The Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar meets six times a year, normally on Friday afternoons, with participants from other Colleges of the University of London and beyond. It holds occasional Symposia, an annual Colloquium and publishes collections of Papers

Programme 2009-2010
All meetings take place in Room 1.36 of the Arts Building at 3 pm and are followed by tea and discussion.

Semester 1

16 October
Anthony Lappin, University of Manchester
‘Translating the Qur’an in Medieval Spain’

20 November 
Sarah Buxton, Durham University
‘Stags, Lions, and Wolves in Emperor’s Clothing: The Function of Animal Symbolism in the Medieval Castilian Legend of Saint Eustace’
 
11 December
Andreea Weisl-Shaw, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
‘The Power of Counter-example: Ambiguity and Didacticism in Medieval Spanish Comic Tales’

Director: Dr Rosa Vidal Doval

 

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