The Long Middle Ages

A Seminar Series at the University of Leeds

Autumn 2026 Seminar Schedule

The second series of seminars will commence from Thursday 1st October, 2026 and run on a fortnightly basis until mid-December. All seminars will be delivered online at 5:30pm-7pm. 

The speakers include doctoral and early career researchers from the UK and international institutions. Papers will cover a diverse range of topics and disciplines. Below is a full schedule of the seminars. 

Seminar DatePaper 1Paper 2
1st October 2026Tham Chui Jun
Independent Scholar

‘Governing the Dead: Spirit
Pacification, the Water-Land Retreat, and Rulership in Medieval East Asia’		Caroline Bourne
University of Reading

‘Sailing the Severn Sea: The
Establishment of a Maritime Cultural Zone’
15th October 2026Samuel Rowe
Universities of Padova, Ca’ Foscari Venice and Salamanca

‘Lombard Onomastics and Rulership Discourse’		Riccardo Brighenti
University of Milan

‘Aristotelianism by the Tigris. Paul the Persian and the Reception of Aristotle’s De interpretatione‘
29th October 2026Inês Hortas Marques
University of Lisbon

‘The Lady with the Goat’s Foot: Hybridity and Female Agency as the Foundations of a Patriarchal Lineage in Fourteenth-Century Iberian Historiography’		Andrei Marcelo da Rosa
Federal University of Rio Grande
do Sul

‘The Knight and the Other in the Grant Cronica de los Conquiridores (14th century)’
12th November 2026Jordi Teixidó
University of Barcelona

‘The Byzantine Cross of Bagà and the First Crusade: Lineage, Relics, and Mythmaking in Catalonia’		Stephanie Strand
Stockholm University

‘Hearts Turned toward Heaven: An Analysis of Heart Symbolism during the First Crusade’
26th November 2026Anna Jiang
University of Birmingham

‘The Birth of Merlin in Early Modern Popular Culture’		Samuel Masters
University of Nottingham

‘The Tempting of Will: Late-Antique Dream Theory and Demonic Communities in Piers Plowman‘
10th December 2026Manoel Maronese
North West University –
Potchefstroom

‘Why Write Greek? Greek Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Italian Poetic Garlands’		Chrisallo Borg
University of Malta

‘In Perpetual Formation: Material Composition, Accumulation, and Community in a Multi-Regional Mediterranean Altarpiece in Malta’