Hilary Term 2010

Events in the next seven days:

Week 4

Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
Professor Thomas F. Mathews, 'The pagan piety of the Emperor Saint Constantine the Great'
Wed 5pm, Ioannou Centre

Medieval English Research Seminar
Professor Jeremy Smith, 'Textual Afterlives: the reception of medieval texts 1500–1800'
Wed 5.15pm, History of the Book Room, St Cross Building

Stubbs Society
Christianity & Islam in the Middle Ages, 'Christianity & Islam in the Middle Ages'
Wed 8.20pm, New Seminar Room, St John's College

Middle High German Literature Seminar
Nigel Palmer, 'The mystical lyric (Medieval German)'
Wed 11.15pm, 41 Wellington Square

Celtic Seminar
Professor Huw Pryce , 'Race, geography and the origins of the Welsh: new perspec-tives on a nation's past, 1880–1930'
Thursday 3pm, Memorial Room, Jesus College

Carlyle Lectures: The Transformation of the Republican Idea in the Italian Renaissance
James Hankins, 'The Post-Monarchical Moment'
Thursday 5pm, Examination Schools

Late Roman Seminar
Phil Booth , 'John Moschus's Spiritual Meadow as an historical source'
Thursday 5pm, Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College

Crusades Seminar
Hugh Doherty , 'Roger of Howden and the siege of Acre 1190–91'
Thursday 5pm, Old Library, Hertford College

Seminar in medieval and renaissance music
Renata Pieragostini , 'Outsiders' Incursions into Music in Late Medieval Italy'
Thursday 5pm, Wharton Room, All Souls College

Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Ethics, Politics and Law
Angelo Campodonico , 'Reading Aquinas on Natural Law'
Thursday 5pm, 17 Beaumont St

Medieval Visual Culture Seminar: Geographies of Devotion
Lucy Donkin, '"A burial in the soil of Rome": Earthen Relics and Sacred Topographies in Medieval Italy, France, and Ireland'
Friday 1pm, Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty

Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity
Riccardo Bof, 'Law, Marriage, and Divorce in the West: from Constantine to Teutberga'
Friday 2pm, Memorial Room, Worcester College

James Ford Lectures: The Normans and Empire
Professor David Bates, 'Hegemony'
Friday 5pm, Examination Schools

Week 5

Leverhulme Lectures
Thomas Mathews, 'Icons in church and the Eusebian theological dilemma of representations of Christ'
Monday 4pm, Lecture Rm 1, Oriental Institute

Oxford University Heraldry Society
Jerome Bertram, 'The Arms of the Dead'
Monday 5pm, Taylorian Institution

The Medieval Studies Lecture 2009–10
Professor Roberta Gilchrist (University of Reading), 'The archaeology of heirlooms: memory, materiality and the medieval household'
Monday 5.15pm, Examination Schools

Europe in the Later Middle Ages: Rome
Dr Francesco Guidi Bruscoli, 'Florentine bankers and papal finances in Renaissance Rome'
Tuesday 5pm, Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty

Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar: Constantinople
Professor Jim Crow, 'Downhill all the Way? Managing the Water Supply of Constantinople'
Tuesday 5pm, New Seminar Room, St John's College

Medieval Church and Culture seminar: Passing On
Roberta Gilchrist, 'Ancient things in medieval graves: heirlooms or occult objects?'
Tuesday 5.15pm, Garrard Room, Harris Manchester College

Medieval French
Dr Francesco Guidi Bruscoli, 'Lasse, fet ele... Le long écho des chansons de femmes'
Tuesday 5.15pm, Maison Française