Annual Lecture and General Meeting

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.

The Annual Lectures

2021	Jocelyn Wogan-Browne	The 2021 MAE Lecture: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Women and Multilingualism in Late Medieval England	CMS York / Zoom - Friday 04 June, 2021
2019	David D'Avray	The 2019 MÆ AGM and Lecture - David d'Avray (UCL), 'How to explain the Medieval Papacy'	University of Birmingham - Saturday 27 April, 2019
2018	Janet Nelson	MÆ Annual Lecture, Meeting and Colloquium - Medieval Life Writing - in Celebration of the Lecture's 60th Anniversary	Harris Manchester College - Friday 29 June, 2018
2017	Kathryn Kerby-Fulton	Literary Networks of the Vicars Choral and the Clerical Proletariat in Late Medieval York	Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park, Nottingham - Saturday 06 May, 2017
2016	Liz Herbert McAvoy	Gerald's Hard Country: Representations of Landscape and Enclosure in the Itinerarium Kambriae	Cardiff University - Saturday 16 April, 2016
2015	Andy Orchard	Mightier than the Sword? Grasping the Point of the Anglo-Saxon Riddle Tradition	Bancroft Building, Queen Mary, University of London - Saturday 09 May, 2015
2014	Robert Bartlett	Gervase of Tilbury and International Courtly Culture	University of Lincoln - Saturday 03 May, 2014
2013	Nigel Palmer	Gospel Meditations in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-century Europe: Three Voices from the Upper Rhine	Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol - Saturday 18 May, 2013
2012	Helen Cooper	The Ends of Story-telling	University of Durham - Saturday 19 May, 2012
2011	Sarah Medlam	Estate and Precedence: The Form and Function of Beds in Medieval Households	Tuesday 12 April, 2011
2010	M. Michèle Mulchahey	How the Dominican Order Dealt with Error within its Own Ranks: Unsanctioned Publication and the Censure of Durand of St-Pourçain	Friday 16 April, 2010
2009	Alixe Bovey	Ludic Margins: the Gravity of Play in Gothic Manuscripts	Friday 03 April, 2009
2008	Miri Rubin	Mary of the Europeans: Emotion and Devotion	St. Hilda's College - Saturday 08 March, 2008
2007	Alan Deyermond	'These things are figures of the true': Uses of Biblical Typology in Medieval Spanish Literature	St. Hilda's College - Saturday 10 March, 2007
2006	Éamonn Ó Carragáin	'The Dream of the Rood' and Eighth-Century Northumbria	Mansfield College - Saturday 11 March, 2006
2005	Sarah Kay	The Place of Thought in Late Medieval Didactic Literature: The Case of Christine de Pizan	Mansfield College - Saturday 05 March, 2005
2004	Anne Hudson	Robustissimus Antichristi Achilles: Thomas Netter, Wyclif and the Lollards	Balliol College - Saturday 28 February, 2004
2003	Mary Carruthers	Learning to Read the Hard Way (Peter of Celle: "On Afflication and Reading")	Balliol College - Saturday 22 February, 2003
2002	Margaret Bent	The Musical Stanzas in Martin le Franc's Le champion des dames	Balliol College - Saturday 02 March, 2002
2001	Maurice Keen	Medieval History: Angevin England through Medieval Eyes	Balliol College - Saturday 24 February, 2001
2000	Peter Dronke	Imagery of Dance in Early Medieval Europe	Balliol College - Saturday 04 March, 2000
1999	Reinhard Strohm	Late Medieval Song	University College - Saturday 06 March, 1999
1998	Ian Michael	Private Book-Collecting in Spain from St Isidore (570-636) to the Marquis of Santillana (1398-1458)	Magdalen College - Saturday 28 February, 1998
1997	David Rees	Language and National Identity in the British Isles 1100-1400	University College - Saturday 22 February, 1997
1996	Michael Lapidge	Byrhtferth and his Books	Magdalen College - Saturday 24 February, 1996
1995	Dennis Green	On Recognising and Failing to Recognise Signals to Irony and Fiction in Court Literature	Summer Common Room, Magdalen College - Saturday 25 February, 1995
1994	Linda M. Paterson	Editing Medieval Lyric Poetry: Marcabru's D'aisso lau Dieu	St. John's College - Saturday 26 February, 1994
