Research Labs Archive

CAMPS Research Labs

CAMPS Research Labs provide a forum for staff and graduate students from all disciplines involved to come together in order to present work-in-progress and debate research issues. CAMPS Labs to date have taken a two-hour format, typically initiated with a presentation of specific research themes, questions and challenges, leading into informal and often very wide-ranging discussions.

This page contains an archive of CAMPS Labs already held.

Details on upcoming Labs may be found on the CAMPS home page. 

Labs Archive

CAMPS Labs, 2022–23

Semester 1:

• 28 October 2022 (G011)
  Katherine Tycz
  Plague, Prayer, and Print in Sixteenth-century Italy
• 18 November 2022 (G011)
  Anne  Williams
  Damsels, Deluge, and the Dindshenchas: A Look at the Relationship between Women and Water in Select Dindshenchas Texts

 Semester 2:

• 27 January 2023 (G011)
  Andrew Levie
  The Faerie Queene as a Palimpsest? Edmund Spenser’s Redrafting of Ireland’s Mythical Landscape
• 10 February 2023 (G010)
  Lisa Doyle, TCD
  More than Marginal: Knowledge and Learning in Ancient Greek Scholia
• 1 March 2023 (G010), Wednesday 4pm, in collaboration with the History Seminar Series,
  Patrick Walsh, TCD
  Bogs, Barracks and Books: Stringy Sovereignty and the Eighteenth-Century Irish State
• 24 March 2023 (G010)
  Maria Shmygol
  Transnational Transformations of English Drama: Tito Andronico (1620) and the Early Modern German Shakespeare Edition Project
• 21 April 2023 (G010)
  Rosemary Power
  Iona Nunneries
• 12 May 2023 (TBC)
  Jacopo Bisagni & Andrew Ó Donnghaile
  The Seven Parts of Sword-fighting. A Linguistic Analysis of Leeds, Royal Armouries, I.33

CAMPS Labs, 2021–22

CAMPS Labs, 2020–21

CAMPS Labs, 2019–20

Semester 1:

• 11 October 2019
  Jason O’Rorke
  Bobbio and the Hiberno-Latin Grammatical Tradition
• 8 November 2019
  Ian Fisher
  Crosses in the North Atlantic World: Papar and Vikings
• 6 December 2019
  Jessica Cooke
  Alcuin and the Virtutes of Saint Fursa

Semester 2:

• 17 January 2020 (G010)
  Francisco Rozano-Carcía, Frances McCormack, Jenni Scanlan
  Medievalism and Modern Nationalism: A Workshop
• 31 January 2020 (G011)
  Stephen Hewer
  Socio-legal Status of Minorities within the English Lands in Medieval Ireland 
• 14 February 2020 (G010)
  Dermot Burns
  Medieval Notions of Æsthetics: Beauty, Truth and Climactic Symmetry in the Moral Fables of Robert Hennyson
• 28 February 2020 (G010)
  Francisco Rozano-García
  Old English Poetry in Medieval European Perspective: The Exeter Book, the House of Wessex and Carolingian Models
• 6 March 2020 (G010)
  Rosemary Power
  Shady Ladies in Medieval Iceland
• 27 March 2020 (G010)
  Russell Ó Riagáin
  The Scandinavian Diaspora in Ireland and Britain, 790-1200

CAMPS Labs, 2018–19

Semester 1:

• 21 September 2018
  Michael Shields
  Why the yellow in the rainbow is not real. Modernizing optics and ontology in 13th-century German scientific poetry
• 28 September 2018
  Beatrix Faerber
  From Montpellier to Ireland: Translating the Art of Healing
• 25 October 2018
  Erin McCarthy
  Folger MS V.a.345: an International Transcribathon 
• 2 November 2018
  Niamh Wycherley
  The Language of Relics in Medieval Ireland
• 16 November 2018
  Pádraic Moran
  Translating the Greek Bible in the Ninth Century: Evidence of Glossed Irish Manuscripts 
  Noémi Farkas
  Biblical Exempla in Sedulius Scottus' De rectoribus Christianis

