theory Discussion Group - Processualism Discussion Topic: Chapter 2 'Positivism and the New Archaeology': Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley, Re-constructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice, 2nd edn (1992), pp. 29-45. Location: Meeting at Le Patourel Room, (Room 4.06), Parkinson Building, then moving on to the Quilted Llama. For further details, contact Thom Gobbitt and Michael Garcia, mstjg@leeds.ac.uk and mesmmg@leeds.ac.uk.

1207 and All That: Leeds in its Medieval Urban Context
Date:	Wednesday, 7 November 2007, 12.15-13.00
Details:
IMS Leeds Lecture Series Speaker: David Palliser, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, School of History, University of Leeds Location: St John's Church, New Briggate, Leeds. For further details, email ims@leeds.ac.uk.

'The manner of arming knights for the tourney': A Re-Appraisal of an Important Early 14th-Century Tournament Treatise
Date:	Wednesday, 7 November 2007, 17.15
Details:
School of History Medieval and Renaissance Seminar Speaker: Ralph Moffat, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: History Staff Common Room, Michael Sadler Arts Building , Room 330. For further details, contact either G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk or E.M.Jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk. For updates, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/events/Medieval.htm.

Lancelot du Lac (Dir. Bresson)
Date:	Wednesday, 7 November 2007, 19.15
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Medieval Film Club - The Epic Middle Ages: Heroism, Death, Glory Film: Lancelot du Lac (Dir. Bresson) Bresson's ultra-pessimistic, gory take on the Arthurian legends made the Middle Ages into the Dark Ages. Note later start time. Location*: Le Patourel Room, (Room 4.06), Parkinson Building. For further details, contact Paul Sturtevant at imsps@leeds.ac.uk.

Archaeological Theory Discussion Group - Processualism
Date:	Monday, 5 November 2007, 12.00
Details:
Archaeological Theory Discussion Group - Processualism Discussion Topic: Lewis R. Binford, ‘Archaeological Systematics and the Study of Culture Process', American Antiquity, 31 (1965), 203-10. Location: Meeting at Le Patourel Room, (Room 4.06), Parkinson Building, then moving on to the Quilted Llama. For further details, contact Thom Gobbitt and Michael Garcia, mstjg@leeds.ac.uk and mesmmg@leeds.ac.uk.

Beowulf off the Map: Peoples, Places, Spaces
Date:	Wednesday, 31 October 2007, 17.15
Details:
School of English Medieval Literature Seminar Speaker: Alfred Hiatt, School of English, University of Leeds Location: Douglas Jefferson Room, School of English

Army of Darkness (Dir. Raimi)
Date:	Wednesday, 31 October 2007, 18.30
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Medieval Film Club - The Epic Middle Ages: Heroism, Death, Glory Film: Army of Darkness (Dir. Raimi) Speaking of armies of the dead, a Halloween Special! In the third instalment of the classic B-horror series Evil Dead, our intrepid hero Ash is transported back to the Middle Ages with only his chainsaw, his shotgun and his perfect comedic timing to save him from an army of the walking dead. Location: Le Patourel Room, (Room 4.06), Parkinson Building. For further details, contact Paul Sturtevant at imsps@leeds.ac.uk.

Archaeological Theory Discussion Group - Processualism
Date:	Monday, 29 October 2007, 12.00
Details:
Archaeological Theory Discussion Group - Processualism Discussion Topic: David Clarke, ‘Archaeology the Loss of Innocence', Antiquity , 47 (1973), 6-18. Location: Meeting at Le Patourel Room, (Room 4.06), Parkinson Building, then moving on to the Quilted Llama. For further details, contact Thom Gobbitt and Michael Garcia,mstjg@leeds.ac.uk and mesmmg@leeds.ac.uk.

The International Medieval Bibliography: The Unwritten History
Date:	Wednesday, 24 October 2007, 17.30
Details:
IMS Open Lecture Series Speakers: Peter Sawyer, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, School of History, University of Leeds Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds Followed by a celebratory wine reception and birthday cake. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

El Cid (Dir. Mann)
Date:	Wednesday, 24 October 2007, 19.15
Details:
Institute for Medieval Studies Medieval Film Club - The Epic Middle Ages: Heroism, Death, Glory Film: El Cid (Dir. Mann) Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren star in this quintessential early 1960's epic. Never before or since has a dead man led an army so well. Note later start time. Location*: Le Patourel Room (Room 4.06), Parkinson Building. For further information, contact Paul Sturtevant at imsps@leeds.ac.uk.

