IMRS: Beauty in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Seminar Series

A series of 8-10 seminars, held fortnightly over Michaelmas and Epiphany Terms, and including internal and external speakers. The series will be interdisciplinary and trans-historical, exploring the origins of beauty in the classical period and its legacies, ideas of beauty in medieval vernacular writing in England and on the Continent, theological and philosophical concepts of beauty, medical and aesthetic theories, cultural practices, and architectural ideals. The aim will be to produce an edited collection of essays, but also to work towards further collaborative projects and funding bids, following the direction of the new Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Date and Time	Venue	Speaker	Title
11 October 2011, 5.30pm	Seminar Room 1, History	Dr Giles Gasper	Anselm of Canterbury and the Beauty of Creation
25 October 2011, 5.30pm	Seminar Room 1, History	Professor Carlo Caruso	Martial Frown and Ideal Beauty: The Changing Perception of the Apollo Belvedere
8 November 2011, 5.30pm	Seminar Room 1, History	Emeritus Professor John McKinnell	The Ethics of Ugliness: On Trolls and Other Ugly Customers
22 November 2011, 5.30pm	Seminar Room 1, History	Dr Stefano Cracolici	Caravaggio and the Spell of Beauty
6 December 2011, 5.30pm	Room 142, Elvet Riverside	Dr Ulrich Fischer	The Planning of Anglo-Norman Cathedral Cities
13 December 2011, 5.30pm	Seminar Room 1, History	Professor Vera Tiesler	Becoming Maya: Ethnic and Social Meanings of Pre-Hispanic Head Shaping
24 January 2012, 5.30pm	Birley Room, Hatfield	Dr Jonathan Willis	Puritanism and Music in Post-Reformation England
7 February 2012, 5.30pm	Birley Room, Hatfield	Dr Helen Foxhall Forbes	"O quam tu pulchra es!" Constructing the Holy Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Cancelled due to Illness	Birley Room, Hatfield	Professor Andrew Johnston	St Erkenwald and the Politics of Miracle
21 February 2012, 5.30pm	Birley Room, Hatfield	Dr Neil Cartlidge	Devils in Silk: Using and Abusing the Law in Late Medieval Culture
6 March 2012, 5.30pm	Birley Room, Hatfield	Dr Myrto Hatzaki	"Strange Beauty": Comeliness, Physicality and the Body in Byzantium
24 April 2012, 5.30pm	Birley Room, Hatfield	Professor Gregory Heyworth	Beyond Mimesis: Digital Aesthetics and the Pre-Modern Text
1 May 2012, 5.30pm	Birley Room, Hatfield	Professor Mary McKinley	Gaillardes escapades: Montaigne's Experience of Beauty
8 May 2012, 5.30pm	Birley Room, Hatfield	Professor Sarah Kay	Singlichkeit in Medieval Lyric Poetry
19 June 2012, 5.30pm	Birley Room, Hatfield	Dr Catherine Batt	Beauty, Memory and Morality in Late-Medieval Allegory