Seminarios de la University of London: Earlier Middle Ages

University of London
Institute of Historical Research
Earlier Middle Ages

Convenors : Stephen Baxter, Julia Crick, David Ganz, Caroline Goodson, Peter Heather, Hugh Kennedy, Alice Rio, Antonio Sennis, Alice Taylor, Jinty Nelson, Dionysios Stathakopoulos, Alan Thacker.

Venue : The Court Room, unless othrwise noted in the programme, below
Time: Wednesday, 5.30pm

Programme - Spring Term 2013 :

9 January
Etienne Renard (University of Namur -Belgium)
From Merovech to Clovis: what can we really know?

16 January
Robert Houghton (St Andrews)
The vocabulary of groups in eleventh-century Mantua

23 January
Els Schröder (York)
Searching for friendship in Anglo-Saxon sources: multilingual insights into tenth-century elite culture

30 January
Hugh Kennedy (SOAS)
Landholding and law in the early Islamic state

6 February
Zubin Mistry (UCL)
Tradition in practice: thinking about abortion under the Carolingians

13 February
Not meeting this week

20 February
Paul Harvey (Durham)
How to run your landed estate in 11th-century England

27 February
Marie Legendre (Oxford)
Not Byzantine nor Islamic? The Duke of the Thebaid and the formation of the Umayyad State

6 March
James Lloyd (Cambridge)
Local government in Wessex before the Hundred

13 March
George Molyneux (Oxford)
The formation of the English kingdom in the tenth century

20 March
Katy Dutton (Manchester)
Negotiating non-royal power in the twelfth century

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