The Queen of the Franks Proposes Marriage to the Caliph al-Muktafi
Date:	Monday, 22 October 2007, 17.30
Details:
IMS Medieval Group Speaker: Ann Christys, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). Tea from 17.00. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Medieval Research afternoon
Date:	Wednesday, 10 October 2007, 14.30-17.00
Details:
You are warmly invited to attend this event, which consists of short presentations by professional scholars and research students on current projects and pursuits. This is an excellent opportunity to meet with other medievalists, share your own findings and keep well informed of developments within a wide range of medieval disciplines, learn about the Medieval Group's activities for 2007-2008, and perhaps even consider joining the Group's steering committee. Anyone interested in giving a short presentation, please contact Alison Martin, medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk. Click here for further information.

Looking for Loidis: Leeds before Leeds
Date:	Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 12.15-13.00
Details:
IMS Leeds Lecture Series Speaker: Richard Morris, Head of the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: St John's Church, New Briggate, Leeds. For further details, email ims@leeds.ac.uk.

Past Events 2007-2006

International Medieval Congress 2007 - Special Thematic Strand: Medieval Cities
Date:	9-12 July 2007
Details:
Organised by the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. The Congress also hosts a series of events which are open to the general public. For further information please click here or contact the IMC at imc@leeds.ac.uk.

Holm Cultram abbey: a story of success?
Date:	Monday, 4 June 2007, 17.30
Details: Medieval Group meeting
Speakers: Emilia Jamroziak, School of History Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson Building, Room 4.06, University of Leeds). Tea from 17.00. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

1598: galley slaves and the Inquisition
Date:	Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 17.15-18.15
Details:
Speaker: Dionisius A. Agius, Professor for Arabic & Islamic Material Culture, Department of Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Leeds Info: For further details, contact G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk or E.M.Jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk Room 327, School of History, University of Leeds.

Canon Law and the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine Reform / Secular Minster or Benedictine Priory? Establishing a context for the earliest manuscripts of St Guthlac's, Hereford
Date:	Monday, 30 April 2007, 17.30
Details: Medieval Group meeting
Speakers: Katie Neville, Institute for Medieval Studies Chris Tuckley, Institute for Medieval Studies Location: Le Patourel Room, Parkinson Building. Room 4.06, University of Leeds For details, please contact Alison Martin or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3620.

'Tout mon hernoys pour le jouster': interpreting the evidence for tournament-specific armour / John of Salisbury and preaching
Date:	Monday, 23 April 2007, 17.30
Details: Medieval Group meeting
Speakers: Ralph Moffat, Institute for Medieval Studies Lauren Moreau, Institute for Medieval Studies Location: Le Patourel Room, Parkinson Building, Room 4.06, University of Leeds For details, please contact Alison Martin or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3620.

Images and Identity: Notions of the Public in the Middle Ages
Date:	Friday, 20 April 2007
Details: One-day symposium
Speakers: Abstracts invited by 9 February 2007. Email: messymp@leeds.ac.uk Location: See this website nearer the time

The Memory of 1204
Date:	Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 17.15-18.15
Details:
Speaker: Daniel Power, Department of History, University of Sheffield Info: For further details, contact G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk or E.M.Jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk Room 327, School of History, University of Leeds.

Dante and God
Date:	Thursday, 15 March 2007, 17.30
Details: Department of Italian / Institute for Medieval Studies public lecture
Speaker: Christian Moevs, Notre Dame Location: Conference Auditorium (Room 2), University of Leeds For details, please see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/research/christianmoevsvisit.htm or contact Matthew Treherne or telephone +44 (0)113 343 37846.

City and saint in medieval Apulia: St. Nicholas the Pilgrim and Trani
Date:	Wednesday, 14 March 2007, 17.15-18.15
Details:
Speaker: Paul Oldfield, Department of History & Economic History, Manchester Metropolitan University Info: For further details, contact G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk or E.M.Jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk Room 327, School of History, University of Leeds.

