Michaelmas 2012


Looking back from 2012 to the Hispanic past: 1212 and 1512 revisited 

A double session of MIMSS in commemoration of two significant dates in Spanish history

Whilst the most widely-commemorated anniversary in 2012 has been that of the 1812 Constitution of Cadiz, there are other significant historical episodes in the geopolitical configuration of the Iberian Peninsula whose anniversaries also fall this year, and MIMSS is pleased to host reflections on two of these by two distinguished historians of medieval Iberia who have kindly agreed to present papers. Their subjects are events and processes involved in the years of the campaign of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212 (Dr Peter Linehan) and the annexation of Navarre in 1512 (Dr John Edwards). 

Their papers are as follows: 

30 November 2012 (5.00pm)

Dr John Edwards 
(Faculty Research Fellow, Oxford) 

Machiavellianism in Action in 1512: Fernando II and V's Annexation of 'Spanish' Navarre

Summer Common Room
Magdalen College, Oxford
(tea and coffee will be served from 4.30pm) 


18 January 2013 (5.00pm)

Dr Peter Linehan 
(St John's College, Cambridge)

1212 and All That

Summer Common Room
Magdalen College, Oxford
(tea and coffee will be served from 4.30pm)




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Dr Lesley Twomey
(Northumbria University)


'Holding and Reflecting the Water of Life': Fountains as a Symbol of the Virgin in Berceo and Santillana

 
Session of MIMSS
Friday, November 9, 2012, 5.00pm
Summer Common Room
(Tea and coffee will be served from 4.30)
 
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Trinity 2012

New Approaches to the Romancero viejo, II 

Session of MIMSS
Friday 11 May 2012
Auditorium, Magdalen College, Oxford
(entrance from Longwall Street)



15.00 Introduction and Welcome
Professor David Hook / Dr Juan-Carlos Conde 

15.10 Professor Mike McGlynn (Wichita State University, Kansas)
"Cattle-raiding in Early Castile: The Romancero and Beyond."

15.55 Dr Geraldine Hazbun (St. Anne's College, University of Oxford)
"Kinship, Genealogy and the Family Romance in the Romancero viejo."

16.40 Coffee and tea

16.55 Dr Sizen Yiacoup (University of Liverpool)
"Religious Conversion, Loyalty and Honour in 'El asalto a Baeza' and 'Sayavedra'."

17.40 Discussion of the Papers.

18.15 End of Session.

Hilary 2012

Literary and intellectual convergences in late medieval Spain, II

Session of MIMSS
Friday 2 March 2012
Summer Common Room, Magdalen College

3.30.- Welcome. Coffee and tea

4.00.- Prof. Carlos Heusch (ENS-Lyon): "El florido árbol de las mentiras. Aproximación a la ficciología medieval desde don Juan Manuel"

4.45.- Prof. Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco (Columbia University): "Political Idiots".


5.30.- Discussion

6.15.- End of the session




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Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Death of
María Rosa Lida de Malkiel (1910-1962)



 

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Professor Charles Faulhaber 
(Professor Emeritus, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California-Berkeley; Director Emeritus, The Bancroft Library, University of California-Berkeley)

Yakov Malkiel and María Rosa Lida: A Berkeley Love Affair
  


Session of MIMSS
Friday, 17 February 2012, 5.00pm
Auditorium, Magdalen College
(Tea and coffee will be served from 4.30pm)






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New Approaches to the Romancero Viejo

Session of MIMSS
Friday, 3 February 2012
Summer Common Room, Magdalen College



3.00-3.45pm: Dr Margaret Sleeman (University of Aberdeen): "The Persecution of Innocent Young Women: Everyday Stories in Hispanic Balladry."

3.45-4.00: Tea

4.00-4.45: Professor Roger Wright (University of Liverpool): "Birds in the Romancero Viejo".

4.45-5.45: David Hook (MIMSS, Oxford): "Problems in Reading 'Alora la bien cercada' ".

5.45: Discussion

6.15: End of the session

Michaelmas 2011

Literary and intellectual convergences in fifteenth-century Spain, I

Session of MIMSS
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Summer Common Room, Magdalen College

3.30.- Welcome. Coffee and tea

4.00.- Prof. Georgina Olivetto (Universidad de Buenos Aires - SECRIT): "A mule, a mule, my Republic for a mule: Alonso de Cartagena y la traducción latina de la República de Platón"

4.45.- Prof. Jeremy Lawrance (University of Nottingham): "Alfonso de Cartagena, humanism and the court in fifteenth-century Castile"

5.30.- Discussion

6.15.- End of the session