The Medium Ævum Lecture has taken place every year since 1958, delivered by a distinguished medievalist following the Society's Annual General Meeting. Since 2012, the Lecture is hosted by a different institution each year, from around the United Kingdom.
Events List
| authors | event title | venue | daterange | weblink |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James J. Murphy | Rhetoric in Fourteenth Century Oxford | New Room, Magdalen College | ||
| Alfred Ewert | The Twelfth Century Renaissance in French Literature | New Room, Magdalen College | ||
| K.B. McFarlane | The Lollard Knights | New Common Room, Merton College | ||
| Eugène Vinaver | Tradition and Design in Twelfth-century French Romance | Upper Bursary, Merton College | ||
| Nora Chadwick | The Earliest Records of the British Heroic Age | Upper Bursary, Merton College | ||
| R.W.V. Elliott | By Hylle and by Vale in the Gawain Country | Merton College | ||
| Ian Michael | Private Book-Collecting in Spain from St Isidore (570-636) to the Marquis of Santillana (1398-1458) |
Magdalen College | ||
| E. Talbot Donaldson | Approaches to Chaucer | Balliol College | ||
| Stephen White | Justice and Judgement at the Court of King Arthur: The Trial of Guinevere | St. Hilda's College | ||
| Robert B. Patterson | The Countesses of Gloucester and the status of women in Norman and Angevin England |
Merton College | ||
| David Rees | Language and National Identity in the British Isles 1100-1400 | University College | ||
| J.J.G. Alexander | Anglo-Saxon Illumination and the Continent in the 11th Century | Taylorian Institute | ||
| Alastair Minnis | Towards a History of Medieval Theory and Criticism | Lady Margaret Hall | ||
| Giles Constable | Petrarch and Monasticism | Merton College | ||
| Michael Lapidge | Byrhtferth and his Books | Magdalen College | ||
| Marie Thérèse d'Alverny | Dante and Wisdom | Magdalen College | ||
| G.R. Evans | Literal and Metaphorical in the Bible | Lady Margaret Hall | ||
| T.B.W. Reid | The Right to Emend | Merton College | ||
| Dennis Green | On Recognising and Failing to Recognise Signals to Irony and Fiction in Court Literature |
Summer Common Room, Magdalen College | ||
| E.F. Jacob | A Mediaeval Bishop of Norwich: Dr Thomas Brouns | Magdalen College | ||
| Damasus Trapp | Thomas More and the Visual Arts | Lady Margaret Hall | ||
| Sarah Kay | The Place of Thought in Late Medieval Didactic Literature: The Case of Christine de Pizan |
Mansfield College | ||
| Colin Hardie | Allegory in the Divina Commedia: the Epistle to Cangrande | St. Peter's College | ||
| Linda M. Paterson | Editing Medieval Lyric Poetry: Marcabru's D'aisso lau Dieu | St. John's College | ||
| Leslie Seiffert | God's Amnesty: Hartmann's Gregorius and the Vie du Pape Saint Gregoire |
Lady Margaret Hall | ||
| Anne Hudson | Robustissimus Antichristi Achilles: Thomas Netter, Wyclif and the Lollards | Balliol College | ||
| F.P. Pickering | Medieval Patterns of History | Merton College | ||
| C. David Benson | Images and Audience: Piers Plowman and Wallpainting | Lady Margaret Hall | ||
| Peter Dronke | The Writings of Marguerite Porete | |||
| Mary Carruthers | Learning to Read the Hard Way (Peter of Celle: "On Afflication and Reading") |
Balliol College | ||
| David Luscombe | The pseudo-Denys in the West | Merton College | ||
| Patrick Boyde | Blossoming Garden & Circling Melody: a reading of Paradiso XXIII | Lady Margaret Hall | ||
| Douglas Gray | Tribute to Professor Jack Bennett | |||
| Margaret Bent | The Musical Stanzas in Martin le Franc's Le champion des dames | Balliol College | ||
| K. Ugawa | Peasant Holding and Inheritance Custom in Medieval England: A Comparative Study |
Merton College | ||
