Animals in the Medieval World [2010] Marcus Milwright, University of Victoria : Introduction. Catherine Harding, University of Victoria : Animals on Display: Western European Menageries from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Margaret Cameron, University of Victoria : Do Animals Talk to Angels?. Erik Kwakkel, University of Victoria : From Beast to Book. Aleksander Pluskowski, University of Reading : Lupus: Imagining and Experiencing Wolves in Medieval Europe. Hélène Cazes, University of Victoria : The Tongue of the Serpent, the Eye of the Basilisk and the Breath of the Dragon: Mythical Snakes of Medieval Christianity.
Medieval Mediterranean [2009] Iain Higgins, University of Victoria : Introduction - The Medieval Mediterranean. Marcus Milwright, University of Victoria : From Cullet to Ginger: International Trade in the Medieval Mediterranean. Alain Touwaide, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute: Plants and Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean. Lloyd Howard, University of Victoria : Dante's Mediterranean World: Exodus Home and Away from Italy's Shores. Karla Mallette, Miami University : The Literatures of Medieval Sicily: Greek, Latin, Arabic and Italian. Eva Bampoula, University of Victoria : The Holy Cities of Jerusalem and Constantinople in the Medieval Imagination.
Medieval Inventions [2008] Iain Higgins, University of Victoria : Introduction - The Wide World of Medieval Technology. Marcus Milwright, University of Victoria : Silver Trees and Water Clocks: Mechanical Devices in the Royal Courts of Constantinople and the Islamic World. Jonathan Bloom, Boston College : Paper before Print: How Paper Traveled from China to the West and Transformed Civilization along the Way. Erik Kwakkel, University of Victoria : Turning over a New Leaf: The Invention of the Page in Medieval Europe. Bert S. Hall, University of Toronto : Leonardo da Vinci's Mechanical Inventions: The Problem of Originality. Richard Unger, University of British Columbia : New Beer in New barrels: Inventive Medieval Brewers.
Medieval Paris [2007] Rebecca A. Baltzer, University of Texas at Austin : Paris: Musical Capital of Medieval Europe. Hélène Cazes, University of Victoria : Secret Paris: Rogueries and Miracles in the Fifteenth Century. Sharon Farmer, University of California, Santa Barbara : The Making of Europe's Fashion Capital in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. Catherine Harding, University of Victoria : Monumental Paris. Erik Kwakkel, University of Victoria : Books in Tatters: The fortunes and Misfortunes of a Student's Textbook from the University of Paris.
Musical Interlude with Liber unUsualis.
Theatrical Interlude from the streets of Paris: The Washtub, A Medieval Farce.
NATURE TAMED AND WILD [2006] Hélène Cazes, University of Victoria: Secret Gardens and Orchards:
The Landscape of Love Jean Givens, University of Connecticut: Liars, Fools, and Truth-Tellers. Medieval Art and the Case of the Wandering Elephant (Observing and Describing Nature in Gothic Europe) Catherine Harding, University of Victoria: To everything there is a season...: Representing the Labours of the Months in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts Iain Higgins, University of Victoria: Literary Dream Gardens Vickie Ziegler, Pennsylvania State University: An Introduction to the Medieval Gard
THE MEDIEVAL FAMILY [2005] Hélène Cazes, University of Victoria: Babies' Lib? Swaddling Bands, Diapers,
and Discipline Paul Dutton, Simon Fraser University: Charlemagne's Dysfunctional Family Catherine Harding, University of Victoria: Introducing the Medieval Family. From Birth to Death: Life Stages for Medieval Men and Women Eva Kushner, University of Toronto: Imagining the Late Medieval/Early Modern
Child Nicholas Orme, University of Exeter: Everyday Life in the Fifteenth Century:
The Evidence of Schoolbooks
Tom Shippey, University of St Louis: Beowulf and the Origins of England [Listen (MP3)] Marcus Milwright, University of Victoria: Tamerlane in Late
Medieval/Reniassance Europe: Hero or Tartar Terror? Andrew Wawn, University of Leeds: Viking Heroes and Heroics: from
Sognefjord to Chicago John Lindow, University of California, Berkeley: Gods and Heroes in
Medieval Scandinavia: Myth, Legend and History John Tucker, University of Victoria: Heroic Sanctity: Joan of Arc in Fact
and Fiction Elizabeth Archibald, University of Bristol: What Makes an Arthurian Hero/ine?
