Videos Archive
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Exploring Byzantine Cartographies: Ancient Science, Christian Cosmology, and Geopolitics in Imperial-Era Mapping
Posted on May 19, 2012 | No CommentsDr. Papadopoulos will explain how the study of Byzantine maps illuminate how Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean people understood themselves, their belief systems, and their political positionality in territorial terms. -
Tourists and Tabulae in Late Medieval London
Posted on May 4, 2012 | No CommentsMichael Van Dussen examines a late-medieval Czech account of St Paul's Cathedral in London -
A Merchant’s Franklin’s Tale
Posted on May 2, 2012 | No CommentsExamines Geoffrey Chaucer's The Franklin's Tale, found in The Canterbury Tales, and a 15th century exemplum known as A Good Matter of the Merchant and His Son. -
Battle of the Nations – Warsaw, Poland
Posted on April 30, 2012 | No CommentsWatch live the World Championship on Historical Medieval Battle -
The Vikings and a Turbulent Anglo-Scandinavian World
Posted on April 27, 2012 | No CommentsThis talk will track the Vikings' impact on medieval England, an impact with effects that are still evident today. -
The Place of Humour in Medieval Literature and Culture
Posted on April 11, 2012 | No CommentsThis is a 10 minute synopsis of my doctoral dissertation concerning humour in medieval English literature and art delivered at the 2nd Annual Doctoral Research Showcase held in University College Cork on the 21st of June 2011 -
VAGANTES: “I See Red: Language of Blood and Feminity in Táin Bó Cúailnge
Posted on April 6, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper examined the role of Medb and Fedelm, the seer in the Táin. It focuses on this conversation between the seer and Medb. -
VAGANTES: The Case of a Married Female Saint: Rutebeuf’s Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
Posted on April 6, 2012 | No CommentsRutebeuf suggests that Elizabeth converts her husband, in contrast with the documented reality of a pious crusading man. I will argue that Rutebeuf portrays and exaggerates marital tension in this text, both to create an interesting narrative and to enhance Elizabeth’s model as a saint. This work thus illustrates a fascinating intersection of faith and literature in thirteenth century France. -
The Economics of Lady Mede’s Agency in The Vision of Piers the Plowman
Posted on March 31, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper will argue that rather than being controlled by the process of sexual commodification Lady Mede uses the correlation of gender, money, and sex to counter Conscience’s attempts to discount her place in the court and, in so doing, her agency. -
From Magic to Maleficium: The Crafting of Witchery in Late Medieval Text
Posted on March 31, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper will elucidate the importance of the interdependency among maleficium, gender, heresy and church doctrine in the cauldron of witch fears which bubbled forth in the late middle ages and boiled over in the early modern world. -
VAGANTES: Necessary Imperfection: The Body of Sainte Marie l’Egyptienne
Posted on March 30, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper seeks to examine the role of the body and its relationship to the world around it in the “vie de sainte” of Marie l’Egyptienne, who is an excellent example of a female saint who begins life as a sinner and transforms her body into something holy. This presentation will focus on the version of Marie l’Egyptienne’s life written by Rutebeuf in the 13th century, but will also bring in elements of other versions and of the stories of other female saints who transform their bodies for comparison. -
VAGANTES: “What has Beowulf to do with a Christian King?” Heroic Legend as Poetic Speculum Principis
Posted on March 30, 2012 | No CommentsThrough a rhetorical analysis based in grounded theory that analyzes fifteen speeches and their contexts made by Hroðgar, Beowulf, and Wiglaf, I will show how the poet appropriated the Beowulf legend to present a dramatized speculum principis using the rhetorical devices common to oral-traditional narratives to articulate the three traits of kingship most highly valued by both secular and sacred authorities: generosity, faith, and protectiveness. -
VAGANTES: What the Body Said: The Corpse-as-Text in St. Erkenwald
Posted on March 30, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper will consider how the speaking corpse of the pagan judge should be read, especially in light of the hagiographic context and medieval theological writings on the resurrection of the body. -
Medieval garbage in Leiden University Library
Posted on February 29, 2012 | No CommentsDr. Erik Kwakkel discovered a remarkable manuscript in the rich medieval book collection of Leiden University Libraries. -
Stones of Medieval Italy
Posted on February 27, 2012 | No CommentsTo celebrate the publication of Italian Medieval Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters by Lisbeth Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Jack Soultanian, international specialists will present talks on medieval sculpture.
