About this Event
Join us from 19:00-20:30 on Thursday 19 November in the Robert Emmet Theatre (Room 2031), Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin to explore the 2027-Year of the Normans through a lecture on the Bayeux Tapestry and the launch of a brand new digital resource for understanding the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland.
Prof. Benjamin Pohl (University of Bristol) will give a lecture on:
Chewing over the Norman Conquest: The Bayeux Tapestry as Monastic Mealtime Reading
chaired by Prof. Seán Duffy (Trinity College Dublin) as part of the James Lydon Research Seminar in Medieval History.
This will be preceded by the launch of
NAISC: Normandy and Ireland Settlement Connections
a pioneering Digital Humanities resource to investigate and map links between Ireland and Normandy in the Middle Ages, which is hosted in the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland.
The event is free and all are welcome!
Event venue & nearby stays
Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
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