Since 1988, the Medieval Studies Program and the Division of Continuing Studies have offered a day-long program early in February with several guest lecturers speaking on topics of particular interest to medievalists. This year's Workshop is titled:

Magicians, Seers and Sages
February 4, 2012

Our guest speaker for the upcoming Medieval Workshop ('Magicians, Seers and Sages', 4 February 2012) is Dr Stephen Knight. Dr. Knight is distinguished Research Professor in the Department of English, University of Wales. He has written extensively about Medieval literature, particularly Robin Hood and Arthurian legend, and has also published studies of crime fiction. His many books include, Arthurian Literature and Society (1983), Robin Hood: A complete study of the English Outlaw (1994), Robin Hood: A mythic Biography (2003), and Merlin: Knowledge and Power through the Ages (2009).

Links for In Our Time on BBC Radio 4
Stephen Knight-Discussion of Merlin
Stephen Knight-Discussion of Robin Hood
The Holy Grail
The Norse Gods
Witchcraft
Alchemy

Themes explored in previous workshops:

"Medieval Lives" (2011)
"Animals in the Medieval World" (2010)
"Medieval Mediterranean" (2009)
"Medieval Inventions" (2008)
"Medieval Paris" (2007)
"Nature Tamed And Wild" (2006)
"The Medieval Family" (2005)
"Heroes and Heroines in the Middle Ages" (2004)
"Love of Learning in the Middle Ages" (2003)
"Medieval Jerusalem" (2002)
"Pleasure, Pomp and Power: Aspects of the Medieval Courtly World" (2001)
"Rome in the Late Middle Ages" (2000)
"Raiders and Traders in the Middle Ages" (1999)
"Florence in the Middle Ages" (1998)
"Crime and Punishment" (1997)
"Sacred and Profane Love" (1996)
"The Crusades" (1995)
"Medieval Constume and Textiles" (1994)
"Islam, Byzantium and the West" (1993)
"Travel in the Middle Ages" (1992)
"Law in the Middle Ages" (1991)
"The Normans and their Conquests" (1990)
"The Quest for King Arthur" (1989)
"The Book in the Middle Ages" (1988)