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Maynooth Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Forum na Meán-Aoise agus an Renaissance Mháigh Nuad
Seminar Series 2008-09
Forthcoming Events
Wednesday, 6 May
Professor James McEvoy, Queen's University Belfast
"An Augustinian Florilegium: The Adventures of a Munich Manuscript across Six Centuries" ".
Venue: Crolly Room, South Campus @ 6.15pm
Seminar Series 2008-09
SEMESTER I
Tuesday, 14 October (in association with the Dept of French)
Dr Phyllis Gaffney, School of Languages and Literatures, University College Dublin
'Here's Lucan at you, kid! Old French Moving Statues and Medieval Images of the Young'
Tuesday, 11 November (in association with the Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Dr Carrie Griffin, Department of English, University College Cork
(1 p.m.) Plagues, Barbers and Humours: A Look at Medicine in the High Middle Ages (c. 1300-1500)
(6 p.m.) Scribes, Audiences and Patrons: Reading the Evidence of Consumers of Scientific Texts in medieval England (late 13th – late 15th century)
Tuesday, 9 December
Dr Damian Bracken, Department of History, University College Cork
‘Peripheral concerns: Roman universalism, Columbanus and Ireland’
SEMESTER 2
Tuesday, 10 February
Dr. Salvador Ryan, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth.
'Cardiac conquest: Gaelic Irish treatments of Christ the Lover in theirt medieval devotional context'.
Wednesday, 8th April
Dr Juliet O’Brien, Dept of French, UCD:
"Courtly Love and Chrétien de Troyes's Lancelot".
Seminar Series 2007-08
- Friday/Saturday 12-13 October (in association with the Irish Philosophical Society)
Conference at Clonmacnoise: ‘The early Irish Church and the Intellectual Tradition’ - Tuesday 16 October
‘Love in the French Medieval Lays’
Dr Yolande de Pontfarcy Sexton (School of Languages and Literatures, University College Dublin) - Tuesday 20 November
Historia: Music, Text, and Liturgical Ritual in the Veneration of Saints in Medieval Europe Discussants: Prof. Patrick Brannon (University of St Francis, Ill.), Dr Ann Buckley (NUI Maynooth), Dr Sara Casey (Pittsburgh), Rev. Senan Furlong OSB (NUI Maynooth), Prof. Bryan Gillingham (Carleton University, Ottawa, and Institute of Mediaeval Music, Ottawa), Prof. Nils Holger Petersen (University of Copenhagen)
Venue: John Hume Board Room - Thursday 6 December
The Chapter on Friendship in the Manipulus Florum of Thomas of Ireland’
Rev. Prof. James McEvoy (Dept of Philosophy, The Queen’s University of Belfast) - Tuesday, 19 February 12 (in association with the Library, NUIM)
'Maynooth's Medieval Manuscripts'
Dr Peter J. Lucas (Wolfson College, Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor, UCD)
Venue: Russell Library - Wednesday 12 March
Performance of an Office in honour of St Patrick, Canty with Maynooth Schola Gregoriana, accompanied by William Taylor, medieval wire-strung clàrsach
(from a 15th-century Irish manuscript edited by Dr Ann Buckley and Senan Furlong OSB)
Venue: Maynooth College Chapel @ 8pm - Tuesday, 15 April
Dr Raluca Radulescu (Dept of English, University of Wales Bangor)
‘Generic questions and the Middle English Romance – Pious and Political Examples’ - Tuesday 29 April ANNUAL GUEST LECTURE
Prof. Miri Rubin (Dept of History, Queen Mary, University of London)
‘Mary and the Jew in Late Medieval Culture’
All seminars are open to the public and free of charge. They take place at 6 p.m. in the Crolly Room, St Patrick's College Maynooth, unless otherwise indicated.
Directions to the Crolly Room:
Proceed to the President's Arch in St Joseph's Square, enter St Patrick's building and take a left. Follow the cloister round until you arrive at the Crolly Room.
