On Friday 1 February 2013, the Centre was pleased to welcome Prof. Dafydd Johnston, who discussed ‘Curses and concepts: the lexicon of Dafydd ap Gwilym’s poetry’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. Dafydd ap Gwilym is widely seen as the finest medieval Welsh poet. He was the most prolific of his contemporaries, with 147 poems… Continue reading →
On 22 January, the Centre was delighted to welcome Steven Reid and David McOmish who discussed ‘What role did Latin play in Jacobean Scotland? An introduction to the ‘Bridging the Continental Divide’ Project’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. The ‘Bridging the Continental Divide Project’ seeks to translate and electronically publish around one-third of… Continue reading →
On 15 January 2013, as part of the on-going Vox Populi series, the Centre was pleased to welcome Dr Rhona Brown who discussed ‘Wilkes and Scottish Liberty: The Reception of John Wilkes in The Weekly Magazine’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. The lecture was centred around the controversial figure of John Wilkes, an… Continue reading →
On 8 January 2013, the Centre, in collaboration with the First Millenia Studies Group, was pleased to welcome Martin Goldberg from the National Museum of Scotland, who discussed Pictish symbols. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. Martin began the lecture by challenging Robert Stevenson’s idea that the Pictish symbol was in decline from an indistinct ‘Classical… Continue reading →
On Monday 3rd December 2012, the Centre was delighted to welcome Joseph Nagy of UCLA who discussed ‘Some Notable “Troublemakers” in Medieval Celtic Literature for our Seventh Annual Angus Matheson Memorial Lecture. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. Professor Nagy based much of his presentation around the lost Cin Dromma Snechta(i), which was a key… Continue reading →
On 27 November 2012, the Centre was pleased to welcome an old student of the University, Matthew Hammond, who discussed new work on ‘The origins of the earldom of Lennox’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. In the 12th century, the earldom of Lennox was not part of Scotland was we know it now.… Continue reading →
On 20 November 2012, the Centre, in collaboration with the Andrew Hook Centre, was pleased to welcome Professor John Cairns who provided an enlightening and harrowing lecture on ‘Slaves and Slaveowners in Eighteenth-Century Scotland’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. Slaves were a significant presence in 18th century Scotland, particularly from the 1740s onwards; Professor Cairns… Continue reading →
On 20 November 2012, the Centre was pleased to welcome Professor Keith Brown, who discussed ‘Elections, voting and representation in early modern Scotland’ as part of the ongoing Vox Populi seminar series. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. Professor Brown began his lecture by contextualising the spread of democracy in the post-1945 world. There… Continue reading →
On 6 November 2012, the Centre was pleased to welcome Professor Stephen Driscoll, who discussed the ongoing SERF project in the first of a three-part seminar mini-series. Prof. Driscoll covered ‘Royal Forteviot: landscape setting and political contexts’ and below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. ‘SERF’ stands for Strathearn Environs of Royal Forteviot, an archaeological project… Continue reading →
On 30 October 2012, the Centre was pleased to welcome the University of Glasgow’s own Dr. Karin Bowie, who discussed ‘National Opinion and the Union Question in the Union of the Crowns’. This lecture was part of the ongoing ‘Vox Populi’ series and below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. Between the Union of the Crowns of 1603… Continue reading →