LOVE OF LEARNING IN THE MIDDLE AGES [2003] Catherine Harding, University of Victoria: Books, Students, Schools and Universities: Learning to Love Schoolbooks in the Middle Ages Farouk Mitha, University of Victoria: Al-Ghazali: Theologian, Mystic, and Public Intellectual Giles Constable, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University: Mary and Martha in the Middle Ages David Ferry, University of Victoria: The Miller's Tale, from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Deborah Hatfield Moore, University of Victoria: Did you hear the one about the naughty vicar?: Learning to Love Learning in the Middle Ages John Van Engen, University of Notre Dame: From Beguines to the "Modern Devout": Learning and Writing Among Self-Made Religious Women Baba Brinkman, University of Victoria: "The Knight's Tale" in performance: A Rap Retelling of Chaucer
MEDIEVAL JERUSALEM [2002] Catherine Harding, University of Victoria: Visualizing Jerusalem's Past, Part I: The Material Layers of History before the First Crusade Iain Higgins, University of Victoria: Jerusalem, Centre of the World: Medieval Pilgrims and Mapmakers Leah Kinberg, Tel Aviv University: Celestial Jerusalem in the Medieval Muslim Imagination Tonus Peregrinus: Musical Performance Andrew Rippin, University of Victoria: Visualizing Jerusalem's Past, Part II: The Material Layers of History to the End of the Middle Ages Shlomo Hasson, Hebrew University of Jersualem: Jerusalem Past, Present and Future: Urbanism, Culture, and Power
PLEASURE, POMP, AND POWER: ASPECTS OF THE MEDIEVAL COURTLY WORLD [2001] John Osborne, University of Victoria: Sex and the City: The Exotic Court of Byzantium and the Western Imagination Iain Higgins, University of Victoria: Merchants, Missionaries, and Eastern Potentates: Western Travellers at Foreign Courts Sian Echard, University of British Columbia: Dressing for Success: The Importance of Appearance in Medieval Courtier Narratives Paul Williamson, Victoria and Albert Museum: Small-scale Sculpture at the Courts of Europe: Gothic Ivories, Their Ownership and Context Ensemble Laude: Musical Performance of Medieval Courtly Music Gregory Andrachuk, University of Victoria: The Beginning of the End: The Court of Naples, 1508-1512 D. Fairchild Ruggles, Cornell University: Convivencia in Islamic Spain: Caliphs, Concubines, and Their Sons
ROME IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES [2000] Catherine Harding, University of Victoria: Rome Reborn: The Eternal City on the Eve of Jubilee 1300 Brenda Bolton, Queen Mary Westfield College, UK: Innocent III and Rome. A Pope at Work in His City Lloyd Howard, University of Victoria: Dante's Two Romes: Where Christ is a Roman -- Where Christ is Bought and Sold Daily Valentino Pace, University of Udine, Italy: Roma triumphans: Art in Rome 1275 to 1300 Amanda Collins, Wolfson College, Oxford University: Who Killed Cola di Rienzo? Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the City of Rome Toronto Consort: Lecture/Demonstration: Improvisation in Medieval Music
RAIDERS AND TRADERS IN THE MIDDLE AGES [1999] John Tucker, University of Victoria: "Entrepreneurs" of the Middle Ages: Raiders and Traders James Graham-CampbelL, University College London: The Vikings in the West Maya Shatzmiller, University of Western Ontario: Muslim Women Traders: Gender Limitations John Osborne, University of Victoria: "A Morbid Taste for Bones": Relics as Commodities in Early Medieval Italy Steven Epstein, University of Colorado at Boulder: Raiding and Trading in Human Beings Elizabeth Archibald, University of Victoria: Merchants in Medieval Literature
