Medieval Italian Seminar 2023

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Week 1: 18 Jan. 2-3.30pm

Chris Wickham (Oxford, All Souls/ History Faculty):  ‘Governing twelfth-century city communes’.

 

 

Week 2:  25 Jan. 2-3.30pm

Paul Oldfield (Manchester), ‘Inquest and History in Thirteenth-Century Puglia’.

 

 

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGES IN DAYS, TIMES AND VENUES DUE TO INDUSTRIAL ACTION

           

Week 4 (Wed 2pm): 8 Feb. Rees Davies Room  UNCHANGED

Adele Curness, (Oxford, St John’s), 'Calabrian Hagiography and Mediterranean Connectivity in the Long Tenth Century'.

 

Week 5: 17 Feb. FRIDAY 3.30pm, G. MARTIN ROOM

Riccardo Liberati (Oxford, LMH): ‘Economic patronage or diplomatic strategy ? Italian merchants at the Ilkhanid court and the case of Isol the Pisan’.

 

Week 6: 24 Feb FRIDAY  11.30am, COLIN MATTHEW ROOM

Trevor Dean (Roehampton): 'Female killers in late medieval Bologna'. 

 

Week 7: 3 March:  FRIDAY 3.30pm, G. MARTIN ROOM

Elena Rossi (Oxford, Magdalen), ‘The Entangled Nature of the University and Family Spheres in Medieval Bologna’.

 

Week 8: 8 March Wed  2pm, Rees Davies Room  UNCHANGED

Ross Balzaretti, (Nottingham): 'Fathers, sons and property transfer in tenth-century north-west Italy’.

 

Week 8: 10 March  FRIDAY 3.30pm, G. MARTIN ROOM

Nicola Carotenuto (Oxford, St Hugh’s): ’Trade, traders, and institutions in late medieval Venice’

 

 

Convenors: Filippo de Vivo, Veronica West-Harling