Past Events
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2006-07
- Wednesday, 11 October
Dr Colmán Etchingham (Dept of History, NUIM)
‘The Names for Vikings in the Irish Annals:
The Black Foreigners/White Foreigners Question Revisited’ - Tuesday, 14 November
Dr Gordon Campbell (Dept of Ancient Classics, NUIM)
‘Where Ocean Breezes Blow around the Island of the Blessed’:
Ancient and Medieval Paradises’ - Tuesday, 5 December
Dr Eilish Fennelly (Dept of English, NUIM)
‘Dangerous Margins: Sex and Speech and Spirits in
Middle English Arthurian Narrative’ - Tuesday, 6 February
Dr Tadhg Ó Dúshláine (Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, NUIM)
‘“Debauchery in Brussels”: An Exemplary Tale from Aodh Mac Aingil’s speculum confessionis, Scathán Shacramuinte na hAithridhe (1618) - Wednesday, 7 March
Dr Alan Murray (Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds)
‘When did Foot-Soldiers First March in Step? Music and Warfare in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance’ (illustrated with sound recordings) - Tuesday, 17 April
Dr Anthony Harvey (Royal Irish Academy)
‘Writing the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources’ - Thursday, 3 May ANNUAL GUEST LECTURE (in association with the Dept of Ancient Classics)
Prof. Julia Smith (Edwards Chair of Medieval History, University of Glasgow)
‘Gender and Sanctity in the Early Middle Ages’
- Tuesday, 15 November
Dr Michael Dunne (Dept of Philosophy, NUIM)
‘The Life and Thought of Peter of Ireland (Petrus de Ybernia, ca. 1200-1265)’
Prof. Colm Lennon (Dept of History, NUIM)
‘The Fraternities and Cultural Duality in Late Medieval Ireland’ - Wednesday, 30 November
Sr Olive Cullen chf (Faculty of Theology, SPCM)
‘From ‘Hours’ by the Stars to ‘Hours’ by the Clock’
Dr Bernadette Cunningham (Royal Irish Academy)
‘The Seanchas Búrcach Manuscript:
Illustrating Lordship in 16th-Century Connacht’ - Monday, 13 February
Dr Mark Humphries (Dept of Ancient Classics, NUIM)
‘The Passion of St Valentine’
Professor Florian Krobb (Dept of German, NUIM)
‘Cavorting at Daybreak: the Middle High German Tagelied (Dawn Song)’ - Monday, 6 March (in association with the Dept of History)
Dr Catherine Swift (Dept of Irish Studies, Mary Immaculate, University of Limerick)
‘St Brigit’s Nuns: French, African, Turkish or Irish?’ - Tuesday, 4 April
Dr Margaret Robson (Dept of English, NUIM)
‘Whose Realm is it anyway? King Arthur and the Fictions of Nationhood’
Prof. Raymond Gillespie (Dept of History, NUIM)
‘The End of Medieval Ireland: People and their Things’ - Tuesday, 25 April ANNUAL GUEST LECTURE (in association with Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge)
Prof. Pádraig Ó Riain (Dept of Old and Middle Irish, University College Cork)
‘Recent Work on Saints’ Lives and Martyrologies’ - Thursday, 1 June
Dr Anthony Lappin (Dept of Spanish, University of Manchester)
‘Sexuality and 13th-century Marian Devotion: Celibate Clerics and Sinful Laity’
2004-05 - Wednesday, 2 February 2005
Canty ensemble:
‘Flame of Ireland’. Medieval Irish Plainchant for St Brigit of Kildare (A concert performance of a Matins office and other materials from a 15th-century Irish manuscript, edited by Dr Ann Buckley) - Tuesday, 8 March
Dr Ann Buckley (Dept of Music, NUIM) and Rev. Prof. Liam Tracey (Faculty of Theology, SPCM):
‘Planctus. The Medieval Lament Tradition: Words, Images and Music’ -
Tuesday, 12 April
Dr Thomas Kelly (Dept of Philosophy, NUIM):
‘Complementary Paths to God: Aquinas and Anselm on Philosophical Theology’ -
Rev. Dr Brendan McConvery (Faculty of Theology, SPCM):
‘Art, society and biblical interpretation in 15th century Flanders’ -
Tuesday 10 May (in association with the Dept of Music)
Prof. Richard Rastall (School of Music, University of Leeds):
‘The Audience as Actor. Invitations to Speak, Sing and Dance in Early English drama’ -
Monday, 13 June
Dr Katarina Livljanic (Dept of Musicology, Université Paris IV - Sorbonne):
‘Coping with Modern Orthodoxies. Giving Voice to Gregorian Chant’
(in association with the Department of Music, NUIM, the Faculty of Theology, SPCM, and the National Centre for Liturgy, SPCM). -
Note: Both the Canty event and Katarina’s Livljanic’s lecture included a teaching component. In the case of Canty, a consultation session was arranged with students from the Masters in Liturgical Music. Canty also gave workshops at two primary schools in Kildare Town, and repeated their concert in both Kildare Town and at the Chapel, TCD. Katarina’s Livljanic’s visit involved a two-day workshop on Gregorian chant, sponsored by the Music Dept, NUIM, and the Faculty of Theology, SPCM, in association with MMRF and the National Centre for Liturgy.
2005-06