FLORENCE IN THE MIDDLE AGES [1998] Lloyd Howard, University of Victoria: An Overview of Factional Strife in Medieval Florence: From One Florentine's Perspective Brendan Cassidy, University of St. Andrews, Scotland:Art in Florence After the Black Death Catherine Harding, University of Victoria: Giotto's Tower: Cosmology, Art, and Religion in Fourteenth-Century Florence John Osborne, University of Victoria: Popular Piety and Artistic Patronage: Exploring the Painted Madonnas of Giotto and Duccio Marguerite Chiarenza, University of British Columbia: Dante's Return to Florence from Exile: "If Ever it Comes to Pass" Kenneth Bartlett, University of Toronto: Commune and Community: The Building of Florence from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN THE MIDDLE AGES [1997] Timothy Haskett, University of Victoria: Crime and Sin, Punishment and Justice: The Medieval Understanding John Hudson, University of St. Andrews, Scotland: Theft, Violence, and the Making of the Common Law (c.900 to 1200) William Dohar, University of Notre Dame, Indiana: The Church's Rod of Discipline: Curbing Crime in Medieval England Margaret Kerr, Barrister and Solicitor (Toronto): Rex v. Doe: The Law of Murder Judith Jesch, University of Nottingham: Treachery in the Viking Age Richard Ireland, University of Wales, Aberystwyth: Lucrece, Philomela (and Cecily): Chaucer and the Law of Rape
SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE [1996] John Osborne, University of Victoria: Sacred and Profane Love: defining the boundaries Nancy Micklewright, University of Victoria: 1001 Nights Revisited: Images of Romantic Love in the Islamic World Millicent Marcus, University of Texas: Screening the Decameron Lloyd Howard, University of Victoria: Dante's Wasted Years and the Siren Call of Francesca da Rimini Jean Campbell, University of Alberta: Magpies at the Doorway: Sex, Politics and the Imagery of Love on the Threshold of the Italian Renaissance Elizabeth Archibald, University of Victoria: Violent delights can have spiritual ends: sacred and profane love in medieval saints' loves
THE CRUSADES [1995] John Osborne, University of Victoria: Taking up the Cross: the origins and history of the medieval Crusades Janice Currier, University of Victoria: Fortification architecture of the later Middle Ages Malcolm Barber, University of Reading: The Templars in the Crusader East Michle Mulchahy, University of Victoria: St. Francis and the Sultan: the Friars and the Transformation of the Crusading Ideal Catherine Harding, University of Victoria: Experience and Imagination: Venice and the Crusading movement in the early 14th century Jere Bacharach, University of Washington: The Impact of the Crusades on the Muslim built environment
MEDIEVAL COSTUME AND TEXTILE [1994] John Osborne, University of Victoria: Taking up the Cross: the origins and history of the medieval Crusades Nancy Micklewright, University of Victoria: Textiles in the History of Art Kay Staniland, Museum of London: Searching for Embroiders Elsa Gudjonsson, National Museum of Iceland: A Heritage in Wool: Medieval Textiles in Iceland Anna Muthesius, Cambridge University: Byzantine Silks: A Microcosm of Medieval Life Louise Mackie, Royal Ontario Museum: Islamic Textiles: Handmade Textiles in Fez, Morocco, Illuminate Medieval Traditions Irene Pieper, University of Victoria: Costume and Medieval Theatre Oleg Grabar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University: Concluding Remarks
ISLAM, BYZANTIUM AND THE WEST [1993] John Osborne, University of Victoria: East meets West: the interaction of Christian and Islamic cultures in the Middle Ages, an introduction Anthony Welch, University of Victoria: Arabic and the Image of Islam Nancy Micklewright, University of Victoria: Writing in cloth: inscribed textiles of the Medieval period David Whitehouse, Corning Museum of Glass: The Corning Ewer: a masterpiece of Islamic glass David Buckton, The British Museum, London: Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European enamel Glen Gunhouse, University of Toronto: Byzantium and the Art of Monte Cassino's' Golden Age