1993	C. David Benson	Images and Audience: Piers Plowman and Wallpainting	Lady Margaret Hall - Saturday 06 March, 1993
1992	Patrick Boyde	Blossoming Garden & Circling Melody: a reading of Paradiso XXIII	Lady Margaret Hall - Wednesday 19 February, 1992
1991	Alexander Murray	Excommunication and Conscience in the Middle Ages	Lady Margaret Hall - Saturday 16 February, 1991
1990	Jill Mann	The Owl and the Nightingale	Lady Margaret Hall - Saturday 24 February, 1990
1989	Alan Deyermond	The Individual Voice in Medieval Spanish Prose	St. Hilda's College - Saturday 11 March, 1989
1988	Tony Hunt	Anglo-Norman Medicine	St. Hilda's College - Saturday 05 March, 1988
1987	Stephen White	Justice and Judgement at the Court of King Arthur: The Trial of Guinevere	St. Hilda's College - Saturday 14 March, 1987
1986	Alastair Minnis	Towards a History of Medieval Theory and Criticism	Lady Margaret Hall - Saturday 15 March, 1986
1985	G.R. Evans	Literal and Metaphorical in the Bible	Lady Margaret Hall - Saturday 09 March, 1985
1984	Damasus Trapp	Thomas More and the Visual Arts	Lady Margaret Hall - Saturday 03 March, 1984
1983	Leslie Seiffert	God's Amnesty: Hartmann's Gregorius and the Vie du Pape Saint Gregoire	Lady Margaret Hall - Saturday 05 March, 1983
1982	Peter Dronke	The Writings of Marguerite Porete	Saturday 13 March, 1982
1981	Douglas Gray	Tribute to Professor Jack Bennett	Saturday 14 March, 1981
1980	Henry Mayr-Harting	The Bamberg MSS of c.1000AD and the God of the World	Saturday 15 March, 1980
1979	Dominica Legge	William Marshall and Arthur of Britanny: A Detective Story	Merton College - Saturday 17 March, 1979
1978	Janet Coleman	Fourteenth-century Theology. Piers Plowman and some Radical Franciscans	Merton College - Saturday 11 March, 1978
1977	R.W.V. Elliott	By Hylle and by Vale in the Gawain Country	Merton College - Saturday 12 March, 1977
1976	Robert B. Patterson	The Countesses of Gloucester and the status of women in Norman and Angevin England	Merton College - Saturday 13 March, 1976
1975	Giles Constable	Petrarch and Monasticism	Merton College - Saturday 15 March, 1975
1974	T.B.W. Reid	The Right to Emend	Merton College - Saturday 16 March, 1974
1973	Colin Hardie	Allegory in the Divina Commedia: the Epistle to Cangrande	St. Peter's College - Saturday 17 March, 1973
1972	F.P. Pickering	Medieval Patterns of History	Merton College - Saturday 11 March, 1972
1971	David Luscombe	The pseudo-Denys in the West	Merton College - Saturday 13 March, 1971
1970	K. Ugawa	Peasant Holding and Inheritance Custom in Medieval England: A Comparative Study	Merton College - Saturday 14 March, 1970
1969	Beatrice White	Medieval English Literature: Heads and Tales	Merton College - Saturday 15 March, 1969
1968	Rachel Bromwich	Dafydd ap Gwilym: a Welsh Contemporary of Chaucer	Balliol College - Saturday 16 March, 1968
1967	J.E. Cross	The Conception of the old English Phoenix	Balliol College - Saturday 18 March, 1967
1966	E. Talbot Donaldson	Approaches to Chaucer	Balliol College - Saturday 19 March, 1966
1965	J.J.G. Alexander	Anglo-Saxon Illumination and the Continent in the 11th Century	Taylorian Institute - Saturday 13 March, 1965
1964	Marie Thérèse d'Alverny	Dante and Wisdom	Magdalen College - Saturday 21 March, 1964
1963	E.F. Jacob	A Mediaeval Bishop of Norwich: Dr Thomas Brouns	Magdalen College - Saturday 16 March, 1963
1962	James J. Murphy	Rhetoric in Fourteenth Century Oxford	New Room, Magdalen College - Saturday 17 March, 1962
1961	Alfred Ewert	The Twelfth Century Renaissance in French Literature	New Room, Magdalen College - Saturday 11 March, 1961
1960	K.B. McFarlane	The Lollard Knights	New Common Room, Merton College - Saturday 12 March, 1960
1959	Eugène Vinaver	Tradition and Design in Twelfth-century French Romance	Upper Bursary, Merton College - Saturday 07 March, 1959
1958	Nora Chadwick	The Earliest Records of the British Heroic Age	Upper Bursary, Merton College - Saturday 08 March, 1958