Past events

Texture in the Medieval World

Saturday 1 June 2024

A interdisciplinary, two-day conference focuses on the visual, conceptual and haptic qualities of textual and visual material and their importance and use in the medieval world.

Memory, Syntax and Metre in Dante: Verse Composition and Digital Tools

Thursday 9 May 2024

How do poets write by thinking generatively within their formal constraints?

Chivalry and Genocide. The French Conquest of the Canary Islands 1402-1405

Wednesday 8 May 2024

Department of History research seminar

The Englishman Abroad: the Medieval Origins of an Identity

Tuesday 30 April 2024

The 2024 Annual Riddy Lecture will be given by Anthony Bale, Professor of Medieval Studies, Birkbeck, University of London

Fit for the Gods: Chinese Porcelain and Collecting Practices at the Court of Ferrera

Wednesday 24 April 2024

This talk will consider instead how Bellini may have been referencing the large porcelain collection held by the Este, housed in spaces such as the previously unknown Stanza delle Porcellane.