School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History - Current and Upcoming Events Current and Upcoming Events at School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History /dhpa/events/ /global/images/layout/uni_logo_2016_pad_rss.gif School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History - Current and Upcoming Events /dhpa/events/ /dhpa/events/24814/ /dhpa/events/24814/ <![CDATA[Jeanne de Jussie (1503-1561) and Reformation in Geneva]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:00:00 +0000 /dhpa/events/24818/ /dhpa/events/24818/ <![CDATA[Fires in the House-top: Early Modern Women Writers, Milton & the Manosphere]]> Wed, 11 Nov 2026 13:00:00 +0000 /dhpa/events/24823/ /dhpa/events/24823/ <![CDATA['Liquid Empire': France Writes the River, 1530-1700]]> Fri, 19 Feb 2027 13:00:00 +0000 /dhpa/events/24820/ /dhpa/events/24820/ <![CDATA[Dr Frederik Pedersen (ºÚÁÏÍø, em.),]]> Wed, 03 Mar 2027 13:00:00 +0000 This talk challenges the assumption that medieval and early modern European courts routinely subjected animals to criminal trials. I argue that E. P. Evans’s The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals (1906) inherited a nineteenth-century historiographical construction created by French and German scholars who conflated fundamentally different evidence. Roman...

]]> /dhpa/events/24827/ /dhpa/events/24827/ <![CDATA[Thomas Jones, an 18th-century Welsh landscape artist in Rome and Naples]]> Wed, 24 Mar 2027 13:00:00 +0000 /dhpa/events/24830/ /dhpa/events/24830/ <![CDATA[Dr Kate Ash-Irisarri (Medieval literature, University of Edinburgh) 14 April 2027]]> Wed, 14 Apr 2027 13:00:00 +0100 Topic tba

Kate Ash-Irisarri works on memory, history of emotions and female reproduction in the late Middle Age and early Reformation period. Her book Rewriting the Past in Scottish Literature, 1350-1550 (Boydell and Brewer, 2025), explores how late–medieval writers drew on the memory of the wars to articulate a collective identity;...

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