All seminars take place on Tuesdays at 5pm, in the video suites of participating institutions. The Swansea video suite is located in James Callaghan 222.
Semester One
13 October 2009
Estelle Stubbs (Sheffield)
Was the Hengwrt manuscript the earliest copy of the 'Canterbury Tales': the scribal evidence
Hosts: Aberystwyth
27 October 2009
Jeremy Gregory (Manchester)
Refashioning puritan New England: the church of England in British North America, c.1680-c.1770
Hosts: Bangor
10 November 2009
Peter Jones (King's, London)
'Quintessence works one hundred times better': alchemy and the medical practitioners before Paracelsus
Hosts: Lampeter
24 November 2009
Dr Karen Bosnos (Emory)
Two sides to the story: alternative discourses of treason in Anglo-Norman histories
Hosts: Swansea
8 December 2009
Dr Kees Dekker (Groningen)
Anglo-Saxon notes: what did they query?
Hosts: Bangor
Semester Two
19 January 2010
James Shaw (Sheffield)
Writing to the Prince: State, law and individual in sixteenth-century Tuscany
Hosts: Swansea
2 February 2010
Peredur Lynch (Bangor)
Welsh ballads and the growth of Britishness
Hosts: Bangor
16 February 2010
Malte Urban (Queen's Belfast)
Gower on (the) edge
Hosts: Aberystwyth
2 March 2010
Malyn Newitt (King’s College London)
The importance of islands in the formation of the maritime communities, empires and ethnicities of the western Indian Ocean
Hosts: Swansea
16 March 2010
Rob Maslen (Glasgow)
Magical journeys in Early Modern prose
Hosts: Bangor
13 April 2010
Marion Wynne-Davies (Surrey)
‘With such a Wife ’tis heaven on earth to dwell’: Memorialising Early Modern Englishwomen
Hosts: Bangor
27 April 2010
Sarah Salih (King’s London)
Unpleasures of the flesh: Medieval marriage, masochism and the history of heterosexuality
Hosts: Swansea