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Location: H0.56
'Bigamia from Antiquity to the Counter Reformation'.
This will be a joint seminar with the STVDIO series.
Professor D'Avray is a distinguished medieval and early modern historian, who has worked on medieval marriage, on preaching, on attitudes to kingship and death, and on rationalities. He is currently working on royal annulments and papal dispensations, instrumental ethics in the Middle Ages, and 'longue duree' structures of papal history. His recent books include Medieval Marriage: Symbolism and Society (OUP, 2005) Medieval Religious Rationalities (CUP, 2010), and Dissolving Royal Marriages. A Documentary History 860-1600 (CUP, 2014). Professor D'Avray is a Fellow of the British Academy.