Seminar Index

Designed to cover the most important sources, the seminar programme comprises ten sessions. Week one introductes the basic principles involved in the study of medieval sources, including the importance of understanding the manuscripts in which they were preserved. The programme proper begins in week two with charters and cartularies. Weeks four to seven, the core of the course, attend to the various types of historical writing which flourished in the Middle Ages. These sources have long been mined for the basic narrative of medieval history, but are also important for understanding how institutions used the past. Week eight turns to the complexities of the medieval miscellany. In its final two weeks, the course turns to sources with a musical and theatrical element: liturgical books and Latin poetry—rich sources of data which are all too often overlooked.

The seminars will take place in Lent Term. The schedule will be as follows:

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