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Armchair Archaeology: Digging Digitally with Dr. Lorna Richardson
A talk on how to discover your local historic environment from the comfort of your own home with Dr. Lorna Richardson.
Jews and Jewishness in English Renaissance Literature and Culture
Weekly via Zoom, 16 Mar – 18 May 2022. This course, will tackle complex themes by reading and discussing canonical and lesser-known English Renaissance texts that feature Jewish characters and Jewish questions. Topics that range from medieval literary precedents to Elizabethan theater conventions will be examined, reading excerpts from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, and much more. This class is open to anyone interested in the topic.
Marché Médiéval 2022
Il aura lieu le samedi 4 juin et dimanche 5 juin. Chalet, chapiteau Santonier, et extérieur pour toute inscription et tarifs veuillez vous adresser au centre culturel de la mairie
Talk: Dr Rebecca Boyd ‘The best seat in the house? Being at home in Viking-Age Waterford.’
29/04/2022 Dr Rebecca Boyd ‘The best seat in the house? Being at home in Viking-Age Waterford.’
Society for Renaissance Studies Annual Lecture 2022
The lecture brings together scholars to explore the connectedness of Scotland and sixteenth-century Continental Europe.
Men of Terror: Viking Combat
About one thousand years ago, a man named Fraði died in Sweden. His kinsmen raised a granite runestone to his memory in Denmark. The inscription tells us that Fraði was the“first among all Vikings” and that he was a “terror of men.” What did Fraði do that caused him to be memorialized with this stone? What was this society that immortalized men like Fraði in a stone that has stood for one thousand years, people who were men of terror?
Hildegard of Bingen: Medieval Herbalist (3-week series)
You are invited to join us for this three-part series exploring some of the herbal remedies recorded by Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century German Benedictine Herbalist and Natural Healer. We will be using excerpts from her great works, Physica and Causes and Cures.
Hildegard of Bingen: Medieval Herbalist (3-week series)
You are invited to join us for this three-part series exploring some of the herbal remedies recorded by Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century German Benedictine Herbalist and Natural Healer. We will be using excerpts from her great works, Physica and Causes and Cures.
Hildegard of Bingen: Medieval Herbalist (3-week series)
You are invited to join us for this three-part series exploring some of the herbal remedies recorded by Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century German Benedictine Herbalist and Natural Healer. We will be using excerpts from her great works, Physica and Causes and Cures.
The Guest of the Body: Visualizing Souls in Medieval Europe, 1100-1200
This talk looks at a series of medieval images, particularly funerary monuments, that reflect on the departure of the soul and emphasize its fraught relationship to the body that is left behind, and to which it shall return.
Imagining Jerusalem in Late Medieval Nuremberg: Adam Kraft & Albrecht Durer – Lecture
Recent research shows that imagining Jerusalem played a crucial part in many late medieval devotional practices – virtual pilgrimages to Jerusalem, reconstructions of its topography and sacred places in European cities, visualizations of one’s own city as Jerusalem.
The Battle of Nechtansmere Webinar – Ecgfrith of Northumbria vs. the Picts
In this webinar, we will look at records of the battle, the arguments for its location, and the historical background that makes it such a significant event in early medieval insular history.
