2007
Thursday 15 February
Dr Vanessa Harding, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology,
Birkbeck College, University of London
'Home and family in later medieval London'
Vanessa's research centres on the history of medieval and early
modern London, and in particular, the interaction of social life
and the physical environment. In early 2007 she was working on
a study of the history of the family and household in London in
the late medieval and early modern periods.
Tuesday 6 March
David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor of English, Department of
English, University of Pennsylvania
‘ Griselde before Chaucer : Love between Men, Women,
and Farewell Art’
Much of this talk was, in fact, dedicated to the Petrarch-Boccaccio
relationship.
Tuesday 22 May
Philippa Bright, Honorary Research Associate, Department of English,
University of Sydney
'The Insular Versions of the Gesta Romanorum and their role
as Didactic Texts.'
With a focus on the English as well as the Anglo-Latin versions
of the Gesta, a discussion of their post medieval as well as of
their medieval use.
2006
1 August
Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Centre for Medieval Studies, University
of York
Literature that Counts? Post-Lateran vernacular reading in England
5 October
Professor James Grier, University of Western Ontario
Hoax, History, and Hagiography in Adémar de Chabannes’ Texts
for the Divine Office
31 October
Emily Lethbridge, Postgraduate Student, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Medieval Textuality and the Case of Gísla saga Súrssonar
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