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History of Visiting Medievalists and Seminar Titles 

(Since 1990) 

Every Fall semester (unless otherwise noted), the Medieval Studies Program invites a Visiting Professor to teach an intensive graduate class during the month of September.


2008 Visiting Professor

Henrietta Leyser (St. Peter's College, Oxford)

"Piety and Place in England 1000-1300"

 

Visiting Professor Seminar Title
2007: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, University of York "The French of England: Documentary and Literary Cultures"
2006: Robert Mills, King's College, University of London "The Body of the Medieval Friend"
2005: Diane Watt, University of Wales, Aberyswyth "Women and Writing in the Middle Ages"

2004: Miri Rubin, Queen Mary - University of London

"Mary - An Intimate History of Christian Culture"

2003: James Simpson, Cambridge University

"Suffering History: Exemplary Lives in Medieval Literature"

2002: Donald Scragg, Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, University of Manchester

"The Editing of Old English"
2001: Derek Pearsall, Harvard University "Text and Image, 1200-1500" 

2000: Maire Ni Mhaonaigh, St. John's College, Cambridge University

"Medieval Irish Narrative Literature"
1999: Andy Orchard, Cambridge University "Riddle Traditions of Early England"
1998: Miri Rubin, Oxford University "Medieval Bodies"
1997: James Simpson, Cambridge University "Lydgate and His Circle"
1996: Miri Rubin, Oxford University "Reading Medieval Voices"

1995 (class held Spring 1996): Piero Boitani, La Sapienza, University of Rome

"Late Medieval Narrative: Italian to English"
1994: Douglas Gray, Oxford University "Word and Image in Medieval Literature"
1993: David Luscombe, University of Sheffield "Abelard"
1992: Peter Brown, The University, Canterbury "Literature and History"
1991: Helen Cooper, Oxford University "Images of Women in Medieval Literature"
1990: Joerg Fichte, University of Tübingen "The Middle English Arthurian Verse Romance"