Medieval Church and Culture

Tuesdays, Carpenter Room, Harris Manchester College

Refreshments from 5pm; papers begin at 5.15pm
Everyone is welcome at this informal and friendly graduate seminar

Week 1
28th April

Charles Roe (Mansfield)

The Vulgate Cycle and the Vernacular in High Medieval England

Week 2
5th May

Patrick Outhwaite (St. Catherines)

The Church Sleeping: Physiological and Eschatological Sleep Imagery in the
Lanterne of Lit

Week 3
12th May

John Schnakenberg (Blackfriars)

The Dominican Processionarium: Religious Observance and Lay Piety in
13th-century Italy.

Week 4
19th May

Conner Noteboom (Harris Manchester)

Week 5
26th May

Sian Witherden (Merton)

The Dialogue between Late-Medieval English Biblical Drama and Stained
Glass Windows

Week 6
2nd June

Laura Cleaver (Trinity College, Dublin)

Forging History in Twelfth-Century England

Week 7
8th June

no seminar. Medieval Studies lecture:

Seth Lerer (University of California, San Diego)
What Was Late-Medieval English Poetry?

Week 8
16th June

Lesley Abrams (Balliol)

Baptism, Conversion, and Apostasy in Normandy in the Early 10th Century:
The Archbishop of Reims and the Vikings on the Seine

Hagiography or History: Situating a Hebrew Crusade Chronicle in its Christian

Cultural Context

Convenors: Margaret Coombe (HMC), Karl Kinsella (Keble), Lesley Smith (HMC), Gustav Zamore
(Merton)