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Past Events at SMRG Inc.
Talks available online
Lecture by Roberta Perkins on "God's Messengers in the New World: Early 16th Century Spanish Friars in America and Jesuit Missionaries in Hispanic America, Brazil and New France"
Lecture by Roberta Perkins on "Sex Working in the Middle Ages: Early Christianity to the Renaissance"
Lecture by Roberta Perkins on "Sex Working in Early Modern Times: The Renaissance to the Enlightenment"
Monster Day
SMRG Inc. held a day seminar on Monsters in Medieval and Renaissance Europe on Sunday, 22nd July
The speakers included
Dr Kendall St.Clair,on Monsters: Etymology: history of meaning, exemplary tales.
Matthew Glozier, M.Phil. on Heraldic Monsters
Helen Kaye-Watts, B.A. on Vampyres and Werewolves
Dr Jon Marshall on Apparitions: ghosts, devils, faeries and wild events and
Prof. Sybil Jack on Real-Life Monsters
Other Past Talks and Events
Dr John Koenig Sept 18th 2001 Tudor State Religion and its Mediaeval Antecedents
Dr Michael Hill, Oct 16th 2001 Cardinal Dying: Sanguinity and Symptomatology of Gout in Bernini's Portrait of Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1632)
Dr Sharon Davidson, Nov 20th 2001 Images of Cathar Country
Dr Michael Nelson, Jan 15th 2002 German Visions of Ireland and Scotland in the Middle Ages
Dr Beverley Sherry, Feb. 19th 2002 John Martin's Illustrations (1827) to Milton's "Paradise Lost" (1667)
Dr Geraldine Barnes, March 19th 2002, Crime and the City in Mediaeval Fiction
Prof, John Clifton-Everest, April 16th 2002, The Invention of Printing
Jan Scott, June 18th 2002, Astrological symbolism in Mediaeval churches
Sunday July 21st 2002 Visit to the Manuscripts Deptartment of the State Library
Prof. Margaret Sankey, 18 September, 2002, They Never Imagined the Platypus: Ideas of Terra Australia in 16th Century France
Dr John Ward, 16 October, 2002, The Popular Crusades  a New Look
Helen Kaye-Watts, 20 November, 2002 Jane Austen in film
Toney Howe, 12 February, 2003, Elizabeth I in Film
Tony Blackshield, 19 March, 2003, Law in Mediaeval England through the Year Books
Helen Fulton, 16 April, 2003, The Red Book of Hergest: Fantasy and Romance in Mediaeval Wales
Sybil Jack, 21 May, 2003, Mediaeval and Renaissance Food - Samples Provided
Dr. David Rollison, 18 June, 2003, How Public Opinion Worked Before the Media Really got their Hand on it: Renaissance England 14th - 16th Century
Dr. Michael Hill, 16 July, 2003, Smiles and Letters in Portraits
Lyn Olson, 20 August, 2003 Workshop on the account of the Le Mans Commune click for details
Dr. Rosemary Huisman, 17th September, 2003, A Mediaeval Film Evening
Adam Lucas, 15th October, 2003, Monks and their Mediaeval Mills
Dr Joanna Crawford, November, 2003, Mediaeval Dress
Annual Christmas Dinner, December, 2003, The Little Snail, Pyrmont.
Performances and Scripts
The Noah Play, from the Chester Cycle
Three Virgin Martyrs and a Chicken (aka Dulcitius) by the abbess Hrothswitha
Special Meetings
Minutes of the extraordinary general meeting of 2001