Who Says King Alfred Burned the Cakes?
Date:	Monday, 12 March 2007, 17.30
Details: School of English, inaugural lecture
Speaker: Rory McTurk, Professor of Icelandic Studies Chaired by Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Margaret Atack Location: Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, University of Leeds For details, please contact Burkhard Hauder, School of English (or telephone +44 (0)113 343 4764).

Sea-Faring Saints and Land-Lubber Painters
Date:	Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 17.30 - 18.30
Details:
The lecture discusses the phenomenal success of the cult of St. Nicholas at Bari, the competing cult of Nicholas of Tolentino and the relationship of images of sea-borne saints to current maritime technology. Speaker: Julian Gardner, Professor of the History of Art, Department of the History of Art, University of Warwick Julian Gardner is foundation Professor of the History of Art at Warwick He has been Visiting Professor of Medieval Studies at Berkeley and visiting professor at Harvard and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. He is aspecialist in early Italian painting and sculpture. Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. All welcome - please stay on for a glass of wine or Congress Ale afterwards. For further details, please contact Alison Martin or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3620.

Medievalism at the movies
Date:	Wednesday, 21 February, 19.00
Details: IMS Medievalist Film Club
First screening: 1936 classic, The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn. Free, bring a friend, bring your own popcorn. Location: Le Patourel Room, Parkinson Building. Room 4.06, University of Leeds For details, contact Paul Sturtevant.

The material culture of medicine in late medieval Portugal: the tomb of Fernando I (d. 1383)
Date:	Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 17.15-18.15
Details:
Speaker: Iona McCleery, Centre for the History of Medicine & Disease, University of Durham Info: For further details, contact G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk or E.M.Jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk Room 327, School of History, University of Leeds.

Multilingualism for Medieval English? The French of England
Date:	Monday, 5 February 2007, 17.30
Details: Medieval Group meeting
Speaker: Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Brown, University of York Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson Building, Room 4.06, University of Leeds). Tea from 17.00. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Made in England?: The Bayeux Tapestry
Date:	Wednesday, 24 January 2007, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Speaker: Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture, Department of English & American Studies, University of Manchester Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. All welcome - please stay on for a glass of wine or Congress Ale afterwards. For further details, please contact Alison Martin or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3620.

Symposium: What do we mean by the Benedictine Reform?
Date:	Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 10.45-16.15 (coffee from 10.15, tea from 16.15)
Details: School of English and Institute for Medieval Studies research symposium
Speakers include Katy Cubitt (York), Sarah Foot (Sheffield), Joyce Hill (Leeds), Hugh Magennis (Belfast), Nicky Robertson (Leeds). Registration forms from Professor Joyce Hill, j.m.hill@leeds.ac.uk, postgraduate research students welcome. Location: Leeds Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds, 29-31 Clarendon Road

'Adelchi and Attila': the barbarians and the Risorgimento
Date:	Wednesday, 6 December, 2006, 17.15
Details: Medieval and Renaissance Seminar
Speaker: Ian Wood, Professor of Early Medieval History, School of History, University of Leeds Location: History Staff Common Room, Michael Sadler Arts Building, Room 330, University of Leeds.

The 'Court Style' and Urban Culture in Thirteenth-Century Paris
Date:	Monday, 4 December 2006, 17.30
Details: Medieval Group meeting
Speaker: Meredith Cohen, Institute for Medieval Studies Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson Building, Room 4.06, University of Leeds). Tea from 17.00. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Medieval parish churches and local identity
Date:	Saturday, 2 December 2006, 15.00
Details: Medieval Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society
Speaker: Richard Morris, Institute for Medieval Studies Location: Claremont, Clarendon Road. Tea from 14.30.

Did Henry III and Edward I have an artistic policy?
Date:	Wednesday, 29 November 2006, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Speaker: Paul Binski, Professor in History of Art, Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge Location: Centenary Gallery, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. All welcome - please stay on for a glass of wine or Congress Ale afterwards. For further details, contact Sue Julier or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3617.

