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Conference Papers

  • John Pryor, 2008. ‘Soldiers of fortune in the fleets of Charles I of Anjou, King of Sicily, ca 1265-85’, in Mercenaries and Paid Men: the mercenary identity in the Middle Ages, J. France ed., Brill, Leiden
  • Smadar Gabrieli, 2007, ‘A Region Apart : Coarse Ware Of Medieval And Ottoman Cyprus’, in Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Late Antique, Byzantine, Seljuk, and Ottoman Pottery and Tiles in Archaeological Context (Çanakkale, 1-3 June 2005), B. Böhlendorf-Arslan, A. O. Uysal, J. Witte-Orr, eds, BYZAS 7
  • John Pryor with Peter R. Wilson, 2007. ‘The Chain of the Golden Horn, 5-7 July 1203’, in In laudem Hierosolymitani : studies in Crusades and medieval culture in honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar, I. Shagrir, R. Ellenblum, and J. Riley-Smith eds, Ashgate, Aldershot
  • Harry Peters, 2007, 'Jupiter and Saturn : Medieval Ideals of "Elde"', in Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Albrecht Classen ed. (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture 2, Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge, eds.), Walter de Gruyter, Berlin.
  • Harry Peters, 2007, 'John Gower - Love of Words and Words of Love', in Words of Love and Love of Words in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (International Symposium, University of Arizona, April-May, 2005), Albrecht Classen, ed., Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe.
  • Brian Taylor, 2007, ‘Das Meisterlied als poetologische Urkunde’, in Sangspruchdichtung. Gattungskonstitution und Gattungsinterferenzen im europäischen Kontext. Internationales Symposium Würzburg, 15.-18. Februar 2006. Herausgegeben von Dorothea Klein zusammen mit Trude Ehlert und Elisabeth Schmid. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen.
  • Margaret Clunies Ross, 2006, ‘Poetry and Fornaldarsögur’, in The Fantastic in Old Norse/Icelandic Literature. Sagas and the British Isles. Preprint papers of the 13th International Saga Conference, Durham and York 6-12 August 2006, John McKinnell et al. eds

  • Michael Carter, 2006, ‘The Qur’an and the authority of Arab-Islamic linguistics’ (Symposium of Oslo and Gothenburg Universities at the Swedish Instititute, Istanbul, 3-6 November 2005), in Current Issues in the Analysis of Semitic Grammar and Lexicon II, 11-23, L. Edzard and J. Retso, eds, Harrassovitz, Wiesbaden
  • Michael Carter, 2006, ‘Approaches to the technical terms of Arabic grammar’, in Authority, Privacy and Public Order in Islam. Proceedings of the 22nd Congress of L’Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, Krakow 2004, B. Michalak-Pukulska and A. Pikulska eds, Leuven, Paris, Dudley

