Medieval Encounters
Seminar or event series
Medieval encounters is an interdisciplinary medieval seminar series, supported by the Trevelyan Fund and the History Faculty. Seminars normally take place in St Catharine’s College twice a term, including lectures and events such as meetings with international graduate students and debates.
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Events
Jan
31
The Hand that Sets the Table: Women and the Transmission of Alternative Religious Knowledge in 14th-century Dissident Networks
Delfi Nieto-Isabel (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: OCR
Mar
6
Desiderata of the German Historical School: What We Only Think We Know About the (High) Medieval Empire
Vedran Sulovsky (Cambridge)
Venue: Ramsden Room
May
1
Chess as Cross-Cultural Encounter in the Libro de axedrez (1283)
Dr Krisztina Ilko (Queens’ College Cambridge)
Current downloads
Page credits & information
banner image: Phesonas and Cassiel playing chess on a 5x5 blue and gold chequered board. Manuscript of Jacques de Longuyon‘s poem 'Les Voeux du Paon', around 1350. Morgan Library, New York, NY, USA, manuscript MS G 24. Folio 025v.
At a glance
Term
Easter Term
When
1.00pm
Where
Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College