Exchanging Words and Deeds in The Franklin's Tale and The Manciple's Tale
Date:	Thursday, 23 November 2006, 17.15
Details: Medieval English Literature Seminar
Speaker: Nicholas Perkins, St Hugh's College, University of Oxford Location: School of English. For further details, contact Alfred Hiatt or telephone +44 (0)113 343 4734.

Making friends on the borders: Cistercian strategies from northern Europe in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries
Date:	Wednesday, 22 November 2006, 17.15
Details: Medieval and Renaissance Seminar
Speaker: Emilia Jamroziak, School of History Location: History Staff Common Room, Michael Sadler Arts Building, Room 330. For more, contact either G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk or E.M.Jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk

Magic for the Dead: The Archaeology of Magic in Later Medieval Burials
Date:	Wednesday, 8 November 2006, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Speaker: Roberta Gilchrist, Professor of Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. All welcome - please stay on for a glass of wine or Congress Ale afterwards. For further details, please contact Sue Julier or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3617.

Lastingham revisited
Date:	Wednesday, 25 October 2006, 17.15
Details: History Medieval Seminar
Speaker: Richard Morris, IMS Location: School of History. For further details, please contact Graham Loud: telephone +44 (0)113 343 3601.

Reading an unpublished medieval romance: 'The story of Ulf, son of Uggi'
Date:	Wednesday, 25 October 2006, 17.15
Details: Medieval English Literature Seminar
Speaker: Andrew Wawn Location: School of English. For further details, please contact Alfred Hiatt or telephone +44 (0)113 343 4734.

Estuary English in the Eighth Century: Bede and the Beginnings of an Old English Standard
Date:	Monday, 23 October 2006, 17.30
Details: Medieval Group meeting
Speaker: Philip Shaw Location: Le Patourel Room (Parkinson 4.06). Tea from 17.00. For further details, contact Alison Martin, phone 0113 343 3620, email medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

Mary and the Jews
Date:	Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Speaker: Miri Rubin, Professor of History, Department of History, Queen Mary, University of London Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds.

IMS Medieval Group: Annual Medieval Research Afternoon
Date:	Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 14.30-17.00
Details:
Short presentations on current projects and research - an opportunity to meet other medievalists, a meeting of new members of the Steering Group, discussion of activities for 2006-2007. Anyone interested in giving a short presentation, please contact Alison Martin, medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk

Past Events 2006-2005

International Medieval Congress 2006 - Special Thematic Strand: Emotion and Gesture
Date:	10-13 July 2006
Details:
Organised by the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. The Congress also hosts a series of events which are open to the general public. For further information please click here or contact the IMC at imc@leeds.ac.uk.

Maurice Beresford Memorial
Date:	Tuesday, 4 July 2006, 2:30pm
Details:
To be held at the Clothworker's Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds. Light refreshments will be served afterwords.

Collaborative Research at the Royal Armouries Museum
Date:	Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 15.00-20.00
Details:
At the Tower Gallery, Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds. There is no entrance charge, but reservations essential. To reserve your place at this seminar please email Graeme Rimer at Graeme.Rimer@armouries.org.uk by 5pm, Mon 19 June.

A Presentation on the AHRC-funded project The Production and Use of English Manuscripts, 1060 to 1220
Date:	Monday, 5 June 2006, 17.30-18.30 (talk preceded by tea at 17.00)
Details:
Speakers: Mary Swan, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Elaine Treharne and Orietta Da Rold, Department of English, University of Leicester Location: Le Patourel Room, Parkinson Building 4.06, University of Leeds For further details, please contact Alison Martin or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3620.

Excursion to Kirkstall Abbey
Date:	Saturday, 20 May 2006
Details:
Guided tour through Kirkstall Abbey led by Katherine Baxter (Curator of Archaeology, Leeds City Council) and Emilia Jamroziak (School of History, University of Leeds) around the abbey and its new Visitor Centre. Meet at 14.00 at entrance to Abbey House museum. For further details, please contact Alison Martin or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3620.

The Role of the Medievalist: Perceptions of the Past
Date:	Thursday, 27 April 2006
Details:
Topics to be addressed may include: Modern Perceptions of the Medieval Past, Reinterpreting Medieval Texts, Medieval Historiography, Later Artistic Depictions of the Middle Ages, Changes in Archaeological Practice: Conservation/Restoration, Formation of Nationhood, Use of Narratives in Cultural Development Location: Le Patourel Room, Parkinson Building 4.06, University of Leeds For further details, please contact Leeds Symposium Committee.

