UCL INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY – BRITISH MUSEUM

Medieval Seminars - 2008/09

AUTUMN TERM 2008

In Room 412, UCL Institute of Archaeology unless otherwise stated

Wednesday 22 nd October: the inaugural Sir David Wilson Lecture in Medieval Studies
Professor Chris Wickham, Problems about the dialogue between medieval history and medieval archaeology
A joint meeting with the Institute of Historical ResearchEarlier Middle Ages seminar
in the Lecture Theatre G6 at the IoA followed by a launch party for the seminar series in the Staff Common Room.

Tuesday 18 th November
Dr John Baker and Dr Stuart Brookes,
Anglo-Saxon civil defence in the Viking Age

Tuesday 16 th December
Rob Poulton
Saxon and medieval Staines and its hinterland

SPRING TERM 2009

(in the Sackler Rooms at the British Museum, below the Great Court)

Tuesday 20 th January
Professor Neil Price,
Holy islands, sacred stones: ritual landscapes of the White Sea Sámi in the first millennium and beyond

Tuesday 17 th February
Dr Juan Antonio Quiros Castillo
Early medieval settlement in Spain

Tuesday 17 th March
Clifford Sofield
Deposition in context: patterns and interpretation of Anglo-Saxon placed deposits

SUMMER TERM 2009

Tuesday 12 th May (in the Sackler Rooms at the British Museum, below the Great Court)
Dr Justine Bayley
Metalworking in Viking Dublin in its insular context

Tuesday 2 nd June (at the Institute of Archaeology)
Professor Mike Fulford
Silchester Roman Town: the latest occupation and abandonment, c.AD 400-700

In Room 612 at the IoA followed by a summer party in the Staff Common Room.

ALL MEETINGS START AT 5:30pm

Convenors

Sonja Marzinzik (BM) smarzinzik@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Andrew Reynolds (IoA) a.reynolds@ucl.ac.uk

Sponsored by the Complex and Literate Societies Research Group and the British Museum

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