The North West Medieval Studies Seminar is a weekly Zoom seminar bringing together scholars in history, English, theology, art history, medieval languages, archaeology, musicology and manuscript studies. We aim to provide a forum for PGRs and ECRs working in the North West to present their work alongside other colleagues, emeriti, and external speakers.

Dates for spring 2024: weekly 9 February – 15 March, 19 April – 26 April

Seminars will be held Friday lunchtime, 12-12.50.

Zoom meeting ID: 965 9278 5849, passcode: medieval

Spring 2024 schedule:

9 February, Jenny McHugh (Lancaster): ‘Ritual power, sacred kingship and Scottish sovereignty: the inauguration of David II of Scotland (1331)

16 February, Samuel Barber (Manchester): ‘Proditionis burgis: perceptions of treachery in the double town of Carcassone, 1240-1305′

23 February, Hannah Evans (Liverpool): ‘A brief comparison of textiles in medieval Irish and Icelandic literature’

1 March, Carole Pinnington (Liverpool): ‘Hagiography and the history of emotions: static emotions and changing emotions in the early medieval world’

8 March, Will Curtis (Manchester): ‘The Lombards and their saints: hagiographies, saints’ cults and ethnic performance in “Norman” South Italy’

15 March, Antonella Carbone (Liverpool): ‘In praise of god-like emperors in late antiquity: papyrus eulogies to Diocletian, Galerius and Zeno’

19 April, Catherine Clarke (Keele): ‘Power and patronage in the monastic houses of Shropshire’

26 April, Poppy Tester (Huddersfield): ‘Menstruation and realism in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’

Previous semester: autumn 2023

20 October, Eddie Meehan (Liverpool): ‘The rulership of Pippin I of Aquitaine’

27 October, Katherine Bellamy (Lancaster): ‘Tracing Mesoamerican landscapes: reading between the lines of a sixteenth-century textual corpus’

3 November, Ségdae Richardson-Read (Liverpool): ‘Sei∂r, the magic of transformation’

10 November, Emily Abercrombie (Liverpool): ‘”From the devil they came and to the devil they shall go”: the tainted ancestry of the Angevin kings in De Principis Instructione‘

17 November, Xiying Wang (Manchester): ‘The iconography of nudity in the Commedia and the denuded body in Dante manuscripts’

24 November, Elle Jones (Liverpool): ‘Surgery as a metaphor in the miracles of Kosmas and Damian’

Convenors for this seminar include: Eoghan Ahern (Liverpool), Meaghan Allen (Manchester),* Anne Anderton (Rylands), Kathleen Cushing (Keele), Rebecca Dixon (Liverpool), Clare Egan (Lancaster), Natalie Hanna (Liverpool), Katherine Lewis (Huddersfield), Stephan Mossman (Manchester), Thomas Pickles (Chester), Anna Probert (Liverpool),* Ingrid Rembold (Manchester),** Andrew Sargeant (Keele), Cordelia Warr (Manchester), Robin Whelan (Liverpool)

*PGR convenor          **Lead convenor