York Medieval Lecture, Tuesday 7 March 2017 Professor Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (Notre Dame): 'Literary Networks of the Vicars Choral and the Clerical Proletariat in Late Medieval York'   When Margery Kempe visited York Minster in 1417 she was befriended by two choral vicarii, John Kendale “and another preste whech song be the bischopys grave.” The grave … Continue reading York Medieval Lecture: Literary Networks of the Vicars Choral and the Clerical Proletariat in Late Medieval York, Professor Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (7 March 2017)

York Medieval Lecture, 25 April 2017 Dr Emma Hornby (University of Bristol): ‘Medieval Psalters as Witnesses to Liturgical s Song: the Iberian Case’ Christians in medieval Iberia had their own liturgical practices, independent of the Roman liturgy, until the late 11th century. Although about 40 surviving manuscripts and fragments bear witness to the Old Hispanic liturgy, … Continue reading York Medieval Lecture: ‘Medieval Psalters as Witnesses to Liturgical Song: the Iberian Case’ – Dr Emma Hornby (25 April 2017)

Breaking with Byzantium: Franciscan Artistic Patronage and Piety in Central Italy at the dawn of the Trecento Speaker: Dr Donal Cooper (Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge) Monday 27 February 2017, 4.30pm, Berrick Saul Building, Bowland Auditorium (BS/005) The Franciscan Order can be seen as the primary patronage framework within which different concepts of … Continue reading Breaking with Byzantium: Franciscan Artistic Patronage and Piety in Central Italy at the dawn of the Trecento (Monday 27 February 2017)