The Denys Hay Lecture is held to commemorate the work of Denys Hay (1915-1994), Professor of Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh from 1954-1980. The next Denys Hay lecture will take place in 2027Past Denys Hay Lectures2026 Stephen Guy-Bray (University of British Columbia), 'Ink and Pages: The Writing of Renaissance Poetry' 2025Philippe Buc (Leiden University), 'Buddhadharma, Rajahdarma, Regnum, Sacerdotium: Some Comparisons between Medieval Japan and Western Medieval Europe'2019John Haldon (Princeton University), 'St Theodore, Euchaïta and Anatolia, c.500–1000 CE: Landscape, Climate and the Survival of an Empire'2018Gábor Klaniczay (Central European University), 'Bodily Signs of Devine Presence - Medieval Christianity in Comparative Context'2017Simon Ditchfield (University of York), '"Here Time Becomes Space": Roma Sancta in the Making of Roman Catholicism as a World Religion'2016Catherine Clarke (University of Southampton), 'Place Machines: Memory, Imagination and the Medieval City'2015Jerry Brotton (Queen Mary, University of London), 'Globalisation: The Emergence of a Cartographic Idea'2014David Abulafia (University of Cambridge), 'The Pure Heart: Rene of Anjou and Fifteenth-century Europe'2013Henry Maguire (Johns Hopkins University), 'Why was there no Renaissance in Byzantine art?’2011Judith Bennett (University of Southern California), 'Death and the Maiden'2010Susan Frye (University of Wyoming), 'The Lady and the Unicorn: A "New" Textile Portrait of Mary Queen of Scots' This article was published on Thursday 1 August 2024
