UCL Institute of Archaeology and British Museum Medieval Seminar Series

Meetings are open to all.

AUTUMN TERM

Wednesday 19th October
Viking Slavery (the fourth Sir David Wilson Lecture in Medieval Studies)
Professor Stefan Brink
A joint meeting with the Institute of Historical Research Earlier Middle Ages seminar in the Lecture Theatre G6 at the Institute of Archaeology followed by a launch party for the seminar series in the Staff Common Room

Tuesday 8th November
Who was buried at wics? Community and identity in the 7th century emporia of England
Professor Chris Scull

Tuesday 29th November
The River Thames in the middle ages: evidence old and new
John Clark and Nathalie Cohen
(Seminar in Room 609)

SPRING TERM

Tuesday 17th January
Sword and wielder in Early Anglo-Saxon Kent (plus Sutton Hoo)
Sue Brunning

Tuesday 7th February
Dublin before Duiblinn: Combs and Early Settlement
Dr Ian Riddler

Tuesday 6th March
Landscapes of governance: Anglo-Saxon assemblies
Professor Andrew Reynolds and Dr Stuart Brookes

SUMMER TERM

Tuesday 8th May
The Roman-Saxon transition: new evidence from excavations at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Alison Telfer

Wednesday 6th June
Rome of the Pilgrims: the City in the 7th and 8th Centuries
Alan Thacker
Followed by a summer party in the Staff Common Room

Convenors
Sonja Marzinzik (BM) and Andrew Reynolds (IoA)
Meetings Secretary: Michael Shapland (IoA)

Sponsored by the World Archaeology Section of the UCL Institute of Archaeology and the British Museum

Seminars in the series start at 5:30pm in Room 612 of the UCL Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square WC1 unless otherwise indicated.

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