HomeThe Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar meets between 8 and 12 times a year, normally on Friday afternoons, with participants from other Colleges of the University of London and beyond. It holds an annual Colloquium and publishes collections of Papers (see below).
Programme for 2008-9
Friday, 9 January
Vicka Prilutsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ‘Reflections of rabbinical thought in Sem Tob of Carrión’s Proverbios morales’
Friday, 23 January
Joseph Snow, Michigan State University, ‘Illustrating Celestina’ with a response by Dorothy Severin, University of Liverpool.
The seminar will be followed by a reception to mark Dorothy Severin’s retirement.
Friday, 6 February
Nancy Marino, Michigan State University, ‘The Afterlife of Manrique’s Coplas, 1479-2008’
Friday, 6 March (provisional date)
Antonio Dueñas, Universitat de València, ‘El accessus ad auctorem en la literatura medieval castellana’
Programme for 2007-8
Wednesday 27 June: one-day Symposium to celebrate the fortieth birthday of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar
Thursday 28 - Friday 29 June: XVIII Colloquium of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar
Programme for 2006-7
Friday 6 October Richard Haigh: 'Sigena, the story of a monastery'
Friday 10 November Nancy Marino: 'The Catholic Monarchs, the Hapsburg marriages, and panegyric in two pliegos sueltos'
Friday 24 November Edward Cooper: on Pedro Fajardo - title to be announced.
Friday 8 December (double bill) Alan Deyermond: 'Re-reading Gilman's El arte de "La Celestina"' and Dorothy Severin: 'Recollections of Stephen Gilman'.
Friday 19 January Christopher Allmand (University of Liveerpool), ‘The De re militari of Vegetius in Late-Medieval Spain’
Friday 9 February John Edwards (Queen’s College, Oxford), ‘New Light on the Converso Debate? The Jewish Christianity of Alonso de Cartagena and Juan de Torquemada’
Friday 2 March Jane Whetnall (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Santillana’s Petrarch’ This seminar will be followed at 5 pm by the launch of Martin Duffell’s new book, Syllable and Accent: Studies in Medieval Hispanic Metrics
Friday 23 March Geraldine Coates (St Anne’s College, Oxford), ‘Judgment and Salvation in the Poema de Fernán González’
Wednesday 27 June one-day symposium to celebrate the fortieth birthday of the MHRS
Thursday 28 - Friday 29 June XVIII Colloquium of the MHRS
Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar [link]
