Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies seminars

The Centre hosts a seminar series which takes place throughout the academic year and is open to staff, students and the general public

Semester 1 2025/26

Please check below for times, dates and venues. Please note that speakers without affiliations indicated are the University of Edinburgh.

DateSpeakerTopicTime and Venue
Fri 26 SepPhilippe Buc (Leiden University)Buddhadharma, rajahdarma, regnum, sacerdotium: Some Comparisons between Medieval Japan and Western Medieval Europe (Denys Hay Lecture)5:15pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Doorway 4
Tue 7 OctJacob MorleyLombards in the Papal Communication Network: A Quantitative Approach to Regional Recruitment, 1198–1254 (co-badged with LAMPS)5:15pm, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College
Fri 10 OctElise WatsonWomen’s labour and Renaissance Women as Transnational Publishers (Renaissance Discussion Group)1-2pm, Room 3.52, Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI)
Mon 13 OctAnthi Andronikou (University of Glasgow)The Peregrinations of a Crusade King in Italian Material Culture, 1362–1368 (Byzantine Studies Seminar)5:10pm, LG.09, 40 George Square
Tue 14 OctJohn Arnold (University of Cambridge)The Social Dynamics between Priests and Laity in southern France, c. 1100-13005:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square
Thu 23 OctAlex Woolf (University of St Andrews)From Irish Province to English Fief: The Making of the Scottish Kingdom (co-badged with the Scottish History Seminar)5:15pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Doorway 4
Tue 28 OctCMRS Reading GroupA discussion of Lyndal Roper, 'Emotions and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6' available here5:15pm, G.10, Old Medical School, Doorway 4
Thu 6 NovNicole CummingAnimals, the Environment and the ‘Protestant’ Worldview in Seventeenth-Century Scotland, c.1600-1660 (co-badged with the Scottish History Seminar)5:15pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Doorway 4
Fri 7 NovLuke HoughtonPublio Francesco Modesti's Venetias (The Venetiad) (1521) (Renaissance Discussion Group)1-2pm, Room 3.52, Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI)
Tue 11 NovAlejandro Pombo Rial (University of Salamanca)Local Priests and Family Monasteries in Early Medieval North-Western Spain5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square
Thu 20 NovAndrew Simpson (University of Aberdeen)The Earliest Surviving Version of the Leges et Consuetudines Quatuor Burgorum: Fresh Perspectives (co-badged with the Scottish History Seminar)5:15pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Doorway 4
Wed 26 NovNeil McClelland (University of Glasgow)Art, Inequality, and the Black Death in Naples (Edinburgh–Glasgow Medieval Seminar Exchange) (co-badged with LAMPS)5:15pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Doorway 4
Tue 2 DecCMRS Reading GroupA discussion of Rory Naismith, 'Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664–687 in England', Past and Present (2025)5pm, Room 1.26, Old Medical School, Doorway 4
Fri 5 DecJess BaileyThe Word for Quilting was Work: Medieval Figurative Quilts, Military Masculinity, and Romance Narratives (Renaissance Discussion Group)1-2pm, Room 3.32, Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI)

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