Cemeteries in Late Antique Britain / Britain and the Continent in the Ninth Century: Exploring the Connections
Date:	Monday, 24 April 2006, 17.30-18.30 (talk preceded by tea at 17.00)
Details:
Speakers: Michael Garcia, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Alexandra Domingue, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room, Parkinson Building 4.06, University of Leeds For further details, please contact Alison Martin or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3620.

Speaking in Tongues: The Language of the Liturgy in Medieval England
Date:	Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 17.15-18.15
Details:
Speaker: Helen B. Gittos, School of History, University of Leeds Info: For further details, contact W.R.Childs@leeds.ac.uk or E.M.Jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk Room 330 (Staff Common Room), School of History, University of Leeds.

Chivalry, Church Monuments and the Hundred Years War
Date:	Wednesday, 8 March 2006, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Speaker: Nigel E. Saul, Professor of Medieval History, Royal Holloway, University of London Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds For further details, please contact Sue Julier or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3617.

Sermons in Stones? Decoding the Iconography of Barwick-in-Elmet
Date:	Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 17.15-18.15
Details:
Speaker: Victoria Thompson, Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds Info: For further details, contact W.R.Childs@leeds.ac.uk or E.M.Jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk Room 330 (Staff Common Room), School of History, University of Leeds.

Ekphrasis and Eucharist: The Poetics of Seeing God's Art in Canto X of Dante's Purgatorio
Date:	Monday, 27 February 2006, 17.30-18.30 (talk preceded by tea at 17.00)
Details:
Speaker: Matthew Treherne, Department of Italian, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room, Parkinson Building 4.06, University of Leeds For further details, please contact Alison Martin or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3620.

A New Reading of Turgot's Margaret of Scotland as Rectrix
Date:	Wednesday, 8 February 2006, 17.15-18.15
Details:
Speaker: Joanna Huntington, School of History, University of Leeds Info: For further details, contact W.R.Childs@leeds.ac.uk or E.M.Jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk Room 330 (Staff Common Room), School of History, University of Leeds.

The Feast of St Brigit: A 15th-Century Office for St Brigit of Ireland - From Manuscript to Modern Performance
Date:	Wednesday, 1 February 2006, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Speaker: Ann Buckley, Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellow, Department of Music, National University of Ireland, Maynooth Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds For further details, please contact Sue Julier or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3617.

The Legitimacy of the Liberal Arts in the 12th Century / A Misconstrued Link: Europe and the Economic History of Islamic Trade
Date:	Monday, 30 January 2006, 17.30-18.30 (talk preceded by tea at 17.00)
Details:
Speakers: Carl Taylor, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Professor Maya Shatzmiller, Department of History, University of Western Ontario Location: Le Patourel Room, Parkinson Building 4.06, University of Leeds For further details, please contact Alison Martin or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3620.

Why Study Sculpture?: The Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture of South-West Wales
Date:	Wednesday, 25 January 2006, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Speaker: Nancy Edwards, Reader in Archaeology, Department of History & Welsh History, University of Wales, Bangor Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds For further details, please contact Sue Julier or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3617.

Medieval Manuscripts in the Brotherton Library
Date:	Thursday, 19 January 2006, 19.30-20.30
Details:
Organised by Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. Speaker: Oliver Pickering, Deputy Head of Special Collections, University of Leeds Location: Special Collections Area, University of Leeds Members and Non-Members are welcome to attend. However, if possible please contact the Society's secretary, John Lydon (telephone +44 (0)113 343 3036) by Tuesday, 17 January if you are interested in attending to be able to provide a suitably sized lecture room for the talk.

Varieties of Monasticism in Norman Italy
Date:	Wednesday, 7 December 2005, 17.15-18.15
Details:
Speaker: Graham A. Loud, Professor of Italian Medieval History, School of History, University of Leeds Info: For further details, contact G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk or W.R.Childs@leeds.ac.uk Room 327, School of History, University of Leeds.

