Previous Activities

~Trinity 2009~

Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages-University of Oxford

Taylor Special Lecture 2009

Prof. Pedro M. Cátedra

(Universidad de Salamanca & SEMYR)

Uso y usos de la literatura en la Edad Media española

Friday 15 May 2009, 5.00pm, Institutio Tayloriana, room 2, St Giles, Oxford

Convened by Dr. Juan-Carlos Conde (Magdalen College, Oxford, & MIMSS)

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Gaude Virgo Gloriosa: Marian Miracle Literature in the Iberian

Peninsula and France in the Middle Ages

A one-day colloquium to be held at the Magdalen Iberian Medieval Studies Seminar

Magdalen College

Summer Common Room

Friday May 22, 2009

-Morning Session:

9.30-10.00.- Welcome. Coffee and Tea.

10.00.- Opening Remarks

10.05-10.45.- Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London): “Madonna: How Mary became universally local”

10.45-11.25.- David Barnett (Queen Mary, University of London). “The Sources of a Fifteenth-century Catalan Mariale (Barcelona Cathedral Archive, MS 6)”

11.25-12.05.- Fernando Baños Vallejo (Universidad de Oviedo): "El papel del intérprete en losMilagros de Berceo"

12.05-12.30.- Discussion. End of the morning session.

-Afternoon Session

2.30-3.10.- Stephen Parkinson (Linacre College, University of Oxford): “The miracles came in two by two: paired narratives in the Cantigas de Santa Maria”

3.10-3.50.- Emma Gatland (Somerville College, University of Oxford): “ ‘Asmó bien esta cosa que·l istrié a mal puerto’: The Space and Place of Women in Gonzalo de Berceo’s Milagros de Nuestra Señora”

3.50-4.00.- Break (Coffee and Tea)

4.00-4.40.-Anthony Hunt (St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford): “Admiring Reflections”

4.40-5.20.- Elvira Fidalgo (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela): “Las cantigas de loor alfonsinas en el contexto de la escuela trovadoresca gallego-portuguesa”

5.20-5.50.- Discussion. Final Remarks. End of the colloquium

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~Hilary 2009~

Dr Antonio Doñas


(Universitat de València)

Traducción, política y destierro a fines de la Edad Media: el «Boecio de consolación» en Aragón y Castilla

Session of MIMSS
Friday, March 13, 2009, 5.00 pm
Summer Common Room, Magdalen College
(Tea and coffee will be served from 4.30)

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Professor Carlos Alvar

(Université de Genève)

Cementerios y tumbas en algunos libros de caballerias

Session of MIMSS
Friday, January 30, 2009, 5.00 pm
Summer Common Room, Magdalen College
(Tea and coffee will be served from 4.30)

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~Michaelmas 2008~

Profesor José Manuel Fradejas Rueda

(Departamento de Lengua Española, Universidad de Valladolid)

Falconry in the Iberian Peninsula: its History and Literature

Session of MIMSS
Thursday, November 20, 2008, 5.00 pm
Old Practice Room, Magdalen College
(Tea and coffee will be served from 4.30)


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~Trinity 2008~

1968-2008: The work of Ramón Menéndez Pidal forty years after his death

A one-day colloquium to be held at the Magdalen Iberian Medieval Studies Seminar

Magdalen College

Summer Common Room

May 30, 2008

Morning Session

10.30-11.00. — Coffee and refreshments

11.00. — Opening Remarks — Juan Carlos Conde (Magdalen College, University of Oxford)

11.10. — Alan Deyermond (Queen Mary, University of London): “Menéndez Pidal and the Epic”

11.50. — Geraldine Coates (St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford): “Vida latente, literatura viviente: Menéndez Pidal and the Romancero, Forty Years on”

12.30. — Discussion

12.50. — End of the Morning Session

Afternoon Session

2.30. — David Pattison (Magdalen College, University of Oxford): “Menéndez Pidal and Alphonsine Historiography”

3.10. — Simon Barton (University of Exeter): “Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Historian”

3.50. — Discussion and Tea

4.15. — Inés Fernández-Ordóñez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): “Menéndez Pidal y la fundación de la dialectología hispánica: revisión crítica con un siglo de distancia”

4.55. — Roger Wright (University of Liverpool): “Menéndez Pidal and the History of Spanish Language”

5.35. — Discussion. Closing Remarks

6.00. — End of the conference

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~Hilary 2008~

Professor Nancy Marino

(Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Michigan State University)

The Death of Jorge Manrique: History, Legend, and Ballad

Session of MIMSS
Thursday, March 6, 2008, 5.00 pm
Summer Common Room, Magdalen College
(Tea and coffee will be served from 4.30)

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Professor Jeremy Lawrance

(Chair, Department of Hispanic and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham)

From Manuscript to Performance: The Example of Medieval Spain

Inaugural session of MIMSS
Friday, February 8, 2008. 5.00 pm
Auditorium, Magdalen College
(Tea and coffee will be served from 4.30)