Medieval Research Centre Seminars and Events, Autumn Term 2012.

Medieval Research Centre Seminars and Events, Autumn Term 2012.

University of Leicester.

Monday 8 October. 1pm (Attenborough Tower 1315)	MRC Welcome event	WELCOME LUNCH FOR MEDIEVALISTS OLD AND NEW
Monday 15 Oct. 1pm (Archaeology Seminar Room)	Prof. Norman Housley (History)	Crusading responses to the Turkish threat in visual culture, 1453-1519
Saturday 27 Oct. 5pm. All Saints’ Church, Brixworth Northants	The Brixworth Lecture 2012: Prof. Faith Wallis (McGill University, Canada)	Visualising Time and Nature in Anglo-Saxon England
Monday 29 October, Woodhouse Room, Charles Wilson Building 11-4	Joint Medical Humanities & MRC Workshop, Prof. Faith Wallis (McGill University, Canada)	Purging and Prognostication in the Middle Ages
Tuesday 30 Oct.	MRC Field Trip	Anglo-Saxon Fletton and Peterborough Cathedral
Thursday 8 Nov. 2.15 (SR 1 Salisbury Road)	English Local History Research Seminar, Dr Kate Giles (University of York)	Recent Research on the Guild buildings of Stratford-upon-Avon
Friday 9 Nov. 1-2pm Peter Williams Lecture Theatre, FJ SW	Literary Leicester: Dr Ben Parsons & Dr Sarah Knight (English)	Medieval and Renaissance Violence in the Classroom
Monday 19 Nov. 1pm (ATT 216)	MRC Seminar: Owen Roberson (English)	Soul Ownership: The Devil in the Old English Law-Codes
Monday 26 Nov. 1pm (Archaeology Seminar Room)	MRC Seminar: Gregorio Bevilacqua (AHRC Research Fellow, Dept of Music, Southampton)	‘Lutum, later et palea”: Jews in the thirteenth-century Polyphonic Conductus
Monday 3 Dec. 1pm (room Att 216)	MRC Seminar: Shazia Jagot (English)	Medievalists and the Middle East
Monday 10 Dec. 6pm (KE LT 3 TBC)	MRC Public Lecture: Prof. Martin Foys (Associate Professor of English, Drew University, USA)	The Bayeaux Tapestry: A Network of Myth and History
Mon/Tues 10/11 Dec.	Prof Foys will run two MRC Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshops.	More info to follow.

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