Semester 2:

• 18 January 2019
  Liz Fitzpatrick
  A Wild Mountain Borderland’. The Locus of Gaelic Learned Families in 15th and 16th Century Ireland
• 1 February 2019
  Nike Stam
  Copying Code-Switching: The Problems of Bilingual Texts in Transmission
• 8 February 2019
  Aoife Maher
  For the Love of the Gods: Kharis and Religious Reciprocity in Euripedes’ Tragedies
• 15 February 2019
  Rosemary Power
  The Dates and the Placing of the Iona Ruins and Monuments
• 8 March 2019
  Sean Murphy
  Occidentalism in the West
• 22 March 2019
  Paolo Evangelisti
• 29 March 2019
  Amy Livingstone
  Powerful, Shrewd and Pious: Countess Emengarde of Brittany c.1070–1147.

CAMPS Labs, 2017–18

Semester 1:

• 22 September 2017 
  "Literary Windows: Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature"
  A round table discussion featuring Michael Clarke, Yiannis Doukas, Peter Kelly, and Lindsay Ann Reid
• 13 October 2017 
  Maria Hallinan 
  Social Status in Early Medieval Ireland and the Senchas Már Status Tract: The Evidence Thus Far
• 3 November 2017 
  Marianne Ailes 
  Tolerating the Religious Other in Crusading Literature 
• 17 November 2017 
  Siobhán Armstrong 
  Irish Wire Strung harp

Semester 2:

• 2 February 2018
  Jessica Cooke
  A Reappraisal of the Vita Secunda of Saint Fursa: the Irish Origins of a Continental Saint
• 9 Feb 2018
  Chris Doyle
  How a Pagan Goddess became a Male Christian Angel: Victory and her transformation in Late Roman Art
• 16 February 2018
  Máirín Ní Dhonnachada
  Drinking, Kingship and Lordship in Early Medieval Ireland: Scoping the Topic
• 9 March 2018
  Christine Neer
  Love is a Battlefield? an Informal Exploration of Gendered Spaces in Medieval Irish Tochmarca ('Wooing Tales')
• 16 March 2018
  Lindsay Reid
  The Early Modern Querelle des Femmes and the Judgement of Solomon in Greenes Vision
• 23 March 2018
  Rosemary Power
  Carvings, Sculpture and Position on Columban and Benedictine Iona
• 13 April 2018
  Charles Doyle
  The Presocratics and Christian Heretics in the works of Irenaeus and Tertullian

CAMPS Labs, 2016–17

Semester 1:

• 16 September 2016
  Ciaran Arthur (Belfast)
  Obscurity and Textual Concealment in Anglo-Saxon England
• 30 September 2016
  Michael Clarke 
  Creating a Vernacular Literature from Latin Scraps: The Case of the Middle Irish Narrative of Ulysses
• 21 October 2016
  Andrew Ó Donnghaile
  Túarastal Cána Phátraic: Cáin Dairí and Armagh in Ninth-Century Ireland
  John Carey (Cork)
  Saint Brendan and the Sea Giantess
• 28 October 2016
  Peter Kelly
  From Science to Mythology: Ovidian Chaos and the Cosmology of Plato’s Timaeus
• 4 November 2016
  Erin McKinney 
  The Dream Dominatrix: A New Look at Tochmarc Étaíne and Aislinge Óenguso 
• 11 November 2016
  Michael Shields
  German and Dutch Songs and Dances ‘ Desen houedans zanch verbas – Three court dances in the Haager Liederhandschfrift (ca.1400) – or just one? A quodlibetical collage and its author’.