Who Wrote John Audelay's The Counsel of Conscience?: Problems of Middle English Authorship
Date:	Monday, 5 December 2005, 17.30-18.30 (talk preceded by tea at 17.00)
Details:
Speaker: Oliver Pickering, Special Collections, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room, Parkinson Building 4.06, University of Leeds For further details, please contact Alison Martin or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3620.

The Mind and the Book: Authors, Makers and Readers in the Middle Ages
Date:	Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Speaker: Michelle P. Brown, The British Library, London, and Visiting Professor, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds For further details, please contact Sue Julier or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3617.

Unity and Variety: The Religious Orders in Medieval Europe
Date:	Monday, 14 November 2005, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Speaker: Gert Melville, Professor für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Institut für Geschichte, Technische Universität, Dresden Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds For further details, please contact Sue Julier or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3617.

The problem of Prostitution in the First Crusade
Date:	Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 17.15-18.15
Details:
Speaker: Alan V. Murray, Editor, International Medieval Bibliography and Lecturer in Medieval Studies, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Info: For further details, contact G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk or W.R.Childs@leeds.ac.uk Room 327, School of History, University of Leeds.

Bosworth, 1485: A Challenge for Battlefield Archaeology
Date:	Monday, 7 November 2005, 17.30-18.30 (talk preceded by tea at 17.00)
Details:
Speaker: Glenn Foard, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room, Parkinson Building 4.06, University of Leeds For further details, please contact Alison Martin or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3620.

Emotions and Somatic Gestures in Medieval Narratives: The Case of Raoul de Cambrai
Date:	Monday, 31 October 2005, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Speaker: Daniel Smail, Professor of History, Department of History, Fordham University, New York Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds For further details, please contact Sue Julier or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3617.

Reading and Writing at Castellum Lucullanum: The Library and Scriptorium of Abbot Eugippus
Date:	Wednesday, 26 October 2005, 17.15-18.15
Details:
Speaker: Abbie Gometz, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Info: For further details, contact G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk or W.R.Childs@leeds.ac.uk Room 327, School of History, University of Leeds.

The Papacy and Scandinavian Sainthood in the Middle Ages: Centrality of a Periphery?
Date:	Wednesday, 19 October 2005, 17.30-18.30
Details:
Speaker: Christian Krötzl, Professor of History, Department of History, University of Tampere Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds For further details, please contact Sue Julier or telephone +44 (0)113 343 3617.

The Medieval Use of Yorkshire's Rivers - A Day School
Date:	Saturday, 8 October 2005
Details:
Organised by Medieval and Roman Sections of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society and the York Philosophical Society £10 for the day, 09.30-16.30, refreshments included, booking essential (+44 (0)113 343 7910 or email secretary@yas.org). Location: Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Claremont, Clarendon Road, Leeds.

Eighteenth-Century French Politics and the Barbarian Invasion
Date:	Tuesday, 4 October 2005, 17.30
Details:
Ian N. Wood, Professor of Early Medieval History, School of History, University of Leeds Organised by Leeds eighteenth-century group Brotherton collection room, level 4 Brotherton library, University of Leeds

Past Events 2005-2004

International Medieval Congress 2005 - Special Thematic Strand: Youth and Age
Date:	11-14 July 2005
Details:
Organised by the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds.The Congress also hosts a series of events which are open to the general public. For further information please click here or contact the IMC at imc@leeds.ac.uk.

A Presentation on the AHRB-funded project A Repertorium of Middle English Prose Sermons
Date:	16 June 2005
Details:
Speaker: Veronica O'Mara and Suzanne Paul, Department of English, University of Hull Location: Le Patourel Room, Parkinson 4.06, University of Leeds, 17.30-18.30 (with tea starting at 17.00).

Islamic Burial Study Day
Date:	18 May 2005
Details:
Speaker:Anne Macklin, Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Leeds Location:10.30-17.30. For further details, contact anne662@ntlworld.com

Excursion: Heslerton Parish Project and the Landscape Research Centre
Date:	14 May 2005
Details:
For further information please contact medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk.

The Fetch-Dream in Old Icelandic Literature: Some Instances of níð and ergi in the Poetry of Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar
Date:	9 May 2005
Details:
Speaker: Jonjo Roberts, School of English, University of Leeds Edel Porter, School of English, University of Leeds Location: Le Patourel Room, Parkinson 4.06, University of Leeds, 17.30-18.30 (with tea starting at 17.00).

