Medieval Section Lecture Saturday 11th January 2020

2.00 pm.  at Swarthmore

Our speaker will be Professor Michael Braddick from Sheffield University, and his topic is ‘Fire and Fury – the English Civil war’.

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Medieval Section Lecture – November 9th 2019

2pm at Swarthmore

Our speaker will be Dr Kate Giles, from the University of York

Shakespeare’s Guildhall, Stratford upon Avon

In this lecture, Kate will speak about her recent project at Stratford upon Avon, where she has been researching the history and archaeology of a complex of fifteenth century guild buildings, subsequently converted into Shakespeare’s School and recently the subject of a £1.4 million HLF project to open the building up to the public. Come and find out about Shakespeare’s medieval inheritance and hopefully be encouraged to visit the building yourself. 

IMS Open Lecture Series – Tuesday, 1 October at 17.30

The first lecture will take place on Tuesday, 1 October at 17.30, and will be given by Kathryn Rudy (Professor of Art History, University of St Andrews) on ‘Documentary Photography of Medieval Manuscripts and Its Embedded Assumptions’. The venue will be the Nathan Bodington Council Chamber on the first floor of the Parkinson Building, and following the lecture there will be a drinks reception in the Council Antechamber to which everybody is welcome to attend.

Kathryn Rudy is a manuscript historian at the University of St Andrews. She is best known for her forensic approach to medieval books, and has pioneered the use of the densitometer to measure the grime that original readers deposited in their books. She is currently developing ways to track and measure user response of late medieval manuscripts. More details can be found at < https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/art-history/people/kmr7>.

2019-2020 Programme

2019
October 12th John Collis on The death and rebirth of the Celts: from the Antique world to the Renaissance

November 9th Kate Giles on Stratford on Avon, Shakespeares Guildhall

December 14th William Flynn on Medieval Music for Advent and Christmas

2020

January 11th Mike Braddick on Fire & Fury – the English Civil war

February 8th Victoria Yuskaitis Anchorites, Archaeology, and Antiquarians: A New Archaeological Approach in Anchorite Studies

March 14th Peter Addyman Medieval York, the Historic Towns Atlas/ Merchant Adventurers of York/Yorkshire

April 4th Alan Murray Medieval warfare, chivalry

May 9th Martin Richards Archaeogenetics & human ancestry

Medieval Section Lecture – 9th March “Syon House archaeology, library, the Herbal, and medical practices”

Saturday 9th March 2019, 2.00 pm at Swarthmore

John Adams and Stuart Forbes: Syon House archaeology, library, the Herbal, and medical practices

The Syon Abbey Herbal, written by their last known librarian, was also the last herbal to be compiled before the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, and gives an insight to the common ailments, their  treatment, and healthcare in general in the Tudor period. The library at Syon, almost completely lost, was one of the best in Europe, and contained a wide range of up to date printed medical and astrological-medical books unavailable elsewhere in Britain, as well as rare medical texts in English.

The speakers will discuss the archaeology of the site as well as the Herbal.