On 26 February 2013, the Centre was pleased to welcome Guto Rhys, who discussed ‘Kenneth Jackson and the Pictish language: Deep Roots and a Long Arm’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. This lecture aimed to assess the influences and impact of Kenneth Jackson’s scholarship on the Pictish language, with less emphasis placed upon linguistic… Continue reading →
On 19 February 2013, the Centre was pleased to welcome Dr. Iain MacDonald who discussed ‘Hospitality, Pastoral Care and the Church in the medieval and early modern Highlands’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. ‘Hospitality’ is a very general term, encompassing various customs, including charity to the poor or the sick, payment of rent and guesting/feasting.… Continue reading →
Yesterday, 12 February 2013, the Centre was pleased to welcome Joanna Clements who discussed ‘Perceptions of Scottish musical antiquity in the Enlightenment’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. The focus of this discussion centred around the history of music in Scotland from the 17th century, with the poet/playwright Allan Ramsay acting as a key introductory… Continue reading →
On Tuesday 5 February 2013, the Centre was pleased to welcome Kate Mathis who discussed ‘Mourning the Maic Uislenn: Blood, Death and Grief in Longes Mac nUislenn and Oidheadh Chloinne hUisneach’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. This lecture was focused on Deirdre (Deirdriu) from the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, specifically, her mourning of… Continue reading →
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 →
