Edinburgh Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
The Centre hosts seminars throughout the academic year, which are open to all. Forthcoming and recent events are listed on this page.
Time and location
Seminars will take place online for now on Tuesdays at 5:15pm via Zoom. Booking will be through Eventbrite – details to follow.
Semester 2, 2020/21
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
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Tues 19 Jan |
Giacomo Vignodelli, Department of History and Culture, University of Bologna |
Episcopal culture and political critique in the post-Carolingian Kingdom of Italy: the new critical edition of Atto of Vercelli’s Polipticum (952-958). |
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| Tues 2 Feb |
Miranda Griffin, Department of French, University of Cambridge. |
The world in an egg: reading medieval ecologies |
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| Tues 16 Feb |
Rory Naismith, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge. |
How did Early Medieval money actually work? |
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| Tues 30 Mar |
Jane Stevens-Crashaw, School of History, Philosophy and Culture, Oxford Brookes University |
Wastelands: space, reuse and the urban body in early modern Genoa and Venice |
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| Date TBA |
Alison Beach, Department of History, University of St Andrews |
Title tba (paper on medieval female manuscript illuminators) |
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Further information
If you have any questions, please contact the seminar series organiser, Niels Gaul.
Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Contact details
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School of History, Classics and Archaeology
University of Edinburgh