Medieval and Ancient Seminar Series 2012-13
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
MARS is a seminar series that brings together the wealth of research conducted on the ancient and medieval worlds within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. This year’s programme covers subjects from ancient Greece and Rome to the Tudor period, from Indo-European languages and ancient medicine to poverty in the 12th century and late medieval dress accessories.
MARS Programme 2012-13
Wednesdays
pre-paper drinks start at 5.00pm; papers begin at 5:30pm
Humanities Research Institute
SEMESTER 1
Week 2 (3 October)
MARS/Hunter Archaeological Society Joint Session
John Moreland (ARCH)
The Barrow and the Cross: Converting the Peak District?
Week 4 (17 October)
PGR Student Session
Robyn Parker (HIST)
The social theatre of wandering preachers and hermits in France, 1050-1150
Alex Cassels (ARCH)
Ideology, Iconography and identity in late medeival dress accessories
Week 7 (7 November)
Classical Association Session
Helen King, Open University
Women and medicine in ancient Greece: Patients and practitioners
Week 8 (14 November)
Alan Bryson (HRI/ENG)
Francis Talbot, fifth Earl of Shrewsbury: Locality and Polity in mid-Tudor England
Week 10 (28 November)
Jane Rempel (ARCH)
Demeter and the Black Sea: ‘Priestly’ burials and mystery cult connections
SEMESTER 2
Week 2 (13 February)
Kathleen Thompson (HIST)
Perspectives on poverty: writing the history of Tiron in the twelfth century
Week 4 (27 February)
Classical Association Session
David Langslow, Manchester
Indo-European, Italic, Latin, and Romance
Week 6 (13 March)
PGR Student Session
Heather Graybehl (ARCH)
Kitchens, Kilns, and Zeus: Understanding Domestic Practices in the Hellenistic Panhellenic Sancutary at Nemea
Hannah Probert (HIST)
Fatherhood between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Week 7 (10 April 2013)
Muriel Moser (Cambridge/Frankfurt)
Constantine's Eastern Empire: maintaining imperial rule in the early fourth century A.D.
Week 8 (17 April)
Penny Simons (FRENCH)
Geographies in Aimon de Varennes' 'Florimont': Fact or Fiction?
Week 9 (24 April)
Pit Péporté (University of Luxembourg)
The politics of historiography in the lands of the Limburg-Luxembourg dynasty
Week 11 (8 May)
Angie Hobbs (PHIL)
Plato and Atlantis
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
email : Julia Hillner (HIST) - J.Hillner@sheffield.ac.uk