Semester 2:

• 20 January 2017
  Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (Aberystwyth)
  Isidorian semiotics and an orthographic crux in Old Irish
• 27 January 2017
  Rosemary Power
  At the ends of Christendom: Medieval Greenland in written sources
• 3 February 2017
  Clodagh Downey
  Poetic positioning in medieval Irish poetry: the case of dindshenchas (‘the lore of prominent places’)
• 10 February 2017
  Sarah Corrigan
  'Through the spirit of anger': the exegesis of the Red Sea crossing and its emulation in early Irish hagiography
  Sinéad O'Sullivan (Belfast)
  Crafting Knowledge: Glosses in the Early Medieval West
• 17 February 2017
  Cathy Swift (Limerick)
  St Nicholas of Ireland - patron saint of sailors and single women
• 24 February 2017
  Kieran O’Connor
  'Temple House Castle - from Templar castle to New English mansion
• 3 March 2017
  Jessica Cooke
  Saint Meldan, Saint Fursa, Saint Cuana: Saints of Lough Corrib
• 31 March 2017 
  Frances McCormack
  From Weeping Trees to Heated Hearts: Towards an Understanding of Compunction in Old English Poetry

CAMPS Labs, 2015–16

Semester 1:

• 16 October 2015 
  Romanas Bulatovas 
  Early Bronze and Inflation under the Roman Republic
• 23 October 2015 
  Michael Clarke 
  Spirituality and Philology: Making Sense of the Irish Liber Hymnorum
• 30 October 2015 
  Fañch Bihan-Gallic 
  Burial islands in Scotland and the Celtic Watery Jouney to the Afterlife
• 6 November 2015 
  John Waddell 
  Medieval Windows on a Pagan Past
• 13 November 2015 
  Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha 
  Who was the target of the Middle Irish satire Aislinge Meic Con Glinne?
• 27 November 2015 
  Elizabeth Fitzpatrick 
  The Speckled Place: Boundaries and Natural Resources in Medieval Gaelic Ireland
• 4 December 2015 
  Kim LoPrete
  Bertrada of Montfort's Dower(s): Finding History in Charters
• 11 December 2015 
  Catherine Emerson
  La Legende des Flamens (1522)—A Renaissance Book in the Library at Trinity College Dublin 

Semester 2:

• 22 January 2016 
  Christian Frey (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
  Conquering the East: Germany's Movement Eastwards in the Middle Ages
• 29 January 2016 
  Francisco Rozano-García
  Liminal Identities in Old English Poetry
• 12 February 2016
  Sabine Asmus, Universität Leipzig
  The Celtic Otherworld

• 25 February 2016 
  All-day Research Seminar: 'Territorial Boundaries and Topographies of Power' 
  Directed by Elizabeth FitzPatrick, Archaeology, NUIG 
• 26 February 2016: 
  3rd Annual Medieval Studies Lecture 
  Joseph F. Nagy, University of California, Los Angeles 
  Hunting Mythical Pigs from Calydon to Caledonia 
• 4 March 2016 
  Barry Lewis, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 
  Saints' Genealogies in Medieval Wales: A Comparison with the Irish Corpus 
• 11 March 2016 
  Jacopo Bisagni
  The newly discovered Irish compustica in the Vatican manuscript Reg.lat.123 
• 8 April 2016 
  Jessica Cooke
  The Annaghdown Doorway and King Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair: Tuarastal and Patronage in Twelfth-Century Connacht 
• 15 April 2016 
  Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
  "To catch a Thief": a Latin text with Old Irish glosses on the means of detecting and apprehending criminals 
• 22 April 2016 
  Eugene Costello
  Ar cuairt bhuailltechuis: the medieval origins of transhumance or "booleying" in Ireland

CAMPS Labs, 2014–15

Semester 1:

