Edwards Lecture in Medieval History

Edwards Memoir Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Edinburgh

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Next Edwards Lecture

to be announced

Previous Edwards Lectures

1959

N R Ker (published as: ‘William Hunter as a collector of medieval manuscripts : the first Edwards lecture on palaeography delivered in the University of Glasgow’  (University of Glasgow Press, 1983))

1964

C R Cheney (published as: ‘The study of the medieval Papal Chancery : the second Edwards lecture delivered within the University of Glasgow on 7th December, 1964’ (University of Glasgow Press, 1966))

1972

D McRoberts

1976

T J Brown

1984

G W S Barrow

1986

N P Brooks

1990

M T Clanchy

1993

T Zotz

1997

R B Dobson

1998

B. Harvey

1999

D. Greenway

2000

A Murray

2001

A Curry

2002

A Goodman

2004

J Hudson

2005

Professor Jinty Nelson

2006

Professor Chris Given-Wilson (University of St Andrews)
Official and Unofficial History in the Later Middle Ages

2007

Professor Walter Pohl (University of Vienna)
The ethnic turn of the Middle Ages

2008

R McKitterick

2009

N Vincent

2010

Professor Stephen D White (Emory University)
Rethinking the Bayeux Tapestry

2011

Professor Pauline Stafford (University of Liverpool)
In search of a lost chronicle: English vernacular history and the North in the tenth and early eleventh centuries

2012

Professor Marc Boone (University of Ghent)
The birth of a political culture: city politics in the late medieval Low Countries

2013

Professor Richard Gameson (University of Durham)
Book production in Northumbria in the 7th and 8th centuries

2014

Professor Wendy Davis (University College London)
What might early Medieval Welsh Charters have looked like?

2015

Professor Julia Crick (King's College, London)
Clanchy's vernacular hypothesis revisited: Writers and readers of administrative English 1066-1166

2016

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2017

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2018

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2019

Professor Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Writing the History of Saladin

2020

Professor Bruce Campbell – postponed due to Covid

2021

None (Covid year)

2022

Professor Bruce Campbell (Queen's University, Belfast)
Out of the ashes: reconstructing the economic fortunes of the Lordship of Ireland following the 1922 destruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland.

2023

Professor Elizabeth Lambourne
A Life in Luggage - The Travels and Travails of Abraham Ben Yiju, a Jewish Trader in the Medieval Indian Ocean World

2025

Professor Michele Bacci, University of Fribourg
Site-Bound Sanctity and Its Manifold Experiences in Medieval Jerusalem