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Tuesday 18 June 2013

The apparatus and canon tables of the Lindisfarne Gospels TO BE RESCHEDULED TO LATER DATE
PLEASE NOTE: THIS LECTURE IS TO BE RESCHEDULED TO A LATER DATE
In connection with the major loan exhibition of the Lindisfarne Gospels in Durham (1 July-30 September 2013), the seminar programme for 2013 explores the Lindisfarne Gospels and its world.
Contact administrator.imrs@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 28 June 2013
Early Modern Catholicism Conference
This conference – celebrating the contribution of Eamon Duffy’s work to changing notions of how early modern English Catholicism is understood – will draw on a range of speakers from different disciplines to challenge notions of what is actually meant when early modern Catholicism is mentioned in the English context.
Keynote Speakers: Eamon Duffy (Cambridge), Brad Gregory (Notre Dame), Thomas McCoog (Fordham), and Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge)
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Contact james.kelly3@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 29 June 2013
Early Modern Catholicism Conference
This conference – celebrating the contribution of Eamon Duffy’s work to changing notions of how early modern English Catholicism is understood – will draw on a range of speakers from different disciplines to challenge notions of what is actually meant when early modern Catholicism is mentioned in the English context.
Keynote Speakers: Eamon Duffy (Cambridge), Brad Gregory (Notre Dame), Thomas McCoog (Fordham), and Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge)
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Contact james.kelly3@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Sunday 30 June 2013
Early Modern Catholicism Conference
This conference – celebrating the contribution of Eamon Duffy’s work to changing notions of how early modern English Catholicism is understood – will draw on a range of speakers from different disciplines to challenge notions of what is actually meant when early modern Catholicism is mentioned in the English context.
Keynote Speakers: Eamon Duffy (Cambridge), Brad Gregory (Notre Dame), Thomas McCoog (Fordham), and Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge)
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Contact james.kelly3@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Intellectual Networks in the Long Seventeenth Century Conference
During the seventeenth century new forms of intellectual exchange emerged and were consolidated across Europe and the Atlantic world. This conference will investigate this transformation, and assess its lasting influence on the history of scholarship, literature, diplomacy, science, and religious communities.
The conference will be offering study workshops and bursaries for research students.
Keynote Speakers: Jonathan C. Clark (Kansas), Howard Hotson (Oxford), and Peter Lake (Vanderbilt)
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Contact early.modern@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Monday 1 July 2013
Intellectual Networks in the Long Seventeenth Century Conference
During the seventeenth century new forms of intellectual exchange emerged and were consolidated across Europe and the Atlantic world. This conference will investigate this transformation, and assess its lasting influence on the history of scholarship, literature, diplomacy, science, and religious communities.
The conference will be offering study workshops and bursaries for research students.
Keynote Speakers: Jonathan C. Clark (Kansas), Howard Hotson (Oxford), and Peter Lake (Vanderbilt)
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Contact early.modern@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Early Modern Catholicism Conference
This conference – celebrating the contribution of Eamon Duffy’s work to changing notions of how early modern English Catholicism is understood – will draw on a range of speakers from different disciplines to challenge notions of what is actually meant when early modern Catholicism is mentioned in the English context.
Keynote Speakers: Eamon Duffy (Cambridge), Brad Gregory (Notre Dame), Thomas McCoog (Fordham), and Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge)
Click here for further details
Contact james.kelly3@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Tuesday 2 July 2013
Intellectual Networks in the Long Seventeenth Century Conference
During the seventeenth century new forms of intellectual exchange emerged and were consolidated across Europe and the Atlantic world. This conference will investigate this transformation, and assess its lasting influence on the history of scholarship, literature, diplomacy, science, and religious communities.
The conference will be offering study workshops and bursaries for research students.
Keynote Speakers: Jonathan C. Clark (Kansas), Howard Hotson (Oxford), and Peter Lake (Vanderbilt)
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Contact early.modern@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 4 July 2013
Producing Christian Culture: Gospel Text and Gospel Commentary in Medieval Perspective Conference
To mark the first exhibition of the Lindisfarne Gospels in Durham, this conference will examine the modes in which early medieval commentators on the texts of scripture projected visions of Christian culture (or counter-culture). Bede's work of commentary and those of other English writers will provide a focus for considering how these visions were communicated into the later middle ages.
Keynote Speakers: Lewis Ayres (Durham), Giles Gasper (Durham), Helen Foxhall-Forbes (Exeter), Ian Levy (Providence College), and Francis Watson (Durham)
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Contact g.e.m.gasper@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 5 July 2013
Producing Christian Culture: Gospel Text and Gospel Commentary in Medieval Perspective Conference
To mark the first exhibition of the Lindisfarne Gospels in Durham, this conference will examine the modes in which early medieval commentators on the texts of scripture projected visions of Christian culture (or counter-culture). Bede's work of commentary and those of other English writers will provide a focus for considering how these visions were communicated into the later middle ages.
Keynote Speakers: Lewis Ayres (Durham), Giles Gasper (Durham), Helen Foxhall-Forbes (Exeter), Ian Levy (Providence College), and Francis Watson (Durham)
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Contact g.e.m.gasper@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 6 July 2013
Producing Christian Culture: Gospel Text and Gospel Commentary in Medieval Perspective Conference
To mark the first exhibition of the Lindisfarne Gospels in Durham, this conference will examine the modes in which early medieval commentators on the texts of scripture projected visions of Christian culture (or counter-culture). Bede's work of commentary and those of other English writers will provide a focus for considering how these visions were communicated into the later middle ages.
Keynote Speakers: Lewis Ayres (Durham), Giles Gasper (Durham), Helen Foxhall-Forbes (Exeter), Ian Levy (Providence College), and Francis Watson (Durham)
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Contact g.e.m.gasper@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Tuesday 15 October 2013

The Book of Durrow and the Lindisfarne Gospels
The lecture will focus on the re-thinking the relationship between the Book and Durrow and the Lindisfarne Gospels in light of new archaeological discoveries and new research, particularly on the Lindisfarne Gospels.
Contact administrator.imrs@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 30 October 2013

Annual History of the Book Lecture 2013, ‘Reading the Lindisfarne Gospels: image, text, context’
In connection with the major loan exhibition of the Lindisfarne Gospels in Durham (1 July-30 September 2013), the seminar programme for 2013 explores the Lindisfarne Gospels and its world.
Contact administrator.imrs@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Tuesday 19 November 2013

Lindisfarne Gospels and Frankish MSS: contrasts and comparisons
In connection with the major loan exhibition of the Lindisfarne Gospels in Durham (1 July-30 September 2013), the seminar programme for 2013 explores the Lindisfarne Gospels and its world.
Contact administrator.imrs@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Tuesday 3 December 2013

6th Wilhelm Levison Memorial Lecture: Lindisfarne, Northumbria and the Continent
In connection with the major loan exhibition of the Lindisfarne Gospels in Durham (1 July-30 September 2013), the seminar programme for 2013 explores the Lindisfarne Gospels and its world.
Contact administrator.imrs@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.


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