| Alexander Murray | Excommunication and Conscience in the Middle Ages | Lady Margaret Hall | ||
| Henry Mayr-Harting | The Bamberg MSS of c.1000AD and the God of the World | |||
| Maurice Keen | Medieval History: Angevin England through Medieval Eyes | Balliol College | ||
| Beatrice White | Medieval English Literature: Heads and Tales | Merton College | ||
| Jill Mann | The Owl and the Nightingale | Lady Margaret Hall | ||
| Dominica Legge | William Marshall and Arthur of Britanny: A Detective Story | Merton College | ||
| Peter Dronke | Imagery of Dance in Early Medieval Europe | Balliol College | ||
| Rachel Bromwich | Dafydd ap Gwilym: a Welsh Contemporary of Chaucer | Balliol College | ||
| Alan Deyermond | The Individual Voice in Medieval Spanish Prose | St. Hilda's College | ||
| Janet Coleman | Fourteenth-century Theology. Piers Plowman and some Radical Franciscans |
Merton College | ||
| Reinhard Strohm | Late Medieval Song | University College | ||
| J.E. Cross | The Conception of the old English Phoenix | Balliol College | ||
| Tony Hunt | Anglo-Norman Medicine | St. Hilda's College | ||
| Alixe Bovey | Ludic Margins: the Gravity of Play in Gothic Manuscripts | Lincoln College, Oxford | ||
| Miri Rubin | Mary of the Europeans: Emotion and Devotion | St. Hilda's College | ||
| Alan Deyermond | These things are figures of the true': Uses of Biblical Typology in Medieval Spanish Literature |
St. Hilda's College | ||
| Éamonn Ó Carragáin | The Dream of the Rood' and Eighth-Century Northumbria | Mansfield College | ||
| Nigel Palmer | Gospel Meditations in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-century Europe: Three Voices from the Upper Rhine |
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol | ||
| Helen Cooper | The Ends of Story-telling | University of Durham | ||
| Sarah Medlam | Estate and Precedence: The Form and Function of Beds in Medieval Households |
Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College, Oxford | ||
| M. Michèle Mulchahey | How the Dominican Order Dealt with Error within its Own Ranks: Unsanctioned Publication and the Censure of Durand of St-Pourçain |
Lincoln College, Oxford | ||
| Andy Orchard | Mightier than the Sword? Grasping the Point of the Anglo-Saxon Riddle Tradition |
Bancroft Building, Queen Mary, University of London | ||
| Robert Bartlett | Gervase of Tilbury and International Courtly Culture | University of Lincoln | ||
| Kathryn Kerby-Fulton | Literary Networks of the Vicars Choral and the Clerical Proletariat in Late Medieval York |
Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park, Nottingham | ||
| MAE Annual Lecture and AGM 2016 (Cardiff) | Cardiff University | |||
| Liz Herbert McAvoy | Gerald's Hard Country: Representations of Landscape and Enclosure in the Itinerarium Kambriae |
Cardiff University | ||
| Janet Nelson | MÆ Annual Lecture, Meeting and Colloquium - Medieval Life Writing - in Celebration of the Lecture's 60th Anniversary |
Harris Manchester College | ||
| David D'Avray | The 2019 MÆ AGM and Lecture - David d'Avray (UCL), 'How to explain the Medieval Papacy' |
University of Birmingham | ||
| Sarah Bowden | 2024 MÆ AGM and Lecture: ‘Shifting Landscapes: St Oswald of Northumbria in England and Germany’ |
Grimond Lecture 3, Grimond Building, University of Kent / Online | ||
| Matthew Kempshall | The 2023 MAE Lecture: Causes and Chronography in Medieval Historical Writing |
Grosvenor Museum, Chester | ||
| Ryan Perry | The 2022 MAE Lecture: Middle English Books of Devotion & Liturgical Privatisation in 15th England |
University of Nottingham | ||
| Jocelyn Wogan-Browne | The 2021 MAE Lecture: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Women and Multilingualism in Late Medieval England |
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, online |