Rituals and Rebellions under Louis the Pious, 814-840: Can We Go beyond the Text?
Date:	4 May 2005
Details:
Speaker: Christina Pössel, School of History, University of Leeds. For further details, contact g.a.loud@leeds.ac.uk Location: Room 327, School of History, University of Leeds, 17.15-18.15.

Symbols of the Psychopomp? Romanesque Parish Church Towers in Lincolnshire: A New Reading
Date:	27 April 2005
Details:
Speaker: David Stocker, English Heritage (In association with the School of History, University of Leeds) Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds.

Medieval Warfare from the Perspective of Human Remains
Date:	20 April 2005
Details:
Speaker: Christopher J. Knüsel, Senior Lecturer in Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds

Connectors and Catalysts: Forces for Change in the Medieval Period - A One-Day Symposium
Date:	21 March 2005
Details:
Hosted by the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds

Texts, Landscapes, and Land Use: Northern Spain in the Tenth Century
Date:	9 March 2005
Details:
Speaker: Wendy Davies, FBA, Professor of History, Department of History, University College London (In association with the School of History, University of Leeds) Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds.

Counting Sheep: Pastoral Farming in Suffolk 1300-1500
Date:	2 March 2005
Details:
Speaker: Mark Bailey, Headmaster, Leeds Grammar School & Honorary Lecturer, School of History, University of Leeds For further details, contact g.a.Loud@leeds.ac.ukRoom 327, School of History, University of Leeds, 17.15-18.15.

The Eugipii Reguli: A Bridge between the Regula Magistri and the Regula Benedicti? The Mendicant House of St Mary Cruciferorum of Candia in the Fourteenth Century
Date:	21 February 2005
Details:
Speaker: Abbie Gometz, IMS, Nicky Tsougarakis, IMS

The Economic Development of a South Italian Town and Its Contado, Troia 1050-1200
Date:	16 February 2005
Details:
Speaker: Paul Oldfield, School of History, University of Leeds Location: Room 327, School of History, University of Leeds, 17.15-18.15. For further details, contact g.a.Loud@leeds.ac.uk

Shooting the Past: Putting the Middle Ages on Television
Date:	26 January 2005
Details:
Bettany Hughes, TV Historian Location: Lecture Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds.

Reading Medieval Maps
Date:	17 January 2005
Details:
Alfred Hiatt, School of English [Please bring £1.50 if you wish to have home baking with tea before this meeting]

Reflections on the Failure of the Second Crusade
Date:	8 December 2004
Details:
Speaker: Graham Loud, Professor of Medieval Italian History, School of History, University of Leeds Info: For further details, contact G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk Room 327, School of History, University of Leeds, 17.15-18.15.

John of Gaunt and His Armour: The Rothwell Jack
Date:	6 December 2004
Details:
Speaker:Karen Watts, Royal Armouries [Please bring £1.50 if you wish to have home baking with tea before this meeting]

Weaving the Text: The Chansons de toile and Some Analogues
Date:	1 December 2004
Details:
Speaker: Alan Deyermond, FBA, Research Professor, Queen Mary, University of London Location:Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, University of Leeds.

The Importance of Choosing Your Words Carefully: Æthelweard's Chronicon and Its Sources; The Pope and his Counsellors: The Process of Decision-Making under John XXII
Date:	22 November 2004
Details:
Speaker: James Roberts, IMS Melanie Brunner, IMS

Like Lambs to the Slaughter: Improvising Murder in the Twelfth Century. The Assassinations of Bishop Gaudry of Laon, Count Charles of Flanders, and Archbishop Thomas Becket of Canterbury
Date:	10 November 2004
Details:
Speaker: Jeff Rider, Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures, Department of Romance Languages, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut (In association with the School of History, University of Leeds) Location: Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, University of Leeds.

Robin Hood, King Arthur, and Cold War Chivalry
Date:	27 October 2004
Details:
Speaker: Jeffrey Richards, Professor of Cultural History, Department of History, University of Lancaster Location: Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, University of Leeds

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