Academic Schools and DepartmentsHistory

“Merovingian Medicine: Dead or Alive?” – Medieval History Seminar presented by James Palmer (St. Andrews)

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar
‘Russia and Courtly Europe: Early Modern Perspectives on Diplomatic Practice and Culture’ – Jan Hennings (Central European University)

Dr Ewan Gibbs (University of Glasgow)
‘Understanding Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland’

Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research Seminar
Saints Law Seminar – “Economics, Law, History” with Joao Rafael Cunha (St. Andrews) and Montserrat Lopez Jerez (St. Andrews)

“The Making of Rus: Medieval Realm, Late Medieval Literati, and Modern Historiography” – Medieval History Seminar presented by Yulia Mikhailova (New Mexico Tech)

Centre for French History and Culture – Salon Talk
‘Folcuin of St-Bertin and the Origins of the Cartulary in West Francia/France’ – presented by Cameron Houston (Medieval History)

Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research Seminar
Refugee Law Roundtable – “Forced Migration and Refugee Resettlement in the Long 1940s: A Connected and Global History”
Moderated by Kerstin von Lingen (Vienna) with contributions from Milinda Banerjee (St. Andrews), Rana Mitter (Oxford) and Sebastian Huhn (Osnabruck)

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar
‘”Paper, Bubble and Wind Trade”: Economies of Theatre and The Great Mirror of Folly (1720)’ – presented by Suzanne Kooloos (Amsterdam)

‘Cultural projections of royal authority in Prince Henry Frederick’s creation as Prince of Wales in 1610’ – presented by Clemmie De la Poer Beresford (University of St. Andrews)

‘Liminal insiders? Disabled Natural Fools and Wonders at the Scottish Royal Court 1488-1603’ – presented by Jessica Secmezsoy-Urquhart (University of Andrews)

“Book chest – study – private library: Where did medieval monastic superiors keep their books?” – Medieval History Seminar presented by Ben Pohl (University of Bristol)

Centre for French History and Culture – Salon Talk
‘Writing Enslaved People into the (Hi)story of Public Theatre in Colonial Saint-Domingue’ – presented by Julia Prest (Modern Languages, French)

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar
‘The Chinese Imprint. Printing and Publishing China in the Dutch Republic, 1595-1700’ – presented by Trude Dijkstra (Warburg)

Centre for French History and Culture – Biannual Seminar
‘Alexander the Minorite’s Commentary on the Apocalypse: Reassessing the First Crusade 150 Years Later’ – Jay Rubenstein (University of Southern California)

“The site of Lalibela and its history from a local to a transnational perspective (10th-16th centuries) – presented by Marie-Laure Derat (Orient et Mediterranee (CNRS))

Joint ILCR and ‘Edinburgh Roman Law Group’ Seminar – “The Edicts of the Praetors: Law, Politics and Revolution in Ancient Rome”
Lisa Eberle (Tubingen)

“To underlie the law within three tides as sea faring men’ : Merchants and mariners before the Aberdeen courts in the later middle ages” – presented by Dr Edda Frankot (Nord University)

Reformation Day Lecture – Lyndal Roper (Oxford)
‘”The Devil himself” meets “Dr Liar”: Martin Luther and Thomas Muntzer’

Medieval History Seminar – presented by Giles Gasper (Durham) – title to be confirmed

Centre for French History and Culture – Salon Talk
‘Leopold Sedar Senghor and Pierre Soulages talk rhythm in Paris, c.1956-60’ – presented by Natalie Adamson (Art History)

‘Creating a nation: an artefactual history of Scotland AD 800-1200’ – Adrian Maldonado (National Museums of Scotland)
A joint seminar with Medieval History and ISHR

Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research Seminar
Lecture on ‘The Historical Constitution’ by Harshan Kumarasingham (Edinburgh)

Medieval History Seminar
“Between Textual and Emotional Communities? Touch and Medieval French Literary Culture” presented by Henry Ravenhall (Cambridge)

Medieval History Seminar JOINT with English
“‘Writing – to the Moment’ in Richard Methley’s Mystical Diary Refectorium Salutis (1487)” presented by Laura Saetveit-Miles (University of Bergen)

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar
‘”Be a sinner and sin boldly.” Albrecht Dürer: Guilt, faith and the epidemic of his time’ – presented by Birgit Münch (Bonn)

Centre for French History and Culture – Salon Talk
‘Mapping the French Relationship with the Anglo-Saxons in the Twentieth Century’ – presented by Andy Williams (International Relations)

Scottish History Seminar
Education and the Catholic Mission in Scotland, c. 1660-1707 – presented by Dr Karie Schultz (University of St Andrews)