ihr seminars

The late Anglo-Saxon state: a maximum propaganda view from magistra 137 days old

Jon Jarrett has already blogged about Chris Lewis's IHR paper on 'The ideology and culture of government in Anglo-Saxon England', but I think it's a ...

Sybarite Sarabaites? Monastic pairs in Byzantium from magistra 149 days old

Jon Jarrett had been doing most of this term's blogging on IHR earlier medieval seminars, but we felt that Claudia Rapp on 'Ritual Brotherhood in Byzantium: ...

Women, office and role from magistra 206 days old

The last of the IHR Earlier Medieval Seminars for this term has already been blogged on, so here belatedly is the penultimate one, Charlotte Cartwright ...

1000 years of economic irrationality from magistra 215 days old

A belated attempt at catching up on the IHR seminars, which in March saw Laurent Feller from Paris talking about ‘Accumulation, redistribution and exchange ...

The aesthetics of texts in space from magistra 233 days old

A couple of weeks ago at the IHR earlier Middle Ages seminar, we had some more art history, when we welcomed Eileen Rubery from the Courtauld to talk ...

Archbishop of Canterbury killed by Muslims from magistra 241 days old

Although this is a wonderful headline, it is unfortunately somewhat out of date, since a) the Archbishop concerned is Baldwin of Exeter, who died in ...

The Norman Leviathan and Good Old Law from magistra 255 days old

A month ago (I’m falling behind on seminar blogging), the IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar relocated to King’s College London, for a special event to ...

Why was the Gregorian Reform Gregorian? from magistra 358 days old

As far as I know, the Gregorian reform movement is still generally known as the Gregorian reform, even though it’s now accepted that the programme of ...

Medieval archaeology and the Campaign for Socio-Economic History from magistra 375 days old

Before Chris Wickham’s lecture on ‘Problems with the dialogue between medieval history and medieval archaeology’ to the joint seminars of the Institute ...

What if Athelstan did get a life? from magistra 610 days old

A rather belated report on a recent IHR seminar, when Sarah Foot (now at Oxford) asked rhetorically: 'Should King Æthelstan get a Life?' She is currently ...