• 19 September 2014 
  Chris Doyle
  Unconquered Rome, Fertile Africa: Roman Rule in the Ancient Maghrib
• 3 October 2014 
  Exequiel Monge
  Eoin Bruinne, the Runaway Bridegroom: Constructing John the Evangelist in Early Medieval Ireland
• 10 October 2014 
  Jacopo Bisagni
  The Newly-Discovered Hiberno-Breton Computus Parisinus of AD 754
• 17 October 2014 
  Brian Arkins
  Augustine on the Body and on Sex
• 31 October 2014 
  Jessica Cooke
  Oral Tradition as a Source for the Monastic Past: Ecclesiastical History and Béaloideas of Annaghdown
• 7 November 2014 
  Patrick Gleeson
  Kinship in Early Medieval Ireland: Debating Models and Frameworks in a Northwest European Context
• 21 November 2014 
  Catherine Swift (University of Limerick )
  Confession, Penitence and the Anamchara
• 28 November 2014 
  Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha
  A Solution from Irish Tradition to the Enigma of an Old English Poem, the So-Called "Wulf and Eadwacer"

Semester 2:

• 30 January 2015 
  Ruairí Ó hUiginn (Maynooth)
  Marriage, Law, and Tochmarc Emire
• 13 February 2015 
  Marion Deane (UCD)
  Truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth: the imperative of myth and memory in its dissemination
• 20 February 2015 
  Francisco Rozano
  Saga hwæt ic hatte: The Many Names and Mysteries of the Exeter Book of Old English Poetry
• 13 March 2015 
  Dónal Ó Catháin
  The Desmond Geraldines in the 14th Century: Poets and Patrons
• 27 March 2015 
  Barbara Hillers (UCD )
  Folklore and Medieval Literature: A Reconsideration
• 13 April 2015 
  Brian Frykenberg (Andover, Massachusetts)
  Suibne's "Praise of the Garb"
• 14 April 2015 
  Brian Frykenberg (Andover, Massachusetts)
  The Provenance & Language of the Anecdota Suibne Poems
• 14 April 2015 
  Westley Follett (Univ. of Southern Mississippi)
  Recovering a Lost Library: the Mac Aodhagáin collection at Ballymacegan, Co. Tipperary
• 15 April 2015 
  Brian Frykenberg (Andover, Massachusetts)
  St Mo-Ling as Prophet in the Poem "Táinic rath"
• 24 April 2015 
  Kim LoPrete
  War, Monastic Conversion, and the Politics of Ecclesiastical Reform in 1070s' France
• 1 May 2015 
  Kieran O'Conor
  New Work on Rindoon Castle, County Roscommon

CAMPS Labs, 2013–14

Semester 1:

• 20 September 2013 
  Pádraic Moran
  Glossing in the Sinosphere: Report from a research trip on Japanese glossing
• 4 October 2013 
  Elva Johnston (UCD) 
  Ogam and literacy
• 18 October 2013 
  Michael Clarke
  Reading the Middle Irish Troy alongside Flemish tapestries of the fifteenth century
• 8 November 2013 
  Peter Kelly
  Suspending suicide: trees and transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses
• 22 November 2013 
  Mark Stansbury
  Insular Latin and Insular Manuscripts
• 29 November 2013 
  John Whitman (Cornell/Toyko)
  Kundoku: What is it, and did anything like it exist in the medieval West?
• 6 Dec 2013 
  Rosemary Power 
  A Norse view of Brian Bóruma
• 13 December 2013 
  Kenneth Coyne
  The description of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos in Robert The Monk's Historia Iherosolimatana: caricature or reality?

