Medieval and Ancient Seminar Series 2013-14
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
MARS is a seminar series that brings together the wealth of research conducted on the ancient and medieval worlds within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. This year’s programme covers subjects from ancient Greece and Rome to medieval England, from Atlantis and Roman Africa to Arab conquests and the medieval church.
Semester 1
Week 2 (9 October)
Classical Association Session
Matthew Fitzjohn, Liverpool
Sicilian houses of the Archaic and Classical periods: grand designs and hybrid homes
Week 4 (23 October)
Mark Faulkner (ENG)
Þa-inne iuurn dægæn: The sense of the literary past in twelfth-century English writing
Week 6 (6 November)
PGR Student Session
Dan Murphy (HIST)
A Time of Great Necessity: Imagining Crisis in the Medieval Church
Giulia Vollono (ARCH)
Who are the Lombards? A question of perspective
Week 8 (20 November)
Lizzie Craig-Atkins (ARCH)
Post-Mortem Manipulation of the Skeletonised Body in Early Christian Contexts
Week 10 (MONDAY 2 December)
Stephen Mitchell (ARCH, Exeter)
Rome and Isauria. Roads, troops and frontiers in Asia Minor
Week 11 (11 December)
James Palmer (St Andrews)*
Apocalypse and Arab Conquests: Views from the Eighth-Century West
*This paper was made possible by an anonymous benefactor
Semester 2
Week 2 (19 February)
Angie Hobbs (PHIL)
Plato and Atlantis
Week 4 (5 March)
Edmund King (HIST)
At the deathbed of Henry of Blois, bishop of Winchester
Week 5 (12 March)
Classical Association Session
David Mattingly, Leicester
Rome and Africa: the origins of an urban and agricultural boom
Week 6 (19 March)
PGR Student Session
Eleanor Hogdson (French)
Provoking change: Women in Guillaume de Palerne
Alyx Mattison (ARCH)
Changing Execution Practices in Early Medieval England
Week 9 (30 April)
Alessandro Sebastiani (ARCH)
MARS/Hunter Archaeological Society Joint Session
Temples, manufacturing workshops and river port: new excavations along the via Aurelia vetus in south Tuscany
Week 11 (14 May)
Sue Sherratt (ARCH)
Silver and the spread of civilisation