Denys Hay Lecture

The Denys Hay seminar is held to commemorate the work of Denys Hay (1915-1994), Professor of Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh from 1954-1980.

The next Denys Hay Lecture will be held in 2025.

Past Denys Hay Lectures

2019

Professor John Haldon (Princeton University), 'St Theodore, Euchaïta and Anatolia, c.500–1000 CE: Landscape, climate and the survival of an empire'.

2018

Professor Gábor Klaniczay (Central European University), 'Bodily Signs of Devine Presence - Medieval Christianity in Comparative Context'.

2017

Professor Simon Ditchfield (University of York), '"Here time becomes Space": Roma sancta in the making of Roman Catholicism as a world religion'.

2016

Professor Catherine Clarke (University of Southampton), 'Place machines: memory, imagination and the medieval city'

2015

Professor Jerry Brotton (Queen Mary, University of London), 'Globalisation: the emergence of a cartographic idea'.

2014

Professor David Abulafia (University of Cambridge), 'The Pure Heart: Rene of Anjou and Fifteenth-century Europe'

2013

Professor Henry Maguire (Johns Hopkins University), 'Why was there no Renaissance in Byzantine art?’.

2011

Professor Judith Bennett (University of Southern California), 'Death and the Maiden'.

2010

Professor Susan Frye (University of Wyoming), 'The Lady and the Unicorn: a "new" textile portrait of Mary Queen of Scots'.