Semester 2:

• 17 January 2014 
  Mark Stansbury
  Insular Latin and insular manuscripts
• 24 January 2014 
  Ian Woods (Leeds) 
  Debating the Fall of Rome from the Ancien Régime to the creation of Late Antiquity
• 31 January 2014 
  Máirín MacCarron
  Bede and Time
• 7 February 2014 
  Exequiel Monge Allen
  Humanity, its representation and its redemption in the writings of St Columbanus
• 14 February 2014 
  Marion Deane (Dublin) 
  Buile Suibne: Symptom as desire: an appraisal of Sweeney's madness
• 21 February 2014 
  Chris Doyle
  The Right Hand of Victory: Triumphal symbolism in the Late Roman Empire
• 28 February 2014 
  Elizabeth Boyle (Maynooth)
  Absalom, Absalom!: Translating the story of King David in Medieval Ireland
• 7 March 2014 
  Clíodhna Carney
  A Platonic epigraph in Chaucer
• 14 March 2014 
  Jessica Cooke
  The Uí Mheallaigh of Annaghdown: Hereditary clergy of the Uí Fhlaithbheartaigh
• 21 March 2014 
  Marie-Louise Coolahan
  RECIRC: The reception and circulation of Early Modern women's writing, 1550–1700
• 28 March 2014 
  Ciaran MacDonagh
  Did medieval Irish monasteries have antiquarians? An examination of the term Prímchríchaire
• 4 April 2014 
  Feargal Ó Béarra
  Das Ich im Bild: The protagonist voice in Buile Shuibhne
• 11 April 2014 
  Kim LoPrete
  Bertrada of Montfort and the sources: A mirror for historians

CAMPS Labs, 2012–2013

Semester 1: 

• 13 September 2012 
  Ann Heymann 
  Musical traditions that inform the performance practice of Early Irish poetry
• 21 September 2012 
  Clodagh Downey 
  Who was Ailill Moshaulum?
• 26 October 2012 
  Mark Stansbury 
  How and why do letter forms change?
• 9 November 2012 
  Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha 
  Spinning and weaving: intercultural metaphors and some Irish peculiarities
• 30 November 2012 
  Jacopo Bisagni 
  The terminology of woodwind instruments in Old and Middle Irish

Semester 2:

• 18 January 2013 
  Rosemary Power 
  Saints, scholars and cherished beliefs: Exploring academic and popular interpretations in County Clare
• 1 February 2013 
  Sarah Corrigan 
  St Clement of Rome and his submarine shrine in the Félire Óengusso
• 15 February 2013 
  Chris Doyle 
  The seeming futility of church sanctuary in Antiquity, ca. 395–423
• 21 February 2013 
  Cillian O'Hogan (University of Waterloo) 
  The medieval Irish translation of Lucan's De bello civili
• 1 March 2013 
  Jason O'Rorke 
  Grammatici: Teachers, scholars and learned men
• 19 April 2013 
  Kim LoPrete 
  Historians and character(s): The case of Stephen of Blois
• 23 August 2013 
  Esther Le Mair 
  Did Old Irish have a middle voice?

CAMPS Labs, 2011–2012

• 23 September 2011 
  Pádraic Moran 
  Digital editions of medieval texts: Opportunities and challenges
• 21 October 2011 
  Dáibhí Ó Cróinín 
  Grimoald’s Wife and the History of the Dagobert Affair
• 27 January 2012 
  Peter Kelly 
  A World on the Edge: Framing Chaos in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
• 24 February 2012 
  Cathy Swift (Limerick) 
  Blood of Limerick: A research project on genetic evidence for Viking ancestry
• 16 March 2012 
  Keith Busby (Wisconson-Madison) 
  Medieval Francophonia

CAMPS Labs, 2010–2011

• 18 February 2011 
  Mark Stansbury 
  A discussion of ’Rehabilitating the Text’, chapter 6 of C. W. Hedrick’s History and Silence
• 11 March 2011 
  Jacopo Bisagni 
  Latin–Irish code-switching in early medieval Ireland
• 1 April 2011 
  Kim LoPrete 
  Re-thinking feudalism: A discussion of Fred Cheyette’s ’"Feudalism": A memoir and an assessment’
• 29 April 2011 
  Francesca Bezzone 
  Ancient medicine and early liturgy: Uses of holy oil in the Vita Germani
• 20 May 2011 
  Michael Clarke 
  Translation and comparative mythology: Perspectives from medieval Latin, Irish and English sources