  • T. L. Burton, 2005, ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Hag : The Real Meaning of the Wife of Bath’s Tale’, for the 31st SEMA conference, Daytona Beach, Florida, October 2005, in “Seyd in forme and reverence” : Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr., T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer eds, Chaucer Studio Press, Provo, UT
  • Jose Manuel Cerda, 2005. ‘Towards a new paradigm for the study of the origins of parliamentary assemblies in England and the Spanish kingdoms,’ in Proceedings of the 53rd Conference of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions, J. Sobreques et al. eds, Vol. I, Barcelona
  • Jose Manuel Cerda, 2004. ‘The English Parliament in the making : Counsel, councils and politics in the reign of Henry II’, in Proceedings of the 54th Conference of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions, Kapitoly z dejin stavovskeho a parlamentniho zrizeni, Jiri Georgiev and Jan Kysela eds, Prague
  • Jose Manuel Cerda, 2004. ‘La convocación de representantes urbanos a la curia regia en Inglaterra y los reinos españoles y los orígenes de las asambleas parlamentarias’, for the 2nd Symposium of Young Medievalists, Lorca, Spain, 16-18 March 2004 (proceedings to be published March 2006)
  • Michael Carter, 2004. ‘Talking with and about God, Adam and the Arabic language’, in Proceedings of the Union of European Arabists and Islamicists Conference, Palermo 2002
  • Rifaat Ebied, 2004. ‘The Syriac Polemical Treatises of Dionysius bar Salibi, Metropolitan of Amid (d. 1171 AD) ’, in Papers of IXth Symposium Syriacum, The Holy Spirit University in Kaslik, Beirut
  • Rifaat Ebied, 2004. ‘An Unpublished short Arabic Poem of a Medieval Muslim-Christian Polemic’, in VIIth International Conference of Christian Arabic Studies, University of St. Joseph, Beirut
  • Geraldine Barnes, 2004. ‘Counsel in the riddarasögur: Ivens saga, Erex saga, Parcevals saga’, in Rittersagas - Übersetzung, Überlieferung, Transmission. Wissenschaftliches Symposion, 13 Mai - 16 May 2004. University of Basel, Switzerland. Unpaginated.
  • Geraldine Barnes, 2003. ‘The drama of faith West of Iceland’, in Scandinavian and Christian Europe in the Middle Ages. Papers of The 12th International Saga Conference, Bonn/Germany, 28th July - 2nd August 2003 , R. Simek and J. Meurer eds., Hausdruckerei der Universität Bonn, Bonn
  • Geraldine Barnes, 2003. ‘The Curious Case of the Painted Prince’. ANZAMEMS (The Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies) University of Melbourne.
  • Geraldine Barnes, 2003. ‘ The drama of faith West of Iceland.’ International Saga Conference, University of Bonn.
  • Geraldine Barnes, 2003. 'Travel and the Mapping of Icelandic Identity in Saga Narrative.' International Symposium: 'Saga Literature and the Shaping of Icelandic Culture'. The Library of Congress, Washington D.C..
  • John O. Ward, 2003. ‘Alan (of Lille?) as rhetor: unity from diversity?’, in Università degli Studi di Bologna: Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Medioevale, Papers on Rhetoric V, (Atti del Convegno Internazionale 'Dictamen, poetria and Cicero: coherence and diversification', Università di Bologna, Maggio 2002), Lucia Calboli Montefusco ed., Herder, Rome
  • Juanita Ruys, 2003. ‘ “La douceur d'une vie paternelle”: la représentation de la famille dans les oeuvres poétiques d'Abélard’, in Pierre Abélard: Colloque international de Nantes, J. Jolivet and H. Habrias eds, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes
  • Margaret Clunies Ross, 2003. ‘Christian Skladic rhetoric in Einarr Gilson's Selkolluvísur’, in Preprints of the Twelfth International Saga Conference, Bonn July 2003, R. Simek and J. Maurer eds, University of Bonn
  • Margaret Clunies Ross and Tarrin Wills, 2003. ‘The Skaldic editing project’, Plenary Lecture, in Preprints of the Twelfth International Saga Conference, Bonn July 2003, R.Simek ed., University of Bonn
  • John Pryor, 2002. 'Types of ships and their performance capabilities', in R. Macrides, ed., Travel in the Byzantine world : papers from the Thirty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine studies, Birmingham, April 2000 Aldershot
  • Geraldine Barnes, 2000. ‘The Vínland voyages: records of discovery and loss’ in Beschreibung der Welt. Zur Poetik der Reise- und Länderberichte Vorträge eines interdisziplinären Symposiums vom 8. bis 13 Juni 1998 an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Xenja von Ertzdorff ed., Rodopi: Amsterdam and Atlanta.
  • Geraldine Barnes, 1999. ‘Tristan in late medieval Norse literature: saga and ballad’ in Tristan und Isolt im pätmittelalter. Vorträge eines interdisziplinären Symposiums vom 3. bis 8. Juni 1996 an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Xenja von Ertzdorff ed., Rodopi: Amsterdam and Atlanta.
  • Rifaat Ebied, 1998, ‘Devil Worshippers : the Yazidis’, in Proceedings of the Seminar in Persian Studies during the Mehregan Persian Cultural Festival, Sydney, Australia, 28 October - 6 November 1994, Garry Trompf and Morteza Honari with Homer Abramian eds., Sydney Studies in Religion 1, Sydney University, Sydney