51cg

Professor Jane Geddes William Elphinstone was both Bishop of Aberdeen and Founder of Aberdeen University. He was a great statesman and diplomat, negotiating the marriage between King James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor of England. He was also a tidy administrator, patron of architecture and instigator of the first printing...

Rhona Brown (University of Glasgow) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk

For further information please contact Professor Robert Segal: r.segal@abdn.ac.uk

N.B. this will be held at the Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanitis, University of Edinburgh. For further information please contact Dr Tim Baker: t.c.baker@abdn.ac.uk

David Allan (University of St Andrews) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk

Nicholas Canny (Nui Galway) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk

Dr Jackson Armstrong John Barbour is most celebrated as the ‘father’ of Scots poetry: he wrote The Brus, the epic poem which immortalised Robert I as the quintessential Scottish monarch, and which famously rejoiced in the troublesome idea of freedom (that ‘noble thing’). But Barbour was also archdeacon of the diocese...

Anne Michelle Slater (51cg) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk

Padhraig Higgins (Mercer County Community College, New Jersey) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk

For further information please contact Dr Dan Wall: d.j.wall@abdn.ac.uk