TRAVEL IN THE MIDDLE AGES [1992] John Osborne, University of Victoria: The Big City -- Myth and Reality: Rome and Constantinople in the Eyes of the Medieval Traveler Christian Zacher, Ohio State University: What Christopher Columbus Learned from Medieval Geographers and Travellers Giles Timothy "Tim" Severin, (Ireland): Riding to Jerusalem: The Journey of the First Crusade Reassessed from the Saddle Richard Unger, University of British Columbia Hermann Palsson, Edinburgh University: Where is Vinland? Iain Higgins, University of British Columbia:The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures of Sir John Mandeville of St. Albans, Knight: Who Travelled Four and Thirty Years Throughout the World...written by himself
COURTS, CUSTOMS AND CANONS:
LAW IN THE MIDDLE AGES [1991] Barbara Rosenwein, Loyola Chicago: Privacy and Property in Early Medieval Monasticism Robert Barringer, CSB, University of Alberta: The Perception of Law in the Byzantine Church Giulio Silano, Pontifical Institute, University of Toronto: Canon Law and Pastoral Care ; Timothy Haskett, University of Victoria: (response) William Ian Miller, University of Michigan: The Emotional Setting of Blood Revenge Robert Bartlett, University of Chicago: Mortal Enmities: The Legal Aspect of Hostility in the Middle Ages Patrick Wormald, Oxford University: Anglo-Saxon Law Suits: The Coming of the State ; John McLAREN, University of Victoria: (response) Margaret Clunies Ross, University of Sydney: Legality and Its Limits in Old Norse Myth Christopher Sanders, University of Copenhagen: Gragas and Orality ; Delloyd GUTH, University of BC: (response) Robin Chapman Stacy, University of Washington: Tradition and Authority in Irish Law William Sayers, University of Victoria: Justice, Law, and Literature in Early Ireland ; Elizabeth Archibald, University of Victoria: (response)
THE NORMANS AND THEIR CONQUESTS [1990] John Tucker, University of Victoria: Norseman to Norman: The First Conquest Stephanie Christelow, Western Washington University: The Craft of Royal Patronage in Anglo-Norman England Warren Hollister, University of California (Santa Barbara): Magna Carta: John, the Last Norman King David Bernstein, Sarah Lawrence College NY: The Bayeux Tapestry and the Norman Conquest of England: Images, Texts and Subtexts Michle Mulchahey, University of Victoria: The Civilization of Norman Sicily: Brilliant but Ephemeral? John Osborne, University of Victoria: The Other Norman Conquest
THE QUEST FOR KING ARTHUR
November [1989] Carleton Carroll, University of Oregon: The Medieval Manuscript to Modern Edition: Bridging an 800 Year Gap Barrington Bearsmore, University of Victoria: The Spirit of the 12th- and 13th- Century French Romances Geoffrey Ashe, Glastonbury, UK: Who Was King Arthur? Elspeth Kennedy, University of Reading: Arthur of the Celts, the French, the English: King and Husband Margot Louis, University of Victoria: Arthurian Adulteresses in Victorian Poetry and Drama Christopher Dean, University of Saskatchewan: The Many Faces of Merlin in Recent Arthurian Writing
THE BOOK IN THE MIDDLE AGES [1988] Derek Pearsall, Harvard University: The Book of the Tales of Canterbury Sharon Jaech, Pacific Lutheran University: The Late Medieval Book Trade Carol Clover, University of California at Berkeley: Saga Meets Book: The Rise of Prose in Iceland Ralph Hanna III, University of California at Riverside: The Manuscripts and the Text of Chaucer's "Troilus" Erica Dodd, University of Victoria: The Book in Islam Leonard Boyle, OP, Vatican Library: The Vatican Library Kathleen Scott, East Lansing, Michigan: Later English Manuscripts with Marginal Illustrations: Whys and Wherefores Christopher De Hamel, Sotheby's, London: Reconstructing the Book of Hours of Etienne Chevalier
