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Papers and Lectures by MEMS Members in 2012
| Date/Conference | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
3rd February 2012 British Library |
Dr Alixe Bovey | 'Sublime words, ridiculous images: visual humour in the Royal manuscript collection' |
17th February 2012 Royal Manuscript Study Day, British Library |
Dr Alixe Bovey | 'Sinning monks and naughty monkeys' |
20th February 2012 University of Exeter |
Dr Catherine Richardson | 'Method for investigating the experience of the household' |
23rd-25th February University of Bristol Image and Identity Postgraduate Medieval Conference |
Jayne Wackett | Identity through Iconography: Revelations of an abbot’s role and religion through the iconography of Westminster Abbey’s Litlyngton Missal |
16th March 2012 University of Nottingham, Institute for Medieval Research Annual Lecture |
Dr Alixe Bovey | "'Is it a sin to be serious'?: Pleasure, profanity, and the illuminated margins of gothic manuscripts" |
16th-17th March 2012 Annual EMREM Symposium, University of Birmingham |
Diane Heath | 'Mermaids and Unicorn-Catchers: the Whores and Virgins of the Medieval Latin Bestiary' |
5th-7th April 2012 Shakespeare Association of America, annual meeting (Boston) |
Professor Bernhard Klein | "Camoes and the Sea: Maritime Modernity in The Lusiads" |
26th April 2012 Swansea Postgraduate Conference |
Rhiannon Mead | Did God Hate Lepers?
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28th April 2012 London Medieval Society |
Rhiannon Mead | Exploring the religious leper: Contradictory presentations of the leper in Late Medieval Texts
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11th May 2012 Symposium at Warwick, "Maritime Britain: Histories and Fictions, 1550-1800" |
Professor Bernhard Klein | To Be Announced
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11th May 2012 University of Kent Me fieri fecit: representation & role of owners, donors and patrons in medieval art
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Jayne Wackett | Arms and the Man: Abbot Litlyngton’s use of heraldry and monogram in the Great Westminster Missal |
25-27th May 2012 Parish Symposium at Warwick |
Dr Catherine Richardson | 'Material culture of early modern domestic life'
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22nd-23rd June 2012 International Workshop, "In Africa and Beyond: Historical and Cultural Constructions of the Sea", Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University Berlin |
Professor Bernhard Klein | To Be Announced
|
28th-30th June 2012 9th Annual Symposium International Medieval Society/Société Internationale des Médiévistes |
Diane Heath | ‘Do you listen only as ‘the dull ass to the lyre’?’: Burnellus the Ass visits Paris |
29th June - 1st July 2012 Conference, "Renaissance Old Worlds", British Library |
Professor Bernhard Klein | To Be Announced
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6th-8th July 2012 University of Huddersfield Religious Men in the Middle Ages
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Jayne Wackett | Devotions Declared: the patron's personal use of iconography in Westminster's Litlyngton Missal |
9th-11th July 2012 Society for Renaissance Studies Conference at Manchester |
Dr Catherine Richardson | Dr Richardson is part of a session on the expression of grief in early modern England
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9th July 2012 International Medieval Congress, 2012 |
Diane Heath | Panel Session 112: Sponsored by MEMS: Textual Boundaries of Human-Animal Interactions |
10th July 2012 09.00-10.30 Session Title: The Power of Books INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL CONGRESS 2012, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
11.15-12.45 Session Title: Studies in Memory of James M. Powell, II: Innocent III and Honorius III - The Popes in Action |
Dr Alixe Bovey
Dr Sarah James
Dr Ryan Perry
Jan Vandeburie |
Inconspicuous Consumption: Reconsidering the Book of Hours as an Instrument of Private Devotion Spreading the Light: Mapping the Vernacular Elucidarium in Medieval England The Mystery of the Devotional Miscellany: Some 15th-Century Compilations The Preacher and the Pope: Jacques de Vitry and the Papal Curia at the Time of the Fifth Crusade |
12th July 2012 09.00-10.30 Session Title: Connecting with the Subject INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL CONGRESS 2012, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
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Jayne Wackett
Rhiannon Mead
Thomas Lawrence |
Illuminating devotions: revelations of an abbot’s role and religion through the iconography of Westminster Abbey’s Litlyngton Missal.’ Did God Hate Lepers? History by Contact |
29th August - 1st September 2012 European Association for Urban History Conference at Prague |
Dr Catherine Richardson | 'Material renaissance in early modern England'
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September 2012 Winchester |
Rhiannon Mead | Vanishing Lepers: Lepers as messengers in Middle English
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26th-27th October 2012 ‘Cosmopolitan Animals’ Conference at the Institute of English Studies (IES) |
Diane Heath | 'animalized humans/ humanized animals' |
Conferences
Upcoming conferences
Previous conferences
- Contextualising the Fifth Crusade - Registration Now Open
- Me Fieri Fecit:
- Annual Shakespeare Association of America in Bellevue, Washington
- World Shakespeare Congress in Prague, Czech Republic
- Executing Papal Mandatezs in the Late Middle Ages
- The British Graduate Shakespeare Conference - Paper on The Paradoxical Virgin in 1 Henry VI - given by Luke Marappillil
- CIHEC British-Dutch Colloquium, Canterbury, 10th-13th April - 'Religious Leadership'
- Medieval Children
- John Lydgate's Lines: Poetic Practice
- Educating the Laity: Pastoral Care, c.1200-1600
- Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies 1500-1700 - A Conference
- Audience in Medieval & Early Modern Studies
- The Paradox of Mezzotint
- Defining the Metropolitan Region - Town, Countryside and Environment in London and the South East, 1580 - 1914. An ESRC/Kent Colloquium, 17-18 April.
- Bad Behaviour in Medieval & Early Modern Europe
- Use & Abuse of Private and Public Spaces in Late Medieval & Early Modern Towns
- Textus Roffensis Conference
- Explaining Supernatural Nature: Mediations Between Image, Text and Object in the Middle Ages
- Church, Law and Society in the Middle Ages (CLASMA) Research Network would like to announce the second of four AHRC-funded Colloquium
- British Archaeological Association Annual Lecture
- Courtauld Institute - Last Orders? The Art and Architecture of Religious Orders in England, c.1350–1540
- Fifth International Piers Plowman Conference, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
- "Hungry Ocean" conference, John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island